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THE AUTHOR SUMMER 1963
HITCHING TO THE YUCATAN
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INDEX
INTRODUCTION
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seek such information, as it may reveal to these adversaries how the CIA
currently focuses its intelligence activities. Mary S. Wilson, CIA FOIA
Officer 1
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CHAPTER ONE
OSWALD’S CLANDESTINE
TRADE CRAFT
This researcher purchased the first color reproduction of Lee Harvey Oswald’s
address book for $1000.00 from the National Archives 2 and scanned it at a high
resolution so it could be enlarged to a high degree of magnification without distorting the
entries. I also scanned the tramp shots (photos of JFK's assassins being taken into
custody disguised as tramps) at 2400 DPI and was able to extract the significant parts
without distortion.
A careful examination of the address book confirmed my belief that Oswald was
adept at steganography and used this technique to secret information in it.
Steganography is the science of hiding information in plain sight. Whereas the goal of
cryptography is to make data unreadable by a third party, the goal of steganography is
to disguise the data from a third party even though it is staring him in the face. There is
no doubt Oswald’s address book exhibited a high degree of highly valuable
steganographical content; but after his arrest Oswald played down the importance of his
address book and
….stated that an address book in his possession
contains the names of various Russian immigrants
residing in Dallas, Texas, whom he has visited with.” 3
Oswald’s address book proved to be much more than a list of names and
addresses of his anti-Communist Russian exile associates in Dallas. Hidden in it were
the names of the men and women Oswald had come into contact with prior to his being
set up as a patsy in the JFK assassination. It was the key to identifying the identity of
the CIA death squad members who participated in “The Big Event” as was the
testimony of Marita Lorenz.
OSWALD’S STEGANOGRAPHICAL METHODOLOGY
COMBINATIONS OF RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH WORDS
Despite the fact that the National Security Administration advised the Warren
Commission that Oswald’s address book contained no steganographical or cryptological
entries, the FBI inadvertently stumbled across part of what I call The Oswald Code
when it examined a notation Oswald had made in his English to Spanish Dictionary. It
began: “Phone embassy / Get bus tickers / eat watch Jai Lai game / by silver bracelet
(buy?) record.”
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The FBI reported, “On the assumption that the questioned phrase is written in
Russian and English using a combination of Latin and Cyrillic script, it is possible that
the first word could be “To” “20” or “70.” The third word could be the Russian word for
“88 gum” “88 Sulfur or “SARA.” The third word could be the Russian word “and.” The
last word in this phrase could possibly be the Russian word “letters” or the Russian
name “Nina.” This researcher sees. “To 7 Sulfur” 4 Note the map extract below.
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TO 7 Sulfur
TO 7 Sulfur
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INDENTED WRITING “TO 7 Sulfur”
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INDENTED WRITING “TO 7 Sulfur”
Oswald had encoded information by combining Russian and English words! The
FBI didn’t pursue this further even though there were FBI documents that placed
Oswald in Sulphur, Oklahoma, a week prior to the assassination, in the company of
Cuban exiles who members of Alpha-66 and SNFE. You can see the FBI documents
here. 5 What they indicate is that on the morning of Sunday, November 17, 1963,
Oswald and several members of Alpha-66 traveled to Sulphur, Oklahoma. On
November 23, 1963, Willis Price, a service station owner in Sulphur, Oklahoma, told the
Police Chief Charles J. McBee that on November 17, 1963,
…a person believed to be identical with Lee Harvey Oswald accompanied
by two Cuban males, and one Cuban female, were in a service station in
Sulphur operated by Price. The female made two local telephone calls
from a telephone at the service station, speaking in Spanish. It is not
known to whom she was speaking. These people were driving a 1958
Ford, two tone color, dark brown and lighter color, no license plate
information obtained. The Chief of Police stated there are some Cubans in
Sulphur. Willis Price is considered reliable as he operates a service station
and is well-known to the Chief of Police and other members of the Police
Department. Willis Price identified the person referred to above as Oswald
on the basis of pictures of Oswald shown on television and in newspapers.
Willis Price, according to the Chief of Police, was positive of his
identification. 6
FBI questioned Willis D. Price on November 23, 1963:
Willis D. Price, 1123 Broadway [continuation of Route 7], advised he is the
operator of the FINA Service Station at 1123 Broadway, and at about 2:00
p.m. on Sunday, November 17, 1963, a group of people who appeared to
be Cubans, with a light complexioned man who resembled Lee Harvey
Oswald, drove up beside his service station in about a 1958 Ford Station
Wagon, and some of them came to his station. He has seen a photograph
in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper of Oswald, and the light complexioned
man with the Cubans resembled Oswald. He has since however seen
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television pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald which did not very much
resemble the man in the company of the Cubans. The automobile which
they parked by the side of his station appeared to be of white and tan
color with a white center and tan bottom. He did not know what license the
vehicle carried. In the station wagon were two women who never got out
of the vehicle. One of these women appeared to be about 40, and the
other older. The following described people got out of the station wagon
and came into the service station: a woman in her late 20's or early 30's; a
tall slender girl about 13 years of age; a child 2 or 3 years old; two men,
both dark complexions, and wide across the face. Both appeared to be
Latins, were about 5' 6" to 5' 7" tall and wore slacks. One man who
resembled the photograph of Oswald, was light complexioned, pale,
appeared to be in late 20's or early 30's, about 6' tall, 170 pounds, thin and
slender, light brown hair, reasonably high forehead, thin lips, and wore
slacks. The man who resembled Oswald spoke in the language of the
other people who looked like Cubans.
Before getting out of the station wagon they asked if they could use the
telephone in the station, and he gave consent. When they first drove up,
the man who resembled Oswald was in the back seat and by motion
attracted his attention and motioned for one of the women to talk to him.
She held up a small black book with a name and box number on it which
he does not remember. From actions they thought the box number was a
street number or address. The woman who held up the black book spoke
broken English. Price told her it was a mailing address and not a street
address.
When the group of people came into the service station the woman, who
appeared to be in her 20's, asked for a telephone directory, and on
obtaining the directory, she looked up a number. She made a telephone
call. The first number she attempted to call did not answer, and she looked
up another number. She telephoned a second time and spoke in broken
English. At the last of her telephone conversation she gave some name as
though referring to her own name, and said 'from Cuba.' She then hung-up
and talked to the light complexioned man resembling Oswald in a foreign
language. These people then left, driving west of Highway 7, after getting
into their station wagon. He does not remember which direction they came
from. The man resembling Oswald never spoke English in the station, but
only used motions to Price. He looked American, but spoke in the same
language as the people he was with.
Willis Price, 62, died of a heart attack in 1989. A couple of things noted here: If
the American looking man in the car was Oswald and was communicating in Spanish
with Cubans, a Spanish-English dictionary would come in handy. Secondly a woman’s
name appears in the writing, Nina or Sara, and Willis described the women has having
been in the car. The FBI interviewed every Cuban in Sulphur, Oklahoma. Dr. Miguel L.
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DeSocarraz at the Oklahoma Veterans Hospital residence, Post Office Box 200,
advised the FBI on November 23, 1963, that:
…he is a Cuban refugee and very anti-communist. The following people
contacted him on Sunday, November 17, 1963: Manolito Rodriguez,
[Manuel Rodriguez Occarberro] with his wife and two or three year old
baby; two other men, both of whom were dark complected, one having the
name of Salazar and the other Chito Rivero. With [Jorge] Salazar and
Rivero were their wives, and a girl about 13 or 14 years of age. Salazar is
dark, short, husky and in his 20's. Rivero is dark, short, thin and in his
50's. All of these people were in an older Ford Station Wagon of cream
color. He did not know a 1958 Ford from other year models. Socarraz,
after examining a photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald which appeared in
the Daily Oklahoman newspaper, stated the Manolito Rodriguez possibly
did resemble Oswald. However, he is certain Rodriguez is not identical
with Oswald. Rodriguez cannot speak English. He resides at 1208
Huspeth (Oak Cliff) Dallas, Texas, with telephone number FR-4-5923. He
is a Cuban refugee, was a Lieutenant in the rebel army of Fidel Castro but
broke with Castro and obtained asylum in the Brazilian Embassy before
coming to the United States. Rodriguez is employed as a welder in Dallas.
Socarraz advised from the descriptions of the Cubans visiting the FINA
service station on November 17, 1963 and their vehicle, he feels certain
they are the Cubans, described above, who visited him on that date.
Miguel L. DeSocarraz 7 , contacted in June 1993, asked: "How did you get my
telephone number? Did you pose as someone else when you spoke to my brother in
Miami? You were not that doctor that he was thinking of, were you? I think what you find
in the document there is all I can tell you. There is nothing else I can add. I don't want
you to call me anymore." The name Socarraz calls to mind Carlos Prio Socarraz the
president of Cuba who was deposed by Batista. Frank Fiorini Sturgis, whose name
appears in Oswald’s address book, was close to Prio and smuggled arms to his troops
who were fighting against Batista in the mid 1950’s. On February 5, 1962 Howard
Kenneth Davis advised “that Frank Fiorini claimed that would be the military leader for
the organization of Carlos Prio Socarras. 8
The Oswald / Alpha-66 connection didn’t end here: After the Kennedy
assassination, Detective Buddy Walthers of the Dallas Police Department wrote:
November 23, 1963. Mr. Decker: At about 8 a.m. this morning, while in the
presents (sic) of Allan Sweat, I talked to Sorrel, Dallas Secret Service
head. I advised him that for the past few months at a house at 3126
Harlendale some Cubans had been having meetings on the weekends
and were possibly connected with the 'Freedom for Cuba Party' of which
Oswald was a member. November 26, 1963. I don't know what action the
Secret Service has taken, but I learned today that sometime between
seven days before the President was shot these Cubans moved from this
house. My informant stated the Subject Oswald had been to this house
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before. 9
BUDDY WALTHERS 3126 HARLANDALE AVENUE, DALLAS
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Buddy Walther's lead was never followed up. FBI or Secret Service never
contacted Buddy’s informant or traced down the occupants of 3126 Harlandale to
question them about Oswald. An investigation of this nature was never conducted, since
it might be hard to explain what Oswald was doing at an Alpha-66 possibly clandestine
meeting. The bottom of the Buddy Walthers document indicated no action was ever
taken on it by the Dallas Police Department. The CIA -- Alpha-66's sponsor -- denied
that any such address existed. In 1975 the FBI revealed that the actual address was
3128 Harlandale Street; it had been vacated about a week before the assassination.
In December 1975 FBI Bureau Supervisor William O. Cregar, FBI/CIA liaison in
1967, revealed the results of a review of information in the Dallas file on the 3126
Harlendale, Alpha-66, Oswald connection conducted by FBI S.A. Gemberling just
before he had his August 1975 heart attack. It revealed:
In connection with the above enclosure it was noted from review of Dallas
files that the address referred to by Deputy Sheriff Walthers was
erroneously listed as 3128, but the actual address was 3126 Harlendale
Street. Review of Dallas file reflects that the original organization known
as Alpha-66 held meetings during early 1963 at 3126 Harlandale Street,
Dallas, Texas, and a letter furnished to the FBI Dallas by a Mrs. Dorothy
Keasler Klein, 4141 Prescott Street, Dallas, Texas, reflects that she had
received an unsolicited form letter from that organization on November 19,
1963, asking for donations. The letter from Alpha-66 was on letterhead
stationery, which reflected the above address and was signed by Manuel
Rodriguez [Orcarberro], General Secretary of Alpha-66. 10
The FBI added:
A review of Dallas file 134-332 reflects that former DL 282-S [Antonio
Veciana] whose identity is known to the Bureau, Bufile 105-131209 with in
a top leadership position in Alpha 66 at Dallas Texas in 1963 and 1964
and he reported to the Dallas Office during 1964 that meetings of this
group were held during 1963 at the residence of one Jorge Salazar 3126
Harlendale Street.
The informant reported 3126 not 3128. Thanks to the October 2017 document
release the extent of this cover-up becomes even more obvious:
Enclosed for the Bureau are five pictures which according to SJ - 1849OA
were taken at an Alpha 66 meeting which was he in Dallas, Texas, a short
time before he assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
advised that in photos number 1 and 2 there is an individual who
resembles Lee Harvey Oswald. This individual is a white male who is
wearing, a brown jacket, dark brown pants, white socks and sunglasses
and is situated in the front row of the audience. In photos number 3 and 4,
Antonio Veciana, an Alpha 66 organizer, is shown. In photo number 4 he
is standing before a microphone; in photo number 3 Veciana is seated
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between two other men at a table. The enclosed photos, according to
source are the property of Veciana and that the source must soon return
these to Veciana. These photos have not been marked in any way in order
to preserve their original appearance. The Bureau is requested to observe
the enclosed photos and take whatever step deemed warranted to prove
or disprove that the look alike to Lee Harvey Oswald is in fact Lee Harvey
Oswald. It is also requested that this matter be given immediate attention
so that matter can be resolved promptly returned, to the source and then
to Antonio Veciana.
On May 23, 1977 a business partner of Veciana told the FBI: “Source stated that
in the last segment of the tape they presented him with large blow-up photographs of
photographs which he had earlier given to them which concerned an Alpha-66 meeting
in Dallas, Texas in 1963. There appeared in the shots an individual answering the
description of Lee Harvey Oswald. They asked the source in front of the video machine
to point out which individual in the blow ups could possibly be Lee Harvey Oswald.
There was no other comment made about these pictures. There were no other
questions made and at that point the videotaping ended.” 11
This researcher has filed an FOIA request for copies of these pictures. So what
does it all add up to? Oswald had attended an Alpha-66 meeting in Dallas at the home
of Jorge Salazar. Commission Document 1085u, p. 4, states "these meetings [Alpha 66]
are almost always held in the home of Jorge Salazar, residence, 3126 Hollandale,
Dallas." Salazar was on the Board of Directors of SNFE-Alpha 66. Of course one could
say he was spying on them. But the car trip to Oklahoma is much more difficult to
explain. Why does Salazar’s name re-surface? Alpha-66 leader, Antonio Veciana,
reported to have been in the company of Oswald prior to The Big Event along with CIA
Officer David Atlee Phillips a close associate of E. Howard Hunt who had worked with
Hunt in the overthrow of the democratically elected Arbenz government of Guatemala.
SNFE stands for the Second National Front of Escambray. While Castro fought
Batista in the Sierra Maestre these men opened a second front in the Escambray
Mountains. Boy was they pissed when they found out the man they helped come to
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The FBI found other examples of indented writing among Oswald’s possessions
but it could not decipher them.
INDENTED WRITING
Q341 White correspondence-type envelope obtained from property of Lee
and Marina Oswald at the house of Mrs. Ruth Paine, 2315 West 5 th Street,
Irving, Texas.
Q342 White airmail-type envelope obtained from property of Lee and
Marina Oswald at the house of Mrs. Ruth Paine, 2315 West 5 th Street,
Irving, Texas.
Result of examination:
The envelopes Q341 and Q342 were examined for development of
indented writing. No intelligible indentations were developed. The
submitted evidence is retained.
Another example of Oswald combing Russian and English using a combination
of alphabets is this entry for the Argentine Embassy:
Oswald hid the word “spy” in the Russian word for wedding ring: Note how the “p”
seems to be inserted after Oswald completed the wedding ring entry. Alteration of
existing entries is an important clue to which entries are steganographically motivated.
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PENTIDS AND SECRET MESSAGES
THIS IS A QUANTITY FOR A YEAR’S WORTH OF TREATMENT.
Oswald utilized invisible ink to prepare and develop secret messages.
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THE FOUR BOTTLES OF PENTIDS 400 BY
SQUIBB COULD BE USED TO WRITE OR
DEVELOP A SECRET INK MESSAGE.
(Handwritten note) all out (?) they are (?) and not what are used in Cuba or Russia esp.
The FBI labeled this evidence as irrelevant because it was not used by the Sovs
or Cubans but was it used by the CIA? When the FBI seized Oswald’s possessions
after November 22, 1963, the FBI consolidated some of them into Item 373:
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“This item is composed of miscellaneous Russian and American made pharmaceuticals,
a fever thermometer of Russian make and two eye droppers and a German coin, 1
Pfennig. Nothing unusual was found concerning these items. There are 31 samples of
pharmaceuticals, each sample of which could be used to prepare and/or develop a
secret ink message.” 12
PAPER THAT CAN BE USED FOR SECRET WRITING
Item 324 papers 1-96, 113-176, 193-208, and 225 to 282 are
printed on one kind of paper stock that fluoresces a light tan
under UV light. Paper 97-112 exhibit a darker tan gray color
when viewed similarly. Paper 177-192 and 209-224
fluoresce a brilliant blue white. The possibility cannot be
eliminated that one or more pages of the book have been
treated to serve as sophisticated carbon for the preparation
of secret ink messages.
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CUT OUT LETTERS: CIPHERS
Under date of December 20, 1963, the FBI Laboratory furnished the following
information concerning an examination requested by the Dallas Office on November 27,
1963: Q228 Pamphlets entitled "The Crime Against Cuba" by Corliss Lamont Q229
Booklet entitled "The Socialist Workers Party" by Joseph Hansen Q230 Russian book
dated 1962 at Sofia. Result of Examination: In these specimens certain letters, words
and phrases have been excised. No cryptographic significance could be attached to this
material. These cutout letters may have formed the basis of a device used to decipher
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secret messages. If the pages were placed over some other text, only certain letters
would appear. These letters could be put next to each other to form a message. 13
The FBI could not disprove that this was a cipher:
Q230 a Russian book dated 1962 at Sofia.
Results of examination:
The negatives that were previously designated Q65a were compared with
specimens Q228 through Q230 but could not be associated. Part of the
Q65a negatives are copies of identification cards in various stages of
alteration and this examination was made to determine whether or not
sections that were cut out of the Q228 through Q230 books were used in
the alteration of the identification cards.
When the Warren Commission questioned the FBI about this, the latter replied,
"the material submitted could conceivably involve code or cipher," but when the Warren
Commission asked the National Security Administration about the matter, NSA
responded,
Skilled cryptologists at the National Security Agency examined the
materials relating to the Oswald case provided by the Warren
Commission. The results are as a follows: Certain letters had been
removed from pages 150 of the Russian novel, Glaza Kotorye
Sprashivayut, Questioning Eyes. Eight letter had apparently been cut from
page 152...The sample is too small for any valid conclusion to be reached
as for the purposes for which the above noted letters were removed. It is
considered most unlikely that this process of letter removal has any
cryptographic implication. The names appearing in Lee’s address book
was checked. No evidence of cryptologic implication was found. 14
The NSA only examined one of the Items. NSA was determined to demonstrate
that Oswald was not a Soviet or American spy. When Marina Oswald was shown this
pocket book with the letters removed, she said she had never seen it before: "Asked
who did it, she answered “Probably he was working, but I never saw that. I don't know
what he had that for." Another CIA document reported: "Marina Oswald was asked
about a Russian book which had certain words cut out. The Commission attorney
observed that this is sometimes a practice used in espionage. She said she had no
explanation for the extracted material." 15
When the FBI went through Oswald’s possessions it found a cryptic message:
FBI ITEM 178: Book published in Moscow 1961 - Fidel Kastro 1. Possibly
by mistake book copy included one page from libretto of Pikoyaya Dama -
Oswald's notes are the translations of Russian words, but Oswald paid
special attention to the words - 'You will receive the death blow...'"
FBI ITEM 180: Program of Russian opera -- Pikovaya Dama (Queen of Spades) with
notes of Lee Oswald.
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1. Then it means you are pronouncing the death sentence (in Russian).
2. On another page – Zakalyvat’sya, zakalyveyetsya (twice). 16
Oswald wanted Castro assassinated. He thought he was part of a group of anti-
Castro Americans, operating out of the Florida and Louisiana; however, he was actually
being groomed by his Marine buddy Gerry Patrick Hemming because his background
as a defector made him suitable for framing as the patsy for The Big Event.
MICRODOTS
Before he left for Mexico City Oswald prepared a resume of his radical activities
as his bona fides for being granted entrance to Cuba. He hinted he had done spy work
for the Soviets involving microdots:
PHOTOGRAPES
I have worked in the Jaggers-Chiles-Stoval typograhical Co. 522 Browder
St. Dallas, Texas. I wroker from October 1, 1962 to April 1, 1962. I am
profiencent in the photographic arts known as reverses, transparacial, line,
modifications, [forgery] squats blowups, and minaturizations [microdots].
I have submitted an been commended for photo work for the party. I am
familar with layout and art work and am aquianted with cold medal and hot
medal proces'ss in printing.
A. Tax returns of JCS
B. Letters commending photo work by the party.
Oswald’s address book contained the words “micro dots” as you can see from
the reproduction on the next page of The Oswald Code. In October 1962 Oswald asked
Dennis Ofstein, a fellow worker who had served in the U.S. Army, Security Branch, if he
knew what microdots were. When Dennis Ofstein replied negatively, Oswald told him:
Microdots are used as a means whereby a page of anything can be
reduced down to a size smaller than a postage stamp so that it could be
concealed under a postage stamp and could be used in espionage
operations. 17
Hemming advised: "It's reverse lithography work. I was raised in a darkroom.
Arrangement of the lenses. Microdot is a super dense step beyond microfilm." The
Warren Commission asked the FBI and the National Security Agency about microdots.
J. Edgar Hoover wrote the Commission detailing the extent to which the evidence "had
been examined for possible cryptological significance including processing for
microdots." He cited two reports on the subject, neither of which mentioned microdots;
both were written by FBI S.A. Robert P. Gemberling. Robert Gemberling commented to
this researcher: "I'm not a lab technician. The evidence examination would have been
conducted at the Washington FBI Laboratory." The National Security Administration
wrote the Commission that microdots were not one of its specialties. An FBI document
dated October 2, 1964, revealed that the Bureau examined photographs of Oswald in
the USSR and his Russian books for microdots, but found none. 18 Among Oswald’s
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possessions the Dallas Police Department discovered a pair of Russian binoculars. The
binoculars could be reversed to blow an image down. 19
Despite all of the rambling by Special Agent Gemberling the words “micro dot”
appear clear as day in his address book and indicated he used the facilities in the
lithography firm where he work to create them.
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https://www.scribd.com/document/348532081/FBI-CIA-NSAdocuments-on-Oswald-Cryptological-Ability
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CHAPTER TWO
FRANK FIORINI STURGIS
BAY OF PIGS CONNECTION: OPERATION-40 DEATH SQUAD
FRANKIES’ MAMA BAWLSA HIM OUTTA FOR KILLING KENNEDY
Frank Fiorini Sturgis was the death squad member who fired the fatal shot that
blew part of Kennedy’s head off, so we will begin the steganographic entries with this
maggot. Oswald’s address book contained the name Fiorini AKA Frank Fiorini Sturgis.
Frank was the co-leader of the anti-Castro group that Oswald was affiliated with. Fiorini
had the motive to assassinate President Kennedy due to JFK’s actions in the Bay of
Pigs invasion and the subsequent deal JFK made after the Cuban Missile Crisis to
which guaranteed the integrity of the Castro Regime. Frank had smuggled arms to Fidel
in the 1950’s. When he found out Fidel was a Red he started planning to assassinate
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him. Fidel figured this out and put out a contract on Fiorini who had to hijack an aircraft
to get out of Cuba. When he returned to the US he became part of Operation 40, killers
who would infiltrate into post-Castro Cuba and summarily execute the communist
infrastructure. After the Bay of Pigs backfired thanks to JFK Fiorini and Gerry Patrick
Hemming, who as stated brought Oswald into the mix, formed the Intercontinental
Penetration Force / International Anti-Communist Brigade (INTERPEN/IAB) to launch
raids, in violation of the Neutrality Act, against Castro's Cuba. The names of the men
who worked under Fiorini and Hemming were also in Oswald’s address book as was the
word INTERPEN.
The name FIORINI appeared twice in Oswald’s address book disguised as two
words. One was “orinis” the other was "Russ for Forin." As you can see letters "i-n" were
written in a different ink. Asked to assess that entry in 1978, during his deposition in
Hunt v. Weberman Fiorini responded:
A. If that name is me, I guarantee he got me in there to be set up to be killed, because
at that time I was very strongly anti-Communist, my name was in the paper quite a bit,
and he, supposedly, by his wife's testimony, made an attempt to kill General Walker,
who was an outspoken --
Q. Do you feel that you were in the same class on a hit list of Oswald's?
A. If that is my name there. I don't think that's my name there, but if that is my name, I
would assume that this is his reason. 20
Fiorini associate Gerald Patrick Hemming, the narrator of The Oswald Code
commented: “F-o-r-I-n. He's using a phonetic misspelling to indicate something else.
You're correct.”
Around Thursday, November 7, 1963, Sturgis said he visited Dallas to see a gun
connection. 21 That was not why he was there. He was there to scope out Dealey Plaza
where The Big Event was going to be held. In 1995 Gerald Patrick Hemming told me:
"The caravan left for Dallas on Tuesday, November 19, 1963. Frank was firing from the
Records Building" That was the same day the President’s parade route in Dallas was
published in the Dallas Morning News.
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This is an aerial photograph of Dealey Plaza as it looked on November 22, 1963.
Note the railroad yards behind the Texas School Book Depository. The arrow is pointing
to the freight train that Dispatcher Lee Bowers brought back into the yards after he saw
a man jump from one car to the next. Bowers died in an automobile accident a few
years later. My guess is that someone dusted the steering wheel of his car with contact
poison. Howard Hunt brought the reality of witnesses being assassinated when he said
he was asked to help with the “clean up” after The Big Event. On that fateful day the
Dallas Police picked up 6 derelicts at the scene of the Kennedy assassination. The first
three were picked up immediately after the assassination "right after President Kennedy
was shot" and were named Gedney, Forester and Abrams. They were real bums. I have
reprinted a copy of one of their arrest records which read:
Those men were taken off a train in the rail yard
right after President Kennedy was shot. Those
men are passing through town. They have no jobs
or any means of making a living.
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The second set of tramps was picked up at around 2 PM, two hours after the
President was shot. I have reprinted the police radio transcripts as found in the
Warren Commission report:
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These men were not tramps but CIA agents and contract agents professionally
disguised as tramps and one of them was Frank Fiorini Sturgis. Hemming told me
confidentially, “Frank was firing from the Records Building.” Frank Anthony Fiorini
Sturgis killed the President of the United States. The FBI, in the person of Oliver Buck
Revell, former SAC of the Dallas Field Office, floated a false news story stating that the
tramps had been identified and were real derelicts in order to protect CIA. The tramps
were never booked or fingerprinted and disappeared into the ether. Canfield asked the
Dallas Police Chief about this. Hear it here.
THE TRAMP AND FRANK FIORINI STURGIS
Fiorini had helped Fidel Castro come to power and in 1959 was in charge of an
Air Force base in Cuba under the command of Pedro Diaz Lanz. He was part of
Operation Forty, a death squad that was to enter Cuba after a successful Bay of Pigs
invasion and murder all the Communist leaders there. He was a world class player and
was named by E. Howard Hunt, in a death bed confession, as a participant in The Big
Event. Disguise? You have to realize that Frank Fiorini’s greasy hair could be washed
then dyed to give him less of that “grease ball” look. The ear tells all.
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FRANK FIORINI STURGIS AND THE TRAMP
Once again it is that greasy ethnic look that throws one off. The Rockefeller
Commission examined the tramp shots and determined they were not Hunt or Fiorini. 22
The CIA infiltrated the House Select Committee on Assassination 23 just as the CIA
recently infiltrated the Senate Intelligence Committee. 24 CIA had its asset, Clyde Snow,
report that even though the facial metrics lined up, the tramp was not Frank Sturgis.
This gives you some idea of the lengths the CIA and FBI went to discredit the most
important piece of photographic evidence in the assassination of JFK. Note that the
tramp is flexing his nostrils.
Frank had a 90 IQ in Catholic School in Philadelphia but he wanted to become a
priest. The war intervened and Frank, who was also into boxing, became a part of an
elite Marine Unit. It was in Iwo Jima that he became a killing machine. When he
returned to the US all the killing he had done drove him crazy and he checked into the
loony bin at Sun Valley, California. When Frank worked for Fidel in Cuba he ordered the
execution of 70 Batista henchmen on San Juan Hill then posed on their grave. When I
exposed him as a high level DEA informant, hoping to rid the world of this assassin, he
sent his Miami thug to follow me to New York; however NYPD arrested him following
right behind me at Kennedy Airport. Hemming had tipped them off. Frank was busted in
Watergate, an attempted bloodless coup, orchestrated by Richard Nixon who just
happened to be in Dallas on the day of The Big Event. 25
Withheld documents on Frank released in October 2017 included the fact that
the Justice Department considered filing charges against him when one of his
operations screwed up in Mexico. The DOJ asked the Mexican Police to testify. But
somehow this all went away. It also included his House Select Committee on
Assassinations testimony. Frank denied knowing Howard Hunt prior to Watergate but
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when Hunt confessed he said he knew Frank since the 1940’s. He even wrote a book
about Frank entitled Bimini Run in which the main character was Hank Sturgis. Here is
part of the transcript:
The Witness: And the monies did come from CIA for repairs and the bill to the B-25.
Mr. Triplett. And how did you know it was from the CIA?
The Witness: I didn't know who it came from because the money came from Bernard
Barker. Because I didn't know who Barkers boss was. You must understand that I found
out through Howard Hunt while I was in prison that a week before the invasion, Bernard
Barker became the assistant to Howard. Howard, from what Howard told me, that he
disagreed with the policies of what was happening, the change that was happening
within, you know, the groups, the CIA and the Revolutionary Council, because he was
the political officer of the Revolutionary Council. I had no contact with Howard Hunt. I
never knew Howard Hunt at all. I knew there-was An Eduardo and Eduardo was
Barker’s boss. But he left the Outfit and Barker was turned over to a new CIA control
officer, I believe. And Barker would not tell me. I believe his new boss was Jim Knowles.
Frank told the Committee that Watergate putz Bernard Barker tried to recruit him
for a domestic assassination. Why Frank?
THE DOMESTIC ASSASSINATION
Mr. Triplett: Have you ever been contacted by any person for the purpose of killing
somebody in this country?
The Witness: Yes, sir.
Mr. Triplett: By whom?
The Witness: At that time, a CIA agent.
Mr. Triplett: And who was the agent?
The Witness: Do I have to tell you? Well, I've got nothing to hide. I'm sorry I even said
that. The year, I don't recall the year, but I don't know whether I called this party or the
party called me. Anyway we got together and in getting together, I was either asked at
his home or at a restaurant, whether would be interested in doing a domestic
assassination. And that surprised me.
Mr. Triplett: Who was this person?
The Witness: Barker. It was after I came from Cuba. I don't recall what year. Whether it
was before or after the Bay of Pigs, I honestly don't recall. I did tell Sam Jennis about
this and he kind of laughed, and he said really you got to be kidding. Well, find out. So I
pursued it. I told Barker I said yes I would do it, a domestic assassination. But first I've
got to find out who the person is. Then he started questioning me, well how would you
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go about it and so forth. And I said hey you know it all depends on who the party is. So
we went from there and I had a couple of meetings pertaining to that. Then finally I was
told to pin him down and say I would not do it unless I get word from his control officer.
And that was what I did. I said, until your control officer sits down with a name and tells
me that he wants a domestic assassination done, then I would do it. I want verification
from your control officer. He never came back.
Mr. Triplett: Did he ever talk to his control officer?
The Witness: Evidently he must have, because he never mentioned it after that
particular incident. And I'd been in touch with him up until the day of Watergate, And he
never came back and told me whether or not he wanted me to go ahead and continue,
you know, whatever the domestic assassination was because I said I want to know who
the party is, depending on how I would do it. If it's doing to be domestic, it's pretty hot
stuff, you know, so I told Barker, well, go to the Everglades you dig a hole, put lye in
there and bury the guy or well get an airplane or boat and do it out here in the Gulf, you
know, blow the boat up and so forth. But I said before I actually do it, I want your control
officer to sit down with me and I want from his mouth that this is national security
business. I would want to know who the party is, depending on how I would do this
particular operation, you know because you've got to kidnap the guy.
Mr. Triplett: And who was the person he wanted killed?
The Witness: I don't know. He never told me.
Mr. Tripplet: Did he offer you money or the purpose of doing this?
The witness: No. I never got to that point. In other words, after I told him, you know that
I would have to set down with his control officer thing ever developed into anything
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FRANK’S ALIBI AS TOLD TO THE HSCA
Mr. Triplett: You I am sure in many interviews, both official and unofficial have been
questioned as to where you were on November 22nd, 1963,
The Witness: Yes.
Mr. Triplett: My first question in this area is where you were on the evening of November
21st, 1963.
The Witness: I am quite sure that I was here.
Mr. Triplett: On what do you base that assurance?
The Witness: I really cannot say. I was here on the 22nd --
Mr. Triplett: (Interposing) the 22nd is the day of the assassination. I am talking about
the evening prior.
The Witness: I had to be here. I had to be here.
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know you had to be here?
The Witness: Well, the only thing I can say is the witnesses who have told me, for
instance my mother-in-law, my nephew. He lived with me. My wife, myself and I believe
Jim Buchanan I believe Bill Johnson, because we were involved in operations at that
time.
Mr. Triplett: Are you saying you laden discussed it with all of these people?
The Witness: Oh, when this thing started coming out naturally, certainly I discussed it
with them. Because I had to put clear in my mind where I was before I knew where I
was that day because saw it on television. I saw it on television.
Mr. Triplett: Did you see it when it occurred or on reruns?
The Witness: I imagine it was reruns on television that day.
The Witness: As a matter of fact when Marita Lorenz made these accusations and I
went to New York and I was arrested by the New York police Department, and I
released on bond, I immediately told my Attorney that wanted to take a polygraph
examination. In the past, I volunteered to take a polygraph examination with the
Watergate Committee, with the Rockefeller Committee, and volunteered with every
committee to take a polygraph]. Now here, with this mess that Marita Lorenz created, I
asked my lawyer, I want to take a Polygraph. And I did take a polygraph and I passed
the polygraph.
Mr. Triplett: Well when you say you passed, you are telling us that the finding was that
you were not deceptive in your answers?
The Witness: That is right. And if you would like to ask me questions of what I was
asked and what my answers were, I would be very happy to tell you
Mr. Triplett: Frankly I do not want to get into a second hand account of some other
polygraph.
The Witness: All right.
Mr. Triplett: And again, just to make our record clean. I know you have, been asked and
answered these questions many, times before; but where exactly where were you on
November 22nd when President Kennedy was assassinated?
The Witness: At my home at 2515 North West 122nd St Miami, Florida, zip code 33167.
Mr. Triplett: And that still your home today?
The Witness: Yes
Mr. Triplett: What were you doing at that time in your home?
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came you know, and said that there was some news on the television that the President
was assassinated.,
Mr. Triplett: I believe there is two hours me difference between Florida and Texas. So
that would have made it about 2:30 in the afternoon, on a Friday afternoon. Were you
unemployed at that time? Why were you not at work?
The Witness: I was again doing operations, during and after that particular time.
Mr. Triplett: I see. And who else was at your home at that time.
The Witness: Just the people I mentioned. It was my mother-in-law, my nephew, my
wife, and as a matter of fact, Jim Buchanan did mention to me during all this exposure
over the JFK assassination that he came over, he told me that he came over, to the
house that afternoon and that I left with him that afternoon. So there is a possible
outside witness other than my family who knew that I was there that particular day.
Mr. Triplett: Jim Buchanan?
The Witness: Jim Buchanan, yes. Also a William Johnson who was doing a series of
operations with me, I believe that he will verify that I was in town before and after the
assassination.
Mr. Triplett: Do you know where William Johnson is currently located?
The Witness: Yes. He lives in Miami today and he lives off of Brickell Avenue in Sansusi
Estates. I do have his phone number. His phone number is 893-6013. His address I
don't know because I know how to get there, you know. But I do have his address in my
address book in my automobile. It is no problem. If he wishes to have it, I will give it to
Mr. Fonzi.
Mr. Triplett: Now you have mentioned a couple of times in other answers, the
allegations recently made by Marita Lorenz.
Mr. Triplett: Let me ask you specifically, did you, in the company of Marita Lorenz,; Leon
Oswald and others, drive to Dallas a day or two before the assassination?
The Witness: Sir that is an absolute lie. I have never been with Marita Lorenz and
Ozzie, as she calls him or with Pedro Diaz Lanz or Marcos Diaz Lanz or Mr. Orlando
Bosch, or Gerry Patrick, which she claimed all of us besides some other Cubans
were in two automobiles and left Miami, Florida two days before the assassination of
the President of the United States. She is a liar. I took a polygraph examination to that
effect that I have never been involved in any conspiracy to kill the President of the
United States, nor was I with her at any time conspiring to kill the President of United
States, nor was I with her in any automobile with people or any other people going to
Dallas to plot to kill the President of the United States. She is an absolute liar.
Mr. Triplett: Well not getting into her character, which I am certain you have strong
emotions about, it is your testimony that it’s not true? You never made much a trip
The Witness: Not only not true, she is a liar and I believe --
Mr. Rubin.
(Interceding) No. Just tell him did you make the trip?
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Mr. Triplett. Very good! Thank you. And at any time during the year 1963 were you in
Dallas, Texas?
The Witness: I have went because of operations that I had been doing and so forth,
traveled through Texas into Mexico into Central America, in and out. And I would say
yes, sir, I probably have been through not only Dallas but other cities in Texas. Yes,
Mr. Triplett: Now specifically around June or July of '63, did you go to Dallas for the
purpose of purchasing weapons?
The Witness: I have never been to Dallas where I stayed at any particular instance in
order to buy any weapons or anything in Dallas or anyplace in Texas. Anytime I went
through Texas it was transient.
Mr. Triplett: Your answer begs a question little bit. Whether or not you stayed in Dallas
for the purpose of buying weapons? Did you ever go to Dallas to buy weapons around
June or July of '63?
The Witness: No, sir.
JAMES BUCHANAN, GERALDINE SHAMMA BOGUS ALIBI WITNESS
After The Big Event the perpetrators associates started a disinformation
campaign that further linked Oswald with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and also
with the DGI, the Cuban spy service. Franks bogus alibi witness to his whereabouts that
day, James Buchanan, wrote this article for the Pompano Beach Sun Sentinel:
DRE following the assassination revealed that Oswald had come to Miami
to infiltrate the active anti-Castro organizations in order to get name of
underground operatives inside Cuba. DRE said he was discovered by
their office in Miami and challenged to defend his pro-Castro convictions in
a debate. Oswald refused. Later he was reported to have brawled with
exiles in Bayfront Park. DRE said Oswald was successful in joining their
New York organization prior to his Miami visit, but was not given
opportunities to betray any DRE agent inside Cuba. Oswald also tried to
infiltrate several other major organizations in Miami, including the Anti-
Communist International Brigade which is headed by Maj. Frank Fiorini, a
former commander of Castro’s air force. Fiorini said his outfit turned down
Oswald’s application because they could not find out anything about his
background. 27
The DRE was a student group that fought against Batista only to be double
crossed by Fidel Castro and subsequently established itself in the United States. David
Atlee Phillips was the DRE’s CIA Case Officer. During his HSCA testimony Sturgis
distanced himself from Phillips when asked if he knew him:
He is a son of a bitch Chief of Western Hemisphere Division, CIA. I
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he was stationed there, which supposedly he was when I was there, he is
nothing but a pro-Communist bastard.
Frank’s deposition continued: Mr. Triplett: Now you have mentioned both Jerry
and Jim Buchanan in a lot of your other answers. And it that correct? And it is correct is
it not that they are primarily journalists by trade? Newspaper men?
The Witness: Primarily: Yes, sir
Mr. Triplett. And have you, on occasion, provided them with information to incorporate
into articles, or which they did in fact incorporate into articles?
The Witness: Some. Yes, sir.
Mr. Triplett: And could you give us some estimate on how many occasions this may
have occurred?
The Witness. No, sir. I couldn’t give you a correct estimate. No.
Mr. Triplett: But would it be a fair statement to say that you have provided then with
information.
James Buchanan’s brother Jerry was part of this campaign and Jerry Buchanan
told FBI Agent and cover-up artist SA James O’Conner:
In October 1962 members of the International Anti-Communist Brigade
engaged in a fight in Bay Front Park section of Miami with members of the
Fair Play for Cuba Committee which group was distributing pro-Castro
literature. Police broke up the fight. After the assassination of President
Kennedy in November 1963 and the attending publicity given to Lee
Harvey Oswald Buchanan recognized Oswald as having been one of the
members of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee engaged in the fight in Bay
Front Park in October 1962. He also recalls that Oswald had been in
Miami, Florida again in March 1963 distributing pro-Castro literature…He
has been associated with Frank Fiorini in anti-Castro activities since 1959.
In about 1961 he, his brother, James Buchanan, Geraldine Shamma and
Frank Fiorini founded the International Anti-Communist Brigade.
Jerry Buchanan was sent to the Florida State Penitentiary as of July 28, 1961 for
three years as a Parole Violator from a forgery conviction so he could not have beaten
up Oswald when he said that he did unless a parole violator was granted parole.
In September 1960 the G-2 arrested Geraldine Shamma, who was on a mission
for exile leader Manuel Artime Buesa. The DGI claimed:
Geraldine Shamma sent information to foreign news agencies on
subversive operations carried out, also making available her domicile [a
40 room mansion] in the city of Marianao as a hiding place for individuals
of the group who were fleeing the persecution of the authorities by
assisting them, through her foreign contacts, to escape from the country.
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Shamma was returned to the United States in 1963 through the aid of James
Donovan, a New York attorney with intelligence community ties. She became Vice
President of International Anti-Communist Brigade (IACB). Frank Sturgis was President.
Hemming's first wife was Mercedez Gonzales, a model "who looked like Sophia
Loren". He married her in 1959 and she was put in jail by Castro. She died right after
the Bay of Pigs. John Martino, who “fixed” slot machines for the mob in Cuba, among
other things, said that Oswald was in telephonic contact with the DGI. On December 2,
1963, S.A. James O'Conner interviewed John Martino. He told him that a confidential
source had told him Oswald was in Miami in October 1962, and made several telephone
calls to Cuba from the home of a suspected Castro double-agent. Martino said that
when Oswald distributed his Fair Play for Cuba Committee literature in Bayfront Park,
Jerry Buchanan an INTERPEN/IAB member attacked him. These tall tales resulting in
Frank Fiorini’s name appearing in Warren Commission documents and gave researcher
Mae Brussel her first Watergate-JFK connection. Martino had been incarcerated with
David Christ, one of the tramps, in a Cuban prison and wrote about it in his book I Was
Castro’s Prisoner. Many former prisoners of Castro were involved in The Big Event.
How would you feel if JFK let you rot in a dungeon? You would want to kill the son-of-abitch,
right?
TRAINING CAMP IN THE KEYS
Mr. Triplett. Were you ever in an automobile with Hemming, Bosch and Marita Lorenz
in the Florida Keys?
The Witness: No, sir.
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The Witness: No, sir. With Dr. Orlando Bosch and Gerry Patrick Hemming?
Mr. Triplett. Correct.
The Witness: No, sir.
Frank was closely associated with Orlando Bosch. Bosch sponsored a
reconnaissance flight in the Bahamas in order to locate a piece of land that would serve
as a clandestine landing strip in which another. Howard K. Davis served as the pilot.
WILLIAM “BILL” JOHNSON
Howard Kenneth Davis, Hemming’s double agent who pretended to turn over all
the information he had on the Cuban exile groups, but withheld key operations that had
a chance of succeeding reported:
On this flight were William Johnson, a pilot and a used car salesman;
Robert Lee, owner of American Air Taxi, engaged in leasing of the aircraft;
Frank Anthony Sturgis, also known as Frank Fiorini, an American
adventurer and soldier of fortune. Johnson has advised this office that
Orlando Bosch desires him to select a plane and a pilot for the raid
mentioned in this LHM which Bosch is secretly planning. Johnson has
agreed to do so but states he has no intention of actually participating in
this raid himself or selecting a plane and pilot. He agreed to keep the
Miami Office advised of pertinent developments with regard to activities of
Dr. Bosch. It has been noted however, that Bosch while utilizing Johnson
occasions, has a critical times dispensed of his services as he appeared
to do in the plans concerning the ill-fated raid of June 19, 1964.
In 1973 the Justice Department decided to prosecute Sturgis for Interstate
Transportation of Stolen Motor Vehicles stemming from his abortive attempt to hijack a
Soviet freighter. One of Sturgis' codefendants was Jerry Buchanan. In Texas, Buchanan
claimed the whole car theft case was merely a government ploy to force Sturgis to talk
about Watergate.
MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD November 21, 1973
SUBJECTS: Frank Sturgis and William Johnson.
2. On November 19, 1973, Gary Breneman, Office of General Counsel,
contacted Mr. Leo J. Dunn's office requesting traces and information on a
William J. Johnson, Jr. This request was forwarded to the undersigned. It
was further developed from Breneman that his request had been
prompted by a query from the United States Attorney, Miami, Florida, who
is prosecuting the case against Sturgis on charges stemming from
indictment on transporting stolen automobiles across the Mexican border
in 1968. According to information relayed by Breneman, an individual by
the name of William J. Johnson (DPOD: February 11, 1931, New York
City) was prepared to come forward at Sturgis trial and claim that he was
a CIA employee and that he recruited Sturgis to take part in alleged CIA
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You can see that Johnson was willing to lie for Frank. He was also a coconspirator
in the murder of Alex Rorke, whose plane was sabotaged with contaminated
fuel just before The Big Event.
Bill Johnson with his Grumman F8F Bearcat that was purchased and to be used for CIA
sponsored anti Castro flights over Cuba, was quickly confiscated by the U.S.
Government before it was able to make any flights, circa early 1960's.
Frank’s nephew, Jim Hunt, told this researcher that his uncle asked him to alibi
him for November 22, 1963, which he did in a sworn statement to the Rockefeller
Commission. I have a tape of him or his coauthor saying this but he was a stoned hippy
during the 1967 Summer of Love and contributed to Dana Beal’s bail fund so Jim is
forgiven for not solving this mystery once and for all. Jim is an attorney now and can’t
formerly retract it. It didn’t really matter since the Rockefeller Commission concluded
that it cannot be determined with certainty where Sturgis was on the day of The Big
Event, because his alibi relied on close family members like Jim, Frank’s wife and
Frank’s mother-in-law. Fat Frank didn’t tell the Rockefeller Commission that Shamma,
Johnson and Buchanan saw him on that day. Note that Frank had no impartial
witnesses to verify his whereabouts such as a shop keeper or neighbor etc. Canfield
pretended to be a college student and did a long interview with Frank after which he
called him and recorded the conversation. Frank threatened Comedian Dick Gregory for
digging up stuff that should have been left buried. You can hear the conversation
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HERE. More on “Fat Frank” in The Man Who Dropped a Hammer on JFK. 28 Jim Hunt
also told me that Frank claimed to have been in Memphis, Tennessee the day Martin
Luther King was offed. In 2015 Frank was fingered by Jose Esteves and Fernando
Simões as having been the paymaster in Camarate, the assassination of the Prime
Minster of Portugal and his consort, the Defense Minister and his wife, the Prime
Minister’s Chief of Staff, the pilot and the co-pilot of a small plane they were all flying in.
I testified about Frank’s role in this event before the Portuguese Parliament. In 2016 I
was granted permission by the Portuguese Government to film Fernando Simões, a
member of the death squad Frank had assembled in Lisbon in the Valley of the Jews
prison. In 2017 I was contacted by Ramfis Trujillo, the great grandson of Generalissimo
Rafael Trujillo, long time dictator of the Dominican Republic who was convinced that
Frank Sturgis and other CIA Death Squad members such as Frank Nelson and Mitch
Werbell were behind “El Jefe’s” assassination, rather than Dominican patriots. Frank
Sturgis died of lung cancer in 1993. Only God knows how many people he murdered.
A. J. WEBERMAN & JIM HUNT AT THE PORTUGUESE PARLIAMENT
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CHAPTER THREE
GERALD PATRICK HEMMING
BAY OF PIGS CONNECTION: TRAINED COMMANDO GROUPS
HEMMING AND WEBERMAN
Hemming comes next, although if he was still alive he would be pissed off having
to follow Frank, who he described as a “stubble bum.” Gerry invented Oswald. He first
met Oswald in the Marines and he recruited him into the shadowy world of James
Angleton. After Oswald returned from the USSR, his legend as a “defector” made him
an ideal candidate for a patsy in the JFK assassination. Hemming wrote the Fair Play
for Cuba and visit to Cuban Consulate and Russian Embassy Mexico City scenario with
the help of Howard Hunt and David Atlee Phillips. Hemming wrote the most widely
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I got to know Gerry Patrick Hemming pretty well and found him to be a
fascinating dude. I visited him in the Private Detective Office in Miami’s Little Havana
and at his home. When he came to New York City he visited me at 6 Bleecker Street.
After he got locked up for drug smuggling I corresponded with him while he was in the
Florida State Penitentiary. Hemming was a Long John Silver type. It was impossible to
say if he was good or if he was bad. It depends on what you think about the Kennedy
presidency. By showing weakness during the Bay of Pigs Kennedy paved the way for
the Cuban Missile Crisis that could have ended human life as we know it. I was a hippie
Jim Hawkins; in fact just as Hawkins hid in a barrel and spied on Silver I took pictures of
documents in Hemming’s office with my Minox spy camera when he left the room to
take a dump. I sent him thousands of dollars to let me in on the details of The Big Event.
Mixed in with the BS such as “there was a nigger jacking his dick on the fourth floor
window of the Texas Book Depository” he threw me some really good puzzle pieces.
The photos from Oswald’s Minox I had declassified under the FOIA inextricably linked
the two.
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Oswald had a Minox “spy” camera with him when he was in the Marines.
Undeveloped rolls of Minox film were also found among Oswald’s possessions in the
Paine’s garage. Some of them belonged to Michael Paine. The Dallas Police
Department had the rolls developed and I obtained them under the provisions of the
Freedom of Information Act. The roll that was not taken with Michael Paine's camera
was photographed in Subic Bay, Philippines and in Quemoy or Matsu.
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PHOTO OF OSWALD DEVELOPED FROM ROLL OF MINOX FILM FOUND AMONG
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PHOTOGRAPH OF CHINESE FUNERAL TAKEN BY OSWALD
The SMOKING GUN in this series of photographs depicted several Marines
including Gerald Patrick Hemming with a member of the Hukbalahap (Huk) guerrilla
group that was formed by the Philippine Communist whom he had just garroted; a shot
of a tanker and LST-845P, shots of an island from offshore; shots entering a harbor;
Asian children walking past a heavily fortified military base; a Chinese funeral passing
the perimeter of the base, and the photo of Oswald with an M-16. The two photos of
Hemming indicated Oswald and Hemming first met in the Marine Corps in the 1950's.
Hemming took the picture below with Oswald’s Minox. You can read more about
Hemming, my main source of information on The Big Event in the Internet version of
Coup D’état in America.
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HEMMING POSES WITH HUK IN GARROTE HE CAPTURED OR KILLED
This is a photograph that Oswald took at Subic Bay in the Philippines. The
Warren Commission never saw this nor did the House Select Committee on
Assassinations. Hemming is holding a prisoner in a garrote or is exhibiting a corpse.
That’s our boy Gerry, always up to no good. Notice how Hemming is taller than all the
other men in the photo, presumably his crew. Gerry was about six foot six the tallest
dude I have even known.
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Hemming 1995:
That kid [Oswald] went out in the bush with seven other Marines hunting
Huks, just outside of Angeles City on the base slopes of Mount Arayat.
They drove through Olongapo...I can give you the whole fucking schedule.
At Subic Bay and Cubi Point they were out hunting Huks on the
weekends. First four guys got killed they clamped down; they took
everybody's 782 shooter away from 'em. Gotta knock off this shit. Oswald
got wounded outside of fucking Angeles City by a grenade fragment,
playing Huk hunter.
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There was evidence to back up Hemming's confession. On October 27, 1957, at
Atsugi, Japan, Oswald opened his locker to remove some gear and a .22 caliber
Derringer pistol fell to the floor. The discharged bullet hit him in the left elbow. Marine
Paul Edward Murphy was in the next cubicle and rushed in. Oswald remarked, "I believe
I shot myself." He was hospitalized until November 15, 1957. The Judge Advocate
General concluded that Oswald "displayed a certain degree of carelessness or
negligence" by storing a loaded revolver in his locker, but that his injury was incurred in
the line of duty, and not the result of his own misconduct. He was, however, charged
with possession of an unregistered privately-owned weapon in violation of general
orders. A court martial followed on April 11, 1958. 29 Oswald received a fine and a
suspended 20-day sentence. Why did Oswald own a Derringer? Had he used it in some
Hemming-directed operation? Oswald stated:
I have had a chance to watch American imperialism in action. Subic Bay
Naval Base in the Phillippines, you'd know what I mean. Sympathies with
Communist elements there, their hatred of America. Americans look upon
all foreign people as something to be exploited for profit. All Filipinos who
are well off are those who cooperate with the Americans. 30
When trying to understand the true meaning of Oswald's statement quoted above
we have to keep in mind that Oswald was a dedicated anti-Communist. Therefore if
Oswald says he had sympathies with Communist elements there and for their hatred for
America, it really means he hated their guts and wanted to see them dead. He is
referring to the Philippine communists, or Huks. Oswald denouncing the traitors means
he admired the rich Filipinos who cooperated or as he implies collaborated with the US.
