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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 8, 2023 13:20:04 GMT -5
543 Photo of Oswald in New Orleans Mexico City consulateFurther reading:188 Missing logs and production from the photobase LILYRIC230 Mexico City CIA station's surveillance photo's of Lee Harvey Oswald363 Oswald - Thornley correspondence "The Farrington affair raised obvious questions. Why, for example, was the
F.B.I. trying to bully a witness into saying she saw Oswald in Mexico City? And
why was there no picture of Oswald at the consulate?"It was the early afternoon of a mid-September day in 1963. A young man, accompanied by a woman with a scarf tied around her head, appeared at the (Mexican) consulate (in New Orleans). On this occasion, Mrs. Fenella Farrington happened to be there to see about getting her family automobile returned from Mexico. It had been left there on a recent visit with her husband. The young man asked the clerk at the desk, “What is the weather like in Mexico City?” “It’s very hot,” she replied. “Just like it is here today.”  During 1963 the Consulate was located at the Whitney Bank at St. Charles and Gravier.
He then asked her—now striking the sinister theme repeated throughout these pageants—“What do you have to do to take firearms or a gun into Mexico?” This was a question that would catch almost anyone’s ear. The lady at the consulate asked why he wanted to take a gun, and Fenella Farrington, standing nearby, volunteered that “the hunting’s wonderful.” The man, whom Mrs. Farrington described as “tall and very thin,” seemed resentful of her contribution, making no effort to show any sign of appreciation. Mrs. Farrington also recalled that he appeared ill at ease and not relaxed as were the other tourists seeking visas. Four days after the President’s murder, Mrs. Farrington was visiting relatives in Washington, D.C., when the F.B.I. hunted her down. The F.B.I. agent who called her from the Washington office gave her the office phone number so that she could call back for confirmation of his identity. This done, he informed her that the Bureau had located her because of the scene in the Mexican Consulate in New Orleans. The scene had been photographed, he informed her, by an invisible camera. It had been set in operation when the young man mentioned firearms and, inasmuch as she was present, the Bureau had traced her from the photograph. The young man, he added, was Lee Harvey Oswald, whose picture had been taken at the same time. The F.B.I. agent suggested to Mrs. Farrington that she had also seen Lee Oswald in Mexico City, even before the scene at the consulate. She replied firmly that she had not seen Oswald in Mexico City. Nonetheless, the agent insisted—despite her repeated denials—that she had met Oswald in Mexico. Mrs. Farrington and her cousin, Mrs. Lillian Merilh, who had been with her in the Mexican Consulate, later were questioned again by the same F.B.I. agent and others as well. This time the agents produced photographs of Jack Ruby and now insisted that Ruby had been present in the New Orleans Mexican Consulate earlier that day, when both Mrs. Farrington and her cousin were there. Both Mrs. Farrington and Mrs. Merilh informed the agents that the photographs of Ruby did not depict anyone they saw at the consulate.  Mort Sahl, comedian and JFK assassination-researcher.I heard of her story from Mort Sahl and Mark Lane, who were working with us at the time. Lane took a statement from her at my request. He showed her 17 photographs, asking if any of them appeared to be the young man at the consulate in New Orleans. She replied that two of the pictures could have been the man. She picked out a picture of Lee Oswald. And she picked out a picture of Kerry Thornley—Oswald’s friend from Marine days back at El Toro, who had later moved to New Orleans. The Farrington affair raised obvious questions. Why, for example, was the F.B.I. trying to bully a witness into saying she saw Oswald in Mexico City? And why was there no picture of Oswald at the consulate? The hidden camera there obviously was good enough to take an identifiable picture of Fenella Farrington and good enough to have the Bureau on her heels in a short time. The F.B.I. agent told her that it had a photograph of the young man who wanted to take a rifle to Mexico, and that it was Lee Oswald. Yet the government had never released that photo. If the photograph had been of Oswald, would the government have been so shy about revealing it? (Jim Garrison, On the trail of the assassins, 1988, p. 75-77)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 15, 2023 10:30:29 GMT -5
544 Oswald's tourist visa applicationContinued from:543 Photo of Oswald in New Orleans Mexico City consulate
"Personnel at the office believe that the original application never left the office,
that a copy of it was made by FBI agents."
