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Post by Arjan Hut on Feb 22, 2019 5:27:12 GMT -5
55 The PATHFINDER Files
See also:28 CIA documents related to a CIA study of the Valkyrie plot 49 Secret letter mentioned in the Higgins memo 51 National Photo Interpretation Center (NPIC) records related to the assassinationAs for the missing records of the Z-film residencies at NPIC, we do have other examples of missing NPIC records, including accounts of a number of NPIC technicians assigned to the CIA’s JMWAVE station in Florida. They all testified to the ARRB separately that there was a CIA program called PATHFINDER, the files of which were not kept in the regular files at JMWAVE, but kept separate in the NPIC section of the station. PATHFINDER was described as a CIA plan to kill Castro using snipers with high powered rifles with scopes shooting at him as he rode in an open jeep en route to Xanadu, the DuPont estate, which just happened to be next door to the home of Rolando Cubella (AMLASH), who the CIA’s Desmond Fitzgerald was briefing in Paris at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy.  Location of the Xanadu mansion, Cuba.
While PATHFINDER was reportedly “disapproved” by Higher Authority, NPIC had provided he CIA with aerial photos of the area and detailed floor plans to assist them in the operation that appeared suspiciously similar to what happened at Dealey Plaza. (William Kelly, Twenty-Six Seconds - A Personal History of the Zapruder Film Reviewed) Erasing the Past...Discussions
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Post by Arjan Hut on Feb 24, 2019 13:09:27 GMT -5
56 210 Dallas Police photos of Oswald's possessions
In 1963, the FBI "lost" 210 Dallas Police photos of Oswald's possessions, despite repeated police requests for their return. A Dallas Police inventory reveals that one showed Oswald's Minox "spy" camera, an expensive and not yet easily obtainable item. The FBI returned a photo which showed all items in the original police photo except the Minox camera, found in Oswald's Marine seabag. (Martin Shackelford, A Celebration of Freedom: Latest Research and Secrets
from the Files, Part Seven of a Series, Review Magazine) In the huge cache off WFAA archive footage that was recently donated to Southern Methodist University’s G. William Jones Film and Video Collection, a few incredible seconds from a holiday parade in 1960 capture Jack Ruby combing his hair and fixing his hat, while a friend ogles over what is, presumably, a fancy new “spy” camera.  The clip shows Ruby standing with a friend, who some careful viewers believe is George Senator, Ruby’s then-roommate. Bosse believes Senator is holding a Minox “spy” camera, a very small and expensive new product that was being advertised at the time in the Dallas Morning News and sold in a number of local stores. Based on Senator’s expression, it appears that Ruby is showing off the little gadget. (Peter Simek, New Film Footage of Jack Ruby Surfaces, Dmagazine, December 14, 2017)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Feb 27, 2019 5:52:34 GMT -5
57 The Fenton Report
See also:39 G. Wray Gill's November 1963 office phone bill As mentioned earlier, when Blakey arrived, an investigating team headed by Cliff Fenton, reporting to Bob Tanenbaum, had already been hard at work tracking down leads to the CIA conspirators generated by Jim Garrison's investigation in New Orleans. This team eventually had four investigators, all professionals, and their work led them to believe that the CIA people in New Orleans had been involved in a large conspiracy to assassinate JFK. As Garrison told Ted Gandolfo, a New York City researcher, the Fenton team went much further than Garrison, in locating witnesses and other evidence of assassination planning meetings held in New Orleans, Mexico City and Dallas. In fact, they found a CIA man who attended those meetings, and who was willing to testify before the committee. The evidence was far more convincing than the testimony presented at the trial of Clay Shaw. In the Shaw Trial, CIA people were involved in meetings in addition to the one brought out in the trial. Clay Shaw, David Ferrie, William Seymour and others were involved. Fenton's team discovered a lot of other facts about how the CIA people planned and carried out the assassination. Their report about the conspiracy was solid and convincing and they were convinced. The CIA, through Robert Blakey, buried the Fenton report. Committee members were not told about the team's findings. The evidence was not included in the HSCA report, nor was it even referred to in the volumes. The witnesses in New Orleans were never