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Post by Michael Capasse on Feb 27, 2021 11:17:02 GMT -5
Cancelled at Soldier FieldPresident Kennedy was scheduled to attend an Army-Air Force football game at Soldier Field in Chicago, on Nov. 2 st 1963. On or about Oct. 31 st the Chicago FBI were tipped off to a plot involving 4 men, right wing extremists, armed with rifles, to assassinate Kennedy while the car was on the Northwest Expressway to the stadium. Two of the men were arrested the next day and denied having any rifles, a police search of the room found none, and the men were released. Meanwhile on the 30 th, the owner of a Chicago restaurant overheard a customer mouthing off, making threats against Kennedy. Thomas Arthur Vallee was an ex marine with a background and a job set up along the motorcade route just like Lee Harvey Oswald. On the morning of the 2 nd, Vallee was arrested on a minor traffic violation. Chicago police, found an M-1 rifle, a handgun and 3,000 rounds of ammunition in his automobile, suddenly the President's trip was cancelled. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ HSCA Final Report In addition, the committee obtained the testimony of a former Secret Service agent, Abraham Bolden, who had been assigned to the Chicago office in 1963. He alleged that shortly before November 2, the FBI sent a, teletype message to the 'Chicago Secret Service office stating that an attempt to assassinate the President would be made on November 2 by a four-man team using high-powered rifles, and that at least one member of the team had a 'Spanish-sounding name. (61) Bolden claimed that while he did not personally participate in surveillance of the subjects, he learned about a surveillance of the four by monitoring Secret Service radio channels in his automobile and by observing one of the subjects being detained in his Chicago office.
"The committee was unable to determine specifically why the President's trip to Chicago, scheduled for November 2, was canceled. The possibilities range from the condition of his health(46) to concern for the situation in South Vietnam following the assassination of President Diem (47) to the threat received on October 30.(48)
On that date, the Secret Service learned that an individual named Thomas Arthur Vallee, a Chicago resident who was outspokenly opposed to President Kennedy's foreign policy, was in possession of several weapons.(49) Further, Vallee's landlady reported that he had requested time off from his job on November 2.(50) Vallee was subsequently interviewed, surveilled and eventually arrested by the Chicago police, who found an M-1 rifle, a handgun and 3,000 rounds of ammunition in his automobile. (51) Vallee was released from custody on the evening of November 2. (52)
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Post by Michael Capasse on Feb 27, 2021 11:17:38 GMT -5
Thomas Arthur ValleeThomas Arthur Vallee was an ex-marine that worked at IPP Litho–Plate, a printing firm along the president's route on W. Jackson Blvd. He was a marksman with a rifle, a member of the John Birch Society, a radical right wing group that spoke out strongly against Kennedy. Just like Lee, he recently got the job that put him along the motorcade, had served in the Marines in Japan, and had been involved with anti Castro training camps, and Vallee had a history of mental illness. Agents in Dallas had no knowledge of the incident or the possible threat the individual continued to pose while released from custody. The HSCA discovered the Secret Service had learned more about Vallee prior to the trip to Dallas, and the similarities are startling. None of this information was passed on to the team in Texas, although it is noted by the HSCA as transmitted to the PRS on Oct. 30 thNo further action was taken, or warning given. Thomas Arthur Vallee was free to go. Anywhere. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ HSCA Final Report"The committee also learned that the information the Secret Service obtained on Vallee was not forwarded to the agents responsible for the President's trip to Texas on November 21-22, although it was transmitted to the Protective Research Section upon receipt on October 30. (58) The potential significance of Vallee as a threat was illustrated by the Secret Service's reports, which included a notation on November 27, 1963 of the similarity between his background and that of Lee Harvey Oswald,(59) and a record of extensive, continued investigation of Vallee's activities until 1968. (60)