Related:369 FBI interview of William Gaudet492 Oswald’s knife, and bar slip signed HidellToday I went to the Mexican Consulate together with Gary Sanders and we interviewed RUBEN GAXIOLA the Consul General and TERESA JARUREGUI who is employed as a clerk. According to MRS. FARRINGTON the "OSWALD" visit took place at the Mexican Consulate located in the Whitney Bank Building. During 1963 the Consulate was in fact located at the Whitney Bank at St. Charles and Gravier. Toward the middle of 1965, according to the Consul General, the office was moved to the Trade Mart where it is presently located. The Consul General during 1963 was REYES SPINDOLA. During 1963 in order to secure a tourist visa the applicant was required to submit proof of citizenship and pay a $3.00 charge. Proof of citizenship is considered to be a birth certificate, army discharge, or even a notarized statement alleging that you are in fact a citizen. No picture is required. (...)  Lee Harvey Oswald distributing Fair Play for Cuba literature at the International Trade Mart on August 16, 1963According to MISS JARUREGUI, "OSWALD" entered the office during September and she is quite certain that it was before lunch. He approached MRS. GUADALUPE ORTEGA and stated that he wished to secure a tourist's visa. MRS. ORTEGA asked him for proof of citizenship and a record of smallpox vaccination. The man offered his birth certificate as proof of citizenship. This was accepted by MRS. ORTEGA who then handed the application to Miss JARUREGUI. Miss JARUREGUI asked the applicant to sign a form which he did and the tourist card was issued. (...) One or two weeks after the assassination, FBI agents visited the Mexican Consulate. They requested permission to take the original tourist application with them but such permission was denied. According to those presently employed at the Consulate, even the Consul General does not have permission to make such documents available and that an official ruling would have been required from the Mexican government. Personnel at the office believe that the original application never left the office, that a copy of it was made by FBI agents. (...) During August of 1965 all documents more than one year old were burned by the Mexican Consulate prior to the removal of the office, from the Whitney Bank to the Trade Mart. Evidently the original application has been burned. ( Letter from Mark Lane to Jim Garrison, 1-24-68)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 18, 2023 13:53:13 GMT -5
545 One large bottle of Proloid®Erasing the Past...DiscussionsRelated:39 G. Wray Gill's November 1963 office phone bill194 David Ferrie's original statement to FBI368 Blood samples and spinal fluid from Ferrie's autopsy
"What would happen, I asked, if a man suffering from hypertension were
to take—or be forced to take—an entire bottle of Proloid?"Unlike most of the media, my special team immediately addressed itself to learning more about the facts of Ferrie’s death. I sent the entire group back to Ferrie’s apartment to go through it again, this time with a fine-toothed comb. Meanwhile, at my desk I studied the medicine bottles which had been left on top of the table alongside Ferrie’s bed. I wanted to know the effects of each of these drugs, so I looked them up in a thick volume on pharmacology. I picked up the large bottle of Proloid®, and a recollection came to me. Some years earlier I had a low thyroid condition for a brief period. In order to raise the thyroid production level and increase my metabolism, the doctor hadprescribed Proloid for me. Thumbing through the big book, I found that, sure enough, Proloid was medicine to be used only when it was desirable to increase bodily metabolism. But David Ferrie, we had learned from several sources, had no problem with low metabolism. On the contrary, he had suffered from hypertension. (...)  Ferrie’s appartment shortly after his sudden death