called to testify. That included the CIA man at the meetings. Fenton and the other three members of his team, having signed the nondisclosure agreement, were legally sworn to secrecy, or at least they thought so. To this day they refuse to discuss anything with anybody. (Richard E. Sprague, THE TAKING OF AMERICA, 1-2-3, 1985 edition) Garrison felt that revealing this new information "would get the investigators here, who are communicating with me, in trouble, and then they would get fired. I wish I could tell you how far they've gone, the progress they've made. It's past conspiracy; It's past prima facie — It's solid evidence. On tape. Hut (chief counsel G. Robert( Blakey seems to have cotton in his ears." According to Garrison, HSCA investigator Clifford Fenton had procured a taped confession from a participant in a pre-assassination planning meeting. Blakey, Garrison charged, suppressed this evidence. Gandolfo told the KPFK audience that the confessed assassination accomplice was Thomas Beckham. According to Gandolfo, Beckham had provided Fenton with maps of the Dealey Plaza firing zones and names of the conspirators, including convicted Watergate burglar Frank Sturges. Gandolfo reports that Beckham, acting under CIA auspices, sat in on conspiratorial meetings held in No- Name Key, in the Florida Everglades. Other participants in these meetings allegedly included Harry Dean, Richard Case Nagell, Emilio Santana, Jack Lawrence ("a crack shot from the West Coast"), and Jim Hicks. After Fenton submitted his report, Blakey assigned two men to take Beckham's testimony. "They scared him to death." says Gandolfo. "They made him keep backtracking and backtracking. He knew that he was in hostile territory." Clifford Fenton reportedly now fears for his life and refuses to discuss his work for the HSCA. Gandolfo has implored Attorney General Janet Reno to send an investigator to search for the Fenton report among the classified HSCA documents at the National Archives. According to Gandolfo, Reno assented to this request. ( New Confessions in the JFK Assassination?, Probe, July 1993)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 1, 2019 13:23:06 GMT -5
58 Forrest Sorrel's notebook
Related:2. Protection survey reports for President Kennedy’s trips in the fall of 1963In its news release on the Fritz notes, the ARRB described them as “only the second set of original handwritten notes taken on the Oswald interrogations that have surfaced in the 34 years since the assassination,” the Hosty notes being the first. I wrote to the board soon afterwards, pointing out that their statement was incorrect, as the first set of Oswald interrogation notes to surface had done so in 1964 with the publication of the Warren Commission’s 26 volumes. It so happened, however, that they were published in such a way as to hide them “in plain sight.” These were notes written by the Secret Service’s Special-Agent-in-Charge in Dallas, Forrest Sorrels, who was present during interrogations of Oswald on all three days of his incarceration. ( ... ) Sorrels also participated in two interrogations of Jack Ruby on November 24, 1963, and he did write a report on those, which the Warren Commission published as Sorrels Exhibit No. 1. Along with it were printed copies of his handwritten notes on the two interrogations, which were designated Sorrels Exhibits 2-A through 2-D and 3-A through 3-C.12 As I wrote to the ARRB on November 24, 1997: Comparing the contents of the notes to Sorrels’ account of the two interrogations contained in his typed report dated February 3, 1964 (Sorrels Exhibit No. 1), one must conclude that the notes in Sorrels Exhibit No. 3-A cover the beginning of his first interrogation of Ruby. However, the top half of Sorrels Exhibit No. 3-A (above a squiggly line) obviously pertains to Lee Harvey Oswald[.] To see how clearly the notes on the top half of the page pertain to Oswald and not to Ruby, one only has to read them: since 15 - read Marxism
