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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 23, 2022 4:02:18 GMT -5
523 A Mexican tree stump used as target practiceMore target practice research: 90 ATF Files on Masen/Nonte case More rumors without roots?
After Oswald was killed on Nov. 24, 1963, by nightclub owner Jack Ruby, the FBI office here was inundated with calls that he'd been seen in San Antonio before the assassination — at a Holiday Inn; at the airport; hitchhiking south of town. Intrigue lurked everywhere. Agents were sent to Laredo to check flop houses and cheap hotels. One former agent believes Oswald practiced shooting his Italian rifle in Mexico, entering through Del Rio. Folklore shared among former agents that the FBI had discovered a tree stump used as a target couldn't be confirmed. ( Hector Saldana, Oswald's brother was in S.A. in '63, ExpressNews, 2013)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 30, 2022 5:13:29 GMT -5
524 The original of Holmes Exhibit No. 5See also:174 Ruth Paine's handwritten copy of handwritten draft of the 'Comrade Kostin' letter221 Original application forms for boxes 2915 and 6225 in Dallas and box 30061 in New Orleans457 The receipt for the Mannlicher CarcanoThere is a great deal more to Dallas Postal Inspector Harry D. Holmes than I have the time and space to outline here. Other researchers continue to examine his background and particularly his early life in the Post Office. I will leave you with one tiny example of the influence that this man had. How many witnesses who testified before the Warren Commission were officially permitted to keep any of their exhibits? Harry D. Holmes was twice allowed to do just that. He introduced one of those well-known “Wanted for Treason” posters and stated that this particular one had been found in a Dallas Postal collection box on the morning of the assassination. When Mr. Belin stated that he intended to mark it as an exhibit, Holmes protested: “I want to save that.” It was then agreed that he could retain the original and that the court reporter would make copies for the official record. What we now know as ‘Holmes Exhibit No. 5’, therefore, is no more than a photocopy of the original. (Ian Griggs, No case to answer, 2005, p. 150-151) Mr. BELIN. One other thing. I better mark this as Holmes Deposition, Exhibit 5. Mr. HOLMES. I want to save that. Mr. BELIN. Mr. Holmes, I hand you Holmes Deposition Exhibit 5 and ask you to state if you will what this is. Mr. HOLMES. It is a circular-type sheet simulating a wanted circular as put out by the post office department or the FBI showing a profile view. That is two separate views of President Kennedy. Mr. BELIN. The one that says “Wanted for Treason”? Mr. HOLMES. Underneath his picture in large type is “Wanted for Treason.” Mr. BELIN. How did you get ahold of this document, or what is the fact involved? Mr. HOLMES. This was handed to me by one of the postal supervisors who brought it to my office stating that it had been brought in by one of the carriers that found it in a collection box on his route. Mr. BELIN. On what day, do you know, offhand, in relation to the assassination? Mr. HOLMES. He brought that in the afternoon of the assassination, November 22. Mr. BELIN. Do you know how many of these were passed out? Mr. HOLMES. No ; except that it came from various sources. They were being passed out at neighborhood shopping centers, and numerous of them were brought in. This supervisor said that they had dozens of them down there, that it had come in by the carrier. Mr. BELIN. I believe you also said that-is there anything else in regards to Holmes Deposition Exhibit 5 you care to add? Mr. HOLMES. I believe not. ( Warren Commission, Volume VII: Harry D. Holmes)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 31, 2022 8:42:56 GMT -5
525 Holmes Exhibit No. 2Continued from: 524 The original of Holmes Exhibit No. 5[Harry Holmes] had earlier asked to retain what Mr. Belin described as “the advertisement you cut out” and this was also copied by the court reporter so that Holmes could keep the original. The copy is now ‘Holmes Exhibit No. 2’. Ironically, however, this is the Klein’s advertisement from Field and Stream, November 1963, which has no connection at all with the advertisement used to order the Mannlicher Carcano rifle. Mr. Belin. [...] Let the record show that the original of Holmes Deposition Exhibit 5 will be returned to Mr. Holmes, and we will just for our records have copies made by the court reporter. Mr. Holmes. I have a photocopy machine in my office. Mr. BELIN. Mr. Holmes, you have also asked me to make a photostatic copy of Holmes Deposition Exhibit 2 and you keep the original. This would be satisfactory for our purposes. This is the advertisement you cut out. Do you suppose you could get this to the court reporter yourself? Would you take the photostats? Mr. HOLMES. Yes. Mr. BELIN. Mr. Holmes, we want to certainly thank you for all the cooperation you have given the President’s Commission. ( Warren Commission, Volume VII: Harry D. Holmes)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Apr 9, 2022 4:52:06 GMT -5
