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Post by Arjan Hut on Feb 29, 2020 13:08:55 GMT -5
307 "Rand Corp. study of assassination"
Compare:115 CIA study of the AssassinationI [...] set about reading everything I could get my hands on in the general RAND files. These files now, for example, contain a study RAND made of the Kennedy assassination: Project Star. It's a particularly special study—its classification is higher than top secret. Only a handful of RAND people know of its existence. (Anthony Russo, Inside the RAND Corporation and Out: My Story, 1972)  Ramparts Magazine for April, 1972 (page 49) reveals that Anthony Russo, of Pentagon Papers fame, tells of his work in the Rand Corp., and of a report made by Rand on the assassination of President Kennedy. Few people even at Rand know of the report for it is classified higher than top secret. This special study is called "Project Star." If Oswald killed President Kennedy, why such classification? (...) Not only was it a waste of money for the U. S. Government to employ the think-tank Rand Corp- oration to conduct a "higher than Top Secret" study of President John F. Kennedy's assassina- tion (Ramparts Magazine, April 1972, page 49) since the FBI, the Warren Commission and every top governmental official from presidents to contractual consultants ever since November 22, 1963 have agreed Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin - but it would now appear in the light of recent news events that Rand was the lesser qualified to run such a "burn before reading'' investigation. (Penn Jones, Forgive my grief IV, 1974)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 3, 2020 7:08:20 GMT -5
308 Documentation of Robert Kennedy's private investigation
See also:51 National Photo Interpretation Center (NPIC) records related to the assassination114 RFK's Marcello-Halfen-Johnson file116 Gary Underhill's JFK Assassination notes 212 The identity of the mystery Oxnard area caller Erasing the Past...DiscussionsBack in 1963, shortly after President Kennedy's assassination, Robert F. Kennedy, while he was still Attorney-General, conducted his own investigation of the death of his brother. That private investigation, which ran parallel with the official inquiry into the magnicide conducted by the War- ren Commission, was featured by trips to this country by an Inspector Hamilton, former Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard. Hamilton, an old friend of Joseph P. Kennedy, with whom he had many contacts during the latter's ambassadorship in London, had been retained by Bobby to help un- ravel the real truth about the murder of J. F. K. After long conferring with the members of the Kennedy family and making a few discreet sound- ings with his own contacts, Hamilton zeroed on the fact that the assassination of John Kennedy had occurred very shortly after his brother Bobby had made some preliminary moves of taking direct personal control of the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency, whose leadership he blamed for the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Hamilton, following the "CUI PRO DEST" ("Whom does it benefit?") reasoning reached the conclusion that Bobby's move to seize control of the CIA had something to do with the murder of his elder brother. ( Washington Observer Newsletter, 15 september, 1972)  After Bobby's own assassination in 1968, it is not known whether Teddy has the documentation Bobby had collected in his private investigation or whether it has been destroyed. (Penn Jones, Forgive my grief IV, p. 82) Discouraged by his experience with Life, Garrison met with editors of Look magazine, whose managing editor, William Attwood, had been Kennedy's emissary with Castro. Garrison outlined his investigation through lunch, dinner and into the night. According to Associate editor Chandler Broussard, Attwood was so impressed that he telephoned Bobby Kennedy at one in the morning. Bobby's reply was, reportedly, "We know a good deal of this." Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, according to Richard Billings, attributes to Bobby a similar statement: “We know who the bastards are and we're going to get them." (Joan Mellen, A Farewell to Justice, p. 259) It has been alleged that Robert Kennedy wanted to investigate the mystery [Oxnard Area] call. He reportedly told a friend that he wanted to find out more about the call during a campaign stop in 1968. RFK did in fact travel through Oxnard on May 28, 1968 – just days before his own assassination. Kennedy supposedly “disappeared for two hours” and used the excuse that he had been looking for a lost hat. This is most widely attributed to the book Legacy of Doubt, by Peter Noyes, p.234. There is little evidence to corroborate this claim, and it isn’t known what Bobby Kennedy may have learned about the Oxnard call if he did make such a visit. ( Mysterious Kennedy phonecalls, Wafflesatnoon.com)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 3, 2020 11:35:43 GMT -5
