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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 29, 2020 5:27:54 GMT -5
387 JFK's bronze Dallas casketRelated:104 Bethesda 22-11-63 Chief of the day-log CIA asset Cabell recommended that the casket “be declared
the proper property of the USA and, as such and in keeping with the
best interest of the country, be destroyed.”
In September 1965, the House of Representatives passed a bill which required the government to preserve any objects related to the Kennedy Assassination which might contain evidentiary value. Several days later, Representative Earle Cabell from Texas sent a letter to Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach (who had replaced Bobby Kennedy at the Justice Department a year earlier). In his letter, Congressman Cabell suggested that the casket had no value for anyone other than “the morbidly curious”. Since the Kennedy Family “did not see fit to use this particular casket in the ultimate interment of the body”, Cabell felt that it was “surplus” material owned and controlled by the federal government. To shut down those who might be “morbidly curious”, Cabell recommended that the casket “be declared the proper property of the USA and, as such and in keeping with the best interest of the country, be destroyed.”  The Kennedy Family agreed with Congressman Cabell’s sentiments and Attorney General Katzenbach ensured everyone that the casket had no evidentiary value, no good reason for display or storage, and that it was the property that the government had the right to dispose of in whichever way it sought fit. On February 18, 1966, several members of the Air Force picked the casket up from a secure building at the National Archives just a few blocks from the White House. The casket was placed in an Air Force truck and transported to Andrews Air Force Base — the very place that the casket had originally landed in Washington with President Kennedy inside of it less than three years earlier. At Andrews, the Air Force team from the 93rdAir Terminal Squadron loaded the coffin on to a C130 transport plane.  At the time of the assassination, Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell, brother of one-time Deputy Director
of Central Intelligence Charles P. Cabell, had been a CIA asset since 1956. To dispose of the casket, the Air Force had decided to take it to a place that JFK had once considered being buried: the Atlantic Ocean. Kennedy loved the sea and was said to have considered being buried at sea when he died. Of course, we know that Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery instead, but for many reasons, the Atlantic Ocean was the perfect place for the disposal of the casket that had brought him back to Washington following his assassination. The Air Force wanted to ensure the integrity of the casket and not allow it to become a souvenir by someone who happened to come across it floating in the ocean or washing up on the shore. The C130 flew about 100 miles east of Washington, D.C. and descended to about 500 feet above the water. Before taking off, the Air Force had drilled over 40 holes into the casket and filled it with three 80-pound sandbags. It was also secured inside of a wooden crate and sealed shut in a manner so that it wouldn’t break apart upon hitting the water. At approximately 10:00 AM, the C130’s tail hatch was opened and the casket was pushed out of the aircraft. Parachutes softened its fall and the coffin began to sink instantly. The airplane circled the drop zone for about 20 minutes to make sure that the coffin didn’t resurface, but they had no reason to worry. The Air Force had chosen an area of the Atlantic that saw very little air or sea traffic, and the casket settled in about 9,000 feet of water. The Kennedy Family was relieved that they no longer had to worry about a bloody casket going on display somewhere for the “morbidly curious”. ( Anthony Bergen, Burial At Sea: The Odyssey of JFK’s Original Casket, 2015)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Aug 2, 2020 5:16:24 GMT -5
388 Many items from Richard Case Nagell's car trunk
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17 One mystery car chaser212 The identity of the mystery Oxnard area caller 244 FBI record of Cheramie's prognostication of the assassination 251 Papers compiled by crypto-code operator Eugene Dinkin foretelling a military plot against JFK 371 The identity of the Cambridge News caller 20 Sept. 1963 Officer J. Bundren was on special assignment in the State National Bank guarding a Treasury Dept. display of money. The display is located on the west lobby of the bank. At approx. 