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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 14, 2020 8:36:08 GMT -5
276 The Rotterdam American Express Folder on the Oswalds
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46 Spas Raikin's complete report267 The source of Oswald's fundsUntil 2005 there was an affiliate of American Express at De Meent, a street in Rotterdam, which the Oswalds visited on October 4th 1962 on their way from Russia back to the USA. The address was in Lee Harvey Oswald's notebook. This is where he could pick up his tickets for the boat trip to America. For several years there has been a modest file on Oswald in the Rotterdam archives, but nobody has ever been allowed to read it, for reasons of privacy. "Even when the Irish researcher Anthony Summers showed with a fax from none other than Marina Oswald, the journalist was refused access." (Translated by AH from Perry Vermeulen, Lee Harvey Oswald Via Rotterdam naar Dallas, p. 119-123)  Former location of American Express office in Rotterdam
I gave a list of materials, sources of materials to the Board prior to the in Washington, D.C., hearing. A couple of things have come to my attention in the last few days. One was in an article in the Fourth Decade by Filip Coppens, a Belgian journalist that I have been in correspondence with. He reports on an article written by two Dutch journalists about Lee Harvey Oswald's stay in Holland, and one of the things that came out of that is that there is an American Express file on Lee Harvey Oswald in the Rotterdam Branch Office of American Express. That might give some of the expenditures of the Oswalds while they were in Holland, it might give a little more information on an aspect of his return from the Soviet Union that we really don't have very much information on at this point.  Marina's message (illustration from Via Rotterdam naar Dallas. Perry Vermeulen, 2008)
The American Express Office told the journalists that as far as they knew there was nothing of particular interest in the file and, therefore, they weren't going to show it to them. But apparently there is such a file there. If Oswald had American Express, there may be other American Express files with information about him as well. ( Martin Shackelford, November 18, 1994 ARRB Hearing)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 15, 2020 11:27:10 GMT -5
277 Memorandum of May 21, 1964 by Wesley J. Liebeler
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6 The Oswald Letter a.k.a Hosty Note62 FBI Agent John L. Quigley's interrogation notes93 Identity of Fort Hood gun deal informant131 Records of 22 January 1964 meeting of the Warren CommissionMemorandum of May 21, 1964 by Wesley J. Liebeler concerning rumor Oswald was an informant of a Government agency, with a reply of May 31, 1964 by Samuel Stern. ( National Archives-Security Classification Problems Involving Warren Commission Files, p. 58, 1975)  Samuel SternMr. Stern stated that “at the outset we realized that there was no possible way to penetrate any official involvement in a cover-up or conspiracy if there was such complicity.” Stern stated that he and several of his Commission colleagues discussed what they regarded as “the fact that the agencies – the FBI and CIA – could formulate and maintain a cover-up which no one would ever penetrate. We of course did not believe that was so. And I still don’t. But we realized what we were dealing with, in the power of these agencies. Fortunately, we believed they were on our side.” ( HSCA interview with Former Warren Commission counsel Sam Stern, August 22, 1978)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 20, 2020 13:30:06 GMT -5
278 The identity of the 'agent' who tried to enter JFK emergency room
See also:18 The 0.30 caliber bullet that turned into CE399
The elevator vestibule where [ CE399] was discovered lay just outside the main perimeter of security guarded by Secret Service and hospital personnel. Only a few feet away two Secret Service agents knocked down an unidentified man claiming to be an FBI agent. Secret Service Agent Andrew Berger describes the incident: At approximately 1:30 p.m., the Chief Supervising
nurse, a Mrs. Nelson started to
enter the emergency room with an unidentified
male (WM, 45 yrs., 6'2", 185-190 lbs.,
grey hair). As the reporting agent and SA Johnsen started to ask his identity he shouted that he was FBI. Just as we began to ask for his credentials he abruptly attempted to enter
the emergency room and had to be forcibly restrained by us. ASAIC Kellerman then appeared and asked this individual to go to the end of the hall (18H795). (Josiah Thompson, Six Seconds in Dallas, p. 165)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 20, 2020 13:39:45 GMT -5
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 22, 2020 5:10:49 GMT -5
280 Official copy of the Dallas police dictabelt
I again requested both the Secret Service and the National Archives
to renew their search for the tape made by Warner and the further copy