Oswald was a very sophisticated covert operator, much more intelligent than most
people realize.
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HEMMING DEALS WITH A FELLOW MARINE HE SUSPECTS OF SNITCHING
What is Hemming up to in the photograph? It looks like the Marines are horsing
around but Hemming looks serious and might be pointing a gun at the man in the
chokehold. Gerry was a killer and told me the only reason I was alive was because I
was a Yippie from Greenwich Village and not a lawyer, prosecutor or even a professor.
He also said he kept me around for laughs. But one had to be careful when one was
around Gerry. When I knew him he was trying to work off a beef and he told me he
knew of a laboratory on a nearby college campus where one could assemble an
Improvised Atomic Explosive Device. He offered to drive me other there to see the
layout. I told him my name wasn’t Lee Harvey Oswald. On another occasion Hemming
tells me “I am getting a document that is going to blow you away. But I don’t want it in
my possession for too fucking long so meet me on such and such a street in Little
Havana at two o’clock in the morning.” I show up and guess who is sitting in a nearby
car along with an overgrown Cuban thug. It’s Fat Frank, Frank Fiorini, your friendly
neighborhood assassin. He just laughed and drove away.
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HEMMING IN MARINES / PHOTO OF MARINE TAKEN BY OSWALD
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HEMMING IN THE MARINES AND PHOTO OF MARINE TAKEN BY OSWALD
There he is, Gerald Patrick Hemming, who broke into a sporting goods store when he
was 14 and took the weapons he obtained to the hills around LA where he trained half a
dozen other kids to become partisan fighters should the Russkies invade the U.S. 31
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On the page opposite to the entry "Russ for Forin" the letters "Hemiu" appeared.
Note the curved line under the “u.” This could serve as the bottom of a “g.” This is also
the Russian word for "German" cleverly altered. Немец German, kraut, Hun, Jerry,
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Those are my three FAA initials. H-E-M was how I signed off as a radar
operator. You got Oswald's access to the New Orleans newspapers [to
explain the entry], but the Stuckey article about me was published in June
1962 [before Oswald returned from the USSR]. I never gave him my name
when I met him in Monterey Park. I didn't use my name when I visited him
at the El Toro Marine Air Base. The word reads H-e-m-e-u. I don't
recognize that as a Russian word. It was written in the Soviet Union.
Jesus Christ Weberman, you got a pimple looking like the fucking
Goodyear Blimp. Quit pumping on the son-of-a-bitch! Three fucking letters
out of a thousand?
HEMMING AND THE WALKER INCIDENT
In April 1963 Hemming convinced his puppet Oswald to take a pot shot at
Walker, because Hemming knew that after the JFK assassination the assassination
attempt would redound to General Walker’s benefit. Walker was helping Hemming out
with money throughout the spring and fall of 1963. Hemming gave me a copy of one of
his letters to General Walker.
Gerry Patrick Hemming
c/o Howard Kenneth Davis
3350 N.W. 18 Terrace.
Miami, 35, Fla.
General Edwin A. Walker June 28, 1963
4011 Turtle Creek Blvd.
Dallas, 19, Texas.
Dear General Walker:
Please convey my best wishes to your family and friends, and I hope this
letter finds you enjoying good health and work. On behalf of the men of
that serve in our Instructor Teams, and many others that serve in
supporting roles, I want to convey the sincere gratitude of the entire Para-
Military Liaison Group (volunteer) for your rapid response to call for
assistance. I received the six hundred dollars via Western Union later in
the evening of the same day of my telephone call. Yesterday I received
your check of the same amount which I am enclosing for return….
In late 1963 Hemming became a legendary figure among anti-Communist
paramilitary types and all sorts of paramilitarists offered his group their help. General
Walker sent him a check which Gerry returned. J. B. Stoner of the National States
Rights Party offered Gerry his help. James Earl Ray’s brother, Jerry Ray, was a
bodyguard for J.B. Stoner. It really doesn’t pay to hang out with Gerry; you might end up
an Oswald or James Earl Ray. There was a point in his life where he took his own
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family hostage. On the other hand he prevented a bloodbath in Flamingo Park during
the Conventions in 1972 by informing the Secret Service of Frank Fiorini’s diabolical
plan that only a total psychopath could formulate. Frank was going to fire rounds into
the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) protest encampment where one of his
infiltrators was to return the fire. He could have killed Ambassador John Kerry who was
a VVAW member at the time.
Hemming had visited Walker and gave Oswald a floor plan of Walker’s house.
The idea was not to ice the old coot, he had enough ice in drinks which would clink
when I talked to him, it was to take a pot shot at the General and deliberately miss. That
was why Oswald was given a floor plan of the house. He had already taken his own
surveillance photos.
NOTE GAS METER BELONGING TO GENERAL WALKER
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GENERAL WALKER’S HOME: FBI SURVEILLANCE PICTURE
The rectangle within the outline is the back entrance the +++l line with the two
crossing lines that adjoins it is the window and the seemingly more detailed drawing
next to the door to the back room is General Walker’s desk! Walker told the Warren
Commission: “I saw a hole in the wall which would have been to my left while I was
sitting to my right as I looked back, and the desk was cater-cornered in the corner up
against this wall. I noticed there was a hole in the wall, so I went upstairs and got a
pistol and came back down and went out the back door, taking a look to see what might
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have happened.” The shots came from the back of the house, as seen in a photo found
among Oswald’s possessions.
Mr. Liebeler: Now, you indicate that to the very far left of this photograph, Commission
Exhibit No. 5, through these bushes there is a window, and that is the window through
which the shot was fired, is that correct?
General Walker: That is correct.
Mr. Liebeler: That is the window immediately left of the gas meter there as you look at
the picture?
General Walker: That is correct.
Mr. Liebeler: You don't have any doubt that that is the back of your house?
General Walker: None at all. That is the back of the house. 32
The House Select Committee analyzed the bullet recovered from Walker's house
using Neutron Activation Analysis, and concluded that the bullet was "probably a
Mannlicher-Carcano bullet." 33 Oswald left a note for Marina instructing her what to do if
he was apprehended.
Send the information as to what has happened to me to the Embassy and
include newspaper clippings (should there be anything about me in the
newspapers). I believe that the Embassy will come quickly to your
assistance on learning everything. If I am alive and taken prisoner, the city
jail is located at the end of the bridge through which we always passed on
going to the city (right in the beginning of the city after crossing the
bridge).
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The Warren Commission missed this because if it identified this as a floor plan of
Walker’s home it would mean either Oswald had visited with Walker or someone else
had. Since the Warren Commission set out to prove Oswald was a loner there was no
way it would implicate anyone else in the Walker shooting. Warren Commission
Counsel David Slawson wrote:
Examination of the address book in the original shows that Oswald used
pens and inks of many different kinds in making various entries. For
example, on the page which contains the names and addresses of the
Embassies in Mexico City, all these names and addresses are obviously
from the same pen and the same ink, but the name Sylvia Duran is in a
different ink, and was probably written with a ball point pen.
This strongly indicates that Oswald got the names and addresses of the
embassies at some earlier time, perhaps before he left New Orleans and
that he wrote down Sylvia Duran's name after he met her at the Cuban
Embassy. It would be interesting to know if the same ball point pen that
was used to write her name was also used to make other entries in the
notebook. This would be especially significant, because what appears to
be an alternate telephone number for the Russian Embassy in Mexico City
seems to be from a pen which is different from both that were used to
write 'Sylvia Duran' and from that used to write the names and addresses
of the several embassies.
This points to the fact that Oswald did not have a pen with him, but was
borrowing pens to make these entries, and therefore probably borrowed
one pen at the Cuban Embassy to write 'Sylvia Duran' and another at the
Russian Embassy to write the alternative telephone number. It follows
from this that if any other entry in the notebook is from the same pen and
ink as the 'Sylvia Duran' entry or the alternate telephone number, that it
was probably made at the same time and place as these other entries
were made.
To carry this conjecture out even further, there is what appears to be a
floor diagram on page four of this notebook and it is written in an ink that
could be the same as the ink used to write 'Sylvia Duran' in the notebook.
If this proves to be the case, it could mean the floor plan was drawn when
Oswald was at the Cuban Consulate. Obviously my analysis so far is
much too highly conjectural, but it indicates the kind of inferences that
could legitimately be taken from a closer analysis of the address book. I
recommend we ask that a CIA expert on this sort of thing be assigned the
task of analyzing the entire notebook to give us a report on what entries
were probably made by Oswald with the same pen and ink. 34
All this rigmarole was unnecessary. Anyone could look at the original address
book and see which inks were different. It never crossed the collective mind of the
Warren Commission to compare this to the back of Walker’s house.
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On Hemming's CIA application form he put down Klein's Sporting Goods as a
reference. That was where Oswald purchased the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle the crew
used in the hit.
Hemming put him up to making the purchase. I asked Hemming how he got
Oswald to bring the rifle into the Texas Book Depository on morning of the November
22, 1963 coup.
Just offer him double the value of his gun. It wouldn't make anyone
nervous. A crime like this hadn't occurred since McKinley, it wouldn't have
been uppermost in his mind about the President, or any other kind of
bullshit.
Oswald was observed by impartial witnesses carrying the disassembled rife into
the TSBD on the morning of The Big Event. Linnie Mae Randle said that on that fateful
morning, while her brother Buell Wesley Frazier was eating breakfast, she looked out
her window and saw Oswald cross the street and walk toward her home. This was the
first time Oswald came to her house for a lift - Buell usually picked him up at Ruth
Paine's house. Oswald was carrying a "heavy brown bag." Linnie Mae Randle recalled:
"It tapered, like this, as he hugged it in his hand. It was...more bulky toward the bottom."
Linnie Mae Randle thought the color of the bag was similar to the bag found on the sixth
floor of the Texas School Book Depository that afternoon. Oswald claimed they were
curtain rods. A notation gun 22 appears in Oswald’s address book. This is why Oswald
brought his disassembled Mannlicher-Carcano with him to the Texas School Book
Depository on the morning of November 22, 1963 - he could make some money from
the deal. Hemming had fired the weapon on the weekend before the assassination at
the Sportsdrome Rifle Range and had told Oswald that he liked it a lot and would
purchase it for him on next Friday.
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Hemming told this researcher that the FBI was really not interested in getting to
the bottom of things:
O'Conner came by himself, which he was prone to do, because there
weren't that many people working his division, which was agents.
O'Conner focused on Castro agents, KGB's and all that kind of bullshit.
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O'Conner came by and said Dwyer and a couple of other guys are gonna
be coming by and 'What do you think? Do you think any of the Miami
people could have been involved in this?' I said 'I ain't got a fucking clue.
There's weird shit that happens, but I ain't got a fucking clue.' He said,
'When they come by they're probably not gonna ask you too much shit
anyway, I wouldn't volunteer anything.' Well they know that I'm the one
that has his fingers on every fucking move that's going on.”
Hemming 1994:
“The FBI came by my place after the assassination and asked nine
questions in a hurry, and got the fuck out of there. They asked: 'What did
you have for breakfast? What did you have for lunch?' They didn't ask
where I was when The Big Event happened. Basically, in a roundabout
way, 'Can you think of anything that could help in this business about
Kennedy in Dallas?' Skirting the issues. They gave me a message by the
nature of the fucking questions, to keep my mouth shut. They pointedly did
not ask me my alibi. That was a month after the assassination. That was
the last time I talked to the FBI. After the assassination, nobody in the
group discussed any bullshit, and there was nobody asking no questions.
We didn't discuss it. When there were arguments and shit, a guy would
blurt out something. I would tell him to shut his goddamn face. That's what
caused them guys to think I was in on the son-of-a-bitch. So what are they
gonna do then? They're gonna keep their fucking mouths shut. They figure
I'm a goddamn ringleader on the assassination of a President. This is what
has carried through my connections for the last 30 years. All these
intelligence assholes figure that's what it was. We divorced the Kennedy
thing from our memories until the Garrison thing came up in 1967.”
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If all this was not enough, and I am sure it will not be for the reader who has
developed his or her own pet theory, the word INTERPEN appears in the address book.
Oswald had contact with members of the Hemming, Sturgis crew:
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The name "Colby" is there. This entry appeared opposite an address book page
scheduling a meeting with a representative of an anti-Castro student group in Miami.
This was INTERPEN/IAB member Edmund Kolby since his name was often misspelled.
For example, a December 7, 1962 Counter-Intelligence Support Desk Memorandum
stated: "In a name check run in Task Force W indices, a Colby [FNU] was reported in
July 1962 as approaching a Standard Oil representative for financial support for his
underground group." 35 The FBI stated that the address book entry referred to Ted
Colby, a Revlon Corporation salesman, since the number 1147 appeared directly
behind the Colby entry (actually it appeared several pages later), and Ted Colby lived at
4711 Homer Street in Dallas. Hemming:
Kolby was born in Finland. He was with the U.N. partisan forces behind the lines
in North Korea. He's the black sheep of the family. Doesn't know how to drive a car.
Stammers a little bit. Looks just like Wally Cocks, Mr. Peepers, he was on a number of
operations. He lives in Miami. Works for the Department of Agriculture. Kolby was in
and out of New Orleans on merchant ships. Kolby told me in 1962 when he come off a
merchant ship that he had ran into some assholes in New Orleans who I thought was
Larry LaBorde, who was in a bar talking about training camps. Kolby don't talk.
Edmund Kolby's name appeared on a CIA index card titled "FRD - Cuban
Revolutionary Front October 21, 1960." The CIA: “Colby (FNU) (Illegible) received from
a representative of Office Original Coordination of Standard Oil of New Jersey. During
week July 8, 1962, source visited by Colby. Subject's first name, address (illegible)
dressed, wearing glasses, speaking with slight stammer. Apparently U.S. citizen from
Eastern section of U.S. Source said he spent six years in Army with Special Services,
now working on project training Cubans unconventional warfare Florida, Everglades. He
claimed spent three or four months a year on merchant ship. This supported him during
the rest of the year while worked on training project. He expressed little love for the CIA
or the U.S. Government and gave source copy of article that appeared in June 3, 1962
issue of the Denver Post “Cuban Exiles Have Learned to Hate CIA.” [by Robert K.
Brown] Reason visiting source is to get financial backing for his project. He was very
critical of money given to underground groups while his group gets no financial
support... Subject was not specific activities of group. Mentioned getting food and
medical supplies into Cuba and 18 day course guerilla warfare.” The United States
Secret Service also transcribed this notation as Colby.
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The name “COLIN” appears in Oswald’s address book on a page opposite
contiguous with Hemming’s name. INTERPEN appealed to people whom Hemming
described as having "a low level mentality," like Edward Anderson Collins. Collins was
born at Shreveport, Louisiana, on August 21, 1935. Hemming: “Collins had come from
ECONCON in Europe. He was snitching to Wallace Shanley's people.” Edward Collins
worked in the Dixon Language School in Miami and had ties with racist groups like the
Ku Klux Klan and J.B. National Stoner's National States Rights Party. James Earl Ray's
brother, Jerry Ray, was J. B. Stoner's bodyguard. In May 1962 both the FBI and the CIA
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were investigating Edward Collins, "regarding a bomb threat." 36 In September 1964
Hemming told Edward A. Collins to accompany him aboard a small craft they had
rented from Russell Wilkey, a charter boat captain. According to Miami Police and City
of Miami reports, Russell Wilkey, Steve Justin Wilson, Hemming and Edward A. Collins
were out at sea when Edward A. Collins allegedly "dived off the sailboat to retrieve a
drifting dingy. This was the last time he was seen alive."
City of Miami, Florida, Inter-Office Memorandum
Lt. H. Swilly, Intelligence Unit,
From Gus Zenoz, P/officer Intelligence Unit
Date October 20, 1964,
References W/M Edward A. Collins 29 years 1925 S.W. 4th Street
On September 28, 1964, Subject went sailing with Russell Wilkey, 47
years, (owner of sailboat) and two other men, names unknown. According
to Russell they were in the Dinner Key boat channel when Collins dived off
the sailboat to retrieve a drifting dingy. That was the last time they saw
him alive. On September 29, 1964, Perry Nichols Jr. 18 years, discovered
the underwear clad corpse (Subject) about 4:15 p.m. Nichols, a high
school student, had been out on the family boat. Writer has learned that
Subject, at the time of his death, had been very actively locally selling
explosives and guns to the Cuban groups. An informer told writer that he
had been out boat riding with Subject and that he was not the type who
would jump in the ocean especially at night. Informer who was very
friendly with Subject thinks that he was probably killed. Writer thinks it
might be a good idea to find out who the other two men in the boat were
and to check them out. They might be the ones involved in the theft of
dynamite for September 19, 1964, from Jack Allen Austin Powder
Company.
In 1977 Hemming was asked about the death of Edward A. Collins:
Shit, he didn't die in no accident. He was keelhauled by a bunch of left-
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wingers! Collins was a very simple guy. We liked to fight a lot and argue.
But he was a real joker. He decided to infiltrate this peace march that was
going to march to Key West, get on some boats, then go to Havana and
march to Guantanamo Naval Base. He fell in with those people, and he
was working for the FBI when he did it. Off Dinner Key he supposedly
jumped off the boat that these peace people were going to take to
Havana, to recover a dingy that had come loose in the night in eight feet of
water, and he drowned. I went to identify the body. Steve Justin Wilson
and I were not on the boat with him. When he drowns the FBI figures,
“Holy shit, their careers are on the line. They got him killed.” The FBI
questioned me about it. Russell Wilkey was a peacenik and a U.S.
Customs informant. We were not on the boat with him. We went and
interrogated the guys on the boat severely. We didn't hurt them too bad.
We wanted know what the hell was going on? How an excellent swimmer,
who had just been on a boat a few months before that blew up off Cuba,
could drown? The City of Miami report is bullshit. They made a mistake.
We looked him over close on the slab.
Hemming could invent some amazing stories to account for his crimes. Collins
mistake was getting “delusions of grandeur” and thinking he was smarter than Hemming
and wanted to run the operation. But remember, Hemming wrote American History
when he invented Oswald. Or perhaps Collins might have threatened to reveal his
connection with Oswald to the media or FBI? In any event Hemming killed him.
Did Hemming ever work for the CIA? Evidence suggests that at one point in his
illustrious career he did!
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AMBUD is the crypt for the Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC). “[Hemming]
follows the directions of the Case Officer and does not allow his disappointment at the
slow pace of developments towards liberating PBRUMEN to interfere with his work.”
Hemming connections in America were far and wide. He was connected to Jack
Ruby through his close associate and one time roommate Howard Kenneth Davis.
Sometime in the early 1960’s Hemming hooked up with Davis, who had fought
for the overthrow of Batista on behalf of the deposed Cuban President Carlos Prio
Socarras. Davis left Cuba after Castro seized power and moved to Miami where he
became either a double agent for Gerry Hemming or an FBI super-snitch under the
cryptonym MM 639-S. If Davis was a genuine snitch, he rated some of the most
dangerous Cuban exile groups including Alpha-66, Commandos-L, Bosch’s crew,
Christian Democratic Movement and more.
Commission Document 441 - FBI Clements Report
Feb 1964 re: Ruby
DL 44-1639
The following investigation was conducted by SA ALFRED D. NEELEY at Dallas,
Texas:
During interview on December 21, 1963, JACK LEON RUBY advised "at a
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time when CASTRO was popular in the United States" he read of an
individual in the vicinity of Houston, Texas, having been engaged in "gun
running" to CASTRO, RUBY stated that he attempted to contact this
individual by telephone as he had in mind "making a buck" by possibly
acquiring some jeeps or other similar equipment which he might sell to
persons interested in their importation to Cuba. RUBY claimed nothing
came of this. On January 14, 1964, Assistant District Attorney William
Alexander, Dallas, advised that he had learned from some source, RUBY
had reportedly had contact with one DAVIS described as an ex-convict
believed living in Beaumont, Texas. Alexander stated he understood the
FBI, Houston, had handled the investigation of this person resulting in
conviction for gun-running activities. The Houston Office advised by
communication January 17, 1964, that investigation had failed to identify
(FNU) DAVIS either at Houston or Beaumont, Texas, The Houston Office
advised that ROBERT RAY McKEOWN was the most logical individual to
whom RUBY referred. McKEOWN was arrested February 25, 1958, and
on October 24, 1958, he was sentenced in the U. S, District Court, SDT,
Houston, Texas, to sixty days to serve and $500.00 fine on a charge of
conspiracy to smuggle goods to Cuba and given a two year sentence
suspended for five years on his second count. The Houston Office further
stated that on March 28, 1958, information obtained from the Houston
Chronicle (newspaper) disclosed at a hearing regarding this matter, a
partial list of arms obtained at residence of McKEOWN was produced and
entered in evidence by CHESLEY JONES, an agent of the Alcohol and
Tobacco Tax Unit, Dallas, Texas.
SAC, Dallas (44-1639)
DATE: 3/10/64
FROM 141/
SAC, Miami (44-1412)(P)
SUBJECT:
JACK L. RUBY, aka.
LEE HARVEY OSWALD, aka. – VICTIM CR
Re Houston teletype to Miami and Dallas 1/24/64 and Miami airtel to Dallas 1/29/640
On March 5, 1964, MM 639-S, true name Howard K. Davis advised he
had seen newspaper photograph of Jack Leon Ruby but had never seen
him before, never had any dealings with anyone with that name and had
never met him in Houston, Texas. It is noted MM 639-S is from Chicago,
Illinois; Palm Beach and Miami, Florida and does not have any criminal
record. Miami sources and informants were contacted with negative
results concerning the identity of DAVIS in re Houston teletype. Local
federal agencies advised they do not know anyone possibly identical with
DAVIS.
JACK LEON RUBY, aka;
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LEE HARVEY OSWALD, aka - VICTIM (DECEASED) CIVIL RIGHTS
(00: DALLAS)
Re Houston teletype to Miami and Dallas, 1/24/64.
Houston Will note in case entitled "CARLOS PRIO SOCARRAS ET AL,
FPM --CUBA" (Houston file 109-7) ROBERT R. McKEOWN Galena Park,
Texas and others, were arrested by police and later prosecuted by U.S.
Customs for possession and conspiracy to violate Neutrality Act. In this
case, MM 639-S, true name HOWARD DAVIS was in Houston, and had
considerable contact with McKeown and others involved. MM 639-S is still
active in Cuban Revolutionary Matters but is presently out of town. On his
return, he will be contacted again concerning this matter.
The re-interview is nowhere to be found. Hemming knew Jack Ruby through
Davis and Hemming may have been the one who gave Ruby the order to kill Oswald
rather than the mob.
Gerald Patrick Hemming has been investigated by the Miami Office for
over five years, is of known unreliability and has never been able to send
an expedition out of the U. S. MM 639-S. A close associate of Hemming,
on June 21, 1965, said that Hemming is no longer interested in the DR
and is now working on a plan to bring South Vietnamese into the U. S. to
serve as training troops in a Florida National Guard training program.
Informant said that the entire story of sending troops to the DR is a
figment of Hemming's imagination. It is not based on fact but just another
one of Hemming’s many impractical and illogical dreams. Miami Office
feels this matter has received undue importance and alarm because of
CIA reporting and classifying such material "Secret". The Miami Office,
from previous experiences with Hemming, and a quick check with
established sources, feels this entire matter was the result of one of
Hemming's day-dreams.
Not all of Hemming’s operations were daydreams:
ACCORDING REPORT AND (DELETED) NATIONAL LIBERATION WAS
INVOLVED WITH JORGE ANTONIO AND “COKIE” ZIMERI SAFIE, WHO
HAS BEEN LIVING MIAMI SINCE AUGUST 1975 IN PLOT TO
ASSASSINATE LAUGERUD. PLOT WAS TO HAVE BEEN CARRIED
OUT IN SEPTEMBER 75 BUT ZIMERI WAS VICTIM OF ATTACK ON
HIS LIFE LATE AUGUST AND AS RESULT WENT TO MIAMI FOR
MEDICAL TREATMENT. REPORT AND (DELETED) CLAIM THAT TWO
AMERICANS BROTHERS ROBERT AND GERALD PATRICK HEMMING
(NO STATION .TRACES) WERE ALSO INVOLVED WITH ZIMERI IN
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OTHER THINGS WHICH FLOWN TO GUATEMALA LEGALLY IN SMALL
PLANES.
Jerry G. Brown, Deputy Chief, Security Analysis Group, believed this played into the
allegations made against him in Coup D’état in America.
For an appreciation of the possible ramifications of the Guatemalan
government expose of this assassination plot involving Hemming you are
referred to attachments to instant memorandum, to wit: a memorandum by
the write dated 10 June 1975 in the name of Frank Sturgis and Everett
Howard Hunt Jr. and an extract from a book published in early 1976
written by Michael Canfield and Alan J. Weberman. The book Coup D’Etat
in America, The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy is diatribe
against the Agency and attempts to link the Agency with the assassination
of President Kennedy.
INDEX CARD FOUND AMONG OSWALD’S POSSESSIONS
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On January 28, 2008, in Fayetteville, NC, my good friend Gerry Patrick Hemming
passed away. May he rest in peace. What’s a president between friends anyway?
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EVERETT HOWARD HUNT
BAY OF PIGS CONNECTION: WHITE HOUSE CIA LIAISON UNDER IKE,
CO-ORDINATION OF ANTI-CASTRO EXILES GROUP AND PLANNER OF
INVASION
After my book Coup D'état in America was published naming Watergater
Everette Howard Hunt as one of the assassins of JFK he filed a federal lawsuit against
me accusing me of libel. 37 This gave me federal subpoena power to prove my
innocence. I was able to question all of those who I believed were involved in The Big
Event including Angleton 38 , Helms, Barker, Diaz Lanz, 39 Marita Lorenz, 40 Frank Fiorini 41
and others. Hunt dropped the case a day before it was set for trial. My witnesses
included Congressman Henry Gonzalez and Senator Richard Schweiker, whom I had
worked for, so it was unlikely Hunt would have prevailed. Hunt was also afraid of the
publicity that might ensue. During one of my depositions in Hunt v. Weberman I called
the press after Hunt showed up. Hunt’s attorney, Ellis Rubin, asked, “How can my client
get a fair trial with media here?” I told him that I was the one on trial for libel and not
Hunt. By suing me, Hunt put himself on trial for the murder of John Kennedy. I had
plenty of evidence beginning with the tramp comparison shots. When you look at these
photographs keep in mind that one of the men looks like Hunt, one of the men looks like
Sturgis and one of the men looks like David Christ because they are in Technical
Services Division disguise. All three of these men who “happen” to look like the tramps
were involved in anti-Castro operations most notably the Bay of Pigs. The probability
that the tramps are these men increases exponentially rather than logarithmically with
each resemblance. In other words, if one looked like Hunt so what? But if one looks like
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HUNT AND THE TRAMP
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Oswald had the initials “WH” in his address book. “WH” was a valid Dallas
telephone exchange but no phone number followed it. Howard Hunt had been the
liaison man between the CIA and the White House regarding the Bay of Pigs invasion
during the Eisenhower Administration. 42 He used the initials “WH” as his code name
during his days as a Nixon Administration White House Plumber as you can see from
Watergate Burglar and long time CIA Agent Bernard Barker’s address book below.
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During his deposition in Hunt v. Weberman, Hunt was asked what would lead Mr.
Barker to use the initials W. H? Hunt: "I assume that WH was for White House."
Watergate burglar Rolando Martinez' personal telephone directory listed Howard Hunt.
Next to the phone number it noted: "W. House."
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One clue to determining which of Oswald’s address book entries have
steganographic value is the use of different inks. Oswald made it seem as if he had to
attend a wedding on November 6, in Russia. But could this be later on back in the USA?
On November 6, 1962, Oswald was preoccupied with his newborn daughter, June.
There is reason to believe the date Oswald was referring to was November 6, 1963.
On Wednesday, November 6, 1963, Oswald charged out, from the Dallas Public
Library, The Shark and the Sardines, by former President of Guatemala Juan Jose
Arevalo. This book was about Operation PB Success, the CIA’s successful effort to
install a puppet of United Fruit in Guatemala. Howard Hunt and David Philips’ ran this
OP in 1954 and took credit for it in their respective autobiographies. The book was due
on November 13, 1963. The book was never returned to the library. 43 This interest in
this CIA OP and the notation in his address book mark Oswald’s introduction to E.
Howard Hunt and his “wedding” to the CIA. The FBI was not sure of Oswald’s
whereabouts from November 5, 1963 to November 7, 1963.
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Hunt met Oswald and Hunt displayed his CIA credentials. He outlined the nature
of an Operation Oswald and others were supposed to carry out. Hunt told him he was
up for a promotion in the Agency but never told him to what level it..So two days later
Oswald jotted off this note to Howard Hunt.
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In August 1975 a copy of Oswald’s letter to Howard Hunt was mailed to
researcher Penn Jones. It was postmarked Mexico City. After a reproduction of this
letter was turned over to the FBI, Director Clarence Kelley stated: "Investigation to date
has failed to produce evidence that the alleged letter was written by Oswald." This was
untrue. Clarence Kelley had already ordered the FBI to “still” the investigation of the
tramp shots. This is what this researcher faced throughout my investigation – lies to
save the CIA from possible disbandment. What really got the spooks ticked off was
when Canfield convinced Congressman Gonzalez to introduce HR 1540 in September
1976 and it passed establishing the House Select Committee on Assassinations. If CIA
hadn’t run operations against Congressman Gonzales it would have had some real
problems.
The Justice Department reported,
The copy of the purported Oswald letter has been subjected by the
Bureau to handwriting analysis. The results are inconclusive. The writing
is sufficiently similar to known samples of Oswald’s handwriting, that
Bureau experts cannot eliminate the possibility that the letter is genuine.
Neither can they say definitely that it is Oswald’s writing." The FBI: "The
photocopy...does not reproduce the handwriting on the original document
with sufficient clarity of line detail for adequate handwriting comparisons or
any definite determination whether that handwriting was, or was not,
prepared by Lee Harvey Oswald, whose available genuine writings consist
of a large number of documents previously submitted in this investigation.
However, from such comparisons and examinations as could be made,
significant similarities in letter formations were noted as well as a number
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of unexplained handwriting variations. In the absence of the original
document...or a clear photograph of the original document it is doubtful
whether Oswald can be definitely identified, or positively eliminated, as the
writer of the questioned letter." 44
Three handwriting experts retained by the Dallas Morning News in 1977
concluded that the letter was "Oswald’s authentic writing, written by him." Oswald had
misspelled the word "concerning" the same way once before. 45
Was the letter mailed to Penn Jones by a Mexican police official? Hunt’s Mexico
City address was an anti-Castro safe house, in which the Mexican police had an
interest, since anti-Castro attacks had been planned from there. During his Hunt v.
Weberman deposition, Hunt stated: "I traveled down there [Mexico] in 1960, I was there
with my family until the early fall when it became apparent that the Cubans [exiles] had
incurred the hostility of the Mexican Government. At that point I sent my wife and my
family back to the United States..." In Give Us This Day, Hunt wrote: "In Mexico I was to
be treated by the station as a separate unit responsible for all frente matters including
the Mexico City delegation of the Cuban Revolutionary Front. We found a small
furnished house in Lomas de Chapultepec...I established a private office, moved in a
large safe and worked out operation schedules with my station contact...the delegation
reported increasing harassment from Mexican officials. Finally Sam reported having
been trailed to the safehouse and when I looked down from the third floor window, I
could see a sloppily dressed surveillant slouched against a lamppost. A countersurveillance
team traced the man to Mexican Police Headquarters." 46 The CIA reported
that Hunt had set up a Washington, D.C., "Letter Address" in 1963 and terminated it in
1965: "Address still being used by (deleted)."
DO/SEC 63-72 June 18, 1963
MEMO FOR: Deputy Director of Security (Investigations and Operational
Support)
ATTENTION: Mr. (Deleted).
SUBJECT: (Deleted) Request for (deleted)/ This will confirm a verbal
request to your office for a (deleted) in Washington, D.C. to be set up in
the (Deleted). It will be used for an indefinite period of time, should be
service daily and the volume should be light. Please confirm the activation
of this facility as soon as possible. The (deleted) is being forwarded under
separate cover. Joseph R. Murphy DODS Security Officer.
Penn Jones received a cover letter with the Hunt note:
At the end of the last year I gave Mr. Kelley, FBI Director, a letter from Lee
Oswald. It is my understanding it could have brought out certain
circumstances in the Kennedy assassination. Since Mr. Kelley has not
responded to that letter, I've got the right to believe something bad might
happened [sic] to me, and that is why I see myself obligated to keep
myself away for a short time...
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This letter was originally sent to the FBI with a return address "Insurgentes, Sur
No. 30, Mexico, D.F., Mexico" on it, and it bore the initials "P.S." Whoever sent it,
mistakenly expected a response. Earl Goltz reported that the address was a working
class apartment building in Mexico City. The FBI reported that this address "is a postal
box for 'The Piccadilly,' a hotel for transients in Mexico City." It is an upscale shopping
center now. When the sender failed to receive a response from FBI Director Clarence
Kelley, he decided to avoid the address on the letter for a short time, or had moved
permanently. The letter was from someone who had experience with the heavy-handed
tactics of the Mexican police. The FBI denied having received this letter: "After a check
of all appropriate personnel and files, the Bureau reports it has no record or other
indication of receiving this letter. FBI Agents interviewed the now retired documents
analyst who would have been responsible...He has no recollection of the Oswald
letter." 47
This letter gave us a good idea of what really went on between Hunt and Oswald:
November 8, 1963 I would like information concerding [sic] my position. I
am asking only for information. I am suggesting that we discuss the matter
fully before any steps are taken by me or anyone else.
The date is also significant because on November 8, 1963 Oswald visited the
Dallas FBI Office and left a note threatening to blow it up if the FBI did not stop
bothering his wife. Oswald had met Howard Hunt in person for the first time and
believed he was working on behalf of the CIA and thought they should have informed
the FBI that he was an Operation and told it to lay off his wife who equated the Feds
with the Russian Secret Police. If Howard Hunt was working for the CIA, and not a
rogue element within that agency, why couldn't they prevent S.A. Hosty from bothering
his wife? A phone call from the CIA to the FBI should have put an end to this.
Just what was Oswald’s position anyway? Was he a snitch who was not carried
on the books, or was there paperwork about his undercover work at the Agency? "I am
asking only for information." Oswald was not asking for documentation. He just wanted
a verbal report. "I am suggesting that we discuss the matter fully..." Oswald was willing
to discuss the matter with his Case Officer "before any steps are taken by me or anyone
else." Before he or Hemming did anything else on behalf of the Agency.
James Hosty was asked about the Hunt letter: "Well it was a forgery, and I can
tell you the guy who did it. How did Oswald sign his name? The only trouble is he
signed it 'Lee Harvey Oswald.' He never used his middle name. He spelled his own
middle name wrong." [see Lee Henry Oswald]
The CIA attempted to discredit the Hunt letter as it did the tramp shots in its
creation entitled The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret
History of the KGB by Christopher Andrew MI-5 historian:
In the mid 1970’s the dramatic revelations of real conspiracy in the Nixon
White House and of CIA assassination plots against several foreign
statesmen gave the conspiracy theorists a new lease on life. The KGB,
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measures which supported the increasingly popular theory that the CIA
was behind Kennedy’s assassination. Its chief target was the former CIA
officer turned Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt. Who had been
wrongly accused of being in Dallas on the day of the assassination? The
centerpiece of the active measure against Howard Hunt, codenamed
ARLINGTON, was a forged letter to him from Oswald, allegedly written a
fortnight before the assassination. The letter used phrases and
expressions taken from actual letters written by Oswald during his two
years in the Soviet Union, was fabricated in a clever imitation of his
handwriting. The implication, clearly, was the Oswald wanted to meet Hunt
before going ahead with the assassination.
Before being used the forgery was checked twice for “authenticity” by the
Third Department of the KGB’s OUT (operational technical) Directorate. In
1974 photographs of it were sent to the most active conspiracy buffs,
together with covering letters from an anonymous well wisher who claimed
that he had given the original to the Director of the FBI Clarence Kelly,
who appeared to be suppressing it. The center was doubtless
disappointed that for almost two years its forgery received no publicity. In
1977 the letter was published by Penn Jones. The New York Times
reported that three had authenticated the letter. Oswald’s widow identified
her husband’s handwriting. Expert summoned by the HSCA in 1978
concluded more prudently that they were unable to reach a firm
conclusion because of the absence of the original document.
Neither the Justice Department, nor the FBI nor the HSCA could rule out the
possibility that the letter was authentic because it was. The CIA was of course
interested in the KGB Archives. It they weren’t they might as well check into the funny
farm. They mixed in this dirty lie, this disinformation, this false news story to real KGB
documents to give it authenticity however Oswald’s having taken out a book about PB
SUCCESS two days before it was written proves its authenticity as does Hunt’s
confession. As for Christopher Andrews’s statement the KGB did not believe Hunt was
present on the scene of the Kennedy assassination, it is a dirty lie. KGB did a long piece
about Hunt’s complicity in a book entitled A Dangerous Game. Andrews is the official
historian for British Intelligence which is closely linked to CIA and has an interest in
covering up Hunt’s role in the Kennedy assassination. The fact that the operation has
an English name, ARLINGTON, is also suspect. This Soviet operation never existed.
Hunt threw some light on this in American Spy:
Hunt stated:
Another reason my name has become involved with the assassination is a
notorious letter that was allegedly written by Oswald on November 8,
1963, reading: Dear Mr. Hunt: I would like information concerding [sic] my
position. I am asking only for information. I am suggesting that we discuss
the matter fully before any steps are taken by me or anyone else. Thankyou
[sic], Lee Harvey Oswald
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In 1974, after my name had been exposed in Watergate, the letter was
mailed by the KGB to at least three conspiracy advocates, one of whom
published it in a book. Afterward, the HSCA had the document examined
by a handwriting expert, who pronounced it a forgery. Most likely, it was
part of a clumsy disinformation campaign by the KGB. It certainly doesn't
read as if the person who wrote the letter was very conversant in English,
even misspelling the word concerning. It may have been written by a
person with a thick accent, spelling the word the way he pronounced it.
Defecting agents have confirmed that the KGB was involved in many
strange and, to us, patently ridiculous propaganda campaigns. Trying to
connect the CIA with the assassination of a beloved president may
certainly have been on their agenda.
The Shark and the Sardines was translated by June Cobb who was part of the
anti-Castro American crew. The CIA reported:
Viola June Cobb (201-0278841, born August 24, 1927) was born in Ponca,
Oklahoma, and left home for Mexico City in 1947- 1948 after her father remarried. She
has since lived in Ecuador, Cuba and Mexico, and has been involved with the men and
politics of a number of Latin American countries. During these years she developed a
host of friends and acquaintances, both U.S. and Latin, that included political leaders,
journalists, diplomats, professors, some of which do not enjoy general social
acceptance. Her friends vary from rightists to extreme leftists, but she always seemed to
be more attracted by the more bohemian, revolutionary types.
Miss Cobb was employed in the office of Fidel Castro in Havana, doing
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spending some time in the United States, she moved to Mexico, where
she has generally been unemployed. In October 1961, she traveled to
Guatemala regarding the Arvelo book, but was arrested, and in November
was expelled on the basis that she had been a Castro agent who mission
in Guatemala was to distribute pro-Castro and Communist propaganda.
Miss Cobb has told several people of her cooperation with the U.S.
Government and undoubtedly many suspect her association with U.S.
Intelligence. Yet she continues to be on friendly terms with Latin American
and American Communists and leftists.
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD October 17, 1960
SUBJECT AMUPAS/1 Boston Tapes
Discussion between Subject and Ralph True.
According to Subject a week or ten days ago in New York, Estelle (Stasia)
Sokolowska revealed to Cobb that she (Stasia) had been told last winter
(1959-1960) by Marita Lorenz and her mother, and also by Diane
Alexandria (Diane didn't even know Cobb) and by the FBI that Cobb was
involved in the narcotics and abortion rackets. Stasia told Cobb that she
was questioned by the Bureau at 69th & 3rd and was told by the FBI that
Cobb was involved in narcotics traffic with Yanes Pellitier in Cuba and was
using Stasia as a pawn. Mrs. Lorenz was trying to get $3000 for Marita's
operation. She sent a letter to Fidel. She called Cobb and Embassy about
her daughter being held in Cuba against her will. Yanes immediately put
Marita Lorenz on a plane (December). After Christmas Lorenz sent letters
and telegrams to Fidel. Since Cobb's arrival in New York, Diane has seen
a great deal of her - she is eager to hear about Yanes. She helped Cobb
get in touch with Stasia. When questioned by the FBI was asked to get in
touch with Marita Lorenz. Did so in Connecticut -- became friends and
very much involved with them. They were about to vend the story about
Marita and Fidel; she did not mention her love for Yanes. Yanes came up
and Diane learned that he was involved with Marita -- to her surprise and
grief. Continues to see Lorenz. When January rolled around, Pedro Diaz
Fonte (Yanes' aide) came up. Diane involved with Lorenzs.
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FRANK AND MARITA
Marita Lorenz had been recruited by Frank Sturgis in a plot to kill Fidel Castro but
knowing Fat Frank was sending her to her death she claimed the poison pills he gave
her melted in her cold cream, where she had secreted them. When Fat Frank
threatened Marita after she revealed his role in The Big Event, I sent my crew to her
apartment to protect her from this psychopath. Marita was a guest last thanksgiving and
was partying the same day Fidel croaked. Funny how I became friendly with two
members of the death squad.
June Cobb knew Hemming and referred to him in a letter:
Harold, before arriving in Telucigalpa, had been in Mexico. Before she
went down to Cuba she had been writing and receiving letters from him in
Mexico. He didn't realize she was in Cuba, until he saw her in Telucigalpa,
but apparently on her arrival in Cuba she had contacted the other boys,
Chester Simpson, JERRY HEMING, and Harold [sic] brother Alejandro
and they all decided for her to make the trip over to Honduras.
Hemming told this researcher: "Cobb worked for the telephone company in Miami
and married an oil man in Oklahoma. She hung out with all the exile military types.” CIA
reported:
A onetime authority has been granted to use her in developing a
unexpected KGB official from Brazil who is expected to visit Mexico
shortly. Since this is one of the most sensitive operational targets of
KUBARK, the restrictions on giving her requirements about Central
American communists in Mexico seems pointless. She also has good
contacts in the leftist U.S. colony in Mexico but again, because of the
clearance restrictions, no efforts have been made to develop her reporting
capacities along these lines. Since this is more sensitive, it might be well
to keep her out of this area but certainly the Central American target could
be opened up a little for her. Perhaps the Desk could get a relaxation of
CI/OA restrictions on this point. GERARD DROLLER C/WH/POA.
Droller worked closely with E. Howard Hunt on the aborted Bay of Pigs invasion.
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E. Howard Hunt was another one of the tramps, the death squad that killed the
President on November 22, 1963. When his son St. John Hunt saw the tramp shots he
recognized his father immediately. He remembered that his father was not present on
the day of the coup. Hunt would later make a deathbed confession in which he admitted
to taking part in the Kennedy assassination along with Frank Sturgis, who he denied
knowing until Watergate brought them together. Hunt named two people whose names
appeared in Oswald’s Address Book, David Atlee Phillips and Frank Fiorini. Hunt
confessed he was recruited by Frank Sturgis and was just a bench warmer for The Big
Event but even for him to go this far, after denying any involvement for decades is
significant. 48 Hunt was no crackpot. America depended on people like Hunt to protect its
national security. After Hunt died the Miami Herald asked Hunt’s wife if he followed any
assassination researchers. She answered just one – A. J. Weberman
HOWARD HUNT PRE-OP
HOWARD HUNT POST OP
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CIA knew all along what went down in Dallas and doctored the tramps shots so
they could not be used in judicial proceedings. Hunt had is ears pinned after one stuck
out behind a “tramp” shot that the CIA forgot to doctor. The spooks were able to obtain
the negatives to the tramp shots and alter them to save the Agency from ruin if Hunt
was identified as one of the assassins of the President of the United States. St. John
said his father had surgery on his ear shortly after The Big Event. The first picture of
Hunt is pre-op, the second is post op and in the third you can see the tip of that weirdassed
ear protruding from under the old man tramp’s hat. St. John also stated that his
father’s alibi made no sense. Hunt claimed he was at a Chinese grocery store with his
wife, buying ingredients to create their own Chinese food. St. John stated that he never
saw his parents do this as they were always in a rush and pressed for time. Hunt
described Frank Fiorini as a cold blooded killer who always followed his orders – if he
told Frank to stand outside a denied area and shoot anyone who came near Frank
would do it without batting an eyelash. The covert operators Hunt and Sturgis (Fiorini)
were both caught in Dealey Plaza and in Watergate.
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NOTE PHOTOGRAPHIC ANOMALY THAT APPEARS IN FRONT OF HUNT’S FACE
Note the anomalous block of "light" covering the Hunt tramps face. It is no
coincidence it appears there. S.A. Lyndal Shaneyfeldt did most of the photographic
work for the Warren Commission. Shaneyfeldt was granted CIA liaison clearances in
December 1954, August 1962, and August 1968, at the request of the Technical
Services Division. 49 I asked Shaneyfeldt about this anomaly in the course of Hunt v.
Weberman and he denied it even existed.
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THE BRUSHSTROKE COVERING HUNT’S FACE UNDER HIS HAT
Once again an unexplainable anomaly appears hiding Hunt's face. This is a
brush stroke placed on the negative. Not having Photoshop the CIA did a sloppy analog
job. This tells us the entire CIA was involved in the cover up! For the spooks to steal the
negatives, doctor them then replace them required a lot of tradecraft – which CIA
possessed. Also the disguises of the tramps are very professional; complete with a
perfume that smelled like a bum indicates the Technical Services Division of CIA was
involved.
HUNT’S ALIBI CHANGES FOR THE DAY OF THE BIG EVENT
Not only did Hunt change his ear, Hunt continually changed his alibi for that
fateful day. Hunt told the FBI:
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Mr. Hunt recalls hearing about the Kennedy assassination on his car radio
immediately following his departure from a Chinese grocery store in the
area of '9th' and 'H' Street, Northwest; in Washington, D.C. with his wife
Dorothy (deceased). Mr. and Mrs. Hunt frequently made trips to the
Chinese Grocery stores in the 9th and H Street area as the both loved
Chinese food. Mr. Hunt had spent some time in China during World War II,
and his wife had lived there for some period of time with her first husband.
Mrs. Hunt was an excellent Chinese cook and frequently prepared
Chinese meals. Mr. Hunt is not sure, but expressed his belief that he must
have been on Annual Leave from his employment at the CIA on
November 22, 1963, or else he would not have been on this shopping trip
with his wife. He recalls hearing the Kennedy assassination news in the
early or mid-afternoon and believes he had lunch at home earlier that day
with his wife. Hunt can recall no other events of November 22, 1963,
except this trip, and the fact that he picked up his daughter Kevan at
Sidwell Friends School, Wisconsin Avenue Northwest, on the way home
from the 9th and H Streets area. Any and all records of Mr. Hunt relating
to November 1963 were destroyed several years ago. Mr. Hunt believes
CIA records will reflect whether or not he was on Annual Leave on
November 22, 1963, and whether or not he was at work November 21,
1963, and the next working day following November 22, 1963. Hunt
believes he remained home following arrival from grocery trip, until time of
Kennedy funeral watching television with his family. He can recall no
conversation with fellow employees, friends or neighbors, except possibly
one neighbor, Raymond S. Thomas. Mr. Thomas now resides at 1281
Northeast 8th Street, Pompano, Florida. (Leads to interview Thomas...) 50
My attorney, Mark Friedman, questioned Raymond Thomas about Hunt’s alibi:
Q. When you got home that day, did you have an occasion to see Mr. Hunt after your
arrival home?
A. Not that I recall.
Q. Do you ever recall having any discussions with him about his whereabouts on that
day?
A. No. 51
The Rockefeller Commission, which was partially formed to refute the tramp shots,
checked on Hunt’s whereabouts with CIA on the day of the coup:
1. The Finance Office has checked Hunt's leave and travel records for the
period September 1963 to January 1964, not knowing the purpose of our
request. The record shows for the four-week pay period [October 25,
1963, to November 23, 1963] ending November 23, 1963, that Hunt took
11 hours of sick leave and no annual leave. 52
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But Hunt thought that he must have been on annual leave because he couldn’t
have been on sick having been driving to China town. The Rockefeller Commission
concluded Hunt:
…used no annual leave and 11 hours of sick leave in the two week pay
period ending November 23, 1963. The exact date, or dates, on which the
sick leave was taken could not be ascertained. There is some indication,
however, that some of these 11 hours of sick leave may have been taken
by Howard Hunt on November 22, 1963, if he was in the company of his
wife and family, rather than at his employment duties, during the afternoon
of that day. November 22, 1963, was a Friday, and therefore ordinarily a
working day for employees of the CIA. Hunt could not recall whether he
was on duty with the CIA on the morning of that day. In examining the
charge that Hunt and Sturgis were together in Dallas on the day of the
assassination, the investigators were handicapped by the fact that the
allegation was first made in 1974, more than ten years after the
assassination. Evidence which might have been available at an earlier
time was no longer available. Contacts with relatives, friends, neighbors,
or fellow employees [who might have known the whereabouts of Hunt and
Sturgis on that particular day] could not be recalled. Some of these
persons are now dead. Finally, records which might have been the source
of relevant information no longer exist. It cannot be determined with
certainty where Hunt and Sturgis actually were on the day of the
assassination.
This researcher snookered Howard Hunt into changing his alibi. In the spring of
1978 Hemming telephoned me in Washington, D.C., to offer his services in helping
compose the deposition questions in Hunt v. Weberman. That afternoon, this
researcher had discovered that a Wah Ling's grocery store existed in Washington, D.C.,
during a search of the Washington, D.C., 1963 Coles Crisscross Directory. I told
Hemming: "You ain't gonna believe this shit my man, but I located Mr. Wah Ling! And
he doesn't remember squat about Hunt coming into his store that day." Hemming said,
"I believe it A. J. 'cause you do your homework." Hemming recorded this telephone call
and gave the tape to Hunt who changed his alibi during his June 1978 deposition:
Q. Did you telephone Wah Ling's grocery store on the morning of November 22, 1963?
A. No.
Q. Where is Wah Ling's located in Washington, D.C.?
A. I don't think that the grocery store existed or ever existed. In fact, in the testimony
that I gave to the Church Committee, if you recall I said, to the best of my recollection,
the name of the grocery store was Wah Ling (phonetic). Having revisited the site, in
fact, by chance having dinner in Chinatown fairly recently, I determined the name of the
grocery store was Tuck Cheong, T-u-c-k C-h-e-o-n-g.
Q. So you are now saying that your alibi for the day of the assassination, Wah Ling's
grocery, is now changed to a different grocery store?
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A. Well, I am saying now that attempting to recollect a couple of years ago, the name of
the Chinese grocery store, one of several on 8th Street, that my wife visited on that
afternoon, certainly is subject to re-examination and refreshment which I have done.
Q. Now that you have refreshed your memory, where is this Tuck Cheong?
A. It is on H Street between 6th and 7th Northwest, in Washington.
Q. What did you purchase that day?
A. I don't know. My wife made the purchases. She went into the grocery store. I stayed
in the car with the children.
Q. If I told you there was a Wah Ling's grocery in Washington, D.C., would that surprise
you?
A. I would say simply that it was one, of the probably several, that my wife visited that
day.
Q. Do you remember the testimony you gave to the FBI as to when you picked up your
children that day?
A. No I have never seen the FBI memorandum.
Weberman: Here it is.
Rubin: If you have it there may we see it?
Friedman: Yes, sir. We are going to show it to you. (Hands a copy of instrument to
counsel.)
Rubin: All right, go ahead and read it.