The committee found that the Secret Service learned more about Vallee prior to the President's trip to Dallas on November 22: He was a Marine Corps veteran with a history of mental illness while on active duty;(53) He was a member of the John Birch Society(54) and an extremist in his criticism of the Kennedy administration;(55) and he claimed to be an expert marksman.(56) Further, he remained a threat after November 2, because he had been released from jail."(57)
------------------------------------------------------------- Secret Service procedure required an inquiry to be made of the PRS about one week before a trip was assigned. Kellerman testified that he received the assignment to coordinate the Texas trip on November 17, 1963, and that by custom the check with PRS was made a week ahead of that date. (on or about November 10th)
Kellerman also testified about an inquiry in Dallas which was conducted prior to November 22, in order to locate anti-JFK subjects. When asked specifically about right-wing individuals, scurrilous literature, and extremist groups known to be in Dallas, he claimed virtually total ignorance. (209) He insisted that no one told him anything about an investigation of threat information submitted to the Secret Service in Dallas on November 21 and 22 by the FBI. (210)
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Post by Michael Capasse on Feb 27, 2021 11:18:01 GMT -5
Falcon to DallasOn Nov 09, 1963, a man walked into the Dallas Lincoln Mercury Dealership, gave his name as Lee Oswald and asked to test drive a new car. He said he expected to come into some money soon, and asked to sample their edition of the Ford Falcon, called the Mercury Comet. Although the Warren Commission concluded Lee could not drive a car, this man took the dealer on a wild ride, but was never heard from again. On the the afternoon of the 22 nd, after the President was killed, a mechanic named T.F. White was working at Mack Pate's Garage. He noticed a car parked in a strange way, as if hiding from view. With all the excitement going on, T.F. decided to have a closer look. The car took off. It was a 1961 Red Ford Falcon, he wrote down the Texas plate PP 4537 and later noted the driver looked like Lee Oswald. Here are two instances that involve a similar car, in Dallas, leading up to and possibly involved in the assassination. The car dealership having no direct connection to the events except by name, and or type of car that might be used. Perhaps a Ford Falcon type vehicle as a getaway was being planned as far out as two weeks from the event. Perhaps not. But the Falcon escaping from Max's seems to have a stranger, more direct connection in the weeks after the assassination. Sometime before 12/03/63 Bill Corley from NBC News in Chicago got from an unnamed lead - that the man arrested in Chicago (Vallee) maybe somehow connected to Lee Oswald by the registration of a car. Corley assigned Lee O'Connor with Chris Hester to assist. Hester contacted his father in-law to run a trace on the NY plate 3110 RF. The FBI found out. "The car is currently in Dallas and has some connection with Lee Harvey Oswald. The New York FBI ran a plate check and found that it belonged to a 1962 Ford Falcon registered to Thomas Vallee of Hicksville, NY." The dates coordinate with the FBI, when Max Pate (the garage owner) told radio personality Wes Wise about the incident. Meanwhile the Feds requested the NY Authorities to "freeze" and keep the registration information confidential. If a NY licensed car was used in some sort of getaway the plate would had to have been changed to Texas. There is no further information regarding this matter. No way to know if T.F. White saw the Vallee car. More importantly there is no proof. Oddly, the Texas plate White accurately written down belonged to Carl Mathers, an employee of Collins Radio and a good friend of Officer JD Tippit.