What would happen, I asked, if a man suffering from hypertension were to take—or be forced to take—an entire bottle of Proloid? His answer came without hesitation. Whoever did that, he said, would die shortly afterwards either of a “heart storm” or a brain aneurism (in effect, an exploding blood vessel). The coroner had stated in general terms that the death of David Ferrie was due to “natural causes,” but in the autopsy protocol the specific cause had been spelled out as a ruptured blood vessel in the brain. I asked my pathologist friend if there was any way a coroner might ascertain whether an overdose of Proloid had caused Ferrie’s death. He replied that there would be no perceivable signs in a routine autopsy. However, he added that if an examination were made of the blood or of the spinal fluid, an extremely high level of iodine would be encountered, indicating the likelihood that an overdose of Proloid had been taken.(...) I was left with an empty bottle and a number of unanswered questions. Had Ferrie taken an overdose of Proloid? If so, had he taken it voluntarily? Was it possible that someone else had written the suicide notes and given him the Proloid? The more I reflected upon it, the less sense it made to me. Why should a man kill himself in a way which left no trace —and then leave two suicide notes? Or was I making more out of this than was there? Perhaps it had just been, as the coroner said, “natural causes.” I tossed the empty Proloid bottle in a desk drawer. Throughout the rest of the investigation I kept it as evidence, hoping it would one day be a useful piece of the puzzle. Finally, at a low point many years later, when I felt that my questions would never be answered, I threw it away. I did not want such a souvenir. (Jim Garrison, On the trail of the Assassins, p. 166-7)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 2, 2023 7:34:07 GMT -5
546 The original Time/Life Zapruder film transparenciesRelated:51 National Photo Interpretation Center (NPIC) records related to the assassination52 An accurate account of the Zapruder film's time in the governments hands53 A more comprehensive CIA & NPIC analysis of the Zapruder filmThe next point of evidence [...] is a pet concern of the radiologist, namely the Zapruder film. This reviewer is an agnostic on the subject. But to be fair to him and Sydney Wilkinson--a film editor in the movie business--she and Mantik went to the Sixth Floor Museum and they saw transparencies produced by the MPI company, which produced a video and DVD version of the film. In 2009, they claim to have seen what is a black patch over the back of JFK’s head, with straight edges. Yet there is nothing like that on John Connally. Mantik says it is most obvious at Z-317. (p. 36).  But when Sydney returned in 2010 the transparencies were larger but not as sharp and clear. The dark patch was gone, and looks more like a shadow. Mantik returned in 2012, and had the same reaction. But the Sixth Floor Museum insists there was no change from the material in 2009. The way to test this would be to find the original Time/Life transparencies from 1963-64. But the Sixth Floor says they do not have them and the searches done by Sydney and Mantik have been unable to turn them up. I have seen the third generation dupe that Wilkinson has and on that copy I did see that black spot. It is really an evidentiary shame that there is no locating the first generation transparencies. (Jim DiEugenio, The JFK Assassination Decoded: Two Reviews, 2023) "Gary Mack, the Museum's Archivist, was all but whistling Tuesday as he examined
what may be the gem of the bunch---oversized transparencies of each Zapruder film frame
believed to have been made in 1963 or 1964." The Sixth Floor Museum
In April of 1997 I personally located the large format LIFE magazine transparencies of individual Zapruder film frames---the transparencies that had featured so prominently in Josiah Thompson's 1967 book "Six Seconds in Dallas"---in the office of attorney Jamie Silverberg, who at that time was representing the film's owners, the LMH Company. At the time I was a Senior Analyst on the ARRB staff, and was conducting an official ARRB examination of the LMH company's holdings. On December 30, 1999 the LMH Company transferred both the copyright to the Zapruder film, and reportedly, all of its film holdings, to the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas. (After obtaining a windfall profit of 16 million dollars, plus interest, from the U.S. government---in just compensation for the taking of the film by the Review Board---the LMH company had decided it was time to get rid of the troublesome political albatross around its neck.) On January 26, 2000 the Dallas Morning News published an article about the LMH Company's donation to the Museum, which indicated all of the associated film items had been physically transferred to the museum "nine days ago," and which further stated: "Gary Mack, the Museum's Archivist, was all but whistling Tuesday as he examined what may be the gem of the bunch---oversized transparencies