Friedman: "On October 17, 1974, E. Howard Hunt advised [the FBI] that he recalls
hearing about the assassination over his car radio immediately after leaving a Chinese
grocery store in the area of 9th and H Street N.W. Washington, D.C., on November 22,
1963. He was with his wife Dorothy, who is now deceased. Before returning home, they
picked-up their daughter, Kevan, at Sidwell Friends School, Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. He could recall no contact on that date with anyone other than
possibly a former neighbor. He advised that his personal records pertaining to
November 22, 1963, were destroyed several years ago."
Mr. Rubin: All right. Now how has Mr. Hunt testified any differently than from what you
have just said?
Q. (By Mr. Friedman.) Within the context of this particular report, which I will present to
you while we make copies of it, it indicates that the grocery store came before picking
up the children.
A. Then I would say that I stayed in the car with the dog, rather than with the children.
Q. This would be different from what you testified earlier.
A. Well, we are talking about recollection of a good many years ago. Yes.
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A. Yes, as to what I testified to earlier. This is not testified, and it is not a sworn
statement in any case.
Thinking Mee Wah Ling was to appear as a witness, Hunt changed his alibi to
Tuck Cheong. There was no Tuck Cheong in the 1963 crisscross directory or phone
book. Tuck Cheong could never be produced in a court of law, because he did not exist.
Hunt stated that he had waited in the car to cover himself in the event Mee Wah Ling
was produced at the trial. This would be Hunt’s explanation as to why Mee Wah Ling did
not remember him coming into his store that day. Seeking a reason for having waited in
the car, instead of accompanying his wife into the store, he had to fabricate someone,
or something, in the car that needed supervision. At first it was his children, then his
dog. During the 1985 Hunt v. Spotlight trial, Hunt stated: "I was at the time of the
shooting, I was in Washington, D.C., on H Street between 8th and 9th seated in our car
with my two and a half month old son David, while my wife was making purchases at
Chinese grocery stores on both sides of the street."
Hunt was sick alright that day, sick of Kennedy because Hunt believed that after
America showed weakness by withdrawing airpower from the Bay of Pigs invasion,
which he played a major role in effectuating, Communist Russia became emboldened
and placed nuclear tipped missiles in Cuba. This led to the Cuban Missile Crisis that
might have resulted in a thermonuclear exchange at the height of the Cold War.
Kennedy had not only endangered America, but the entire world! JFK might have been
America's worst president but assassinating him was wrong. Hunt didn't believe so as
he had engineered the overthrow of other left leaning democratically elected
governments, such as the Arbenz regime in Guatemala and charity begins at home.
Documents about Hunt were scheduled to be released in October 2017:
Telephone Interview with E. Howard Hunt on March 7, 1975 and March 4, 1975 Robert
Olsen HSCA. FBI Security Classified files 08/08/93 classified and secret. Rock 08/08/93
Attached with an affidavit and advice and waiver from Hunt and a copy of a letter from
Mary Traynor (Hunt’s maid). All withheld by the Trump regime.
Miami was the home office for Operation Mongoose, the global campaign of
espionage, sabotage, propaganda, and assassination that the Kennedy administration
launched in the wake of the Agency fiasco at the Bay of Pigs. Mongoose involved
thousands of people, annual budgets in excess of $50 million, more than 50 front
companies in Dade County alone, and a secret navy that was estimated to be the thirdlargest
military fleet in the hemisphere. Howard Hunt’s part in the operation was to form
a provisional government that would take over after “the bearded communist mongrel”
as disenfranchised casino operator Mike McLaney called him, was overthrown.
However there are no bearded dogs.
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MONGOOSE WAR PROVISIONAL GOV
The 2017 Documents Release contains very little new information and it is not
entirely transparent as it was allegedly supposed to be. Howard Hunt’s 1963 personnel
file is still withheld unlike the 1962 report and others.
HOWARD HUNT’S 1962 PERSONNEL FILE RELEASED 1963 WITHHELD
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DAVID LEMAR CHRIST
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The word CRIST appears on the same page as encryptions for Angleton and
Fiorini disguised as the word CRYSTAL. Note the mark that appears over the “Y”. In
another part of the address book the words “crystal for watch” appears. How many
watch crystals can this guy break? He spells it differently in the other address book
entry.
This is reference to David Lemar Christ, CIA Technical Services Division
employee who’s cheating on his wife Wilma, with a DGI agent, while on a mission in
Havana, led to his becoming a prisoner of Castro. Aside from his position with Technical
Services Division Christ was also part of PROJECT JMARC run by E. Howard Hunt.
David Christ (sometimes spelled Crist) was born January 20, 1918, in Tamaqua,
Pennsylvania the son of David Albert Christ, a coal miner. He died in December 1985 in
Bethesda, Maryland. From 1937 to 1942 he worked at the Atlas Powder Company in
Pennsylvania, packing dynamite and bombs in gelatinous box packs. He joined the Air
Force in 1943, where he became a Communications Officer, Cryptography Section,
after training at Yale University. When the war ended he rejoined the Atlas Powder
Company, received a B.S. from Pennsylvania State University in 1950, and then was
recruited by the CIA in November 1950 as "the first research and development
electronics engineer in what has evolved as the Technical Services Division. He created
an Applied Physics Branch.” The CIA reported that Christ was an innovator in these
areas:
Technical areas --- Microelectronics (particularly micropower), solid state
physics, acoustics, electro-optics, electromechanics, avionics, stability and
control, navigation, communication (analogue and digital), radar systems.
Typical programs – Solid-sate components and devices, communication
systems,--audio video, telemetry; sensors—acoustic, optical, nuclear, RF
etc. avionic subsystems; data processing; power sources, electronic
equipment, dc to microwave; antennas; systems study and analysis.
In early 1957, Mr. Christ was made Chief of what is now the Audio
Operations Branch of TSD and, realizing that a drastic upgrading of the
caliber of field technicians was required, began aggressively recruiting and
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training graduate engineers. His high standards and efforts in this area are
reflected in the fact that the majority of TSD Audio mid-management
personnel were recruited by him. In September 1960, he and two
associates were apprehended while on an operation in a denied area. His
exemplary conduct and personal courage during the resulting two and
one-half years incarceration permitted the maintenance of a very difficult
cover situation and successful extraction of all three men. 53
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The unnamed genius that sent Christ to Cuba had this to say:
Mr. Christ has one shortcoming, which is not of his own making – he lacks
field experience – only because his superiors have felt his services were
more needed at Headquarters. It is sometimes hard for him to understand
the operational aspects of things as outlined by his assistants. To his
credit it must be said he realizes this lack of field experience and uses the
advices of his men to best advantage. As soon as feasible he should be
assigned to a responsible position at one of our overseas bases.
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Cornelius "Corney" Van Schaack Roosevelt (October 23, 1915 – August 3, 1991)
who approved his suggest was a World War II veteran and a grandson of President
Theodore Roosevelt who worked for the CIA from the close of World War II until his
retirement in 1973. In 1952, after a brief stint as vice president of Security Banknote Co.
in Philadelphia, a research administrator for the Office of Naval Research and president
of Linderman Engineering Co., he joined the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington.
While in the CIA, he was the chief of the Technical Services Division/TSD from 1959 to
1962. He served as the chairman of the Technical Surveillance Countermeasures
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Committee, which involved securing American facilities against electronic
eavesdropping. Evan Thomas wrote that Roosevelt was the person who originally
suggested the CIA project that attempted to poison Fidel Castro. Roosevelt, as a head
of the CIA technical division, supervised Sidney Gottlieb, who brought a biological
poison to Congo during the autumn of 1960. To friends and family, he said that his work
for the CIA mainly involved creating devices to detect listening devices. He also
mentioned that he took part as a subject in the CIA experiments on LSD (part of
MKULTRA).
In September 1960 the Republic of Cuba opened diplomatic relations with the
People's Republic of China. As a result in September 1960 David Christ was assigned
to an audio mission in Havana. The target was the New China News Agency. The CIA
released this document which gives you insight into the mission:
September 20, 1960
Memorandum For: Director Of Central Intelligence
September 20, 1960
SUBJECT: Summary of [02] ESCALADE – Audio Operation Against New China News
Agency in Havana
1. In May 1959, the New China News Agency opened an office in Havana in the El
Medico Building which is occupied partly by business concerns and partly used for
residential apartments. Shortly thereafter, the Havana Station obtained the concurrence
of Ambassador Bonsal and Miss Carolyn O. Stacey, an Embassy employee, to mount
an audio operation against New China News Agency through the wall of the adjacent
apartment in which Miss Stacey lived.
2. In August 1960 a team of three Technical Services Division technicians who were in
Havana on a separate Soviet Russia Division operation agreed to install the additional
equipment required for the New China News Agency operation. A second Far Eastern
Division case officer, Robert Neet, came down to Havana; and he, together with the
technicians, installed a probe microphone and tape recorder in the apartment obtained
by [deleted] over the New China News Agency office. About this time the equipment
was removed from Miss Stacey’s apartment with the exception of the plastic probe
which was left in the wall and plastered over.
3. The Station was then faced with the probability that time and security would work
against holding indefinitely the lease to the apartment of New China News Agency since
the owners of the building were cancelling sub-lessor’s contracts and recalling leases. It
was, therefore, decided to install transmitters and switches in order to permit continued
monitoring of the target from a distant listening post. Another three man team of
Technical Services Division technicians consisting of David L. Christ, Walter E.
Szuminski and Thorton J. Anderson documented as tourists had been sent to Havana
to install audio equipment in the Chinese Nationalist Embassy before it was due to be
turned over to the Chinese Communists. This operation aborted. This team was then
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sent to work on the installation of the transmitters in apartment over the New China
News Agency office.
5. At 2400 hours on September 14, 1960, Christ, who with the other technicians was
working in the target apartment, failed to keep a scheduled appointment with Neet. At
0100 hours on September 15, 1960, the apartment of Mrs. Lennox was entered into and
searched by Cuban authorities, and she was taken into custody. At 1540 hours on
September 15, 1960 Neet, the stay-behind agent and his wife were picked up by the
Cuban authorities and detained.
6. As of today the agent remains in the custody of the Cuban authorities. His wife has
been released and is still in Havana. Neet was released 1715 hours on September 15,
1960 and has subsequently returned to Washington where he was debriefed. Mrs.
Lennox was subsequently released and has also returned to Washington where she is
being debriefed. The three TSD technicians remain in confinement. They have been
seen in confinement but not contacted by an Embassy officer when he first attempted to
secure the release of Mrs. Lennox. Christ was last seen by Neet when they were jointly
interrogated the morning of September 16. At that time Christ did not appear to have
been maltreated.
8. According to articles in the Cuban papers the three technicians were arrested while in
the apartment over the New China News Agency office and completing the installation
of the equipment.
9. Initial information indicated that the three technicians would be charged with
espionage “against the people of China.” Subsequent press releases have been unclear
on this point. An attempt by Consul Hugh Kessler to contact the three men at 1730
hours on September 17 was unsuccessful. He was not permitted to see them but was
told they were in custody.
10. The three technicians travelled to Cuba as tourists under very light commercial
cover, two of them working for a company in New York and the third, one in Baltimore.
In each case the cover company consists of a telephone answering service and a name
on the door. Telephone messages and mail are picked up periodically by an Agency
contract employee. The men were provided with this cover as well as unbackstopped
homes addresses for use when entering or leaving Cuba as tourists since the filling out
of the landing card requires this information. Subsequent to their detention the home
addresses have been partially backstopped so that inquiries will indicate that someone
with this alias name had lived in the apartment house in question. Insofar as the cover
companies are concerned, efforts are being made to provide a backstop to withstand
inquiries from the press should the Cubans reveal this information. In view of the
thinness of cover, it is uncertain whether this will succeed.
11. A cleared and witting law firm in New York has been briefed by Mr. L. Houston on
the situation with the thought that inquiries received by the cover company could be
referred to the firm of lawyers from whom no comment would be obtained by the press
or other inquirers. The law firm has been briefed on the entire situation so that they may
be in a position to act if any action by them appears to be desirable or feasible. It would
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not appear that much support of any kind can be obtained from the law firm or law firms
in Cuba which are associated with them.
On December 18, 1960, Christ, Thorton J. Anderson Jr. Walter Szuminski
underwent a military trial. They were charged with "Crimes Against the Powers of the
State." The trial was held in a small schoolroom located on the second floor of the
Jefatura (Guard's Office) building at La Cabana Fortress Prison. The CIA was shitting
bricks. Christ was knowledgeable of dozens of bugging operations throughout the world.
He was a high level TSD man and should not have been assigned this mission. Christ
was wary about it in the first place and had asked for a counter-surveillance team in
Havana but was refused. If the Cubans found out who he was and what he knew they
would have tortured him until he compromised every CIA ELSUR Operation there was!
Chief of TSD/Audio Operations Branch witting of the following: All audio
operations world-wide since December 1957 to present date. Complete
knowledge of all R & D aspects of audio equipments research. Had
knowledge of certain Staff D and FI equipment operations. Complete
knowledge of all audio assets in production and stocked for use overseas.
Clearances through Top Secret, Special Intelligence clearance and “Q”
clearance. World-side knowledge of the location of all our audio
technicians. Having previously been with the Applied Physics Branch of
TSD, he was also aware of many of our other R & D activities. As Branch
Chief in TSD, he has full information on all personnel in TSD and general
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knowledge of the overall activities, including research programs. He has
been to Isolation many times.
John Mertz the CIA agent in charge of this mess spoke with CIA Sidney Gottlieb.
Technical Services Division Staff member Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's expert on
exotic poisons and recherché science. A cripple with a speech defect, Gottlieb
developed cigarette lighters that gave off a lethal gas, lipstick that would kill on contact
and a pocket spray for asthma sufferers that induced pneumonia. Gottlieb told him
“Dave Christ was not knowledgeable of my specialties, beyond knowing I was in charge
of the chemical division of Technical Services Division and had something vague to do
with debilitant drugs.” What interested Mertz was:
Among the contacts in Cuba of (deleted) (Air Force medico in Sid's
hypnosis project) is a lawyer who is also an accomplished hypnotist. He
has reportedly had some success in his cases by hypnotizing the judge at
parties beforehand, and making the judge susceptible to his suggestions
in the courtroom. (Deleted) has the poop on the lawyer. (Deleted) and I
yesterday agreed there might be some merit in sending (deleted) to Cuba
to snoop through the lawyer. We can get (deleted) down here on a day's
notice through Gittinger, who is acting for Sid during the next few weeks.
The CIA wanted to hypnotize the judge and suggest he set Christ free! Not only
did Mertz have to deal with Gottlieb’s crackpot ideas he had to put up with continual
harassment by Wilma Christ, who demanded that the CIA get her husband out of jail
pronto. The CIA was trying everything; it even contacted assets in the underworld but
they could not spring Christ. This was not enough for Wilma who called Mertz two or
three times each day. In order to placate her Mertz arranged for Wilma to meet with
Allen Dulles and Robert Kennedy, who assured her everything was being done to
secure her husband’s release. The CIA reported,
Occasionally, Mrs. Christ becomes temperamental, somewhat abusive,
and highly excitable. She continues to severely criticize the Administration,
as well as the Agency's previous operations to free her husband. Her
brother-in-law, Larry, continually threatens unilateral action unless
'something is done very soon.'
The CIA reported:
Following their arrest, Christ, Thornton J. Anderson and Walter Szuminski
were first detained at G-2 Headquarters then moved to La Cabana prison.
It was possible to keep them supplied with food, vitamins, reading
material, an electric frying pan etc. On January 23, 1961, the three men
were moved to the Isle of Pines prison where living and sanitary
conditions were intolerable. Prisoners were required to perform hard
manual labor and there was an insufficiency of food.
CIA released a document about Christ that indicated his sexual dalliances might
have led to his demise. This CIA released one of the pages of a very interesting
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document:
…In August 1958 Subject advised that she was divorcing her husband
and wished to be reinstated as a regular staff employee. Her
reinstatement was approved and in November 1959 she was transferred
back to Washington, D. C. PCS During her employment [deleted] was
under [deleted] cover. Back in Washington she was assigned to DDP/WH/
Support Staff / Logistics Section. In April 1960 Subject legally resumed her
maiden name. In May 1960 Subject was certified to the State Department
in connection with ninety day proposed TDY in Havana Cuba with JMARC
and in October 1960 she was transferred from Havana to Guatemala.
In November 1960 Security was advised that according to information
from "the Project" [presumably JMARC]. Subject had, while in Cuba
allegedly been having affairs "with the three people" who were
"incarcerated in the Cuban jail." This allegation very possibly was
exaggerated and from information in the file may have been untrue.
However, a Security officer on the Project seemed definitely under
the impression that she had been having an affair with one of them,
i.e. David L. Christ and was of the opinion that her "immoral behavior
was a probable contributing factor to then recent arrests of Agency
personnel in Cuba.” According to another version, apparently hers, she
went out one evening with Christ and on other occasions had group social
contact with him and with two other TSD technicians who arrived in
Havana three days before she left to go to the United States on leave. On
the Saturday night prior to her departure on Sunday she and her two
roommates, she said, entertained these three men in their apartment.
In Guatemala, Subject met and dated a Ronald Stanley Davio, American
who was "wanted" by the FBI for car theft and mail fraud. According to
Subject she found this out by checking "the files" and reported it to her
superiors. Also according to Subject: "It was decided" that there was "no
real harm" in continuing her relationship with this individual "as long as I
kept on guard" and she continued to date him until the day he suddenly
disappeared from Guatemala City on 24 January 1961. She had, in fact,
expected him for dinner the evening of the day he disappeared.
Christ's release was secured by the CIA in April 1963 when James Donovan
arranged a prisoner exchange. Christ arrived at Homestead Air Force Base,
Homestead, Florida. The United States agreed to release four G-2 agents, including
Francisco "the hook" Molina, a Castro agent with a missing hand, who was serving a
20-year sentence for the accidental murder of a nine-year-old child. Governor Nelson
Rockefeller agreed to sign the pardon that freed Francisco Molina from Attica prison on
April 22, 1963. Simultaneously, Attorney General Robert Kennedy announced that
charges had been dropped against three Cubans who had been arrested for plotting to
blow up defense installations around New York City. The three, plus Francisco Molina
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were deported from Florida to Havana as Donovan brought back the Americans from
Cuba in a straight swap.
Christ had gone through hell at the Isle of Pines. He was systematically starved
and worked to death in the hellhole of a political prison. It was the Cuban equivalent of a
gulag. Christ wanted revenge and believed Hemming and his crew was the ones to
hook up with. Hemming stated:
Christ was in the same cell with me in Havana when I got busted on
September 27, 1960. He thought I was being tortured. I was laying on the
spring, it was like steel wool, a finely woven mesh. I was laying on it
without my shirt. When I rolled over, I heard this English voice: 'Jesus
Christ, he's one of them, and look what the fuck they did to him.' My back
looked like hamburger. They were scared shitless. We ended up in the
same cell together. A cell that would normally be for four people had 40
people in it. Standing room only.
In 1994 Hemming stated:
In the circle of my immediate Miami acquaintances the tramp resembled
Christ. He buddied up with us. He figured we were the real thing. We didn't
give a fuck who he was. He felt he had been betrayed. He wanted to work
with something that was legitimate.
Hemming was asked how Christ reacted when his identity was revealed: "It could
be he felt I was in charge, and I knew what I was doing." INTERPEN member Howard
Kenneth Davis was sent a photograph of Christ then asked:
Q. Did you ever see David Christ around INTERPEN?
A. Yeah, I saw him around, I didn't know him well.
Q. You saw Christ?
A. Yeah, I did. I believe I did if I can remember. I think I saw him over there a couple of
times. People would wander in and out all the time - even CIA people. That was no big
secret. Fiorini had a relationship with the Company. That is absolute. We knew it at the
time, it was no secret in Miami.
How did I come to identify Christ? One night in Hemming’s Independent
Research Associates office he took two photos of Christ and gave them to me.
Hemming said that when I returned them they better not stick together. So it should
come as no surprise when David Lemar Christ appeared in Dealey Plaza about two
hours after the assassination disguised as a tramp with his comrades in arms Frank
Fiorini and E. Howard Hunt seeking revenge for his experiences as a prisoner of the
totalitarian Fidel Castro regime.
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CHRIST AND THE TRAMP COMPARISON PHOTOGRAPHS
Christ was not a happy camper after the came back to the US from his vacation
in The Isle of Pines Prison in Cuba. He wanted blood so he hooked up with Hemming
and Sturgis.
CHRIST AND THE TRAMP COMPARISON PHOTOGRAPHS
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CHRIST AND THE TRAMP COMPARISON PHOTOGRAPHS
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CHRIST AND THE TRAMP COMPARISON PHOTOGRAPHS
MARTIN LUTHER KING SHOOTER AND DAVID CHRIST
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Christ’s role go to https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078J7L97R and purchase They Killed
the Dreamer.
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CHRIST EAR AND HAND STUDY
The ear and hands of the tramp and Christ match up. The ear is like a fingerprint,
there are no two alike in configuration except for twins. This author created transparent
overlays to demonstrate how the ears match up, something unheard of in publishing in
1975. But what is most interesting here is that the Special agent in Charge of the Dallas
FBI Field Office, Gordon Shanklin, who was the most likely candidate to have released
the tramps without booking or fingerprinting them, was familiar with David Lemar Christ,
as you can see from the document on the next page. It was a small world within the
intelligence community in the early 1960’s.
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I spoke with feisty Wilma Christ who informed the CIA of my phone call. She stated:
I talked to him at his office the day Kennedy was assassinated. He called
me - and ah - or I called him I guess. I called him. But he knew. I
remember my younger son was just coming home from school. So that
would have been about 3:00 p.m. I don't really remember but I think I
called him. Because I heard it on the T.V. I don't remember what time he
came home from work. He came back that night. Oh, yeah.
A HSCA CIA document revealed:
Question: David L. Christ.
Reported to have been in Dallas on November 22, 1963
A. We have searched for time and attendance records on David L. Christ to determine
his duty status on November 22, 1963. We have been informed that T & A records for
all employees have been destroyed, and therefore we do not know his duty status on
November 22, 1963.
B. We have searched the financial records of David L. Christ to determine if he was in
travel status on November 22, 1963. We did find that Christ performed travel to Boston,
Mass. on November 26, 1963, and returned to Washington, D.C., on November 27,
1963. Transmitted to you separately are copies of his travel voucher and Request for
Advance of Funds concerning his travel to and from Boston. It may be worth noting that
Christ signed the request for advance of funds on November 20, 1963, and his
secretary signed a receipt for the advance of funds on November 21, 1963.
C. We have not conducted a search for any records, memos, letters, buckslips etc. that
might be in our files and contain initials or a signature of Christ signifying action by him
on November 22, 1963. Such a search would require an extensive effort, and may not
prove fruitful, but we are willing to make the effort if requested.
D. In addition, we have not attempted to question or obtain statements from Christ's
colleagues who may recall seeing or talking with Christ on November 22, 1963. Once
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again we are not sure such an action would be fruitful, but we are willing to make an
effort if requested. 54
Interestingly enough the 2017 document dump reveals that Christ received a pay raise
a day after the Kennedy Assassination.
INFORMATION ON CHRIST’S CIA STATUS IN THE MONTHS
SIGNIFICANT IN THE BIG EVENT WITHHELD
The House Select Committee on Assassinations conducted a half-assed
interview with Christ under his pseudonym Daniel Carswell:
Gary Cornwell and I [Dan Hardway] interviewed David Christ on 16
February 1978. Christ stated that he had been in Cuba on two occasions.
He was there for one week in the end of August and one week before his
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arrest in September 1960. After his arrest he spent one month in the
Columbia prison in Havana. He was then transferred to the Cabana prison
and was there until his trial in December 1960. Christ met William Morgan
at the Cabana prison. He stated that Morgan had all kinds of escape plots
and that he, Christ, had nothing to do with Morgan other than to tell him
that he was not interested. After his trial, Christ was transferred to the Isle
of Pines. Christ was released on 21 April 1963. He returned to the U.S.
with a group of approximately 20 other Americans. It was his memory that
he landed at Opa Loca Air force Base in Florida. On his return, he said, he
weighed approximately 135 pounds. Christ did not return to work until
August 1963. He said that the first time he was in Dallas was around
1969-70. He said that he was in his supervisor's office when he heard the
news of the assassination. Christ met David Phillips once in (country) in
the 1950’s. Christ said that he could not be sure about Bernardo de Torres
because he had met a lot of Cubans and their names were confusing.
Christ said that he had met Howard Hunt once but did not know him
personally. Christ knew William Harvey in 1957-58 and termed him a
"tough operator." Christ says that he had never heard of Lee Harvey
Oswald or Jack Ruby before the assassination. Mr. Christ was shown two
photographs. The first he recognized as himself taken when he returned to
the U.S. from Cuba. He admitted that there was a striking similarity with
the second picture but said that he had never seen it before and had no
idea of who it was. Christ claimed that he had never been involved in any
assassinations. The second picture was a blow up of one of the tramps
photographed in Dallas on 11/22/63. Christ said that he got the scar above
his left eye when he was a child.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. General photo analysis to determine if the photo of Christ and of the
tramp are the same individual. Specific photo analysis to determine if the
tramp in the Dallas photo has a scar above his left eye.
There is no scar above the Christ tramp’s left eye, however, we do not know if
Christ was telling the truth as to when he got that scar. Christ was not about to confess
to having killed the President and concocted a self-serving answer. Christ sort of retired
from CIA and in December 1970 was President and General Manager, Research and
Development Division of Devenco Inc. 150 Broadway, New York City.
Mr. Christ will be retiring November 30, 1970. Prior to 1979 he has
generally been considered a capable officer and the list of his
accomplishments during his Agency career is not unimpressive. Christ’s
performance, particularly in the last six months, however, has revealed
critical weakness in judgment, discretion and self-evaluation. These flaws
have been called to Christ’s attention by me personally, and I deem them
sufficiently serious that were it not for his proposed retirement I would be
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constrained to seek other means to separate him from Agency
employment.
Christ held a top secret clearance. Devenco had developed an invisible
electronic prison fence which it demonstrated to various law enforcement agencies;
electronics, (all frequencies) including radar, communications and servro-mechanisms,
optimum filters, basic communications equipment and infra-red acoustics, high
frequency electromagnetic phenomena and physical research (crystals, optics, chemical
cells etc.) Christ seemed like he was on the up and up until his name surfaced in an
investigation of Edwin Wilson who sold CIA technology to terrorist Libya.
A remaining former Agency employee whose name has been mentioned
by Kevin Mulcahy but whose role in this matter has not been determined is
David L. Christ. Mr. Christ owns an electronics firm known as Household
Data Services, in Reston, Virginia. This firm currently has some contracts
with the Agency. Kevin Mulcahy has never specified what part Mr. Christ
and his firm play in this case, and no other information concerning them
has come to our attention as yet.
Christ was also connected to the Libyan flap through the Atlas Powder Company.
Raymond Reardon noted: "Christ at one time (1940's) worked for the Atlas Powder
Company in Reynolds, Pa. FBI report indicates Ed Wilson may have had a contact in
Atlas in connection with obtaining export license." Documents on Christ scheduled to be
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released in October 2017: Christ David L. 104-10222-10002 CIA 04/17/1998 Not
Marked. Not Believed Relevant. In July 2017 it was revealed Christ had been to
ISOLATION, the CIA’s spy training camp at Fort Peary in Virginia. On November 16,
1965 he became part of PROJECT RHYOLITE. CIA’s RHYOLITE geosynchronous
satellite program allowed continuous coverage of missile telemetry and targets in
Eurasia. Agency operatives were also able to tap into radio-telephone communications
of Communist leaders as they rode in limousines around Moscow, to track Soviet
missile launches from two secret stations inside the Shah's Iran, and to intercept
Warsaw Pact communications from a tunnel dug under East Berlin. Christ was granted
BYEMAN Approval September 12, 1963 for O, ID, C, A, by PSD) The BYEMAN Control
System (BCS), or simply BYEMAN (designated BYE, or B), was a security control
system put in place to protect information about the National Reconnaissance Office
(NRO) and its operations.
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CHAPTER SIX
SAM KAIL
DISCOVERED RUSSIAN MISSILES IN CUBA
KEN SCOTT, HOWARD ST. CLAIR, BUD CAFFEE AND SAM KAIL
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Oswald had the words "From Sam Kail" written in his address book disguised as
"From Mrs. Hail.” Sam Kail was a West Point Graduate of the class of 1936 and a
genuine war hero. Fiorini said his contact at the U.S. Embassy in Havana was Sam Kail.
Hemming stated he went to Cuba in February, 1959, and was approached by William
Morgan and Col. Kail, to determine which way Camillio Cienfuegos would go. Kail
generated intelligence reports on Hemming's having organized a phony invasion of
Nicaragua to show the world that Castroism was spreading and had to be stopped:
Among the individuals identified as members of this group was Jerry [sic]
Heming, U.S. citizen. Age about 26. Caucasian Height 6' 7". Talkative, of
average intelligence, claims to have served in the U.S. Marines. Fought in
Cuban revolution, wears Cuban Air Force Uniform. Claims to be a
Sergeant in the Cuban Air Force. Stationed at Air Force Base in Pinar del
Rio. Presently believed to be in Los Angeles, California, visiting." 55
The release also linked Kail with William Morgan, an American who was credited with
“saving the Castro revolution” but ended up before Fidel’s firing squad:
On September 1, 1959 Colonel Samuel G. Kail, Army Attaché, American
Embassy, Havana, advised that he had learned the William Alexander
Morgan had told Jules DuBois of the Chicago Tribute that Kail had called
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revolutionary plot against the Cuban Government and that Kail had
attempted to warn some of the plotters that the Cuban Government knew
of the counter-revolutionary plot. It is to be noted that in connection with
the counter-revolutionary plot, Morgan actually was operating as an agent
of the Cuban Government. Kail confidentially advised Legat that he did not
make such a call and did not even know where the house was located.
CIA Official Justin Gleichauf worked with Kail. Gleichauf recalled:
My deputy, Col. Samuel G. Kail, former Army attaché in Havana, and an
outstanding officer, handled military administrative matters. The
arrangement worked well; we never had a case of dissension between
military and civilian personnel, or rivalry among services. Colonel Kail's
direction, military order of battle information was particularly good.
Antonio Veciana testified that he saw Oswald with David Atlee Phillips (BISHOP)
in Dallas. While Veciana was still in Cuba among those at the American Embassy
Bishop suggested his contact for anti-Castro operations was a Col. Sam Kail. The
HSCA determined that there was a Col. Samuel G. Kail at the American Embassy in
Havana in 1960 at the time Veciana said he contacted him. Now retired, Kail was
located and interviewed in Dallas. Colonel Kail served as the U.S. Army attaché at the
U.S. Embassy in Havana from June 3, 1958, until the day the Embassy closed, January
4, 1961. His primary mission as military attaché was that of intelligence. Later, in
February 1962, he was transferred to Miami where he was in charge of the unit that
debriefed newly arrived Cuban refugees. Although he reported directly to the Chief of
Army Intelligence in Washington, Kail said he assumed his unit was actually functioning
for the CIA... “I suspect they paid our bills” he said. Kail said that prior to the American
Embassy closing in Havana there was a “constant stream" of Cubans coming through
his office with anti-Castro schemes, including assassination plans asking for American
assistance in the form or weapons or guarantees of escaping. He had hordes and
hordes of people through there so he does not specifically remember Veciana visiting
him. “I think it would be a miracle if I could recall him” he said, but does not discount the
possibility he had met him. Kail said, however agents of the CIA would frequently us the
names of other Embassy staff personnel in their outside contacts without notifying the
staff individual it was being done. It happened "a number of times" he said that a Cuban
would come in and ask to see Colonel Kail and, then be introduced to him and tell him
that he was not the Colonel Kail he had met outside the Embassy. Kail said he would
then have the Cuban point out the CIA agent who had used his name. Kail said he was
not familiar with name Bishop nor had he ever heard of anyone using that name.
Veciana told the HSCA that he kept going to the Embassy almost until it was
closed down. He said that on the 20th or 21st of December [1960] the last time he was
in the embassy talking to Col. Kail he [Kail] told him he was going to the United States
and he would come back and talk to him later. Kail said he was going to Texas from
Christmas. That is why he always thought Bishop had told him to go to Kail because he
thought perhaps they were friends from Texas. Kail was also acquainted with George
DeMohrenschildt, Oswald's Nazi buddy when Oswald lived in Texas. DeM’s name also
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Kail was working out of CIA Miami Domestic Contacts Division when he and
Gleichauf made a startling discovery. In September 1962 a Cuban farmer who fled his
native land told Gleichauf that just before he left, he had witnessed large tractor-trailers
moving through the countryside. The trailers, which moved only at night without
headlights, were carrying long tubular objects. That piece of information was among the
intelligence that led President John F. Kennedy to order a U-2 flight over Cuba. That
flight verified the presence of Soviet ICBM missiles on Cuba and led to a tense standoff
between the United States and the Soviet Union
The 2017 release revealed Kail was given a commendation for this discovery:
(Illegible) the Miami (illegible) by two representatives of my office
(Lieutenant Colonel James K. Patchell and his replacement Lieutenant
Colonel Alexander M. Haig has confirmed the high state of efficiency of
the Army Intelligence collection activities in the Miami area. My own past
observations, which have been reinforced by the foregoing trip, are the
Colonel Samuel G. Kail 022072 and his staff should be commended on
their outstanding work in support of the Cuba effort. Particularly
noteworthy is the fine working relationship Colonel Kail has established
with the CIA Representative (intelligible) supervision the Army element
functions. Joseph A. Califano General Counsel
The November JFK documents release also linked Kail with Antonio Veciana:
1. Any agency officer in contact with Veciana ever used aliases of Morris
bishop, blair or Kail or any agency office in contact with Veciana was
named bishop, Blair or Kail according to our records, Veciana "never
received any funds from this agency.
2· Agency officers who served in Havana remember that there was a
major or colonel kail the military attaches office in the US embassy prior to
the break in relations. Also, one of our officers in havana who left there in
the summer of 1959 had the first name of Blair. 56
Just before The Big Event Homer Echevarria, a Cuban exile living in Chicago,
told Secret Service snitch Tom Moseley that the Jews were putting up money to have
Kennedy hit. I spoke with Homer and as fate would have it; his father was a source for
Sam Kail.
Because my father had some connection with the American Embassy,
with the Military Attaché at the time, Sam Kail, who knows? He was over
here in 36 hours. I never tried to buy arms for the 30th of November, I
didn't know Quesada. I will be glad if the FBI and United States Secret
Service check on me. I am an open book, my friend. 57
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Echevarria was a member of the 30th November group, associated with the DRE
with whom Oswald had dealings the previous summer through Carlos Bringuier and
others. Mosley said the arms deal was being financed through Paulino Sierra Martinez,
who had contacts with rich Jewish gangsters. Paulino visited with Hemming and his
crew in Miami, including Joe Gorman, and offered them big money to conduct raids
against Cuba. Howard Kenneth Davis (FBI super-snitch or Hemming double agent)
reported on Sierra to the FBI. “MM T-3 explained that Sierra gave the $1000 to Tony
Cuesta at the residence of Santiago Alvarez Rodriguez on August 9, 1963 and the
persons present were Sierra and his brother Israel, Ton Cuesta, Alvarez Rodriguez and
Gerald Patrick Hemming, an American soldier of fortune.” In February 1965 Homero
Echevarria was used in a Foreign Intelligence CIA operation and granted a Provisional
Operational Approval.
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I was lucky enough to purchase some of Sam Kail’s Army decorations on Ebay
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CHAPTER SEVEN
DAVID ATLEE PHILLIPS
BAY OF PIGS CONNECTION: COORDINATED STUDENT GROUPS AND PLANNER
OF INVASION. IN WAR ROOM W/HUNT DRY HEAVING DURING FAILURE
It is widely believed that David Attlee Phillips used the code name BISHOP
during his years with JMARC. In his book Undercover Howard Hunt wrote that Phillips
used the name KNIGHT in 1954 when Phillips and Howard Hunt were involved in
Operation PB/SUCCESS, the overthrow of the Left-leaning Arbenz regime in
Guatemala. Phillips was Hunt's Deputy Chief for Propaganda. On the same page of
Oswald’s address book that the encoded name Hemming was discovered the word
BISToAP appeared – remove the A and the T and the word becomes BISOP. The
Russian words for various chess pieces are found in the address book. These included
Bishop and Knight.
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David Atlee Phillips 58 was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on October 31, 1922 - a
spook born on Halloween. He attended Texas Christian University and worked as an
actor until World War II intervened. Phillips served as a nose gunner in the Army Air
Corps. He was shot down over Austria, but returned to the Allied lines after twice
escaping from German prison camps. In 1948 Phillips married an airline stewardess
and, with a $200 a month option on a play he had written that was never produced, he
and his bride decided to go to live cheaply Chile. There he purchased Latin America's
oldest English-language newspaper, The South Pacific Mail. Because he did this, he
was approached by the CIA and asked to pose as Chief of Station in Santiago, Chile, so
that the CIA could observe the extent of KGB surveillance that he attracted. Phillips told
The Washington Post:
I was to be a 'dangle.' Word was to be leaked out in Chile that I was chief
of American intelligence there. Sure enough, a KGB agent soon began to
cultivate me. I was at the time being paid $50 a month for my services.
When the Soviets showed up it occurred to me I should be getting more.
The word “Mockbd” appeared in Oswald’s address book disguised as the
Russian word for Moscow. Beginning in the early 1950’s the CIA maintained a network
of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provided intelligence for the
CIA and at times attempted to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda.
These individuals provided the CIA with direct access to a large number of newspapers
and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television
stations, commercial book publishers, and other foreign media outlets. Hunt and Phillips
ran Operation Mockingbird. 59 Mockingbird was very active during PB/SUCCESS.
People like Henry Luce were able to censor stories that appeared too sympathetic
towards the plight of Arbenz. Allen W. Dulles was even able to keep left-wing journalists
from travelling to Guatemala. There was more evidence other than Oswald’s address
book to support an Oswald-Phillips connection.
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In 1976 CIA-linked Cuban exile Antonio Veciana stated:
I have been in Dallas many times, and remember a meeting of August
1963, perhaps the first days of September, I was there. At that time the
U.S. Government had confined me to Miami Dade County. No matter, I
traveled to other cities anyway, Dallas was one of them. In August 1963 I
had a meeting in downtown Dallas with Mr. Maurice Bishop, a United
States Intelligence Officer. I remember that Lee Harvey Oswald was
present at that meeting. Oswald remained silent all the time. Bishop
discussed with me different matters about the Cuban situation and other
efforts in the war against Castro.
I have worked with the State Department specifically in the American
Embassy in Bolivia, South America. I have cooperated with the FBI in
different situations, and I also worked for the intelligence service under
Bishop for more than ten years. In 1962, I ordered the attack on the
Russian merchant ships which traveled to Cuba; they were Bishop's
instructions. The plan was to force President Kennedy into making drastic
decisions against the Castro Government. While Kennedy traveled to
Central America we prepared a press conference in Washington, D.C.
really, the president did not fall into the ambush and he was very angry.
He decided to confine me to that country. Among the activities against the
Cuban Communists, I have tried several times to kill Castro; I remember
the last one in Chile on November 31, 1971, always following Bishop's
instructions. I have no doubt that the assassination of President Kennedy
was a conspiracy. Castro had good reason to kill him; he knew perfectly
well that in the United States high level, a plot to kill him was being
considered. However, to my personal understanding Castro was not
involved in President Kennedy's assassination. The President was killed
by other people for other reasons. My profession in the last 17 years has
been risky, my life has been in danger on several occasions, the FBI
knows my life is in danger, yet I hope they will take a step to keep me
alive.
Lee Harvey Oswald was not allowed to talk, all he said was that he was a
patsy. I believed he was telling the truth. There is no doubt that he had
good contact with some intelligence agency in this country...I confirmed
that Mr. Bishop instructed me to make arrangements with my cousin
Guillermo Ruiz, who was working in the Cuban intelligence service in
Mexico City, to offer my cousin money so that he would state that he was
in contact with Oswald about Kennedy assassination. Another part of
Castro's planned assassination in Chile had the same pattern of the
Kennedy plot. The killer would die and everybody would believe that the
killer was the communist, to my judgment Mr. Bishop participated in both
plans. 60
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SKETCH BASED ON VECIANA’S DESCRIPTION OF BISHOP
AND DAVE ATLEE PHILLIPS
Included in the October 2017 release was an FBI document from the SAC San
Juan Subject OCELOT IS-CUBA that put Oswald and Veciana together. Veciana told
Felix Zabala Mas “Veciana confided that he, and a CIA contact with a code name of
Bishop and Lee Harvey Oswald had a meeting approximately-one month prior to the
assassination of Kennedy in 1963. Veciana did not furnish any other information to the
subject.” 61 Felix was a leading member of Alpha-66 / SNFE in Puerto Rico who had
been involved in Castro assassination plots. He was a close associate of Jose Lanusa,
of the DRE 62 who, as we shall see, claimed that Oswald had attempted to infiltrate the
DRE on behalf of the Cuban Intelligence Services. For more information on Oswald and
Alpha-66 purchase Coup D’Etat in America Volume 5 e-book or paper on Amazon.
David Phillips was Chief of Operations at the CIA Station in Mexico City when
Oswald was there attempting to obtain a visa so that he could go to Cuba and take part
in some bogus operation Hemming, who read spy novels day and night, concocted.
Hemming could not have told him, “Look Lee you are going to be the patsy in the
Kennedy Assassination and we need you to dirty up Cuba by visiting there prior to The
Big Event.” David Phillips assured Oswald what he was doing was CIA sanctioned.
Phillips gave Oswald the times the cameras would be down at the Soviet and Cuban
Embassy’s so he could slip under the radar. I questioned Phillips in Hunt v. Weberman
but I did not get much out of him except for denials. Phillips was a very intelligent
intellectual who claimed he was a registered Democrat. But in reality he was an expert
at overthrowing Democratic Left-leaning Governments. Three CIA documents on David
Phillips will be released in October 2017.
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JAMES JESUS ANGLETON
BAY OF PIGS CONNECTION:
HEAD OF COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE DURING OPERATION
Angleton’s name was cleverly encrypted in Oswald’s address book, disguised as
“Plug For Radio.” The Angleton entry was at the back of the address book and was
written with other entries that indicated he had returned from the Soviet Union.
Apparently Oswald felt that Angleton might give him a job with the CIA in return for his
having successfully completed his mission in the USSR; the words “Job” and
“recommend employment” are crossed out above this entry. The name “James
Angleton” was a TOP SECRET until Kim Philby wrote about him in 1968. Angleton’s
name is encoded along with the names of two other conspirators (Frank Fiorini and
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The slash / or “l” in “Plug”
forms the “A” as well as the “N”
James Jesus Angleton was born in Boise, Idaho, on December 9, 1917. His
Illinois-born father, James Hugh Angleton, joined the National Guard in Idaho in 1916,
and chased Pancho Villa south of the border under General Pershing. While there,
James Hugh Angleton married a Mexican girl of 17. On returning to Boise, James Jesus
Angleton was born. He worked closely with former FBI Agent William K. Harvey, who
had prior CI experience. Angleton remained Counter-Intelligence Chief for 20 years,
outlasting all of the Directors and Deputy Directors of the CIA. Angleton was supposed
to root out moles in the CIA. He took a shotgun approach and destroyed the careers of
several loyal Americans but there were no significant RIS (Russian Intelligence
Services) penetrations during his tenure. While he was not hunting moles Angleton and
others were running operations that were in violation of the CIA’s charter. Hemming
stated his entre to Angleton and the intelligence community was through his uncle, Art
Simpson, the brother of his mother, Catharine Ellen Simpson. Hemming advised:
John McCone was involved with my uncle, Art Simpson. Simpson was one
of the un-indicted co-conspirators in John McCone's war profiteering trial.
He was found innocent.
There was no criminal trial involving former CIA Director John McCone but there
was a congressional hearing. On Hemming's application for CIA employment he listed
this financial reference: "Haisa-Pacific Inc., Art Simpson (President). Or Art Sixpaon"
Hemming advised: “That was the Asia Pacific Foundation. Simpson was on the board. It
was a proprietary.”
The Asia Pacific Foundation sounds like the Asia Foundation, a CIA-funded
organization exposed by Ramparts Magazine. In 2010 this researcher located Asia
Pacific Capital Advisors at 345 South Figueroa Street Los Angeles. The Asia Society
(founded 1956) is located 350 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles. The CIA established
numerous foundations with the name “Asia” to hide its funding of these “NGO’s.” Robert
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Hemming confirmed that his uncle, "Art" Simpson, was a partner with John McCone in
Cal-Ship in San Pedro. Hemming knew these references would be checked out so they
are accurate. One should note that Hemming’s other reference was Klein’s Sporting
Goods, the mail order house from which Oswald purchased his Mannlicher-Carcano.
What a coincidence! Hemming had contact with Oswald in the Marines, and then had
contact with Angleton. Hemming was the "missing link" between Oswald and Angleton.
Hemming had brought Oswald to Angleton's attention in an informal atmosphere in
December 1959. Oswald wrote, “Santa Anna, El Toro air base December 1958 to
September 1959, 1 month on leave during December 1958.” One month later Oswald
and Hemming show up at the Cuban Consulate in Monterrey offering their services to
Fidel Castro. Hemming:
Did I recommend Oswald to Angleton? I was not interested in the
business. I was making a career decision. I'm on my way into the Naval
Academy, the Air Force Academy, or ROTC at a university. Or I'm going to
transfer over into the Army. I was not impressed with the CIA. The only
time I ever thought of bringing former Marines into working with me was
when I was in Cuba. I invited some of them down. I was hard pressed to
find somebody that had Special Forces type of skills. These guys were
sharp and had been in the infantry in Korea then they went to the Air
Wing, then they went to radar school. We had similar interests. But
nobody was doing what I was doing in the Marine Corps. I was more or
less on my own...Oswald would have never had a contact at that fucking
level. Fuck no. What the fuck for? That would be telling Oswald that he's
important. He's used as a pawn. He's a fall guy for the U-2 shit, then he's
a fall guy for something else, and then he's a fall guy for the Kennedy
thing. This guy doesn't know what he's being used for. You're wrong on
Angleton.
There was however, a preponderance of evidence that pointed to Oswald having
been part of an operation when he “defected” to the Soviet Union. Evidence suggested
Angleton gave Oswald the information needed to shoot down the U-2 spy plane then
had Oswald give the Soviets the information just before the US-USSR Summit
Conference, so that it would be cancelled. As the Summit approached, President
Eisenhower considered grounding the U-2 spy plane. As we shall learn when we
examine the address book entries regarding the Soviets Oswald under the cover of a
“defector,” was in touch with both KGB and CIA agents and assets within the Soviet
Union. The national security of the United States would be undamaged by the sacrifice
of the U-2 as America was switching to spy satellites. Angleton and men like him
believed that President Eisenhower would enter into treaties and make concessions to
the Soviets that would be far more dangerous than losing a U-2.
William K. Harvey wrote this in regard to CIA ops involving assassination:
25/ 1 - Exec Action. The magic button. Narcotics Buro. [doodle of knife]
'for a living' - RIS 201 cover - Caution - Bankruptcy - No star eyes - JIM A.
- contradestruct [a mixture of contradictory destruction like ice and fire]
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from U-2 Not a TSD problem. Apply brakes. Last resort beyond last resort
& confession of weakness. El Benefactor - assumptions - wrong
framework of Sid's job. (Ledford). Elict R & D - Memo. Translating
machines - the basic sounds project phenous (rumble CB) Commit gear.
Anathesia - never mention word assassination. 6/1 AS - (illegible) No file
review. 63
What is a line linking Angleton (JIM A) to the U-2 project doing in the middle of
William Harvey’s notes about forming an assassination section of CIA? Angleton was
supposed to unearth moles within CIA not review spy photography. “Contradestruct”
can also be looked at as anomalous: something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not
easily classified. “Not a TSD problem” The bizarre destruction of the U-2 was not a leak
within the Technical Service Division of the CIA, it was something else, something much
more convoluted and sophisticated. “Apply brakes.” Cut this kind of thing out, stop it
immediately. “Last resort beyond last resort & confession of weakness.” Sacrificing your
own men is one step beyond a last resort and shows the CIA is weak.
“El Benfactor” On the night of Tuesday, May 30, 1961, Trujillo “El Benfactor” was
shot dead on San Cristobal Avenue, Santo Domingo. He was the victim of an ambush
plotted by the CIA death squad that included Howard Hunt, Frank Sturgis, Mitch
Werbell, Frank Nelson and others.
E. HOWARD HUNT
In 1976, Le Cygne 64 , an autobiography by L. Gonzalez-Mata, was published in
Paris. L. Gonzalez-Mata claimed to have served briefly as General Raphael Trujillo's
Chief of Security in 1960. According to L. Gonzalez-Mata, John Roselli and E. Howard
Hunt arrived in the Dominican Republic in March 1961, and assisted in the plots against
General Raphael Trujillo. L. Gonzalez-Mata identified John Roselli as "a friend of
Batista" who was operating "on the orders of William K. Harvey." Hunt was termed "a
specialist." According to L. Gonzales-Mata, John Roselli and Hunt met with U.S.
Counsel General Henry Dearborn and Dominican dissident leader Lorenzo Berry,
operator of a successful retail market. Lorenzo "Wimpy" Berry proposed a plan to force
Raphael Trujillo into exile, but Hunt was adamant that an ambush was the only reliable
course of action. Lorenzo Berry finally agreed when Hunt promised that the CIA would
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with the planning of the Trujillo assassination "because of my intimacy with Latin
American affairs." 65
Frank Sturgis claimed that in May 1961, he and mafia associate Frank Nelson
visited the Dominican Republic. Sturgis told journalist Paul Meskil that they contacted
Dominican military officers who were conspiring to assassinate General Raphael
Trujillo. Sturgis and Frank Nelson claimed they helped supply this clique with
assassination weapons. Frank Nelson explained:
The guns arrived in boxes sent to a supermarket in the Dominican capital.
The Dominican officers didn't need the guns. They already had enough
stuff for a war. They needed U.S. Government moral support and this was
represented by the arms shipment.
The SSCIA reported that the weapons were sent to Berry, broken down,
disguised as canned goods. It also reported that handguns, machine guns, explosives,
and carbines were supplied by the CIA. Many of these weapons ended up in the hands
of Trujillo's assassins.
Hemming:
Frank Nelson was involved in a business deal with Wimpy's Supermarket,
where the rifles were shipped to. Commercial cover. If Sturgis and Frank
Nelson jumped in on the game as the boys that were coming from up
north, they would be the guys that went back to Washington and laid the
plan out for the big boys in D.C. They wanted Agency people implicated in
the hit so they could cover their ass later on. Those weapons weren't used
for anything. These guys aren't stupid. They were being told by the CIA to
dump the old man. This is gonna happen, that's gonna happen. And when
the blame goes around from the wealthy Trujillo sons, [Ramfis Trujillo]
vicious little bastards, and the shit hits the fan, these guys are going to
want to be able to call their markers in from the CIA. They want to prove
Uncle Sam's behind the thing to get the other colonels and generals to
come in with them.
On May 30, 1961, Generalissimo Raphael Trujillo was assassinated, ambushed
by a band of seven men, including Tony Imbert and General Juan Tomas Diaz. Trujillo
and his chauffeur drove unescorted to see his 20 year old mistress. Around 10:30 p.m.
two carloads of gunmen fired 27 rounds into Trujillo's body. A source in the President's
office of the United Fruit Company informed U.S. Counsel General Henry Dearborn that
the assassination had not triggered an internal rebellion. U.S. Counsel General Henry
Dearborn, in turn, informed the CIA. In the 1920's, Dearborn was a founder of the
Council on Foreign Relations. 66 Dearborn replaced U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican
Republic, Joseph Farland, as the contact between the CIA and dissident Dominican
groups. In a CIA briefing paper for United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy,
the Agency admitted having sent arms to dissident Dominicans: "Operational security
considerations prescribed that the dissidents make their own arrangements for receipt
by which the source of the arms could not be identified." 67
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Returning to William Harvey’s handwritten notes:
“Assumptions” Assumptions are beliefs or ideas that we hold to be true — often
with little or no evidence required “wrong framework of Sid's job” Sidney Gottlieb, in
charge of preparing poisons such as the one given to U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers.
Sidney formulated a plan to hypnotize the judge in Christ’s Cuban espionage trial in
Havana. (Ledford) is Brigadier General Jack Ledford, who, in the early 1960’s was in
charge of Operation Oxcart in Area 51, and Operation Blackshield, two projects
involving the U-2 spy plane.
Hemming, who was jealous that his pupil played a more important part in
containing Communism than his teacher, advised:
Oswald wasn't a world class operator. He was just involved in world class
deals. What are you going to do? Put a Rudolph Abel in on the U-2 dump?