526 Another Backyard Photograph?Related:14 The negatives of Backyard Photos 133A and 133C45 A color transparency of the backyard photographs285 DeMohrenschildt-photo with enigmatic inscription341 An inquiry into the development of the backyard photographs "Because the questions put to Marguerite and Marina Oswald were not searching, the available information about the third photograph is insufficient to warrant any conclusion about it."Mrs. Oswald: She opened the closet.... And she came out with a picture— a picture of Lee, with a gun. It said, "To my daughter June"—written in English. I said, "Oh, Marina, police." I didn't think anything of the picture. Now, you must understand . . . I don't know all the circumstances, what evidence they had against my son by this time . . . anybody can own a rifle, to go hunting. . . . So I am not connecting this with the assassination. . . . No one is going to be foolish enough to take a picture of themselves with that rifle, and leave that there for evidence. . . . No, sir, that is not the picture. He was holding the rifle up. . . . Rankin: By holding the rifle up you mean— Mrs. Oswald: Like this. Rankin: Crosswise, with both hands on the rifle? Mrs. Oswald: With both hands on the rifle. Rankin: Above his head? Mrs. Oswald: That is right. (Testimony of Marguerite Oswald, WC Hearings 1, p.146) The alleged assassin ’s wife and mother
Mrs. Oswald. We had two beautiful suites—two, not one—completed rooms and baths, adjoining, at the Executive Inn. [...] I was stranded with a Russian girl and two babies. I didn't realize in the beginning. But then it was time for food, and I had to order food. I told Marina to stay aside and that I would let the man in. She stayed in her room. I let this man in with the food, and then I became uneasy, that he might know who we were is what I was uneasy about, because I didn't realizethe danger actually Marina and I were in. I sensed we were alone. And there I was with a Russian girl. And I didn't want anybody to know who we were, because I knew my son had been picked up. So this is where the picture comes in. While there, Marina—there is an ashtray on the dressing table. And Marina comes with bits of paper, and puts them in the ashtray and strikes a match to it. And this is the picture of the gun that Marina tore up into bits of paper, and struck a match to it. Now, that didn't burn completely, because it was heavy—not cardboard—what is the name for it—a photographic picture. So the match didn't take it completely. Mr. Rankin. Had you said anything to her about burning it before that? Mrs. Oswald. No, sir. The last time I had seen the picture was in Marina's shoe when she was trying to tell me that the picture was in her shoe. I state here now that Marina meant for me to have that picture, from the very beginning, in Mrs. Paine's home. She said—I testified before—"Mamma, you keep picture." And then she showed it to me in the courthouse. And when I refused it, then she decided to get rid of the picture. She tore up the picture and struck a match to it. Then I took it and flushed it down the toilet. Mr. Rankin. And what time was this? Mrs. Oswald. This—now, just a minute, gentlemen, because this I know is very important to me and to you, too. We had been in the jail. This was an evening. Well, this, then, would be approximately 5 :30 or 6 in the evening. Mr. Rankin. What day? Mrs. Oswald. On Saturday, November 23. Now, I flushed the torn bits and the half-burned thing down the commode. And nothing was said. There was nothing said. (Testimony of Marguerite Oswald, WC Hearings I, p. 152) December 10, 1963 - J. Lee Rankin named the General Counsel of the Warren CommissionThe Commission states that two photographs were taken (CE 133-A and 133-B), apparently on the basis of Marina Oswald's testimony of February 3, 1964, when she said: I had even forgotten that I had taken two photographs. I thought there was only one. I thought that there were two identical pictures, but they turned out to be two different