Erasing the Past to Protect a Fairytale

136  George de Mohrenschildt's CIA affiliate personnel file



Compare:
22 Oswald's pre-Dec 1960 CIA-File
38 Well over 2,000 pages on CIA-asset June Cobb
120 George De Mohrenschildt's address book
121 330 CIA Joannides records

Texan George Brown of Brown and Root was LBJ's chief financial sponsor. He also employed, 1958-1963,
George DeMohrenschildt, Oswald's "closest friend" for the CIA in Dallas. Previously, DeMohrenschildt had
worked for LBJ backer John Mecom. Oil barons Mecom, Murchison, Sid Richardson and H.L. Hunt were all
described as his close friends, as well as then-oilman George Bush. These men met at the Dallas Petroleum
Club and other private gathering spots. Among their associates were Harold Byrd (owner of the Texas
School Book Depository), Dallas Mayor Cabell, Ted Dealey (publisher of the Dallas Morning News), and
Abraham Zapruder, who filmed the assassination.



De Mohrenschildt wrote to Vice President Johnson on April 17,1963. LBJ aide Walter Jenkins replied April 18! 
On April 23, LBJ's military aide Col. Howard Burris wrote to Jenkins suggesting that LBJ be kept "informed
to the maximum extent possible in as many areas as possible...that he be more nearly prepared to assume
the reins of government in case he is called upon to do so." Three days later, Burris (and possibly LBJ) met
with DeMohrenschildt in Washington. On May 20, LBJ and DeMohrenschildt definitely met.

In November 1964, soon after the Warren Report's release, DeMohrenschildt's CIA affiliate personnel file was
destroyed, and the CIA's Angleton began intercepting DeMohrenschildt's mail, even though George's brother
Dimitri (formerly with Time-Life) had long published a CIA-subsidized magazine. In 1969, DeMohrenschildt told
a family friend that H. L. Hunt was behind the assassination. Though Far Right, Hunt supported LBJ in 1960.
According to former intelligence operative Richard Case Nagell, Hunt also ran paramilitary operations,
employing some CIA people.

(Martin Shackelford, A Celebration of Freedom: Latest Research and Secrets from the Files, Part Seven,
Review Magazine, 1996)

138  One "Vial, Hamilton, Koch & Knox"-file on Jack Ruby




"According to Silvia Odio's close friend, Lucille Connell, she
received a call from Silvia's sister Sarita who told her that Silvia had
fainted and was in the hospital.

Sarita also told her why Silvia had fainted and the fact that Silvia had
met Oswald and that he had come to her apartment. Connell could
not recall exactly when Sarita called ; she said it was either the day of
the assassination or the day after.

Connell said that Sunday, however, she was speaking on the telephone
to a friend of hers, Mrs. Sanford Pick, then working as a receptionist in
a Dallas law firm office, when they both saw Ruby shoot Oswald on their
television sets. Connell recalled : "And she said to me, `Oh my goodness,
Ruby was in our office last week and had power of attorney drawn for his
sister.'"


Jack Ruby with his sister Eva Grant

Connell said that later that same day she happened to be speaking with
another friend, Marcella Insua, the daughter of the head of the Dallas
Cuban Relief Committee. Connell mentioned to Insua what her other
friend had said about Ruby being in her law office. Insua, Connell said,
happened to have a class of American children to whom she was teaching
Spanish. In that class, she got into a discussion of the Kennedy
assassination and mentioned that she knew someone who knew someone
who had some dealings with Ruby.

It also happened that there was a son of a local FBI agent in Insua's class.
That was how the FBI subserviently came to contact Connell and learn
about the Odio incident."

(Gaeton Fonzi, HCSA appendices & Hearings vol. 10, page 28)


Note : It was not possible to resolve the inconsistency of the substance of this and certain
related FBI reports.

(FBI report) DL 44-1639 stated only that Connell said that Odio told her that she knew
Oswald and that he had spoken to groups of refugees in Dallas. Nothing is noted about a
visit of three men.