Oswald's in there because he was a turkey fucking patsy. Most of us are
in there because we were on the turkey fucking way. When it's all over, it
really don't make a difference, does it?
The U-2 was downed by the Sovs on Mayday 1960. Had the Soviets made
advancements in their radar capabilities? Or had the CIA been penetrated? Or had a
leak emanated from elsewhere? Logic dictated that Angleton, the rest of CI/SIG and the
Office of Security would lead the investigation into the U-2 flap, and that any honest CIA
investigation would have had Oswald as a suspect. The FBI reported:
No one knows what he told the Soviets about American radar. We know
that when he tried to renounce his American citizenship in Moscow he
stated he had volunteered to give the Soviets any information he had
concerning the Marine Corps, intimating he might know something special.
Later when he was applying in Moscow to reenter the United States, he
said he had not given the Soviets any information about the Marines, but
this was self-serving. He indicated to our Agents in an interview in 1962
that he never gave the Soviets information concerning his Marine Corps
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Both of these denials were self-serving statements and have no value. When
Oswald defected he informed Moscow diplomatic official Richard E. Snyder that
he had offered the Soviets radar information "including the specialty that he
possessed." Consul Edward Freers included this in his report on Oswald that he
cabled to Washington. As a result, State Department Headquarters sent the FBI
a report on Oswald, and the Bureau opened an inactive file on him. The same
report was sent to the Office of Security of the CIA.
In May 1960 the questions that Angleton and CI Staff should have asked were:
“Was there a mole in the CIA TSD who gave the Sovs this info?” then "Has there been a
report of anyone with access to the U-2's altitude offering this information to the
Soviets?" The CIA microfilmed Richard E. Snyder's initial dispatch concerning Oswald
and possessed a machine that could scan microfilm for key words. Once it located
Oswald's threat about radar, the next question to ask would have been, "Did he have
access to the altitude of the U-2?" A simple check with the Navy would have indicated
that, as a radar operator at Atsugi, he very well might have. Angleton associate Edward
Petty reported that there was no CI/SIG file about the U-2 incident, yet after Francis
Gary Powers returned to the U.S. a CIA Counter-Intelligence Officer was a witness at a
Board of Inquiry hearing into the U-2 Affair. Why was there was no investigation by
CI/SIG and Angleton? After the Kennedy assassination CI/SIG commented: "CIA does
not investigate U.S. citizens abroad unless we are specifically requested to do so by
some other government security agency. No such request was made in this case." 69
Angleton would never have waited for a green light from the FBI before initiating an
investigation, even if it involved his very own grandmother.
Hemming advised:
Where was damage control? The Soviets couldn't obtain this intelligence
information; this means someone handed it to them. OS, and one other
element, had across the board need-to-know about everything. Who's the
top guy who can go anywhere and stick his nose into anything he wants
to? Angleton. He would have insisted, “We just got our damage control
estimate. We just got our assessment. I don't think it's complete. I want to
know about anyone on the periphery, mechanic, guard. I want everybody's
name who saw the U-2, heard its sounds.” An enormous undertaking.
Under that process people would have been on the lists who worked the
radar sites. The trail leads right back to somebody who intentionally
dumped the U-2, tried to cover it up.
During the show trial of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in Moscow in August
1960, the Soviets insisted they shot down the U-2 at its cruising altitude of 68,000 feet.
Powers was asked repeatedly, "At what altitude was your aircraft struck?" and he
answered, "It was the maximum altitude, 68,000 feet." Major Voronov, whose rocket unit
shot down the U-2, testified: "As the plane entered the firing range at an altitude of
68,000 feet one rocket was fired and its explosion destroyed the target." In 1978 the CIA
claimed: "The Soviets knew perhaps even more accurately than even the U-2 altimeters
showed, what the height was." 70 The key to shooting down the U-2 was not so much in
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defeating its electronic warfare systems as it was having accurate information as to its
cruising altitude.
Francis Gary Powers gave the Soviets accurate information about the altitude of
the U-2. Francis Gary Powers had been instructed that "if captured be cooperative and
try to answer questions to which the Soviets appeared already to have knowledge."
Powers did not know it, but the Soviets already had knowledge of the altitude of the U-2
from Oswald. Oswald could have learned it at when he was stationed at the U-2 base in
Atsugi, Japan but it is more likely he learned it from Jim Angleton. (The Soviets thought
he had learned it while stationed at Atsugi and KGB could have checked to see if he
was stationed there).
The back flyleaf of Oswald's address book contained the significant words “New
Hite Special" Angleton, who translated Oswald’s address book combined this with
another entry and came up with “From Mrs. Hail M. White, Special.” This referred to the
altitude of the U-2.
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TAIL SPAN
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The words “tail span” are crossed out in the upper right hand part of the above
enlargement.
On February 15, 1962, Oswald wrote this to Robert Edward Oswald:
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I heard over the Voice of America that they released Francis Gary Powers
the U-2 spy plane fellow. that's big news where you are, I suppose. He
seemed to be a nice, bright, American-type fellow, when I saw him in
Moscow.
The CIA commented:
The only period during which it would have been reasonably possible for
Oswald to have seen Powers in Moscow in person was between August
17, 1960 and August 19, 1960, when Powers was in Moscow, undergoing
trial. There are no other indications that Oswald was in Moscow after
January 1960, so Oswald's statements remain unclarified.
If Oswald did, in fact, see Francis Gary Powers during the trial, why had he
waited almost 18 months before writing to his brother about it? Why hadn't Oswald
mentioned attending the Francis Gary Powers trial in his Historic Diary? Oswald's
remarked "he seemed to be a nice bright American-type fellow." This indicated Oswald
had observed Powers personally. Another CIA document revealed:
Powers was in Moscow from May 1, 1960, to September 9, 1960, and
again for less than a day on February 8, 1962, and February 9, 1962, just
before his release. [Oswald's letter was postmarked February 15, 1962.]
The most likely time for Oswald to have seen Powers in person would
have been during the period August 17, 1960 to August 19, 1960 when
Powers was on public view during his trial and in the course of being
transported to and from trial sessions. On February 8, 1962, Powers was
brought into Moscow without publicity, and departed early the next
morning. Since Oswald is not known to have been in Moscow in August
1960, or February 1962, his statement that he saw Powers may have
referred to a television or newsreel appearance. 71
A third CIA document noted:
Francis Gary Powers was in Moscow...for less than a day on February 8,
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1962 to February 9, 1962, just before his release. If Oswald did see him
and is not making up this story, or referring to a television appearance, he
must have made another trip to Moscow which is completely unknown to
us. The period from May 2 to May 19 the more likely, since Powers was
not on public view (illegible) to and from trial sessions, whereas in
February 1962 he [Powers] entered the city without fanfare and departed
very early that next morning.
In another CIA document it was detailed:
February 8, 1962: At about 1:00 p.m., Powers arrived in Moscow from
Vladimis Prison by train en route to his release. He was taken for the night
to the prison in which he had been held in 1960 [Lubyanka prison].
February 9, 1962: Powers left the prison in the early morning for an airfield
(apparently a military field) whence he departed Moscow for Berlin and the
U.S. 72
The KGB could have whisked Oswald to Moscow so he could observe that the
man he almost killed had been well-treated. When Powers was first arrested he "noticed
a cover over the outside of the peephole to my cell. The guards could look in whenever
they chose; I couldn't look out." Did Oswald observe Powers through one-way glass in
Vladimis Prison or Lubyanka Prison? How did Oswald know that Francis Gary Powers
stopped in Moscow before he left the Soviet Union in February 1962? Marina Oswald
stated:
Number one, he would hear it on the Voice of America. Lee did not make
secret journey if I was married to him. Only time, was I married to him
then? February 1962. He did not make any secret journeys then. He was
home every day. Cause our daughter was born on February 15, 1962. So
we stayed close every day. He did not make secret journey to Moscow. I
was in the hospital for a week until the 23rd. So I do not know, I cannot
guess, if I wasn't home I cannot verify that. Lee was restricted to travel.
Oswald had not renounced his American citizenship in a lawful manner nor had
he been granted Russian citizenship. He had not sworn allegiance to the Soviet Union.
He had not fought in a foreign army. He was still an American and he knew this. But he
also knew he had committed treason by feeding the Soviets the U-2 information. In
February 1961 Oswald wrote to the American Embassy, Moscow, about repatriation:
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Dear Sir; since I have not received a reply to my letter of 1960, I am
writing again asking that you consider my request for the return of my
American passport. I desire to return to the United States that is if we
could come to some agreement concerning the dropping of any legal
proceedings against me. If so then I would be free to ask the Russian
authorities to allow me to leave. If I could show them my American
passport I am of the opinion they would give me an exit visa. They have at
no time insisted that I take Russian citizenship.
With each subsequent letter to the Embassy, he reiterated this fear and
demanded "full guarantees that I shall not, under any circumstances, be persecuted for
any act pertaining to this case.”
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In regard to your letter of March 24. I understand the reasons for the
necessity of a personal interview at the Embassy, however, I wish to make
it clear that I am asking not only for the right to return to the United States,
but also for full guarantees that I shall not, under any circumstances, be
persecuted for any act pertaining to this case. I made that clear from my
first letter, although nothing has been said, even vaguely, concerning this
in my correspondence with the Embassy. Unless you honestly think this
condition can be met, I see no reason for continuance of our
correspondence, instead I shall endeavor to use my relatives in the United
States, to see about getting something done in Washington.
He repeated the theme to his brother on May 31, 1961, and wrote:
I can’t say wether I will ever get back to the States of not, if I can get the
government to drop charges against me, and get the Russians to let me
out with my wife then maybe I’ll be seeing you again. But you know it is
not simple for either of those two things. I am in touch with the American
Embassy in Moscow so if anything comes up I’ll know.
In his next letter to Robert Edward Oswald, June 26, 1961 he wrote: "I assume
the government must have a few charge's against me, since my coming here like that is
illigle. But I really don't know exacly what charges." On July 11, 1961 U.S. Consul
Richard E. Snyder wrote this about his interview with Oswald:
Oswald indicated some anxiety as to whether, should he return to the
United States, he would face possible lengthy imprisonment for his act of
remaining in the Soviet Union. Oswald was told informally that the
Embassy did not perceive, on the basis of information in its possession,
on what grounds he might be subject to conviction leading to punishment
of such severity as he apparently had in mind. It was clearly stated to him,
however, that the Embassy could give him no assurance as to whether
upon his desired return to the United States he might be liable for
prosecution for offenses committed in violation of laws of the United
States or any of its States. Oswald said he understood this, he had simply
felt that in his own interest he could not go back to the United States if it
meant returning to a number of years in prison, and had delayed
approaching the Soviet authorities concerning departing from the Soviet
Union until he “had this end of the thing straightened out.”
In yet another letter he wrote in January 1962 he asked his brother: "You once
said that you asked around about weather or not the U.S. government had any charges
against me, you said at that time 'no', maybe you should ask around again, its possible
now that the government knows I'm coming and will have something waiting." Oswald
had a guilty conscious, after all Francis Gary Powers could have been killed instead of
captured either during the crash or if he pushed the self-destruct button on the U-2
since the 60 second interval between pushing the button and the plane self-destructing
did not exist. Powers was truly expendable.
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If the preceding evidence was not sufficient to convince you that Oswald was a
player in the U-2 Dump the Miami Herald reported: "The only possession of Lee Harvey
Oswald not confiscated by government agents at the John F. Kennedy assassination
was an English, Russian dictionary in which numerous words were marked or copied
including a phrase meaning "to hit or kill at a distance." It hasn't been checked out for
microdots, or anything," said former sheriff's chief Deputy John Cullins. He was given
the book by Oswald's widow, Marina Porter. Marina confirmed the dictionary belonged
to her late husband and that the handwriting and markings in the book was his. She
said she could not understand why government agents did not notice it when they
descended upon the couple’s residence after the assassination. She said she did not
look in the book or notice the emphasized or hand-written practice words until Cullins
asked her to translate them. Among the emphasized words were "radar" and "range"
"eject" and "razor." "Radar locator" is written in Oswald's handwriting and a definition of
"range" is underlined before being rewritten in Russian. The Russian phrase, Marina
said, means: "To beat, hit kill at a definite distance." Another translation means to kill or
slaughter, like an animal. Cullins said, "I think it was a resume or information on his part
that he was preparing to give up to someone who spoke or read Russian. I see no other
reason he would look things up in English and practice them in Russian." 73 In 1994
Marina Oswald advised: "I gave the dictionary to John Cullins who tried to make money
off the whole thing. This was the only time he was friend." During Oswald's voyage to
the United States in 1962, he made the following notation:
as for the fee of $_________I was supposed to recive for this________I
refuse it. I made pretense to except it only because otherwise I would
have been considered a crack pot and not allowed to appear to express
my views. after all who would refuse money?!? 74
Oswald deliberately left the blank spaces, indicated by pen strokes. The first blank was
difficult to fill in. How much money Oswald received was a mystery; however, the dollar
sign indicated the payment had not been made in rubles. Since Oswald's Red Cross
subsidy was paid to him in rubles, this paragraph referred to another payment. Another
possibility is that “express my opinions” means appear on Radio Moscow and that he
was paid in U.S. dollars. Oswald:
Whene I first went to Russia I the winter of 1959 my funds were very
limited, so after a certain time, after the Russians had assured themselfs
that I was really the naive american who beliyved in communism, they
arranged for me to recive a certain amount of money every month. OK it
came technically through the Red Cross as finical help to a Roos polical
immigrate but it was arranged by the MVD. I told myself it was simply
because I was broke and everybody knew it. I accepted the money
because I was hungry and there were several inches of snow on the
ground in Moscow at the time but what it really was payment for my
denuciation of the U.S. in Moscow in November 1959 and a clear promise
that for as long as I lived in the USSR life would be very good I didn't relize
all this, of course, for almost two years.
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The second blank also made sense when the word "information" was placed in it.
Note that when Yuri Nosenko first approached the American Embassy, Geneva, he
offered to sell information to the CIA for 900 Swiss francs. Later he admitted inventing
this story; "He said he feared that an offer to give away information would be rejected as
a provocation..." Marina Oswald told this interviewer: "Maybe he make blank line
because he forget amount." In 1970 Francis Gary Powers wrote in Overflight that he
believed Oswald's defection was related to his being shot down:
Oswald's familiarity with MPS 16 height-finding radar gear and radio codes
(the latter were changed following his defection) are mentioned in the
testimony of John E. Donovan a former first lieutenant assigned to the
same El Toro radar unit as Oswald in the Warren Commission Hearings.
According to Donovan: Oswald has access to the location of all bases in
the west coast area, all radio frequencies for all squadrons, all tactical call
signs, and the relative strength of all squadrons, number and type of
aircraft in each squadron, who was the commanding officer, the
authentification code of entering and exiting the ADIZ, which stands for Air
Defense Identification Zone. He knew the range of our radar. He knew the
range of our radio. And he knew the range of the surrounding unit's radio
and radar. Oswald's conversation with Snyder is mentioned at least three
times in the Warren Report: "Oswald told [Snyder] that he had already
offered a Soviet official what he had learned as a radar operator in the
Marines.” 75
The FBI reported: "News media report Powers has theorized Lee Harvey Oswald
gave the Soviets radar secrets and information as to U-2's altitude capacity." The FBI
relied on CIA reports authored by Angleton that Oswald had no access to U-2 classified
info at Atsugi, and this might have been accurate. Of course Angleton would not
implicate himself in passing this information to Oswald. Oswald knew he had played an
important part in American history and he wrote: "After death of Stalin and peace
reaction, then anti-Stalin reaction. A peace movement leading up to the Paris
conference. The U-2 incident and its aftermath."
On December 30, 1974, Angleton resigned from the CIA because of the flap
caused by Seymour Hersh's exposure of the HT LINGUAL mail opening program. This
article led to the formation of the Rockefeller Commission. The Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, William Colby, had wished Angleton to resign for some time but
yielded, "because I feared that Angleton's professional integrity and personal intensity
might have led him to take dire measures." David Phillips spoke with Angleton on the
day he resigned.
WHO STRUCK JOHN?
In December 1974 Angleton told The New York Times: "A mansion has many rooms
and there were many things going on during the period of the bombings. I'm not privy to
who struck John."
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Angleton was saying that the CIA (a mansion), has many compartments (rooms),
and during the anti-Castro exile bombings of Cuba (the period of the bombings), the plot
to assassinate President Kennedy was formulated (there were many things going on.)
"I'm not privy to who struck John." (I know who killed John Kennedy). In his deposition
during the course of Hunt v. Weberman, Angleton stated that the quotation had nothing
to do with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and was similar to "Who
killed Cock Robin?"
It was amazing that men like Angleton and Helms allowed themselves to be
deposed in Hunt v. Weberman. They could have ignored the subpoena on the grounds
of National Security. But they showed up to see what the man was like who solved the
JFK enigma. Angleton tried to break my hand when he shook hands at the beginning of
his deposition. He sat there with his legs crossed chain smoking. Helms remarked that
the underground press was not truly the underground when he asked, “Underground
from what? From who?” I answered “From people like you.” He asked me why didn’t I
call him at the CIA and ask him about the allegations I was making. Sure. CIA
switchboard this is A. J. Weberman. Can I speak to the Director?”
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Another indication that Oswald believed he was God’s gift to the Soviets was the
fact that he had the name of the Russian Ambassador to the United States in his
address book. If Oswald needed help after he re-defected he planned to go to the top.
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SMOKING GUN
The name of Angleton’s Chief Female Deputy appeared in the address book.
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Elizabeth Ann Egerter or Eggerter worked under Angleton in CIA/SIG. Her name
was encoded in the address book. Eggerter delayed opening Oswald’s CIA general
interest 201-file even after he threatened to give classified information to the Soviet
Union. After she was forced to open it she arranged it so that if anyone expressed an
interest in it she would be alerted. Egerter had a sister Betty who worked in the Mexico
City CIA Station when Oswald visited there. Egerter put together a chronology of
Oswald’s visit to Mexico City for the Warren Commission. She investigated some of the
entries in Oswald’s address book for the Warren Commission. She tried to track down
persons of interest to the Warren Commission who resided in the Soviet Union.
Ann G Egerter (1907 - 1990) was born on August 29, 1907. She was born
into the Egerter family. There are no known marriages or children on record for Ann.
Ann died on July 16, 1990 at 82 years old.
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PEDRO DIAZ LANZ
BAY OF PIGS CONNECTION: MEMBER OF 2506 BAY OF PIGS
BRIGADE
Marita Lorenz, a close friend of Frank Fiorini Sturgis and the only female member
of the Death Squad, stated that Pedro Diaz Lanz was in the caravan that left for Dallas
immediately after Kennedy’s parade route was published in the Dallas Morning News.
This researcher had doubts about her testimony because in one of her depositions she
had Oswald riding along with the crew when it was clear he was in Dallas working at the
Texas School Book Depository. It was only when this researcher was contacted by a
former NYPD vice cop Jim Rothstein who verified her story that I realized she was
telling the truth but somehow labored under the delusion that throwing Oswald in with
the crew would give her story added credibility. I apologized to her and to her son who I
have become close friends with. I deposed Diaz Lanz in Hunt v. Weberman. He brought
his attorney along who insisted we stick to one pre-arranged question. He refused to
answer anything else. Lanz was a link between Hunt and Fiorini. At this time Hunt
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The FBI transcribed this entry as SMU Hillcrest Bank Daniels to Dickens but I
see a “Z” not an “S” at the end of “Dickens.” By adding 68 with a period after it the word
becomes DIAZ. Perhaps the orphaned “S” in the lower right hand corner indicates there
were two DIAZ’s, Pedro and Marcos. Sturgis described how in January 1959, he
Came down from the mountains and went to Havana and talked to my old
friend, Pedro Diaz Lanz, who became Chief of the [Cuban] Air Force. Now
he's Commander Pedro Diaz Lanz and I had him appoint me Security
Director and Intelligence Director of the Cuban Air Force. I also recruited a
number of people in Havana for intelligence... Eventually Castro realized
that Diaz Lanz was not a Communist.
Former U.S. Customs agent Wallace Shanley recalled: “Before Pedro Diaz Lanz
left he took over Radio Havana for an hour. A car was waiting, and they beat it out of
there.” Pedro Diaz Lanz appeared on national television, then traveled to Washington
and testified before the Senate Internal Security Sub-Committee. Wallace Shanley
stated that Pedro Diaz Lanz supplied him with copies of Fidel Castro's letters of credit,
ordering strategic items from the Soviet Union through the Bank of Nova Scotia,
Canada. Shanley stated,
Lanz was a high class guy. Of all the people I've met of the Cuban
persuasion, he is the finest one. He was very pro-American, but he was
also pro-Cuban. He wanted very much to believe that Fidel was the
answer. Fidel was the answer, he was the blessing of that country; it
needed one during Batista's day. Cuba was victimized by American
capitalism. It was one big Texas border town. No housing, schools or
hospitals. Tin shacks. Pedro thought: 'They got rid of the capitalists, and
Fidel was giving Cuba a tremendous leap forward.' In this respect, one
day, there was an airstrip in Fort Lauderdale called Prospect Hills. It
wasn't used much, it was an auxiliary field during the second World War. It
was now a pumping station. Well, when a meter reader went out there and
discovered Lanz's Lodstar being loaded with arms, he reported it to me. I
soon located the aircraft, empty, in West Palm beach. I didn't have a case.
Pedro was there. He had $200,000 in $100 bills in a paper bag. He offered
me the money and asked me not to seize his plane. He said, 'We have to
use people like Sturgis to get it registered in America. That's the hard part
of it.’
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Lanz was a part of JMARC, the umbrella effort of CIA to overthrow Castro.
JMARC was in many instances run by Howard Hunt. The October 2017 release
revealed “Information received that Pedro Diaz Lanz at meeting of the FORDC in New
York City making anti-U.S. statements that Cubans would have to fight alone since the
Kennedy Administration would not help.” [Patricia Orr]
Since Marita turned out to be the key to the Kennedy Assassination it is
worthwhile to examine blurry photos of Dealey Plaza on the day of the coup. These
Kennedy-haters were not going to stay in their hotel rooms during The Big Event. They
were out there to witness Kennedy getting assassinated!
DEALEY PLAZA 1963
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CHECK THE UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER FOR THE MAN IN WHITE PANTS
THIS IS A BLOW UP OF THE PHOTO REFERENCED ABOVE
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NOTE SIMILARITY OF HAIRLINE TO
PEDRO DIAZ LANZ
This nonchalant man was photographed across from the Records Building where
his close friend from Castro's Cuba and his associate in anti-Castro activities, Frank
Fiorini, was firing from, according to Gerry Patrick Hemming. The photo is too blurry to
make out a fire but the hairlines certainly match.
Hunt gave Lanz a job as a pilot with the Cuban Revolutionary Front, despite the
objections of the State Department. The State Department considered Pedro Diaz Lanz
an "unstable reactionary." In Give Us This Day Hunt wrote: "I saw a haggard unshaven
young man in a flying jacket...his eyes burned in his gaunt face. I told him I admired his
exploits. He and his friends had contributed some funds as a down payment on an old
B-25. David Phillips underwrote a loan of $4,000 for an overhaul." Sturgis told the
Rockefeller Commission: "E. Howard Hunt gave X amount of thousands of dollars to, at
least okayed this money for the B-25 bomber to be repaired and then readied in
condition for any operations inside of Cuba." When questioned under oath, Pedro Diaz
Lanz denied he met Howard Hunt. 76 When JFK visited Miami on November 18, 1963
Lanz was interviewed by the Secret Service about disruptions that were being planned
as was Orlando Bosch.
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CHAPTER TEN
ORLANDO BOSCH
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Oswald told Postal Inspector Holmes that there were two keys to Box 2915 and
Marina might have had one. Holmes claimed only one was issued and the police only
retrieved one key. This was the Post Office Box Oswald had the rifle mailed to in March
1963. Hemming was in touch with him at this time as he had him do the Walker
shooting April 10, 1963 using the Mannlicher-Carcano. Chances are Hemming had a
second key and the mailbox was used as a dead drop for communication.
Why is Box 2915 written twice? The first entry is not in Oswald's handwriting - he
never left a space as in the "5" in the first entry. The second contains the initials LH.
Once Oswald starts to overwrite letters or numbers the possibility exists that part of the
address book contains steganographic notations. All the letters that comprise the word
BOSH are here as is “C” although it is reversed to look like a “2.”
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CHECK THE UPPER RIGHT HAND PART OF THE
PHOTO UNDER THE FIRE ESCAPE
BOSCH AND MAN WITH WALKIE-TALKIE IN DEALEY PLAZA
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ORLANDO BOSCH W/ WALKIE-TALKIE IN DEALEY PLAZA
This swarthy looking gentleman in the photo above is Orlando Bosch, another
anti-Castro Cuban exile who Maria Lorenz said was the caravan to Dallas. Bosch,
pediatrician turned terrorist, was a former Central Intelligence Agency-backed operative.
He was accused of taking part in the October 6, 1976 bombing of a Cuban civilian
airliner in which all 73 people on board were killed. The bombing had been plotted at a
1976 meeting in Washington, D.C. attended by Bosch, Luis Posada Carriles 77 , and
DINA (Chilean Secret Police / Death Squad) agent Michael Townley. At the same
meeting, the assassination of Chilean former minister Orlando Letelier was plotted. If
that is him in the photograph his part in the plot was to stand nearby the TSBD with a
walkie talkie and co-ordinate the shooters from ground level. Bosch ran the
Insurrectional Movement of Revolutionary Recovery (MIRR), one of Hunt’s of Cuban
exile groups that had participated in the Bay of Pigs. Orlando Bosch was arrested in
October 1968 for firing a homemade bazooka at The Polciana, a Polish freighter
moored in Miami harbor, from the median of a Miami Beach Causeway, using a paper
clip as a sight. Ricardo Morales supplied the prosecution with tapes of conversations
between himself and Orlando Bosch. Hunt’s name came up on one of these tapes:
Morales: Another thing, two months ago, a fellow named Hunt, who is a member of the
Republican Party, was here and he gave $15,000 to some representatives of Cuban
Power to place bombs.
Bosch: I knew nothing about that.
Morales: Fifteen thousand bucks they gave.
Bosch: You know that makes two people who tell me this...78
Bosch was in radio contact with Felipe Santiago Vidal who was in Dealey Plaza with his
buddy Roy Hargraves:
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The CIA reported:
FELIPE VIDAL WITH WALKIE-TALKIE IN DEALEY PLAZA
In October 1959 Vidal arrived in Caracas, Venezuela as the Cuban Naval
Attaché. In January 1960 a representative of this Agency contacted Vidal
when it became known he was disaffected with the Castro regime. Vidal
defected from his position on 7 March 1960 and fled to Bogota, Colombia.
A POA was granted to Vidal on 15 March 1960 and this was later
superseded by a CSA granted on 27 October 1960. This Agency planned
to utilize Vidal as Chief of the FRD Maritime Force. It was later learned
Vidal was an opportunist and associated with people whom this Agency
frowned upon. He was considered a security risk and interest in him was
terminated in August 1961. Vidal then aligned himself with various exile
groups, notably the Frente Liberacion Nacional (FLN).
Just before Kennedy was shot in the neck Vidal raised his hand and Roy Hargraves
opened his umbrella.
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After the Big Even Vidal and Hargraves remained in place while everyone else
was freaking out. Notice the lankiness of the Vidal in Dealey Plaza and Vidal with a
walkie-talkie. Observe the chiseled out features of Hargraves and the man in the dark
jacket.
Roy now admits that he went from Miami to Dallas with Vidal on
November 18, 1963 and returned to Miami on the afternoon/evening of
November 22. They flew by private jet both ways. There were others,
unnamed with them on the plane. Roy would not reveal who provided the
plane. Roy would not say what he did in Dallas, or who he met there. Roy
said that he did not shoot JFK, didn’t even know that JFK was to be in
Dallas. At the end of the meeting when we were looking at photos of
Dealey Plaza from Groden’s book of photos, Roy reiterated that Vidal was
the man on Elm Street with the walkie-talkie. I asked Roy if he was
speculating on this. He said no, he was not speculating. He said compare
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Roy’s photo to the Saturday Evening Post photos. He explained that Vidal
did not know what was coming down and was following specific
instructions to do exactly specific things, thus explaining Vidal’s arms
being raised up. Roy said “Black Dog Man” was there to signal the bomber
(to blow up the car on the other side of the underpass.) Roy said it was
Colonel William Bishop who ordered Vidal to come to Dallas at that time
and that it was under Vidal’s instructions that Roy come along. Roy said
later that if he met the torturer General Escalante he would kill him on the
spot for what he did to Vidal. 79
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CHAPTER ELEVEN
BERNARDO DE TORRES
BAY OF PIGS CONNECTION; HEAD OF INTELLIGENCE FOR BRIGADE
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The CIA transcribed "Editor/Director" as "Ed Toraz" ignoring the “I” in between
the two words however, a closer examination shows the entry read ED I Toraz. Get rid
of the E and it read DI TORAZ, or reverse the ED to DE as in Bernardo De Torres. Note
the blue under the R. It is the same color as the single entry “Torres.”
A check with the postal authorities indicated "that Ed Toraz is unknown at
Post Office Box 2119 (G.P.O.) Present Box holder - Vantage Press 130
W. 37th Street, New York City, has had this box since 1960." Vantage
Press was a vanity publishing house and Oswald was thinking of
publishing a sanitized book about his experiences in the Soviet Union. The
account number was written in a different ink. It was the number of the
State Department account Oswald deposited money into in order to pay
back a loan he had received at the American Embassy in Moscow.
Bernardo G. De Torres (born March 26, 1934) Havana Province, Cuba told the
CIA that he entered the United States in January 1955 and began to play professional
baseball. He gave up studies in Civil Engineering and he obtained work at the Ford
Motor Company. He told the FBI that he completed his high school education in
Havana, Cuba, and had not attended school in the United States. Bernardo De Torres
went to Cuba in January 1959 to attempt to exfiltrate his father. He stayed in Havana
and worked against the Castro regime until November 1959 when he returned to the
U.S. After his arrival, he took a course given by the Miami Police Department for private
detectives, and obtained a certificate that allowed him to practice as a detective, which
he did for the private detective firm of his brother Carlos De Torres. He made trips to
Cuba in early 1960, where he discussed shipments of arms to anti-Castro forces.
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Bernardo De Torres enlisted in February 1961. He was Chief of Intelligence of the Bay
of Pigs Brigade 2506. 80
All 2506 Brigade enlistees were routinely processed for Provisional Operational
Approval and a request for a POA on Subject was submitted on March 2, 1961 and
cancelled on April 4, 1962. It is extremely doubtful Subject was aware at the time of his
enlistment that he knew of any CIA relationship with the 2506 Brigade. The investigative
phase of the POA indicates that USG interest would be revealed but CIA interest in
Subject would not be revealed. Subject’s file reveals no operational use of Subject
following the cancellation of this POA on April 4, 1962. William C. Sturbitts May 12,
1978.
The head of intelligence for the Bay of Pigs Brigade had no idea the CIA was its
sponsor. Highly unlikely. Bernardo was captured at the Bay of Pigs, and returned to
America in December 24, 1962 after a $50,000 ransom was paid. He later became
Assistant Secretary for Military Affairs of the Brigade. De Torres worked under David
Sanchez Morales. In 1963 De Torres resumed work as a private investigator. According
to Gerry P. Hemming, De Torres worked for Charles Siragusa, who was involved in
foreign assassinations.
When The Washington Post of January 20, 1967, carried an article in which
Bernardo De Torres said he helped the Secret Service guard the President in Miami on
November 18, 1963, William Branigan checked with that agency. According to Bernardo
De Torres, the United States Secret Service requested his help in spotting potential
Cuban assassins. 81 The United States Secret Service admitted it contacted several
Cuban groups before the visit and asked for their assistance. Brigade 2506 was one of
the groups contacted but the Secret Service denied talking to Bernardo De Torres. The
Secret Service: "De Torres is known to be a member of Brigade 2506, but not known as
one of the top leaders. Some Cubans did mingle in the crowd to try to identify trouble
makers."
The FBI files indicated Bernardo De Torres was military commander of Brigade
2506. William Branigan suggested using Bernardo De Torres as informer to William C.
Sullivan and J. Edgar Hoover. J. Edgar Hoover commented: "Be certain we don't use
De Torres as an informant or in any capacity." 82 The Miami FBI Office reported that
Bernardo De Torres was never an informant, Potential Security Informant, or source of
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Photograph of Bernardo Torres and brigade members. The guys Kennedy turned over
to Castro by withdrawing airpower from the Bay of Pigs wanted to see the traitor, JFK,
dead. Can you blame them? Kennedy pulled a double cross on the wrong people.
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PHOTO OF DEALEY PLAZA OPERATIVE AND
ONE OF BERNARD DE TORRES SOLDIERS
The man in the picture with Torres is identical with a man in Dealey plaza milling
around in front of the grassy knoll right after the Kennedy assassination as seen in this
next photo. The grassy knoll has taken on a life of its own. That is where everyone
looked when the shots were fired so it is unlikely anyone was firing from there if
professionals were involved. What went down was Frank was firing from the Records
Building, Christ was firing from the Texas School Book Depository and Oswald was in
the lunchroom waiting for Hemming to pay him for the gun. After Kennedy was disposed
of a cop came into the TSBD and stuck a gun in Oswald’s ribs. Oswald reflected on his
past bogus defection, Fair Play for Cuba Committee bogus group, trip to Mexico City to
go to Cuba one named came to his mind. HEMMING. HEMMING. HEMMING. Oswald
went back to his room, got his gun and set out to find Hemming to kill him for framing
him for a presidential assassination.
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ABOVE: AN EAR STUDY of the two men showing they are identical. One of
Bernard Torres subordinates was in Dealey Plaza on the day of the coup with phony
Secret Service credentials. Seymour Weitzman was the first Dallas Police Officer to
scale the fence on top of the knoll. He told Warren Commission Counsel Joseph Ball
that he "noticed numerous kinds of footprints..." Although Seymour Weitzman had
scaled the fence first, the officer behind him, J. M. Smith, was the first to encounter a
Secret Service Agent there: “I wasn't alone. There was some Deputy Sheriff and I
believe one Secret Service man when I got there...I pulled my pistol from my holster,
and I thought, 'This is silly, I don't know who I am looking for'...Just as I did he showed
me he was a Secret Service Agent...” 83 WEITZMAN
Weitzman had also seen this man and told Joseph Ball: "[There were] other
officers, Secret Service as well." Sterling Holland, who had run to the area where he
saw the puff of smoke, noticed footprints between a station wagon and the picket fence:
It was muddy...a hundred tracks in one location. There was mud on the
bumper as if someone had cleaned their foot...there were 12 or 15
policemen, or plainclothesmen, and we looked for empty shells... 84
The Warren Commission questioned every Secret Service Agent on the scene
that day, and they stated that they went to Parkland Hospital or stayed at the Trade
Center. The HSCA questioned J. M. Smith:
One witness who did not base his Secret Service identification merely upon
observing a plainclothesman in the presence of uniformed police officers was Dallas
police officer Joseph M. Smith. Smith, who had been riding as a motorcycle escort in
the motorcade, ran up the grassy knoll immediately after the shooting occurred. He
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testified to the Warren Commission that at that time he encountered a man who stated
that he was a Secret Service agent and offered supporting credentials... 85
The HSCA's photo enhancement of the Philip Willis photograph of the stockade
fence atop the knoll, taken seconds before Hunt, Sturgis and Christ opened fire,
showed:
…an object whose size and shape were consistent with a human being,
positioned just inside the retaining wall. The object possessed colors with
a distinct resemblance to flesh tones, as revealed on the color display.
The Panel perceived the object to be that of a badly blurred image of a
person, dressed in dark clothing, standing or leaning just inside the
retaining wall. In this photograph, which shows the person standing behind
the concrete wall, there is visible, near the region of that person's hands, a
very distinct straight line feature which extends from the lower right to the
upper right. Nevertheless, because of the blur of the object in the
photograph, the panel was not able to determine the actual length of the
object and could not conclude whether it was or was not a weapon.
The Nix film, which captured the area in question around the same time, revealed:
An object that can be construed as having a shape similar to that of a
person. It is also possible to interpret this object as being of the same
general shape as the person identified at the wall of the Willis #5
photograph.
The HSCA found no photographic evidence this man had a rifle with him nor did
it find photographic evidence of the puff of smoke. De Torres’ man set firecrackers off or
did something behind the fence on the grassy knoll as a diversionary effort. If it was
firecrackers one would think there would be residue but with David Christ involved, who
knows? Remember Christ started at Atlas Powder. De Torres’ man, supplied with
United States Secret Service credentials by CIA / TSD turned into a Secret Service
agent after the assassination. No shots were fired from the knoll. It was a diversionary
effort. Sturgis told the Rockefeller Commission about an attempt that he planned on the
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SINCE PROS WERE INVOLVED NO SHOTS CAME FROM WHERE PEOPLE
LOOKED TO AFTER THE ASSASSINATION, THE INFAMOUS GRASSY KNOLL.
I again did these exercises to try to get a diversion that if I would get the
nod to do the execution that I would have some means of diversionary
tactics to draw attention away from the people who did the execution, and
I was there with my people to prevent it because of security.
Spectators near the grassy knoll hit the dirt because they believe shots are being fired
from behind them.
After The Big Event De Torres still expressed discontent with the American
Government for not overthrowing Fidel Castro. An article appeared in the St. Petersburg
Times that stated
February 20, 1964 Cuban invasion Brigade 2506 members have
threatened to resign their special U.S. Army training to fight Fidel Castro
on their own, a Bay of Pigs veteran claimed here today. The 168 exiled
officers training here since last year have become impatient with US policy
toward Cuba said Jose Morales Cruz. However brigade veterans are not
expected to make any definite until after next Monday when they meet
with their acting chief, Eneido Oliva and members of the Defense
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Torres and Andres Basol said the problem stemmed from a lack of action
rather than discontent with army life, state Morales Cruz.
The CIA reported that Bernardo’s brother Carlos:
His brother Carlos was the liaison between the Intelligence Department of
the [Brigade] Association and the LNERGO [FBI], and provided the
necessary means to guide Subject in his position. Carlos provided
information on all matters of importance to the LNERGO. About the time
Bernardo De Torres was involved in the Garrison investigation it was said
that he liked to boast of his influence and contacts. (Deleted).
Bernardo De Torres was interviewed by the Miami FBI Office on March 3, 1964,
relative to a reported plot by members of the Bay of Pigs Brigade to carry out a raid
against Cuba. Bernardo De Torres told the FBI that
…although he was a permanent resident of the United States, and
considers himself loyal to the United States, he felt compelled to fight
against the Castro Government in Cuba, because Cuba was the land of
his birth. He said that he did not believe he would be imprisoned for
violation of the Neutrality Statutes, for the reason that the United States is
also committed to the fight to overthrow Castro and further, the United
States was involved in violation of neutrality in its support of the Cuban
invasion of April 1961.
On May 18, 1966, De Torres was briefly contacted by the Miami FBI Field Office
concerning the anti-Castro plans of the Association of Veterans of the Bay of Pigs. He
was the military leader of the association, and had been working on military plans,
which he declined to reveal. In May 1972 De Torres was considered for “intelligence
type informant” by the Bureau of Narcotics and dangerous drugs. He gave two cards to
the BNDD agent, one of which listed as a supervisor of sales for Mitch Werbell’s Military
Armaments Corp. and the other from Defense System International. Hemming worked
for Webell as a Miami Representative. De Torres told the agent that he comes to
Mexico on an average of once a month to sell arms and audio equipment and he
claimed to be in contact with Mexico’s Minister’s of Defense and Education. “Reason for
approach to BNDD is that subject claims to have information on high-placed GOM
officials involved in narcotics traffic and protection. Subject said he is willing to work for
BNDD on fixed salary basis.”
Beginning 1972 Bernardo de Torres was part of WUMUTUAL, a money
laundering entity used by CIA and OC involving Mike McLaney deposed Havana Casino
operator and Resorts International.
8/17/76 from Jerry Brown, Deputy Chief Security Analysis to Chief,
Security Analysis Group: Resorts International, Inc. used formerly the
Mary Carter Paint Company, part of Meyer Lansky's holdings. Trafficante
was Lansky's gambling czar in pre-Castro Cuba. Resorts International, OS
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#591 722, was of interest to Cover and Commercial Staff, DDO, in 1972-
1973.
In the October 2017 documents release Eddie Lopez tells us Hemming was
snitching De Torres out.
Monday June 9, 1975 (deleted – Gerry Hemming) was referred to the
Miami Regional Office because of his offer to furnish information in
reference to drug trafficking in the region. Referral: via Mitch Warbell, III,
[Werbell] through Lucien Conien to G/S John Hampe. Interviewed 3 times
by S. A. Doredant. Gave info re:Bernardo de Torres: uses and sells
cocaine sources in Key West associated with Organized Crime Figure
Santo Trafficanti [Trafficante] .
MAY 1972: SUBJECT GAVE TWO CARDS TO BNDD REP; ONE WHICH LISTS HIM AS
"SUPERVISOR DE VENTAS PARA CENTRO Y SUR AMERICA" FOR MILITARY ARMAMENT
CORPORATION. 1953 S.W. 27 th AVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDA,
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The document reproduced above indicates that De Torres was intimately involved with
the JM WAVE crew that included Howard Hunt and David Atlee Phillips just prior to the
November 22, 1963 coup.
Bernardo De Torres was called before a Federal Grand Jury in 1976 that was
probing the Letelier murder. Bernardo De Torres had attended a meeting with Hector
Duran, Bay of Pigs Brigade member Armando Lopez Estrada, the head of DINA (the
Chilean secret police) and American Richard Townley, during which the assassination
of Orlando Letelier was discussed. Jack Anderson reported that Robert Carballo, who is
head of the Veterans of the Bay of Pigs Brigade might be in danger of assassination.
His predecessor, Juan Jose Peruyero was shot to death in Miami in January 1977
because he was going to talk to the FBI about the Letelier assassination. Carballo was
a suspect in that hit. 86
A dangerous Cuban exile named Rolando Otero presented hearsay evidence
that indicated De Torres was also present in Dealey Plaza on the day of the
assassination. CIA had traces on Otero: A Response to Green List Request No. 104574
was requested for Rolando Otero Hernandez (born April 18, 1941, 201-285923) on
September 21, 1960, by Betty Vetter of Western Hemisphere/4. The request was
stamped P.O.A. Expedite. The CIA stated that Rolando Otero was a former Special
Actions Branch Team Leader, recruited February 1964, who was never used on a
JMWAVE mission, and was terminated August 26, 1964, for a security violation. He was
re-recruited in September 1964 for (deleted) Project in which he served until December
1964.
In the spring of 1975 Orlando Bosch ordered Rolando Otero to begin a series of
actions against the United States. On October 13, 1975, a bomb exploded in a luggage
locker at Miami's International Airport. In December, Rolando Otero bombed Miami's
Federal Building, Post Office, FBI Field Office, and Police Department. In May 1976,
Otero charged with the bombing of Miami Airport. On August 25, 1976, Rolando Otero
was acquitted by a Federal jury in Miami, however, on the same day he was scheduled
to be released, he was indicted on identical state charges. In March 1977, Rolando
Otero was interviewed in prison awaiting sentencing. The FBI reported on the interview:
On March 1, 1977, Rolando Otero interviewed at the Okaloosa County Jail,
Crestview, Florida, where he is presently incarcerated waiting sentence following his
conviction on state charges relating to bombing incidents in Miami, Florida, area.
Present during interview with Otero were and Robert Rosenblatt and Bill Clay. Otero is
scheduled to be sentenced on state charge on March 17, 1977, at Shalimar, Florida.
Attorneys for Rolando Otero stated prior to the interview that they had no knowledge as
to specifics which Otero was to provide FBI relating to the assassination of President
John F. Kennedy.
Otero wanted the Feds to convince the State to give him a better deal in return for his
testimony, however, the Feds refused.
At the conclusion of interview with Otero he and his attorneys were informed that
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Otero's stated desire to testify before the HSCA would be furnished by FBI to
appropriate authorities.
A few weeks later Rolando Otero told a Miami reporter: "The killers of Kennedy are alive
and living in Miami." The testimony of Rolando Otero to the HSCA was classified,
although researcher Dick Russell obtained a copy:
They had a rumor in the Cuban community, like Kennedy was a
Communist, he's against us, he's messing up the whole cause. Before the
Kennedy assassination they called a meeting of these people, and they
said they had to be ready because there was going to be a coup d’état in
the United States. 87
According to Hemming, Torres and his brother were the team members who took
out the JFK witnesses. In his deathbed confession Hunt referred to this as "the clean
up.” Even Hemming was afraid to talk much about them.
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THE NOVO BROTHERS
BAY OF PIGS CONNECTION: HELD CONGRESS OF BOP VETS
WHERE ORLANDO BOSCH’S GROUP CORU WAS ENDORSED
Frank Fiorini's operative, Marita Lorenz, said that two Cuban brothers were part of the
caravan that left for Dallas. Marita Lorenz:
On the weekend before the Kennedy assassination I saw Oswald with
Orlando Bosch at Bosch's home. Pedro Diaz Lanz and Frank Sturgis were
there, as were the Novo brothers, who were from New Jersey. They were
going over Dallas street maps, circling places. I thought they were going to
hit another armory. There was talk of a high powered rifle. The word
'Kennedy' spoken to Bosch [sic] which made me say, 'What about him?'
All eyes were on me, studying me, when Oswald started a dispute with
Frank and Bosch about my presence. I spoke with Oswald that night,
someone told me he spoke German, and I found out that he did. Frank
told me I would be going to Dallas with him tomorrow. It was during the
weekend, so it was hard for me to get a baby sitter on such short notice.
We left after midnight in two beat-up looking cars and drove to Dallas.
About eight of us, with Frank's 'baby,' a high powered rifle, scope and
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by Frank, Bosch and Pedro Diaz Lanz. No phone calls, no speaking
Spanish in Texas, no leaving for restaurants. Supplies and 'kits' were
dumped in the truck. We wore dark street clothes...I was in the car with
the Novos, Frank and Orlando Bosch. Oswald rode with Hemming and
Pedro Diaz Lanz. The car I drove in was beat-up, they had guns in the
back. It had big tail fins, four doors, Florida plates. No one talked about the
Dallas operation during the trip. Just, 'When we get there nobody goes
out, no papers, no broads.' I asked Frank who was paying for the trip and
he told me, 'The Company.' The guns in the car looked like Oswald’s
[Mannlicher-Carcano]...When he arrived in Dallas we stayed at the
Cabana Motel."
Note the letters that have been the most darkened in with pencil. There is an “N” an “O”
a “7” that when reversed can be a “V” and another “O.” Put them all together they spell
NOVO, a name that means a lot to this researcher.
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The Novo Brothers, Guillermo Novo Sampol, Ignacio Novo Sampol, were Cuban
exiles who ran an anti-Castro organization known as the Cuban Nationalist Movement
that was the successor of the Cuban Nazi Party. The Novo’s Cuban Nationalist
Movement or CNM was really the Cuban Nazi Movement. Its motto was Cuba Before All
a variation of Deutschland Uber Alles. It made sense that these Cuban Nazis were
involved in The Big Event. The Novo brothers immigrated to America in 1954, after their
father was killed in an explosion in Havana. They graduated from high school in lower
Manhattan. Guillermo Novo received a Degree in Chemistry, and Ignacio Novo became
a shoe salesman. In late 1959 they organized the first anti-Castro demonstration in the
United States. Ignacio Novo became a leader of the Cuban Nationalist Movement, and
in August 1960 he arranged for Cuban exile groups to form a united front against
Castro. The Cuban Revolutionary Front was one of these groups. Hemming told this
researcher the Novo brothers were not part of the caravan: “First, the Novo brothers
hadn't even been invented yet. Talk about one of the Novos being present in the
Brigade. He wasn't in the Brigade. She gets the Novo brothers later on from the Letelier
business. Phillips pulled that stunt.”
The Novos had been invented by 1963 as demonstrated in this article from Life
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Magazine, Sept. 27, 1963 "Cubans Crash U.N. Opening"
Every year the opening of the U.N.'s General Assembly looms as a
monument of diplomatic ritual, ponderously impressive but nonetheless a
pretty dull show. Once in a while an unscheduled event, like Nikita
Khrushchev's shoe-banging show, makes it memorable. This year, with
the opening only 90 minutes old and heads already bobbing, a handful of
anti-Castro Cubans woke up the crowd. Cries of "Traitors!" "Abajo Castro!"
"Viva Cuba Libre!" pierced the visitor's gallery and 11 young Cubans,
ostensibly following a guided tour, leaped the rail and headed for the
rostrum, where Dr. Carlos Sosa Rodriguez had just been installed as the
General Assembly's new president. "We all had something in our hands--
leaftlets, a Cuban flag, a banner--so guards would know we weren't
carrying guns or bombs," explained Ignacio Novo, a Bay of Pigs rebel.
"The idea was for nine of us to run interference for two others carrying a
five-page document to Secretary General U Thant." Later in the week, the
whole thing forgotten, the U.N.'s schedule, including an address by
President Kennedy and an average of four parties a day, got into gear. 88
In 1964 the Novos fired a bazooka at the United Nations building as Ernesto
"Che" Guevara prepared to address the General Assembly of that organization.
Tony Ulasewicz from Watergate participated in their arrest. Several months later,
the Novo brothers confessions were ruled inadmissible. 89
During the investigation into the homicide of rival Cuban leader Jose E. De La
Torriente (April 12, 1974), members of this group were identified by a confidential
source as having conspired to assassinate De La Torriente. 90
In 1967 the Novo brothers were convicted of hiding explosives for Orlando
Bosch, and both were sent to prison. The conviction of Ignacio Novo was overturned,
but the conviction of Guillermo Novo was affirmed. In 1968 Ignacio Novo and Orlando
Bosch bombed the Consulates of several Western Bloc countries which did business
with Cuba. The next phase of this operation was to be the execution of Castro officials
outside the United States. Guillermo Novo was paroled in late 1975, but his parole was
revoked after he traveled to Chile to meet with Orlando Bosch and members of the
Chilean military junta. 91
Marita stated that Orlando Bosch was in the caravan from Miami to Dallas. The
HSCA interviewed Orlando Bosch. He said he had met Marita Lorenz once, in 1962,
when he planned an air raid on Cuba with Alexander Rorke. The HSCA: "Lorenz later
called him and said she wanted to get involved in anti-Castro activities, but Bosch
turned her down and never saw her again. He further stated he had never traveled west
of New Orleans in his life."
When the Novo brothers were subpoenaed during a Federal investigation of the
Orlando Letelier assassination, they disappeared. About 23 other Cuban exiles, mostly
veterans of the Bay of Pigs Brigade, were subpoenaed. In 1977 the members of the Bay
of Pigs Brigade elected Ignacio Novo as their military leader. Guillermo Novo and Alvin
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Ross Diaz were arrested for cocaine trafficking by the Miami Organized Crime Bureau
in April 1978. The name, address and telephone number of Pedro Diaz Lanz was found
in the address book of Alvin Ross Diaz. Danny Benitez made the arrest. Sturgis was an
informant for Danny Benitez. When Sturgis was questioned about the Novo brothers in
1978, in relation to the charges made by Marita Lorenz, he said he had never heard of
the "Nova brothers." During his deposition in the course of Hunt v. Weberman Sturgis
was asked:
Q. Do you remember the Novo Brothers, Cuban exiles that are presently in New
Jersey?
A. De Novo?
Q. Guillermo Novo?
A. The name - I don't recall the name at the present time. It's possible. Like I said, I
know many Cubans.
Sturgis had to have at least heard about the Novo Brothers. Sturgis was
associated with Carlos Prio Soccarras, who in his later years, worked closely with the
Novo brother's Cuban Nationalist Movement. Hemming told this researcher: “Of course
Sturgis knew the Novos. The Novo connection comes through Navarro. He had lunch
with the Novos on two occasions at Centro Vasco.”
On May 5, 1978, Ignacio Novo was arrested in the basement of his brother-inlaw's
house in Jersey City, New Jersey. The Novo brothers were sentenced to life in
prison on March 24, 1979. The next month, a valise exploded while being loaded on an
airliner at Kennedy Airport. The Cuban Nationalist Movement took credit for the
explosion. They demanded the immediate release of the Novo brothers. 92
Pedro Diaz Lanz was interviewed by the HSCA: "Immunized testimony was
received in Washington, D.C., on April 28, 1978, from Pedro Diaz Lanz who denied
Lorenz's allegation and explained his whereabouts on November 22, 1963." Hemming
denied making the car trip to Dallas with Sturgis. The HSCA questioned Sturgis about
Marita Lorenz's allegations. He testified
Sir, that is an absolute lie. I have never been with Marita Lorenz and
OZZIE as she calls him, or Pedro Diaz Lanz or Marcos Diaz Lanz, or
Doctor Orlando Bosch, or Jerry Patrick, which she claimed all of us
besides some other Cubans [Sturgis again pretended that he was
unfamiliar with the Novo brothers], were in two automobiles and left Miami
Florida two days before the assassination of the President of the United
States. She is a liar. I took a polygraph examination to that effect that I
have never been involved at any time in conspiring to kill the President of
the United States, nor was I with her in any automobile with these people
or any other people going to Dallas to plot to kill the President of the
United States. She is an absolute liar.