4.20PM I heard two shots from the east side lobby of the bank and ran through the area behind the real estate collections dept. to where the shots had come from. At the time I reached the east lobby of the bank someone yelled that the subject had run out the west side door and gone south on Oregon street. I ran out the door of the bank chasing the subject to the corner of Oregon and Overland and then west on Overland. As I reached the alley between Oregon and El Paso streets (Alley B) a 1957 Yellow and White Ford came out of the alley and started into the moving traffic on Overland. When the subject saw me he looked first at me and then at the pistol in my hand and said, “All-right, I give up.” I asked the subject to get out of the car, which he did, and then if he had a gun. The subject stated that he did not have a gun. I searched him and found a Colt New Service revolver, Cal. .45 in his right front pocket. I then put the handcuffs on him, turned off the car, put the keys in my pocket, and took him back to the bank to the Personnel Office. I then called the police station and asked for assistance. ( Richard Case Nagell El Paso Police Records)  On September 20, Richard Nagell walked into the State National Bank in El Paso, approximately half an hour before closing time. He approached a teller window and politely asked for one hundred dollars in American Express travelers checks. When the clerk placed them on the counter Nagell, saying nothing, reached into his jacket, drew a Colt .45, deliberately aimed it towards the ceiling and fired two shots. He then returned the pistol to his belt, turned and walked out the front door. He made no demand for money at any point. Upon exiting the bank, he stopped briefly at a street comer then walked to his car and briefly waited there. Eventually, he pulled into the street and was motioned to pass by another motorist but then Nagell noticed a young policeman, backed his car up on the sidewalk and waited for the officer to approach. When the officer came up to his window, Nagell calmly told him "I guess you've got me, I surrender" and raised his hands. The ramifications of this incident in an El Paso bank are extensive. They are covered in detail in an extensive investigation by Dick Russell in The Man Who Knew Too Much Nagell's activities in 1963, his legal manipulation (including frequent prosecution recourse to psychiatric examinations to keep him off the record in 1964), the refusal to provide him with his own possessions confiscated upon his arrest for use in his trial, his long quest to regain custody of his children and his efforts to communicate what he knew to Congress and various investigations are far beyond the scope of this manuscript... When his car trunk was examined (at his suggestion), authorities found a number of most interesting items. Unfortunately, the majority of these were never formally entered into the record and most were not returned to Nagell after his conviction for bank robbery was eventually overturned. The items that are available are amazingly similar to items also in the possession of Lee Oswald. They include: (1) One miniature Minolta camera and developing kit. (2) Fair Play for Cuba leaflets. (3) The P.O. Box for the Fair Play for Cuba committee in New Orleans, Louisiana. The committee which had only one member. Lee Oswald. (4) Cuban and Communist literature including the Case against Cuba by Corless Lament, one of the documents also being used in New Orleans by Lee Oswald. (5) A notebook containing the unlisted telephone number of the Cuban embassy, the same number as found in Oswald's notebook. (6) The notebook also contained names of individuals who would much later be identified as CIA personnel from its Los Angles office. (The names were submitted by the FBI to the CIA in October '63 and eventually verified by the CIA as being names of actual employees) In addition, the trial files for Richard Nagell also contain an identification card, the card being a military ID with Nagell's photo and the name and signature of Lee H. Oswald. (Larry Hancock, Someone Would Have Talked, 2003)  Corner of Overland & El Paso Street more recently[H]e [Nagell] further described the contents of his personal property ‘seized and confiscated’ by the FBI on September 20, 1963. It included two Mexican tourist cards (one of them for multiple entrance) made out to the names “Joseph Kramer” and “Albert” or “Aleksei Hidel”. (Dick Russell, The man who knew too much, p. 61)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Aug 6, 2020 13:08:11 GMT -5
389 Tape recording of plotters meeting in New Orleans
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87 Army intelligence records on Captain George Nonte 204 James Hawkins court records 260 Pre-assassination reports and files of FBI agent Wally Heitman 330 Contemporary FBI investigation of Chicago group 388 Many items from Richard Case Nagell's car trunkAccording to Nagell, the CIA-backed Alpha 66 Cubans convinced Oswald they were members of Castro's intelligence service and solicited his help in assassinating Kennedy to avenge CIA assassination plots against Castro. Since the evidence suggests Oswald was actually playing as an undercover agent of the United States, he would, of course, have gone along with these schemes to learn all he could about the plots. Nagell said he actually got close enough to the plotting to tape a New Orleans meeting in late August 1963. (Jim Marrs, Crossfire, p. 290-1, 2013 edition)  Bourbon street, New Orleans