poses. (1H 16) One pose shows the rifle in the left hand; the other shows the rifle in the right hand. But Marguerite Oswald's testimony suggests that there was a third photograph. (...) No notice was taken of this description of a third photograph and Marina Oswald was not questioned about it on her subsequent appearances before the Commission. It is not clear, consequently, why the Warren Report asserts that two pictures were taken when the allegation that there was a third photo has not been investigated. Footnote: The photograph seen by Oswald's mother, in which Oswald may have been holding the shotgun he owned there rather than a rifle, may have been one taken in the Soviet Union. Because the questions put to Marguerite and Marina Oswald were not searching, the available information about the third photograph is insufficient to warrant any conclusion about it. (Meagher, Accesories after the fact, 1967, p. 201) Marina Oswald, early ninetiesI was unwilling to keave this matter unresolved, and in October 1994 I had the opportunity to put this point directly to Mrs Marina Oswald Porter. Without hesitation, she confirmed that the photograph was indeed a ‘backyard photograph.’ As she stressed, had it been an innocent picture taken in Russia, why would she have gone to such lengths to destroy it? It would not have mattered. There the matter stands. (Ian Griggs, No case to answer, 2005, p. 161)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Apr 12, 2022 10:11:36 GMT -5
527 Photo of wrapping paper bag in situRelated: 66 The original and complete Alyea Film118 Oswald's fingerprints taken off the rifle, the paper bag, and cartons at the TSBD 214 The sender of the brown paper-parcel 298 Jack Beers' photo of the boxes in the sniper's nestOne of the most questionable of all Warren Commission exhibits has to be CE 1302. This is the photograph, which purports to show "Approximate location wrapping paper per bag ...near window in southeast corner." The index to Volume 22 of the Warren Commission's 26 Volumes of Hearings and Exhibits, in which this appears on page 479, describes this exhibit as "Photograph of southeast corner of sixth floor of Texas School Book Depository Building, showing approximate location of wrapping paper bag and location of palm print on carton." From those positive and uncomplicated descriptions, we would expect to see a photograph showing a bag made out of wrapping paper. In reality, the photograph shows no paper bag just a dotted line rectangle which has been printed on the photograph and which bears the legend: "APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF WRAPPING PAPER BAG." In accordance with normal police practice, other items of potential evidential value were photographed where they lay for example the rifle, the spent cartridges and the book carton with the palm print on it. Why, then, was the paper bag not afforded this attention? (Ian Griggs, No case to answer, 2005, p. 172)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Apr 17, 2022 4:54:31 GMT -5
528 Marilyn Walle’s planned bookCompare: 72 Clint Peoples manuscript 126 Dorothy Kilgallen's folder of JFK-assassination files211 Jim Koethe's notes for JFK assassination book Marilyn April "Delilah" Walle September 1, 1966 Walle was a stripper for Jack Ruby, and is sometimes confused as being an "also-known-as" (AKA) for Mary Mooney MacDonald. In actuality, Walle and MacDonald are entirely different people, though both died violent deaths. Marilyn Moore Walle, also known as Marilyn Magyar Moon, Marilyn April Walle, and sometimes simply "Delilah," worked at the Carousel Club at the time JFK was killed. Walle, who was planning a book on the assassination, was shot to death and her husband was convicted of the crime. There are suspicions, however, that her husband may have been framed and that the real motive for her death was the planned book, or inside knowledge she may have had on the Ruby connection. Cause of death: Murder by gunshots. (Craig Roberts, The dead witnesses, 2014 Kindle-edition)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Apr 21, 2022 10:52:42 GMT -5
529 A faded, or erased inscriptionFurther reading:14 The negatives of Backyard Photos 133A and 133C136 George de Mohrenschildt's CIA affiliate personnel file526 Another Backyard Photograph?"Hunter of fascists"12 The identity of the reporter asking the Walker-question on 23-11-196348 The handwritten draft of the 'Comrade Kostin' letter to the Soviet Embassy77 File cabinet containing, “records that appeared to be names and activities of Cuban sympathizers”
