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Post by Paul Ernst on Jul 9, 2021 17:56:37 GMT -5
February 28, 1962
Oswald’s Diary: Feb 28. I go to registra (as prespibed by law) the baby. I want hername to be June Marina Oswald. But those Beaurecrats say her middle name must be the same as my first.
A Russian custom support by a law. I refuse to have her name written as "June Lee." They promise to call the city ministry (city hall) and find out in this case since I do have an U.S. passport.
March -- 1962
Oswald’s Diary: March. The last commiques are exchanged between myself and
Embassy. letters are always arriving from my mother and brother in the U.S. I have still
not told Erich afraid he is too good a young communist leage member to I'll wait till last
min.
March 1, 1962
Richard Bissell in awarded the National Security Medal by JFK. Early this month a small New York magazine, The Realist, runs a story headlined THE STORY BEHIND THE RUMOR ABOUT PRESIDENT KENNEDY’S FIRST MARRIAGE.
The rumor is that JFK was briefly married, in 1947, to a Florida socialite named Durie Malcolm. Malcolm has merited an entry in a privately printed history of her family, and it states flatly that among her several husbands is “John F. Kennedy, son of Joseph P. Kennedy, one time Ambassador to England.” J. Edgar Hoover and Richard Nixon had already discussed using this story during the election.
March 2, 1962
In a television address today, JFK announces that unless the Soviets agree to a test ban treaty, the United States will resume nuclear testing in April.
March 12, 1962
A Pentagon Memo today states: "The courses of action which follow are a preliminary submission suitable only for planning purposes...we could develop a communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other cities and even in Washington. The terror campaign could be pointed at Cuban refugees seeking haven in the U.S.
We could sink a boat load of Cubans en route to Florida (real or simulated).
We could foster attempts on the lives of Cuban refugees in the U.S. even to the extent of wounding in instances to be widely published. Exploding a few plastic bombs in carefully chosen spots, the arrest of Cuban agents and the release of prepared documents substantiating Cuban
involvement also would be helpful in projecting the idea of an irresponsible government."
March 22, 1962
J. Edgar Hoover meets privately with JFK and reveals Judith (Campbell) Exner’s ties with organized crime.
It has been said that, as a result of this four-hour luncheon meeting, JFK terminates his affair with Exner.
However, contrary to previous assumptions, the President does not sever his connection with Judith Campbell. White House phone logs show that contacts between him and Campbell continue at least through the late summer of 1962.
JFK is using Campbell to carry messages to Giancana -- on as many as twenty occasions. It is speculated that these messages have to do with assassination attempts on Fidel Castro. JFK does break off friendship with Frank Sinatra after the Hoover meeting. Two days later, however, JFK is seen with Marilyn Monroe at the Bing Crosby home near Palm Springs,
California. A witness recalls: “The President was wearing a turtleneck sweater, and she was dressed in a kind of robe thing. She had obviously had a lot to drink. It was obvious that they were intimate, that they were staying there together for the night.” JFK’s now turns his attention to Mary Pinchot Meyer.
Meyer has moved to Georgetown after her divorce from Cord Meyer, Jr., chief of the covert action staff of the CIA.
March 23, 1962
JFK flies to California today, where he and Robert McNamara tour the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory for nuclear research at Berkeley before flying to Vandenberg Air Force Base to watch a missile firing.
March 26, 1962
The Republican National Committee criticizes a Secret Service request for fifty-eight more agents to protect JFK.
Oswald’s Diary: March 26
I recive a letter from Immigration and Natur. service at San Antonio, Texas, that Marina has had her visa petition to the U.S. (Approved!!) The last document.
Now we only have to wait for the U.S. Embassy to receive their copy of the approval so they can officially give the go ahead.
Also on this date, Roscoe Anthony White arrives at the Island of Mindoro, Philippine Islands and participates in Operation TULUNGAN through April 1st.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Jul 20, 2021 3:34:17 GMT -5
March 27, 1962
Oswald’s Diary: March 27 I recive letter from a Mr. Philles (a employ. of my mother,
pleging to support my wife in case of need.
March 29, 1962
Juan Manuel Guillot Castellanos, a CIA agent operating in
Cuba, returns today to the US. In Florida, he relates the difficulties he has had with the various
anti-Castro groups in terms of reaching a unified agreement for action.