made by the Protective Research Section in Washington. Erasing the Past...DiscussionsThe official copy of the Dallas police dictabelt of the police radio transmissions made ... and the shots recorded on it, is missing from the National Archives. (Mal Hyman, Burying the lead, p. 134)  Former DPD Sergeant Jim Bowles was interviewed by the FBI on August 27 and September 15, 1980. The interview report, dated October 1, 1980, and covering both interviews, states in part: "The original belts and discs, containing recordings of radio transmissions at or about the time of the assassination of President Kennedy were provided to the FBI within a few days of that event. Several days later an FBI Agent returned the belts and discs to Captain Bowles personally".i In an interview with Dallas researcher Gary Mack in March 1982, Bowles corrected his statement to the FBI, and said that it was the Secret Service who "took those blue belts" out of the DPD building a few days after the assassination. Asked when the belts were returned, Bowles said "not for a few days, we were awfully busy then". Bowles also told Mack that he could not give any assurance that the belts which were returned were the ones which left the possession of the DPD. /arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-dmn.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2K3DRKETTT5NJJRGTKGF2LSLQY.jpg) When Bowles was with the Dallas Police Department, he was assigned to the investigation into the
John F. Kennedy assassination because he was supervisor of the Dallas police's communications at
the time. Years later, he wrote a novel exploring a conspiracy surrounding the assassination: "JFK
Conspiracy: The Missing File." Bowles always believed Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone — the
conspiracy novel was a spoof, he said in an interview in 2008. (Wikipedia, 1-22-20)
In October 1983, Bowles gave me a slightly different sequence of events. He said that Chief Lumpkin gave the belts to the Secret Service, who in turn passed them on to the FBI, who then returned them to him. When he received them back, Bowles said he returned the belts to Chief Lumpkin. It would appear that Bowles' 1982 and 1983 recollection about which government agency had the dictabelts was more accurate than his 1980 recollection for the FBI. Secret Service records show that on or before November 29, 1963, DPD Chief Lumpkin provided the recordings to Special Agents Roger C. Warner and Elmer W. Moore for "transcription". Rather than transcribing the belts himself, Warner copied the recording to tape. The tape was then sent to the Secret Service Protective Research Section in Washington for "filtering, rerecording and transcription", after which it was supposed to be returned to the Secret Service office in Dallas. In 1970, researcher Paul Hoch asked both the Secret Service and the National Archives to search for this tape, but no trace of it could be found. THE HSCA also tried unsuccessfully to pursue the issue of Secret Service access to the dictabelts. Staff researcher Margo Jackson contacted Tom Ferrell of the Secret Service on January 24, 1978 and “inquired about material regarding the filtering, rerecording, and transcription requested to be performed on the above tapes”. Ferrell replied that he “would have to check with the Assistant Director of the Washington Protective Research Section, whose name he would not disclose”, and promised to call Ms. Jackson back. Unfortunately, there is no record of any further communication with or from Ferrell. On September 23, 1981, Paul Hoch suggested to Professor Ramsey that a search for Warner's tape - requested by the Ramsey Panel as opposed to an individual researcher - might be worthwhile. There is, however, no evidence to suggest that such a request was made by the Ramsey Panel, or that any search was made on their behalf.  SA Roger Warner with Marina & Marguerite Oswald
The Warner tape was copied in Washington, and a transcript was made. This transcript first came to light in 1982, when researcher Mark Allen found it among the records of the Secret Service. The transcript was apparently omitted from the agency's material given to the Warren Commission in 1964. As a result of Allen's discovery, I again requested both the Secret Service and the National Archives to renew their search for the tape made by Warner and the further copy made by the Protective Research Section in Washington. However, no trace of either recording could be found in late 1982. (Chris Scally, The Chain of Possession, 1999)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 23, 2020 10:46:49 GMT -5
281 CIA file on Maurice BishopSee also:103 Many of Gordon McLendon's records232 Preparation materials and the memorandum on Dan Hardway’s interview with David Atlee Phillips237 Diplomatic pouch No. 4083C. Key figures (the following individuals are considered JFK assassination-related, upless the context is clearly unrelated or outside the appropriate time period)  Maurice Bishop (artist's sketch)