"The writing which we have here looks to be a tracing; looks to be copied."[Marina] Porter told the committee that she snapped the photos of Oswald with his rifle, and a holstered pistol, at his insistence in the spring of 1963 in the back yard of their Neely street home in Dallas. She said she couldn't remember how many pictures she took, whether two or three, and only vaguely recalled his saying something about sending a copy to the Militant. After the assassination, she burned two prints she found in her daughter June's baby book. She told the committee it never occured to her to look around for the negatives. Dallas police evidently found three negatives and at least two prints. The Warren Commission got only two prints and only one negative. Besides the traces of the one Sgt. Kirk uncovered, the evidence of another negative having been seized by police was obtained by the committee from two other sources. Original copies of this pose, never seen by the Warren Commission, were given to the committee by the widow of Dallas police officer Roscoe White and by former Dallas police detective Richard S. Stovall, one of those who conducted the search. The negative is missing, but Kirk said the prints, like all the others, show the unique "signature" of scratch marks and indentations made by Oswald's camera. Marina Porter, formerly OswaldAnother large print of one of the photos, obtained last year from the widow of Oswald's onetime benefactor, George de Mohrenschildt, was subjected to handwriting analysis. Inscriptions on the back included in one corner a notation saying, "For my friend George from Lee Oswald," with an obscure date "5/IV/63." At the top, in printed Russian letters, were the words "Hunter of fascists - ha, ha, ha." Finally, at the bottom right corner, in printed letters, was the note: "Copyright G de M." De Mohrenschildt, who was in Haiti at the time of the JFK assassination, committed suicide in March 1977. He had left Dallas for Haiti in May 1963, shortly after Oswald's attempted assassination of Gen. Edwin Walker (U.S. Army, Ret.) There has been speculation that Oswald's wife jotted down the mocking note above Oswald's purpoted inscription, perhaps to chide her husband for the Walker incident. She told the committee that the sarcastic "hunter of fascists" line sounded like something she would have written, but the handwriting was not hers. Handwriting expert Joseph P. McNally agreed that it was not her writing. But he told the committee that the Russian words had apparently been traced over an original, perhaps similar inscription after it had faded or been erased. (George Lardner jr, More Oswald Photo Evidence Said to Be Found, Washington Post, 1978) At the top, in printed Russian letters, were the words "Hunter of fascists - ha, ha, ha."Ms. BRADY. Were you able to note any other characteristics of the Russian writing? Does it appear to be any type of tracing? Mr. MCNALLY. In this particular case here: those three lines of Russian writing are in pencil. Actually, they are in pencil which is written over pencil; which is either faded away or written lightly or had been obliterated. Pencil on a surface of this particular nature was written with a soft pencil; just by handling alone it may disappear. What has occurred here, in my opinion, is that somebody who was apparently not conversant with the Cyrillic alphabet has reconstructed what was written on here previously. In reconstructing it, we get all of these particular forms which actually, I assume from Mr. Fithian's comment this morning; it is Russian as written by somebody who is not particularly conversant or is below a grammar school level. That would account for the fact here; a reconstruction by somebody of the writing which had originally been on here by somebody not conversant with the Russian language or Cyrillic alphabet would turn out something like this which can be translated, but at the same time looks a little peculiar. The writing which we have here looks to be a tracing; looks to be copied. It is written very slowly. There is a very hesitant line quality in it and it is very uncertain. The party doing this was trying to make sure what he was doing, so the whole thing has been written very, very, slowly. Ms. BRADY. Does enough of the original writing remain for you to be able to make any type of analysis of it? Mr. McNALLY. In the process of actually trying to cover somebody else's writing, it has been effectively disguised. In writing over somebody else's writing, it has effectively obliterated the original writing that was there and makes this whole particular section unidentifiable. ( HSCA Testimony of JOSEPH P. McNALLY)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Apr 24, 2022 10:56:00 GMT -5