In 1976, group members Jose Dionisio Suarez, Guillermo Novo Sampol, Ignacio
Novo Sampol, and Alvin Ross Diaz were charged with the murder of Chilean diplomat
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Orlando Letelier and his assistant Ronnie Moffit. At the time Felipe Rivero was
suspected of having masterminded the plot along with agents of Augusto Pinochet's
Chilean Government. Charges against Rivero never materialized, and as a result, he
continued his operations in South Florida and New York City. Jose Dionisio Suarez was
found guilty and sentenced to 12 years in prison. All other group members involved in
the Letelier incident were originally found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment;
however, their conviction was later overturned by an appeals court. Orlando Bosch, the
head of another anti-Castro group with fascist tendencies, implicated the Novo’s in the
Letelier assassination. 93 Marcos Diaz Lanz, Pedro’s brother, had dealings with
Pinochet, who ordered the murder.
Marita Lorenz was telling the truth about the Novo’s and the caravan: a revelation
provided to this author by Jim Rothstein a former New York City Police Department vice
squad cop who was working with Marita Lorenz on a child porn case. He arrested Frank
when he came to Marita’s apartment to shut her up. Rothstein recalled:
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Detectives Rothstein and Rosenthal questioned Sturgis for approximately
two hours at Marita’s apartment before taking him for booking at the local
precinct. During this time, Sturgis was very frank and open with the
Detectives. He admitted that he was on the Grassy Knoll at Dealey Plaza
in Dallas, Texas, when Kennedy was assassinated and that he was one of
the shooters from the Grassy Knoll. The Detectives received valuable
information from Sturgis. Sturgis told the Detectives that Operation 40’s
mandate was “to protect our country at all costs.” When Sturgis was asked
why Kennedy was assassinated, he told the Detectives that there were
three reasons. Number one was that Kennedy had double-crossed
Operation 40 in the Bay of Pigs Invasion by pulling back the support.
Operation 40 operatives were to infiltrate Cuba after Castro was deposed and
assassination members of the Cuban Communist Party and July 26 Movement.
This ex-detective informed me that after Frank Sturgis sued NYPD for false
arrest he was able to verify Marita Lorenz’s testimony that she accompanied Hemming,
Sturgis, Pedro Diaz Lanz, Orlando Bosch and two Cuban brothers, the Novo Brothers
on an automobile trip to Dallas shortly before The Big Event beginning on the same day
the parade route was published in the Dallas Morning News. The former detective told
me that he and his partner drove to a gas station that Marita told them the caravan had
stopped in for gas and repairs and the owner remembered them having had repairs
done at his gas station. The reason Rothstein didn’t come forth with this information was
because when he was in the military he was on a carrier that was supposed to provide
air support for the Bay of Pigs invasion. He saw the casualties mount and he hated
Kennedy for his betrayal. He said that when he busted Frank he put a gun in Frank’s
mouth then took it out and shook his hand, congratulating him for whacking JFK.
Strange world we live in but what was stranger was that his detective utilized the
wrestler Skull Murphy as a source of information on the gay community focusing on an
establishment called The Stonewall.
The November 2017 document release revealed:
MM-T-1 who is acquainted with some members of the Cuban Nationalist
Movement in New York City advised on June 5, 1967 that a meeting took
place on June 3 – 4 1967 in the New York area. Present were Ignacio
Novo, Secretary General of the Cuban Nationalist Movement his brother
Guillermo Novo both of the New York City – Newark area Dr Orlando
Bosch, head of the Movimiento Insurreccional de Recuperacion. 94
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On August 5, 1963, Oswald initiated contact with Cuban exile Carlos Bringuier,
delegate of the Student Revolutionary Council (DRE) in New Orleans. The DRE was
created and funded by CIA and managed by David Atlee Phillips or BISHOP, who had
been seen with Oswald by Veciana in Dallas. Oswald met with Bringuier at the Casa
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Roca retail clothing store at 107 Decatur Street, New Orleans. From where had Oswald
obtained Bringuier’s address? Bringuier told the Warren Commission:
Now that day, on August 5, [1963] I was talking in the store with one
young American -- the name of him is Philip Geraci -- and five minutes
later Mr. Oswald came inside the store. He started to look around, several
articles, and he show interest in my conversation with Geraci. I was
explaining to Geraci that our fight is a fight of Cubans and that he was too
young, that if he want to distribute literature against Castro, I would give
him the literature but not admit him to the fight. At that moment also he
start to agree with me, Oswald start to agree with my point of view and he
show real interest in the fight against Castro. He told me that he was
against Castro and that he was against Communism. He told me -- he
asked me first for some English literature against Castro, and I gave him
some copies of the Cuban report printed by the Cuban Revolutionary
Student Directorate [DRE]. After that, Oswald told me that he had been in
the Marine Corps and that he had training in guerrilla warfare and that he
was willing to train Cubans to fight against Castro. Even more, he told me
that he was willing to go himself to fight against Castro. That was on
August 5. I turned down his offer. I told him that I don't have nothing to do
with military activities, that my only duties here in New Orleans are
propaganda and information and not military activities. That was my
answer to him. He insisted, and he told me that he will bring to me next
day one book as a present, as a gift to me, to train Cubans to fight against
Castro. Before he left the store, he put his hand in the pocket and he
offered me money. As soon as he put the hand in the pocket and he told
me, "Well, at least let me contribute to your group with some money," at
that moment I didn't have the permit from the City Hall here in New
Orleans to collect money in the city and I told him that I could not accept
his money, and I told him that if he want to contribute to our group that he
should send the money directly the headquarters in Miami as they had the
authorization over there in Miami, and I gave him the number of the post
office box of the organization in Miami. And after that, I left the store
because I had to go to the bank to make the deposit, and Oswald was in
the store talking to try brother-in-law -- that is my partner in the store –
Rolando Paez. [Is that spelled P-a-e-z] That is right. Oswald was talking to
him for about a half hour, and later on when I come back from the bank I
ask my brother-in-law “Well what do you think about this guy who was
here.” He told me Oswald seemed like a really smart person and really
interested in the fight against Communism. Next day, on August 6, Oswald
came back to the store, but I was not in the store at that moment, and he
left with my brother-in-law a Guide Book for the Marines for me with the
name "L. H. Oswald" in the top of the first page. When I came back to the
store, my brother-In-law gave to me the Guidebook for Marines. I was look
in the Guidebook for Marines. I found interest in it and I keep it, and later I
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forgot about that just for three days more. 95
Rolando Pelaez, aka Rolando Pelaez Bosch aka Rolando Peleaz was Sub-
Secretary of the Department of Defense in Cuba from 1952 to 1959. In exile Rolando
worked aboard a vessel servicing an off-shore oil rig. Carlos spelled his name
incorrectly. Rolando was never questioned by the FBI or interviewed by the Warren
Commission despite his having spent more time with Oswald than Carlos Bringuier did.
One would think Peleaz mentioned his affiliation with the Cuban military so it made little
sense for Oswald to have left his Marine training manual with him. CIA claimed it had no
information on Peleaz.
Information on Peleaz did appear in an FBI file concerning Santiago Alvarez
Rodriguez, a former Senator during Batista’s regime, who was recruited as a Swift Boat
captain by AMBIDDY-1, Howard Hunt protégé Manuel Artime. Santiago Alvarez 96
worked with Dr. Paulino Sierra a minister in the Batista Government who left Havana in
1960 and settled for a time in Miami, where he worked as a translator. By late August
1963, Paulino Sierra contacted Hemming associate Richard Lauchli to purchase guns
and asked Hemming associate Steve Wilson to deliver the guns to Miami. Another
Hemming associate, Dennis Harber, assisted Paulino Sierra in the transport of military
equipment. Evidence suggested that Cuban exile Homer Echevarria heard Paulino
Sierra remark shortly before The Big Event, “We have plenty of money now, our new
backers are Jews. As soon as they (or we) take care of Kennedy." 97 FBI and CIA had
an interest in Rolando Peleaz:
RE: Rolando Peleaz
March 6, 1962
From: S. J. Papich (FBI Liaison with CIA)
By memorandum dated November 6, 1961, we disseminated to CIA
information concerning Castro’s investigative police and armed forces. We
described our source as a former Cuban investigator who had arrived from
Havana. On March 5, 1962, Mrs. Jane Roman, CIA, inquired if the
Bureau’s source could be made available to CIA for questioning. CIA is
interested in asked the source questions concerning Castro’s capabilities
in the investigative and intelligence fields. The above information and CIA
request are being directed to the attention of the Nationalities Intelligence
Section. The reply to CIA should be submitted via Liaison.
The recent document release reveals that Harber may have been a Soviet Agent.
Harber attended a party with Leonard A. Kovalev (Bufile 105-64470; NY File 105-
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27651) a Soviet national employed at the UN Secretariat. Harber became intoxicated
and started talking about Communism in Spain, speaking apparently with authority on
the organization of Communist Cells in Spain. 98 He took part in several operations
connected to Hemming:
MM-T1 stated that Aguilar had also been in contact with Edward Collins,
American adventurer who wants to go to Cuba with Aguilar. On July 24,
1963 Aguilar met with Collins and one Dennis Harber an American in his
mid 40’s who speaks fluent Spanish. Dennis is bald and the called
“Professor.” He was with Collins a week ago aboard a boat which was
making radio transmissions to Cuba.
The Oswald / Bringuier meeting was witnessed by a young anti-Castro American,
Vance Blalock who was collecting money for the DRE. Blalock told the Warren
Commission:
Oswald walked up to us and leaned against the desk and listened to the
conversation. Then he started asking questions about the organization,
and we were talking about guerrilla warfare, just in case the country got in
war, how young students could help - something in that nature and then
Oswald asked Carlos Bringuier all about the organization and what part it
played in the main movement in Florida...and he explained that he took
training in guerilla warfare, and he told me how to blow up bridges, derail
trains, make zip guns, make homemade gunpowder...He told us to put
powder charges at each end of the bridge from the foundation to where
the foundation meets the suspension part, and to blow that part up and the
center part of the bridge would collapse. ...He told us how to derail a train
without gunpowder. He said put a chain around a railroad track and lock it
to the track with a lock. He just asked Carlos about the anti-Castro
organization and asked him to explain it to him, and said he was
interested in finding out how it operated. He didn't say he wanted to join it.
He just said he was interested in it. Oh, and Bringuier gave him literature,
a Cuban newspaper and leaflets or booklets.
Liebler: Do you remember talking to the FBI agent about Oswald's remark concerning
having been to Florida?
Blalock: I think he said that he had been there.
Liebler: But you do recall sort of vaguely that Oswald did say that he had been in Florida
and that he had visited an anti-Castro Cuban organization there?
Blalock: Yes sir, I do. 99
Oswald wrote this to the communist Fair Play for Cuba Committee:
I infiltraled the Cuban Student directorite and than harresed them with
information I gained including having the N. O. city atterny general call
them in and put a retraining order pending a hearing on some so-called
bonds for invasion they were selling in the New Orleans area.
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Bringuier indicated that Oswald immediately aroused his suspicions and he told
Oswald to deal directly with the Military Section of the DRE in Miami. Bringuier later
commented he was concerned that Oswald knew of the LaCombe, Louisiana, anti-
Castro training camp, because Oswald had mentioned that he wanted to help train anti-
Castro guerrillas. Bringuier explained:
As there was a Castro's spy infiltrated in an anti-Castro training camp in
existence at that moment across the Lake Pontchartrain, and the Castro's
spy, Fernando Fernandez, was sending his information to the Cuban
Ambassador in Mexico City, it is possible and logical that the Cuban
Government could have put that situation in the acknowledgment of any of
the pro-Castro organizations in the country. 100
Bringuier said he was worried about infiltrators because one of his relatives was
a Castro double-agent. The DRE'S operations in Cuba were effectively destroyed in
1962 when Jorge Medina Bringuier infiltrated the DRE underground in February 1962
for the Cuban Intelligence Service. Jorge rose to the position of National Coordinator of
the DRE in Cuba, and systematically furnished information to the Cuban Government
which resulted in numerous arrests and a complete breakdown of the DRE. Despite
Oswald’s Fair Play for Cuba Committee correspondence and leafleting activity in the
vicinity of the USS Wasp along with his “infiltration attempt” of the DRE when the FBI
released its Cuban NATIONALITY GROUP COVERAGE report on August 7, 1963 it
was stated unequivocally that there was no Fair Play for Cuba Committee activity in the
New Orleans area. Warren DeBrueys put the report together for the New Orleans SAC.
Here is the document:
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The document continued:
NO 1213-S (Arnesto Rodriguez, the owner of an English Language School
who claimed to have a tape recorded conversation with Oswald prior to
the assassination) continues to have contact among a large group of
Cubans in the New Orleans area and is an active informant of the New
Orleans Office. Contacts with all the foregoing sources of information are
conducted with a view to possible development as PSI. While there are no
known branches of the FPCC or of the July 26th Movement nor any pro-
CASTRO type organizations in the New Orleans area, New Orleans,
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nevertheless, canvasses all sources in Cuban matters on a continuing
basis to be alert for any activity indicating efforts to establish moth groups
in the New Orleans area. The above coverage has proven adequate in
Cuban matters; however, New Orleans is consistently alert to the
possibility of developing new sources to provide pertinent data regarding
both anti-Castro and pro-Castro matters. New Orleans will submit its semiannual
report on informant coverage in Cuban matters prior to 2/1/64.
FBI Special Agent and JMARC co-optee Warren C. DeBrueys had requested that
Oswald postpone any major confrontation until after his report was issued so the fact
the DeBrueys was deliberately overlooking Oswald would not be documented. The
sources for DeBruey’s information in 1963 were Orlando Piedra and Frank Bartes, both
of whom appear in Oswald’s address book. DeBrueys name was secreted in Oswald’s
address book. DeBruey’s sources for the earlier 1962 NATIONALITY REPORT had
included Bringuier, Orestes Pena, Orlando Piedra, and Frank Bartes. It was no accident
that DeBrueys report was composed one day before Oswald’s Fair Play for Cuba
Committee could no longer be ignored.
Oswald was arrested on August 8, 1963 when he and Carlos Bringuier started a
bogus physical confrontation on Canal Street in New Orleans. Oswald had the word
“Canal” and “14” hidden in his address book.
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The evidence that this confrontation was planned in advance can be found in a
letter dated August 1, 1963, postmarked August 4, 1963. Oswald wrote this to V. T. Lee
of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee:
Vincent Ted Lee and I moved in the same social circles in the late 1970’s early
1980’s. He came around my loft at 6 Bleecker Street and I was friendly with him until he
started denying the Holocaust. He was more of a rightwing libertarian than he was a
communist as he was buying pot from me. He was armed with a revolver and was an
unstable individual. No evidence has surfaced that he was a FBI snitch.
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In regards to my efforts to start a branch of the Fair Play for Cuba
Committee in New Orleans. I rented an office as planned and was promply
closed 3 days later for some obsure reasons by the renters, they said
something about remodeling, ect. I'm sure you understand after that I
worked out of a post office box and by useing street demonstrations and
some circular work have substained a great deal of interest but no new
members. Through the efforts of some cuban-exial "gusanos" a street
demonstration was attacked and we were oficialy cautioned by the police.
This incident robbed me of what support I had leaving me alone. neverthe-less
thousands of circular were distrubed and many, many pamplet
which your office supplied. We also manged to picket the fleet when it
came in and I was surprised at the number of officers who were interested
in our literature. I continue to recive through my post office box inquires
and questions which I shall endeavor to keep ansewering to the best of
my ability.
Oswald wrote the Fair Play for Cuba Committee about an incident that had not yet
occurred. (He had not been attacked by exiles, or questioned by the police, before he
wrote this letter.) The Warren Commission:
In his letter to V. T. Lee, he stated that he was then alone in his efforts on
behalf of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, but he attributed his lack of
support to an attack by Cuban exiles in a street demonstration and being
“officialy cautioned” by the police, events which “robbed me of what
support I had leaving me alone.” In spite of those claims, the Commission
has been unable to uncover any evidence that anyone ever attacked any
street demonstration in which Oswald was involved, except for the incident
which occurred eight days after Oswald wrote the above letter to V. T.
Lee. Bringuier, who seemed to be familiar with many anti-Castro activities
in New Orleans, was not aware of any such incident. Police reports also
fail to reflect any activity on Oswald's part prior to August 9, 1963, except
for the uneventful distribution of literature at the Dumaine Street wharf in
June 1963. Furthermore, the general tenor of Oswald's next letter to V. T.
Lee, in which he supported his report on the Bringuier incident with a copy
of the charges made against him and a newspaper clipping reporting the
event, suggested that his previous story of an attack by Cuban exiles was
at least greatly exaggerated. 101
Oswald was not exaggerating, nor was he clairvoyant. Oswald wrote about his
fight with Cuban exiles before it took place because the fight had been planned before it
took place. The brawl was the work of collusion between Cuban exile Carlos Bringuier
and Oswald at the behest of David Atlee Phillips who ran the DRE. Its purpose was to
attract media, police, and FBI attention, to Oswald and the New Orleans Chapter of the
Fair Play for Cuba Committee, in order to establish bona fides with the Cubans which
would allow Oswald to travel to Cuba. Bringuier was asked, in April 1993, how Oswald
had knowledge of "the brawl" before it happened. He responded,
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You said that he wrote the letter, I don't know. I found two possible
explanations. First Oswald was, what you can say, he make a lot of
mistakes, like him transferring dates and things like that, and I believe he
made a mistake. He left a zero out. The date was the 10th." [Bringuier was
asked why the letter was postmarked August 4, 1963] "Sir I didn't finish
yet. I believe that you have a preconceived idea. Then there would be no
possible way for me to change your idea. Most of the people who have
those preconceived ideas are communists...My idea is this. Since the Fair
Play for Cuba Committee was involved in the whole thing, because I am
sure that the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and Castro were involved in
the assassination, and Oswald didn't write to the Fair Play for Cuba
Committee just one letter. And Oswald wrote several letters to the Fair
Play for Cuba Committee. When the Fair Play for Cuba Committee
presented that to the FBI, they transposed the envelopes. That is very
simple. You get one letter that was dated on the tenth the guy missed and
sealed [or misconcealed?] and he did that several times in his life. Not for
the first time that he did that. And then you use another envelope. I have
envelopes here that were written to me in 1962...The only two reasons
that I see is that because first, Oswald could not have been a psychic, and
foresee that there was to be that incident. Because if my friend would not
have seen him on Canal Street when he walked out of the bus, I wouldn't
have known that, because I didn't know about the second time, because I
was working, and on August 16, 1963, he held the other demonstration, I
didn't know about that until it was too late for me to arrive over there, and I
didn't know about the previous demonstration when he did the thing about
the Navy ship that was here in New Orleans and he went over to one of
the piers and he did a demonstration over there.
Carlos Bringuier entered the United States on February 8, 1961, and arrived in
New Orleans on February 18, 1961, where he became associated with the Cuban
Revolutionary Front. Bringuier stated that on October 1, 1962, he opened the Casa
Roca clothing store and has been working there since. Several CIA documents
generated by the Domestic Contacts Division indicated a close relationship between
Bringuier and the CIA. 102 Bringuier was contacted in 1978, and then he was mailed the
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CIA Office of Security documents about him. He stated:
I got them. As far as I remember, because I did not pay that much
attention to them, I don't see anything worthwhile in them. The best thing
to find out is if the CIA is now working for Castro, or how deep is
Communist infiltration in the U.S. at this moment? I never met any CIA
people until after the assassination. I wish I would have known [the
Watergate burglars]. Your line of questioning suggests you are trying to
make some kind of wild link...the Communists are trying to bring
something about in that regard. I was with the Cuban Revolutionary Front
until the beginning of 1962. I was just for a few months with the Cuban
Revolutionary Council. I have never met Howard Hunt or "EDUARDO." I
was here in New Orleans and the only one I met here that was with the
Cuban Revolutionary Council was Mr. Arcacha. Then the person who was
appointed chairman of the Cuban Revolutionary Council here was Mr.
Rabel, and I was working with Mr. Rabel as secretary of press of
propaganda just for a few months. I also was trying to find out who were
the communists that were helping Castro from here.
Hunt and Bringuier were both connected to the Cuban Revolutionary Front and
Cuban Revolutionary Council. Hunt described himself as involved in the propaganda
efforts of the Cuban Revolutionary Council. Bringuier described himself as secretary of
press of propaganda of the Cuban Revolutionary Council. Bringuier's brother, Juan
Felipe Bringuier, was a member of Brigade 2506 and was captured during the Bay of
Pigs. Hunt and Bringuier held many common ideas. Both felt President John F.
Kennedy was going to replace Fidel Castro with leftist Manolo Ray. Bringuier termed
this Operation Judas. In 1972 Bringuier was head of Cubans for Nixon in New Orleans.
"We had a committee here Cubans for Nixon and Breen in New Orleans. Yes, sir. We
had." In April 1993 Bringuier received the references to him in this investigation. When
re-contacted he commented:
I saw the amount of lies you put about me there. Listen, I don't want to
discuss them one by one with you because there are only two reasons:
you are either a communist, or you are an idiot. And I don't have time for
either one of them
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In the late spring of 1960, three DRE leaders escaped from Cuba and arrived in
Miami, where they immediately offered the Cuban Revolutionary Front their services.
Howard Hunt and David Atlee Phillips were in charge of the Frente. The DRE was
rendered an affiliate of the Cuban Revolutionary Front and Cuban Revolutionary
Council. DRE leaders, and members, were supplied with weapons and money:
Although there is no record of the DRE in Office of Security indices,
Western Hemisphere/COG files reflect the DRE was conceived, created,
and funded, by the CIA in September 1960, and terminated in December
1966. It was an outgrowth of an activist student group in Cuba which
fought against Batista and later against Castro. After many of the leaders
came into exile in the United States, they were trained and infiltrated back
into Cuba for intelligence duties. After the Bay of Pigs, from 1962 to 1966,
members were used as political action groups throughout the Western
Hemisphere. During the organization's six year period of existence many
DRE personnel were in contact with JMWAVE staffers. 103
Keep in mind that David Atlee Phillips, whose cryptonym appears in Oswald’s
address book, ran the DRE for the CIA. The Miami-based DRE was shelling Havana
from boats in August 1962, which brought it to the attention of United States Attorney
General Robert F. Kennedy. After a warning from the Justice Department, the DRE
distributed leaflets that accused President John F. Kennedy of abandoning it. It warned
it would continue to attack Cuba, since the Bay of Pigs had "culminated in treachery."
On August 25, 1962, the DRE almost assassinated Fidel Castro when it attacked the
Sierra Maestre Hotel in Havana. Two speedboats fired 30 rounds of 20-millimeter
cannon shells, of which 28 hit the hotel. Two rounds went wild and hit the Blanquita
Theater, where Fidel Castro was watching a Chaplin film. Fidel Castro was enraged and
claimed it was a CIA attempt on his life. The DRE leaders were brought to Washington,
and were congratulated by DD/P Richard Helms. The military operations chief of the
DRE, who infiltrated Cuba before the Bay of Pigs, told the HSCA the Cuban
underground mistakenly believed it had the total endorsement of the United States.
After the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy Administration curtailed the
activities of the DRE, although it was apparently moving closer to assassinating Fidel
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Castro. 104 On January 23, 1963, MM T-1 advised the FBI that Esiero Borja, the military
chief of the DRE,
…recently contacted a representative of Gerald Patrick Hemming's
INTERPEN group, and said that the DRE desired to receive military
training at INTERPEN training camp at No Name Key, Florida. Hemming
agreed to accept a certain number of DRE members and provide them
with military training, which will start at some time in the near future.
In March 1962 the DRE announced that it was quitting the Cuban Revolutionary
Council. Gaeton Fonzi wrote: In April 1963, President John F. Kennedy prohibited DRE
and Cuban Revolutionary Council exile leaders from leaving the United States. In New
Orleans, Carlos Bringuier, the DRE leader, proclaimed his group “would continue efforts
to liberate Cuba despite United States action to stop raids originating from U.S. soil.”
There is no evidence that puts Bringuier in Dallas on November 22, 1963 but
there is no doubt that he was aware Oswald was no a genuine leftist, but an operation.
Not a chance in the world that Carlos will ever tell the truth about The Big Event. Carlos
fought against Batista in the DRE in Havana and he is a Cuban loyalist however he is a
traitor to the country that gave him sanctuary after Fidel took power in Cuba, the USA.
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Flyleaf 3 contained the notation "Free F 12:00." - a Rowena W. Freefield lived in
Dallas, Texas and was an analyst for Texas Instruments. When Rowena W. Freefield
was contacted in April 1993 she stated she had no first-hand knowledge of Oswald. But
Oswald left a space between the e and the F which he capitalized. Could this be a
reference to the Free Cuba Units?
The anti-Castro student group the DRE, whose address was in Oswald’s address
book, was also known as the Free Cuba Units. Claire Booth Luce reported that a
member of the DRE said this:
[On the night of November 22, 1963] my maid came and said Julio
Fernandez (one of the young Cubans, can't remember if that was his
name) called, very urgent. He had to talk to you about the assassination of
the President. He was calling from New Orleans. He said, 'I was with your
boat crew.' Said, 'Mrs. Luce, I must tell you something of tremendous
importance. When the Bay of Pigs was over, government people came
down to Miami and told us all we had had it as far as liberating Cuba. That
we must disperse (you know they tried to break the Free Cuba Units in
Miami).' He said 'I and these two fellows who were his pals, one a lawyer,
one a doctor, came to New Orleans and opened a Free Cuba cell. We
recruited, looked for people who would still work with us. Still determined
to free Cuba although told to get out of Miami.' He said 'This fellow Oswald
came into our cell, and said he wanted to join. Said he had tried to be a
communist, had become disillusioned. Said he could shoot Castro for us.
Claimed to be the greatest shot in the world with a telescopic lens. We
looked into him. He didn't have a dime. No money at all.
We thought he was a crackpot. We thought also he might be a Soviet
agent. So we just babied him along, and dropped him. Then we decided to
follow him. He had the communist cell. We penetrated his cell, and took a
tape recorder with us. He would get up there and say he could shoot
anyone, including the Navy Secretary. We thought he was a little mad.
Then he suddenly seemed to have a little money. We were interested
because we thought his communist cell was getting some money. He kept
going to Mexico City. He came back from Mexico City and went to Dallas.
He said 'We have a tape recording of the things he said in that cell. We
also have some photographs of him passing out communist handbills on
the street. I'm telling you all things, because I think he is a Cuban agent,
and he shot the President at Castro's instigation. What shall I do with the
information?' "I said 'What you do is call the FBI at once. Don't waste a
minute. Go right in and call up the FBI. Then in San Francisco with my
husband, when Garrison in New Orleans suddenly hits the headlines by
saying there was a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy. But didn't say
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who. Then I began for the first time to recall that night and things told to
me. 105
Could “Free” stand for the Free Cuba Unit and F stand for Julio Fernandez? The
FBI reported:
Dr. Guillermo Belt, the former Cuban Ambassador to the United States
from 1945 to 1947 advised the Washington Field Office of the FBI on
November 26, 1963, that he had received a call from Jose Antonio Lanusa
November 25, 1963 last, in connection Subject. Lanusa advised Oswald
appeared in Miami one or two months ago and attempted to infiltrate anti-
Castro organization DRE. Subject stated he could train DRE members in
guerrilla warfare to be used against Castro. Subject later observed in New
Orleans passing out Communist literature and therefore labeled
Communist and Castro supporter. DRE had nothing further to do with
Subject. 106
Jose Antonio Lanusa later retracted his statement that linked Oswald to Castro.
Lanusa was Julio Fernandez. Lanusa and Oswald met up at noon somewhere in New
Orleans, Miami or Dallas.
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117 Camp Street was the address of a clothing-rental store owned by Orlando
Piedra. Orlando Piedra had been Chief of the Investigations Bureau of the Cuban
National Police until January 1, 1959. Piedra worked closely with the crime syndicate
and the CIA. He had monitored the activities of Fidel Castro when Fidel Castro trained
anti-Batista troops in Mexico. Piedra was involved in the kidnapping of Fidel Castro's
son, and used a Mexican drug trafficker to kidnap a chief supporter of Fidel Castro in
Mexico. The FBI reported: "Orlando Piedra enjoys the distinction of being considered by
the Castro regime as one of the principal war criminals in the United States." The CIA:
"AMOT Report DD 1836 of April 20, 1966 states Orlando Piedra...is one of the main
organizers and exponents of political propaganda in favor of Batista; close to him and
enjoying his trust.” Orlando Piedra was associated with Enrique Fernandez Parajon, the
former Chief of Batista's Secret Police, and he was a friend of Bringuier and Sergio
Arcacha Smith. On December 20, 1963 FBI SAC James J. O'Conner questioned Piedra
about his connection to Oswald:
Orlando Piedra, former Chief of the Bureau of Investigations of the Cuban
National Police until the overthrow of the Batista regime was located at
Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He stated he was visiting relatives and would
return to his residence in New Orleans about January 1, 1964. It was
explained to Mr. Piedra that Oswald’s personal effects contained a listing
of Cuban exile stores at various addresses in New Orleans, Louisiana,
including one such store at 117 Camp Street in New Orleans. Mr. Piedra
stated that he had been a partner in a store at that address called the
Hispanic American Discount House, Inc. which was opened in January
1963. He said that in April or May 1963, he sold his interest to his partner,
Joseph B. Namer, who he stated is a United States citizen who had been
born in Cuba. He said that Mr. Namer subsequently closed down the store
about October 1963. Mr. Piedra stated that he himself had never had any
personal contact with Oswald. He suggested Oswald probably listed the
locations of various Cuban exile stores in New Orleans as part of his
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activity directed against anti-Castro Cuban exiles. 107
Hemming said he knew Orlando Piedra in the early 1960's and advised:
Piedra was a Godfather kind of guy who had a private detective agency.
Very personable. He belonged to the Junta of National Liberation. William
K. Harvey's people supported it. William K. Harvey was setting up this
team of people, which a lot of people call OPERATION FORTY, which is
an erroneous name. They were setting up this team of people to eliminate
Fidelista without Fidel, like Manuel Ray. They were to eliminate everybody
in place, if accidentally the former Castro people got into power militarily,
or civilly, during the anarchy that would follow a victory over Castro. Frank
Sturgis was kept on tap to blow a few fucking people away. It was an
extension of ZR RIFLE. Ethnic cleansing of the new government after the
Bay of Pigs. It would be impossible for him to get Piedra's address. Piedra
did not advertise where the fuck he was. He was in business but didn't
advertise where the fuck he was. If you wanted to see him, you had to
make an appointment, and be escorted there. There was kidnap money
out on him. Juan Orta set up a couple of operations to snatch all these
people. These people were fucking war criminals. So how would an
Oswald come up with this? Somebody in the government had to give it to
him.
During a radio debate with William Stuckey (whose name was also found in the
address book) and Bringuier, Oswald observed that "criminals," who are wanted in
Cuba for crimes against humanity, are now engaged in day-to-day trade with the people
of New Orleans. Was he referring to Orlando Piedra? Had they really been criminals in
Cuba, or did Oswald mean “war criminal”? In 1967, Arnesto N. Rodriguez Sr., one of
DeBrueys snitches, suggested that the District Attorney’s office in New Orleans contact
Orlando Piedra about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, since Orlando
Piedra possessed files on exiles suspected of being double-agents. On May 8, 1973,
the name of Orlando Piedra appeared on a document titled "Memo from DDO from
James Flannery, Subject; Media Inquiry to Cuban Exile Journalist in Miami regarding:
Cuban Involvement in Watergate Case and Attitudes in Miami Area w/bio summaries."
This CIA Index Card indicates all these men were mentioned in a particular document:
Sidney Gottlieb, Renaldo Pico, Orlando Piedra, Rolando Masferrer,
Joaquin Pedromo Sanjenis, Juan A. Paula, Edgardo Buttari, Charles
'Bebe' Reboso, James Flannery
Dr. Sidney Gottlieb developed poisons for CIA that were to be used to kill Castro.
In April 1963 Renaldo Pico was part of a movement within Brigade 2506 to request the
flag that Manuel Artime had presented to the President Kennedy in December 1962 be
returned to the Brigade as Kennedy had not done anything significant to fulfill his
promise to return the flag to the Brigade in a free Cuba. Orlando Piedra, Rolando
Masferrer, Joaquin Pedromo Sanjenis were hardcore Batistianos. Juan Paula was in
Cuba in 1961 and was mentioned in Hunt's book, Give Us This Day as an accountant
who served as treasurer of the FRD. In April 1963 ex-Batista Minister of Commerce
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Edgardo Buttari was a Director of Social Welfare of the Association of the Veterans of
the Bay of Pigs Brigade 2506 and Bernardo De Torres was Vice Director of Military
Affairs. Buttari was a close associate of Bebe Roboso, who was close to Nixon. CIA
officer James E. Flannery was in Bolivia from 1961 to 1964, Mexico from 1964 to 1965,
where he served under Winston Scott. Flannery served in the Dominican Republic from
1965 to 1969. He was a colleague of David Phillips.
In September 1959 the FBI reported: “Will verify reported financial interest of
PIEDRA in Biltmore Terrace Hotel, Miami Beach, and association with NORMAN
ROTHMAN, described as Manager of that hotel.” 108
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD April 25, 1975
SUBJECT: ROTHMAN, NORMAN
SF# 354 878
201-272262
4. In September 1960, Norman Rothman, free on a $50,000 bond from a
conviction of theft and transportation of firearms, approached Frank
Sturgis, SF #353 459, and offered to obtain from Cuba two MIG aircraft.
Norman Rothman claimed he could induce the defection of a Czech pilot
and a Cuban who would fly the MIGs to the U.S. At the time, it was
believed that Rothman was either offering assistance to the U.S.
Government for a profit motive, or perhaps in an effort to reduce, or
alleviate, his sentences under federal convictions. It was not clear from file
information what, if any, further contact with Rothman took place regarding
the proposal outlined above." 109
RONNIE CAIRE: 107 CAMP (ENCODED)
Former OSS man and early Warren Commission critic Harold Weisberg cracked
a very important part of the Oswald Code. 107 Decatur was Carlos Bringuier’s store. If
these numbers were interchanged with the address of Piedra’s store (107 Camp), they
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became 107 Camp Street, the office of Ronnie Caire, and 117 Decatur, the Habana Bar
owned by Orestes Pena. There was no such number as 1032 Canal: it was an empty lot
at this time which is interesting in itself. Was this the site of a meet or of a dead drop
between Oswald and those who were manipulating him? The FBI listed Caire’s address
in 1963 as 704 Cigali Building, New Orleans 12, Louisiana. 110 The Cigali building was
located at 107 Camp Street. As demonstrated by the document below generated on
10.19.70, 704 Cigali Building and 544 Camp Street, the Balter Building, were linked via
Ronnie Caire, who acted as a P. R. man for the Cuban Revolutionary Council when
Sergio Arcacha Smith was its New Orleans head:
Oswald used 544 Camp Street as the address for his bogus Fair Play for Cuba
Committee until he thought the better of it due to all the anti-Castro groups having
offices there.
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The FBI had no interest in decoding Oswald’s address book as this might
contradict the lone assassin theory of the Warren Commission. When the addresses
were reversed they were those of people who had stated that they had come into
contact with Oswald. Encoded information had been decoded in a plausible fashion. In
1963 Oswald visited Ronnie Caire. After the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy, Ronnie Caire apprised the Secret Service during the afternoon of December
2, 1963, that he
Seemed to recall Oswald applying for a job with his agency while he had
offices at 704-5 Cigali Building, corner Camp and Canal Streets, New
Orleans. He said this was several months ago and about the time Oswald
had a debate over radio station WDSU, in August 1963. He said this was
the only time he had seen Oswald, and for that reason, he could not be
positive in identifying Oswald's photograph that he was the man he had in
mind. 111
The FBI had no traces on Caire in connection with the assassination of President
Kennedy. In 1967, Caire told an investigator for the New Orleans District Attorney's
office,
Oswald once applied for a job with me, he came in one day and said he
had experience in public relations and wanted a job. Oswald did not fill out
an application, and I never saw him again.
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Ronnie Caire was interviewed by telephone in 1978:
Q. Did Oswald ever approach you for a job?
A. Gee, that's a long time ago. I don't remember too much about it. Seems to me he
came by once.
Q. You handled publicity for the Cuban Revolutionary Council?
A. Yeah, we handled the fund drive for them.
Q. Did you know Howard Hunt back then or any of the other Watergate guys?
A. No I didn't. I was just a speck on the wall. He was on the national level.
Q. Why did the CIA approach you in the guise of the Cuban Revolutionary Council?
A. Because I had such good local political connections. I was known as an expert in
political affairs. Got them blue chip names. Just another money raising job. I raised it for
the Republicans and Democrats and National State's Rights Party. I said the account
was making nigger shit and I dropped it.
Q. Do you remember what happened when Oswald came to see you?
A. No man, I'm not even sure it was Oswald, and that's the truth, I told them that. At the
time there were so many guys coming in looking for jobs. As a matter of fact, the guy I
remember didn't even come to see me, he came to see my former partner. They were
coming in at that time two or three a week. Truthfully, I sat down with everyone in the
office and tried to remember if we had seen Oswald and we weren't really sure. I had to
question some guy by the name of Oswald who applied for a job. Let me tell you how I
got into this. Sergio came to me and I checked the best I could like the FBI check that
you read to me. I'm in favor of anti-communist causes, and I checked the FBI and they
all said it was alright. Then I was in a room with a bunch of Cuban leaders and I realized
they were more interested in who was going to be the king when they got back, then in
overthrowing Castro. And I went ahead and carried out what obligations I had and I got
the hell out of it. Then one day I'm sitting in the office and in comes Sergio and says
he's been kicked out too. The last time I saw him was when he came in and tried to sell
me some Latin American P. R. accounts. And he introduced me to some dude named
Nestor Marcos Diaz [Marcos Diaz Lanz the brother of Pedro Diaz Lanz?] He said he
had a business in Mexico. I'll tell ya, I feel like a dinosaur. I was raised in the news
business. I got my lumps in the Huey Long days, got my head beat in...I was to appear
as a government witness in the (unintelligible) investigation State of Louisiana. I knew
Banister. Banister was a hot-pistoled cop.
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ORESTES PENA
117 DECATUR (ENCODED)
177 Decatur was the address of the Habana Bar owned by Orestes Pena 112 , an
amateur boxer, who doubled as the bouncer there. His address was encoded in
Oswald’s address book by a simple interchange of numbers. On December 5, 1963,
Carlos Bringuier informed the FBI that Orestes Pena had seen Oswald in his bar. After
the Big Event Orestes Pena told Carlos Bringuier that Oswald was with a Cuban
(Bringuier later identified him as a Mexican Communist the FBI wanted to question) and
said Oswald’s conversation was pro-Castro. When the waiter charged him 15 cents for
a glass of lemonade, Oswald remarked: “This man must be a former Cuban capitalist.”
Orestes Pena confirmed to the FBI that Oswald was in his bar and added he became so
intoxicated, he vomited. Orestes Pena’s brother, Ruperto Pena, said that two men
entered his bar and had a pro-Castro discussion. He turned over this information to
Carlos Bringuier, and to the FBI, and was later able to get the license plate numbers of
these men. Although Ruperto could not make a positive identification, Evaristo Gilberto
Rodriguez, a waiter at the Habana Bar, said one was Oswald. When Ruperto Pena
testified before the Warren Commission, he had been intimidated to the point where he
stated that his brother was not in New Orleans when this incident occurred, and that the
man was not Oswald. The Warren Commission noted the testimony of Habana Bar
bartender, and informant for S.A. DeBrueys, Evaristo Rodriguez, that he saw Oswald in
the Habana Bar sometime about August 9, 1963, in the company of a Latin-appearing
man. Rodriguez told the FBI that around 3:00 a.m. or 4:00 a.m. two men, one Oswald,
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came into the Havana Bar. Orestes Pena was questioned by the Warren Commission:
Liebler: Is this the story that you told to the FBI after the assassination, that you had
seen Oswald in the bar and Rodriguez has seen him in the bar?
Pena: More or less.
Liebler: When you talked to the FBI two weeks ago, did they ask you about this again?
Pena: Yes; they asked me about this more than a dozen times.
Liebler: They asked you more than a dozen times about this?
Pena: They come to my bar to ask me about this. They been calling me to come to the
FBI office. That’s why sometimes – one time I went down and got a lawyer. I don’t need
a lawyer about for this. I just tell you the truth.
Liebler: Did you tell Mr. Bringuier about having seen Oswald in the bar?
Pena: Yes; we was talking about it. You see I did like very very much Mr. Kennedy...So
I was hurt when he got killed. So when I saw the man there – I saw the man – so I went
around and told most of my customers that I saw Oswald came to my place.
Liebler: When you talked to the FBI on June 9, 1964, you told them, did you not, that
you had never told anybody that Oswald had been in the bar?
Pena: That I never told anybody?
Liebler: Yes.
Pena: That’s not true.
Liebler: Didn’t you tell that to the FBI?
Pena: I don’t think that so. That I never told anybody?
Liebler: Yes.
Pena: I didn’t told anybody before?
Liebler: I have a report before me, Mr. Pena, of an interview with you in the presence of
your attorney, Mr. Tamberella, which was made by Mr. DeBrueys and Mr. Wall. That
was in the FBI office on June 9, 1964, and on page two of this particular report, it says,
and I quote: “Orest Pena specifically stated that he never told anyone, including Carlos
Bringuier, that Oswald had been in the Habana Bar with a Mexican prior to the
assassination of President Kennedy. He also said he never heard his brother, Ruperto
Pena, say that Oswald had been in the bar with the Mexican. He also stated that he had
no information that the FBI was ever looking for a Mexican who had ever patronized the
bar.” Did you tell the FBI that?
Pena: I don’t think so.
Liebler: In fact, you did tell Bringuier that you saw Oswald in the bar?
Pena: When we were talking after the assassination, we were talking about it...After the
assassination, the FBI came and asked me so many times about the same thing,
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S.A. DeBrueys denied that Orestes Pena had been his informant. FBI records indicated
that Orestes Pena had, “during the years 1961 and 1962, furnished information to the
FBI Office New Orleans, concerning persons he claimed were pro-Castro in his
opinion.” During the early 1960’s Orestes Pena was a delegate of the Cuban
Revolutionary Front. When the Cuban Revolutionary Front opened its offices in the
Balter Building The New Orleans States Item did a story on it that included a
photograph of Orestes Pena and Sergio Arcacha Smith. Orestes Pena told the Warren
Commission:
Pena: You see – I started – like I told you when the organization moved to New Orleans
–
Liebler: This is the anti-Castro organization?
Pena: Yes. So I went down there and joined the organization. In 1959 when I went to
Cuba my mother told me how everything was going; so she says “Castro is even worse
than Batista.” So when I came back I joined the organization a little bit after that, the
organization here in New Orleans [the Cuban Revolutionary Front]. So I went and joined
them and started working for the organization collecting money at my place of business
and giving my own money for many things to the organization, you know a dollar, two
dollars...The FBI know very well because a person from the FBI was there all the time. I
don’t remember exactly the name of the organization right now, but the organization
was in the Balter Building, I think, in the second floor.
Liebler: Whatever the organizations name was, was it an anti-Castro organization?
Pena: It was in the Balter Building, the only one there. The chief or the boss of that
organization, who was in Miami was Barrona [Varona]. He was the boss of the
organization.
When Hunt was asked if he knew Orestes Pena, he replied: “Not to the best of my
knowledge. They may have known me in the 1960 to 1961 period under different
names, but those names are not familiar to me.” Hunt was unfamiliar with Cuban
Revolutionary Front delegates Arcacha Smith, Luis Rabel, and Frank Bartes, nor had he
heard of the Cuban Revolutionary Front support group, Friends of Democratic Cuba. As
far as Hunt was concerned, the New Orleans Chapter of the Cuban Revolutionary Front
did not exist since if Hunt linked himself to any of its members, he would have been
linking himself to Oswald. Orestes Pena resigned from the Cuban Revolutionary Front
because of a dispute involving Sergio Arcacha Smith. According to Orestes Pena, S.A.
DeBrueys accused him of complicity in Sergio Arcacha Smith’s theft of the funds of the
Crusade to Free Cuba, and the FBI questioned him about this: “The FBI asked me
about a man that had been in the group before, if I knew his way of signing.” Orestes
Pena participated in an anti-Castro operation in Cuba: “I went to Cuba – I don’t know, I
went to have an operation. Yes.” Initially, Orestes Pena’s story about Oswald having a
meeting in the Habana Bar could be twisted around and be incorporated into Bringuier’s
disinformation campaign to link Oswald with a Castro double-agent in New Orleans. But
the FBI was intent on proving that Oswald had no associates in New Orleans and
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pressured Orestes Pena to change his testimony by accusing him of being a
Communist. Investigation in this case was instituted on the basis of information received
from a source who related that Pena had stated he was going to Europe on May 1,
1964, and would visit Moscow. Through investigation, it was later determined that the
person who had originally been told by Pena that Pena was going to Europe and would
also visit Moscow was Guillermo Fiallo, New Orleans, who admits his past connection
with the Batista regime in Cuba and who is openly anti-Castro.
S.A. DeBrueys conducted an intensive investigation of Orestes Pena from April 1964 to
July 1964.
On June 22, 1964, Carlos Bringuier, who runs a clothing business at 107
Decatur Street, just two doors from the Habana Bar, advised that Pena is
a complicated individual who has all sorts of complexes, however,
Bringuier claims that Pena is definitely anti-Castro and has never
defended Castro. He stated Pena would argue with Bringuier in defense of
President Kennedy, but would never argue in favor of Castro.
After the Feds had badgered the life out of him, on June 9, 1964, Orestes Pena
went to the New Orleans FBI with his attorney, and said he was on vacation when the
alleged Oswald incident occurred but when he testified before the Warren Commission
he went back to his story that Oswald was at the Habana bar. This displeased the
Warren Commission. Before Pena testified, Wesley Liebler had warned him that he
might have to reveal that Mrs. Pena was involved with drugs in the fall of 1963. As it
was, Wesley Liebler never brought this up but Wesley Liebler was more interested in
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Orestes Pena’s trip to Mexico in May 1963, and the fact that he applied for a passport
on the same day Oswald did, then his insights into Carlos Bringuier. He requested
Orestes Pena let the Warren Commission photograph his passport, so it could be sure
he did not visit Moscow. Orestes Pena believed the assassination could have been
prevented if the FBI had tracked down the printer who ran off Oswald’s Fair Play for
Cuba Committee leaflets. This did not make sense unless Cuban exiles were behind
their having been printed. Pena was trying to tell the Warren Commission that Bringuier
was part of the conspiracy and he stated “Bringuier know Oswald very well.” Orestes
Pena told the Warren Commission that when Bringuier was arrested for attacking
Oswald, it was he, Pena, who put up his bail.
Pena: When I finish with him – you are from Washington. I tell you Bringuier hates the
United States as much as he hates Russia.
Liebler: Bringuier does?
Pena: The day Mr. Kennedy put a blockade in Cuba – you remember about a year and
a half more or less – Mr. Carlos Bringuier was telling me – excuse me – (obscenity) in
Spanish more than a dozen times, and I couldn’t stand that. I have never done anything
against the United States. I said, “No.” Anyway, anything you want to ask me and you
can asked Mr. Bringuier is that true or not, and let him and me take a lie detector test to
see who is right on it.
Liebler: Why do you say that Mr. Bringuier hates the United States more than he does
Russia?
Pena: Because he does as much.
Liebler: Why does he dislike the United States? Has he ever told you?
Pena: No; but the way he talks the United States didn’t help to overthrow Castro, and he
can’t go over there and take over.
Liebler: Is that the basis for Mr. Bringuier’s bad feelings toward the United States, that
we haven’t done anything to overcome the Castro regime?
Pena: Well the way he talks to me he hates the United States as much as he hates
Russia. That’s what I told you, that’s what he said more than a dozen times. And if that
is not true let him take a lie detector test and find out whether that is true or not.
Pena parted ways with Bringuier because of Bringuier’s involvement in the Kennedy
assassination: “Bringuier don’t do many things that he will tell you. He don’t like
America.” In 1975 Orestes Pena told Dan Rather of CBS-TV News that he had seen
Oswald and S.A. DeBrueys together in the summer of 1963. This explained why
DeBrueys had threatened Orestes Pena. Oswald’s address book provided evidence
S.A. DeBrueys was in contact with him. DeBrueys summarized his testimony before
Senator Schweiker’s Senate Select Intelligence Committee:
It was then asked why Orestes Pena would have made a statement that
he had seen me with Oswald. I reminded the Committee that it was my
belief that such a statement by Pena was not supplied by him to the
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Warren Commission. In fact, I suspect that the first time he made such a
statement was not more than a year or two ago. I then said that the
accusation was an unmitigated and bare-faced lie...Orestes Pena was an
undesirable individual; a pervert who allegedly engaged in unnatural acts
with females, and who had the reputation of often bullying some seamen
who patronized his bar. These same sources, whose identities I can no
longer recall, had also commented that he had beaten some of his
clientele with a pool stick, and that he felt that he could get away with
almost any activity, as he had contacts within the New Orleans Police
Department...he was trying to gain an aura of importance and
respectability by becoming an officer in one or more of the anti-Castro
organizations in the New Orleans area. 113
On December 8, 1975, S.A. DeBrueys cited:
The outright lie uttered by Orestes Pena on the CBS documentary that he
saw me in company with Oswald, form, in my opinion, the basis for the
growing suspicion that Oswald was an FBI informant...If such allegations
are permitted to persist without strong refutation, they will in time acquire
an aura of truth and, as such, grossly and adversely affect that Bureau's
reputation and provide a false basis for historical evaluation of various
Government institutions. In short, it could seriously damage our national
prestige. It would be well for the Bureau to insure that CBS provides, as
promised by their representative Bruce Hull [Bruce Hall] a full copy of the
transcript of Hull's interview of me for the CBS Documentary.
The HSCA called Orestes Pena to testify. He reiterated to the Committee that he
had seen Oswald and S.A. DeBrueys together several times: “Pena maintained that a
few days before he went to testify before the Warren Commission, S.A. DeBrueys
threatened him physically and warned him not to make any accusations against him.
Orestes Pena stated that Wesley Liebler did not cooperate with him, and did not let him
talk freely, so he decided to keep his mouth shut.” The CIA claimed to have no
"pertinent identifiable information" on Orestes Pena.” As of 1993 Orestes Pena, who
suffered a stroke, lived in Florida. Oswald’s Address book confirmed Pena was telling
the truth as not only did his encoded address appear in but his name did too.
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WARREN CLAUDE DE BRUEYS 114 was an FBI agent whose duties included
deciphering Japanese codes in World War II and compiling the first report on President
John F. Kennedy's assassination, died Dec. 21 2013 in Mandeville. He was 92.
DeBrueys enlisted in the Navy and served in the war's Pacific Theater, where he
worked with the Radio Intelligence Unit deciphering Japanese codes. He could figure of
the Japanese code but not Oswald's? His FBI career began during World War II, when
he worked undercover with the FBI in Mexico City. He worked in the bureau's Newark,
N.J., and New Orleans offices and had special assignments in Miami, the Dominican
Republic and Dallas. In addition to working in several divisions at FBI headquarters,
DeBrueys was an assistant legal attaché at U.S. embassies in Mexico City and Buenos
Aires, and legal attaché at embassies in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, Brazil. He also
worked in San Juan, Puerto Rico and El Paso, Texas, before retiring from the bureau in
1977.
His name appears in Oswald's address book. He was clearly lying about not
knowing Oswald. Pena was telling the truth. The name "Warrin DeBryuelu" was in
Oswald's address book, disguised as two Russian words. Angleton reported, Page 21:
Bereshchagin (possibly “Vereshchagin”). (Translator’s Note: Possibly a man’s surname)
Page 19: Spaseeba (means) Thank You. Following the letters “KUTV” [a Dallas
television station] are words of a popular Russian song: Polyushko Pole Little Field.”