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(...) The interrogation appears to be the one attended by Sorrels on Saturday, November 23rd, when Oswald was asked about the mail order rifle (its origin had not been traced yet on Friday). I told the ARRB that it was likely that the halfpage of Oswald notes in Sorrels Exhibit No. 3-A was only part of Sorrels’ notes on Oswald, as they do not contain any identifying information as is the case in the Ruby notes that begin on the bottom half of the page. As the notes that are reproduced take up seven sides of notebook paper, it is obvious that there is at least one side we do not see, and Sorrels’ notebook may have contained other sheets of paper as well. When Sorrels told the Warren Commission that his notebook contained notes on “other stuff” besides the Ruby interrogations, the Warren Commission counsel (Leon D. Hubert, Jr.) responded by saying, “Well, we are interested of course only in the Ruby ones.”13 One interesting aspect of Sorrels’ notes is that the half-page referring to Oswald appears in the middle of the Ruby notes, even though the lower half-page obviously marks the beginning of the Ruby interrogations. In other words, the notes are given exhibit numbers and reproduced out of chronological order, thus artificially placing the Oswald half-page in the middle and not at the beginning of the pages from Sorrels’ notebook. It would be interesting to know if this was done intentionally to make the inclusion of the Oswald notes less obvious. In response to my inquiry, the ARRB conducted a search for Sorrels’ notebook, but reported that the Sorrels exhibits in the National Archives are only photocopies of pages from the notebook and no additional information on the fate of the original notebook could be found. (Larry Haapanen, Lost and Found Oswald Interrogation Notes, Kennedy Assassination Chronicles Vol 7, Issue 3 2001) 
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 2, 2019 11:52:10 GMT -5
59 Arnold Rowland's signed statements of November 26th , 29th , December 1st and 3rd or 4th
Arnold Rowland (18 at the time) gave perhaps the most detailed testimony regarding activity on the 6th floor prior to the shooting. He had better than 20/20 vision, was wearing sunglasses, was familiar with the area, gave his testimony to a police officer soon after the shots were fired and was able to timestamp what he saw very accurately thanks to the Herz clock, his own watch and a police radio on a motorcycle nearby broadcasting the progress of the motorcade. Following the assassination he said he was 'interviewed by seven pairs of different FBI agents'. Shown his sheriff's affidavit from November 22nd, he said that SA Wallace Heitman had 'reworded' it. The next day SA Calvin Rice came to his home and 'at that time I told them I did see the negro man there and they told me it didn't have any bearing or such on the case. In fact, they just the same as told me to forget it now.” On Sunday, agents Paul Wulff and James Swinford 'were there when I got to work, they were waiting on me … the agents were trying to find out if I could positively identify the man [with the rifle] that I saw … I brought up to them the negro man … as an afterthought … They just didn't seem interested at all. They didn't pursue the point. They didn't take it down in the notation as such. Rowland signed further statements on November 26th , 29th , December 1st and 3rd or 4th which are missing from the official record.  Arnold Rowland with his wife on Houston St. 11/22/63 in the John Martin film."We looked and at that time I noticed on the sixth floor of the building that there was a man back from the window, not hanging out the window.
He was standing and holding a rifle, This appeared to me to be a fairly high-powered rifle because of the scope and the relative proportion of the scope to the rifle, you can tell about what type of rifle it is. You can tell it isn't a .22, you know, and we thought momentarily that maybe we should tell someone but then the thought came to us that it is a security agent.
We had seen in the movies before where they have security men up in windows and places like that with rifles to watch the crowds, and we brushed it aside as that, at that time, and thought nothing else about it until after the event happened."
(WC Testimony of Arnold Rowland)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 3, 2019 8:11:50 GMT -5
60 One TSBD hammer
See also: 59 Arnold Rowland's signed statements of November 26th , 29th , December 1st and 3rd or 4thInasmuch as Rowland was the only known witness to see a rifleman in the westernmost sixth-floor window, it is most significant to consider the neglected witnesses who happened to be looking at the upper windows near the sixth-floor window identified by the commission as the sniper's perch. (Henry Hurt, Reasonable Doubt, p. 93)  Dallas morning news photographer Jack Beers was let into the depository sometimes around 4 o'clock and took pictures from the sniper's nest at contrary angles. They do not show the shells on the floor, which had been appropriated by this time, yet they show a hammer laying on the westernmost window ledge. This hammer is missing from official crime scene photographs, and there is nothing in the official records that hints of it's existance or of any recovered fingerprints.