530 The Burros fragmentSee also:50 The Harper fragment231 A piece of (Kennedy's?) skull249 Admiral Burkley's information offered to the HSCA in 1977Agent Bouck passed away in 2004, aged 89.On November 22, 1963, immediately after President Kennedy was shot, David Burros, a Dallas motorcycle policeman, found a piece of bone on Elm Street in Dealey Plaza. The policeman gave the bone fragment to Deputy Constable Seymour Weitzman, who presumably gave it to the Secret Service. The Secret Service then sent the fragment to the White House physician, then Rear Admiral George Burkley. The Secret Service placed medical materials from the autopsy in the safe of Robert Bouck, the Chief of the Secret Service’s Protective Research Section. However, the April 26, 1965, inventory of Bouck’s safe did not list this bone fragment (or any others in Burkley’s possession in November 1963) as part of its contents. The Review Board staff wrote to the Dallas County records management officer and the Dallas city archivist to find out if they had any photographs x-rays, or other records in their files regarding this bone fragment. Neither archive had any record of it. ( ARRB final report, p. 140)
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Post by Arjan Hut on May 24, 2022 1:42:52 GMT -5
531 Alan Dulles' personal 1963 Calendar
Erasing the Past...DiscussionsSee also:309 Bill Harvey's travel vouchers382 The 1956 Bruce-Lovett Report "We never had his calendar," [Princeton] said.When you see evidence disappear before your eyes, you understand how important it is. I'm writing this here because people keep asking me about it. Bookmark and share so I don't have to type it up again! 😉 When David Talbot was writing his book on Dulles, John Armstrong alerted me that a number of Dulles’ papers were online at the Princeton Library, where he had donated them. One of the first things I looked for was his personal calendar, and it was there. You couldn't search them, but I figured out the file naming system and was able to find the calendar for November 1963. When I got to 11/22, there was something stunning. The calendar showed Dulles was at “The Farm” for the next several days after the assassination. Dulles was not a farmboy. He was an aristocrat. So I knew immediately by "The Farm" he meant the CIA's training facility at Camp Peary, called "The Farm" by insiders. He was at "The Farm" for five days, if memory serves, and I believe that started ON 11/22. My first thought was, he's running a command post, finding out what news is being made public so he would know what to cover up. Given that JFK had fired Allen Dulles from head of the CIA, it was shocking that Allen Dulles would hole up at a CIA facility immediately following the assassination of the man he hated. "That little Kennedy," he told someone. "He thought he was a God." Because I wanted David to have the scoop, I refrained from posting those pages. I did post something else from his calendar on Twitter, along with the URL, knowing most people wouldn't click links so I wasn't going to spoil anything. I showed the 11/22 page to Jim DiEugenio, and David shared it with his researcher Karen Croft. All four of us saw it. I didn't keep a copy because I wasn't planning on writing a book AND because I thought since it was already public and online, it would always be there. How naive I was. A couple of years or more after David's book came out, David came back to me - people were challenging him re the Calendar, claiming it never existed. I went to the online site and it was gone. The collection used to include his calendar, and it no longer does. I even tried a link from the screenshot of the calendar I had posted in the Wayback Machine, but to no avail. It was gone. I then wrote to Princeton, asking why they had removed the Calendar from the online collection. "We never had his calendar," they said. Which was of course false because I had found it and tweeted a page from it. When people ask, "how could so many people cover something up for that long," THAT IS HOW. Evidence of conspiracy is literally disappeared. ( Lisa Pease, Facebook, 5-21-22)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jun 26, 2022 5:23:10 GMT -5