He proposes that the CIA remove some of the leaders in order to facilitate compliance.
March 30, 1962
Press reports that Robert Amory, Jr. has resigned as deputy
director for intelligence in the Central Intelligence Agency, a post he has held since 1953.
Also this month, Vice President Lyndon Johnson approaches Texas Governor John
Connally with information that JFK wishes to visit Texas for the purpose of fund-raising.
April - 1962
This month, Richard S. Cain visits the CIA’s Mexico City Station. Cain
(alias Scalzetti) is a notorious Chicago mob figure and right-hand man to Sam Giancana.
Cain states the he has “an investigative agency in Mexico....for the purpose of training Mexican government
agents in police methods, in investigative techniques, and in the use of the lie detector.”
April 6, 1962
Today JFK comments that the U.S. should be prepared to seize upon any
favorable moment to reduce its commitment to Vietnam.
April 8, 1962
A Cuban military tribunal convicts 1,189 Cuban exiles who participated
in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion last year to 30 years of hard labor for treason - and sets a
ransom at $62 million dollars. RK
April 10, 1962
The United States Steel Corporation suddenly announces an immediate
increase of six dollars a ton in the price of steel, four times the cost of the new labor agreement.
Five other steel companies quickly fall into step. Labor leaders express outrage, claiming they
have been betrayed. Roger Blough, chairman of U.S. Steel says that he made no commitment
about prices during the talks on wages.
JFK is furious, believing there had been an implicit
agreement by industry leaders to hold prices steady if the workers made concessions.
The Federal Trade commission promises a price-fixing probe.
Senator Estes Kefauver announces that
his Anti-trust and Monopoly Subcommittee will investigate the steel industry.
The resolve of the steel magnates breaks when Inland Steel of Chicago, the eighth largest company in the industry,
refuses to raise its prices.
Before long, Bethlehem Steel, the nation’s second largest producer,
capitulates, and then U.S. Steel caves in. Steel prices return to the level they had been at the start
of the week, and the seventy-two-hour struggle is over. AQOC
April 21, 1962
The headline in today’s Dallas News reads, “Nixon Calls For Decision To
Force Reds Out Of Cuba.” It reports a strident speech which former Vice President Richard
Nixon has made the previous day in Washington, excoriating JFK for being “defensive” on
Castro, demanding a “command decision” to remove the Soviets and calling for a redefinition of
the manifest destiny of the Monroe Doctrine into a doctrine of liberation.
April 24, 1962
JFK orders resumption of atmospheric atomic tests.
April 25, 1962
The United States fires off its first atmospheric nuclear blast since 1958
over Christmas Island.
May 2, 1962
Through wiretaps, the FBI overhears Michelino Clemente, a caporegime in the Genovese family express the following sentiments: “Bob Kennedy won’t stop today
until he puts us all in jail all over the country.
Until the commission meets and puts its foot down, things
will be at a standstill.
When we meet, we all got to shake hands, and sit down and talk, and, if there is any
trouble with a particular regime, it’s got to be kept secret, and only the heads are to know about it,
otherwise some broad finds out, and finally the newspapers.”
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Post by Paul Ernst on Aug 8, 2021 16:59:40 GMT -5
May 7, 1962
CIA officials Sheffield Edwards and Lawrence Houston tell RFK that
there have been assassination plots, sponsored by the government, against Fidel Castro, but that
now they have ended. In fact, they are being stepped up, using the Mafia as the instrument of
Executive Action. RFK is given a full and frank account of the Agency’s relations with Maheu,
Roselli, and Giancana in the Castro operation, including the wiretapping flap. It appears that the
FBI is not given anything like the same detail.
The briefing of RFK is absolutely restricted to him alone.
May 8, 1962
At a SECDEF conference Robert McNamara asks when the South
Vietnamese will be ready to take over the entire war effort.
May 9, 1962
The State Department prevails on the Immigration and Naturalization
Service to issue a waiver for Marina Oswald to come to the US.
RFK meets with J. Edgar Hoover today. They discuss the plots to assassinate Fidel Castro - and the CIA’s use of Sam Giancana.
Hoover writes: “I told the Attorney General that
this was a most unfortunate development.