* AMMUG, CUban defector; * Maurice Bishop, alleged to exist (any reference); * Silvia Duran, employee in CUban Embassy, Mexico City; . * Richard Gibson and the Free Cuba Committee; * Howard Hunt, CIA employee; * Priscilla MacMillan Johnson, journalist; * Valeriy Kostikov, KGB officer in Mexico city; * Mr. & Mrs. George de Mohrenschildt (all documents) * Yuri Nosenko and the dispute over his bona fides; * Michael and Ruth Paine, Dallas friends of Oswalds; * David. Phillips, CIA employee; * Richard Snyder, State Department Officer. * Winston Scott, COS Mexico City ( JFK Records Review Project, memo, October 8, 1997) "From Parkland [Seth] Kantor kept in touch with his Scripps-Howard News Service (SHNS) editors by phone, and called them frequently as news developments warranted. When he learned that Lee Harvey Oswald had been arrested in the murder of a policeman and was suspected of killing the President, he called it in, and was told to call another SHNS reporter in Florida – Hal Hendrix.  Pulitzer-winning CIA-asset Harold Hendrix died in 2015, aged 92When he got a hold of him Kantor thought he would be giving him information about the suspect, but instead, Kantor was incredulous as Hendrix in Florida had more information about Oswald than Kantor could gather in Dallas. Kantor knew Hendrix as a reporter who covered Cuban matters from Miami, whose career would include reporting on a coup in the Dominican Republic that didn’t occur until the next day, earning him the nickname among other reporters as “The Spook.” I didn’t think much of it until a few years later when I read an op ed – editorial by a retired SHNS editor who confessed that he had published articles submitted to him by the CIA, and that the publishers he worked for had a standing relationship with SHNS to provide such services. Years later I read a Jim Hougan article about Hal Hendrix’s daughter, who had a relationship with former CIA agent Frank Terpil, whose shennigans with former CIA officer Ed Wilson in Libya got him in trouble with the agency. Terpil told Hougan that he knew the shadowy covert case officer known as “Maurice Bishop,” whose CIA file indicated was actually David Atlee Phillips. While that file has since disappeared, Phillips did become entwined in the JFK assassination story as the suspected case officer for anti-Castro Cuban terrorist Antonio Veciana, who had been involved in a plot to kill Castro with Sylvia Odio’s parents, who were arrested and did time in Cuban jails." ( Bill Kelly, Scripps Howard News Service (SHNS) at Parkland, 1-21-20)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 23, 2020 11:25:20 GMT -5
282 Letter of Gerald Ford, April 7, 1964, concerning expediting the FBI investigationRelated:69 Bullet found in JFK's limousine261 Nixon's 18 1/2 minute White House tape gapDeclassified FBI memos on Ford's interactions with the bureau are among scores of documents in the FBI's previously confidential file on the former president, who died in December 2006. At the request of The Post, the FBI this week released 500 pages of the bureau's voluminous file.  A December 1963 memo recounts that Ford, then a Republican congressman from Michigan, told FBI Assistant Director Cartha D. "Deke" DeLoach that two members of the seven-person commission remained unconvinced that Kennedy had been shot from the sixth-floor window of the Texas Book Depository. In addition, three commission members "failed to understand" the trajectory of the slugs, Ford said. Ford told DeLoach that commission discussions would continue and reassured him that those minority points of view on the commission "of course would represent no problem," one internal FBI memo shows. The memo does not name the members involved and does not elaborate on what Ford meant by "no problem." (Joe Stevens, Ford Told FBI of Skeptics on Warren Commission, Washington Post, 2008)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 24, 2020 13:11:48 GMT -5
283 The finest nine minutes of television (n)ever shownMore CBS:103 Many of Gordon McLendon's records
197 Thomas Craven’s film sequence taken in Dealey Plaza271. 40-minute filmed interview with George deMohrenschildt272 Seventy plus hours of CBS outtakesThe upcoming media coverage of the [publication] of the Warren Report can be glimpsed when CBS taped Mark Lane's critical lecture just prior to the release of the report. A CBS representative called Lane to say that the lecture had been edited to “about the finest nine minutes of television viewing that I have ever seen. ... It was never shown. (Mal Hyman, Burying the lead, 2018, p. 143)  Kennedy and Lane Some of the death notices picture him as a gadfly. But for me, a writer who got to know him a little in Los Angeles decades ago, Mark Lane played David versus Goliath, tilting up against seemingly impossible odds. The activist attorney and author kept sniping away at government agencies like the CIA up until the time of his death on May 10 in Charlottesville, Va. He was 89. As his obituaries note, Lane gained international fame challenging a report by the Warren Commission– established in 1964 by Lyndon Baines Johnson– that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of his predecessor, President John F. Kennedy, on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. He made that claim in his best selling 1966 book, “Rush to Judgment,” and again in a documentary by the same name. His 1974 feature film, “Executive Action,” covered similar terrain, starring Burt Lancaster. He wrote it with help from Donald Freed and the formerly blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. Lane became a towering figure in the counter culture of the era, nurturing a cottage industry of conspiracy theorists and amateur detectives. His celebrity came soon after a crushing blow to his political ambitions in New York, an episode that will be explored as we go along. As he once