EXCELLENT Research on LHO & Ruth Hyde Paine [and family] - Linda Minor

[Tom Scully]

An abbreviated quote from my last post, intending to provide context for what follows it......

http://quixoticjoust.blogspot.com/2015/0...gence.htmlMonday, January 5, 2015

Hyde Family in the CIA and USAID

..............QUAKER

When Ruth Paine was 15 years old, she preached [sic] with a traveling Bible school. Ruth Paine told the Warren Commission: "I was asked to be a leader, a teacher with a traveling Bible school. We went to three different small towns in Indiana and Ohio, and taught young children. I led songs and games and read stories." Ruth Paine became a Quaker while attending Antioch College in 1951 and was a delegate to two conferences of the Friends World Committee in England in 1952. She graduated from Antioch College in 1955. In 1993 Ruth Paine described herself as a financial contributor to the Friends World Committee.

RUSSIA/UNITED STATES EXCHANGE PROGRAMS

According to the Warren Report:
"In 1955 Mrs. Paine was active in the work of the North American Young Friends Committee, which, with State Department cooperation, was making an effort to lessen the tensions between Soviet Russia and the United States by means of ...exchanges of young Russians and Americans. It was during this period that Mrs. Paine became interested in the Russian language. Mrs. Paine participated in [and arranged] a Russian-American student exchange program...Ruth Paine was the "convener or clerk" of the East-West Contacts Group of the North American Young Friends Committee which was established in 1955. She has corresponded, until recently, with a Russian schoolteacher." [WR p285]

Ruth Paine told the Warren Commission:

Paine: It was at this conference, toward the later part, arising out of a discussion of the need for communication and more of it between the United States and the Soviet Union, by no means the bulk of business of this conference, but a small committee of interested people, was working on this matter.

Jenner: Are these interested young people?

Paine: These are all young Friends.

Jenner: And you were then of what age, 1955. Twenty-three?

Paine: Yes...This was at the time that plans first began for encouraging an exchange of young people between the Soviet Union and the United States, and I became active with the committee planning
that, and from the planning there was an exchange, three Soviet young people came to this country and four young Quakers went to the Soviet Union... The Committee worked on: "Organization of pen pal correspondence between American and Soviet young people." In 1958 Ruth Paine was involved in a Russian/American exchange program on a leadership level. [Friends Journal 4.26.58]

ANALYSIS

Another Quaker group, the American Friends Service Committee, sent a delegation to the Soviet Union in 1955. The American Friends Service Committee was very much on the Left. The Friends World Committee soon sent a delegation to the Soviet Union. The CIA had an interest in "cultural exchange programs."

CIA DD/P Richard Bissell stated:

"Exchange of person programs...are more effective if carried out by private auspices than if officially supported by the United States Government." [Marchetti Cult of Intell. p52]

The SSCIA reported that from 1964 to 1974

"the FBI identified over 100 intelligence officers among the approximately 400 Soviet students who attended universities as part of an East-West student exchange program. Also, in this program's 14-year history, more than 100 American students were the target of Soviet recruitment approaches in the USSR." [SSCIA For. & Mil. Intell. V1 p164]

What was the story behind the Friends World Committee?

Ruth Paine answered negatively when she was asked if she had been aware of any intelligence community interest in student exchange programs. She stated:

"The Soviets that came over were real party-line types, very doctrinaire."

Ruth Paine was asked to name the State Department official who was involved with her program. She responded, "I haven't a clue, but you know they were working on cultural exchange at that point. Trying to make a crack in the Iron Curtain." Michael Paine stated, "I remember reading about that kind of thing in The Times and finding it so frustrating that a genuine effort to try to get person-to-person contact was being subverted by the government there.".......

I posted this back in January in response to an individual who was gushing with enthusiasm in reaction to Ruth granting him an audience at her Santa Rosa residence......

Would she talk "seriously" with someone who finds it troubling that DeMohrenschildt left Dallas on April 14 after allegedly teasing Oswald with, "Lee, how could you have missed the shot?" and eleven days later, on 25 April, have met in NYC with Tom Devine, who was posing as an investment banker, and "independently" on that same day, with Devine's best friend from Rochester, a man who knew that DeMohrenschildt's party included an undercover CIA asset posing as a secretary, and Devine's friend Dryer, himself, posing as a kenaf farmer?

Our Man in Haiti: George de Mohrenschildt and the CIA in ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1936296535


Your post and your attitude are pretty creepy, Bill.: 1930 US census, Paine "household"

Ruth Paine is to be encountered to be challenged, not petted, stroked, and flattered. Did Bill ask her how well she got to know her parents' close friend who was rooming in her parents' house in New York in the 1930's, and dining with them in the 1950's?
Mike did not want Ruth to be on the WC record as principal correspondent with Robert Webster's employer, Rand's friend, Frederick T Merrill at the State Dept.:

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22...+east-west
Russian Students To Arrive Soon - The Harvard Crimson
www.thecrimson.com/.../russian-students-to-arrive-...
The Harvard Crimson
Four Russian students, visiting the University for a year's study, will arrive next week, Frederick T. Merrill, Director of East-West Contracts in Washington, said last ...

State Department Disclaims Support of Youth Festival - The ...
www.thecrimson.com/.../state-department-disclaims...
The Harvard Crimson
Frederick T. Merrill, Director of East-West Contact, told the CRIMSON last night that "we are simply informing all applicants of what is involved in attending the ...