309 Bill Harvey's travel vouchersSee also:187 Portions of Anne Goodpasture's ARRB interview"I also found out from interviewing the children of another former CIA official that one of the key figures of interest in the Kennedy assassination, a guy named William Harvey, who was head of the CIA-Mafia plot against Castro and hated the Kennedys, thought that they were weak and so on, he was seen leaving his Rome station and flying to Dallas, by his own deputy, on an airplane early in November 1963. This is a remarkable sighting, because to place someone like William Harvey, the head of the CIA’s assassination unit, put there by Allen Dulles, in Dallas in November of '63 before the assassination is a very important fact. The CIA, by the way, refuses, even at this late date, to release the travel vouchers for people like William Harvey. Under the JFK Records Act, that was passed back in the 1990s, they are compelled by federal law to release all documents related to the Kennedy assassination, but they're still withholding over 1,100 of these documents, including—and I used the Freedom of Information Act to try and get the travel vouchers for William Harvey. They’re still holding onto them." (Amy Goodman, A CIA Tie to JFK Assassination?, interview with David Talbot, 2015)  It's been noted by David Talbot, author of The Devil's Chessboard, not only that travel vouchers for Harvey around the time of the JFK assassination are still classified, but that an eyewitness saw Harvey on a plane to Dallas around the same time. None of this sort of thing is even mentioned in Stockton's book, and reading up about Harvey outside of its pages, one understands the degree to which Harvey despised the Kennedys (as many senior CIA officers did). Stockton can't quite put a rosy tint on that facet of his subject's "flawed" personality. Flawed Patriot is just worth reading, but it can't be relied on for insight into CIA knowledge of or involvement in the killing of John F. Kennedy. Pity. ( Review of Flawed Patriot on Goodreads)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 4, 2020 7:10:23 GMT -5
310 Chief adjunct Col. Dorman's important message on 11-22-63See also:23 The Emergency Codebook on the SAM86972 (The Tokyo Flight)24 Emergency codebooks on Strategic Air Command bombers on 22-11-196325 Transcript of the complete Air Force One tape28 CIA documents related to a CIA study of the Valkyrie plotErasing the Past...DiscussionsThe official story is that General LeMay was fishing at a remote Michigan lake resort where his wife’s family frequently vacationed, and he says in his oral history that he was ordered back to Washington immediately after the assassination. We know from the second (Gen.) Clifton version of the Air Force One tapes, in a section edited out of the cassette tapes released to the public, that General LeMay was out of contact with his chief adjunct Col. Dorman, who was trying to use the Air Force One – Liberty station relay to get an important message to LeMay while he was enroute back to Washington from a remote Canadian airbase that must have been the closest with a runway capable of handling the executive jet the Air Force at Andrews had sent to pick up LeMay. (...) (...) And you can bet, if LeMay was in on the deal, he wasn’t fishing but glued to the radio at the time of the assassination and in on the communications loop that was controlled by his friend Art Collins. While we don’t know what the urgent message LeMay’s aide Colonel Doreman was trying to convey to him, we do know from the Andrew’s Log that LeMay disobeyed an order from Secretary of the Air Force Zuckerman as to which airport he was to land, as LeMay frequently disobeyed orders from McNamara and Zuckerman. LeMay just pretty much ignored them. ( Bill Kelly, JFK Countercoup, 3-4-20)  George Dorman was killed in action while serving with the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing,
in Vietnam, 4 Aug 1969.LeMay Reference on Clifton copy of AF1 Radio tape: - Andrews Sideband. Sir? - This is Colonel Dorman, General LeMay’s aide. - Right. - General LeMay is in a C-140 - The last three numbers are 497 SAM 497 - 497 last three numbers. - Right. He is in bound. His code name is Grandson, and I want to talk to him. - Grandson. Okay sir, we'll see what we can do. We’re really busy with Air Force One right now. - Okay. You don’t have the capability to work more than one? - We're running Air Force One with two different frequencies. - We're running two patches at once and that's all we can do. - I see. - What is your drop sir? Are you on the drop off the Washington switch? - Yes. Either or seven, nine, two, two five. - Seven Nine two two five. - But if you can’t do it now it will be too late because he will be on the ground in a half hour. - Okay, and what is your name again sir? - Colonel Dorman. D-O-R-M-A-N - Okay, I’ll get back to you...if we can get him right away sir…. ( Bill Kelly, JFK Countercoup, 2-19-12)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 6, 2020 14:36:57 GMT -5
311. 37 documents missing from Oswald's 201 file
"In a significant revelation the HSCA disclosed an internal CIA memorandum
dated 4/27/79, concerning Oswald's 201 file, a routine file for persons considered
to be of potential or counterintelligence significance. The memo notes that 37
documents, including 25 cables, were missing from Oswald's file. The HSCA,
however, accepted the CIA claim that those documents just happened to be
checked out of the file on the day the memorandum was prepared. These 37
documents were never found for examination by the HSCA and their contents
remain a mystery today."