of each Zapruder film frame believed to have been made in 1963 or 1964." It seems reasonable to conclude that this statement by the article's author can only have referred to the same LIFE magazine transparencies which I had discovered in the office of Jamie Silverberg on April 10, 1997. In November of 2010, in response to a question about the whereabouts of the LIFE magazine transparencies made by a visiting researcher, Megan Bryant---the Sixth Floor Museum's Director of Collections and Intellectual Property---said that the Museum did NOT POSSESS the LIFE magazine transparencies. When she was asked a follow-on question by the same person about the January 2000 article in the Dallas Morning News, she stated that the article had been in error. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? (Doug Horne, Inside the ARRB, 1999)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Apr 1, 2023 3:19:35 GMT -5
547 Who’s fingerprints are on the Walker Note?Related:12 The identity of the reporter asking the Walker-question on 23-11-1963259 Document in Oswald’s handwriting that mentions his attack on Walker
476 Contemporaneous records of the Dallas pro-Castro demonstration463 Request for records relating to Pro-Castro demonstration in Dallas “Seven latent fingerprints were developed thereon.
Latent prints are not identical with fingerprints of Lee Harvey Oswald
or Marina Nikolaevna Oswald.” We then have Ruth Paine visiting the Irving Police Department on 2nd December 1963 to hand over some of Marina Oswald’s belongings. Included was a Russian book called “Book of Useful Advice.” When the book was inspected by the Secret Service later that day, they found a two-page note inside written in Russian. This note was allegedly written by Oswald with instructions for his wife on what to do if he was killed or taken prisoner. (...)  Irving Police Department
It is clear that whoever wrote the note was planning a dangerous activity. But the note did not mention the specific event. There is no mention of General Walker, and the note is not signed or dated. If Walker had been killed, and Oswald arrested (or worse), it is fanciful to suggest that there would not have been anything about the shooter or the incident in the newspapers. Walker was a high-profile political figure at the time, and this would have been a major national news story. The reference to the Embassy probably means the Soviet Embassy. But would they have been quick to come to Marina’s assistance as the note suggests if Oswald had killed General Walker? Isn’t it more likely that they would not have wanted to associate themselves with such a violent and political act on American soil? However, maybe the note referred to a different event. It is also interesting that the FBI examined the note in early December 1963 and “seven latent fingerprints were developed thereon. Latent prints are not identical with fingerprints of Lee Harvey Oswald or Marina Nikolaevna Oswald.” This is an odd finding given that Oswald was the alleged author of the note and Marina had also probably handled it. ( Scott Reid, Oswald and the shot at Walker)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Apr 4, 2023 10:41:37 GMT -5
548 Identity of two men seen fleeing the scene after the Walker shootingRelated:8 The intact version of the Walker surveillance photo9 The steel-jacketed 30.06 bullet retrieved from Edwin Walker's house10 Walker Reports from the Dallas City/County Investigation LaboratoryThe best witness to the Walker shooting incident was fourteen-year-old, Walter Kirk Coleman. He lived on Newton, which was just north of Walker’s house and overlooked the Mormon Church and parking lot. On the evening of 10th April 1963, he was at home standing in the doorway which led from his bedroom to the outside of the house. He heard a loud noise which he first thought was a car backfire. He immediately ran outside and stepped on top of a bicycle propped up against the fence. This allowed him to look into the church parking lot. The journey from the doorway to the fence would only have taken him a few seconds.  Mr. LIEBELER. I have shown you another picture which is Walker Exhibit No. 4, and I ask you to initial that,
and ask you if that isn't in fact a picture of the alley behind your house.
General Walker. Yes; that is a picture of the alley looking south toward the same apartment building we referred
to before, down to where the alley connects with Avondale showing The back fence and the entrance into my backyard.