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 4, 2019 4:10:03 GMT -5
61 FBI report on the Hardie incident
About an hour before [SM] Holland or the policemen were on the bridge, Julius Hardie of Dallas was driving his electrical equipment company truck east on Commerce Street and was about to make a U-tum to the Stemmons entry lane when he noticed three men on the bridge. That was between 9:30 and 10 a.m. the day of the assassination, and people hadn't started gathering in Dealey Plaza to catch a view of the motorcade. "I looked over on the railroad bridge and I saw three men," Hardie told The News. "And I thought I saw two of them carrying guns, long guns. 1 glanced to my left to check for traffic and then looked back, because even in Texas it's unusual to see people carrying long guns. "Now I can't tell you whether it was rifles, shotguns or what. But two of them had long guns." Two of the men wore dark business suits and the third an overcoat, Hardie said. Unlike [Gordon] Arnold, Hardie called authorities after the assassination and in a week or two was visited by two FBI agents. He told his story but "never heard from them after that," he said. (Earl Golz, SS 'imposters' spotted by JFK witnesses, The Dallas Morning News, 27 August, 1978) 
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 9, 2019 15:03:06 GMT -5
62 FBI Agent John L. Quigley's interrogation notes
Related:46 Spas Raikin's complete report58 Forrest Sorrel's notebook  John Lester Quigley (right) in 1958On August 5 Oswald visited a store managed by Carlos Bringuier, one of the leaders of the anti-Castro Cuban refugee community in New Orleans. Oswald told Bringuier that as an ex-Marine, he could assist in training Cubans for a guerrilla war against Castro. The next day, he returned to the store and gave Bringuier his "Guidebook for Marines." Several days later Bringuier saw Oswald passing out Fair Play for Cuba leaflets. Bringuier and his two Cuban companions started a fight with Oswald, and the four were arrested for disturbing the peace. On August 10, Oswald was interviewed in jail by Lieutenant Francis Martello of the New Orleans Police Department and by FBI Agent John Quigley. He told them that he was one of thirty-five members of the New Orleans branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and that he knew the president of the organization, A.J. Hidell. This was actually one of the many aliases which Oswald used. Oswald was released on bail and two days later pleaded guilty and paid a ten dollar fine. (MICHAEL L. KURTZ, Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans: A Reappraisal, 1980) At the end of his interview with Agent Quigley, Oswald turned over some examples of the FPCC literature he had been distributing. In describing this literature in his report, Agent Quigley noted that one was a pamphlet called "The Crime Against Cuba," by Corliss Lamont. In typically tedious fashion, the FBI agent noted various details of the literature given to him by Oswald, including the number of pages in the Lamont pamphlet. What Quigley failed to note is an electrifying bit of evidence that appears on page thirty-nine, which Quigley must have looked at in order to write in his report that there were thirty-nine pages in the pamphlet.'69 A t the bottom of that page, in the black letters of an inked rubber stamp, is the following inscription: FPCC 544 Camp St. New Orleans, La. (Henry Hurt, Reasonable doubt, p. 294) Mr. STERN. Did you make notes of your interview? Mr. QUIGLEY. Yes; I did, sir. Mr. STERN. Do you practice shorthand or any speedwriting? Mr. QUIGLEY. No, sir; I do not. Mr. STERN. How soon after the interview did you record the interview formally? Mr. QUIGLEY. Five days. Mr. STERN. Did you dictate or draft it yourself? Mr. QUIGLEY. I dictated from my notes. Mr. STERN. Did you retain the notes? Mr. QUIGLEY. No, sir; I did not. Mr. STERN. Is it your usual practice to destroy notes once you have dictated a memorandum? Mr. QUIGLEY. It is the usual practice to destroy your notes after the completed work has been returned to you for proofing to make certain that the information is accurate, then you do destroy them. (Discussion off the record.) ( Warren Commission testimony John Quigley)  What the FBI and the Secret Service would later discover (and what Quigley must have surely known) was that 544 Camp was the side entrance to 531 Lafayette. In the summer of 1963, 544 