Consider: Nagell actually tried to inform the authorities in advance. When they did not respond, he got himself arrested. He was then railroaded -- along with Secret Service agent Abraham Bolden -- because of his attempt to talk. He then wrote letters describing his knowledge to friends while incarcerated (see Probe Vol. 3 No. 1). He then revealed to Garrison assistant William Martin his specific knowledge of two of the Cuban exiles who were manipulating Oswald. One he named as Sergio Arcacha Smith. The other who he only hinted at had a last name beginning with "Q". This could be Carlos Quiroga, or Rafael 'Chi Chi' Quintero. Since Smith and Quiroga were known associates in New Orleans, I lean toward Quiroga. Nagell actually revealed that he had recorded their incriminating talks with Oswald on tape. Since he -- as well as Garrison -- did not know that Martin was a double agent, it is not surprising that the FBI later broke into his belongings and absconded with the tape, among other things. (Strangely, or as we shall see later, perhaps not, Hancock leaves this intriguing episode out of his book.) (James DiEugenio, review of Larry Hancock's Someone Would Have Talked, 2008) QUIROGA I have told Mr. Garrison on two occasions that I have met Lee Harvey Oswald when I was 16 years old, in 1963, when I tried to see what his organization was all about and wanted to find out about - he was a Communist I talked to him and I was convinced he was a Communist. I went to the Police Department and asked them if I could in a way be given authority to join this committee because I wanted to find out who was behind the assassination of President Kennedy. I have told to Mr. Garrison and his staff the same thing, and gave the same thing to the FBI and the Secret Service the day after the assassination. This slip Mr. Oswald had given me, he and I were alone at his house, I was 16 in 1963, he talked to a Communist, he convinced me he was a Communist. And so I left, I found out then that he spoke Russian, one of the things - he was debating after that on WDSU later on - due to the findings . that I found out from Mr. Oswald's house, Dr. Bringuier and (name redacted, but must be Ed Butler, AH)) were able to destroy Mr. Oswald completely. I had given this information to Mr. Garrison. I have also given this information to the FBI - and the Secret Service~after the President was assassinated. And also as a member of . . . . I know Lee Oswald as a Communist and as a member of the Federal Committee - that is the only time in my life I ever met with Lee Oswald. GARRISON There is but when only one problem, Carlos. You told us those things you were asked the same questions in front of the lie detector test, the lie detector indicated you were not telling the truth in regard to all these points. ( Carlos Quiroga, Orleans Parish Grand Jury, May 24, 1967)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Aug 7, 2020 13:15:59 GMT -5
390 Snapshot of Nagell and Oswald in New Orleans
Related:385 Richard Case Nagell's registered letter to Hoover 388 Many items from Richard Case Nagell's car trunk 389 Tape recording of plotters meeting in New Orleans I have never claimed that I squirreled away a snapshot of (myself) with Lee Harvey Oswald taken in Jackson Square in New Orleans in 1963. I have never stated that I am "willing to surface and tell (any) story to Congress" or to anybody. And I did not reveal any details about Oswald to Professor Popkin-that are "new" or unknown to the FBI. ( Letter from Richard Case Nagell to the editor of the LA Free Press, August 12, 1975)  Busted in Nola, August 9, 1963
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62 FBI Agent John L. Quigley's interrogation notes
201 Over half of the Doyle film
In his book The Man Who Knew Too Much, author Dick Russell wrote about Richard Case Nagell, a former Army Counterintelligence Officer who told Russell he: (1) had conducted surveillance on Lee Harvey Oswald for both the CIA and the KGB; (2) had been recruited by a KGB agent (masquerading as a CIA operative) to persuade Oswald not to participate in a plot against President Kennedy; (3) had been instructed by the KGB to kill Oswald if he could not dissuade him from participating in the plot; (4) was in possession of a Polaroid photograph that had been taken of himself with Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans; (5) had audio tape recordings of Oswald and others discussing a forthcoming assassination attempt on President Kennedy; and (6) had sent a letter, via registered mail, to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in September 1963, warning of a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy in late September 1963 in Washington, D.C. (and had documentary proof of the mailing of said letter). ( ARRB final report, p. 133)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Aug 9, 2020 8:37:25 GMT -5
391 A strip of wood