Coleman was first interviewed by the Dallas Police on 11th April 1963. He said he saw a man getting into a 1949 or 1950 Ford who “took off in a hurry.” He saw a second man further down the parking lot at another car, bending over the front seat as if he was putting something in the back. When Coleman was interviewed again in June 1964, he provided additional details. He added that the first man was hurrying towards the driver’s side of the Ford car. The motor was running, and the headlights were on. He saw nobody else in the car. The man glanced back towards him. This time Coleman said the car drove off at a normal speed. The second man was seen walking away from the alley entrance and towards a 1958 two door Chevrolet sedan. Coleman confirmed his initial report that this man was leaning through the open car door and into the back seat area. Was he placing something there? Coleman did not notice if this second man was carrying anything as his attention was mainly drawn to the first man, but it was possible.  Coleman didn’t identify Oswald (FBI interview 1964).
Coleman provided a detailed description of both men. By this time, he must have seen many pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald and stated that neither man he saw on the night of the Walker shooting incident resembled Oswald. It is possible that these two mystery men were leaving the scene because they also heard the shot and were naturally alarmed and concerned by it. The shooter could have gone down the alley in the opposite direction from them and the church parking lot towards Avondale Avenue. Sixty years later, the identities of the two men have yet to be uncovered. The attempted assassination of General Walker was big news so it should have been important for the police to follow up on Coleman’s firsthand testimony and try to find them. The men could even have come forward to eliminate themselves as suspects and help the police with their inquiries. They were there on the night and if not personally involved surely saw what was going on. (Scott Reid, Oswald and the shot at Walker)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Apr 9, 2023 13:37:30 GMT -5
549 LBJ’s calls with McGeorge BundyRelated:20 Fourteen minutes recording of Hoover – LBJ phonecall on 23-11-1963
25 Transcript of the complete Air Force One tape49 Secret letter mentioned in the Higgins memo471 Documentary evidence explaining Joan Hallett 1959 dates confusionWhile looking at daily diary entries for phone calls November 23rd, the first full day of Johnson’s presidency, I noticed something surprising: one of Johnson’s telephone conversations with national security adviser McGeorge Bundy was not recorded. It came at a key moment in the post-assassination timeline. 
McGeorge Bundy, with U.S. Navy commander Oliver Hallet, manned the White House Situation Room at the time of the assassination.
When Air Force One was en route from Dallas to Washington carrying JFK's body and the new president, either Bundy or Hallet sent
a message saying that there was no conspiracy and that the assassination had been determined to be the act of a lone gunman.
LBJ’s in person meeting with Bundy and CIA director John McCone is not recorded but it is well-documented. According to The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson: The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power, November 1963-January 1964, published by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, and edited by Max Holland, the men discussed that “disturbing information had been confirmed by the CIA in the hours since the assassination. Just weeks before November 22, Lee Harvey Oswald had traveled to Mexico City and visited the Soviet Embassy. This contact raised the ante on direct Soviet involvement, and it was agreed that McCone would personally brief Johnson for at least the next few days ahead about this development. Three hours later, McCone stopped by the EOB to tell Johnson more troubling news. Oswald, while in Mexico City had apparently visited the Cuban Embassy as well.” After that meeting, LBJ had a 10:01 am phone call with director J. Edgar Hoover about the FBI’s investigation. This conversation was recorded and a transcript was made, but as JFK researcher Rex Bradford (now president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation) discovered in 2000, the original tape was erased. (...) At 3:30 pm, Bundy returned LBJ’s call of 10:14 am. Coming right after LBJ’s two meetings with McCone and the call with Hoover, this five minute conversation was almost certainly assassination-related. There is no record of it in the National Archives database of presidential tapes, nor in the LBJ Library tape database, nor in the Miller Center archive of Presidential tapes. That means it was probably not recorded. Unlike the taping system used by the President Richard Nixon, LBJ’s system was manually activated by a secretary upon a signal from Johnson. (...)  