I stated as he well knew the “gutter gossip” was that
the reason nothing had been done against giancana was because of Giancana’s close friendship
with Frank Sinatra, who in turn, claimed to be quite close to the Kennedy family. The Attorney
General stated he realized this ...” RK
May 10, 1962
The Oswalds are notified by the American embassy that everything is in
order and that they should come to Moscow to sign the final papers to return to the U.S.
May 14, 1962
A fraudulent internal memorandum is prepared by Colonel Sheffield
Edwards stating that the CIA has terminated the conspiracies against Fidel Castro.
William Harvey today briefs Richard Helms on the meeting with RFK- as told to him by
Sheffield Edwards.
The Edwards memorandum for the record states that on this day Harvey has
told him that any plans for future use of John Roselli have been dropped.
May 19, 1962
Gala celebration of JFK’s forty-fifth birthday is held in Madison Square
Garden to raise funds for the Democratic Party. Marilyn Monroe sings her famous rendition of
“Happy Birthday” to JFK. JFK apparently never sees Monroe again after this night.
According to
Peter Lawford, J. Edgar Hoover has warned JFK off, telling him that Lawford’s home in
California is probably being bugged by the mafia.
May 21, 1962
CIA Technical Services Division gives poison pills to Cuban Ops chief
William Harvey to pass to Mob contact John Roselli who in turn will pass pills on to the same
Cuban contact involved in the pre-Bay of Pigs attempt to poison Castro.
The Cuban contact will
later claim the opportunity to use the pills never came up.
May 22, 1962
The Oswald family spends their last night in Minsk at their friend Pavel
Bolovochev’s apartment. Because the Oswalds are still under surveillance, the KGB tapes record
Marina’s last words to Lee as they walk out the door. “You fucking guy, you can’t even carry a
baby.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Oct 1, 2021 15:14:09 GMT -5
May 24, 1962
The Oswalds arrive in Moscow to attend to the final details of their
departure from Russia.
They go to the American Embassy. After a brief interview with Jack
Matlock, the consular officer who deals with Soviet citizens, Marina is fingerprinted and given
the U.S. visa that she has waited almost a year to obtain.
She is then taken upstairs to the
embassy hospital for a medical examination by Dr. Alex Davison. Dr. Davison gives her the
phone number of his Russian-speaking mother in Atlanta, Georgia.
< NOTE:
Just weeks before leaving Russia for home, Oswald writes his mother and asks her to send
him pictures of her and himself.
Some researchers wonder if Oswald is now and
impostor and needs such photos so he will know which woman to greet at the airport.
Native Russians in Dallas will say that Oswald speaks Russian better than they do.
Oswald will also bring home photographs of himself taken in several different areas of
Russia. (Officially, Oswald has never ventured outside Moscow and Minsk.)
A CIA analyst who, in 1962, is in the Soviet branch of the Foreign Document
Division of the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence, a unit that pieces together information
gleaned from various sources on Soviet economic, technological, and scientific
developments, will clearly remember data coming in from a CIA field office on the
operations of the Minsk electronics factory in the form of “contact reports.” He will recall
that these reports are based on the experiences of a U.S. ex-Marine who has worked at the
Minsk plant after his defection to the Soviet Union.
Since there was only one ex-Marine
who has worked in this particular Minsk factory, the source of this information has to be
Lee Harvey Oswald.
According to Legend author Edward J. Epstein, a CIA psychologist code-named
Cato interviewed a Russian defector who resembled Oswald at the Roger Smith Hotel in
Washington on the evening of June 13.
May 28, 1962
The stock market takes a dramatic dive today -- the worst crash since
1929. In many circles, JFK is blamed. Bumper stickers appear which read: “I miss Ike -- Hell, I
even miss Harry.”
May 31, 1962
Washington headquarters instructs agents at their Dallas field office to
question Lee Harvey Oswald upon his arrival there.
Officials at headquarters tell the Dallas
office that the defector should be interviewed “to determine if Oswald had been recruited by a
Soviet intelligence service.”
The bureau’s position is that it prefers to wait until Oswald is settled
before interviewing him, rather than confronting him as he gets off the boat in New York.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Oct 5, 2021 14:58:59 GMT -5
June 1, 1962
During the morning of this day, Lee Harvey Oswald goes to the embassy
and signs a promissory note for the balance of his repatriation loan. In all, it amounts to $435.71.
He is then given three tickets for the ship SS Maasdam, due to leave Rotterdam for Hoboken, New
Jersey, on June 4. Later that day, Lee Harvey Oswald and Marina leave Moscow by train to
return, eventually to the USA.
