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Post by Arjan Hut on Jun 26, 2020 7:54:54 GMT -5
367 Identity, relevance & tax returns of John & Minnie SmithContinued from:366 Marguerite Oswald's 1956-1962 IRS returnsCuriously, and without explanation, the names John Smith and Minnie Smith appear in the JFK collection at the National Archives. But the only items listed for either person are federal income tax returns which are marked "referred ... .postponed in full. " These are the same years as the returns marked "referred .... postponed in full" for Marguerite Oswald.  Unlike Marguerite Oswald, the names of John and Minnie Smith cannot be found anywhere else in the realm of the Kennedy Assassination -not in the National Archives files, the Warren Commission documents, HSCA files, nor anywhere. This suggests the possibility that "John Smith" and "Minnie Smith" are pseudonyms which were used to file federal income tax returns for the real Lee Oswald and his tall, nice looking mother, Marguerite. Otherwise, who are these people and what possible relevance do they or their tax returns have to the assassination of President Kennedy? (John Amstrong, Harvey & Lee, p. 197)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jun 29, 2020 12:56:54 GMT -5
368 Blood samples and spinal fluid from Ferrie's autopsy
Related39 G. Wray Gill's November 1963 office phone bill 57 The Fenton Report 154 One library card 194 David Ferrie's original statement to FBIOn February 22, 1967, less than a week after the newspapers broke the story of Garrison's investigation. David Ferrie—his chief suspect—was found dead in his cluttered apartment. His death was not entirely unexpected by Garrison. The day the newspaper story first ran, Ferrie had telephoned Garrison aide Lou Ivon to say: "You know what this news story does to me, don't you. I'm a dead man. From here on, believe me. I'm a dead man." (…)  Ferrie's nude body had been discovered lying on a living-room sofa surrounded by prescription medicine bottles, several completely empty. One typed suicide note was found on a nearby table while a second was discovered on an upright piano. Three days later the New Orleans coroner ruled that Ferrie had died from "natural causes," specifically a ruptured blood vessel in the brain. Unconvinced, Garrison checked the empty medicine bottles found near Ferrie's body and discovered one had contained a drug designed to greatly increase a person's metabolism. It is known that Ferrie suffered from hypertension. A physician friend confirmed to Garrison that if someone suffering from hypertension took a whole bottle of this specific drug, it would cause death very shortly. Garrison later wrote: "I phoned immediately but was told that no blood samples or spinal fluid from Ferrie's autopsy had been retained. I was left with an empty bottle and a number of unanswered questions." (Jim Marrs, Crossfire, 2013 edition, p. 474)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jun 30, 2020 13:34:11 GMT -5
369 FBI interview of William GaudetRelated:237 Diplomatic pouch No. 4083On September 17, 1963 (…) Oswald visited the Mexican consulate in New Orleans and applied for a tourist card. He was issued card number 24085, which was valid for fifteen days.  After the assassination, the FBI, with the help of Mexican authorities, identified every person who had applied for Mexican entry papers on September 17—all but one. The FBI reported they could not locate the record of the card holder immediately preceding Oswald, No. 24084. However, in 1975—apparently due to a bureaucratic mix-up in declassifying FBI documents—it was learned that card holder No. 24084 was Gaudet, who had worked for the CIA for more than twenty years. Gaudet claimed that sheer coincidence placed his name just ahead of Oswald's on the Mexican tourist card application sheet. Gaudet, who worked in the area of Latin America for the Agency, operated the Latin American Newsletter for a number of years. Shortly after the assassination, Gaudet said he was interviewed by FBI agents, but only after obtaining approval of his CIA boss in New Orleans. No record of that interview has been made public. (Jim Marrs, Crossfire, 2013 edition, p. 188)  Gaudet, 1908-1981Senate investigators are trying to untangle a perplexing coincidence that links Lee Harvey Oswald with a long-time CIA agent who published a Latin American newsletter as a “cover” for his intelligence work. The former agent, William George Gaudet, received a Mexican tourist permit with the serial number just preceding that of one issued to Oswald on Sept. 17, 1963, about two months before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In a telephone interview this week. Gaudet, who is now living in retirement in Waveland, Miss., said he knew Oswald by sight at the time, although he cannot recall if Oswald was with him in the Mexican consulate in New Orleans. Asked if he was sent by the CIA to the consulate to keep track of Oswald, Gaudet responded, "I was not.” THE GAUDET matter is under study by Sen. Richard Schweiker, R-Pa., a member of a two-man subcommittee of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating the relationship between the Warren Commission and the CIA and FBI. The commission, headed by the late Chief Justice Earl Warren, concluded that Oswald, acting alone, murdered Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby two days later. Schweiker has said the assassination investigation should be reopened because of new evidence that has been discovered since the Warren Commission published its report. He said his own investigation has found curious "intelligence fingerprints” on the case. (Norman Kempster, Another JFK Slaying Riddle, Washington Star, January 15, 1976)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 2, 2020 2:58:53 GMT -5
