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Post by Paul Ernst on Jun 21, 2020 16:04:35 GMT -5
June 1, 1961:
Press reports sighting of Carlos Marcello in the Shreveport, Louisiana area.
Immigration confirms this but does not know how he got out of El Salvador.
It is suspected that David Ferrie was the pilot who flew Marcello back into the U.S.
Oswald’s Diary: June
A continuence of May, except. that; we draw closer and closer, and I think very little now of Ella.
In the last days of this month I revele my longing to return to America.
My wife is slightly startled.
But than encourages me to do what I wish to do. RFK issues a memo declaring: “The Cuba matter is being allowed to slide...mostly because nobody really has an answer to Castro.”
June 2, 1961:
Carlos Marcello’s attorneys announce he has returned to the USA and is in hiding.
A CIA report indicates that a security check of Gerry Patrick Hemming has turned up no derogatory information.
Hemming was approved as a CIA contact on March 6, 1961.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Jun 27, 2020 20:56:55 GMT -5
June 3, 1961:
Agricultural Agent Henry Marshall is found dead in a ditch in Franklin, Texas with five bullet holes in his body.
A bolt action rifle is found beside the body. Marshall was government’s investigator charged with looking into the dealings of Billy Sol Estes and vice President Lyndon Johnson.
June 5, 1961:
After Attorney General Bobby Kennedy dispatches 20 Federal agents to Shreveport, Louisiana, to conduct a search for Carlos Marcello, he voluntarily surrenders in New Orleans and is ordered held in an alien detention center at McAllen, Texas.
His Vienna summit meeting with Khrushchev over, JFK has returned to London aboard Air Force One.
Godfrey McHugh notes how silent and depressed JFK and his party seems.
“It was like riding with the losing baseball team after the World Series.
” JFK refers to Khrushchev as a “bastard” and “a son of a bitch.
” Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, notes: “In diplomacy, you almost never use the word war.
Kennedy was very upset ... He wasn’t prepared for the brutality of Khrushchev’s presentation ... Khrushchev was trying to act like a bully to this young President of the United States.”
As Air Force One takes off tonight for the flight from London to Washington, JFK calls in his secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and asks her to file the papers on the desk in front of him. One small slip has fallen to the floor. There are two lines on it, a quote from Abraham Lincoln in JFK’s handwriting:
“I know there is a God -- and I see a storm coming; If He has a place for me, I believe I am ready.”
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Post by Paul Ernst on Jul 4, 2020 20:00:37 GMT -5
June 8, 1961:
The local Justice of the Peace in Franklin, Texas, after investigating the Henry Marshall killing, declares that Marshall committed suicide -- shooting himself five times with a bolt action rifle.
A Federal grand jury indicts Carlos Marcello for illegal reentry into the U.S.
His back problems growing worse, JFK today flies to Palm Beach to recuperate at the vacant home of his Palm Beach neighbor Charles Wrightsman. He sleeps late, lounges in his pajamas, hobbling on crutches to the heated saltwater pool.
In the evening, he entertains friends and several of the White House secretaries with daiquiris and Frank Sinatra records on the phonograph.
Jackie has proceeded with her trip to Greece.
When JFK leaves to return to Washington, photographers at the West Palm Beach airport gasp when they see him using crutches and being lifted aboard Air Force One by a hydraulic cherry picker.
Back at the White House, JFK’s doctors restrict him to his four-poster bed with a heating pad.
He tells advisers ranged gravely around the room that the United States could soon be “very close to war” with the Soviet Union.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Aug 2, 2020 14:42:36 GMT -5
June 13, 1961:
General Maxwell Taylor provides JFK with a report of the causes of failure of Operation Zapata in the form of a lengthy letter.
The existence of this report has been denied by those principals ( Taylor, Burke, Dulles) and has been one of the best-kept secrets of the Kennedy years.June 15:1961 SS-100-X - the new Presidential limousine that JFK will ride in during the Dallas motorcade - is delivered to the White House today.
It has been built by the LincolnMercury Division of the Ford Motor Company. It was assembled in their Wixom, Michigan plant.
SS-100-X started out as a 1961 Lincoln Continental Convertible. At the Experimental Garage atthe Ford Proving Grounds, the car was stretched 41 inches and the frame was strengthened to accommodate the additional length and weight.
The car was then shipped to Hess and Eisenhardt where it was upholstered.