told me during an interview, “The past is prologue,” quoting from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” The war in Vietnam was heating up in 1966 when I first met Lane as a cub reporter, covering his lecture on JFK’s assassination at California State University in Northridge for a suburban daily. Standing about six feet tall and crisply attired in a business suit and tie, he ridiculed the Warren Commission’s claim that a single “magic bullet” had passed from the body of President Kennedy and struck Texas Gov. John Connolly who had been riding in JFK’s open limousine in a front seat as it passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas. “The bullet,” Lane explained sardonically, “then made a sharp left,” a comment that drew chuckles from the crowd. (Marina Reinholz, Remembering J.F.K. conspiracy theorist Mark Lane, June, 2016)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 25, 2020 13:01:19 GMT -5
284 George DeMohrenschildt's address book (2)See also:119 George De Mohrenschildt's address book 271. 40-minute filmed interview with George deMohrenschildtThere had been a new development in the Dallas affair that summer. On 20 August 1970 dr. Cyril Wecht, president of the Academy of Forensic Sciences and pathologist anatomist from the city of Pittsburgh, known in Pennsylvania, that he came to the conclusion after examining the x-rays of Kennedy's body Oswald, even though he was involved in the murder, could never have the lone assassin of J.F.K. That statement had major headlines in the newspapers.  Oltmans and DeMohrenschildt on Dutch television, 1968When George came home that day, he immediately asked me for my opinion about the sensational findings of dr. Wecht. Immediately after Wecht presented the result of his studies, the De Mohrenschildts received a series of strange phone calls. What particularly disturbed George was that when he and his wife returned home from their short holiday, his black address book with literally all his addresses was stolen. He wondered if there were people who had keys to his apartment. For the first time I was under the impression that he was concerned about these new developments. (Translated from: Willem Oltmans, Een reportage over de Kennedy-moordenaars, p. 92/93)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 26, 2020 10:52:47 GMT -5
285 DeMohrenschildt-photo with enigmatic inscription
Related:14 The negatives of Backyard Photos 133A and 133C 271 40-minute filmed interview with George deMohrenschildt 284 George DeMohrenschildt's address book (2) "To Willem, from the greatest scammer in the western hemisphere."The morning of November 3, 1974, George unexpectedly gave me a picture of himself, standing in front of a class with young black children. He taught French there. He wrote on the back, "To Willem, from the greatest scammer in the western hemisphere." He added: "You can blackmail me now with that photo. " Upon returning to the Netherlands, I shared the recordings with Gerard Croiset and Carel Enkelaar - in his Hilversum house - during the evening, when I reported about my recent meeting in Dallas. I forgot the photo that evening at Enkelaar's house.  Head of the program department at NOS, Carel Enkelaar and journalist Oltmans in New York. Oltmans and
Enkelaar continued to work together and Enkelaar spoke positively of Oltmans when some American media
(NY Times, CBS, NBC) tried to destroy Oltmans' credibility after the journalist testified before the HSCA.The next day he assured me that the photograph was found and would keep it safe for me. I trusted him on that. When inquiring about it during the months of January, February, March and April, the return of the photo just kept on being postponed. Finally we reached the stage that I had to ask in writing for the return of the photo. No answer. Finally a response came in June, a registered letter with a two-line advice from Enkelaar: "Take a break, I think you need it. " At that time I was forced to ask my lawyer to mediate about the return of the photo. Because , the affair of the The Mohrenschildt film, which was lost in the NOS archive, played at the same time, Enkelaar explicitly informed my lawyer that the photo was recovered, but that I should not start proceedings against the NOS for the missing film footage, "because otherwise I will never be able to bail out Mr Oltmans again." It was remarkable that the photo was lost one again in the hands of Mr. Enkelaar after I started proceedings against the NOS about the film. The NOS lawyer stated during the trial, incidentally, that the De Mohrenschildt film was destroyed by the NOS staff, "because it was worthless material with lots of barking from the DeMohrenschildt's chihuahuas." I was not satisfied with the statement of the NOS lawyer and I had some NOS officials, including Mr. Enkelaar, questioned under oath by the examining magistrate. Enkelaar then stated that the film footage had not been destroyed and still had to be somewhere at the NOS. (...) The photo, the one that was lost, found and disappeared again, has yet to be found as of 1977. "Perhaps it was thrown away by the cleaning woman," claimed Carel Enkelaar casually. (Translated from: Willem Oltmans, Een reportage over de Kennedy-moordenaars, p. 119/120)
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