532 Evidence former KGB archivist said Dear Mr. Hunt-letter is a KGB forgeryErasing the Past...DiscussionsCompare:48 The handwritten draft of the 'Comrade Kostin' letter to the Soviet Embassy259 Document in Oswald’s handwriting that mentions his attack on Walker268 An invisible writing assistant? 529 A faded, or erased inscription "So she goes back into her office, leaps through 32 pages of Russian text, comes back and says, sorry, there is nothing there."The Soviet K.G.B. fabricated evidence linking the Central Intelligence Agency to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and passed the material to unwitting conspiracy theorists in the United States, according to a new book based on K.G.B. files brought to the West by a defector. According to the files turned over by a former K.G.B. archivist to British intelligence and detailed in a new book, Moscow's cold war spy service took several steps designed to link the C.I.A. to the assassination. Vasili Mitrokhin 1922-2004
These steps included forging a letter from Lee Harvey Oswald to a C.I.A. officer, E. Howard Hunt, asking for information ''before any steps are taken by me or anyone else,'' according to the new book, ''The Sword and the Shield,'' written by Christopher Andrew and the former K.G.B. officer, Vasily Mitrokhin. (...) The Oswald letter was supposed to have been written about two weeks before President Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, but was actually created by the K.G.B. in the mid-1970's, after E. Howard Hunt's name had surfaced in the Watergate investigation, according to K.G.B. files copied by Mr. Mitrokhin while he served as a K.G.B. archivist. The letter was then passed anonymously to three conspiracy buffs and entered circulation in the United States when it was picked up by one writer of self-published assassination books, the authors report. The letter led to a brief flurry of interest when a Dallas newspaper reported that a handwriting expert declared it to be genuine, but a Congressional panel that reinvestigated the Kennedy assassination in the late 1970's later concluded that the letter was probably a forgery. The K.G.B.'s clumsy propaganda campaign never had much of an impact on the debate over the Kennedy assassination in the United States. But the archives spirited out of Russia by Mr. Mitrokhin appear to support the longstanding assertions by C.I.A. officials that the K.G.B. conducted disinformation campaigns designed to raise dark suspicions about the United States Government and prominent American leaders around the world. (James Risen, Sept. 12, 1999, K.G.B. Told Tall Tales About Dallas, Book Says, New York Times) I just wanted to know where Mitrokhin talks about this letter. So I wrote to Cambridge. I wanted to know, did Mitrokhin actually say that? By the time I got on this, Mitrokhin was dead. So I wrote to Christopher Andrew and ultimately I went to the Cambridge archive where this Mitrokhin-material is stored. This is what the files look like. It's all typewritten Russian. And I said, well, here's footnote nr. 1, 2, 3, 4 from Andrew's book and another book. These are all the materials. Could you send me this? [The librarian] said sure, so she sends me 32 pages of Russian from the Mitrokhin archives. Okay, now I don't read Russian well. My wife is a Russian, here name is Anya. So I ask her, Anya, would you please go into your office and look through these 32 pages of Russian text. Look for the word (Lee Harvey) Oswald, look for the word Hunt, look for a date, Nov. 8, 1963 and circle it. So she goes very nicely into her office and comes back, "sorry, there's nothing here." I said this is weird, do it again, please, this is really important. So she goes back into her office, leaps through 32 pages of Russian text, comes back and says, sorry, there is nothing there. (Jerry Kroth, 6-16-22, The Oswald Letter: the most important JFK assassination discovery in 50 years, Youtube) Snippet from the Mitrokhin-archive
The "Mitrokhin Archive" is a collection of handwritten notes which were secretly made by the KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin during the thirty years in which he served as a KGB archivist in the foreign intelligence service and the First Chief Directorate. When he defected to the United Kingdom in 1992, he brought the archive with him, in six full trunks. His defection was not officially announced until 1999. The official historian of MI5, Christopher Andrew,wrote two books, The Sword and the Shield (1999) and The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World (2005), based on material in the archives. The books purport to provide details about many of the Soviet Union's clandestine intelligence operations around the world. ( Wikipedia, retrieved 6-26-22)
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