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56 210 Dallas Police photos of Oswald's possessions 60 One TSBD hammer68 One portion of (partially eaten?) fried chicken 118 Oswald's fingerprints taken off the rifle, the paper bag, and cartons at the TSBD 258 Memorandum of Griffin to Rankin in August 1964 Included in the November 1963 report prepared by FBI Special Agent Robert G. Gemberling was a statement completed by special agent Vincent Drain concerning an item collected from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. Drain reported a piece of wood, approximately 40 inches long and ¾ inches in width, was received from Dallas Police Department Captain John Doughty on November 30, 1963. (Drain, 1963). The Dallas Police Department indicates this piece of wood was released to Drain with other items on November 28, 1963 at 10 PM. The item was described as one piece of wood 1” x 1” x 30” from the window where shots were thought to be fired. There are no photographs of the piece of wood and no mention of the piece of wood in Doughty's Warren Commission testimony. Warren Commission Document 899, FBI letterhead memorandum dated April 27, 1964 states Day was interviewed April 23, 1964 concerning the strip of wood. Day advised he removed a small strip of wood for the purpose of latent fingerprint examination from the sill of the window allegedly used in the shooting death of President Kennedy. Day indicated he gave the item to Doughty who later released it to the FBI. (Sherry Fiester, Enemy of the truth, p. 20)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Aug 11, 2020 13:49:49 GMT -5
392 FBI/Police Records or reports regarding interviews with Carl MatherSee also:A Dead Ringer for Lee Oswald
Erasing the Past...DiscussionsMATHER, CARL, close friend of J. D. Tippit. Mather lived in Garland, Texas, and owned a blue four-door 1957 Plymouth with the Texas license plate # PP 4537. On December 4, 1963, the FBI received a report from Wes Wise, a reporter for KRLD-TV in Dallas (who was later elected mayor of Dallas) that at 2:00 P.M. on the day of the assassination a mechanic named T. F. White had spotted a man who "looked like Lee Harvey Oswald" sitting in a red 1957 Plymouth with the Texas license plate # PP 4537 in the parking lot of the El Chico Restaurant, not far from the site of the Tippit slaying. (At that time the real Oswald was already under arrest.) White wrote down the license plate number and told his boss, who told Wise. According to Mather's wife, Mather was working until 2:00 P.M. that day, at which time he returned home so he could take his family to the Tippit home to pay their condolences. Mather's wife later denied owning any type of red car. The FBI interviewed Mrs. Mather twice but never spoke to Carl. Wes Wise had dinner with the Mathers and said that, although Carl was too nervous to eat, his wife was "cool, very cool." At the time of the assassination, Mathers worked in Richardson, Texas, for the Collins Radio Company , where he had been employed for 21 years. He had once worked for that company at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., where he had been assigned to do electronic repairs on Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's Air Force II. ( Who's Who in the JFK assassination)  a medium blue 1957 PlymouthMr. W. T. White, a nice little old man in coveralls, a regular mechanic type looking guy. White said that he and his wife were watching TV on the night of the assassination when they brought Lee Harvey Oswald out at the police station. White said to his wife, “That’s the man I saw in the car over in the parking lot this afternoon.” White told Wise that the car, a 1957 Plymouth, was parked against the far wall of the parking lot behind a billboard facing Davis Street, which is only a few blocks form the Tippit murder scene. “You definitely identified him as Oswald?” Wise asked him, and White responded, “There’s no doubt at all. I said to my wife, ‘That’s that man I saw in the parking lot of the El Chico restaurant.” White showed Wise exactly where the car was parked and where he was standing when he walked over towards the car to watch the police cars going by at a high rate of speed. “He thought the guy looked suspicious, as if he were hiding or something,” said Wise. Mr. White said he walked closer and got a good look at him, “but when the guy made some sort of motion in the car, he turned around and walked back towards the garage. He then took down the license plate number.” (…) [T]he FBI did not bother to check out and interview the owner of the car, but instead interviewed and intimidated the primary witness, Mr. White, and for the first time the color of the car is misidentified as “red.”  Carl Amos Mathers as a young duck