Nothing about the original SS-100-X is bulletproof or bullet-resistant in any way.
The windshield is a standard two-ply safety glass windshield for which a replacement could be found at any Lincoln dealership or any automotive glass replacement shop.
It is 255" long, had a wheelbase of 156", is 78.6" wide and 57" high and weighs 7,800 lbs.
Its engine is a 430 cubic inch V-8. The jumpseats are set in and down; exact measurements are not found in any Ford Motor Company or government publication.
It has a special short-turn radius (61.9', compared to 64 feet on the 1950 Eisenhower 'Bubbletop' which had been its predecessor). Limousine website.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Sept 9, 2020 14:08:02 GMT -5
June 16, 1961:
The FBI receives a report that a U.S. Senator from Louisiana might have sought to intervene on the behalf of Carlos Marcello.
This Senator has reportedly received “financial aid from Marcello” in the past and “is sponsoring a Louisiana official for a key INS position from which assistance might be rendered.”
June 28, 1961:
Three top-level White House directives, National Security Action Memoranda (NSAM) are published.
One of them, NSAM #55, entitled, “Relations of Joint Chiefs of Staff to the President in Cold War Operations, ” is signed by JFK and is sent directly to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer.
In this directive, JFK has determined to limit the CIA’s role in clandestine activities, perhaps eliminate it altogether.
This is the first in a series of such top-level policy directives issued by JFK that culminates in NSAM #263, issued one month before his murder.
< NOTE: The third presidential directive, NSAM #57, “Responsibility for Paramilitary Operations” proposes the establishment of a Strategic Resources Group for initial consideration of all paramilitary operations and for approval, as necessary, by the President. Despite this quite specific language defining the role of this new group, the covering letter contained a recommendation that “the Special Group [5412 Committee] will perform the functions assigned in the recommendation to the Strategic Resources Group.” The basic paper (the enclosure) was written by Gen. Maxwell Taylor. The letter that reverses the Taylor procedure is written and signed by McGeorge Bundy.
Also on this date, JFK sends a secret memo to the Director of Central Intelligence requesting review of MJ-12 Intelligence Operations. (MJ-12 - short for “Majestic 12” - has to do with UFO research and investigation. It was supposedly set up by President Harry Truman following the crash and retrieval of a UFO in Roswell, New Mexico.)
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Post by Paul Ernst on Sept 9, 2020 14:28:09 GMT -5
July -- 1961:
Oswald’s Diary: July -- I decived to take my two week vacation and travel to Moscow (without police permission) to the American Embassy to see about geting my U.S. passport back and make arrangements for my wife to enter the U.S. with me.
July 3, 1961:
FBI agent John W. Fain prepares a second report on Lee Harvey Oswald.
According to the report, much of the information comes from the district office of the Office of Naval Intelligence in New Orleans.
Also in July, Carlos Marcello aide David Ferrie presents a speech before the New Orleans Military Order of World Wars, entitled “Cuba -- April 1961 Present, Future.” As he is addressing the group he is asked to step down when the vehemence of his criticism of JFK becomes excessive.
In late summer of this year, a party girl begins to appear at the exclusive Quorum Club, partially founded by Bobby Baker, near the Capitol in Washington, DC.
Her name is Ellen Rometsch -- a lovely young refugee from East Germany who has come to the USA with her husband, a West German army sergeant on assignment to his country’s military mission in Washington.
Bill Thompson, a wealthy railroad lobbyist and an intimate friend of JFK sees Ellen and says: “Boy, that son of a bitch is something.
D’you think she’d come down and have dinner with me and the President?” She does.
She and JFK have sex and JFK sends back word that it is the best time he has ever had in his life.
Rometsch is loose-lipped, however, and soon begins to talk about her relationships with men in Washington. Someone will eventually tip off the FBI about her, and she will be questioned in July 1963.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Sept 15, 2020 20:24:40 GMT -5
July 5, 1961:
A Department of Justice spokesman warns Gerry Patrick Hemming that an investigation into the IAB is underway.
(International Anti-communist Brigade run by Frank Sturgis.)
Hemming’s men form the parachute battalion of the brigade. The ONI asks USMC Headquarters for information on Gerry Patrick Hemming.
The Marine Corps will eventually reply that it can not find any information on Hemming’s reserve status. O&CIA.