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DeBrueys was sent a copy of this entry in July 1993. He did not deny that this was his
name and he stated:
I find it interesting, but I think obviously he put my name in his address
book because I had investigated him prior to the assassination. I talked to
the landlord, I guess, I assume, I have no idea, there was a multitude of
ways he could have gotten my name. I talked to his landlady on Magazine
Street. The idea was to confirm if he had any employment that placed him
in contact with sensitive material, as far as national security was
concerned. And, of course, I gave her my name, and showed her
identification.
The HSCA questioned Mrs. Jesse Garner, Oswald’s landlady at Magazine Street
in New Orleans. She said that FBI agent Milton Cage came to her home and questioned
her about Oswald.
Q. Could that have been Milton Kaack?
A. Could have been...It was about a month after Lee moved in.
Mrs. Jesse Garner told the United States Secret Service that "an FBI Agent,
believed to be Milton Kooch or Koach, was investigating Oswald during the time he lived
at 4907 Magazine Street, that he had interviewed her four or five times about Oswald."
She also said that a Cuban male had visited Oswald and stated that
Oswald had been visited on about three occasions, always late in the evening or
about dark, by a middle aged grey haired man who was rather thin, not very tall and had
a receding hair line; very fair complexioned and a neat dresser. She stated that on one
occasion this man was accompanied by a woman. 115 DeBrueys was asked why Oswald
disguised his name as two Russian words rather than just writing it in as he had done
with Special Agent Hosty. He responded, "I have no idea. I got the impression he
fancied himself as a spook. I have no idea. I never met him ever, and to my knowledge,
I never spoke to him." DeBrueys claimed he came face to face with Oswald for the first
time on November 23, 1963. S.A. DeBrueys told Senator Schweiker's Subcommittee on
the Assassination of President Kennedy:
I was asked if I personally met Lee Harvey Oswald and my answer to that
question was a categorical 'No.' I stated that I had not knowingly spoken to
Lee Harvey Oswald by phone.
When DeBrueys testified before the HSCA, he was less certain about the FBI
connection to Oswald:
Oswald was never an asset. We did not use that term, at the time. It would
have been tantamount to saying he was an informant. He was never an
informant. I am disinclined to believe he was ever recorded as a source,
but that possibility exists, because a source of information can be almost
anybody. I would reiterate that he was not the type of person that would
initiate information flowing to us. He would be somebody who would be in
the area, somebody else who could tell us about what went on in the bar.
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S.A. Warren C. DeBrueys entered the FBI in August 1950 two years after CIA
was formed. As stated in his obituary his assignments included work in the Newark
Division, and work overseas. S.A. DeBrueys was used by the CIA when he served as
Legal Attaché at the United States Embassies in Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina. The
post of Legal Attaché in Latin and Central America had been co-opted by the CIA: when
Central Intelligence Group was formed on January 22, 1946, the FBI abruptly withdrew
its intelligence service from Latin America. This function was immediately taken over by
the Central Intelligence Group and the FBI Legal Attaches who remained were coopted.
Hunt: "South of the Rio Grande, CIA Station Chiefs were almost entirely former
FBI agents who had served in Latin America during the war." S.A. DeBrueys was
heavily involved in monitoring Cuban exiles after he returned to the United States and
worked closely with Howard Hunt as a member of PROJECT SEAL, the CIA’s attempt
at putting together a Cuban Government-in-exile. David Atlee Phillips, whose cryptonym
also appears in Oswald’s address book, was asked “Did you ever have occasion of
meeting FBI S.A. Warren DeBrueys?” He responded “Yes. I remember having been in
touch with him either...that name is very familiar. 116 I knew a lot of FBI people.”
DeBrueys told this researcher: “I knew David Phillips when I was undercover, and
assigned to the Dominican Republic revolution for about six months in Santo Domingo
and Dave was the CIA Station Chief. I don't recall that I contacted him subsequent to
that time. I think, maybe when I was in Brazil, he may have been there a short period of
time. I never thought of this before.” DeBrueys was the FBI Agent in charge of the preassassination
Oswald investigation in New Orleans. He never interviewed Oswald
because he believed that Oswald was a CIA operation connected to the Cuban
Revolutionary Council. “No action” was standard procedure when the FBI came across
what it believed to be a CIA Operation as evidenced by the document reprinted on the
next
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DeBrueys did his job so well that Oswald had to request a meeting with the FBI.
Oswald was interviewed by FBI S.A. John Lester Quigley on Saturday, August 10,
1963. Oswald claimed he received an honorable discharge from the Marines and, about
four months ago, he and his wife Marina “Prossa,” who he married in Fort Worth, moved
to New Orleans:
He says he does not consider the Fair Play for Cuba Committee to be
communist, or a communist-controlled, group. Oswald said that inquiry in
New Orleans developed the fact that there apparently was a New Orleans
Fair Play for Cuba Committee chapter, but he did not know any of the
members or where their offices were located. He said he sent a letter to
Fair Play for Cuba Committee headquarters...and told them he wished to
join this committee...During the latter part of May of this year he received a
membership card which bore a date of May 28, 1963, and was made out
in the name of Lee Harvey Oswald and was signed by V. T. Lee. A short
time thereafter, he said, he received in the mail a white card which
showed that he was made a member of the New Orleans chapter of the
Fair Play for Cuba Committee. This card was dated June 6, 1963. It was
signed A. J. Hidell and it bore in the lower right hand corner the number 33
which he said indicated membership number. [This also indicated that the
FPCC had at least 33 members] Oswald had in his possession both cards
and exhibited both of them. Since becoming a member of the national
committee, Oswald said he has been receiving the monthly circular of the
committee which is about seven pages in length. He claimed that he could
not recall the name of this publication.
Since receiving his membership card in the New Orleans chapter of the
committee he said that he had spoken with Hidell on the telephone on
several occasions. On these occasions, Hidell would discuss general
matters of mutual interest in connection with committee business and on
other occasions he would inform him of a scheduled meeting. He said he
never personally met Hidell, and he knows Hidell did have a telephone,
but it has now been discontinued. He claimed that he could not recall what
the number was.
Oswald said that the committee did not have any offices in New Orleans, and
whenever meetings were held, they were held in the residences of various members.
Oswald maintained that he had attended only two committee meetings, and at each of
the meetings there were about five different individuals. At each of these meetings the
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persons present were different. He did not know the last name of any of these
individuals, and claimed he was only introduced to them by first name. He maintained
that he could not recall any of the first names. From what he understands, there are no
regularly scheduled times for meetings, and the only way he knows about them is when
somebody gives him a call and tells him there will be a meeting. At these meetings he
said the general conversation deals with Cuba and the latest news on the internal affairs
of Cuba. Oswald admitted that on one occasion he held a committee meeting at his
home, but he declined to elaborate on how he got word to the various members that it
would be held. 117
S.A. Warren C. DeBrueys was in charge of investigating the Fair Play for Cuba
Committee and S.A. Quigley's report was turned over to him. The FBI had been unable
to locate a chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans, yet Oswald
could readily join this shadowy organization, which sporadically met in cells of five,
where no one knew anyone else's name. The organizer, A. J. Hidell, did not appear at
meetings, and could be reached only by telephone. This sounds more like a cell of
Communist Cuban spies yet Oswald claimed the FPCC was not Communist or
Communist controlled. Oswald had given S.A. John Quigley his true date of birth and
the address - 4907 Magazine Street. When DeBrueys received this report a check of
FBI records would immediately have indicated to him that Oswald was a defector, with a
dishonorable discharge from the Marines, who married a Russian woman. This would
have rendered him more suspicious of Oswald and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. A
shadowy organization of this nature had to be infiltrated by the FBI. Moreover, Oswald
said he was born in Cuba!! None-the-less, the FBI investigation of A. J. Hidell, the Fair
Play for Cuba Committee, and Oswald, was not ramped up because S.A. DeBrueys
knew that Oswald's Fair Play for Cuba Committee was a CIA Operation. Additionally,
S.A. DeBrueys had covert contact with Oswald. In 1978 S.A. DeBrueys was asked why
Oswald would ask to be interviewed by FBI agents.
He responded: "I mentioned that he may have been concerned about being in
custody of the local police and perhaps thought it would be safer if the 'Feds' were
aware of his being incarcerated." Oswald had not been contacted by the FBI since
August 1962, and he needed its attention to strengthen his bona fides, so he could
enter Cuba like other leaders of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee had. He was
determined to spark an investigation of the New Orleans Chapter of the Fair Play for
Cuba Committee; hoping word of it would reach the Headquarters of the New York Fair
Play for Cuba Committee, where it would be covertly transmitted to the Cuban
Government. One of DeBrueys informants, Frank Bartes, former leader of the Cuban
Revolutionary Council was also in Oswald’s address book as a semi-overt entry. In
1965 DeBrueys was dispatched to Santo Domingo where David Atlee Phillips called the
Dominican strongman General Elias Wessin y Wessin - "a completely patriotic, anticommunist,
atrocious man" and told him to get out of his own country. Hemming
advised:
We had a new Cuba being born in the Dominican Republic. Everybody
went there. Marcello went there. They were there to clean them people out
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- and they did. That was Murder Incorporated. They went down there, and
they took out everybody.
When Sturgis was asked if he knew DeBrueys he responded: "Possibly, you
know we're going over years." DeBrueys investigated and interviewed Sergio Arcacha,
who worked for Howard Hunt in JM/ARC in relation to the Frente Revolucionario
Democratico (FRD). When he inquired if the CIA still had an interest in the FRD he was
advised:
Mrs. Jane Roman, CIA, advised that her agency does not know status of FRD in
New Orleans. CIA no longer has any control over FRD and has (illegible) under
restrictions set up by State and Goodwin of White House. 10/18/61.
The CIA’s hands had been tied by the Kennedy Administration in regard to anti-
Castro operations after the Bay of Pigs and its efforts to form a new Government-inexile
had been stymied by the White House. There was a general consensus in the
intelligence community that John F. Kennedy had to go. Angleton knew about his
dropping acid and balling Mary Pinchot Meyers, Marilyn Monroe, Judith Campbell
Exner. Meyers and Monroe met mysterious deaths. But Angleton could have forgiven
this behavior had not Kennedy sabotaged the Bay of Pigs invasion which led to the
Cuban Missile Crisis which ended in a deal guaranteeing the territorial integrity of the
Castro regime in Cuba. So Gerry Hemming devised a plan that would terminate
Kennedy’s life and at the same time cause America to invade Fidel’s communist Cuba.
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FRANCISCO BARTES-CLARENS
FRANK BARTES (BARDES)
BAY OF PIGS CONNECTION: HEAD OF HUNT’S CUBAN
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The word “Bardes” appeared in Oswald’s address book, however after The Big
Event the FBI never questioned Frank Bartes, 118 head of the Cuban Revolutionary
Council in New Orleans, about this entry although they did question him about Oswald. I
asked DeBrueys if he had spoken to Frank Bartes about Oswald. He responded, "I don't
recall having questioned Frank Bartes. I remember talking to him on numerous
occasions, but I just don't specifically remember talking to him about that." Bartes name
did surface in an investigation of 544 Camp Street, an address that was found stamped
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What about Frank Bartes? Did he also have an office at 544 Camp Street? Frank
Bartes knew Hemming and his crew including Larry LaBorde and Howard Kenneth
Davis so his knowing Oswald came as no surprise. Francisco Bartes was the delegate
of the Cuban Revolutionary Council in New Orleans from November 1962 to 1964.
Howard Hunt, one of the death squad disguised as tramps, ran the CRC and FRD, two
governments in exile sponsored by CIA. On April 10, 1964, Bartes advised the FBI that
the New Orleans Chapter of the Cuban Revolutionary Council was inactive.
Bartes had been the president of a private railroad in pre-Castro Cuba. His firm,
which employed thousands of workers and had assets of $100 million, was nationalized
by Castro in 1960. When he came to the United States, he operated a New Orleans
Washeteria from 1961 to 1963. The CIA reported:
Subject's 201 file shows that on the basis of favorable information provided CIA by a
U.S. citizen and former employee of Frank Bartes, William C. Davis, Headquarters
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queried Havana about him. Havana requested a Provisional Operating Approval (POA)
for his use in JMATE on December 29, 1960. Whether any paramilitary or operational
use was made of Subject cannot be determined from the files listed above. (Comment:
It is requested that Western Hemisphere/Caribbean Operations Group answer this
question). The Provisional Operational Approval was cancelled on August 30, 1961 at
the request of WH/4 which has no further operational interest.
On May 8, 1961 the CIA Domestic Contacts Division reported:
Mr. Bartes said that there is some chemical the name of which he did not
know which can be added to the oil in diesel locomotive which will cause
the cylinders to freeze thereby paralyzing their movement. He said the
particular additive which he heard of was practically impossible to detect
and that therefore an examination of the oil in the locomotive would not
indicate sabotage. However, be that as it may, this matter never did come
to fruition and Bartes left Cuba on the day that diplomatic relations
between the United States and Cuba was broken. The Consolidated
Railways of Cuba has been intervened by the government and we
understand that in the process Mr. Bartes has lost in the neighborhood of
seven million dollars.
Hemming advised:
Bartes was a very distinguished guy, a close friend of Bill Pawley. He was
of Spanish descent, very patrician. This ain't no flat nosed beaner, tortilla
roller. This is a goddamn aristocrat. The guy is honorable.
A Counter-Intelligence Research & Analysis memorandum stated: "On June 25, 1962,
Lawrence La Borde, Hemming, Howard K. Davis paid a visit to Frank Bartes in New
Orleans and reached an agreement to train anti-Castro Cubans." A memorandum from
the Chief of the New Orleans Domestic Contacts Division Office, Subject, "Proposal
Made to New Orleans Refugee Group for the Military Training of a Refugee Group in
the State of Louisiana," stated:
1. On Thursday, June 28, 1962, Cuban Revolutionary Council Delegate among the
Cuban refugees, Frank Bartes, spoke with Lloyd Ray, with whom he is on friendly terms
and (illegible) he could give us some interesting information. The information he gave us
is certainly not foreign positive intelligence but it may be of some interest to the
Counter-Intelligence Staff.
2. Bartes said that on Monday, June 25, 1962, he had been contacted by three U.S.
citizens named Larry La Borde, Hemming and Howard K. Davis. Bartes says that he
had met La Borde some time ago in Miami. At any rate, these three people told Bartes
and another Cuban refugee here in New Orleans at a meeting held in Bartes house that
they were anxious to begin training of a group of Cuban refugees in the New Orleans
area. They would train them as guerilla fighters and as demolition experts with the idea
of infiltrating into Cuba.
3. Bartes says that he and another Cuban refugee from New Orleans went to Miami a
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month or so ago and at that time they met La Borde and La Borde had told them that he
was interested in working with the Cuban refugees and that he had been previously
been connected with a training camp in the Everglades and that camp was abandoned
because of fires in the Everglades.
4. When Bartes returned to New Orleans, according to him, he called the local FBI
office and asked them, if he could, in his words, “clear” La Borde. The Bureau told him
that it could not give him an official clearance, they would look into the situation and
contact (illegible) would contact Mr. Bartes and Mr. Rabel, who is the nominal head of
the Cuban movement in New Orleans.
5. Bartes says some days later the FBI contacted Luis Rabel and told him as far as La
Borde was concerned, off [sic]. Curiously enough, both Bartes and Rabel took this to
mean the FBI clearance of La Borde, so when La Borde and the other contacted Rabel
and Bartes in New Orleans, they had no hesitancy in working with them.
6. We, of course, told Bartes that all of this was out of the question and we had
absolutely nothing to do with such matters and could not offer any advice which he
seemed to be asking for. He said, however, that the (illegible) was giving us this
information was that these men (text covered) that the CIA is doing nothing and is
preventing other people (text covered) that they are anxious to do something to help the
Cuban (text covered). And Bartes said that since he had furnished us with information
(text covered) thought that we should know about the present situation.
7. The three men gave to Bartes the documents which (text covered) which is a
clipping, or alleged clipping from the Denver Post of Sunday June 3, 1962, which
castigates CIA and Dr. Miro Cardona, the other document which is undated, and which
is signed by Luis del Nodal Vega who styles himself Military Coordinator MR 30 11,
Gerald Patrick Hemming Jr., G/W Instructor for INTERPEN and Howard K. Davis, G/W
Instructor for INTERPEN, and is approved by Carlos Rodriguez Quesada, National
Coordinator for MR 30 11, Arturo Gonzales Gonzalez MR 30 11, Dr. Odoardo Fonseca,
M.D. MR 30 11. Bartes was also told by Hemming and (text covered) this document had
been presented to the CIA in Miami last year but that (text covered) come of it.
8. As we said above, we told Bartes that while we would be glad to have copies of any
of the documents which he had, we could not and would not advise him in any manner,
shape or form in connection with any such operation. He seemed to understand that we
could not help him and when he left he said that he would tell the three men, La Borde,
Hemming and Davis, that he could not go along with them.
9. While Bartes did not tell us this, we did ascertain from a source who is a close friend
of Bartes that he had seen Bartes with the men described above, and they looked like a
bunch of thugs. He also said that Bartes had told him confidentially that he was dealing
with these people as a representative of the New Orleans refugee organization but he
did not give him any details. He did tell the other men, however, that these men were
armed and therefore potentially dangerous. We pass this information on for what it is
worth.
The CIA stated "Bartes reached an agreement with La Borde who, he said, was
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anti-CIA. Frank Bartes told an investigator for Jim Garrison that:
…when he took over the Cuban Revolutionary Council in November 1962
membership lists had been prepared for the New Orleans Division and
that these membership lists remained essentially the same for the New
Orleans area. During the period of his administration Mr. Bartes had two
informal meetings of the Council at his home and the persons he
remembers as attending these meetings at his home are indicated by a
check mark next to their name on Attachment No.
3. According to Mr. Bartes, Mr. Lawrence La Borde of this city would occasionally come
to the meetings of the Revolutionary Council, but Mr. Bartes does not recall having Mr.
La Borde in his home at any time to attend a meeting of the Council. Mr. Bartes recalls
that Mr. La Borde introduced him to Jerry Patrick Hemming and to Howard Davis in late
1962 but he does not recall whether La Borde brought these two men to his home for
the introduction, or whether the introduction was made elsewhere. He does recall,
however, that on one occasion Jerry Patrick Hemming and Howard Davis came to his
(Bartes) residence to try to obtain funds for a training camp in the Covington area, and
to locate a site for the training camp. Mr. Bartes was not able to assist in obtaining funds
for this project, but states that he did fly over the Covington area with Hemming and
Davis in an attempt to locate a suitable training area in early 1963 in an aircraft rented
from the Pan-Air Corporation located at the New Orleans Lakefront Airport. He recalls
that Howard Davis piloted the aircraft and that the conversation indicated that the
training area, if one could be located, would be used to train a team of men to blow up
the Shell Oil Refinery in Havana Harbor. Bartes expected that his operation had the
sanction and support of our State Department and/or the CIA but later learned, through
his superiors in Miami, that is was a private project of Hemming and Davis and the end
result was that it was not given the support of the Cuban Revolutionary Council.
These names were on attachment No. 3: Carlos Bringuier, Arnesto Napoleon
Rodriguez, Manuel Gil and Orestes Pena. Frank Bartes told the HSCA: "Tony Varona
was especially leery of the plan, also news reports of the camp contributed to the
rejection of the idea." When questioned in Hunt v. Weberman, Hunt, of course, denied
knowing Frank Bartes. In June 1993 Howard K. Davis recalled:
We did not establish a training camp there, but someone else did. The
only reason it wasn't established was because the guy who took us to
Louisiana was a CIA boat captain [Larry La Borde] down in the Florida
area. After we had made arrangements and had done some preliminary
work, he went to the newspapers and all of a sudden it was in the front
page of the New Orleans newspapers. And Bill Stuckey had a big story
about how we were seen going up the Mississippi River in a PT boat.
None of this was true.
During the staged incident with Bringuier in August 1963, Oswald encountered
Frank Bartes. After Bringuier and Oswald were arrested in the street scuffle, Frank
Bartes appeared in court with Bringuier on August 12, 1963. During the hearing, Oswald
sat in the section of the courtroom reserved for "Negroes." According to Frank Bartes,
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the news media surrounded Oswald hoping for a statement after the bail hearing. Frank
Bartes then engaged in an argument with Oswald and the news media. Frank Bartes
claimed he also spoke to an FBI agent that day and warned that Oswald was potentially
dangerous. When Frank Bartes was questioned by S.A. Lester Quigley on September
10, 1963, he responded that Oswald was unknown to him: "Frank Bartes, 1608 Mason
Smith Avenue, New Orleans, who is a delegate of the Cuban Revolutionary Council in
New Orleans advised on September 10, 1963, that Oswald was unknown to him." On
September 23, 1963, the CIA received a copy of this FBI report. When Bringuier was
asked whether Frank Bartes was at Oswald's hearing, he stated: "I believe that Frank
Bartes was at the trial. I'm not sure." Bringuier was asked why Frank Bartes had lied to
S.A. Quigley about Oswald:
Sir, you have to ask that to Mr. Frank Bartes. But I told you I am used to
people misquoting my words, and now you will probably do the same
thing. I am used to that. But I didn't say to you that Bartes met Oswald. I
have never said that to you. If you are taping this conversation, I want that
to be very clear. I have never said that, and I am not giving you
authorization to tape this, but if Bartes met Oswald or not I don't know. I
don't remember if Bartes was at the trial.
Frank Bartes made a speech in May 1963 in which he accused the American
Government of selling out the Cubans. On June 14, 1963, Bartes told the FBI in New
Orleans that
Local Cuban exiles in New Orleans all feel frustrated in their desire to
effectively oppose the Cuban Government of Castro. While they in no way
want to engage in any activity against Castro contrary to the laws of the
United States, they feel that ultimately decisive action against Castro will,
of necessity, have to be taken by the United States Government.
Frank Bartes wrote to President Kennedy in October 1963 communicating that,
"Cubans have been restrained in their fight for freedom." On November 22, 1963, Frank
Bartes prepared a one-page statement on behalf of the New Orleans Cuban
Revolutionary Council which began:
We have felt the death of your President as if it had been ours, even if in
its political aspect we had difference of opinion caused by soft hand policy
and indecision, whether or not apparent, by the U.S. Government...the
Kennedy assassination, at the hands of a man whose background was
Marxist and pro-Castro is the unquestionable proof that a “Second Pearl
Harbor” had been committed in a cunning and infamous way on American
soil...
Frank Bartes 1977:
Q. Did you know Hemming?
A. This one in particular I did because he came in advance and visited me in Cuba -
Jerry Patrick. Whenever we talked it was related to things we were going to do to help
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the Cubans...but I have never been involved in any landing in Cuba with him.
Q. Hemming said this had to do with a plot against John Kennedy.
A. No sir. Don't quote me because I will deny it. Nobody has talked to me about nothing
in reference to President Kennedy, until after he was shot.
In 1965 Frank Bartes signed up as a mercenary in the CIA-funded Congolese air
force. He served for two and a half months. Bartes told New Orleans Domestic Contacts
Division Chief, Lloyd A. Ray, he was sponsored by "Colonel (deleted) and a Mr.
(deleted). I strongly suspect of course, that this was an Agency operation."
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Oswald, Hemming, Bartes, the CRC, Hunt, CIA all mixed up together. Bartes
wanted his railroad back and hated Kennedy for not overthrowing Castro – he made
that clear. He knew about The Big Event before it happened.
William Kirk Stuckey, 119 born in 1932, received a B.S. degree in journalism from
Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and spent two years in the Marines. After
returning from a Latin American trip Stuckey stated he "went into the newspaper
business...The New Orleans States-Item made me a columnist. This was in February
1962 when I started my column, and this extended on to April 1963...New Orleans and
the Americas. After I left the paper, doing public relations, I acquired a radio
program...Latin Listening Post [on an NBC station down here]."
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William Stuckey knew Hemming, Sturgis, Bringuier and Oswald. William Stuckey
did a feature story on Hemming and INTERPEN for the July 21, 1962, New Orleans
States-Item, which read:
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NEW ORLEANS AND THE AMERICAS:
ADVENTURER WORKS HARD TO ESTABLISH ANTI-CASTRO
BASE NEAR COVINGTON
By BILL STUCKEY
Local Cubans and a shadowy American adventurer have been working
feverishly - but unsuccessfully - for over a month to set up an anti-Castro
guerilla training camp base near Covington. The American soldier-offortune,
The States-Item learned, is Gerald Patrick Hemming. He claims to
be an ex-Marine. Patrick first popped into the news last summer when
Miami newspapers found he was training anti-Castro guerillas in the
Everglades. He called his band the Intercontinental Penetration Force.
Both he and INTERPEN however, dropped out of sight last fall after the
FBI began checking to see if he was violating U.S. neutrality laws.
Last February, Patrick showed up in New Orleans, apparently at the
invitation of local Cuban Revolutionary Council leaders and other Cubans
who wanted to take direct action against Castro. With the help of
anonymous U.S. patrons, the Cubans began supplying Patrick with
machine guns, explosives and other military supplies. Patrick made
regular trips here, slipping in and out of the port secretly in a modern, wellequipped
PT boat.
Last spring, another anonymous U.S. patron offered Patrick a large tract
of land - complete with airstrip - on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain.
Patrick agreed to set up a training base, handling classes of 50 or so
Cuban recruits at a time. After completion of training, the guerillas would
be like their Everglades counterparts, transported to Cuba secretly to work
with the anti-Castro underground. The men also would have been used to
make lightening raids on the Cuban coast to divert the attention of
Castro's militia from important sabotage missions. Luis Rabel, local
delegate of the Cuban Revolutionary Council, confirmed last week the
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Miami Council Headquarters nixed the Covington base for undisclosed
reasons.
Who is Patrick? Rabel describes him as a rangy, six-foot-seven type who
can shoot two heavy machine guns from the hip at the same time, cowboy
style. Miami sources say he wears an Australian bush hat, a neat beard
and wears his hair long and wavy. He's been described as an Errol Flynn
type in appearance, a French musketeer type and as the "biggest,
strongest and handsomest" man in INTERPEN. Although he claims his
group has little money, local Cubans guess that he has extensive financial
backing. His equipment is of the latest model, and the power boat he
brings here periodically is "at least a $20,000 job."
Patrick tells the Cubans he was to topple Castro because the Fidelista
regime imprisoned his Cuban wife on charges of "counter-revolutionary
activity." She has been sentenced to 30 years. Patrick says he was a
paratroop instructor with Castro in 1958 and stayed on with the Cuban
regime until August 1960. About the time he left Cuba, he was also
involved in an "invasion" intended to topple the Somoza regime in
Nicaragua. Estimates of the size of his organization range from 30 to 100
men - Cubans, Americans, Latins, Canadians and others. "We weed out
all the crackpots and bums" he said.
INTERPEN is connected with the International Anti-Communist Brigade
headed by Frank Fiorini...Both Fiorini and Patrick at one time had
connections with Sanchez Arango, former Minister of Foreign Relations
and Education under pre-Batista President Carlos Prio Soccarras. It's an
educated guess that Patrick’s big backer might be Prio, who reputedly left
Cuba with a huge fortune. Although the Patrick guerilla base plan fell
through here, there is enough happening to whet the appetite of any
invasion-rumor connoisseur. Last April 1962 the New Orleans States-Item
confirmed for the first time Cubans were trained here (New Orleans) at the
old Algiers ammunition dump, for the Bay of Pigs invasion. There Cuban
leader, an ex-Castro officer named Nino Diaz, returned to Miami when the
New Orleans force was unable to land.
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There were no CIA Office of Security traces on Stuckey however Jerrold Brown
of the CIA’s Special Analysis Group, a unit charged with determining the validity of
public statements about CIA made in the media, had to comment that Stuckey was a
link between Hemming and Oswald. This implied that my early contention in Coup
D’Etat in America of a Hemming – Oswald relationship was correct. Oswald appeared
on Stuckey’s radio program along with Edward Scanlon Butler. Edward Butler worked
for Radio Free Cuba, but was fired for right-wing extremism. The former president of
Radio Free Cuba, William Klein, stated: "This young man's ultra right-wing ideas were
not only embarrassing but, in my opinion, dangerous. After assuming office as
Executive Director, this ex-John Bircher metamorphosed into a kind of leashed
Robespierre. He could think of nothing but the danger of a globe-encircling communist
conspiracy.” The CIA: “The semi-notional Cuban Freedom Committee served as cover
for Radio Free Cuba.” Hemming said he knew Butler and this provided more evidence
that Hemming and Oswald moved in the same circles.
When Oswald appeared on Stuckey’s radio program he slipped up when he said,
Although I feel that it is a just and right development in Cuba, still we could
be on much friendlier relations with them had the Government of the
United States, its Government Agencies, particularly certain covert, under
cover agencies like the now defunct CIA.
Stuckey: “Now defunct?” “Oswald: Well its leadership is now defunct. Allen Dulles is
now defunct.” Why was Oswald complaining about the lack of action by the “now
defunct CIA?” He sounded like Hemming complaining about the CIA’s lack of covert
action against Cuba due to the deal reached by Kennedy Khrushchev after the Cuban
Missile Crisis. Bill Stuckey’s death was weird. His mom said he died September 21,
1981 however; no record of his death could be located. Mrs. Stuckey stated:
The autopsy said he died of a wound, I never did know the details. It didn't
say gunshot wound. They put him in Seaton Hospital, near San Francisco.
When I called the Hospital they said he had a heart problem, but the
autopsy showed a wound. So I'll never know what happened. He never did
regain consciousness. He only lived five days.
Seaton Hospital had no record of William Stuckey: Death September 21, 1991
San Mateo, CA. Born Jan 16, 1932 TX Mother’s name Thompson. Married Elaine
Dapois children: Clay Lamar Stuckey, Marie Stuckey
Hemming would tell me, “A. J. you think the world revolves around my asshole.” But
there is no denying that Gerry’s picture and name comes up repeatedly in connection
with his crew member, Lee Harvey Oswald.
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HOSTY
Oswald family benefactor Ruth Paine was aware that Oswald had some
relationship with the CIA. Evidence suggests Paine’s father, who worked for Angleton,
contacted her and asked her to befriend Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife and get him a
job in downtown Dallas. Ruth knew nothing about The Big Event until after it transpired.
When FBI Agent Hosty showed up at her home to interview Oswald Ruth felt that Hosty
must also know that Oswald was not the Communist he pretended to be. If this was the
case why was he coming around to inquire about him? Shouldn’t Oswald have had
some immunity from FBI harassment? When Oswald was in New Orleans he had to ask
for an FBI interview because DeBrueys ignored him. Ruth took down all the information
Hosty gave her then went outside and got Hosty’s license plate number. She expected
Oswald to report Hosty to his superiors in whatever intelligence agency he was working
for and they would get Hosty off his case so Oswald could perform his operation. After
meeting with CIA big shot Howard Hunt Oswald would threaten to bomb the FBI Dallas
Field Office if they didn’t get Hosty off of his wife’s case.
Hosty didn’t know shit from Shinola. Even though he knew Oswald was
associating with Russian exiles, virulent anti-Communist, he couldn’t figure out Oswald
was an operation. Whereas DeBrueys and Odum both had intelligence community
connections Hosty had none. Hosty was too closely associated with the rightwing fringe
led by General Edwin Walker to be trusted by the CIA. When I spoke with him he told
me be believed the plot revolved around an article in Newsweek Magazine that never
existed. He had no secret contact with Oswald and his name appears as an overt entry.
None-the-less the FBI omitted the Hosty entry when it reported to the Warren
Commission.
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BARDWELL ODUM
The name Odum disguised as "Robert Adam” of the Dallas Texas State
Employment Office was found in Oswald's address book. Robert Adams sent Oswald
out on two job interviews, one to Solid State Electronics to apply for a job as a salesman
and the other to Burton-Dixie as a trainee. This information appeared in an FBI Report
prepared by Special Agent Bardwell Odum after he interviewed Robert Adams. This is
ironic as the entry also refers to Bardwell Odum so he was investigating himself.
Bardwell had gone after Communists in the past and knew that they sometimes
encoded information:
On March 8, 1949 Horace Morton Newman, County Educational Director
of the Los Angeles County Communist Party was placed under arrest by a
US Marshal. Subsequently his personnel effects were made available to
Special Agent Bardwell D. Odum by the jailer at the Los Angeles Country
Jail. Examination of these personnel effects brought to light two sheets of
yellow paper. One contained a list of eleven names; the other contained
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numbered comments, apparently corresponding to the names on the first
sheet. It would appear from these comments that these are persons in the
Hollywood section of the Communist Party who are being considered for
expulsion from the Party.
In April 1963 FBI S.A. Bardwell Odum investigated the Walker shooting which
was later blamed on Oswald. After the November 22, 1963 coup FBI Dallas Field Officer
Supervisor Kenneth Howe (EOD 1941) along with FBI Agents James Hosty, Bardwell
Odum and Warren C. DeBrueys (who had been transferred from New Orleans) handled
the most significant parts of the FBI’s investigation of the Kennedy Assassination. The
FBI reported that on November 26, 1963, material of various types which had been
recovered by the Dallas Police Department from Oswald's and Ruth Paine's residence
were turned over to Howe, Odum, Hosty and DeBrueys. Odum took possession of
Oswald’s English to Spanish dictionary that contained encrypted notations. The postassassination
investigation of the Paine family was conducted and directed by the same
crew. S.A. Hosty questioned the Paines’ fifteen times. Odum interviewed Buell Wesley
Frazier about the sack that contained the “curtain rods” that Oswald said he was
bringing to work on the morning of the coup. He convinced Frazier he was wrong about
the size of the sack, which Frazier was because Hemming had offered Oswald twice the
value of the rifle if he brought it to work with him. Oswald was told to stay off the 5 th floor
of the TSBD and go to the TSBD lunchroom. Hosty and Odum interviewed Sylvia Odio
on December 19, 1963. She identified a photo of Oswald as being identical to the
individual she had encountered during the “Odio Incident” during which Hemming’s crew
brought Oswald to her home for a post assassination dirty up of a liberal anti-Castro
group which Hemming and Sturgis hated. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ordered Hosty
and Odum to "disprove her allegation." 120 S.A. Hosty said she was mentally ill. Hosty
and Odum investigated the shooting of Officer Tippet. Odum interviewed Ruth Paine,
Robert Oswald, Roy Truly and Horace Twiford – all of whom appeared in Oswald’s
address book. In 1961 Howe interviewed a Potential Criminal Informant who gave him
information on Jack Ruby.
Bardwell Odum was the Dallas FBI Office liaison man with the CIA. When the
CIA sent the FBI Dallas Field Office a picture of a man photographed in front of the
Soviet Embassy in Mexico City it was Odum who received it and cut out the background
so as not to reveal the location of the surveillance cameras. In 1968, while investigating
the assassination of Martin Luther King, FBI S.A. Bardwell Odum questioned Dallas
Police Officer William Lee Bass about the second set of tramps (Hunt, Christ and
Sturgis) picked up a few hours after The Big Event because one of the tramps looked
like a sketch of King’s assailant. In 1975 the FBI questioned former Special Agent
Bardwell Odum about a note that Oswald had left off at the FBI Dallas Field Office on
Friday, November 8, 1963 that would have never come to light if FBI Secretary Nancy
Fenner had not reported it.
Let this be a warning. I will blow up the FBI and the Dallas Police Department if you
don't stop bothering my wife. Lee Harvey Oswald.
The FBI questioned Bardwell Odum about this note who
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…advised that until he read recent newspaper publicity he had never
heard any reference made to a note left by Oswald for Hosty, or that
Oswald had ever been in the Dallas Office of the FBI...Odum stated he did
not make any statement to Mr. Hosty at any time that Mr. Shanklin had
ever said anything to Mr. Odum about destroying anything or telling Hosty
or anyone else to destroy anything. He stated that any statement by an
FBI Agent pertaining to the destruction of anything which might be
considered evidence would be a matter which would be so unusual, that
he would not forget it. 121
As stated Oswald was fightin’ mad because believed he was involved in an
important government operation and the FBI must have been cognizant of this. So why
was Hosty bothering his wife? If Oswald had been a genuine radical he would have
believed that the FBI’s visits were par for the course and not threatened them with a
bombing. DeBrueys knew he was not to take any action when he thought a group or
individual was working for CIA but Hosty did not catch on despite the fact Oswald
associated with anti-Communists in Dallas who Hosty was also in contact with. Odum
knew Oswald was an operation otherwise his name would not have been encoded in
Oswald’s address book. But Hosty’s name was overt indicating no clandestine contact.
Kenneth Howe was Special Agent Hosty’s and Odum’s supervisor. Howe, Odum
and Hosty were all questioned extensively about the destruction of evidence in the
Kennedy assassination investigation as they were the three agents who knew about the
threatening note Oswald dropped off at the Dallas FBI Field Office. Hosty read the note
but was told by Odum and Howe not to take it seriously so it remained in file until after
the assassination when it was destroyed on the orders of SAC Gordon Shanklin.
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TEXAS / MEXICO CITY ENTRIES
After Oswald visited the Odio sisters in his unwitting attempt to dirty up Manolo
Ray and his liberal anti-Castro group JURE, he was flown from Dallas to Houston,
Texas. Hemming, Howard K. Davis, Diaz Lanz and Frank Fiorini were all accomplished
pilots. Oswald arrived in Houston sometime prior to the departure of the bus that would
take him to Mexico which was scheduled to leave on September 26, 1963, at 2:35 a.m.
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initially told the FBI "the call was made locally, before 10:00 p.m. I cannot recall the
exact time he called, but I think that it was in the evening, sometime between 7:00 p.m.
and 10:00 p.m.” The Warren Commission stated that Oswald's bus arrived in Houston
on Wednesday, September 25, 1963, at 10:50 p.m. so how could he have called? The
reason Estelle Twiford believed the call was made locally was that no operator was
involved, and that she remembered Oswald saying he had only a few hours and wished
to talk with her husband. The Warren Commission tried to resolve this contradiction:
It [the call] may have been made from Beaumont or some other stop on the
route; however, in view of the bus schedule, it probably was made in Houston later than
Estelle Twiford remembered.
How long would it have taken for Oswald and Twiford to meet up? Oswald would
have needed transportation to and from Twiford’s home or Twiford would have had to
have driven to the bus station. This would have taken at least 45 minutes each way. Did
Oswald really expect to meet with Horace Twiford for the first time between 12:00 p.m.
and 2:00 a.m.? Horace Twiford was a second mate with Local #20 of the International
Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots, a leftwing union. Twiford was so employed
for 12 years at a salary of $9,000 a year. He wore a goatee. Horace was also a National
Committeeman-at-large of the Socialist Labor Party in the State of Texas and was
involved with the ACLU. On November 10, 1962 Oswald had written to the Socialist
Labor Party in New York City and requested literature. Horace Twiford was apprised of
Oswald's request by the headquarters of the Socialist Labor Party in New York in July
1963. On September 11, 1963, Horace Twiford mailed a copy of the Socialist Labor
Party's publication, The Weekly People, to Oswald at Post Office Box 2915, Dallas. The
publication was forwarded to Oswald's street address in New Orleans, in time for him to
receive it there just before he left for Mexico City. The return address of Horace Twiford
was on the envelope. It should have been evident to Oswald, from looking at this
envelope, that The Weekly People had been mailed to Dallas and then forwarded to
New Orleans in response to his request for literature. Nonetheless, Oswald was freaked
out by this and entered the name and address of Horace Twiford in his address book:
"Horace Twiford 7018 Schley, Houston, Texas MI98500 WA 35492." "MI98500" was an
out-of-service telephone number listed under Horace Twiford in the then current
(January 1963) Houston telephone directory. "WA 35492" was the telephone number of
Horace Twiford in November 1963. The FBI interviewed Mrs. Estelle Twiford on
December 2, 1963.
Mrs. Twiford related that at some time which she believed to be in late October or
early November she answered a telephone call and the man making this call identified
himself as Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald asked for her husband, and stated he had
received a copy of the Weekly People and wanted to know how Horace Twiford had
obtained his name. Mrs. Twiford stated her best recollection was that Oswald stated on
that occasion that he was flying to Mexico, had a few hours, and desired to talk with Mr.
Twiford. She believes Oswald identified himself as a member of the Fair Play for Cuba
Committee...Mrs. Twiford then obtained from her records a small manila envelope
printed and bearing the address of the New York Labor News Company, 61 Cliff Street,
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New York, 38, New York, P.O. Box 76. She identified this as the envelope which had
been mailed to her husband by the Socialist Labor Party. It was noted the upper left
hand corner of this envelope carried the return address in hand printing as follows: "L.
H. Oswald, Box 2915 Dallas, Texas. The above envelope was originally postmarked at
Dallas, Texas on November 10, 1962. There was no indication of the date on which this
envelope had been mailed to Horace Twiford. A handwritten note across the front of this
envelope contained the words “Labor Day issue WP September 11, 1963.” Mrs. Twiford
stated this was the handwriting of her husband and this note indicated to her husband
had mailed to Oswald on September 11, 1963 the above issue of the Weekly People.
The bus trip from New Orleans to Houston was notional. Oswald was being flown
around by private plane at this time. According to the Warren Commission, Oswald first
left of some of his luggage at the Greyhound Station in New Orleans then later went
back to the Greyhound station then left for Houston, Texas, at 12:20 p.m. on
Wednesday September 25, 1963. No one in the baggage department or ticket
department at the New Orleans Greyhound station remembered seeing Oswald that
night or the next day. The ticket clerk at the New Orleans bus station thought he sold
Oswald his ticket on Thursday, September 26, 1963, the same day Oswald arrived in
Laredo, Texas. There were no witnesses on the 12:20 p.m. bus who remembered
seeing Oswald. The bus driver did not remember Oswald. The Warren Commission:
"There was no firm evidence of the means by which Oswald traveled from New Orleans
to Houston." Oswald "hoped to see her husband for a few hours before he flew to
Mexico." Oswald had been flown from city to city by Hemming or Frank Fiorini Sturgis.
He slipped when he said 'flew' or he had not been told he was going to take the bus to
Mexico City and he thought he was going to fly there. Hemming had already flown him
to Austin where he appeared at the local Draft Board, and he inquired about having his
discharge changed to “honorable.” Oswald was obsessed with effectuating this and had
his address book contained the names of John Connelly and Fred Korth, two
Secretaries of the Navy.
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Why chat up Twiford? Oswald was afraid that Horace Twiford might have been
something other than just Horace Twiford. Why did he receive literature from someone
in Houston a few days before he was supposed to go to Houston, Texas, then Mexico
City? Who was Horace Twiford? Perhaps Oswald had forgotten he had made this
request since the Socialist Labor Party did not respond for almost one year? Hemming
advised that if one is involved in clandestine activity: "Never rule anything out."
HORACE TWIFORD
All Horace did was send Oswald some Socialist literature and suddenly he was dragged
into the Kennedy Assassination. Horace lives in a retirement community in North
Carolina and can be seen in the photo above.
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THE NATIONAL INDIGNATION COMMITTEE MEETING
PRE-CURSOR TO THE TEA PARTY
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As stated Oswald had the words “Dallas Texas State” and a listing for Robert
Adam (or Odom) at the Dallas office of the Texas State Employment Agency. Next was
"Randau at Jobco" On December 12, 1963, information was obtained from the Jobco
Employment Agency in Dallas, Texas, concerning a "cotton picking application" for Lee
H. Oswald, dated October 4, 1963. This application was submitted to the FBI Laboratory
which concluded that the signature on the reverse side of the application was prepared
by Lee Harvey Oswald. Ray Randuk had indeed interviewed him at Jobco and sent his
to the DeVilbiss Company where he was not hired as a cotton picker.
The number RI-8-7604 did not trace back to JOBCO or DeVilbiss, instead it
traced back to McGehee Investments in the Texas Bank Building. This firm was not
listed by Dunn and Bradstreet. There was no indication it existed other than a listing in
the 1963 Dallas Chris-Cross Directory. I cannot locate any reference to it in an FBI
document nor any investigation of this telephone number.
McGehee Investments was an instrument of The National Indignation Convention
started in October 1961 by Dallas Garage Owner Frank McGehee, 32, to protest the
training of Yugoslav pilots in Texas. The National Indignation Committee was an
anticommunist umbrella group with Birchite ties and bore a lot of similarities to the Tea
Party Movement. Instead of going after Hillary, these people went after Adlai
Stevenson, JFK’s Secretary of State.
In November 1961 McGehee was close to General Edwin Walker whose name
and address are in Oswald’s address book. In September 1962 McGehee was visited
by INTERPEN member and Soldier of Fortune magazine founder Robert K. Brown. By
February 1962 The National Indignation Convention had held 175 rallies and was
tooling up a pressure campaign to force Congress to halt all military aid to any
Communist regime anywhere and to fire any government official responsible for any in
the past. The Convention spread across the country through supporting committees.
With a keen eye peeled for "modern traitors" in government, the movement held
evangelistic-like meetings at which members heard the Eisenhower and Kennedy
Administrations were condemned as "treasonous" along with suggestions for lynching
Earl Warren. During Adlai Stevenson's speech in Dallas, protesters coughed in unison.
They walked the aisles with upside-down American flags. Frank McGehee, leader of the
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National Indignation Committee, stood up and began shouting until police removed him.
Oswald wrote the Communist Party that, on the evening of Wednesday, October
23, 1963, he had attended a meeting sponsored by General Edwin A. Walker. This
meeting was co-sponsored by the National Indignation Convention. Ruth Paine
described the gathering on Wednesday, October 23, 1963, as a meeting of The
National Indignation Committee. Mrs. Paine: “How much of the day this occupied him, of
course, I didn't know. I didn't see him. Then he got the job, and I judge that occupied
him more fully. He spoke of one evening meeting he went to, this National Indignation
Committee meeting.” William Coleman and David Slawson: "Investigation has led to the
conclusion that this must have been an anti-Castro meeting." John Martino, a gangster
who did time in Cuba with David Lemar Christ, had spoken to a group of John Birch
Society members in September 1963. Martino was involved in operations with Hemming
and would later claim to have pre-assassination knowledge of The Big Event.
MEXICO CITY
CAMERA AND GUN
THE CUBAN CONSULATE, MEXICO, D. F. 1963
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According to E. Howard Hunt, Oswald met with David Atlee Phillips during the
time Oswald visited Mexico City. The purpose of Oswald’s visit was to obtain a visa to
Cuba so that Castro would be dirtied up after the assassination and America would
send the Marines into Cuba, a breeding ground for assassins. The word "camera 335"
appeared on page 13 of Oswald’s address book. The FBI transcribed the word as
"Carracas (?)." "Camera 335" was the time that the cameras at the Soviet Embassy
were inoperative. This was why there was no picture of Oswald entering the Soviet
Embassy. As for the photographic surveillance at the Cuban Consulate, as fate would
have it, Oswald was there during a period of upgrade, and the CIA cameras were down.
Note the plural of camera by Oswald. Note the entry K-00850 is written in the same ink
as 335. The FBI overlooked this entry:
Valeriy Kostikov 122 , a KGB agent working out of the Soviet Embassy in Mexico
City recalled his visit from Oswald: Oswald then repeated his request for a visa to
Moscow and said he was "motivated by the fact that it was very difficult for him to live in
the United States, that he was constantly under surveillance, even persecuted, and that
his personal life was being invaded, and his Russian wife and neighbors interrogated.
He claimed he lost his job at a photo lab because the FBI had been around his place of
employment asking questions. "In recounting all this, he continually expressed concern
for his life; Kostikov said. He described Oswald as "extremely agitated and clearly
nervous, especially whenever he mentioned the FBI. It was at that point that Oswald
pulled out the revolver and put it on a table, saying, "See? This is what I must now carry
to protect my life." Yatzkov grabbed the gun, took the cartridges out and put them in a
drawer. When the meeting was over, Oswald picked up the gun again, put it in his
pants, and Yatzkov gave back the bullets. That is why Oswald had the word gun written
under the word “cameras”
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Mexico City
Colsulado de Cuba
Zamora y f Marquez
11-28-47
Sylvia Duran (Different ink)
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Embajada De La Union
de Las Republicas Socialistas
15 61 55 (15 60 55) (Different ink)
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Cubano Airlines
Paseo De La Reforma
56 (Overwritten)
35 (Overwritten)-79-00
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U. S. Embassy Lafragua 18
46 94 00
The telephone number and address of the American Embassy in Mexico City
were listed in Oswald's address book but no marking appeared at the location of the
Embassy on Oswald's map of Mexico City. What possible use would this address and
phone number have been to Oswald? Could they have helped him enter Cuba? It is
unlikely Oswald would have contacted Hunt or Phillips neither at the American Embassy
nor at Oswald’s hotel. The Mexico City CIA Station was located in the American
Embassy so for all practical purposes he had its number. Note that the name Sylvia
Duran is in a different handwriting. Duran, who worked at the Cuban Consulate, wrote it
in herself. She ended up sleeping with Oswald who was trying to get her to use her
influence to get him a Cuban visa. All part of the plot to dirty up the Cubans after
Oswald would be the patsy in the Kennedy assassination and cause America to invade
Cuba, a nest of assassins. Had the Bay of Pigs invasion succeeded none of these
Operations would have existed.
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Oswald had the address of the Argentinian Embassy in his address. Many Nazi
war criminals ended up there after the war.
OSWALD WAS PLANNING TO TRAVEL TO BERLIN
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West German Embassy B. Gruzinskaya Street 17 Miss Kaisenheim / Oswald contacted
the Embassy to see if he could returnt to the US via West Berlin.
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Oswald wrote down “West Berlin – F.R.G. Tempelhofer Damm.” And what looked
like “Lee H” but was really Lee 21 as in 2100 hours. Someone made a map too,
probably not Oswald. F.R.G. means Federal Republic of Germany: the official name of
West Germany. The Tempelhofer Damm is an important thoroughfare in former West
Berlin, close to the Tempelhof Airport.
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Reprinted above is a SKETCH MADE BY INVESTIGATOR SIDNEY A. MARTIN
II, WHICH WAS DRAWN IN 1980. He compared Berlin with the map Oswald, or
someone else, drew in his address book. The dot indicates a meeting point where
Oswald would use the name Lee H. But Oswald was only in Berlin for an hour during his
re-defection so the meeting was canceled. Berlin, like Vienna, was a spy nest. Hunt,
Fiorini, Phillips and the others hadn’t crossed paths with Oswald at this point. His
intersection with the intelligence community was through Hemming, and Hemming’s
uncle’s Art Simpson friend, James Angleton.
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When Oswald, Marina, and their baby girl, disembarked in Hoboken, New
Jersey, on June 13, 1962, they were met by Spas T. Raikin, an official of the Travelers
Aid Society, with strong ties to at least two Nazi anti-communist militant organizations
and to the CIA. Was this a chance meeting? Oswald’s address book contained the word
SPAS with a line separating it from the rest of the Russian word for “thank-you.” Spas T.
Raikin claimed Oswald attempted to avoid him on the ship even though he had him
paged via the public address system and was reluctant to speak with him or at least
pretended to. Spas T. Raikin told this author: "He might have felt I was a government
man. There was no CIA point in my connection with Oswald. It's just not there." Raiken
reported that Oswald told him that he has been “a member of the Marine Corps and
while on duty with the United States Embassy in Moscow and got involved with a
Russian girl, whom he married, and renounced his U.S. citizenship.” What really
transpired is a whole other question. Spas T. Raikin was contacted in April 1993. In
answer to a question regarding whether his contact with Russian émigrés inspired
interest on the part of the CIA. Spas T. Raikin responded:
Never. I have never had contact with the CIA. They are an unusual kind of
people. I have never been on friendly terms with them. I am probably on
their blacklist. They think that I'm too independent and have my own
opinions. I suspect this because I have been publishing exile
magazines...CIA did not subsidize our [Bulgarian National Front]
magazine. It was critical of policies. They were messing up things because
they were infiltrated by communist agents. Kim Philby. They would plan
dropping some people in Bulgaria and people from inside would inform the
Bulgarian police of the mission...They were interfering in our exile
Bulgarian affairs. Besides, I was not associated with these groups for long;
I dropped my association in 1963. I left them because they were too much
preoccupied with Russia. They were identifying all Russians with
communism. I would not go along with that. They did not make distinctions
between Russians and Communists.
Raikin's CIA Office of Security File has been declassified.
November 20, 1957
SUBJECT: RAIKIN, Spas T.
RI document 12-7-10-575, is an intelligence report on an airfield in
Bulgaria, the source of which was Spas T. Raikin, Zdravo Kostadinov
Damyanov and Stefen Petrov Peletekov, three Trudovaks who, on May 6,
1951, deserted their unit and made their way to Plovdiv and then to
Greece. The reason for their desertion was to join an alleged illegal group
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working in the mountains south of Plovdiv. Unable to make contact with
the group, they wandered around the mountains obtaining provisions from
relatives and friends. Unable to hold out any longer, they entered Greece
on June 19, 1951. Through interrogation it was learned that Spas T.