370 The passenger list for Continental Trailways bus No. 5133Related:
20 Fourteen minutes recording of Hoover – LBJ phonecall on 23-11-1963 154 One library card 369 FBI interview of William Gaudet If Gaudet did not actually accompany Oswald to Mexico, one very suspicious man did—Albert Osborne. Although the passenger list for Continental Trailways bus No. 5133, which allegedly carried Oswald to Mexico City, is missing, the FBI managed to locate some of the travelers, including two Australian girls who told of a conversation with a man who told them of his experiences in the Marines and in Russia. These girls told the FBI that the man also had sat next to and talked at length with an older man. FBI agents tried to locate a man named John Howard Bowen, who had been on Oswald's bus. However, they only found Albert Osborne, but Osborne seemed to know a lot about Bowen. After three visits from the FBI, Osborne finally admitted that he was the man they were seeking, having used the alias "John Bowen" for many years. He denied ever having met Oswald. Even the Warren Commission didn't buy that, stating "his denial cannot be credited."  Osborne claimed to be a missionary who traveled extensively all over the world, although he never said how these travels were financed. Also, no confirmation of his story could be found by checking border records in the countries he claimed to have visited. Despite his lies to the FBI regarding his name, no charges were ever brought against Osborne. In recent years, several assassination researchers have claimed that Osborne worked for the CIA, but no hard evidence of this has been established. It is interesting to note, however, that when Oswald ordered Fair Play for Cuba Committee materials printed in New Orleans, he used the name "Osborne." (Jim Marrs, Crossfire, 2013 edition, p. 188)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 6, 2020 7:04:29 GMT -5
371 The identity of the Cambridge News caller
Compare:212 The identity of the mystery Oxnard area caller 251 Papers compiled by crypto-code operator Eugene Dinkin foretelling a military plot against JFK 370 The passenger list for Continental Trailways bus No. 5133 The following cable from the CIA station in London was reported orally to Mr. Samuel Papich at 0930 on 23 November: "The British Security Service (MI5) has reported that at 18.05GMT on 22 November an anonymous telephone call was made in Cambridge, England, to the senior reporter for the Cambridge News. The caller said only that the Cambridge News reporter should call the American Embassy in London for some big news and then hung up.” After the word of the President's death was received the reporter informed the Cambridge police of the anonymous call and the police informed MI-5. The important point is that the call was made, according to MI-5 calculations, about 25 minutes before the President was shot. The Cambridge reporter has never received a call of this kind before and MI-5 state that he is known to them as a sound and loyal person with no security record. ( Memo from James Angleton to J. Edgar Hoover, 26 November, 1963)  Cambridge News offices on fire, October 1963
Grimsby-born soldier turned Soviet Union Spy Albert Osborne has long been touted as one of the prime suspects in the John F Kennedy assassination plot. Some experts believe he worked as a "handler" for killer Lee Harvey Oswald - and the pair were seen talking together on a bus in the hours [sic] leading up to JFK's death in Dallas on November 23, 1963. And documents unearthed in the 1970s show the FBI had Osborne marked as a major suspect in its massive investigation. Today, as thousands more secret documents - known as the JFK Files - were released to the public , it emerged that a anonymous caller tipped off the Cambridge News that something big was about to happen - 25 minutes before JFK was shot. And it is thought that caller was in fact Osborne, and that he was calling from Grimsby, where he was staying with his sister. (Hannah Corken, Who was Albert Osborne, Grimsby Telegraph)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 7, 2020 9:10:10 GMT -5