(Mal Hyman, Burying the lead, p. 366)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 7, 2020 10:41:04 GMT -5
312 New Orleans FBI informant file on OswaldSee also:149 One FBI 17-11-1963 Teletype203 New Orleans FBI security file on OswaldOn August 9, 1963, Oswald was arrested in New Orleans for disturbing the peace after he had gotten into a fight with anti-Castro Cubans while distributing Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflets. FBI Special Agent John L. Quigley interviewed Oswald the following day in a New Orleans jail. Quigley's willingness to meet with Oswald in jail has been cited as evidence that Oswald was an FBI informant. Moreover, in connection with this incident, William S. Walter, who was an FBI security clerk in New Orleans in 1963, told the committee that he had been on duty on the day this interview occurred. In response to Quigley's request for a file check on Oswald, he had determined that the New Orleans FBI office maintained both a security file and an informant file on Oswald.  William S. WalterIn a committee interview, Quigley, who had submitted an affidavit to the Warren Commission asserting that Oswald had not been an FBI informant, reaffirmed his position. He explained that he interviewed Oswald at Oswald's request, and that he then checked the file indices at the New Orleans office and found that Oswald was the subject of a security investigation assigned to Special Agent Kaack. He advised that the indices check provided no indication that Oswald had ever been an FBI informant. He added that if Oswald had been an informant, he would have known about it by virtue of this indices search. ( HSCA report 1C: Conspiracy p. 191)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 8, 2020 14:11:40 GMT -5
313 Orest Pena's FBI files
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157 Bogard / Oswald line-up confrontation 203 New Orleans FBI security file on Oswald Oswald also met with FBI agent Warren deBrueys in New Orleans, according to the HSCA testimony of FBI asset Orestes Pena. The FBI was so concerned about Oswald's relationship with DeBrueys that they destroyed Pena's FBI files prior to the formation of the HSCA, (FBI teletype 1/15/76). (Mal Hyman, Burying the lead, p. 372)  The Habana Bar in New OrleansOrest Pena, a bar owner in New Orleans, testified that during the early 1960's he was an FBI informant who reported to Special Agent Warren D. deBrueys. He told the committee that on several occasions he saw Oswald in the company of deBrueys and other Government agents in a restaurant and that he believed Oswald and deBrueys knew each other very well." Finally, Pena alleged that Special Agent deBrueys was "transferred" to Dallas at the same time Oswald was "transferred" there. He added that he was "very, very, very sure" that deBrueys went to Dallas before the assassination of President Kennedy. Pena maintained that a few days before he went to testify before the Warren Commission, deBrueys threatened him physically and warned him not to make any accusations against him. Pena also stated that Warren Commission staff counsel Wesley J. Liebeler did not cooperate with him and did not let him talk freely, so he decided to "keep [his) mouth shut." In testimony before the committee, deBrueys denied that Oswald was his informant, that he had ever met Oswald, or that he had ever knowingly talked to him by telephone. He acknowledged that he did use Pena informally as an occasional source of information because of his position as a bar owner in New Orleans, but he declined to characterize Pena as an informant because of the absence of any systematic reporting relationship. He also denied having threatened Pena prior to Pena's Warren Commission testimony. Finally, deBrueys testified that he was transferred to Dallas in 1963, but that this was the result of a temporary assignment to assist in the assassination investigation. The transfer did not coincide with Oswald's move from New Orleans to the Dallas area. In testimony before the committee, deBrueys denied that Oswald was his informant, that he had ever met Oswald, or that he had ever knowingly talked to him by telephone. He acknowledged that he did use Pena informally as an occasional source of information because of his position as a bar owner in New Orleans, but he declined to characterize Pena as an informant because of the absence of any systematic reporting relationship. He also denied having threatened Pena prior to Pena's Warren Commission testimony. Finally, deBrueys testified that he was transferred to Dallas in 1963, but that this was the result of a temporary assignment to assist in the assassination investigation. The transfer did not coincide with Oswald's move from New Orleans to the Dallas area. FBI files served to corroborate relevant aspects of deBrueys' testimony. DeBrueys' personal file indicates that the only time he was transferred to Dallas was to work on the assassination investigation, and that he was in Dallas from November 23, 1963, until January 24, 1964. In addition, there is no Bureau record of Pena ever having served as an informant.This, too, supported deBrueys' testimony that Pena was never used on any systematic basis as a source of information. Pena, moreover, was unable to explain adequately why he waited until 1975 to make this allegation, and he declined to testify specifically that Oswald was, in fact, an FBI informant. Pena's responses to committee questions on the informant issue and others were frequently evasive. The committee found, therefore, that he was not a credible witness. (HSCA Final report 1C, p.192-3)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 9, 2020 4:11:52 GMT -5
