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Post by Paul Ernst on Jan 3, 2021 11:29:22 GMT -5
July 14, 1961
Lee Harvey Oswald and Marina, now in Minsk, petition the Soviet authorities for their exit visas.
Oswald chooses this day to also reopen contact with his brother Robert, telling him he has his passport back and describing what a “test” he has endured to get it.
July 15, 1961
Oswald’s Diary: July 15 Marina at work, is shocked to find out there everyone knows she entered the U.S. embassy. They were called at her place of work from some officials in Moscow." The boses hold a meeting and give her a strong browbeating.
The first of many indocrinations.
July 15 Aug 1961.
We have found out which blanks and certifikates are necessceary to apply -- for a exit visa they number about 20 papers; Birth certificates affidavite photos ect. On Aug 20th we give the papers out they say it will be three and a half months months before we know wheather they'll let us go or not.
In the meantime Marina has had to stade 4 different meetng at the place of work held by her Boss's at the direction of "someone" by phone. The young comm. league headquthers also called about her and she had to go see them for one and a half hrs. The purpose (expressed) is to disaude her from going to the U.S.A., Net effect: Make her more stubborn about wanting to go. Marina is pregnet, we only hope that the visas come through soon.
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Post by Paul Ernst on May 26, 2021 21:39:09 GMT -5
July 19, 1961
This is the date of issuance of Marina Oswald’s birth certificate which
she will eventually present to U.S. authorities.
This could NOT have been the certificate she
used in order to obtain her marriage license in April 1961.
It gives the name of the village in
which she was born as Severodvinsk, yet at the time of her birth in 1941 that village was named
Molotovsk.
The name is not changed until 1957. Since Marina had been employed in the Soviet
Union, moved her residence from one city to another and attended trade school before 1957, she
would have needed a birth certificate to obtain the necessary travel and work documents, and
this certificate should have listed her birthplace as “Molotovsk,” not “Severodvinsk.”
It seems therefore possible that new documents -- and possibly a new identity -- are furnished to Marina
after it is decided that she will accompany Oswald to the United States.
The CIA becomes concerned about Marina’s real identity.
Also today, JFK convenes what McGeorge Bundy will call “the most important NSC
meeting that we have had.”
The topic is the Berlin Crisis. Dean Acheson insists on declaring a
national emergency and on calling up reserves no later than September 1961.
Acheson later tells
colleagues, “ Gentlemen, you might as well face it. This nation is without leadership.”
JFK tells Rostow: “Khrushchev is losing East Germany. He cannot let that happen.
If East Germany goes, so will Poland and all of Eastern Europe. He will have to do something to stop the flow of
refugees. Perhaps a wall. and we won’t be able to prevent it. I can hold the Alliance together to defend
West Berlin, but I cannot act to keep East Berlin open.”
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Post by Paul Ernst on May 26, 2021 21:41:24 GMT -5
July 20, 1961
Today a plan is presented to JFK in a National Security Council meeting.
The plan is the result of a study of a massive preemptive strike, in which every missile and bomb
in the U.S. arsenal would be unloaded against the Soviet Union and China.
This study is presented to JFK by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The plan involves 1,060 bombs or warheads, 3,729
targets, and 1530 missiles and bombers on full alert.
It is presented as an “all or nothing” launch.
The logic is that the Soviets have very few ballistic missiles in 1961, but that by the fall of 1963
their arsenal will be built to the point where the window of opportunity for a preemptive nuclear
strike by the U.S. will be coming to an end, while at the same time the U.S. arsenal will be
optimally ready to launch.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. later writes, “Kennedy got up and walked out in
the middle of the meeting and that was the end of it.” McGeorge Bundy writes that as Kennedy
walked to the oval office from the cabinet room with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, he says, “And
we call ourselves the human race.”
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Post by Paul Ernst on May 26, 2021 21:43:03 GMT -5
July 21, 1961
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee releases a memorandum
detailing the threat posed by internal military rightism, and warns that the right wing
propaganda activities may create important obstacles to JFK’s programs.