NOTE: This is another instance when a lookout card should have been prepared on
Oswald, and was not. Lookout cards are prepared routinely when such loans are made as
a protection against default by the borrower, who is not entitled to travel abroad until full
repayment is made.
Also, during this month, Marilyn Monroe begins a series of calls to the Justice
Department, the White House and Hyannisport. This is revealed by her telephone bills,
confiscated at the time of her death but later made public. The persistency of the calls suggest a panic
whose origins are said to have derived from the fact the Marilyn is reportedly pregnant by JFK.
June 3, 1962
Yuri Nosenko, an officer in the American Division of the KGB,
contacts the CIA and offers to spy for the Americans. Nothing further is heard from him and U.S.
analysts are highly suspicious of his offer.
June 4, 1962
Lee Harvey Oswald, Marina and their baby sail for the USA.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Oct 7, 2021 13:35:28 GMT -5
June 9, 1962
Press reports that JFK signs a bill that permits hiring of eighty more
White House police. The measure raises the ceiling on the uniformed police force to 250 from the
level of 170 established in 1952. Nearly a 50% increase, JFK is clearly concerned with his and his
family’s security.
June 11, 1962
The deputy chief of the Soviet Bloc Division in Geneva (who is also chief
interrogation officer) sends a telegram to Washington regarding Nosenko in which he says: the
subject (meaning Nosenko) “has conclusively proved his bona fides. He has provided info of importance
and sensitivity. Subject now completely cooperative. Willing to meet when abroad and will meet as often
and as long as possible in his departure in Geneva from 15 June.”
June 13, 1962
Lee Harvey Oswald and Marina arrive in Hoboken, New Jersey aboard
the ship “S.S. Maasdam.” When they arrive in New York, they have seven suitcases. When they
leave New York by plane, they only have five. When the couple finally arrives in Fort Worth,
they only have two.
Upon their arrival in Hoboken, they are met by Spas T. Raikin, a representative of the
Traveler’s Aid Society, whisked through customs and then found a place to stay in New York.
Raikin is also an official with an anticommunist emigre group with links to both the FBI and U.S.
Military intelligence as well as anticommunist groups in New Orleans. He is secretary general of the
American Friends of the Anti-Bolshevik bloc of Nations (the ABN), an extreme right-wing, antiCommunist organization with Nazi and fascist roots in the Ukraine of the Soviet Union. The ABN is
supported heavily by General Charles Willoughby.
Although there were direct routes available from New York to Dallas, the flight chosen to
bring the Oswalds home (Delta 821) made a stop in Atlanta.
Coincidentally, an Atlanta name
and address will be found in Oswald’s address book after the assassination. It is that of Natasha
Davison, the mother of Captain Davison, an American attaché with intelligence connections who
has talked to the Oswalds at the Moscow embassy. Dr. Davison gave Marina her physical at the
Moscow embassy prior to her leaving for the USA.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Oct 13, 2021 19:21:25 GMT -5
June 20, 1962
Lee Harvey Oswald is befriended by Peter Paul Gregory, a petroleum
engineer teaching Russian language courses at the Fort Worth library.
Gregory begins introducing the Oswalds to his friends in the White Russian community in Dallas.
Among themis George de Mohrenschildt, who would later say that he first heard of Oswald through J.
Walton Moore in late 1961.
Moore, of the CIA’s Domestic Contact Service in Dallas, described an
ex-Marine working in an electronics factory in Minsk who would soon return to the United
States. Moore said the CIA had an “interest” in Oswald.
June 26, 1962
The FBI interviews Lee Harvey Oswald -- almost three weeks after his
return from Russia.
The agents involved are John W. Fain and B. Tom Carter from the Fort
Worth FBI office.
They report that Oswald denies he ever told State Department officials at the
American Embassy in Moscow that he was going to renounce his American citizenship, apply for
Soviet citizenship, and reveal radar secrets to the Soviets.
(Despite Oswald’s reported attitude and demonstrable lies, the FBI will close the Oswald security case two months later -- on August 26, 1962)
The agents report that he agrees to alert them in the event he is contacted by anyone from Soviet
intelligence.
The report of this FBI interview is not sent to the CIA. ONI, the Immigration and
Naturalization Service, and the State Department all get copies of the report by special agents
Carter and Fain.