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Post by Michael Capasse on Feb 27, 2021 11:18:29 GMT -5
ABC NewsJFK murder plots planned in Chicago before Dallas assassination Tuesday, November 5, 2013 November 5, 2013 (CHICAGO)"Even though the anniversary isn't for a few weeks, by this moment 50 years ago JFK would already have been dead, and Chicago would have gone down in history as the place. The Omen in Chicago: the I-Team has discovered not just one, but two plots to cut down JFK in Chicago in early November, 1963, and an intriguing backstory of bungling by the government agencies protecting him. President John F. Kennedy was never supposed to make it to Texas, never supposed to take this ride, and never supposed to die in Dallas. As Chicagoans watched storefront TVs and picked up newspapers of the day, there was one story line almost no one knew a story still evolving five decades later: evidence that President Kennedy was to be targeted here in Chicago. "The assassination was supposed to take place during the motorcade that was scheduled to come in from O'Hare Airport," said Abraham Bolden, JFK Secret Service Agent. According to this Chicagoan and former JFK bodyguard-- and from these FBI and Secret Service reports obtained by the I-Team-- it is clear there were two plans by different groups intent on killing the president in Chicago weeks before Dallas. In October 1963, the White House had publicly announced JFK'S plans to fly into Chicago on November 2. He was to land at O'Hare as he had many times, would be greeted by Mayor Daley as usual, and would attend an Army-Air Force football game at Soldier Field. Records reveal one Chicago plot had been developed by radical Cuban exile Homer Echevarria, a known smuggler of automatic weapons and machine guns. "Echeverria had made mention that a plan was underway to assassinate President Kennedy and it was going to be successful. 'We're gonna get him.' That's what he said," said Bolden. Bolden says Echevarria told a Secret Service informant that his group would "take care of Kennedy." In a boarding house just off the highway from O'Hare and linked to Echavarria, authorities found high powered rifles, ammo and Kennedy motorcade maps. But then, according to Agent Bolden, FBI officials-- jealous of the Secret Service getting all the glory-- undermined the Cuban investigation. "They blew the cover. They blew the cover of the informant for the Secret Service. The FBI was sabotaging this case," said Bolden. The Cubans disappeared, just as a second Chicago plot surfaced. At this intersection, a right wing radical under surveillance for publicly threatening Kennedy was arrested. Ex-marine Thomas Vallee had high powered rifles and ammo in his car trunk and was en route to a job that would give him direct aim at JFK'S motorcade as it exited the expressway. An hour later, the White House scrubbed JFK'S trip. "Since the president's life was in such severe danger, that was the reason he cancelled the trip to Chicago-- the assassination threat," said Bolden. Kennedy stayed in Washington. The Soldier Field football game went on without him. Three weeks later the assassination happened in Dallas. "President Kennedy has been assassinated." Bolden says it was exactly what was to have happened in Chicago. "I think there would have been an attempt. I think it would've been successful," said Bolden. Current officials of the FBI and Secret Service did not comment for this report. Bolden left the Secret Service in 1964 after being prosecuted and imprisoned for bribery-- and to this day maintains he was framed for trying to blow the whistle on agency misconduct during the JFK years. He believes some details of the Chicago plots are hidden in government files still locked up after 50 years."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Mar 3, 2021 11:26:20 GMT -5
Joseph MilteerIn 1963, Joseph Adams Milteer was a right wing extremist from Quitman, GA. A racist and activist against civil rights. He hated Kennedy and spoke out frequently against him. On Nov. 9 th he had a conversation with a friend, William Somersett, who happened to be an informant for the Miami Police and recorded the details of a plot to assassinate JFK. There is no mention of Milteer in the 26 volumes of the Warren Commission Report, and the public never knew until early '67 when the Miami Police decided to release the transcript and made plain the correlation of actual events. In 1971 Harold Weisberg transcribed and released the entire recording and revealed Milteer's name publicly for the first time. The HSCA looked into an image then wrongly concluded Milteer's height from Altgens 6 was not him while FBI Don Adams, said it was. The limited questions he was allowed to be asked in 1963 did not answer where he was on 11/22, or what plots he may have known. A rookie FBI agent not aware of the previous statements, restricted to ask specific questions avoided the essential facts by instruction. There was procedures to the PRS involving the threatening a President. His safety heading toward Dallas was seriously faltered. The Secret Service PRS sent copies of the Milteer threat to field offices in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Nashville, Washington, and Miami. "...no effort was made to relay it to (agents) responsible for the trip to Dallas.." [HSCA / page 233]++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Joseph Milteer | Nov 09, 1963SOMERSETT. I think Kennedy is coming here November 18 to make some kind of speech. I don’t know what it is, but I imagine it will be