On Monday morning, November 25, Bundy and Johnson finally connected. The president called his national security adviser at 8:50 am. Johnson’s diary shows no other activities until 75 minutes later. This Bundy conversation is not found in the Miller Center archives, LBJ Presidential Library, and the National Archives database. The Miller Center book does not refer to this conversation either. This conversation was also likely assassination-related. After that call LBJ went into a meeting with three aides, press secretary Bill Moyers and advisers Walter Jenkins and George Reedy for twenty minutes. After that meeting he called Hoover to talk about the assassination and various proposals to investigate it (...) Either LBJ thought his conversations with Bundy were too sensitive to record or the recordings vanished long ago. What did Bundy think about the assassination of President Kennedy? What did Bundy think about Oswald’s contacts with Russians and Cubans? What did Bundy think about the murder of Oswald? President Johnson, it seems, didn’t want the answers to be known. ( Mike Swanson, LBJ After JFK: The First 72 Hours JFKfacts)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jun 6, 2023 10:40:38 GMT -5
550 Lt. Day's marks on the Walker bulletRelated:9 The steel-jacketed 30.06 bullet retrieved from Edward Walker's house10 Walker Reports from the Dallas City/County Investigation Laboratory12 The identity of the reporter asking the Walker-question on 23-11-1963On two separate occasions Lt. J.C. “Carl” Day of the DPD testified he had marked the true Walker Bullet with the word “DAY” and a “cross.” On or about Dec. 5 1963, Lt. Day told the FBI he had placed upon the Walker slug the word "Day" and a "cross." The slug itself, not an envelope, box or tag.  Then, here is Lt. Day testifying before the WC in 1964: Mr. BELIN. I will ask you this. Have you ever seen Commission Exhibit 573 before, if you know?
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir; I have.
Mr. BELIN. Could you tell us what 573 is?
Mr. DAY. This slug was gotten from the home of former General Edwin Walker, 4011 Turtle Creek, April 10, 1963, by Detective B. G. Brown, one of the officers under my supervision. He brought this in and released it to me.
Mr. BELIN. You are reading now from a report that is in your possession, is that correct?
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir. Those are the official records of my office.
Mr. BELIN. Was that prepared under your supervision?
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. In the regular course of your duties at the Dallas Police Department?
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir. The slug has my name “DAY” scratched in it.After that last comment, Belin quickly changed topics. It is not clear why Day was reading from his official DPD records, or if Day even handled the bullet during the hearing. Another problem is this: in 1979 the National Archives and Records Service, on behalf of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, took CE 573 to the FBI lab in Washington, where it was “microscopically” examined. The examiners found the markings “Q188,” “N,” “B,” “J,” “D,” “A,” “O,” and “D”. The examiners did not see the word “DAY” or a “cross.” Even under a microscope. Extant photos of CE 573 do not reveal the word “DAY” either. ( Tom Gram & Benjamin Cole, Walker Bullet CE 573: Is it Real?)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 27, 2023 10:54:25 GMT -5
551 Anonymous telephone call to overthrow the government on November 22, 1963.Compare:199 Identity of the person who signed Oswald’s name on the Atomic Museum register212 The identity of the mystery Oxnard area caller
 Logo of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (1946-1974).This is to confirm information orally furnished on November 22, 1963 by Special agent Andrew J. Decker to Mr. Edward E. (….) of your office, to Mr. Walter Pine of the Secret Service; and to Sergeant L. L. Hatcher of the Defence Intelligence Agency. Miss Ivy (....)* Johnson, clerk, South Albuquerque Area Office, Los Angeles Section, Atomic Energy Commission, Los Angeles, California, advised that between 10.15 a.m. and 10.20 a.m. (Pacific Standard Time) November 22, 1963, she received a telephone call from an unknown woman who identified herself as the executive secretary of an organization that “wanted to overthrow the government and they were in the process right now.” The caller mentioned that “East Communist Germany(?)