Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 30, 2019 9:44:27 GMT -5
38 "Well over 2,000 pages on CIA-asset June Cobb"
"At the request of FBI SA Raymond P. Yelchak, Dallas, [Director of the Dallas Public Library] Lillian Bradshaw provided the FBI with another copy of Lee Harvey Oswald's delinquent book The Shark and the Sardines, which the FBI noted in its reports as having been "authored by a former president of Guatemala, Juan Jose Arevalo, translated form Spanish by June Cobb and Dr. Raul Osegueda.
(...)
Within a matter of days, the FBI's February 25, 1964 report on The Shark and the Sardines was forwarded to FBI headquarters in Washington D.C, and to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. There is no indication in anay available FBI records that the Bureau made any special not of the name "June Cobb" in the report. Nor are there any available CIA records sent to the FBI, or anyone else, concerning the fact that June Cobb, at the time of the FBI's Dallas investigation and thereafter, and months before the assassination, was was employed as a contract CIA asset in Mexico City, Mexico.
(...)
Indeed, while some documents are now available that very sketchily portray Cobb's work and activities for the CIA, it is estimated that well over 2,000 pages on Cobb remain classified for "national security reasons".
(H.P. Albarelli Jr., A Secret Order, 2013, p. 84-86)
The existing information in the spy agency’s declassified files depicts Cobb as an American Mata Hari—an adventure-loving, death-defying globetrotter who moved to Cuba to work for Fidel Castro, the country’s newly installed strongman, then found herself recruited to spy for the CIA after growing disenchanted with Castro’s revolution. The era’s rampant sexism is obvious in her job evaluation reports: Cobb’s CIA handlers wrote down speculation about her sex life and her failed romance in the 1950s with an opium farmer in the jungles of South America. And the reports are filled with appraisals of Cobb’s looks, noting especially her fetching blue eyes. “Miss Cobb is not unattractive,” her CIA recruiter wrote in 1960. “She is blonde, has a slender figure, although she has a somewhat hard look, making her appear somewhat older than her 33 years.”
( ... )
What did June Cobb know at the time? Historians of the Cold War—and anyone with an interest in JFK’s 1963 assassination and the possibility of Cuban involvement—are on the verge of learning much more about the extraordinary, often bizarre, sometimes tragic life of the American spy who was born Viola June Cobb, the full name that appeared on her birth certificate back home in Ponca City, Oklahoma, in 1927. The National Archives has recently acknowledged that it is preparing to release a 221-page file of long-secret CIA documents about Cobb that—for reasons the Archives says it cannot yet divulge—are somehow linked to JFK’s murder.
(Phil Shenon , From What Could a Mysterious U.S. Spy Know About the JFK Assassination?, Politico, May 20, 2017)
The New York field office file proved to be much more voluminous than the Dallas file and yielded more assassination records. A number of the records that the Review Board staff designated as assassination records from the New York file involved June Cobb, 100 a woman who was an intelligence asset during the 1960–64* period, primarily for the CIA but also for the FBI, regarding Castro, Cuba, and the FPCC. In addition, Cobb was the asset who first informed the CIA of Elena Garro De Paz’s allegation that Oswald attended a “twist” party in Mexico City with Sylvia Duran.
(ARRB report, chapter 6, part 1)
"At the request of FBI SA Raymond P. Yelchak, Dallas, [Director of the Dallas Public Library] Lillian Bradshaw provided the FBI with another copy of Lee Harvey Oswald's delinquent book The Shark and the Sardines, which the FBI noted in its reports as having been "authored by a former president of Guatemala, Juan Jose Arevalo, translated form Spanish by June Cobb and Dr. Raul Osegueda.
(...)
Within a matter of days, the FBI's February 25, 1964 report on The Shark and the Sardines was forwarded to FBI headquarters in Washington D.C, and to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. There is no indication in anay available FBI records that the Bureau made any special not of the name "June Cobb" in the report. Nor are there any available CIA records sent to the FBI, or anyone else, concerning the fact that June Cobb, at the time of the FBI's Dallas investigation and thereafter, and months before the assassination, was was employed as a contract CIA asset in Mexico City, Mexico.
(...)
Indeed, while some documents are now available that very sketchily portray Cobb's work and activities for the CIA, it is estimated that well over 2,000 pages on Cobb remain classified for "national security reasons".
(H.P. Albarelli Jr., A Secret Order, 2013, p. 84-86)
The existing information in the spy agency’s declassified files depicts Cobb as an American Mata Hari—an adventure-loving, death-defying globetrotter who moved to Cuba to work for Fidel Castro, the country’s newly installed strongman, then found herself recruited to spy for the CIA after growing disenchanted with Castro’s revolution. The era’s rampant sexism is obvious in her job evaluation reports: Cobb’s CIA handlers wrote down speculation about her sex life and her failed romance in the 1950s with an opium farmer in the jungles of South America. And the reports are filled with appraisals of Cobb’s looks, noting especially her fetching blue eyes. “Miss Cobb is not unattractive,” her CIA recruiter wrote in 1960. “She is blonde, has a slender figure, although she has a somewhat hard look, making her appear somewhat older than her 33 years.”
( ... )
What did June Cobb know at the time? Historians of the Cold War—and anyone with an interest in JFK’s 1963 assassination and the possibility of Cuban involvement—are on the verge of learning much more about the extraordinary, often bizarre, sometimes tragic life of the American spy who was born Viola June Cobb, the full name that appeared on her birth certificate back home in Ponca City, Oklahoma, in 1927. The National Archives has recently acknowledged that it is preparing to release a 221-page file of long-secret CIA documents about Cobb that—for reasons the Archives says it cannot yet divulge—are somehow linked to JFK’s murder.
(Phil Shenon , From What Could a Mysterious U.S. Spy Know About the JFK Assassination?, Politico, May 20, 2017)
The New York field office file proved to be much more voluminous than the Dallas file and yielded more assassination records. A number of the records that the Review Board staff designated as assassination records from the New York file involved June Cobb, 100 a woman who was an intelligence asset during the 1960–64* period, primarily for the CIA but also for the FBI, regarding Castro, Cuba, and the FPCC. In addition, Cobb was the asset who first informed the CIA of Elena Garro De Paz’s allegation that Oswald attended a “twist” party in Mexico City with Sylvia Duran.
(ARRB report, chapter 6, part 1)