Camp housed just three tenants: a restaurant worker’s union, a railway union, and Guy Banister Associates. Strangely, this was the only incident where Oswald used the Banister address. Another curious sidebar to this affair is that Oswald wrote to the FPCC headquarters in New York informing them of his street altercation. In his letter Oswald wrote, "Through the efforts of some exile "gusanos" a street demonstration was attacked and we were officially cautioned by police. This incident robbed me of what support I had leaving me alone. Nevertheless thousands of circulars were distributed and many, many pamphlets which your office supplied..." The problem with this letter was that it was written on August 4th, five days before the incident actually occurred
(Bill Davy, Let justice be done)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 10, 2019 12:51:59 GMT -5
63 7.65 shell found in Dealey Plaza on 12/02/63
Related:50 The Harper Fragment"Ask not what your country can do for you...." For most Americans today these words are but a distant memory or at best a part of some arcane history lesson. But for Anna Marie Kuhns-Walko the challenge that President John Kennedy gave to us 34 years ago is as real and important today as it was when it was first issued. For the past year and a half, Anna has devoted her life to doing her best to live up to that challenge. She is helping to bring about a more open and honest government so that past crimes held secret may never be repeated again. Between August 1993 and January 1995, Anna spent almost every day, sometimes as much as 50-60 hours per week, at either the National Archives building in downtown Washington or at the newly opened Archives II in College Park, Maryland, digging through millions of documents released under the JFK Assassination Materials Disclosure Act of 1992. No professional historian, journalist, researcher or government bureaucrat is as familiar with the Kennedy assassination materials as this wife and mother of two grown children. In fact, one security guard at the National Archives became so used to seeing her there that he assumed she was an archives employee. (...) She found an envelope with the inscription "7.65 shell found in Dealey Plaza on 12/02/63," only to find that the shell had been removed from the envelope with a note left in its place that stated, "determined of no value and destroyed." Oswald was alleged to have used 6.5 ammunition. (Steve Jones, Anna Marie Kuhns Walko: What One Can Do, from the July-August, 1995 issue of Probe)  Dealey Plaza, 11/27/63, a few days before a 7.65 shell was found
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Post by Arjan Hut on Mar 11, 2019 12:59:53 GMT -5
64 Nearly whole bullet removed from JFKRelated:18 The 0.30 caliber bullet that turned into CE399
63 7.65 shell found in Dealey Plaza on 12/02/63Anna Marie Kuhns Walko has been an invaluable asset to countless authors and fellow researchers who have made the journey to the new College Park archives. Many have relied upon her for advice and information. An almost equal number have been warmly invited into her home. She gladly shares her research work with others out of a firm conviction that all Americans have a right to know their own history.The only thing that upsets her is "When the media, or the government, rely upon researchers for information and then publicly refer to them as 'conspiracy buffs.' I hate that term. I don't buff anyone's shoes. I prefer to be referred to simply as a citizen who is deeply concerned that so much of our real history has been kept hidden from us. In going through the files, it's become clear to me that the government isn't going to take the initiative in telling the truth about who killed President Kennedy. We citizens have to make them accountable; to do what is right for the people." Another document she uncovered states, "photo of bullet allegedly removed from President Kennedy's body." This was found with accompanying photos of a nearly whole bullet. According to the Warren Commission version of events no bullet was ever removed from President Kennedy's body. The only bullet mentioned in their report are "traces" that were found as minute particles which showed up on a skull x-ray. (Steve Jones, Anna Marie Kuhns Walko: What One Can Do, from the July-August, 1995 issue of Probe) Erasing the Past...Discussions
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