Raikin was born October 26, 1922 in Zelenikovo. He is single and has two
brothers, Petur and Stoyu, who are farmers in Zelenikovo. His father,
Todor Petkov Raikin, is living and is also a farmer. Subject finished
Theological Seminary in Plovdiv and the Theological Faculty in Sophia. He
then taught for one year on the Sofia Faculty. On April 5, 1950, he was
called up for military service and assigned to Bezmer airfield until
December 22, 1950, when his unit was transferred to Balcchik airfield.
Subject's desire to desert was to join the fight against communism in the
name of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. When he found it was impossible
to do so inside Bulgaria, he decided to escape to Greece and join such a
church group there, if such existed. If none existed, he decided to form a
militant illegal church group to fight communism inside Bulgaria.
Raikin was mailed a copy of his Office of Security File. He reacted:
It's so silly and stupid I didn't find anything of substance there. A number
of things were wrong. I was a Professor in 1967. I was building a house
that year. I took my job here which I liked, and I was not looking for a new
job anyway. I have applied to the CIA for my file.
Raikin was employed by the CIA in 1967 when he worked for its Joint Press Reading
Service in New York City. This is a transcription of Raikin’s latter security clearance.
NOTIFICATION OF SECURITY ACTION
1. This is to inform you that there is no security objection to use of Subject:
At the headquarters building
At building #213 (Naval Weapons Plant)
As a guard at
As an employee of GSA in Agency buildings
As a GSI employee in the headquarters building
As C. And P. Tel. Co. employee in agency buildings
2. As part of the processing in this case
A polygraph interview is not required.
3. THIS IS NOT A CLEARANCE FOR ACCESS TO CLASSIFIED INFORMATION.
4. PLEASE ADVISE THIS OFFICE WHEN SUBJECT'S SERVICES ARE NO LONGER
UTILIZED. Steven L. Kuhn. 123
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Spas T. Raikin was re-contacted in September 1993 and informed that the CIA had
released his Office of Security file. He commented,
They did? What does it say there? Who is this employee, me? That's
funny. Well, look, if you have the file why don't you send it to me. I was a
professor all this time. The Joint Press Reading Service - I was translating
something of no consequence. Some Agency from New York asked me to
translate some work, but I found this whole thing very serious and very
cheaply paid and I just dropped it...I suppose the Joint Press Reading
Service was part of the CIA, yes. But the agency I worked for had an
innocent name. I had some papers about this, but I threw them out. The
CIA tried to recruit me right after I left Bulgaria. I told them I wasn't
interested and I was going ahead with my studies. I did not apply for CIA
employment in 1967. I was well into my profession by then. I might have
become interested in doing some translation work. It was all done by mail.
I never met anyone at this time. I have never been in touch with them. No
direct contact except when I left Bulgaria. You are making too much out of
this.
Spas T. Raikin was asked why the CIA hired him, if he was on its blacklist:
I had been very critical about CIA intervention in Bulgarian exile affairs.
Maybe the CIA thought my criticism was inconsequential. In our critical
observations we avoided using titles and names and agencies. We used a
coded language. We wouldn't directly attack them. I don't remember
directly challenging them. I'm not changing my story. Mrs. Edna Norman
gave me the Oswald assignment arbitrarily. Are you trying to build-up a
case against the CIA?
In 1994 the CIA released Spas T. Raikin's application for CIA employment
bearing his signature. It was mailed to him but refused. Raikin was the Secretary
General of the American Friends of Anti-Bolshevik nations. The ABN’s founder and
leader was Jaroslaw Stetzko, who in 1941 had announced plans to unite with Hitler to
“create a New Order in Europe and throughout the world.” Raikin was also a member of
the Bulgarian National Front. The Bulgarian National Front was part of the Anti-
Bolshevik Nations group. Laszlo Pasztor, the founding chair and key figure in the
Republican Heritage Group (the Republican Party) helped the Bulgarian National Front,
headed by his friend, Ivan Docheff. As early as 1971 the GOP was warned that the
Bulgarian National Front was a Nazi group. A Jack Anderson column quoted another
Bulgarian-American organization, the conservative Bulgarian National Committee,
which labeled Docheff’s Front as “fascist.” But the GOP took no action. Professor Spas
T. Raiken was a Front member. He said it grew out of a Bulgarian organization that in
the 1930’s and 1940’s was “pro-Nazi and pro-fascist.” 124
Was this another symptom of the Cold War or was there something more sinister
happening here? Raikin was not working for the CIA when he met Oswald and even if
he were Oswald was a vest pocket operation of James Angleton and the rest of the
Agency knew nothing about this. But the possibility exists that Oswald made contact
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with Nazi sympathizers like “A. A. Chubb” and tapped into this network. The answer lies
in how Spas was assigned Oswald – randomly or did he request or volunteer to the
task? To go to the lengths Oswald did to establish a cover there is a good chance of
being motivated by Nazism.
GEORGE DEMORHENSCHIDT
Oswald was the strangest Communist one ever did see – he palled around with
anti-Communist Russian exiles who by all logic should have hated him and he them.
Gaeton Fonzi and this author helped drive George to comitt suicide. I called him
repeatedly and told his wife that we knew her husband had been a Nazi spy. Fonzi went
to his home in an effort to interview him. Due to his association with Oswald George
could not move in the same circles he once had. His prior associations included the
Bush family and the Auchincloss Family, the relatives of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy. Louis
Auchincloss managed accounts originating in Nazi Germany when he was an attorney
with Sullivan and Cromwell. George ended up blowing his brains out with a shotgun
after discovering Fonzi and the House Select Committee on Assassinations was on his
case. George would later claim someone from the Dallas CIA Station told him to
befriend Oswald, but this would make the conspiracy too far reaching and who believes
a Nazi spy anyway?
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Oswald was one of the few Americans to actually experience what it was like to
be a worker under Soviet Communism. Not even card carrying members of the
Communist Party of the United States had experienced anything remotely similar.
Oswald became aware of the utter despair the Russians lived under and how much they
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hated the Communist system. He associated with many Russian Jews who had been
refused exit visas and were trapped in a vast minimum security prison known as the
USSR. When he returned to the United States Oswald wanted to join a group that he
perceived as being the arch enemy of the Communists so he gravitated toward Nazism,
an ideology that advocated the incarceration of Communists in death camps. In July
1963 during a speech Oswald gave to a group of Jesuits he called the Communist Party
of the United States "subsidized," "a messenger of the Kremlin's Internationalist
propaganda," "fifth columnist of the Russians," and "arch betrayers." He called the
Soviets: "criminals" guilty of "mass extermination" "suppression" "murderers of history."
Oswald’s ideal activist had to throw off the shackles of Soviet Communism and would
emerge after an economic crisis (just as Hitler did in Nazi Germany) and become part of
a "special party" of those "violently opposed to Soviet intervention." Oswald was willing
to enlist disenchanted members of the Socialist Party into this “special party” (the
National Socialist Party - Nazi Party - in Germany had attracted many former Socialists).
Oswald cited the Minutemen as a group that would be active after the "military debacle
of the United States." Oswald portrayed the Minutemen as "redefending their own
backyards," a noble purpose. The Minutemen and the Nazi Party had overlapping
membership. Oswald wrote:
This is where a safeguard is necessary. And not only a safe guard but a
safetly valve, to shut off opportunist forces from within, and foreign powers
from without. There can be no substitute for organization and procurement
work towards the aforestated ideals and goals…the minute men and their
narrow support of capitalism have been most far-sighted, however they
present only a suicide force…
Was Oswald proposing to shut off the lives of members of the Communist Party
after his revolution just as Nazis would? Was that why Oswald told the Jesuits it was
necessary to penetrate the Communist Party and procure membership information?
Essentially, Oswald was proposing the formation of death squad to take out CP
members during a time of crisis since they were agents of a foreign power. This group
would remain underground - "stoic" - until the crisis came. The "practical measures"
Oswald made reference to in this speech was assassination. This translated to "The
only good Communist is a dead Communist." Oswald stated:
There can be no sympathy for those who have turned the idea of
communism into a vill curse for western man. The Soviets have committed
crimes unsurpassed by their early day capitalist counterparts. The
imprisonment of their own peoples, with the mass extermination so typical
of Stalin.The individual suppression and regimentation under Khrushchev.
The deportations, the purposefull curtailment of diet in the consumer
slighted population of russia, the murder of history, the prostitution of art
and culture.
This explains why, when Oswald lived in Dallas, Texas, his closest friend was the
German Nazi George Von Mohrenschildt, who had been part of a spy network operating
in America prior to and during the Second World War. Von DeMohrenschildt had been
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observed sketching and photographing the local Coast Guard Station and ship channel
at Port Arkansas, Texas, and acted in such a suspicious manner as to lead authorities
to believe Von Mohrenschildt was a German spy. Von Mohrenschidt’s case officer was
his cousin Baron Konstantine Van Maydall. Von Mohrenschildt was detained in
Arkansas In The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer Maydell as "a Baltic
German of Estonian citizenship who told the German Embassy, Washington that he had
come to the United States on an Abwehr sabotage mission." In Game of the Foxes,
Laslo Farago described Baron Konstantine Van Maydell as "the top Abwehr agent in the
United States in 1940." Baron Konstantine Von Maydell was arrested on a Presidential
warrant as a dangerous alien in September 1942, tried for espionage in Federal District
Court for the Southern District of New York, and interred for four years in North Dakota.
He was released in 1946. Von Mohrenschildt attempt to infiltrate the FBI but on July 18,
1942, the Security Office of the OSS reported that “One of the government agencies
indicates that Subject is a Nazi sympathizer and possibly an agent. He is stated to be
definitely suspect. In view of this report it would be difficult to approve Subject.
Recommendation: Security disapproval. George Von Mohrenschildt gave Oswald a
copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf to re-read - Oswald had already read it in the Marines. The
CIA reported in regard to Marina Oswald's Notes on Poetry Notebook:
The most interesting thing of note is, on the last page of the notebook, the
inscription Shil'kgruber, Adol.f (G.). obviously meaning Adolf
Schickelgruber - Adolf Hitler.
GEORGE VON MOHRENSCHILDT
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Oswald was intent on joining the American Nazi Party. The first overt entry
regarding the locations of Nazi headquarters reads “Nat. Sec. Dan Burros” then “Lincoln
Rockwell, Arlington, Virginia. American Nazi Party” Oswald returned to the United
States on June 13, 1962. Rockwell had started the American Nazi Party in 1958. By this
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time Burros was no longer the National Secretary of the American Nazi Party. This info
was stale.
In 1960 Burros had moved to Arlington, Virginia where he lived with George
Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party. Dan Burros became the party’s
National Secretary–its third-highest office. He was arrested four times for disorderly
conduct and received a suspended sentence for vandalizing the Anti-Defamation
League. In 1961 Burros joined other dissident Nazis in founding the American National
Party. It published Kill! Magazine from its headquarters, a wooden shack in Hollis
Queens. Oswald address book continued, “(Amer. National Party) Hollis sec. of
Queens, N.Y.” The parenthesizes indicate it is different from the American Nazi Party.
This information was up to date. Oswald’s address book continued, “(Newspaper) Nat.
Socialist Bulletin.” In May 1960 the National Socialist Bulletin made its appearance as
the first periodical published by the American Nazi Party.
In September 1961 the American National Party picketed the funeral of an
American Communist leader. In April 1962 Valerian Zorin the Soviet Delegate to a
conference on War Propaganda brandished a pamphlet in which the American National
Party called for an immediate declaration of war against the Soviet Union. On April 13,
1962 the New York Times reported,
The party is reported to consist of ten young men here and eleven in Louisiana.
Its headquarters is reported to be a shanty in Hollis Queens. John Patler, 24 years old,
is the founder of the party. 125
Were any of the American National Parties members from New Orleans? Did
Oswald receive this garbled information from Guy Banister? Oswald had the address
544 Camp Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, (the Balter Building) on a pamphlet entitled
“The Crime Against Cuba.” Former FBI Special Agent in Charge Guy Banister ran his
private detective agency and his Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front support group
from a broken down office at that address. The CIA considered using Guy Banister
associates as a proprietary but it realized Banister was running a ramshackle operation
that attracted every anti-Communist crackpot misfit and money grubbing hustler in New
Orleans. Banister’s politics were similar to those of Louisianan David Duke – he was a
Nazi. Professional informant Jack S. Martin told the New Orleans District Attorney's
Office that Guy Banister subscribed to the American Nazi Party newspaper, The
Thunderbolt. Vernon Gerdes, an employee of Guy Banister stated: “I saw George
Lincoln Rockwell in Banister's office. Delphine Roberts [Banister’s secretary] and I
waited outside."
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ROCKWELL BOOKED IN NEW ORLEANS FOR PICKETING MOVIE EXODUS
In May 1961 George Lincoln Rockwell was arrested in New Orleans for illegally
picketing the movie Exodus, which dealt with the Holocaust. Guy Banister found a
bondsman for Rockwell and contributed to his bail fund. Jack S. Martin wrote the FBI:
One interesting item about Rockwell which disturbed Banister to no end was
something about Rockwell's bail bond that was posted here when he and his men were
in trouble. The sureties for these American Nazis were negotiated by Banister and
others at the time. However, these bonds were made by insurance agents Hardy Davis
and his wife Doris Davis. Moreover, the point that bothered everyone was the closely
guarded secret of just who the persons were that signed attesting indemnification in lieu
of loss of those pledges. When this was mentioned it used to drive Banister to a froth,
so the actual identity of these may be a very important facet of this case...Banister
claimed to be a right wing conservative. At the same time he voiced his total hatred for
all extreme anti-American-elements such as Communists. But above all the others the
most, Liberal factions in politics, and the Jews. In some ways he reflected a sort of offbrand
Nazi philosophy. 126
Index cards to Guy Banister's files contained the names and addresses of
numerous New Orleans Jews and Jewish organizations, many taken from the American
Nazi Party magazine, Counterattack! Guy Banister kept an extensive clipping file about
the Civil Rights Movement. He belonged to several other fringe groups besides the
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American Nazi Party. Dan Campbell, a private investigator employed by Guy Banister,
told an FBI source in 1962 that Colonel Buford Balter partially financed George Lincoln
Rockwell's trip to New Orleans. Hemming advised: "I came across Rockwell during our
shit tour of the Minutemen and these other weird fringo type groups." The Secret
Service and the FBI questioned George Lincoln Rockwell about his name having
appeared in Oswald’s address book. He said he had no idea why his name appeared in
there. George Lincoln Rockwell told the FBI: "I believe Kennedy was shot by a rightwinger...I
think American Nazis are going to have a hard time for a while. I wouldn't be a
bit surprised to be picked-up on it." The Secret Service and the FBI questioned Dan
Burros who said the same thing as Rockwell. Oswald had been given this information
by someone who was conversant with Nazi activities as that individual was aware of this
esoteric splinter group. Aside from Banister other Nazis that Oswald came into contact
with were George Von Mohrenschildt and Spas Raikin but they operated on a more
traditional Nazi level while Rockwell and Burros were neo-Nazis. Oswald might have
obtained these addresses from Guy Bannister; that would explain the reference to
“members in Louisiana” in the New York Times piece about the American National Party
although Bannister seemed loyal to Rockwell. Dan Burros committed suicide on
October 31, 1965, after The New York Times revealed he was half-Jewish and on
August 24, 1967 Palter assassinated Rockwell.
THE ONLY GOOD NAZI IS A DEAD NAZI
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: RUTH PAINE
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Ruth Paine’s name, address and phone number were an overt entry in Oswald’s
address book. If you believe the JFK assassination was the consequence of a
conspiracy, and not the result of a lone assassin, you have to believe that it was not by
accident that Ruth Paine got Oswald a job along a likely presidential motorcade route.
Note that Hemming had already moved his pawn Oswald to New Orleans where his
pawn had started a bogus chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Then he moved
his pawn to Mexico City where his pawn attempted to obtain a visa to Cuba so that
when he returned to the United States and became the patsy in the Kennedy
assassination Castro would be blamed. Finally his pawn Oswald had to be put in a
physical location on the chessboard of Dallas where he would be plausible suspect in
the Kennedy assassination. Without this last move all the other moves would have been
worthless and the King, Kennedy, would not have been check-mated. Hemming also
needed someone to babysit Oswald’s wife, as Marina was new to the United States.
There had to be some special considerations involved since these baby-sitters
would come under scrutiny being so close to the Oswald’s. The baby sitters would need
plausible deniability built into their story – that their meeting Oswald was purely by
chance. The first time Oswald came into the Paine's life was through Everette Glover, a
friend of George DeMohrenschildt. Michael Paine said he met Everette Glover at the
Unitarian Church. Everette Glover asked him if he wanted to meet a Marine who had
defected, then re-defected, from the Soviet Union. Michael Paine:
I thought, “Oh boy that sounds interesting.” It never struck me too odd that
he should be allowed to come home. To be allowed back would be a
feather in the cap of the United States. So I didn't have trouble. Without
asking him, I assumed that was why he was so readily allowed back. I
expected to find him politically interesting. And I didn't find him that way.
He was very different from the kinds of people who had come to talk to my
father. He didn't like complexities.
But as it worked out, Michael Paine would meet Oswald via Ruth Paine. Ruth
Paine was born Ruth Hyde in New York City on September 3, 1932. Her mother was a
Leftist and her father William A. Hyde, was an anti-Communist socialist. When Ruth
Paine was 15 years old, she preached with a traveling Bible school and became a
Quaker while attending Antioch College in 1951. Ruth Paine stated that her first meeting
with Oswald happened purely by chance which in fact it was not.
Michael Paine didn’t attend Everette Glover's February 22, 1963 party, but Ruth
Paine did. Glover was rooming with a German national Volkmar Schmidt, who had a
Nazi background. Norman Frederiksen, who attended the speech Oswald gave at the
party, stated:
Oswald spoke and then answered questions and in doing so
Frederiksen recalls Oswald intimated that he went to Russia because he
thought it was a dynamic society going someplace and that its people
were working enthusiastically to move it ahead but he, Oswald, discovered
in the factory where he worked that these people only worked so as to get
paid and that the only interest they had in putting in extra working hours
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was to get some extra pay and that this disillusioned Oswald. Frederiksen
said that Oswald to Frederiken’s recollection of the night never said he
was a Communist or was a member of the Communist Party and that
Oswald in his talk stayed away from political talk and talked about the
people and living conditions in Russia. 127
That’s why it took Ruth Paine at least one month after meeting the Oswald’s and
exchanging addresses and phone numbers for her charitable impulses to kick in after
she met him at the Oswald Coming Out Party. Ruth Paine had been contacted by her
father, sister or brother-in-law or a combination thereof, all of whom traced back to
CI/SIG Chief James Angleton and CIA OS head Howard Osborne. For Ruth Paine to
admit that her actions had been directed would mean incriminating a close family
member, which she was not about to do.
In July 1993 Ruth Paine stated:
I had no association with the Dallas White Russian community. I did not
know DeMohrenschildt. The party was put on by Everette Glover. I sang
English Madrigals with Everette. That was the only time I met
DeMohrenschildt. A colorful fellow, though.
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Oswald gave his speech at Glover’s home on February 20, 1963. Ruth Paine
visited Marina Oswald on March 20, 1963. On April 2, 1963, she invited Lee and Marina
to her home for dinner. Michael Paine picked them up and drove them to Irving, then
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joined them for supper. On April 7, 1963, Paine invited Marina to move in with her. On
April 10, 1963, Marina and Paine got together and on April 20, 1963, Oswald went on a
picnic with Ruth and Marina. A visit was arranged for April 24, 1963. When Ruth Paine
arrived on April 24, 1963, Oswald was about to depart for New Orleans. Paine offered to
drive Oswald to the bus station. She said his trip came as a complete surprise. Ruth
Paine and Oswald drove to the bus station, cashed in a ticket Oswald had purchased
for Marina, (since Ruth Paine had offered to drive Marina to New Orleans once Oswald
got settled), then they returned to Oswald's apartment and moved some belongings to
Irving. They then returned to the bus station and Oswald left for New Orleans. Once
activated Ruth launched an aggressive campaign to insert herself in Oswald’s life. She
called on Marina, and not vice versa. She acted hastily in exposing her children to
strangers. Someone had told her Ozzie was a-okay. Sen. Cooper of the Warren
Commission asked “What made you willing to have this man, you have said, this very
curious man, from all you have described about him, to have him in your house?”
He was Marina's husband and I, like her, as I have described, was both lonely
and interested in learning the Russian language. I would have been happy had he never
come out, indeed happier had he not come out on the weekends. But they were not
separated as a married couple nor contemplating such separation, and I didn't feel that
this - it was appropriate for him to have to stay away. I did not ask that.
After Oswald moved back from New Orleans to Dallas Ruth Paine testified before
the Warren Commission that she was having coffee with four young mothers when she
remarked that Lee Oswald needed a job:
As best as I can reconstruct it was while having coffee at my immediate
neighbors, Mrs. Ed Roberts, and also present was Mrs. Bill Randle, and
Lee had said over the weekend that he had gotten the last of
unemployment compensation checks that were due him and that it had
been smaller than the others had been, and disappointing in its smallness
and he looked very discouraged when he went to look for work...And the
subject that he was looking for work, and that he hadn't found work for a
week, came up while we were having coffee, four young mothers at Mrs.
Robert's house, and Mrs. Randle mentioned that her younger brother,
Wesley Frazier thought they needed another person at the Texas School
Book Depository where Wesley worked. Marina then asked me, after we
had gone home, asked me if I would call the Texas School Book
Depository to see if indeed there was the possibility of an opening and at
her request I did telephone...I looked up the number in the book, and
dialed it, was told I would need to speak to Mr. Truely who was at the
warehouse. The call was transferred to Mr. Truely and I said I know of a
young man whose wife was staying in my house, the wife was expecting a
child, they already had a little girl, and he had been out of work for a while
and was very interested in getting any employment and his name, and
was there a possibility of an opening there, and Mr. Truly said he didn't
know whether he had an opening, that the young man should apply
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himself in person. This was on Monday, October 14, 1963.
Ruth Paine knew that Buell Wesley Frazier, the younger brother of Linnie Mae
Randle, was employed at the Texas School Book Depository. Temporary stock-boy jobs
were always open there, and so it came as no surprise to Ruth Paine when Linnie Mae
Randle suggested that Lee Oswald try the Texas School Book Depository, after Paine
brought up the subject of Oswald and a job. On Monday, October 14, 1963, Ruth Paine
called Roy Truly and secured a position for Oswald. Marina Oswald told the HSCA:
"She went to all the trouble to get the job for him." Michael Paine was asked: "Was it
mere coincidence that your wife placed Oswald in Dealey Plaza?" He responded,
That is so simple that it should not be a part of this. He lost his job at the
photo lab and you've heard the story - and it's true. Ruth was discussing it
over coffee with some neighbors and they thought there was a job
opening at the Texas School Book Depository.
He was asked, “Did she know this neighbor's son worked at the Texas School
Book Depository?" He responded,
That is how come she knew. I think he had a job there, and he spread the
news in that household that they might be still be looking for other
employees. So Ruth took the number down that he should call and told it
to Oswald. He called and was interviewed. We were trying to get him a job
to help him out. Ruth had no idea where it was. We thought it was
somewhere other than Dealey Plaza. There was absolutely no input from
the CIA to get him a job there. It was Ruth's idea. There might have been
a conspiracy, but that was not a part of it. And we know we had no CIA
connection, we didn't know the Texas School Book Depository was there.
We didn't know that President Kennedy was going to come by. We had
absolutely no part of it. If there was any conspiracy, it could only have
been that they knew Oswald was a Communist, and would pick on him.
Hosty came around, he knew where Oswald was working. We had no CIA
contact.
It was pointed out to Michael Paine that his wife's father had CIA contact:
No, he worked for the Agency for International Development. The CIA may
have used the Agency for International Development as a front for awhile,
but it doesn't mean that every Agency for International Development
employee is CIA. Bill Hyde was vehemently opposed to the CIA using the
Agency for International Development for these purposes. Ruth was a
very truthful person and she really knew Bill well enough to know where
he would stand on a matter like that.
Michael Paine was again told William Hyde had CIA contact: "Sure, okay, that's
possible." Ruth Paine wrote this to her mother: "Big news. Lee was accepted for a job
this am. Minimum wage and nothing special about it, but he is very happy and I think
things will ease for them." She informed her husband who informed Angleton.
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Ruth was intent on putting Oswald in the Texas School Book Depository or in
another tall building in downtown Dallas Linnie Mae Randle had also suggested two
other jobs for Oswald. One with the Manner Bakery, and the other with the Texas
Gypsum Company. Ruth Paine told the FBI she ruled out the Manner Bakery because
Oswald could not drive a bakery truck. There was evidence that Oswald was able to
drive at this time, but he did not have a valid Texas Drivers License. But Ruth could not
recall Linnie Mae Randle having suggested Texas Gypsum. Guess what? Texas
Gypsum, which had just opened, was located in Irving, Texas nowhere near downtown
Dallas. Jenner asked:
Do you recall whether or not Mrs. Randle, as a friendly gesture - her suggestions were
friendly, were they not, in connection with his securing employment?
Paine: Oh yes.
Jenner: Did she mention the Manner Bakery?
Paine: Possibly, yes. I do recall saying that Lee doesn't drive, making the point that this
was a hampering thing for him. And therefore it made it impossible for him to drive a
truck for the Manner Bakery.
Jenner: And in that connection, had she mentioned the Texas Gypsum Company?
Paine: I don't recall that.
Jenner: At least you do recall that it was impractical to consider possible positions which
would require him to operate an automobile.
Paine: Yes, I believe I do recall a reference now to driving a truck, delivery truck.
Jenner: You have no recollection of any other suggestion as to possible places of
employment?
Paine: I have no recollection of that.
During another part of her testimony before the Warren Commission Ruth Paine was
asked by Albert Jenner:
You have no recollection of any other, at least two other places being suggested, and
you, in turn, stating that they would be unsatisfactory, one because an automobile had
to be used, or it would be necessary for Lee to have an automobile, and the other that
he was lacking in the possible qualifications needed? None of that refreshes your
recollection?
Paine: None of that refreshes my recollections.
Lynne Mae Randle told the Secret Service,
Among other places I suggested were the Manor Bakery and the Texas Gypsum Co.
Mrs. Paine eliminated the bakery job on the basis that Oswald did not have a driver’s
license. She did not offer any comment on the Gypsum Company job.
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More proof that Ruth Paine was told to put Oswald in downtown Dallas lies in the
fact that “kind-hearted” Ruth Paine never told Oswald about a job at Love Field Airport
in Dallas that paid $310 per month but instead placed him in the Texas School Book
Depository – a job, mostly taken by Mexicans and Negroes, that paid $210 per month.
On Tuesday, October 15, 1963 Oswald called Marina and told her he had secured
employment at the depository. The Warren Report stated:
…the Texas Employment Commission attempted to refer Oswald to an
airline company which was looking for baggage and cargo handlers at a
salary which was $100 a month higher than that offered by the Depository
Company. The Employment Commission tried to advise Oswald of this job
at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, October 16, 1963. Since the records of the
Commission indicate that Oswald was then working, it seems clear that
Oswald was hired by the Depository Company before the higher paying
job was available. It is unlikely that he ever learned of this second
opportunity. 128
If Ruth Paine would have called him at the book depository Oswald could have walked
out on Roy Truly and taken the other job. He was not under contract at the depository.
Albert Jenner of the Warren Commission questioned Ruth Paine:
Q. Did you ever hear anything by way of discussion or otherwise by Marina or Lee of
the possibility of his having been tendered or at least suggested to him a job at Trans-
Texas, as a cargo handler at $310 a month?
A. I do not recall that.
Q. This was right at the time he obtained employment at the Texas School Book
Depository?
A. And he was definitely offered such a job?
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Q. Well I won't say it was offered - that he might have been able to secure a job through
the Texas Employment Commission as a cargo-handler at $310 a month.
A. I do recall some reference of that sort, which fell through - that there was not that
possibility.
Q. Tell us what you know about that. Did you hear of it at the time?
A. Yes.
Q. Now would you please relate that to me?
A. I recall some reference to –
Q. How did it come about?
A. From Lee as I recall.
Q. And was it at the time or just right –
A. It was at the time, while he was yet unemployed.
Q. And about the time he obtained employment at the Texas School Book Depository.
A. It seemed to me he went into town with some hopes raised by the employment
agency, I don't know - but then reported that the job had been filled and was not
available to him.
Q. But that was –
A. That is my best recollection –
Q. Of his report to you and Marina.
A. Yes.
Q. But you do not recall discussing it?
A. I recall something of that nature. I do not recall the job itself.
Oswald used Ruth Paine's address and telephone number as a contact point at
this time. Robert Adams of the Texas State Employment Commission stated that one
day before Oswald went to work at the TSBD he called Ruth Paine and told her about
the higher paying job:
Adams: “I left a message with that person that Oswald should contact me at the
commission. My further recollection is that on the following morning at 10:30 AM I again
called…and learned from the person who answered that Oswald was not there and that
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he had in the meantime obtained employment and was working.” 129 On Wednesday,
October 16, 1963, 35 days before the assassination, Oswald began working at the
Texas School Book Depository. Ruth Paine, who had been instructed to place Oswald
in downtown Dallas, never told Oswald about the job at Love Field. Oswald's job at the
Texas School Book Depository required less skill, and was of a lower status, then his
previous jobs, in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. It involved moving book cartons. The
Warren Commission: "Oswald's employment at the Texas School Book Depository was
wholly unrelated to the President's trip to Dallas."
How did CIA get to the Paines? As stated the father of Ruth Paine, William Avery
Hyde, had contact with the CIA and the CIA's Office of Security had traces on him:
"Files of the Office of Security reflect that Ruth Paine is the daughter of William Avery
Hyde, OS C-157,435, (deleted)." William Avery Hyde 130 was an anti-Communist who
supported Socialist Party candidate Norman Thomas. Norman Thomas received
millions of dollars in CIA subsidies because of his anti-Communist views. A report by
Bruce Solie of the CIA generated on December 5, 1963, stated:
Files
Chief, Research Branch/OS/SRS
PAINE, RUTH
nee: HYDE
aka: Mrs. Ruth Paine
1. FBI S.A. Cregar on December 4, 1963, confirmed that the Subject is the daughter of
William Avery Hyde, SSD-157435. Cregar was furnished a copy of two 1957
investigative reports on William Avery Hyde, for lead purposes only, and was informed
that Hyde was under consideration for a covert use by this Agency in Vietnam in 1957,
but was not used. This information had previously been obtained from [03] CI/SIG.
2. Subject is the individual who is taking care of the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald and
has apparently been quite well known to the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald for an
undetermined period of time. The possibility that William Avery Hyde was the father of
Ruth Paine was previously brought to the attention of Mr. Papich through Mr. Birch
O'Neal, CI/SIG. The Security File of William Hyde contains a copy of a 1956 FBI
investigative report (Security of Government Employees) on Sylvia Ludlow Hyde aka
Mrs. John Hoke who is the sister of Ruth Paine. The file of William Hyde also contains a
1956 OSI report on Sylvia Hoke.
3. In addition to the above, it was previously known that William Avery Hyde and wife
Carol Hyde were associates in the late 1920's and later of Talbot Bielefeldt, #29931,
who is currently employed by this agency in Foreign Documents Division. A certain
amount of information concerning William Hyde, Carol Hyde, and other associates of
Hyde and Bielefeldt during the latter 1920's was furnished by Talbot Bielefeldt during
interviews several years ago. At that time the Bielefeldt case was under extensive
investigation. Bruce Solie.
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On April 8, 1964 the CIA Office of Security reviewed the Ruth Paine entry in
Oswald’s address book:
Files reflect that Ruth Paine is the daughter of William Avery Hyde, OS C-
157435, who was being considered for covert use in 1957 by IO Division;
however Hyde did not receive a security clearance for the proposed
utilization. Files contain no pertinent information regarding Ruth Paine or
her husband, and further reflect that the FBI is aware of the relationship of
Paine and Hyde.
The FBI reported:
On December 4, 1963, CIA made available information to the Bureau
Liaison that in 1957 CIA considered using this individual to operate a
cooperative educational center in Vietnam but he was not used by the
CIA. Investigation by CIA at that time concerning William Avery Hyde was
favorable.
One report says favorable, the other unfavorable. We don’t know if he was hired
by the CIA or not. William Avery Hyde might not have been hired but his cryptonym
might have been. On April 30, 1964, Birch O'Neal generated the following document:
MEMORANDUM FOR FILE (CI/OA File 59751)
SUBJECT: Mrs. Ruth Paine nee Hyde
Shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy the press carried information
concerning a Mrs. Ruth Paine who had befriended the Oswald family. Mr. Bruce Solie,
of the Office of Security, called to my attention that the Office of Security has
information of possible interest concerning William A. Hyde, who had three children;
namely Ruth Hyde, Sylvia Hyde Hoke and Carl Hyde. Mrs. Ruth Paine was known to
have had the name Hyde prior to her marriage. On November 29, 1963, I advised Sam
Papich to contact Mr. Solie of the Office of Security for information of possible interest in
connection with Mrs. Ruth Paine. I indicated to Mr. Papich that the Office of Security
information was of possible security significance and consideration and I was
subsequently informed that the Bureau had been in touch with Mr. Solie for its
information.
Birch D. O'Neal Chief, CI/SIG.
Ruth Paine commented:
The information about the CIA considering my father for Vietnam was a surprise. I doubt
if he would have accepted such an invitation, if it was offered. He certainly didn't go. He
went to Peru. He was working with the Agency for International Development. He
helped to develop rural credit unions for the compasinos so that they could save enough
money to make loans to themselves, instead of always paying the huge bank rates. He
loved it. I know that USAID asked my father to appraise a situation in Georgetown,
Guiana. He recommended against starting a project there, as he thought the local
officials corrupt.
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Michael Paine was told about William Avery Hyde and Angleton. Michael Paine:
I thought he was an insurance salesman. He would never have
any connection to the CIA. This is getting ridiculous. Out of hand!
Michael Paine, who was usually talkative, said: "There's a good movie on TV and
I want to watch it now, so goodbye." He later refused further comment upon receipt of
the documents.
The sister of Ruth Paine, Sylvia Ludlow Hyde Hoke (born October 2, 1929),
worked at the Labor Department from 1949 to 1953. She started working at the CIA in
1954 as a staff psychologist and she also had a security file. Her cover was Personnel
Research Technician, Placement and Employee Relations Division, Director of Civilian
Personnel, Headquarters, Department of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. In 1994
Marina Oswald advised: "Ruth Paine never mentioned her sister was in the CIA." The
Sylvia Hyde Security File 348 201 was held by the Office of Security, Security Analysis
Group. On June 15, 1955, this CIA Official Routing Slip from Bruce Solie was sent to
illegible whose initials were "wmw"- "Remarks: Please have file set up on Sylvia Hyde
Hoke nee Hyde MS 8201." On December 21, 1955, this document was generated:
To: Mr. Bruce Solie, 2046 I Bldg.
From: Talbot Bielefeldt, 2401 Y Bldg. (Ext 2150)
Subject: ORR, Paul and Violet and others.
1. William A. Hyde was in Washington this last weekend, visiting his daughter and sonin-law,
Sylvia and John Hoke. The latter invited (Deleted) and me over to meet him on
Saturday night December 17, 1955, since we were friends at Stanford. (Deleted) Memo
Dated December 21, 1955. Sanitized version appears above. Deleted Sections contain
references to the Hokes, only 3rd party personal info.
In 1965 Talbot Bielefeldt, Chief USSR Branch, Foreign Documents Division, CIA,
Arlington, Virginia, was questioned by Naval Intelligence about Hoke. He gave the Navy
favorable references and stated that "the sister of the Subject's wife was the one who
rented an apartment to Lee Harvey Oswald and wife in Texas."
On March 21, 1956, the Department of the Air Force issued Sylvia Hoke a Final
Secret Clearance which remained in effect until May 31, 1957, six months after the
investigation by OSI, at which time Sylvia Hyde resigned her cover employment with the
U.S. Air Force to accompany her husband overseas to Germany. As of 1965 the above
clearance was still in effect. Sylvia Hyde Hoke was granted a Top Secret Clearance
from the Agency for International Development on April 17, 1956. On September 20,
1956, and on September 21, 1956, the CIA noted that Sylvia Hyde Hoke's name
appeared in FBI Reports about her father, William A. Hyde. Another document stated:
"For additional Information regarding Sylvia Ludlow Hyde Hoke Refer to:
1. OSI (U.S.A.F.) Rpt. dated December 14, 1956, (#33-3439) Title: Sylvia Ludlow Hyde
Hoke.
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2. FBI Rpts covering period September 17, 1956, to February 6, 1957, (FD-204; May 7,
1954). Title: Sylvia Ludlow Hyde Hoke.
In February 1957 Sylvia Hyde Hoke was the Subject of an FBI investigation,
when her mother-in-law called her husband from a telephone monitored by the FBI.
Mrs. Helen Hoke had called her son from the office of CPUSA member Dorothy H.
Wilson:
Dorothy Wilson, according to the informant, also advised (Deleted) that
Helen Hoke has a son, John Lindsay Hoke, who works for "AAA" in
Washington, D.C. and whose wife works in “Navy Intelligence.” Wilson
continued with the information that John Hoke's wife was being upgraded
from a semi-secret position, to a top secret position, and the authorities
had informed her that she could not have this top secret position because
of Helen Hoke's association with Wilson. Too, Wilson advised (Deleted)
John Hoke's wife was told that it did not appear that she would get the
TOP SECRET position if she could not be cleared, they did not believe
she was fit to hold her present position. Wilson said John Hoke's wife was
faced with dismissal, which could have been frightful, except that she was
expecting a child and was leaving in February anyway.
The United States Civil Service Bureau advised the FBI by letter dated June 27,
1957, that Sylvia Hyde Hoke had resigned prior to a determination being made in her
loyalty case. Much of Sylvia Hoke's CIA Security File is withheld as of 2010. Sylvia
Hyde Hoke's clearance with the Agency for International Development was revalidated
on January 17, 1962. On September 22, 1963, the CIA reported its files contained "No
Pertinent Identifiable Information on Subject." On November 11, 1963, Bruce Solie
asked Mrs. M.D. Stevens of the Office of Security to do a search on Sylvia Hyde Hoke
and Carl Hyde. The files on many of Ruth Paine’s relation were both covert and overt.
SYLVIA HOKE
June 30, 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: HOKE, SYLVIA H.
FILE # 348 201
1. Subject, under name of Sylvia Hoke with an address of 523 Monticello Drive, Falls
Church, Virginia, was identified as a CIA employee in the 1961 issue of the Falls Church
Virginia Directory:
2. Since it is known that opposition intelligence services have in the past checked
similar publications, it should be presumed that the indicated employment of Subject by
the CIA is known to other intelligence organizations. The basic memorandum on which
paragraph one is based is available in Volume III of Exposure of CIA Personnel, OS
#601 818. This memorandum contains no additional information concerning SAC and
further review of file # 601 818 can normally be considered unnecessary. Bruce Solie,
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Hill's 1961 Falls Church, Virginia, City Directory contained the listing:
Hoke John (Sylvia) emp US Govt home 523 Monticello Drive, (Fax Co)
Hoke Sylvia, Mrs. emp CIA home 523 Monticello Drive, (Fax Co).
Sylvia Hyde Hoke was contacted on November 22, 1993. She was asked if she
had ever worked for the CIA: "No, I'm not going to answer any questions. I refuse to
give interviews." Ruth Paine was asked about her sister:
I would doubt it seriously. When I asked her if she worked for the
government she said she did statistical work for the Air Force. It's very
unlikely and something I never heard from her. It's unknown to me.
Michael Paine was told about Sylvia Hyde Hoke's connection to the CIA. Michael
Paine:
I don't believe it. It is not true. I don't remember what her occupation was. I
had no idea this was the case. Ask Ruth, what does she say? If it was
true, it had no bearing on the Kennedy assassination.
Ruth Paine's brother-in-law, John Lindsey Hoke, worked for the American
Automobile Association from 1951 to 1957. He accepted an appointment with the
International Cooperation Administration (the predecessor of the Agency for
International Development) on February 4, 1956, as an "audio visual consultant
(regional) to be assigned to the U.S. Operations Mission (USOM), Panama City,
Panama." John Lindsey Hoke told the Deputy Director of Communications of the
International Cooperation Administration, Gale Griswold, that, "while assigned in Latin
America he had been requested, and did, intelligence type work for the American
Embassy." Gale Griswold did not know for whom John Lindsey Hoke worked, or what
his job was. On June 24, 1957, John Lindsey Hoke was transferred to Paremaribo,
Surinam, where he worked with the International Cooperation Administration's Office of
Program Support, Communications Research Division. One of his family members
could not adapt to the field and Hoke returned to Washington, D.C. where he worked
with the Agency for International Development in the Office of Program Support,
Communications Research Division. Ruth Paine stated, "You want to know why he left -
his wife couldn't stand Surinam." A notation in Hoke's Naval Intelligence File was "Mrs.
Van Sast, CIA, on September 25, 1962, called and wanted to know Hoke's TOP
SECRET clearance and basis." On June 30, 1963, Hoke terminated his employment
with AID, no reason given. In 1962,
DIO-NDW Confidential Informant (P-1) advised that Subject was approved
as eligible for Top Secret Clearance during the years of 1962 to 1963 by a
Government Agency who conducts security investigations [CIA or FBI].
On August 21, 1962, the CIA granted an Approval for Liaison with John Lindsey Hoke:
TO: Chief, Employee Activity Branch PSD/OS
THROUGH: Chief, Security Officer, OFFICE of Clearance
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The following is hereby requested to be effective on a continuing basis:
CIA Employees: NAME (Deleted) and other such member of the
Engineering Staff designated by him. Ext. 2952 Office OC-E
Non-CIA Employee: John L. Hoke. Organization AID, Communications
Resource Specialist State Annex #1, Washington, D.C. On September 28,
1962, Subject's Security Officer advised that SAC was cleared for access
to classified information up to and including TOP SECRET April 19, 1954,
per (Deleted) Classification of matter to be discussed: SECRET, Chief
Engineering Staff, OC Ext. 2952 (Deleted) Authorized Signature.
John L. Hoke was a CIA contract employee. On August 22, 1963, the CIA again
granted an Approval for Liaison with John Lindsey Hoke on a continuing basis. This
document was identical to the first Request for Approval of Liaison except that a block
stamp on it was signed by Howard Osborn and the notation EAB card reflects on
September 28, 1962, Subject's Security Officer advised that SAC was cleared for
access to classified information up to and including Top Secret.
Ruth Paine visited the Hokes in August 1963. When Hoke's Request for Liaison
Approval was renewed on August 13, 1964, it was identical to the others except for a
block stamp that read:
On August 20, 1964, Subject's Security Officer advised that Subject
was cleared for access to classified information up to and including
Top Secret TERMINATED June 30, 1963. Return, no action.
In July 1965 John Lindsey Hoke was the subject of a security investigation by
U.S. Naval Intelligence because of his connection to Ruth Paine combined with his
employment by Atlantic Research. Atlantic Research was founded in 1949 and is an
Alexandria-based, high-technology firm, which is engaged in the production of rockets,
gas generators and chemical research techniques, design and development of
command and control systems for space and air defense, data processing, computer
facilities management, computer-based research and analysis and the development of
defense software. Atlantic Research was involved in launching unmanned satellites in
1956. John Lindsey Hoke was contacted in November 1993. He asked: "What is the
purpose of your book? If this is another one of these books that's doing an exposé on
plots and so forth and so on, I'm simply not interested in getting mixed-up in it." It was
explained to John Lindsey Hoke that his wife's close connection to the CIA had been
exposed.
She worked for the CIA, no (laughs). Well, let me ask her and find out.
Honey, did you work for CIA? I don't know what you got, or where you got
it. I don't particularly want to get into it. I don't need a copy. I don't know
where all this crap is coming up from. I'm sure I'm in it too.
John Lindsey Hoke was read the document that stated he was doing intelligence
work: "Me? I really don't want to discuss it anymore. Thanks for calling." It is obvious
that Ruth Paine was no ordinary Irving, Texas, housewife. How many of her neighbors
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had CIA connections tracing back to James Angleton? Ruth Paine was not the only
Dallas associate of Oswald who had Angleton ties:
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C-77202 on Perry Harten reflects that Perry and wife, Rose Madeline
HARTEN, were registered agents for the Brussels World Exposition in
1956. Perry Harten in 1955 was being considered for assignment in
QKACTIVE 131 , but no use materialized. He was born 25 October 1915 in
New York City and had been employed from 1942-1945 with OWI, and in
1946 transferred to the Department of State as Chief of Studio Operating
Section (IBD). He also worked for USIA until 1954 and his termination may
have been based on an investigation then being conducted by State
Department on a suspected homosexual ring in VOA since Subject was at
that, time under suspicion based on reports from co-workers.
The FBI first reported:
The name R. Harten Hawthorn or Hawthorne has been checked through
Fort Worth City Directories back to 1955 with negative results. This name
does not appear in the last two telephone directories of Fort Worth, and he
is not known at WBAP, Fort Worth. The Credit Bureau of Greater Fort
Worth does not have a record on any such name.
Finally the FBI got it right:
Romain Harten, of 3719 Hawthorne Street, Dallas, Texas, told the FBI that
George Bouhe had given Oswald his name and address as a possible
place to stay, but he did not want a communist living with him.
Why the confusion? Probably because Oswald didn’t write down a first name as he did
with the other entries of Russian exiles? Why? And why what appears to be a test of a
pen near the word LANE, especially close to the “L” in LANE making it look like JANE.
The FBI:
A review of the City Directory for Dallas, Texas reflects a Roman Harten,
wife, Martha, employed as a draftsman for Koch, Fowler and Crafe, with
residence located 3719 Hawthorne, Dallas, Texas.
If you put the Jane and Roman together it becomes JANE ROMAN Angleton’s
Counterintelligence Liaison and long time associate in the CIA and OSS.
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Assassination Records Review Board Interview with Jane Roman, former
head of Counterintelligence/ Liaison for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Mrs. Roman recounts working for James J. Angleton in the late 1950’s
and early 1960s. Roman notes the extent of cooperation between
intelligence agencies and recounts her knowledge of HTLINGUAL, a mail
opening and mail cover program of the CIA. Mrs. Roman recounts her
knowledge of the experience of several defectors from the Soviet Union.
Mrs. Roman also details the handling and transfer of documents within the
CIA and recounts her knowledge of the CIA file on Lee Harvey Oswald.
FBI reported:
“WE BOTH KNOW WHO IS RESPONSIBLE”
On November 26, 1963 Dallas Confidential FBI Informant T-4,
advised that he had received information that a male voice was overheard
in a conversation which took place between telephone number CR-5-
5211, Arlington, Texas, [unpublished phone number of Paine at Bell
Helicopter] and telephone number BL-3-1628 [a phone number listed in
Michael Paine's name, but actually Ruth Paine’s number as they were
separated], Irving, Texas, on November 23, 1963. Informant advised the
exact time of this conversation was not available, and that it was not
known from which of the telephone numbers the call originated. Informant
advised that the male voice was heard to comment that he felt sure Lee
Harvey Oswald had killed the President, but he did not feel Oswald was
responsible, and further stated: 'We both know who is responsible.'
It should be noted that the only telephone call between telephone number
CR-5-5211, Arlington, Texas, and telephone number BL-3-1628, Irving,
Texas, during the period November 22, 1963, to November 26, 1963, was
the one call on November 22, 1963, which, according to the telephone
company records, indicates that Mrs. Michael Paine was calling collect
from CR-5-5211, the place of employment of her husband. Previous
information, furnished by Captain Paul Barger, Irving, Texas, Police
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Department, to the effect that he had received information from individual
he could not recall concerning a telephone conversation which took place
on November 23, 1963, between telephone numbers CR-5-5211,
Arlington, Texas and BL-3-1623, Irving, Texas, has been reported. Mrs.
Ruth Paine, 2515 West 5th Street, Irving, Texas, has previously stated
that on November 22, 1963, at about 1:00 p.m., her husband telephoned
from his place of business, and advised her that the President had just
been shot. Mrs. Paine denied having any conversation with her husband
at his place of employment on November 23, 1963. 132
This was a clerical error and the telephone records should have indicated Mr.
Michael Paine was calling collect not Mrs. The telephone records indicated that Ruth
Paine placed a collect call to Michael Paine from his office to his home yet no one at
Bell Helicopter testified that they saw Ruth Paine at the facility that day. Marina Oswald
testified that Ruth Paine was not absent any time during that entire day. In 1976 Dallas
Confidential FBI Informant T-4 Paul Barger said he recalled the situation and that it was
he who told the FBI the essence of the conversation, as related to him. He said the
reason he wouldn’t divulge the name of the person who overheard the conversation was
because the person who overheard it would have lost his job. “Due to some mechanical
difficulties or something he was checking out the line. He was a telephone company
repairman. I’m just not going to mention his name. I don’t think it makes any difference
now.” Barger said he didn’t recall exactly what the phone conversation allegedly said. “I
do know the conversation was between her and her husband and it went to the effect
that ‘we all know who did it.’ He said he did not believe the FBI had any wiretap on the
Paine house. “If they did they wouldn’t have been asked me for what happened.”
Theodore Gunderson, the FBI Dallas SAC said, “I can only tell you that we had no
wiretap on the Paine’s at any time.” Wesley Liebler questioned Ruth Paine about this
telephone conversation:
You have previously been questioned about a supposed telephone call
that was supposed to have been made from Michael Paine's office to your
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home shortly after the assassination, and I do not represent that I have
knowledge of such a call, that such a call was ever made, but as you
know, there were rumors to the effect that this man and woman together in
the conversation - that one of them said he really wasn't responsible for
the assassination, and they both knew who was and I think both of you
and Michael have testified about this before and have denied there was
any such telephone conversation between you and anyone. Was there a
telephone conversation of any kind between you and Michael between
your residence and Michael's office on November 22, 1963, or November
23, 1963?
I have testified to the fact that Michael called. I don't know whether it was
from the cafeteria where he had been eating or more likely from his office,
to my home, on November 22, 1963. That was the only telephone
conversation between those two numbers on those two days that I know
of?
Ruth Paine commented, "It rings no bells for me. I must say I am not impressed with the
quality of FBI reporting." Michael Paine stated:
I've heard that a couple of times, way back, for many years. When I first
heard that said, I thought that they must have overheard me talking to my
father very shortly after the evening or the next day of the assassination.
In this conversation I said to him rather emphatically “We know how he got
that job at the Depository.” Which we did. Immediately after the
assassination, I assumed the phone was tapped.
The repairman did not want to lose his job or face an illegal wiretapping charge
so he lied about the date of the conversation least it be traced back to him. If he was
questioned he could have always said, “But I was not working that day, it was
Saturday.” The man heard what he heard. Both Ruth and Michael Paine believed
Oswald killed JFK as they had been asked by CIA to put him in a building along the
parade route seemingly for that purpose so ultimately the CIA was responsible. The
reason they blurted this out was because the Paine’s might have believed their phones
were tapped but not a few hours after the assassination. The fact remains that the
telephone repair man was aware of Paine’s unlisted office number and Ruth’s home
number so he must have overheard their conversation. In December 1994 Ruth Paine
was living in St. Augustine, Florida, and working in Tampa, Florida as a school
psychologist and still did volunteer work for the Quakers. 133 Hemming advised:
Ruth Paine's a fucking patriot, she doesn't know shit from Shinola. Don't
read nothing, don't wanna know, don't give a fuck. And they're loyal till the
day they die. They believe what's told to them. They're like cult members
out of Waco, or Georgetown. 'Drink your Kool Aide, drink it before goes
bad.' She's a religious fucking fanatic. They'll believe shit out of the fucking
book. God is on their side. That's the kind of fucking people they are. Very
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valuable fucking people. They never give yaa...Now, that she would be in
touch with an Oswald, that's saying something. They don't expose people
like Ruth Paine to fucking dimwit numbfucks. She was babysitting the guy
regarding some knowledge he had acquired in the Soviet Union. She was
told to put him in the Texas School Book Depository. They don't tell why.
They put a 14 inch nigger dick between her legs and that's it. They do
what the fuck they're told. You don't tell some fucking cunt what's going
on. She's not going to betray anyone. She'll keep her mouth shut until the
day she fucking dies. Her relatives in the CIA were serving their country. If
they were used and abused, it's not their fault. They are not the enemy.
They were complete fucking dupes. In Angleton's business, the people
that are closest to you, that know too much, are scared. They're always
scared.