372 Original and duplicate of passenger list for Flecha Roja Bus Line No. 516Related:370 The passenger list for Continental Trailways bus No. 5133On the early afternoon of [September] the 26th [1963], Oswald crossed the border from Laredo to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. From Nuevo Laredo, he traveled to Mexico City aboard bus No. 516 of the Flecha Roja Bus Line, which was scheduled to arrive in Mexico City at 9:45 am on the 27th.  At the point where Oswald crosses over into Mexico, the [Warren] report leaves out another interesting point of contention. The inspector at the border, a man named Maydon, recalled Oswald entering Mexico by auto. What makes this even more odd is that Oswald's FM-8 card, used to record entry and exit means, is empty in this regard. Further, two mysterious men showed up at the Fleja Rocha terminals - first in Mexico City and then in Nuevo Laredo - and confiscated both the original and duplicate of the bus manifest. This happened before the FBI got to Mexico to investigate. (DiEugenio, Reclaiming Parkland, p. 282)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 9, 2020 13:14:44 GMT -5
373 DeMohrenschildt suïcide tape recordingRelated:119 George De Mohrenschildt's address book136 George De Mohrenschildt's CIA affiliate personnel file284 George DeMohrenschildt's address book (2)De Mohrenschildt had apparently suffered a nervous breakdown at the time he was talking with Oltmans, but he left a hospital in Dallas to travel with Oltmans to Europe reportedly to negotiate book and magazine rights to his story. Then in Brussels, Oltmans claimed, de Mohrenschildt ran away from him and disappeared. Now Tanenbaum told me that Oltmans had just called him from California. Oltmans said that in tracking de Mohrenschildt he found that de Mohrenschildt could be reached in Florida. Tanenbaum gave me the phone number. Now Tanenbaum really had something for me. That afternoon, I checked out the number. It was listed to a Mrs. C.E. Tilton III in Manalapan, a small strip of a town on the ocean south of Palm Beach noted for its wealthy residents. Mrs. Tilton, I discovered, was the sister of one of de Mohrenschildt's former wives. I decided it would be best if I could contact him directly rather than by telephone and so it was early on March 29th, 1977, when I went looking for George de Mohrenschildt in Manalapan. (Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation, 1993)  It was in the fashionable Manalapan, Florida, home of his sister-in-law, that
DeMohrenschildt died of a shotgun blast to the head. The original house was
demolished in 2000, replaced by a modern estate home.In mid-March DeMohrenschildt fled to a relative's Florida home leaving behind clothing and other personal belongings. It was in the fashionable Manalapan, Florida, home of his sister-in-law, that DeMohrenschildt died of a shotgun blast to the head on March 29, 1977, just three hours after a representative of the House Select Committee on Assassinations tried to contact him there. Earlier that day, he had met author Edward J. Epstein for an interview. In a 1983 Wall Street Journal article, Epstein wrote that DeMohrenschildt told him that day that the CIA had asked him "to keep tabs on Oswald." However, the thing that may have triggered DeMohrenschildt's fear was that Epstein showed him a document that indicated George DeMohrenschildt might be sent back to Parkland for further shock treatments, according to a statement by Attorney David Bludworth, who represented the state during the investigation into DeMohrenschildt's death. Although several aspects of DeMohrenschildt's death caused chief investigator Capt. Richard Sheets of the Palm County Sheriff's Office to term the shooting "very strange," a coroner's jury quickly ruled suicide. (Jim Marrs, Crossfire) Unfortunately DeMohrenschildt was being interviewed by a reporter from Readers Digest, Edward J. Epstein, so (Gaeton) Fonzi left his card with Alexandra. DeMohrenschildt had Fonzi’s card on him when he was found dead shortly thereafter, sitting in a chair in a second floor bedroom, a shotgun by his side. While no one heard the gunshot, Mrs. Tilton had a tape recorder recording the audio of a soap opera in a nearby room that recorded the sound of footsteps and the shot. As can be seen in a photo of the dead deMohrenschildt however, he is just wearing socks and no shoes, so whose footsteps were recorded on the tape?  The Fonz
As Dr. Wecht recently did a review of a number of autopsies of suspicious deaths related to the JFK assassination at the CAPA conference in Dallas last November, I will ask him to take a look at DeMohrenschildt’s autopsy report to see if everything is kosher. It looks suspicious to me, especially since the tape recording was destroyed by the Florida sheriff and other reports on his death are missing. (Bill Kelly, JFKcountercoup, Sunday, December 29, 2019)  Edward EpsteinDavid Bludworth, The State's Attorney, was a folksy, charming and savvy interrogator. He began by telling me that De Mohrenschildt had put a shotgun in his mouth and killed himself at 3:45 p.m. There were no witnesses - and no one home at the time of the shooting. The precise time of his death was established by a tape-recorder, left running that afternoon to record the soap operas for the absent Mrs. Tilton, and which recorded a single set of footfalls in the room and the blast of the shotgun, which was found on the Persian carpet next to him. No suicide note or other clue was found. He said I was probably the last person to talk to him. Then, he asked whether I had in my possession De Mohrenschildt's black address book. I replied "No." He politely rephrased the question, and asked me again - about a half-dozen times, whether I had the black book. (Edward Jay Epstein, diary entry, 29th March, 1977)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 10, 2020 3:31:26 GMT -5