Connell told a committee investigator (ref . 50. memorandum, p. 3) that she did not recall
ever telling the FBI that. Neither did the FBI report of the Bureaus initial interview with
Odio on Dec. 19, 1963 (Report DL 100-10461) mention that she had knowledge of Oswald
speaking to refugee groups.

Neither did the FBI interview with Connell note Connell's report of her conversation with
her friend, Mrs. Sanford Pick, regarding Ruby's visiting the law firm where Pick worked.

Connell said she is positive she told that to the FBI. The committee found that neither Pick
nor the attorney who handled Ruby's case at the law firm were questioned by the FBI
(ref. 50, memorandum, pp. 4-6) .

Because neither Pick nor the attorney, Graham R. E. Koch, could specifically recall Ruby
requesting power of attorney for his sister, and because, according to Koch, his firm's
records on the case were later routinely destroyed (ref. 50, memorandum), the
committee was unable to pursue the possibility further.

(Gaeton Fonzi, HCSA appendices & Hearings vol. 10, footnote nr 126)

140  Large skull fragment from presidential limousine



Related:
4 John F. Kennedy's brain
15 The original air force one tape
40 The original autopsy notes by Commander James J. Humes
50 The Harper fragment
69 Bullet found in JFK's limousine

A large skull fragment, seen in the limousine at Parkland by Secret Service agent Clint Hill, and recovered
from the car on the flight back to Washington by his colleague Sam Kinney, disappeared from the record
after Kinney turned it in.

(Kinney) told me twice that he saw the back of JFK's head come off immediately when the fatal shot struck
him. "It was the right rear--I saw that part blow out." He added that his windshield and left arm were hit
with blood and brain matter immediately after the head shot.



Once at Parkland Hospital, Kinney helped remove the President from the back seat of the car, with help from
Clint Hill, Roy Kellerman, and Dave Powers. "His brain was blown out," Kinney said, "...there was nothing left!"

Kinney and S/A George W. Hickey, Jr., both members of the White House Garage Detail (chauffeurs) drove the
follow-up and the limo, respectively, back to Love Field to be put aboard a C-130 transport. Once the cars
were secured on the plane, it took off for Washington with Kinney, Hickey, and several members of the 76th
Air Transport Squadron from Charleston, SC.

However, it was Kinney who made a most valuable discovery: the piece of the back of JFK's head lying in the
rear seat of the bloody limousine, exactly where Clint Hill told the Warren Commission he saw the "right rear"
piece . Fellow agents Kellerman and Jerry Behn confirm this fact.

Kinney added that the fragment was "clean as a pin" and that it resembled a "flowerpot" or "clay pot" piece,
adding, "It was a big piece--half his head was gone." When pressed as to the anatomical orientation of the
fragment, he said, "I don't know what else it could have been but the back of his head."

Realizing the obvious significance of this discovery (hours BEFORE the "official" limousine search made by
ASAIC Floyd Boring), Kinney put in a phone patch to Admiral George Burkley (unfortunately, like many other
events, this radio traffic no longer exists on the heavily edited Air Force One radio tapes currently available)

Kinney had the fragment in his suit pocket during his talk with Burkley and for the course of the flight back
to DC. Kinney indicated that he and Burkley were good friends, noting he has Burkley's photo, along with JFK
and Truman, on his wall. When asked about Burkley and the autopsy concerns, Kinney indicated, "Well, you
have to give orders to people...they [who?] were very hard on Dr. Burkley."

(Vince Palamara interviews with Sam Kinney, 3/5/94 and 4/15/94)


Dr. Burkley

142  Oswald's 1957 return


-C.D. 101a: In enclosure (24), Deputy Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service Bertrand M. Harding
wrote to the Treasury General Counsel, Mr. G. D'Andelot Belin, "We have not located a 1957 return for
Oswald. He is known to have served in the Marine Corps during that year." The author did sight Social
Security tax information indicating that Lee Harvey Oswald served in the Marine Corps during the entire
year of 1957, so it is unclear whether the inability of the IRS to find a return for that year is significant or
not.

(Doug Horne, MEMORANDUM FOR FILE, SUBJECT: Questions Raised by John Armstrong and Carol Hewett
About Lee Harvey Oswald's Tax and Earnings Records, September 23, 1998)