on TV. MILTEER. You can bet your bottom dollar he is going to have a lot to say about the Cubans; there are so many of them here. SOMERSETT. Well, he’ll have a thousand bodyguards, don’t worry about that. MILTEER. The more bodyguards he has, the easier it is to get him. SOMERSETT. What? MILTEER. The more bodyguards he has, the easier it is to get him. SOMERSETT. Well, how in the hell do you figure would be he best way to get him? MILTEER. From an office building with a high‐powered rifle. * * * * MILTEER. He [Kennedy] knows he is a marked man. SOMERSETT. You think he knows he is a marked man? MILTEER. Sure he does. SOMERSETT. They are really going to try to kill him? MILTEER. Oh, yeah; it is in the working. SOMERSETT. Hitting this Kennedy is going to be a hard proposition. I believe you may have figured out a way to get him, the office building and all that. I don’t know how them Secret Service agents cover all them buildings everywhere he is going. Do you know whether they do that or not? MILTEER. Well, if they have any suspicion, they do that, of course. But without suspicion, chances are that they wouldn’t. [interesting comment considering Lawson forgot who he told to watch the windows]+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ HSCA Final Report "The Milteer threat was ignored by Secret Service personnel in planning the trip to Dallas. PRS Special Agent-in-Charge Bouck, who was notified on November 8 that the President would visit Miami on November 18, told the committee that relevant PRS information would have been supplied to the agents conducting advance preparations for the scheduled trip to Miami, (78) but no effort was made to relay it to Special Agent Winston G. Lawson, who was responsible for preparations for the trip to Dallas or to Forrest Sorrels, special agent-in-charge of the Dallas office. Nor were Sorrels or any Secret Service agent responsible for intelligence with respect to the Dallas trip informed of the Milteer threat before November 22, 1963."(80)
"Following the assassination, Somersett again met with Milteer. Milteer commented that things had gone as he had predicted. Somersett asked if Milteer actually had known in advance of the assassination or had just been guessing. Milteer asserted that he had been certain beforehand about the inevitability of the assassination."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Mar 3, 2021 11:26:59 GMT -5
Choppin' the MotorcadePresident Kennedy was scheduled to speak at the Americana Hotel on Miami Beach, Nov. 18, 1963. Joseph Milteer made his statements to Sommerset on the 9 th, and the Miami trip was planned on the 11 th. Naturally these comments would caution or even cancel any motorcade. So it was decided to use a helicopter locally. Because the nearest heliport was Haulover Beach Park there was a limited motorcade in Miami. partial itinerary 5:35 p.m. Helicopter departed airport. 5:45 p.m. Helicopter arrived heliport, Haulover Beach Park. 5:48 p.m. President departed helicopter by automobile. Changes were made by the Secret Service to restrict the motorcade immediately upon receipt of the Milteer transcript. It is disturbing the information was passed on to 6 PRS field offices, but did not include Dallas. The obvious delay in the action and intentional restrictions are clear indications of failures from within the President's security. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Georgian Who Knew a Sniper Would Kill JFK | by Donald E. Wilkes Jr.● Weeks before the assassination Milteer confided to an old friend that there was a extant plot to murder President Kennedy by shooting him with a rifle from a tall building; and there are very good reasons for believing Milteer knew what he was talking about. ● The FBI was apprised of the alleged plot and took the matter seriously, but carried out a rushed investigation of Milteer and then closed its files prior to the assassination. ● After the assassination, FBI officials assigned a rookie agent to investigate Milteer and withheld vital pieces of information from that agent. The agent was not even told of Milteer’s conversation with Somersett. ● It was not until five days after the assassination that the agent, after intensive searching, found Milteer. ● During Milteer’s brief interview by the FBI agent on Nov. 27, 1963, the agent, as he had been instructed, put only five questions to Milteer, only one of which related to the assassination, and none of which inquired whether Milteer had known about a plot against JFK. Nor was he asked where he was on Nov. 22, 1963. ● The official report prepared by the agent disappeared down the memory hole and has been replaced or supplemented by other reports that are false or misleading. ● The House Assassinations Committee briefly investigated Milteer. It did not independently investigate whether Milteer had been in Dallas on the day of the assassination. It did ask a panel of experts to examine the Altgens photograph, but the panel’s work product was flawed by its incorrect information about Milteer’s height and head hair. ● Milteer was not in Georgia on the day of the assassination. He was in Dealey Plaza in Dallas watching the presidential motorcade pass by only moments before the gunfire began. Following the assassination Milteer’s whereabouts was unknown until he returned to Georgia five days later. ● By any objective standard, the FBI investigation of Milteer was unprofessional. Atypically for the FBI, especially when the murder of an American president was involved, the investigation was lackadaisical and superficial.