July 7, 1961:
The Security Office (SY) [which has no jurisdiction] and the FBI tell the Visa Office that LHO has “renounced U.S. citizenship. (On Oct. 6 of this same year, the Visa Office -- without informing SY -- advises Immigration officials that LHO is still a U.S. citizen.)
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Post by Paul Ernst on Oct 6, 2020 5:27:37 GMT -5
July 8, 1961:
Nikita Khrushchev scraps his program to reduce the Red Army by 1.2 million men.
Under military pressure, he abandons his argument that missile forces can substitute for troops.
The Soviet defense budget will be increased by one third. JFK is in Hyannis Port when he gets the news.
He gives Robert McNamara ten days to draw up a plan for non-nuclear resistance on a scale large enough to demonstrate that the West will resist a “cheap and easy” seizure of Berlin by East German guards.
It must be large enough to allow a true pause - a month instead of an hour - for himself and Khrushchev to choose retreat or nuclear war.
Robert McNamara’s aides are alarmed. If a confrontation in central Europe “reached a military level and started to go against us,” the existing plans are to “just let go with all our strategic forces against the Soviet Union, the Eastern bloc countries, and China as well.”
Increasingly, JFK comes to rely on McGeorge Bundy.
He tells Jacqueline that with the exception of David Ormsby-Gore, his national security adviser is the brightest man he has ever known: “Damn it, Bundy and I get more done in one day in the White House than they do in six months at the State Department.”
Years later, Bundy will recall that he could not remember JFK saying thank-you five times: “It wasn’t that he was ungenerous, but you don’t get to be President without being concerned about Number One.
”Lee Harvey Oswald has flown to Moscow to retrieve his passport at the American embassy.
Since he has never technically defected, his passport is promptly returned. He phones Marina in Minsk, instructing her to proceed immediately to Moscow.
For the first time since his defection in 1959, LHO enters the U.S. Embassy.
Inside he uses the telephone. O&CIA
Oswald’s Diary: July 8 -- I fly by plane to Minsk on a il - 20, 2 hrs 20 m later after taking a tearful and anxiou parting from my wife I arrive in Moscow departing by bus.
From the airfield I arrive in the center of the city.
Making my way through heavy traffic I don't come in sight of the embassy until 3:00 in the afternoon.
Its Saturday what if they are closed? Entering I find the offices empty but mange to contact Snyder on the phone (since all embassy personal live in the same building) he comes down to greet me shake my hand after interview he advises me to come in first thing mon.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Dec 2, 2020 9:17:37 GMT -5
July 10, 1961:
Primarily on the basis of LHO’s interview with Richard E. Snyder on this day, the American Embassy concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald has not expatriated himself.
July 11, 1961:
The INS rules that Carlos Marcello is an undesirable alien and once again orders him deported.
Also on this day, the most memorable of the first lady’s dinners takes place at Mt. Vernon, held in honor of President Mohammed Ayub Khan of Pakistan.
It is the first state dinner ever held outside the White House.
Inspired by the luxury she has seen at Versailles, Jackie is determined to spare no expense.
An army of 150 workers is recruited to carry out her plans.
A State Department communication to the United States Embassy in Moscow, dated today, states: "The Embassy's careful attention to the involved case of Mr. Oswald is appreciated.
It is assumed that there is no doubt that the person who has been in communication with the Embassy is the person who was issued a passport in the name of Lee Harvey Oswald."
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Post by Paul Ernst on Dec 2, 2020 9:24:34 GMT -5
July 12, 1961:
Sam Giancana walks into a waiting room at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, on a routine stopover to New York, accompanied by his mistress Phyllis McGuire.
Waiting for him are a phalanx of FBI agents, including Bill Roemer, one of the mobster’s most dogged pursuers.
Giancana loses his temper and screams: “Fuck J. Edgar Hoover! Fuck your super boss, and your super super boss!
You know who I mean; I mean the Kennedys” Giancana goes on to say: “Listen, Roemer, I know all about the Kennedys, and Phyllis knows more about the Kennedys, and one of these days we’re going to tell all.
Fuck you! One of these days it’ll come out . . .” The ONI files a report mentioning that Gerry Patrick Hemming is currently in Cuba.
His mission is the demolition of generator stations.
The report goes on to state that Hemming is setting off about a pound of TNT nightly to create terror and confusion.
When Hemming’s mission is completed, he will receive $10,000.00.
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