Frontline reporter Scott Malone reported that when Dallas Police searched the
home of Ruth Paine after the assassination they found a commercial pornographic film
depicting acts of lesbianism. Ruth Paine: "I certainly never saw them. I don't know what
they thought they found." The police also found "Operating Manual for Sears Tower
Automatic Projector" On page 17 of the description of items found in the Paine home
items J and K are marked Deleted. On November 26, 1963, S.A. Warren C. DeBrueys
informed SAC Gordon Shanklin: "Movie reels in possession of Dallas Pd on November
24, 1963, and November 25, 1963, as result of seizure by search warrant from the
home of Ruth Paine, November 23, 1963...were reviewed and bore no pertinence to
instant case." I tried to locate this film at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. so
that the members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations and others could
review it assuming a projector was available. The film could not be located so that
ended that. I spent months at the Archives going through every document there was
about the Kennedy assassination. I also did extensive research in the FBI Reading
Room and Library of Congress. Cong. Gonzalez obtained a stack pass for me. One
night I became so absorbed in my research I almost got locked in the Library overnight.
I banged on the door and the guard let me out after which I returned to Grover
Norquist’s townhouse where I was crashing.
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CHAPTER NINETEEN
OSWALD’S NOTATIONS IN THE USSR
Oswald was the strangest Communist I ever did see. He had the address of the CPUSA
in the book:
But he only book ever mentioned in his address book was 1984 an anti-Communist
novel written by George Orwell.
Oswald always had a counter-intelligence interest in Communism and Socialism.
He borrowed Das Kapital 134 from the library when he lived with his mother Marguerite in
New Orleans. He wrote to a socialist group for literature when he was just a teenager.
But Oswald enlisted in the Marines rather than joining the CPUSA which indicated his
interest was learning about the Commies to destroy them, not aid in their cause. As
stated it was in the Marines Oswald encountered Hemming who also had a lifelong
interest in fighting communism. The two men murdered Philippine Communists together
and Oswald trusted and looked up to Hemming. Shoot, everyone looked up to
Hemming, he was six foot six.
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Oswald met with the Russian dissident and anti-Communist Boris Pasternak just
prior to his re-defection. The name of the hotel Pasternak was forced to stay in was the
Ostankino located in the boonies of Moscow. He met with him at 8 PM in room 6. The
CIA was behind the publication of Pasternak’s Doctor Zivago, and the Russian Jew was
a great favorite of James Angleton.
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Oswald was in touch with dissident Russians working for the CIA while he was in
the Soviet Union. The name Kozlova was found in his address book along with this
accompanying information: Vneshtory Bank Bank of Foreign Trade Moscow Neglinnaya
Ul. 12 Kozlova (woman's surname) K-03400 (telephone number) (792) (possible
telephone extension) The CIA listed three Kozlovas. Which Kozlova was Oswald in
touch with? The CIA could not, or did not, want to trace the telephone extension and
find out who it went to. My vote went to Olympiada Kozlova. A bank is included in the
entry one of Olympiada’s relatives had an SSD number which meant he/she worked for
the CIA with Angleton at CI/SIG. The reason this SSD number was withheld was
because it provided another link to Oswald and CIA.
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MICHAEL MIKAILO JELISAVCIC
The letters "AM EX" appeared at least six times in Oswald's address book; he
also had the telephone number of the American Express office in Moscow. Next to it,
the name "Jelisvacic." According to the phone book at the American Embassy Michael
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Jelisavcic was the office manager of American Express, Moscow. The words "one-two
Dinner" also appeared. Oswald mentioned nothing about this dinner date in his Historic
Diary. CIA was asked for traces on Michael Jelisavcic.
Address Book Page 28 (A2)
A. Ex.
K-4200
384
1 – 2 Dinner
Room 384
Jelisavcic
1. The Telephone Directory of the American Embassy Moscow lists the American
Express Company Room 384, Hotel Metropol telephone 942000; manager Mr. Michael
Jelisavcic.
2. The initial number 9 and letter K are interchangeable in the Moscow telephone
system
3. The nationality of Jelisavcic is unknown. No further traces.
Mikailo Jelisavcic was born in Raska, Montenegro in 1912. He graduated with a diploma
in economics and then worked in the accounting section of the Royal Yugoslav Foreign
Ministry. On the eve of World War Two he participated in the Yugoslav special
delegation to Moscow. He escaped from Yugoslavia during the German invasion and
made his way to South Africa. During World War Two he flew in the South African Air
Force. After World War Two he became a US citizen in 1958. He graduated from
Columbia University in 1956. He then worked for over ten years as a business man in
Moscow during which time he devoted all his spare moments to the study of Russian
art, architecture, literature and history. His work on Soviet Art has been published with
the title "Soviet Art". This text covers Russian art in the Second half of the 19th century
and Soviet Art and architecture.
On December 17, 1968, the New York Office of the FBI sent this wire to the Director:
Enclosed herein for the Chicago Office are 14 copies of various communications
relating to the investigation of Michael Jelisavcic. Also enclosed for Chicago is one
photograph of Jelisavcic and one photograph of 'Sammy' [Yuri Nosenko] for possible
use during interrogation of Jelisavcic.
For the information of the Chicago Office, Michael Jelisavcic, currently employed as an
American Express Company representative, Moscow, USSR and is visiting US on home
leave. It was ascertained, this date, that Jelisavcic departed from the New York City
area on December 11, 1968, en route to Chicago. The Bureau is requested to authorize
Chicago to immediately interview Jelisavcic in an effort to resolve all facts concerning
possible compromise of Jelisavcic by Soviet intelligence during his employment within
the USSR.
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The enclosures for the Chicago Office contain all pertinent information re Jelisavcic in
the possession of the New York Office. Chicago's attention is directed particularly to
Bureau letter, dated January 8, 1965, in captioned matter wherein Jelisavcic’s name
and room number were in possession of Oswald. During interview he should be
questioned concerning all circumstances surrounding any possible association with or
knowledge of Oswald and this information should be set out in Letter Head
Memorandum form suitable for dissemination under Oswald caption. All other pertinent
information re Jelisavcic's connection with Soviets in USSR and possible compromise
by Soviet Intelligence should be set out in a form suitable for dissemination under
Subject's caption.
That interview has yet to be released. The closest thing to it that has been released is
the document on the next page of The Oswald Code that remains redacted as of 2010.
MICHAEL S. JELISAVCIC
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On October 30, 1969 the New York Times reported,
A U.S. Travel Agent Expelled by Soviet Moscow: The manager of the
American Express Company here said tonight that he had been ordered to
leave the Soviet Union “as soon as possible.” He is Michael S. Jelisavcic,
a United States citizen who was born in Yugoslavia and who has been in
Moscow for nine years. Mr. Jelisavcic said that the order for his departure
had been relayed to him by officials of the United States Embassy. He
said in an interview that the apparent reason for his expulsion order was
his involvement of August 6 in an automobile accident. The accident, Mr.
Jelisavcic said, occurred when an apparently intoxicated Soviet citizen
walked in front of the automobile he was driving. Mr. Jelisavcic said that
his wife was vacationing in France and his son was a student in New York.
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The above was the last government document available on Jelisavcic. Oswald
may have inadvertently come into contact with a Soviet agent or asset.
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ANGLETON CLAIMED NANCY DAMMAN & RICHARD JACOB
NAMES APPEARED ON THIS PAGE
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Perhaps the most intriguing document regarding Oswald’s CIA connections is
one dated April 8, 1964 that deals with events as late as 1972 and may have been
predated by Angleton. It contained names that do not appear in the CIA translation of
Oswald’s address book entitled Name List with Traces (seen above) nor do the names
appear on the CIA’s translation of the Russian names in Oswald’s address book given
to the FBI. Nancy Dammann 135 spent 17 years with USAID as a Communications Media
Advisor in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines.
Nancy Dammann, 96, of Peoria, Arizona passed away on Wednesday, June 3,
2015. Born in Chicago, Illinois, August 5, 1919, Nancy was the daughter of Isabel Lynde
and John Francis Dammann. Upon graduating from Smith College (1941), she
embarked on a career of service that eventually took her across the world. She first
became a Courier for the Kentucky-based Frontier Nursing Service riding horseback to
escort health professionals and carried medical supplies to distant clinics throughout
rural Kentucky. With the entry of the United States into World War II, she joined the
Women’s Army Corps and served as a Classification Specialist in administrative offices
in the South Pacific. During her service she was awarded an Asiatic Pacific Theater
Ribbon with Three Bronze Battle Stars, the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with One
Bronze Battle Star, the WAC Service Ribbon and Two Overseas Service Bars along
with a Good Conduct Medal. She was Honorably Discharged in 1945. She returned to
Asia with the U.S. Department of State’s Information Service working in Madras, India,
and subsequently became the first American female diplomat in Nepal. Always intrepid,
Nancy’s work with USIS found her trekking into the Himalayas with public health
workers, visiting medical clinics in distant villages. In the 1960s, she joined the United
States Agency for International Development, (USAID), serving in Thailand, Jamaica,
and the Philippines.
How she ended up in this report God only knows.
Richard C. Jacob was a twenty-four-year-old German-American CIA case officer
from Egg Harbor, New Jersey, listed on the embassy rolls as an "archivist" who was
assigned the task of picking up some intelligence information from Colonel Penkovsky
at a dead drop by Case Officer Paul Garbler. When Jacob arrived at the Pushkin Street
drop, the KGB was waiting. He had walked straight into a trap, just as Garbler had
feared. No traces on “U Johns” other than the name appeared on a Soviet visa blacklist.
Jacob, 76, passed away October 22, 2012. He was a graduate of Egg Harbor City High
School, majored in Russian Civilization at Dartmouth College, was a Fulbright Scholar,
University of Munich and was an intelligence officer during the Cold War with postings in
Moscow and Berlin. 136
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ALEXIS DAVISON
Alexis Davison, as an Embassy doctor, had conducted a medical examination of
Marina Oswald in 1962 in Moscow prior to the Oswald's' departure for the USA. Davison
could not recall giving his address to Lee or Marina but testified before the HSCA that in
doing so, "this was not an unusual thing to do since my family had always been very
hospitable to Russians who visited Atlanta." Davison was an agent for the CIA,
providing "passive communication support" for a major intelligence operation in Moscow
involving the Russian spy GRU Colonel Oleg Penkovsky. In May 1963, Penkovsky was
arrested and Davison was one of the US diplomats ordered out of the USSR.
Penkovsky was later shot as a traitor by the Russians.
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Oswald’s address book indicates he was in touch with some hardcore KGB
Agents some of whom dispatched Nosenko:
I’M LOOKING OVER ROSA KUZNETSOVA
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Kuznetsova, Rosa
Intor. Hotel “Mink”
92-463
House 30 Apt 8
Ul. Kola Miskneva
Nel Norodovskvim
122 In of Foreign Languages
KGB?
These entries for "Rosa" were in Oswald's address book:
(1) Kuznetsova, Rosa Inter. Hotel Minsk 9-2-463.
(2) Kuznetsova, Rosa Inter Hotel Minsk 9-2-463 House 30 Apt. 8 Ul. Kola Miskneva (?).
(3) Rosa House 130 Apt. 8.
(4) Rosa House 13 Apt. 8 Karla Oginkneta (Liebknecht?) Street (?).
(5) Rosa Karl Liebnecht Street 130, apartment 8. Telephone 9-2-463.
The CIA: "Traces: None on Kuznetsova or her address. The Minsk Telephone Directory
gives 9-2-462 as the number of Inturist, Minsk Hotel. 9-24-463 is not listed." On January
28, 1964, a CIA CI staff employee, from working under Angleton, generated this
document:
Rosa Kuznetsova, former wife of Augustin Trueba (Calvo), may be identical with the
Rosa Kuznetsova who was shown in the address book as being with Intourist at the
Hotel Minsk.
TO: Chief/Research Branch/OS/SRS
FROM: M. D. Stevens
SUBJECT: LEE HARVEY OSWALD
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Rosa Kuznetsova
1. According to information in a July 27, 1960, IRD report [Information Research
Development of MI-5] on a May 1960 interview with Augustin Trueba (Calvo), #110 066
Rosa Kuznetsova is the first wife of Augustin Trueba and at that time (May 1960) was
living in Moscow with their daughter Ludmilla Kuznetsova.
2. Augustin Trueba was described as a 36-year-old married male who had been
repatriated to Spain from the USSR in December 1956 after having left Spain to go to
the Soviet Union in 1939 and having remained there. In October 1959 he walked into
the Office of the Labor Attaché of the U.S. Embassy, Spain, and offered information
about his work in the Soviet Union; he eventually was recruited to supply positive
information. He was given the pseudonym of Sergei Petrovich Ivanov.
3. Augustin Trueba's polygraph in May 1960 reflected that he was withholding
information regarding: helping or working for Soviet Intelligence and being sent to Spain
by the Soviets, signing an agreement to work for Soviet Intelligence, information about
Communist and Komsomol membership and other factors; and that he had discussed
his CIA work with his wife and others. During his IRD interview, which was conducted in
Spain, Augustin Trueba discussed the possible effect on his former wife, Rosa
Kuznetsova, and their daughter should his association with CIA be discovered by the
Soviets and commented that he had caused his daughter enough trouble, suffering and
punishment, in that she did not know who her father was and had not had the benefit of
his guidance, etc. since he had left his wife when his daughter was quite young. He
mentioned that on his way from “Magadan to Spain” (time not stated) he stopped in
Moscow and while there visited Rosa Kuznetsova’s residence. She was not there, he
said, but his daughter opened the door and talked with him while he waited for her to
return. (It is not clear whether or not she did return while he was there. This could
probably be resolved by asking Mr. Stoiaken who conducted the interrogation). He said
that his daughter did not recognize him and did not know him to be her father.
According to Trueba he did not correspond with his former wife or their child or with
anyone in the USSR. His current wife, Felicia Calvo, he said, was corresponding with
her sister who lived near Moscow. According to Trueba, he met Rosa Kuznetsova
sometime in 1945 and married her later that year or in early 1946; He stated that at the
time she work for Guk as an audio technician. The child he said was born November 20,
1946. He left her some time in 1947 and as he recalled he received a divorce from her
in October 1947. He got a divorce he said, because she became physically unattractive
to him and because he heard rumors that she had been having an affair with some
other man at her place of employment. After giving a long detailed story regarding the
divorce, its costs etc. Trueba admitted that he did not in fact receive a divorce and that
there was only a separation. He added that his present wife had met Rosa Kuznetsova
sometime during the period 1950 /1954 while both were attending the Moscow Juridical
Institute. He said, in fact, that his present wife had also met his daughter, Ludmilla
Kuznetsova, and that during the period they were awaiting repatriation to Spain,
Ludmilla spent quite a bit of time with him and his present wife. During the IRD interview
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Augustin Trueba, who admitted that he had lied on various accounts, became
uncooperative and bluntly refused to cooperate further. (Information concerning Rosa
Kuznetsova is contained on pages 3, 6 and 7 of the July 27, 1960 IRD report. See copy
attached.) Signed M. D. Stevens.
The IRD used Media and Academic fronts, often in conjunction with CIA, such as
Encounter Magazine. I suspect Trueba was a high value intellectual but I can find no
traces on him except in Homage to Spanish Exiles Voices of the Spanish Civil War by
Nancy MacDonald which states that “Agustin Trueba Calvo was born in Santa ??? in
1923 and his wife Felisa was ...Trueba' s brother was shot by the Spanish Fascists and
his mother spent 13...” But there is interesting information on a Mr. Guk.
After The Big Event led directly to the door of the Soviet Union and Cuba, the
Sovs dispatched a phony defector who would claim to have been in charge of the
Oswald KGB file. Angleton knew this KGB officer was bogus because he knew exactly
what Oswald was up to in the USSR having put Oswald up to it. This was Yuri Nosenko.
In order to show CIA and FBI that Nosenko was a true defector, after his socalled
defection there had to be a purge in the KGB of everyone close to him and of
those who leaked information to him. If some KGB agent’s careers had to be ruined, so
be it. The FBI fell for this but Angleton did not. He looked at it as part of a massive KGB
deception, just as he regarded the other KGB “defectors” who vouched for Nosenko’s
bona fides. In The Examination of the Bona Fides of a KGB Defector CIA had this to say
about Yu. I Guk
Implying that their friendship was not of long-standing, Nosenko related in 1962
that he and Guk were together nearly every day in Geneva, where they went out to chat
and have a few drinks. As a consequence, Nosenko was granted access to the
residency and was able to elict information about Guk’s operations in Geneva. He
described his big, big friend Guk as the Deputy Legal Resident in Geneva and the only
“strong officer” in the residency.
Comment: In 1964 Nosenko attributed his gaining access to the residency in 1962 to
TSYMBAL, [head of the KGB Illegal Department in Geneva] not to Guk. (Deleted)
In another CIA document Angleton wondered why Guk was not part of the purge?
Comment: As discussed in our memorandum of March 25, 1964, Yari Guk appears to
be a central figure in this KGB provocation. Nosenko repeatedly and often suspiciously
brings up Guk in a variety of contexts. AQUAMARINE (who, we now are quite certain,
has been under KGB control from the outset) has also reported—from two different subsources
at two different times--on Guk and the latter's friendship with Nosenko. He first
reported in June 1964 that Guk was in "some unexplained trouble" and learned in July
that Guk had, in fact, been fired from the KGB. That your source also mentions Guk
therefore takes on special significance. June 30, 1964: Guk is a good friend of
Nosenko’s. Don’t know what problems this will cause for Guk. July 29, 1964. Golubev’s
assignment exposed to Nosenko by GUK. Don’t know whether Guk is one of those fired
as a result of indiscretions of Nosenko.
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The FBI failed to realize that the KGB Nosenko Operation would be a failure if a
purge did not occur after his defection:
It was also reported that Sergei M Golubev, a KGB employee assigned to
the Soviet Embassy in Washington, DC is expected to return to the Soviet
Union in the near future. Golubev, it is noted, arrived in the United States
on December 18, 1963. Golubev is returning to Moscow, primarily
because he is known to Yuri Nosenko, having worked with Nosenko for a
period of time within KGB, Moscow. Subsequently, Nosenko and Golubev
were given different assignments within KGB and thereafter, did not
associate with each other in the course of their daily activities. Nosenko
and Golubev did have a common friend, however, an individual known
only by the surname Guk who was also an employee of KGB Moscow. It
has now been determined probably by the Investigative Commission
representing the Central Committee of the CP, that Guk told Yuri Nosenko
that Golubev had been reassigned to work in the KGB Residency in
Washington, D. C. This, it is stated, is the underlying reason behind
Golubev contemplated return to the Soviet Union. It is not known whether
Guk, mentioned above, is one of the 15 individuals referred to above, who
have been expelled from the KGB, as a result of the investigation of the
Nosenko defection.
The possibility exists that Rosa Kuznetsova was the cutout between Oswald and
Guk, who might have been the KGB official who engineered the Nosenko defection. On
January 31, 1964, Birch D. O’Neal, Chief, CI-SIG signed a Memorandum for the Record
in response to the document about Rosa Kuznetsova having been married to Augustin
Trueba. Based on the description of Rosa Kuznetsova furnished by Oswald’s Historic
Diary, - lived in Minsk, blonde, 23, O’Neal concluded the two Rosa Kuznetsovas were
not identical. Raymond Rocca said it was “quite clear to him that the Rosa Kuznetsova
concerning whom entries were made in the address book was identical with the Rosa
Kuznetsova referred to in the diary.” The CIA found no traces in Minsk of a tourist guide,
or anyone else named Rosa Kuznetsova, nor could it verify that 130 Karl Liebnecht
Street was a valid Minsk address. How could CIA explain this away? Oswald wrote: "I
study russian elemantry and advanced grammas from text books with a English
speaking Russian intourist teacher by the name of Rosa Agafonava, Minsk January to
May 1960." The Warren Commission remarked: "Reference to 'Rosa Agafanova'
probably should be to 'Rosa Kuznetsova'." Angleton and his band of Counter-
Intelligence analysts never examined the possibility that Rosa Kuznetsova’s name was
masked and obscured by numerous “Rosa” address book entries.
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ROSA IS ON THE LEFT
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VERA ALIZBERG
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According to the Warren Commission "Vera Golevna (?) Alizberg" was listed as
"German teacher consrv." There was however a woman named Vera Alizberg who the
Senior Research Staff (SRS) of the CIA described as working in a KGB section
specializing in “open terrorist attacks and forgery.”
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Hagan worked with the OSS during WW II on the shadow war against Hitler. This
is from an anti-immigration website:
Soviet agents, front groups, and infiltration and espionage techniques
composed a broad strategy to undermine the United States. Immigrants
as well as traitorous natives played a role in the communist threat. For
instance, German refugee Karl Frank, alias Paul Hagen, was investigated
by the FBI in 1945. His internal security case confirmed that Hagen was a
communist and active in a communist front group, New Beginning.
According to Herbert Romerstein who studied the Venona Files:
One [unsolved murder] involves the disappearance, in Barcelona during
the Spanish Civil War, of Mark Rein, son of the exiled Russian Menshevik
Rafail Abramovich. Rein was associated with Scandinavian social
democracy when he vanished in wartime Catalonia. His case is one of a
short list of unsolved atrocities alleged against the Soviet secret police on
Spanish Republican territory. According to Romerstein, Rein may have
been betrayed to Stalin's agents by a German leftist named Paul Hagen. A
footnote discloses that sources on the Rein affair may be found in the
German Communist Party Archives.
Most of this document was withheld until 1998 when it was “Released in Full” except for
the component from which it originated. It was not a Warren Commission document. It
indicated that Oswald was in touch with a hardcore experienced KGB agent.
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A. A. CHUB
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This CIA translation above contains a wrong number for Dyadev, 206311.
This revised edition of the CIA’s Name List with Traces above corrected that mistake.
The next revised edition contained the above entry. The CIA never ran traces on
Kon. Narokhsov.
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Next we find above that CIA has found traces on DYADEV.
Next we find that the number listed next to Comrade Dyadev belong to A. A.
Chub and the CIA has no traces on him.
Finally we find that the CIA does have traces on Chub, and his real name is
Stefan Mudryk. Actually Chub or Mudryk was a Ukrainian Nationalist.
Accomplices of Murder in the Soviet Government (by Stepan Mudryk)
Two years after the murder of the OUN leader, Stepan Bandera, the crafty
assassin, an agent of the Soviet KGB, was found and arrested. He will
shortly have to stand trial before a court of the Federal Republic of
Germany within whose jurisdiction the crime was committed.
The criminal does not deny his foul deeds instigated by Moscow; he
admitted them and disclosed not only the exact details of the planning but
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also the names of those who plotted and ordered the assassination,
trained the murderer and, after the completion of his foul task, decorated
their stooge with the high 'Order of the Red Banner.' The chief criminals
are the former Head of the KGB Alexander Shelepin, and the hangman of
Ukraine, Nikita Khrushchev; their tool: Bohdan Stashynsky.
It is common knowledge that after the murder of S. Bandera the Soviet
propaganda machine tried for two years to circulate within the Russian
empire and in the countries of the free world base and provocative lies
and misrepresentations. These were designed to create confusion and to
undermine the prestige of the OUN, as well as to shift the blame for the
murder away from Moscow. Moscow had been planning and preparing an
attempt on Bandera's life for fifteen years and repeatedly sent trained
agents for this purpose. In many cases, however, the OUN was able to
intervene and prevent the attacks, so that NKGB-MGB-KGB headquarters
were again and again forced to withdraw their agents and to change their
tactics.
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ADDRESS BOOK
Oswald’s cross-outs were designed to make the words almost completely illegible.

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On Monday, October 19, 1959, Oswald was interviewed by Radio Moscow. In a
Question and Answer sheet that Oswald prepared upon his re-entry to the United States
he stated:
Did you make statements against the U.S. there? yes. What about that
type [tape] recording? I made a recording for Radio Moscow which was
broadcast the following Sunday, October 25, 1959.
In another part of this Q and A Oswald denied having broadcast anti-American
propaganda. Apparently he felt that having done so would prevent his re-entry into the
United States. Marina Oswald questioned her husband about the radio broadcast he
had made. Oswald explained Leo Setyaev had helped him make some money by
assisting in the broadcast. Oswald said he criticized the United States and praised
Russia as a better place to live. Leo Setyaev or Lev Setyaev was a KGB agent who was
married to a defector known as “Moscow Molly.
”
Utilizing my Hallicrafters S38-E purchased in 1957 as a Radio Moscow listener in
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1959 I heard the Oswald interview. I thought this guy from Texas must be dirt poor to
expect to enjoy a higher standard of living in the USSR. He made anti-American
statements.
The MVD was the Secret police after Lavrenty Beria merged the MGB into the
MVD in March 1953. Within a year Beria's downfall caused the MVD to be split up
again; after that, the MVD retained its "internal security" (police) functions, while the
new KGB took on "state security" (secret police) functions. Nikita Khrushchev called for
the dismissal of the All-Union MVD. The Ministry ceased to exist in January 1960.
Oswald entered the Soviet Union in October 1959.
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The 433 number is the beginning of Oswald's Social Security Number. Then there are a
sequence of numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6. The other numbers are obscured by Oswald doodle
of a bull. The letters OS appear. Oswald was convinced this was his CIA Office of
Security File number.
A lone “F” appears on what is left of a missing page in the address book.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Gaeton Fonzi of the HSCA visited me in New York City and crashed at the Yippie
House at 9 Bleecker Street. He told me on numerous occasions he was convinced the
tramps were Hunt and Sturgis but ultimately he stated:
In my own mind, I've never resolved the question of whether or not Frank
Sturgis looked like one of the tramps in Dealey Plaza. There are a couple
of photos which have strong similarities, others with few. The same could
be said of the Hunt comparison.
Fonzi was too nice a guy to be involved in this investigation and was afraid to
dissent from the HSCA official finding which was ridiculous and cooked up by a CIA
asset. Michael Canfield did a tremendous amount of work, in fact it was Mike who
convinced Congressman Henry Gonzalez that after the discovery of the tramp shots a
congressional investigation of The Big Event was merited. This led to the formation of
the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Canfield and I had already been
working for Henry as congressional researchers and were ready to move on the big
time and put an end to CIA (I was a big Left-winger back then). But if you think you can’t
fight city hall, trying fighting CIA. These pond slime creatures drugged the Congressman
and he began making statements like Fonzi, a man who wouldn’t hurt a fly, was a
member of Organized Crime.
Canfield went to Hollywood where he hooked up with Bob Dylan, and became his
Minister at the Vineyard Christian Fellowship. Dylan put him in the antique car
restoration business (Indigo Motors) but it failed. Canfield was stuck in Demming, New
Mexico in a wheel chair with no money. I don’t remember if I sent him money or not but
if I did it stopped. Canfield took up with a turd who gave him money who dedicated his
life to discrediting the tramp shots. Mike ended up saying Dorothy Hunt was in Dealey
Plaza. Jesus he made it into a family picnic.
In the good guy realm was Howard Gladder, the inventor of the collimator, a
device to calibrate telescopes and a left wing revolutionary. Tom Forcade, Aron Kay,
Dana Beal, John and Yoko and others who helped me organize Zippie activities. Ron
Lowe my attorney when Hunt sued me. And of course the flower of the assassination
world, Gerry Hemming not to forget Marita Lorenz of course who ratted Fat Frank out.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE: OSWALD’S CLANDESTINE TRADE CRAFT
CHAPTER TWO: FRANK FIORINI STURGIS
CHAPTER THREE: GERALD PATRICK HEMMING
CHAPTER FOUR: EVERETT HOWARD HUNT
CHAPTER FIVE: DAVID LEMAR CHRIST
CHAPTER SIX: SAM KAIL
CHAPTER SEVEN: DAVID ATLEE PHILLIPS
CHAPTER EIGHT: JAMES JESUS ANGLETON
CHAPTER NINE: PEDRO DIAZ LANZ, ,
CHAPTER TEN: ORLANDO BOSCH
CHAPTER ELEVEN : BERNARDO DE TORRES
CHAPTER TWELVE: THE NOVO BROTHERS
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: CARLOS BRINGUIER, ORLANDO PIEDRA, RONNIE CAIRE,
ORESTES PENA & WARREN C. DeBRUEYS
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: FRANK BARTES (BARDES)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE FBI
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: TEXAS / MEXICO CITY ENTRIES
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: NAZISM
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: RUTH PAINE
CHAPTER NINETEEN: OSWALD’S NOTATIONS IN THE USSR
CHAPTER TWENTY: THE ENDURING MYSTERIES OF OSWALD’S ADDRESS BOOK
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INDEX
107 Camp Street, 195
107 Decatur, 176, 195, 201
544 Camp Street, 195, 196, 217, 260
Abel, 120
Abrams, 26
Alizberg, 307
American National Party, 260, 262
American Nazi Party, 259, 260, 262
Anderson, 95, 96, 97, 164, 254
Angleton, 69, 93, 114, 116, 117, 118, 120,
121, 122, 135, 136, 139, 205, 214, 230,
250, 255, 265, 268, 274, 278, 280, 284,
285, 297, 301, 303, 304
Annual Leave, 87
Argentine, 14
Asia Pacific Foundation, 116
Atlas Powder Company, 93, 107
Atsugi, 42, 121, 122, 135
Balter Building, 195, 200, 260
Banister, 197, 260, 261, 262
Barker, 69, 71, 72
Bartes, 182, 200, 213, 216, 217, 218, 219,
220, 221, 223
Batista, 31, 143, 177, 189, 190, 193, 194,
200, 201, 226
Bay of Pigs, 30, 71, 90, 154, 155, 163, 164,
173, 188, 189, 191, 194, 195, 214, 226
Bay of Pigs Brigade, 154, 163, 164, 195
Berlin, 129, 247, 249, 250, 297
Bishop, 108, 112, 113
Blalock, 177, 178
Borde, 218, 219, 220
Bosch, 164, 172, 173, 177
Bowers, 26
Branigan, 154
Brigade 2506, 154, 163, 188, 194
Bringuier, 175, 177, 178, 182, 186, 187,
188, 190, 193, 194, 195, 198, 199, 200,
201, 202, 220, 221, 224
Brown, 227, 240
Burros, 259, 260, 262
Caire, 195, 196, 197
Carswell, 106
Casa Roca, 176, 187
Castro, 19, 22, 30, 60, 62, 69, 93, 98, 99,
112, 113, 117, 136, 143, 153, 155, 159,
163, 169, 172, 176, 177, 178, 182, 186,
187, 188, 189, 191, 192, 193, 194, 196,
197, 198, 200, 201, 202, 203, 214, 217,
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218, 221, 223, 225, 226, 233, 235, 241,
243, 264
Christ, 47, 69, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99,
100, 102, 104, 105, 106, 107, 115, 156,
159, 233, 241
Chub, 313, 314
CI/SIG, 120, 121, 272, 273, 285
Cigali Building, 195, 196
cipher, 18
Colby, 62, 135
Collins, 63, 64, 65
Covington, 220, 225, 226
Cryptography, 93
Cuban Revolutionary Council, 188, 189,
190, 195, 197, 210, 213, 216, 217, 218,
220, 221, 225
Cuban Revolutionary Front, 62, 187, 188,
189, 200
Cyrillic, 5
Dammann, 297
Davis, 99, 217, 218, 219, 220, 235, 261
Davison, 298
Dealey Plaza, 25, 26, 84, 99, 158, 164, 268
DeBrueys, 179, 182, 194, 198, 199, 200,
201, 202, 203, 205, 208, 210, 211, 212,
213, 216, 230, 233, 234, 281
decipher secret messages, 18
Derringer, 42
352
DRE, 175, 176, 177, 178, 186, 189, 190,
191, 192
Duran, 53, 164, 245
Dyadev, 312, 313
Egerter, 139, 140
El Toro, 47, 117, 135
Evaristo Rodriguez, 198
Everglades, 62, 219, 225
Exner, 214
Fair Play for Cuba Committee, 156, 178,
179, 182, 184, 186, 187, 196, 202, 211,
212, 236, 264
Fernandez, 178, 191, 192, 193
Fiorini, 22, 25, 30, 31, 43, 48, 60, 69, 83,
84, 93, 99, 114, 141, 166, 226, 235, 237,
250
Fonzi, 190, 255
Forester, 26
Frank Fiorini Sturgis, 22
Frazier, 54, 233, 267, 268
Friedman, 87
Friends of Democratic Cuba, 200
Garbler, 297
Garner, 208
Garrison, 163, 191, 220
Gedney, 26

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Geraci, 176
Germany, 249, 255, 257, 274, 314
Gerry Patrick Hemming, 19, 23, 35
Gil, 220
Glover, 264, 265, 266
Gottlieb, 97, 120, 194
Guatemala, 90, 98, 108, 110
Hagan, 309
Hargraves, 102
Harvey, 5, 43, 106, 112, 116, 118, 133, 135,
194, 208, 211, 230, 233, 236, 240, 272,
274, 278
Helms, 69, 136, 189
Hemming, 20, 23, 25, 30, 31, 35, 38, 39, 41,
42, 43, 45, 47, 54, 60, 63, 64, 65, 99, 100,
102, 103, 108, 113, 116, 117, 120, 121,
148, 154, 156, 163, 165, 177, 190, 194,
213, 214, 217, 218, 219, 220, 222, 223,
224, 225, 227, 228, 233, 235, 237, 238,
250, 262, 264, 280, 282
Hidell, 211, 212
Hitler, 254, 257, 258, 309
Hoke, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278
Hosty, 208, 230, 233, 234, 268
HSCA, 105, 158, 159, 165, 189, 203, 208,
220, 268, 298
Huks, 41, 42
Hunt, 25, 30, 31, 69, 71, 72, 82, 84, 85, 86,
87, 88, 90, 93, 99, 106, 108, 110, 113,
353
136, 141, 143, 159, 163, 165, 177, 188,
189, 194, 197, 200, 210, 213, 217, 220,
223, 233, 243, 245, 250
Hunt v. Weberman, 69, 85
Hyde, 264, 268, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276
INTERPEN, 23, 62, 63, 99, 190, 219, 224,
225, 226
INTERPEN/IAB, 23, 62
invisible ink, 15
Jacob, 297
Jaggers-Chiles-Stoval, 19
Jelisavcic, 288, 289, 291, 292
JM WAVE, 163
JMWAVE, 164, 189
Kaack, 208
Kessler, 95
KGB, 110, 117, 122, 129, 243, 297, 300,
301, 303, 304, 307, 309, 314, 316, 317
Klein's Sporting Goods, 54, 117
Kolby, 62
Kostikov, 243
Kozlova, 285
Kuznetsova, 301, 302, 304
LaCombe, Louisiana, 178
Lanusa, 192
Lanz, 69, 141, 143, 173, 197, 235

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Latin, 5, 110, 197, 198, 210, 223, 276
Lennox, 95
Letelier, 164, 172
Liebeler, 52
Liebler, 178, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 279
Lorenz, 69, 141, 166, 172
Love Field, 270, 272
Luce, 110, 191
Mannlicher-Carcano, 52, 54, 117
Marina, 19, 52, 129, 133, 134, 148, 211,
252, 258, 264, 266, 267, 268, 270, 271,
274, 279, 298, 316
Martin, 102, 103, 233, 250, 260
Martin Luther King, 102, 103, 233
Maydell, 258
McCone, 116, 117
McGehee, 240
Mertz, 97
Mexico City, 19, 53, 113, 139, 156, 178,
191, 205, 233, 236, 237, 238, 243, 245,
264
Meyers, 214
Michael Paine, 35, 264, 266, 268, 274, 276,
278, 279, 280
Mings, 102
Minox, 35, 38
Minutemen, 257, 262
Mohrenschildt, 257, 262
Molina, 98
Monroe, 214
Morgan, 106
Mulcahy, 107
MVD, 134, 317
National Security Agency, 18, 20
National States Rights Party, 47, 64
Nazi, 169, 247, 252, 254, 255, 257, 259,
260, 261, 262, 264
New China News Agency, 94, 95
Nix, 159
Nosenko, 134, 288, 300, 303, 304
Novo, 169, 170, 171
NSA, 18, 19
Odio, 233, 235
Odum, 230, 232, 233, 234
Ofstein, 20
O'Neal, 272, 273, 304
Ostankino, 284
Otero, 164, 165
Pasternak, 284
Pelaez, 177
354

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Pena, 182, 195, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202,
203, 205, 220
Peruyero, 163, 164
Philby, 114, 252
Phillips, 83, 106, 108, 110, 113, 135, 163,
175, 186, 189, 195, 210, 213, 243, 245,
250
Piedra, 182, 193, 194, 195
Powers, 96, 120, 121, 122, 127, 128, 129,
133, 135
Quigley, 211, 212, 221
Radio Moscow, 134, 316, 317
Raikin, 252, 253, 254, 262
Randle, 54, 267, 268, 269
Raoul, 102
Ray, 47, 64, 102, 188, 194, 218, 223, 235,
240
Revolutionary Student Directorate, 176
Rivero, 172
Robert Gemberling, 20
Rockefeller, 31, 87, 88, 98, 135, 159
Rockwell, 259, 260, 261, 262
Rodriguez, 177, 194, 198, 199, 219, 220
Rubin, 69
Ruby, 106, 233
Russian Embassy, 53
355
Ruth Paine, 54, 230, 233, 241, 264, 265,
266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273,
274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280
Schweiker, 69, 202, 208
Scott, 195, 280
Setyaev, 316
Shaneyfeldt, 85
Shanklin, 104, 234, 281
Shanley, 63, 143
Sierra, 177, 189
Simpson, 116, 117
Snyder, 120, 121, 133, 135
Soccarras, 226
Socialist Labor Party, 236, 237, 238
Solie, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276
St. John, 82, 84
steganography, 5
Stoner, 47, 64
Stuckey, 47, 194, 220, 223, 224, 227, 228
Sturgis, 25, 30, 31, 60, 69, 82, 84, 88, 100,
141, 143, 159, 173, 194, 213, 224, 233,
237
Subic, 35, 39, 41, 42
Szuminski, 95, 96, 97
Texas Employment Commission, 270, 271
Texas Gypsum, 269

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Texas School Book Depository, 26, 54, 141,
156, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 280
The Big Event., 27, 84
Thomas, 87, 272
Torres, 106, 153, 154, 155, 156, 158, 159,
163, 164, 165, 195
Townley, 164
Trueba, 301, 302, 303, 304
Trujillo, 118
Twiford, 233, 235, 236, 238
U-2, 117, 118, 120, 121, 122, 127, 130,
133, 135
Walker, 25, 47, 51, 52, 53, 148, 230, 233,
240, 241
Warren Commission, 5, 18, 20, 27, 39, 51,
53, 85, 135, 139, 158, 159, 176, 177, 186,
195, 196, 198, 200, 201, 203, 230, 236,
237, 267, 269, 270, 272, 304, 307, 309
Watergate, 31, 71, 72, 83, 84, 142, 188,
194, 197
Weitzman, 158
Werbell, 163
Wilkey, 64, 65
Willis, 159
Yatzkov, 243
Veciana, 112, 176
356

ENDNOTES
1. Weberman v. CIA
2 . These documents are only available to verified purchasers of The Oswald Code.
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=4oQaAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA624&lpg#v=onepage&q&f=false
4. FBI 105-825552419 NARA FBI 124-10047-10005
5. Also see https://www.scribd.com/document/280733809/SECOND-NATIONAL-FRONT-OF-
ESCAMBRAY-ALPHA-66
https://www.scribd.com/document/203873610/Alpha-66-SNFE
6. FBI OK City 89-41-46
7. DeSocarraz telephone 210-428-7559 423-8094
8. NARA Record Number: 124-10226-10290
9. CIA 1643-1088, p24 Walthers. County of Dallas Supp. Inv. Rep. Sheriff's Dept; 7 WH 548; cf.
19 WH 503,505
10. CIA 88-27
11. AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: 124-10325-10304
12. WC Item 373 11.27.63
13. WC Exhibit 244; WC Document 206
14. CE 2768; CIA 472; WCE 2772, 2444; FBI DL-100-1046 p59, 85;Ltr. Gordon a. Blake to Rankin
6.16.64
15. CIA 280 First JFK Release
16. CIA Misc. Person. Corr. 1007-951
17. FBI Dallas 100-10461- 12.2.63
18. WCE 2768; CIA 472
19. Hoover to D/CI DBA-82198 re: WCE D-254 - WCE D-262
20. https://www.scribd.com/doc/273391364/Deposition-of-Frank-Fiorini-Sturgis-in-Hunt-v-Weberman

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21. Hunt v. Weberman Southern District of Florida Miami Division 76-1252-Civil-PP Sturgis Deposition
See 12
22. https://www.scribd.com/document/347294936/Rockefeller-Commission-Report-Chap19
23. http://www.salon.com/2003/12/17/joannides/
25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkeCQWk9ID8
26. 178-10004-13095 Sturgis Tapes 4/4.75 Rock Com Frank Sturgis testimonies tapes interview. Rock
Assassination File 08/13/93 TOP Secret. Transcript #1781000210372 marked Classified 104-0221-10039
05/16/1998 Not Marked Not Believed Relevant.
27. FBI 105-82555 Oswald HQ File, Section 69
28. https://issuu.com/ajweberman/docs/the_man_who_dropped_a_hammer_on_jfk
24. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/senate-intelligence-commitee-cia-interrogationreport.html?_r=0
https://www.scribd.com/document/133140869/The-Man-Who-Dropped-a-Hammer-on-JFK-An-
Unauthorized-Biography-of-the-Psychopath-Frank-Fiorini-Sturgis
29. Warren Commission Report, pg 664
30. Interview with Priscilla Johnson in Moscow
31. http://www.whatsnextreport.com/uploads/2/6/6/9/26693570/nodulex9-gerry_patrick_hemming.pdf
32. http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/walker_e.htm
33. http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-1a.html
34. UnID WC Doc. Declass. 6.21.73-Rankin/Helms
35. Thomas A. Ogden CI Support Desk OS/OSD/SD/4
36. FBI 105-110398-2 5.1.62
37. http://theoswaldcode.com/complaint.pdf
https://www.scribd.com/doc/273391570/Hunt-v-Weberman-Complaint
38. http://theoswaldcode.com/james_angleton_deposition.pdf
https://www.scribd.com/doc/203441979/James-Angelton-Hunt-v-Weberman-Deposition
358

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39. http://theoswaldcode.com/pedro_diaz_lanz_deposition.pdf
https://www.scribd.com/doc/202864445/Pedro-Diaz-Lanz-Deposition-Hunt-v-Weberman
40. http://theoswaldcode.com/marita_lorenz_deposition.pdf
https://www.scribd.com/doc/199906659/Marita-Lorenz-Hunt-v-Weberman-Deposition
41. http://theoswaldcode.com/fiorini_deposition.pdf
https://www.scribd.com/doc/273391364/Deposition-of-Frank-Fiorini-Sturgis-in-Hunt-v-Weberman
42. Give Us This Day E. Howard Hunt Arlington House Productions, 1973
43. WCE 2642
44. FBI 62-2115-760
45. Summers Conspiracy p626
46. Hunt Day pp. 51-58
47. DOJ File Hantman to Civiletti 6.24.77
48. http://theoswaldcode.com/huntconfession.pdf
https://www.scribd.com/doc/273391704/Howard-Hunt-Confesses-to-Role-in-JFK-Death
49.CIA SRS/OS Sarah K. Hall 2.6.69
50. FBI 62-109060-7140 Charles D. Flagg and Hugh M. Barhhardt
51. http://the-puzzle-palace.com/files/nodule20.htm
52. http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0005/7288238.pdf
53. http://theoswaldcode.com/david_lemar_christ.pdf
https://www.scribd.com/doc/203874781/David-Lemar-Christ
54. Roger Gabrielson, Harold P. Clark, Special Assistant DDS&T -1455-78 CIA FOIA 17477
55. FBI HQ 105-86406-p8, Army Intel. Report #2146986: Subject: Sandino Movement. Sam Kail
56. Release #7366
359

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57. https://www.scribd.com/doc/279480696/Mosley-Echevrarria
58. https://www.scribd.com/doc/183009846/DAVID-ATLEE-PHILLIPS-CIA-OFFICIAL-WHO-HANDLED-
OSWALD
http://theoswaldcode.com/david_atlee_phillips.pdf
59. http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php
60. http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/belligerence/veciana-oswald.htm
61. AGENCY : FBI RECORD NUMBER: 124-90152-10013 n RECORD SERIES : HQ AGENCY FILE
NUMBER : CR 105-152711-59
62. Agency CIA Record Number 104-10072-10052
63. William K. Harvey's Handwritten Notes On ZR/RIFLE
64. A Friend of Batista: L. Gonzales-Mata, Cygne, Grasset, Paris, 1976
65. SSCIA 157-10005-10228
66. DOS Bio. Reg. 1956
67. Memo for Rec. 6.62. Sub: Rev. of Dom. Ops. for Per. Immed. Prior to, During and Sub. to Trujillo's
Death/CWH/ARA file; Meskil Daily News 4.25.75
68. FBI 105082555-5640
69. First Draft of Initial Report on OSWALD case Attachment to TX-1889
70. CIA OLC #78-2469 - SD Breckinridge meeting with HSCA investigators
71. CIA JFK early release 285 2.15.62
72. http://theoswaldcode.com/u2_dump.pdf
http://theoswaldcode.com/u2.cia_docs.pdf
https://www.scribd.com/doc/190558972/DOCUMENTS-ON-THE-U-2-DUMP
73. Miami Herald 8.9.81
74. WCE 25 p2B p122
75. Francis Gary Powers Overflight page 358 Holt, Rinehart and Winston; 1st edition (1970)
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76. Lanz Depo. Hunt v. Weberman
77. The Bureau will also note that LUIS POSADA CARRILES, a CIA informant and SIERRA LOPEZ,
Customs informants are also involved in this matter. (MM 639-S) on July 27, 1965, reestablished contact
with LUIS POSADA CARRILLO and expects to be working with him in the near future lt is noted that
POSADA is also involved in a plot to blow up a ship in Vera Cruz, Mexico, and maintains .contact with
ROBERTO ALEJOS ARZU, a Guatemalan revolutionist in Miami It is believed POSADA is the main
source of CIA’s information in these reports.. The Bureau will also note that LUIS POSADA CARRILES, a
CIA informant and SIERRA LOPEZ, Customs informant are also involved in this matter. (MM 639-S) On
July 27, 1965, reestablished contact with LUIS POSADA CARRILLO and expects to be working with him
in the near future it is noted that POSADA is also involved in a plot to blow up a ship in Vera Cruz,
Mexico, and maintains contact with ROBERTO ALEJOS ARZU, a Guatemalan revolutionist in Miami it is
believed POSADA is/ the main source of CIA 's information in these matters. (Oct 2017 doc release).
78. USA v Bosch 68-420-Cr-Wm Southern District Florida
79. Bloody Treason eBook Appendix D SUBJECT: Noel Twyman Meeting with Roy Hargraves
DATE: February 10, 2001
80. CIA Traces on Sources of Information (deleted) To: (Deleted) Miami From CAS Miami 10.1972
81. Miami Herald 2.19.67
82. FBI 62-109060-NR 2.23.67, 1.27.67, 3.2.67, 5539, 455; FBI 10582555iNR 3.2.67
83. WC Vol. VII, pg. 535; see interview of Joseph M. Smith, Feb. 8, 1978, House Select Committee on
Assassinations (JFK Document 005886).
84. WC Vol. 6, pgs. 254-247
85. Ibid. 51
86. http://theoswaldcode.com/bernardo_de_torres.pdf
https://www.scribd.com/doc/186409190/BERNARDO-DE-TORRES
87. http://theoswaldcode.com/rolando_otero.pdf
https://www.scribd.com/doc/203136880/Rolando-Otero
88. http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/DLP-9-18-1963-1.pdf
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/mnc-1.htm
89. NYT 12.24.64, 12.12.64
90. http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/belligerence/Cero-FBI.pdf
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91. http://www.politicalaffairs.net/career-terrorist-boasts-of-his-deeds-in-miami/
92. O'Leary Washington Star 4.28.78
93. http://cuban-exile.com/doc_001-025/doc0014.html
94. AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: 124-10292-10140 RECORD SERIES : HQ AGENCY FILE
NUMBER : CR 105-141949-2
95. http://aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh10/html/WC_Vol10_0020b.htm
96. On October 12, 1963 Santiago Alvarez Rodriguez advised that he is head of Commandos L, an anti-
Castro organization, which has conducted raids against Cuba in the past. Santiago advised that he
conferred with Luis Somozo in Miami in July 1963. Somoza went to Washington returned to Miami and
they again conferred. Alvarez said when Somoza first went to Washington in July 1963, he claimed he
had presented a plan for the liberation of Cuba to President John F. Kennedy, who seemed interested
and sent Somoza to confer with officials at the Pentagon, CIA, and State Department. Then President
Kennedy left on a trip to Europe. Military officials at the Pentagon and civilian officials at the CIA allegedly
approved Somoza's plan but the State Department rejected it. When President Kennedy returned to the
United States from his European trip, Somoza again visited Washington, but President Kennedy refused
to see him. Alvarez was told by Somoza that the United States government was interested in his plan with
some modifications and conditions, one condition being that Artime would be the military leader. Alvarez
said that since President Kennedy refused to see Somoza, his plan never materialized. FBI 97-4133-78
11.5.63
97. USSS CO-2-340030 #621, #1223; USSS CO-2-2034030, #1225; USSS CO-2-34,030 #523
98. AGENCY: FBI Record Number : 124-l 0211-10468
99. http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh10/pdf/WH10_Blalock.pdf
100. WCD 1085d9; WCE 1413 p4
101. WR p408
102. http://theoswaldcode.com/carlos_bringuier.pdf
https://www.scribd.com/doc/203873836/Carlos-Bringuier
103. CIA Memo 11.9.67
104. NYT 7.1.59; Agee CIA Diary p618 CIA F82-0430/24
105. https://www.scribd.com/doc/203874052/Claire-Booth-Luce
http://theoswaldcode.com/claire_booth_luce.pdf
106. FBI DL 89-43-699 NARA FBI 124-10159-10416
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107. FBI Miami 105-8342
108. AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: 124-10280-10171 RECORD SERIES : HQ AGENCY FILE
NUMBER: CR 105-75483-14
109. CIA MFR 4.25.75
110. Ibid. 68
111. FBI 105-82555-5647
112. http://theoswaldcode.com/orestes_pena.pdf
https://www.scribd.com/doc/183837362/ORESTES-PENA
113.http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/D%20Disk/de%20Brueys%20
Warren%20C/Item%2002.pdf
114. https://www.scribd.com/doc/186492195/Warren-c-Debrueys
http://theoswaldcode.com/warren_c_debrueys.pdf
115. USSS CO-2, 34,030-988
116. https://www.scribd.com/doc/183009846/DAVID-ATLEE-PHILLIPS-CIA-OFFICIAL-WHO-HANDLED-
OSWALD
117. WCE 826
118. https://www.scribd.com/doc/203875443/Frank-Bartes
http://theoswaldcode.com/frank_bartes.pdf
119. http://theoswaldcode.com/william_k_stuckey.pdf
https://www.scribd.com/doc/273405572/William-K-Stuckey
120. https://www.scribd.com/doc/273406326/The-Odio-Incident
http://theoswaldcode.com/the_odio_incident.pdf
121. FBI 62-19060-7302X
122. https://www.scribd.com/doc/273408907/Valeriy-Kostikov
http://theoswaldcode.com/kostikov_kgb.pdf
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123 Raikin Security File CIA Job No.80T01357A Box 45 Folder 9
124. https://www.scribd.com/doc/183837066/SPAS-T-RAIKIN
http://theoswaldcode.com/spas_t_raiken.pdf
125. NYT 9.19.61 NYT 4.28.62 4.13.62 NYT
126. Jack S. Martin sworn statement 2.20.68
127. http://media.nara.gov/dc-metro/rg-272/605417-keypersons/demohrenschildt_george_nov_1963_jan_1964/demohrenschildt_george_nov_1963_jan_1964.pd
f
128. http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/chapter-6.html
129.
https://books.google.com/books?id=ssVFAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA481&lpg=PA481&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false
130. CIA SSD-157,435
131. The Soviet Realities Division had eight branches. SR-1 (code named "QKACTIVE") ran the
attempted penetration of the Iron Curtain by various émigré groups.
132. http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/FBI%20Records%20Files/105-82555/105-
82555%20Section%20071/71c.pdf
133. Xmas card 12.30.94
134.
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZlIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT92&lpg=PT92&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false
135. http://www.amazon.com/Nancy-Dammann/e/B001K7PC5K
136. http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1962/12/16/page/1/article/russians-charge-spy-plot
364