In addition, there is mention of a Ford Falcon, which, is inserted into the record by Mr. Mack Pate, the owner of the garage. Pate was the man at the El Chico restaurant who first tipped off Wes Wise about Mr. White, the mechanic who saw Oswald in the car in the parking lot. Mr. Pate was also interviewed further by Wes Wise and others, and noted that they saw a lot of police cars speeding by with their lights and sirens going. Pate said that he recalled hearing a radio report about a suspicious car, a red Ford Falcon seen in Houston the day before that was related to an assassination attempt on the President. (...) The late researcher Larry Harris probably knew more than anyone else about J.D. Tippit and the details of the Tippit murder. He even got a job as a mail man in the Oak Cliff neighborhood just to get to know the neighbors and the layout of the land. After giving a talk on the Tippit murder at the first ASK conference in Dallas, and not mentioning the Wise/White/Mather story, I asked Harris about it. Harris said that when he talked to Carl Mather, all Mather would say was, “Look I’ve talked to the FBI, to the police and to the House Select Committee investigators, and I’ve told them everything. I just can’t explain it.” There are however, no existing documentary records or reports regarding interviews with Mather among the FBI or Dallas police files, so while he may have been questioned by the FBI and the Dallas PD, there are no records of it, and this lead remains uninvestigated. (Bill Kelly, Incident at the El Chico Restaurant)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Aug 12, 2020 10:58:35 GMT -5
393 Proper documentation on the contents of Nagell's car
Related388 Many items from Richard Case Nagell's car trunkJohn Simkin: Is there official documentation of what was found in Nagell’s car? If so, it seems to be an important factor in understanding what was going on in 1963. Larry Hancock: There is only partial documentation on the contents of Nagell's car, the items which I discuss in my book were listed on the second page of an FBI report and the first page seems to have vanished. Dick Russell could not find the detailed property reports in the court records nor was there a personal property report e.g. wallet, contents of wallet etc. What is documented is very suggestive but its worth noting that Nagell made continued efforts to get all the personal and car property back to aid in his defense and that was repeatedly denied. In fact only part of it was ever returned and that was many years later as part of his personal law suit. ( Dialogue between John Simkin and Larry Hancock, on the JFK Assassination Forum, 10th May, 2004)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Aug 13, 2020 14:00:06 GMT -5
394 Richard Case Nagell's testimony and papersCompare:19 The Pitzer Film249 Admiral Burkley's information offered to the HSCA in 1977. . . the intent of the conspirators, according to Nagell, was to pin the blame for the assassination of the President on Castro’s Cuba and spark an invasion of the island. . . he has indicated to me in the past that, if he was ever subpoenaed by a government agency, he would be willing to testify. (Dick Russell, March 24, 1995)  Richard Case Nagell (1930-1995)The Review Board sent a letter to Nagell dated October 31, 1995, requesting that Nagell contact the Review Board’s Executive Director to discuss any assassination records he might have in his possession. Subsequently, the Review Board was informed that Nagell had been found dead in his Los Angeles apartment the day after the ARRB’s letter was mailed. (The coroner ruled that he died as a result of natural causes.) A member of the Review Board staff traveled twice to California to inspect the effects of Nagell in an attempt to find assassination records. During the first trip, the Review Board staff member, along with Nagell’s son and niece, inspected Nagell’s apartment in Los Angeles. During the second trip, the Review Board staff member inspected, again with the assistance of the son and niece, material contained in some footlockers found in storage in Phoenix, Arizona. The Review Board staff did not locate any of the items that Dick Russell references. ( ARRB final report, p. 133,134) Staff members of Probe, the newsletter of the Citizens for Truth about the Kennedy Assassination, report going to Nagell's apartment as soon as they learned of his death. They write that "the inside door to the apartment was open and one could look inside. By November 4th, the place appeared to be barren. If Nagell left anything of importance behind, it doesn't seem to have been there." (John Kelin, Fair Play Magazine, 1996)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Aug 15, 2020 12:29:20 GMT -5
395 One lead bullet fragment found in limousine