Gus Grissom completes a suborbital flight.
July 24, 1961
U.E. Baughman, 55, chief of the United States Secret Service, resigns after
34 years in the Secret Service -- 13 as chief.
Also on this day, the American Embassy in Moscow writes LHO in Minsk, asking him to
send them copies of his marriage certificate. He manages to do this -- along with Marina’s birth
certificate.
The Embassy will receive these items in August.
July 25, 1961
In a speech, JFK announces his proposed civil defense program to
include fallout shelters in existing structures, which are to be stocked with food, water, and other
necessities for survival in case of a nuclear war.
During this year -- following a summit meeting with Nikita Khrushchev, a weary JFK has
a few friends in for dinner in Palm Beach.
During after-dinner drinks the talk centers around
tensions with the Soviet Union.
JFK suddenly says: “You know that they have an atomic bomb in the
attic of the Soviet Union embassy up on 16th Street?
If war comes, they are going to trigger it and take out
Washington.
The bomb was assembled from parts brought in in the diplomatic pouches. This thing goes
up, and we all go.”
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Post by Paul Ernst on May 26, 2021 21:46:06 GMT -5
July 26, 1961
This is the day that Fidel Castro and Raul Castro are to be assassinated
in a plot controlled primarily by ONI. The two assassins are Luis Balbuena (El Gordo, the Fat
One) and Alonzo Gonzales, an Episcopalian priest who has designs on becoming bishop of Cuba
once Castro is deposed.
Gonzales reportedly has been trained at the CIA “academy” in Virginia
known as the Farm.
Gonzales vanishes in Havana. The plot has been discovered by the Cuban
Government, forcing Balbuena to take sanctuary inside the naval base at Guantanamo.
He is finally evacuated to Miami in 1962.
July 28, 1961
The legat in Paris advises J. Edgar Hoover, in a memo dated today, “The
Swiss Federal Police were advised as to the subject’s (LHO) present status in view of their previous
investigation to locate him.”
(Researchers have posed the question as to just what LHO’s “present status”
is considered to be during this period of time. This document is not released to the public until Dec. 28,
1995)
July 31, 1961
The White House announces to press that Allen W. Dulles intends to
retire as director of the Central Intelligence Agency by the end of this year. Press Secretary Pierre
Salinger declines comment. Dulles has been pressed to resign by JFK.
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Post by Paul Ernst on May 30, 2021 18:01:53 GMT -5
August 2, 1961
D.C. press reports on Gerald Behn, newly appointed head of
White House Secret Service Detail.
Behn says he considers his job of guarding the Presidents of
the United States a “pretty routine assignment” and adds that providing for the safety of JFK and
his family presents no special problems.
August 6, 1961
Russiaian cosmonaut, Gherman Titov, completes a 25-hour
orbital flight.
August 8, 1961
The parents of a runaway boy complain to authorities that their
son is staying with David Ferrie.
As a result, Ferrie is arrested on this date for contributing to the
delinquency of a juvenile.
Cuban exile leader Arcacha Smith intervenes on Ferrie's behalf by
telling police that the boy will be returned to his parents if they do not press charges against
Ferrie.
August 11, 1961
David Ferrie is arrested for a crime against nature with a fifteen
year old boy and indecent behavior with three other boys.
He retains Carlos Marcello’s personal
attorney, G. Wray Gill, for his defense.
August 12, 1961
McGeorge Bundy gives JFK “a checklist of the actions that you
are obligated to take if and when you contemplate a decision on the use of nuclear weapons.”
JFK is spending the weekend at Hyannis Port.
August 13, 1961
The Soviets begin to build a wall separating East Berlin from
West Berlin to stem Western influence and to keep East Germans from “voting with their feet,” as
Dean Rusk describes it.
Egon Bahr, an aide to Willy Brandt says: On August thirteenth, we
became adults. Too bad it had to happen that way.”
August 16, 1961
West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt writes JFK a letter, made
available to the press, saying the he expects “not merely words but political action.”
He compares the sealing off of East Berlin to Hitler’s occupation of the Rhineland in 1936.