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Post by Michael Capasse on Mar 3, 2021 11:27:31 GMT -5
The Heat is OnIn Nov. 1963, rookie FBI Agent, Don Adams was working out of Thomasville, GA. He knew Joseph Milteer personally and took his statement five days after the assassination. Prior to the interview Adams was instructed to ask ONLY five questions of the subject. Adams could not ask Milteer where he was on 11/22. Another FBI informant put him in Jacksonville on 11/23, returning from a trip, "...MILTEER stated that he had been in Houston, Ft. Worth, and Dallas, TX, as well as New Orleans, LA, Biloxi and Jackson, MS, and Tuscaloosa, AL...." The first page memo in the Milteer file answered the five listed below. It is important for this record to be clear, there is no proof Joseph Milteer, planned or assisted in any Dallas plot. There is however, evidence that he knew of a plot, probably thru his connections to radical right wing elements. FBI Agent Don Adams met and spoke with Milteer, said he was as a tall man, not the 5'4" incorrectly estimated by the HSCA. More disturbing was excluding Adams from the statements Milteer made to Somersett. He was not aware of the tape, and once the report was submitted, his file was closed. “[My superior] cautioned me that the interview had to be done carefully and that he was going to instruct me as to the questions I should ask. He added that I was to ask nothing more… I was to obtain descriptive data on Milteer and then ask only the five questions he had dictated [to me]…
This struck me as strange at the time, and it never happened again during my entire [20‐year] career with the Bureau… To this day, I can’t help but wonder why he ordered me to do this and whether, had I been free to pursue other lines of questioning, I could have discovered information that might had led to the truth.”["From an Office Building With a High‐Powered Rifle" by Don Adams]++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Only Five Questions(1) With whom had he made contact recently? (2) Had he been to the Constitution Party’s National Convention? (3) What were the organizations with which he was affiliated? (4) Had he any knowledge of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, on Sept. 15, 1963? (5) Had he ever made any threats to assassinate the President, or had he participated in a plot to kill President Kennedy? --------------------------------------------------- "The strongest documented evidence of a right wing plot against the President is the case of Joseph Adams Milteer, an ultra right fanatic… The Milteer case is important for two reasons: it proves the existence of a conspiracy and Milteer’s prior knowledge of the details of the plot, and it shows how the FBI handled the situation." — Robert J. Groden and Harrison Edward Livingstone
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Post by Michael Capasse on Mar 12, 2021 11:16:30 GMT -5
URGENT !On 11/22, William Walter was a 21 yr old student at Tulane University, working part time as a security clerk at the local FBI in New Orleans. He began in '61 as a file clerk, and eventually worked his way up to G4 Midnight Security Clerk, his hours were from Midnight until 8am Some functions included answering the telephone, and monitoring the teletype machines. He told the HSCA that he received a teletype in the early morning of Nov 17 th'63, that described a possible threat on President Kennedy during his trip to Dallas. He testified, the first thing he did, as he does with all, was determine if a file already existed on the matter. One had not. He then called the Special Agent in Charge (Harry Maynor) and read him the communication. He was instructed to call all the agents and informants on the document and note the time he spoke to each one. He created a folder and put the teletype and other communications inside and left it on Maynor's desk. On 11/22 the office was busy waiting for the teletype instructions to be sent concerning Oswald's activity in New Orleans. Later, instruction came in advising to contact Field Office informants to determine what information may have developed on a possible plot that caused the death of President Kennedy. Walter immediately remembered the original teletype. Walter was curious regarding what information had developed from that original correspondence. He had some discussions with individuals in the office about it, he named them in his HSCA testimony Approximately four days after the assassination, he found the yellow machine copy of the telex. In talking further with others that wanted to see it, he tried to locate it again, but could not. After a continued search he found the white copy. He made notes from that on a separate piece of paper. He decided to track the investigation, and created his own file, then took his notes to school and typed a recreation. Any mistakes or inconsistencies were the results of typing very quickly and hoping no one was looking over his shoulder. Several times during his testimony he makes reference to that and the difficulty of the manual electric typewriter he was using. Then inexplicably he destroyed all his original notes. The recreated teletype is all that remains. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ William Walter | HSCA Testimony"I did not have any money. I just got a new job. I was involved with a divorce. I was out in an area away from my home, and the last thing I needed was any publicity, any conflict with the Bureau and any dealing with anybody with the Bureau. It just so happens Jim Garrison, a District Attorney in New Orleans read a statement on the Johnny Carson Show on I believe Feb. 01, 1968, and I understand the statement to say he had before him a document signed by William S. Walter stating that the FBI had sent a teletype stating that Kennedy would be shot in Dallas on his trip."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Mar 12, 2021 11:17:01 GMT -5
Radio, RadioIn 1968 Mark Lane was in New Orleans helping the Garrison Investigation when he stumbled upon William Walter. Walter was in a JFK Discussion Group at Tulane University and was approached by Lane to speak with him about the teletype. He refused. Lane left, and wrote an affidavit to himself, recording the little bit of basic information he did know. Lane brought that to Garrison, and Jim described it on The Johnny Carson Show. Walter was shocked to hear it and contacted the FBI. He volunteered to be interviewed in Nashville TN and Jacksonville FL. Both times he told them he had not made the statements. "IN 1968, WILLIAM WALTER, FORMER CLERK OF THE NEW ORLEANS OFFICE, STATED THAT THE INFORMATION ATTRIBUTED TO HIM ON A NATIONAL TELEVISION PROGRAM WAS TOTALLY FALSE AND THAT HE DID NOT MALE THESE STATEMENTS TO MARK LANE OR ANYONE ELSE. THIS WAS THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATED AND LOOKED INTO IN 1968 AND WAS DISPROVED AT THAT TIME." [1975 FBI memo]Nothing was disproved. He was telling the truth. He had not signed these statements. What Lane had written he had heard prior to meeting Walter. He also made no misgivings about the telex he had seen and what it had said, he was clear he never tried to pass the document as original. The FBI called it a "phantom teletype" and were more concerned about Walter being subpoenaed by Garrison. Still Walter would not back down. HSCA "I don't need a phantom teletype in my life you know. I really don't, and I'm perfectly willing to if I had had any problem in dealing with myself whether or not I did accidentally use those two teletypes I would say so. But I know too many specific instances that we did with that teletype, a group of us, that can be no mistake, and there was a teletype."
In Oct. 1975 William Walter appeared on the Ed Clancy Radio Show in New Orleans, there he described the teletype and basic procedures. He told the story of Mark Lane at Tulane and he refused to speak with him. He told the listeners he believed Lee Oswald acted alone. Earlier that year the Church Committee and then the Zapruder film on television for the first time. There was a lot of talk about conspiracy Also in 1975, FBI Agent James Hosty admitted Lee Oswald had gone to his FBI office three weeks before, when he wasn't there. On or about Nov 6 th or 8 th, Lee asked his secretary to give him a note. That note was supposed to be some kind of threat. There was never any mention of this note for 11 years, suddenly the FBI was under the microscope for destroying evidence. The note was flushed on 11/24 on orders of Dallas Agent in Charge Gordon Shanklin. Walter suspected that note was somehow connected to the telex. "If that note like they say and they have signed sworn statements and Mr. Kelley admitted it, it would have been normal for the FBI to then send teletypes to their field offices asking their field offices was there any information that they had to support any large activities of any kind."+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ed Clancy Radio Show | WGSO-AM, New Orleans, LA Oct. 01, 1975 WALTER: "Well, the memo, it wasn't a memo, it was a teletype sent from the Washington headquarters to all SACs, that's all Special Agents in Charges, saying that the Bureau, the FBI, somewhere had received information that an attempt would be made on President Kennedy's life in Dallas, and they asked us in the New Orleans Office to check with our informants to determine whether or not we had any information that would support that. Er, I might add that this ties in with a note that was received in the Dallas Office about that same time. Mr. Kelley who is the Director of the FBI now admitted about three or four weeks ago admitted on national news that a note had been given to the FBI Office in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald saying that he was gonna take some action against the federal government. This note was alleged to have taken place and the FBI conducted a two month investigation and determined that the note was received in Dallas and it was destroyed and the information had never been relayed on to the Warren Commission. So, that seems