Related:64 Nearly whole bullet removed from JFK's body 69 Bullet found in JFK's limousine105 a Four bullet fragments 234 Bullet sent from Dallas by agents Barrett and Lee 304 The limousine COMMISSION EXHIBIT 840 November 23, Special Agent Frazier examined the Presidential limousine at the Secret Service garage in Washington DC. Three small lead fragments were located near the left jump seat. The fragments, described as weighing 9/10 of a grain and two fragments weighing 7/10 of a grain are identified as Commission Exhibit 840. Grain is a measurement used to document the weight of bullets. One ounce is comprised of 437.5 grains. The 6.5 millimeter caliber cartridge of Western Cartridge Company, supposedly used in the Mannlicher Carcano rifle, was designed with 162 grains. The fragments tested were less than 1/162 of the weight of an intact 6.5 millimeter caliber cartridge of a Western Cartridge Company bullet. Originally, Commission Exhibit 840 contained three particles.  CE840Mr. FRAZIER - We found three small lead particles lying on the rug in the rear seat area. These particles were located underneath or in the area which would be underneath the left jump seat. Mr. SPECTER - Have those particles been identified during the course of your prior testimony? Mr. FRAZIER - No, sir; they have not? Mr. SPECTER - Will you produce them at this time then, please? May we assign to this group of particles Commission Exhibit No. 840? Mr. DULLES - These have not been discussed before, have they? Mr. SPECTER - They have not. Mr. DULLES - It shall be admitted as Commission Exhibit No. 840. (5H 66) Although testimony indicates the FBI originally recovered three particles identiefied as Commission Exhibit 840, in 1970, the National Archives determined one of the three fragments was missing and unable to be located. The National Archives and Records Administration photographs of Commission Exhibit 840 and FBI C16 now depict two small lead fragments. One of the items of evidence has disappeared. ( Sherry Fiester, Enemy of the truth, p. 139, 140)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Aug 18, 2020 12:52:18 GMT -5
396 Betsy Wolf interview with CIA officer William Larson
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80 Volume 5 of Office of Security-file on Oswald What makes [Malcolm Blunt's] his case even more unusual is the fact that he lives in the United Kingdom. But he travels to Washington and does valuable work sorting through the Kennedy archives at NARA. It is through his work, and his work only, that we discovered a key figure who would have otherwise remained anonymous. Her name is Betsy Wolf. Betsy Wolf was one of the researchers for the House Select Committee on Assassinations. She interacted with attorneys Michael Goldsmith and Dan Hardway on matters related to the CIA. On page 514 of the HSCA report, she is listed as a researcher under the name Elizabeth Wolf, but she signed all of her work with the first name of Betsy. (…)  Oswald in Minsk, Belarus
Wolf approached her assignment as if no one had ever done any research on the subject [Oswald's security files ] before. Considering how little the Warren Commission delved into the area, this was largely true. She investigated and asked for the charters of different directorates and divisions within the CIA (e.g. Soviet Russia, Office of Security, CI/SIG). A paradox that stymied her was the following: a rule that had been followed informally was that a 201 file should be opened whenever a subject accumulates at least five documents. (Michael Goldsmith interview with CIA officer William Larson, 6/27/78). This made an impression on Wolf because Larson was the Chief of the Information Management Staff. Larson also said that the Office of Security did not open 201 files. (ibid) Yet, this is where the early documents on Oswald went. Why was this important information? Because prior to the 201 file on Oswald being opened, there were twelve items in the Oswald file. (Blind Memo of HSCA Team Five) Wolf found this so odd that she wrote it down three times in her notes and also listed the items. Four of the documents—from the Navy and State Department— had been sent to CIA within a week or so of the defection. Both Navy and State knew about Oswald’s threat to give secrets to the Soviets. And this information was in the cables. (ibid) According to three witnesses that Wolf interviewed, Larson, CI/SIG chief Birch O’Neil (sometimes spelled O’Neal), and CIA Director Dick Helms, that information should have caused the opening of a 201 file. (…)  In addition to Larson saying that OS did not open 201 files, he said something else that was rather mystifying, that OS worked closely with the Counter-Intelligence division (CI). And CI could cause the opening of a 201 file. (Op. Cit. Larson interview) What could be a more compelling reason for the counter-intelligence office opening a file on Oswald than his threatening to give secrets of the U-2 to the Soviets? (ibid, pp. 45, 48) But again, it did not occur. Larson also said that if he had been in his position in 1959, he would have sent Oswald’s files to the Soviet Russia (SR) division. (ibid, p. 56) Larson said that for such a lacuna to happen, SR must not have been aware of the State Department memo. (ibid, p. 74) Larson also stated that project files are held separately from the 201 file. But if the subject is part of an operation, that operation number should be on the 201 file. As we shall see, there was no such number on the first document once the Oswald file was opened. Larson’s interview was apparently too revealing. Malcolm Blunt first discovered it in 2006. But in his visits to NARA in 2010 and 2017, he couldn’t find it. (Vasilios Vazakas, Jim DiEugenio, Creating the Oswald Legend – Part 4)
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