Brandt believes that “the Soviet Union had defied the major power in the world and effectively humiliated it.
” He later says: “The curtain went up and the stage was empty.”
Three hundred thousand West Berliners pour onto the square in front of their city hall,
the Schoneberg Rathaus, shouting slogans and hoisting signs: BETRAYED BY THE WEST ...
WHERE ARE THE PROTECTIVE POWERS? ... THE WEST IS DOING A SECOND MUNICH.
For eight days after the border is closed, JFK does not say a word in public about what is
happening in Berlin.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Jun 2, 2021 16:36:16 GMT -5
August 21, 1961
Oswald’s Diary: Aug. 21-Sept. 1 -- I make expected trips to the passport & visa office
also to ministry of for. affairs in Minsk, also Min. of Interal affairs, all of which have a say in
the granting of a visa.
I extracked promises of quick attention to US.
August 23, 1961
David Atlee Phillips is made chief of covert action in Mexico City.
He maintains the position until October 1963 (one month prior to the Dallas assassination)
when he is promoted to chief of Cuban operations.
August 26, 1961
In connection with the child-molestation charges against him,
Eastern Airlines suspends David Ferrie indefinitely. Up to this point, he has been a pilot for the
company.
JFK is told that an American listening post has picked up a signal that the Soviet
government is about to announce a new series of nuclear tests. JFK scowls “Fucked again.”
JFK is furious.
August 30, 1961
The Soviet Union announces its decision to resume nuclear testing in the atmosphere.
September -- 1961
This month, the U.S. border patrol receives information that
David Ferrie is attempting to purchase a C-47 airplane for $30,000 and reportedly has a cache of
arms in the New Orleans area.
The report is never verified.
Oswald’s Diary: Sept - Oct 18. No word from Min. (They'll call us.") Marina leaves
Minsk by train on vaction to the city of Khkov in the Urals to vist an aunt for 4 weeks.
During this time I am lonely but I and Erich go to the dances and public places for
enitanment.
I havent done this in quite a few months now.
I spend my birthday alone at the opera watching my favoriot "Queen of Spades."
I am 22 years old.
Early this month, according to former FBI Supervisor William Kane, an informant tells
the Bureau that RFK has recently been seen “out in the desert near Las Vegas with not one but
two girls, on a blanket.
Somebody in organized crime has taken telephoto pictures ... and the
word we got from our informants is that they are going to use it to blackmail the Attorney
General.
This was confirmed several times over from several different sources.”
September 1, 1961 Russia fires off their first nuclear blast in three years.
September 3, 1961 Russia fires off a second nuclear test.
JFK is in Hyannis Port when he gets the news.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Jun 5, 2021 0:52:24 GMT -5
September 5, 1961
McGeorge Bundy informs JFK that Russia has set off a third
nuclear blast.
His patience exhausted, JFK gives the order for resumption of American nuclear
testing, but only in the laboratory and underground, which will yield no fallout.
September 13, 1961
In the Cabinet Room today, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs,
General Lemnitzer, briefs JFK on secret plans for general nuclear war against the “Sino-Soviet
bloc.” In such a war, the U.S. can expect perhaps two to fifteen million American casualties.
September 18, 1961
UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold dies in amysterious plane crash in the Congo.
JFK says: “It couldn’t have happened at a worse time.”
According to former FBI Supervisor William Kane, an informant tells the Bureau early
this month that Robert Kennedy has recently been seen “out in the desert near Las Vegas with not
one but two girls, on a blanket.
Somebody in organized crime had taken telephoto pictures . . . and the
word we got from our informants was they they were going to use it to blackmail the Attorney General.
This was confirmed several times over from several different sources.”
September 22, 1961
(Minsk, USSR) Lee Harvey Oswald asserts that Marina is
hospitalized for a five-day period for nervous exhaustion.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Jun 5, 2021 0:56:20 GMT -5
September 24, 1961
The Cuban Government announces that it has smashed the
Amblood ring of conspirators.