314 Orest Pena's HSCA testimony*See also:313 Orest Pena's FBI filesOrest Pena’s story is particularly compelling because he was trusted by the FBI agents in New Orleans. As a bar owner of Cuban descent, he saw and heard a lot of interest to law enforcement. Oswald had visited his bar in the summer of 1963 in the company of a man Pena described as Mexican. Pena also said he saw Oswald with FBI agent Warren DeBrueys on several occasions. DeBrueys denied this and denigrated Pena as unreliable.  Orest PenaIn fact, Pena was able to prove that he had been a confidential source for the FBI and still his testimony was ignored, no doubt in part due to the everyday racism which infected even the liberal lawyers of the Warren Commission who could not imagine a Cuban could be as credible as a white FBI agent. The HSCA took him more seriously and was able to incorporate his testimony into their account of the assassination but no one else has been able to read his testimony ever since. Such is one of the uses of classification. It prevents people from asking follow up questions. Pena is now dead. His testimony will shed new light on the FBI’s interest in and relationship with Oswald. ( Jefferson Morley, JFK Facts, 2-1-17) *Released in 2018 |
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 9, 2020 5:26:38 GMT -5
315 DeBrueys' 25 October 1963 report on Oswald and the FPCCRelated:157 Bogard / Oswald line-up confrontation
201 Over half of the Doyle-film202 Negatives of the Doyle film203 New Orleans FBI security file on OswaldAnother document of extreme interest released in the 2017 and 2018 National Archives ARRB document dump has been assigned several NARA numbers: 124-10324-10423, 124-10238-10455, 124-10184-10300 and 124-10369-10053 (probably others as well). It is the first two pages of a report filed by SAC (Special Agent in Charge, New Orleans) Warren DeBrueys on 25 October 1963.  DeBrueys in New OrleansBut the report stands out, not because it clearly mentions the ongoing surveillance and tracking of Lee Oswald by the FBI in the cities of New Orleans and Dallas, but because of what IT DOES NOT MENTION! Consider the cover page of the report:  What happened to the missing 38 pages of DeBrueys 25 October 1963 report on Lee Oswald and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee? The first two pages wet our appetite to expect some solid information as to who reported what to DeBrueys about Lee, but the actual report is missing. ( The Warren DeBrueys Oswald/FPCC report of 10/25/63)  "Warren served undercover with the FBI (Special Intelligence Service- SIS) during WWII in Mexico City covering Latin America where he met his wife, Mary. They were married in New Orleans. He enlisted in the US Navy & served in the Pacific with the Radio Intelligence Unit deciphering Japanese codes. After the war he attended Tulane Law School graduating with B.A. & Juris Doctor degrees in 1950. He re-entered the FBI as a Special Agent of training at Quantico, VA & FBI headquarters in D.C. He worked in Newark, N.J. & the New Orleans offices. He had special assignments in Miami, Dallas (where he was assigned to the Kennedy assassination investigation directing the analysis, composition and assembly of the first report requested by President Johnson) & the Dominican Republic. He worked in D.C. Headquarters in the General Criminal, Domestic Security, Training Divisions and Inspection Division. He was an assistant Legal Attaché at the American Embassies in Mexico City, Mexico & Buenos Aries, Argentina, Legal Attaché in American Embassies in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, Brazil & SAC in San Juan, Puerto Rico & El Paso, TX. He retired in New Orleans in 1977. He joined the Metropolitan Crime Commission as the Managing Director (1979-89). He also served as a member of the Governor's Commission on Criminal Justice, Governor's Task Force on Drug Enforcement, the New Orleans Mayor's Citizens' Commission Against Crime, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Police, Courts and Corrections and as a member of the Juvenile Courts Subcommittee of the Judicial Planning Committee & MCC's Board & Executive Committee as Chairman, Legislative Liaison Committee." (Obituary for Warren Claude de Brueys)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 10, 2020 5:03:53 GMT -5
316 What Nixon knewRelated:150 E. Howard Hunt’s private (Kennedy) documents208 Letter of FBI of June 29, 1964, concerning Richard Nixon261 Nixon's 18 1/2 minute White House tape gap262 Commission Document 279 - Assassination of Jose RemonCompare:295 What captain Martin knew"It has been clear for a long time that the members of the Warren Commission covered up the most heinous crime of our history. It is now obvious that the members are reaping their rewards. Commission member Gerald Ford is President by appointment. Ford has appointed Senator John Sherman Cooper as ambassador to France. Leon Jaworski was made the Special Prosecutor for the Justice Department. Albert Jenner was recalled to Washington to serve on the legal staff of the House Judiciary Committee. Arlen Specter, defeated for re-election as District Attorney of Philadelphia, was appointed to the White House legal staff by Nixon. And now Ford has pardoned Nixon: before Nixon was indicted!" (Penn Jones, Forgive my Grief IV)  Under the new President, former Warren Commissioner Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush becomes the director
of the CIA and Richard Nixon is pardoned. Nixon will not have to testify about illegal CIA and FBI activities,
political assassinations, Operation Mongoose, etc.
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