* has been notified”. Miss Johnson stated that the caller mentioned the organization of which she was a member but she was unable to recall the name and does not know if she would recognize it. Miss Johnson attempted to keep the caller on the telephone, but when she queried the caller as to when the overthrow was to take place, the caller terminated the conversation. MIss Johnson advised that the call was received through the regular switchboard which belongs to ACF (?) industries Inc; and that the caller had told the switchboard operator that she would talk to anyone. MIss Johnson also advised that her office receives numerous unfounded complaints by telephone, but she does not believe this woman has called previously. ( FBI 62-109060 JFK HQ File, Section 16, p. 167-8)  National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, located at 601 Eubank Boulevard SE in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The AEC was abolished in 1974.The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by the U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology.] President Harry S. Truman signed the McMahon/Atomic Energy Act on August 1, 1946, transferring the control of atomic energy from military to civilian hands, effective on January 1, 1947. This shift gave the members of the AEC complete control of the plants, laboratories, equipment, and personnel assembled during the war to produce the atomic bomb. An increasing number of critics during the 1960s charged that the AEC's regulations were insufficiently rigorous in several important areas, including radiation protection standards, nuclear reactor safety, plant siting, and environmental protection. By 1974, the AEC's regulatory programs had come under such strong attack that the U.S. Congress decided to abolish the AEC. ( Wikipedia, retrieved 7-27-23) *somewhat illegible on the original file.
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jul 31, 2023 10:13:54 GMT -5
552 The topic of Paulino Sierra's meeting with Allen Dulles in April 1963See also:433 William King Harvey's operational diaries531 Alan Dulles' personal 1963 CalendarWhen the Bay of Pigs operation was under way and “the chips were down,” Dulles wrote, he was confident that JFK would be compelled to do the right thing and send in the awesome power of the U.S. military to rescue the invasion. That’s the way the CIA game was played: there was a certain amount of hoodwinking and massaging of White House anxieties, and then the president fell in line. But this time, the president, despite his youth and the collective browbeating of his gray-haired national security ministers, stood his ground. Kennedy said no to expanding an operation that he felt all along was sordid. And the long rain of Allen Dulles came crashing down. (....) Dulles would turn his Georgetown home into the center of an anti-Kennedy government in exile. As time went by, the Dulles circle became more disenchanted with JFK’s foreign policy, which they considered appeasement of the Communist enemy. Dulles grew bolder in his opposition. He met with a controversial Cuban exile leader named Paulino Sierra Martinez, a former henchman for the deposed dictator Fulgencio Batista. Sierra, whose anti-Castro activities were underwritten by the Mafia and U.S. corporations with a stake in Cuba, later fell under Secret Service suspicion in a conspiracy* against President Kennedy. The topic of Sierra’s meeting with Dulles in April 1963 remains a mystery. (David Talbot, The Devil’s Chessboard, p. 7-8)  1308 29th St., Dulles’ home was previously owned by Frank Wisner, the CIA director of covert operations.*On November 21, 1963, a government informant named Thomas Mosley was negotiating the sale of machine guns to a Cuban exile named Echevarria. In the course of the transaction, Echevarria said that "we now have plenty of money - our new backers are Jews" and would close the arms deal "as soon as we [or they] take care of Kennedy." The next day, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Mosley, an ATF informant, reported his conversation to the Secret Service, and that agency quickly began investigating what it termed "a group in the Chicago area who may have a connection with the JFK assassination." Echevarria was a member of the 30th November group, associated with the DRE with whom Oswald had dealings the previous summer. Mosley said the arms deal was being financed through Paulino Sierra Martinez and his J.G.C.E.--Sierra interestingly was connected to Bobby Kennedy's effort to unite various exile groups, through Harry Ruiz Williams. See more: 330 Contemporary FBI investigation of Chicago group
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