LHO is arrogant, intemperate and impatient during this interview, refusing to
answer many of the questions.
He also refuses to take a polygraph test. A second FBI interview will take place in August 1962
(two months from now) and will be deemed more successful by the FBI. A report
of the August interview WILL be sent to the CIA.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Oct 18, 2021 15:57:00 GMT -5
June 27, 1962
Robert Kennedy arrives at the California home of Marilyn Monroe
driving a Cadillac convertible.
The car belongs to FBI agent-in-charge William Simon and has
been loaned to Kennedy.
Simon dutifully reports the incident. From now on, J. Edgar Hoover
has direct information on RFK’s comings and goings at Monroe’s home.
July 2, 1962
Marilyn Monroe places 2 telephone calls to Attorney General, RFK.
July 12, 1962
The press first mentions the coming film, “The Manchurian Candidate”,
which is set for a fall release. One of the movie’s stars is Frank Sinatra. (Later, Sinatra will
suppress this film from 1963 until 1987.)
July 16, 1962
Lee Harvey Oswald obtains a job as a sheet metal worker in Fort Worth,
Texas with the Leslie Welding Company. He assembles doors and windows for $1.25 an hour.
He then rents a house, 2703 Mercedes, Fort Worth. O&CIA
July 17, 1962
LHO files a change of address notice from 7313 Davenport to 2703
Mercedes, Fort Worth. O&CIA
July 19, 1962
John Connally travels to Miami for the national governors’ conference.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Nov 11, 2021 15:59:48 GMT -5
July 20, 1962
Marilyn Monroe undergoes an abortion at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.
She remains in hospital for four days. Following the abortion, there is one final telephone call
(eight minutes) made to the Justice Department.
Also on this day, JFK announces a major reshuffling of the military high command, with
a new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a new United States commander in Europe.
July 25, 1962
A report is delivered today to the SAG which details the CIA’s success in
Cuba in the infiltration of agents, the placing of arms, and the preparation for an intervention on
August 30.
(This plan, drawn up by the FAL, consists of the takeover of various military, police and naval
units of the capital, followed by an attack on civilian targets throught the country with the support of cells
which operate in the central zone. These actions are to have been preceded by the sabotage of electrical
systems and a great barrage of propaganda.)
Lansdale reports to McGeorge Bundy and the SGA that the Joint Chiefs of Staff have
“fully met its responsibility, under the March guidelines,” for “planning and undertaking
preliminary actions for a decisive U.S. capability for intervention in Cuba.” The Color Of Truth
July 26, 1962
FBI agent John Fain questions Oswald in Fort Worth
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Post by Paul Ernst on Nov 19, 2021 21:17:46 GMT -5
July 27, 1962
LHO is in Mobile, Alabama at the invitation from a cousin who is
studying to be a Jesuit priest at Spring Hill College. LHO’s cousin has asked him to speak to the
Jesuit scholastics about his experiences in Russia. He makes a good impression.
August 1, 1962
LHO writes to the Nav y, complaining about his undesirable
discharge. O&CIA
August 3, 1962
In a Top Secret government report is drafted today the subject of
which is the transcript of a wiretapped telephone conversation between Howard Rothberg and
Dorothy Kilgallen during which Marilyn Monroe and her affairs with both JFK and RFK are
openly discussed.
Among the statements recorded in this report are the following: “Subject
[Monroe] threatened to hold a press conference and would tell all.” “Subject [Monroe] made
reference to her ‘diary of secrets’ and what the newspapers would do with such disclosures.”
There is also mention of the fact that Monroe claims JFK took her to “a secret airbase for the
purpose of inspecting things from outer space.”
August 4, 1962
It is alleged that RFK makes a trip to Los Angeles to secretly visit with
Marilyn Monroe in order to explain why she can no longer have a relationship with the
President. He reportedly flies down from Northern California where he is to fulfill a speaking
engagement before the American Bar Association and to have a vacation with his family at the
Bates’ ranch in Gilroy.
8:00 PM -- Peter Lawford makes a telephone call to Marilyn Monroe’s house because she
has not yet arrived at the Lawford’s house for a dinner party.
10:00 PM -- Marilyn calls Lawford. According to Lawford, Monroe’s voice is slurred.
She says she can’t come to dinner that night. Monroe then concludes by saying: “Say goodbye to
the President.”
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