This is a CIA Miami-directed plot centers around a former Cuban
Treasury Ministry employee, Luis Toroella, who had been brought to Florida for training and by
the time of the Bay of Pigs had infiltrated back to Santiago in an underground network with the
code name Amblood.
Twelve members are charged with planning to fire bazookas at Fidel Castro from a garage across the street from the Havana City Sports Stadium as he speaks at a rally.
Toroella is subsequently executed.
October 1, 1961
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed.
At a White House luncheon this autumn, publisher of the Dallas Morning News, E.M.
Dealey, shocks those present by reading out a challenge to JFK: “We can annihilate Russia and
should make that clear to the Soviet government.
” Unfortunately “you and your Administration are weak sisters.”
What is needed is “a man on horseback ... Many people in Texas and the Southwest think
that you are riding Caroline’s tricycle.” Flushed with anger, JFK replies: “ Wars are easier to talk about
than they are to fight.
I’m just as tough as you are -- and I didn’t get elected President by arriving at soft
judgments.” The Dallas Morning News reports that in response to its account of Dealey’s exchange
with JFK, it receives over two thousand telephone calls, telegrams and letters - including a tribute
from H.L. Hunt -- and that over 84 percent approve.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Jun 5, 2021 1:03:55 GMT -5
October 3, 1961
An assassination attempt against Castro instigated by Maurice
Bishop (David Atlee Phillips[?]) fails and Veciana is forced to flee Cuba.
Reynol Conzalez, one of Veciana’s coconspirators, is later arrested hiding on the estate of Amador Odio, a wealthy
industrialist and father of Silvia Odio. Gonzales, the elder Odio, and his wife are arrested.
October 4, 1961
Lee Harvey Oswald writes to the American Embassy in Moscow
to request that the U.S. Government officially intervene to facilitate his and his wife’s applications
for exit visas.
He states that there has been systematic and concerted attempts to intimidate
Marina into withdrawing her application for a visa, which has resulted in her being hospitalized
for a five-day period on September 22 for nervous exhaustion.
October 10, 1961
JFK attacks ultra rightists in a speech at the University of North
Carolina. He says that if Americans remain undeterred by these fanatics, if they can face up to
risks and are purposeful, then we shall be neither Red nor dead, but alive and free.
October 12, 1961 The American Embassy in Moscow replies to Lee Harvey
Oswald’s letter saying that it has no way of influencing Soviet conduct on the matters he has
mentioned and that its experience has been that action on applications for exit visas is “seldom
taken rapidly.”
October 20, 1961
General Charles A. Willoughby drops a line to Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
It is a warning about the crisis over the Berlin Wall, which the Soviets have just
erected and which Willoughby views as “a contest of will between the Kremlin and the White House.”
In referring to “the expellees from behind the iron curtain, Willoughby writes: “I have been in
touch with this group for many years.
Their moral cause is unchallengable (the right of self
determination); they are a prime source of intelligence; they have been used by all Allied intelligence
agencies; they have been used by Gehlen (whom I know well) who, in turn, was used by the CIA -- indeed a
principal source of Russian intelligence.
I have had access to that information, too -- but at infinitely less
expense than the CIA -- I entertained this group, briefly . . .” Willoughby is clearly referring to the
Gehlen/Vlassov network.
NOTE: Andrei Vlassov: Soviet Army general executed by Stalin after the war whose
organization joined forces with Hitler’s spy master Reinhard Gehlen.
By combining his and Vlassov’s forces, Gehlen offered the United States a postwar spy network of White
Russian and Central European agents to keep tabs on the Soviets.
After a clandestine meeting at Fort Hunt, Virginia, in 1945, Gehlen was sent back to Europe with a $10 million
budget.
From that moment until his retirement in 1968, Gehlen’s Munich-based Org.
[known as the Bundesnachrichtendienst, or BND, after 1956] became America’s primary
espionage source against the USSR.
His operatives -- numbering as many as twenty
thousand, almost all of whom were former Nazis -- dug the famous Berlin Tunnel and
roamed all the way to Asia.
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