to tie in with the, with the teletype. If that note like they say and they have signed sworn statements and Mr. Kelley admitted it, it would have been normal for the FBI to then send teletypes to their field offices asking their field offices was there any information that they had to support any large activities of any kind." INTERVIEWER: "Now as I understand it, er, there was another message that said for agents who had conducted interviews regarding the assassination to wake sure their reports didn't have any conflicts in them." WALTER: "That was another, that was another story there. Because of the massiveness and investigations and the number of offices that were involved in the investigation, this is after the assassination, there were changes wade to coordinate reports so that the leads wouldn't continue on endlessly. I think everybody agreed that Oswald was the lone assassin and, er, an investigation had to be conducted to see whether or not there was any conspiracy and it was conducted and I think it was very, very accurate and very thorough and, er, I'm convinced that Oswald was the lone assassin and I'm also convinced that I believe the Warren Report. I, the Bureau, the FBI, didn't do anything on this particular teletype and other messages and other reports that they haven't always done, as, as the time I was with the Bureau and that is don't put the Bureau in a position in sensitive natters that they can be embarrassed."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Mar 12, 2021 11:17:22 GMT -5
HSCA Report | William WalterWilliam Walter testified to the House Select Committee on Assassination on March 23, 1978. He spoke voluntarily in an open and consistent manner, giving thoughtful and plainspoken answers to any question. He talked about a Lee Oswald informant file he found while working as a night clerk at the FBI, and a telex describing a plot on the President's life in Dallas that was received about five days before the assassination . Once he had passed on the telex to the proper authorities, he became curious about how the case was being handled. While looking at the file a second time he took notes from the original telex and while at school re created the document. Upon further inspections at the office he realized the telex and all communications in regard had been purged from the files. In his testimony to the HSCA he was clear he felt Oswald had worked alone. He had nothing to gain by claiming any conspiracy. He was not bitter, or resentful of his time with the Bureau, and spoke of some internal discretion or actions to protect the imagine. He was forthright in any name he could give to them, or individuals he had spoken to, and brought this to the attention of. Unfortunately the Committee rejected what he had to say. No one would verify what he had seen, or passed on to his superiors. But proof of a right wing militant plot does exist buried in the documents of the Warren Commission Exhibits. CE 762 | pg 27This Nov. '63 document discovered by researcher Vince Palamara, refers to the Protective Research Section, also described it as a militant group. Prompted out of San Antonio to Washington, three days before the "Walter" telex was sent from DC, trying to confirm additional information. “...information received telephonically from FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C...” “interviewed by the FBI on November 14, 1963…” "...a militant group of the National States Rights Party plans to assassinate the President and other high-level officials.” +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Did J. Edgar Hoover Kill JFK? by Donald E. Wilkes, Jr."...less than three weeks after the assassination, 17 FBI officials—five field investigative agents, one field supervisor, three special agents in charge, four headquarters supervisors, two headquarters section chiefs, one inspector and one assistant director—were secretly censured or placed on probation by Hoover for “shortcomings in connection with the investigation of Oswald prior to the assassination.” Hoover was so appalled by the pleas of lower FBI officials that Oswald did not meet the criteria for inclusion on the Security Index that in a handwritten notation on a memo he stated: “Certainly no one in possession of all his faculties can claim Oswald didn’t fall within this criteria.” The American public did not learn of these disciplinary actions for over a decade. There is no doubt that 48 hours after the assassination J. Edgar Hoover had already rushed to judgment and made up his mind that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin and there was no conspiracy. Nor can it be doubted that the entire FBI organization endorsed and adhered to Hoover’s Oswald-did-it-alone position. As a result, after Nov. 22, 1963, the FBI, as the House Assassinations Committee confirmed, failed to adequately investigate the possibility of conspiracy and in other respects was seriously deficient in its investigation of the murder of President Kennedy."
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