374 DeMohrenschildt's 8mm home movie of Bay of Pigs preparationShortly after his third marriage DeMohrenschildt and his wife took a walk about hike through Central America and made a 8 mm home movie of their travels, which included a stop at the remote training camp where the anti-Castro Cubans were preparing for the Bay of Pigs. DeMohrenschildt showed the film at house parties, one of which included CIA Dallas Domestic Contacts Division chief J. Walton Moore, and another time Lee Harvey Oswald. Trying to locate that film was the first request I made to the National Archives, but Marion Johnson, then curator of the JFK collection, said they didn’t have it and didn’t know where it was. (Bill Kelly, JFKcountercoup, Sunday, December 29, 2019) 
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 10, 2020 10:26:06 GMT -5
375 One ten-page encoded teletype
Related:183 Tapes of Lee Harvey Oswald calling the Soviet embassy in Mexico City188 Missing logs and production from the photobase LILYRIC260 Pre-assassination reports and files of FBI agent Wally Heitman”As the meeting broke up, Bardwell Odum, a senior agent on the criminal squad, came over to me. He told me that at 2:00 this morning, Wally Heitman had gone to the Navy air base just outside of Dallas to meet Eldon Rudd, an assistant legal attache at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. Rudd, who was actually an FBI agent, had flown in on a two-seat Navy jet fighter to personally deliver a surveillance photo and a phone intercept transcript. Heitman was chosen to receive this highly sensitive material because he and Rudd knew each other by sight. Heitman brought the material to the Dallas office and turned it over to Shanklin. I learned that Shanklin had never gone home last night, and that at about 4:00 am, a ten-page encoded teletype had been sent to headquarters." (James Hosty, Assignment Oswald, p.36) As Hosty said at p. 51 of his book, “I was forbidden from interviewing Lee about the Mexico City trip prior to the assassination because we didn’t want to compromise our sources and methods in Mexico City. If I had…asked him about his visit to the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City, he would have learned more than I. Oswald would have realized that US intelligence had monitoring systems in Mexico City. If Oswald had then forwarded this information on to the Soviets and Cubans, the CIA surveillance setup would have been blown.” I don’t think the “ten page encoded teletype” that Hosty mentions was sent from Dallas to Headquarters (p. 36) has ever been released to the public. (Bill Simpich, JFKfacts comment section, 2015)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 11, 2020 13:18:39 GMT -5
376 Transcripts of the FBI wiretap placed on Marina Oswald's house
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266 Records of Ruth Paine wiretap Every major field office was supposed to have a wire-man, someone who could place telephone and room wiretaps whenever necessary. Ours was Nat Pinkston, a good friend of mine. The redheaded, forty-something Pinkston had joined the Bureau during World War II and now primarily worked on interstate auto theft cases.  NAT PINKSTON
An FBI agent in the Dallas office in 1963, Pinkston was part
of the local investigation into the assassination. He traced
ownership of the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle to Lee Harvey
Oswald. Pinkston passed away on September 4, 2011.
During the first week of March 1964, Pinkston was sent out to wiretap training at the FBI academy in Quantico, Virginia, he was nervous. He hadn't done many wiretaps and, further, hadn't done one for quite a while. Pinkston dressed in clothes to look like a utility worker and borrowed a utility service van. A few hours after he left, Pinkston returned, successful. He had parked his van across the street from Marina's, and then, with his box of “utility tools,” walked up to the house. Pinkston had already determined that Marina would not be home, so after walking around inspecting the house, he found an entry into a crawl space under it, out of sight of nosy neighbors. He wiggled his way into the crawl space and found just the spot to place the tap. Working quickly, he wiggled his way back out, got back in his van and left.(...) Now that the tap was in place, we had some agents set up a listening post nearby. For several weeks, agents monitored Marina's phone calls, recording each one. Because Marina still didn't speak English well, many of her conversations with her friends from the Russian community in Dallas were in Russian. The FBI had Anatol Bogaslov translate Marina's phone calls for the transcripts. (James Hosty, Assignment Oswald, p. 110/111)
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