The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences During the Cold ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1137438746
Simone Turchetti, ‎Peder Roberts - 2014 - ‎History
Thurston to Frederick T. Merrill (Director East-West Contacts Staff, State Department), January 23, 1958. NASA Division of Earth Sciences: Conference on Arctic ...

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archiv...lPageId=82

Ruth won't meet with anyone who wants to ask her anything potentially meaningful. She's convinced a niche audience that she is above suspicion. History is not as kind to her, given the facts......

This is the obit of the father of Robert E.Webster's employer's (H. James Rand's) business partner.:

It seems Jim Rand's father thought highly of the father of Ruth Paine's State Dept. contact that she could
not recall the name of.........

The Diamond of Psi Upsilon - Volume 20, Issue 1 - Page 47

https://books.google.com/books?id=pJ5MAAAAMAAJPsi Upsilon - 1933 - ‎Full view - ‎More editions

William Fessenden Merrill 1933....Resigning both positions in June, 1928, he was named vice- president and general manager of Remington Rand, which had previously absorbed his old company, the Library Bureau. .Two months after joining the company, Mr. Merrill was promoted to the presidency of the organization, succeeding James H. Rand, Jr., who became chairman of the board. More than a year ago Brother Merrill retired because of ill health, but retained many directorships until the time of his death. He was a ... He is survived by a widow, a son, Frederick T. Merrill, and a brother, Oliver B. Merrill, Gamma '91. Charles

This is one of my favorite finds.:


Reagan and Shaheen were both born in Tampico, IL, pop. 600, just a couple of years apart. When Bob Gates was questioned in his DCIA senate committee appointment confirmation hearing, his answers related to questions about John Shaheen's business partner, Roy Furmark, are a real hoot. By that time, Shaheen had died of cancer, along with Bill Casey.......

I have problems with this. from Bill Simpich's first chapter.:

Bill Simpich described Marina's statement passed along to the FBI by Katherine Ford.: (As have authors Evica and DiEugnenio and probably others.)

http://www.maryferre...6&relPageId=265






(Roy Furmark's 1987 testimony excerpted above reminds me of the WC testimony of Nancy Perrin Rich, but she was less vague. Furmark stated that Shaheen spent $16 million on his failed NYC newspaper start up,The New York Press.

IN 1972 Shaheen was quoted in the NY Times saying the purpose of the newspaper was to support president Nixon.)



http://news.google.c...pg=6080,1110710



Other considerations, of many..:


Lt. Col. J. Elroy Mccaw : "Elroy served at Army Air Forces Headquarters in the Pentagon as Executive Officer and Special Assistant to General (Harold M.) McClelland, head of USAAF communications. He was also McClelland's liaison to OSS.."

Mccaw became chairman of Rand Development in 1968.


http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=14...84,2778544


(Entire article text available at link above article image.)

http://seattletimes.com/html/obituaries/...bit30.html
Opera supporter Marion McCaw Garrison dies
By Paul de Barros
Seattle Times staff reporter
June 29, 2012
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The family moved to Seattle in 1953. In 1969, John McCaw died suddenly. Facing lawsuits claiming all but $20,000 of his $12 million estate, Mrs. Garrison spent years resolving the company's finances, enlisting the help of attorney William H. Gates Sr.
She saved the business, and her sons took the helm, creating McCaw Cablevision & Cellular Communications. She remained as chairman emeritus.
In 1994, the family sold the company to AT&T for $11.5 billion......

OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=1599216582
Richard Harris Smith - 2005 - ‎History
Wisner's Bucharest team included George Bookbinder, now president of the Rand Development Corporation, and Columbia political scientist Henry Roberts.....

https://www.google.com/#q=cia.gov+wisner+bookbinder+

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   Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
   End Lt. F.k.. Frank G. Wisner. Robert Bishop. William L. Cary. Wallace Fair. Louis L. Madison. Richard F. Won. George H. Bookbinder ... Finance 0 and Russian. ....
   

Bookbinder NY Times 15 Nov 1959 .................

http://www.nytimes.c...tchen-dies.html

Alan Davidson, 79, an Envoy Who Loved the Kitchen, Dies

By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: December 05, 2003

Alan Davidson, a diplomat whose passion for food and its history led him to write indispensable works on seafood and to edit the comprehensive Oxford Companion to Food, died on Tuesday in London. He was 79.....

....Alan Eaton Davidson, the son of a Scottish tax inspector, was born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. His studies in the classics at Queen's College, Oxford, were interrupted in 1943 by service in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, which he left as a lietuenant in 1946 after seeing action in the Pacific, North Atlantic and Mediterranean.

In 1948 he joined the Foreign Office, serving in Washington, The Hague, Cairo and Tunis. While in Washington, he married Jane Macatee, an American. She and the couple's three daughters -- Caroline, Jennifer and Pamela -- survive him.

From 1968 to 1971, Mr. Davidson served in Brussels as head of chancery of the British delegation to NATO. After two years as Britain's ambassador to Laos, he retired from the foreign service in 1975 to devote himself full time to food writing......

JANE MACATEE A FIANCEE; Will Be Wed to Alan Davidson of [B]...[/B]


New York Times - Jul 3, 1951
Robert Berry Macatee have announced the engagement of their daughter, Jane, to Alan Davidson, son of Mr, and Mrs. William John Davidson of New Maiden, ....

Foreign Service List - Page 44

http://www.eatyourbooks.com/library/1462...=buzz+desc

Frogmore 'shrimp, corn and sausage'

from North Atlantic Seafood by Alan Davidson

• Categories: Main course; Picnics & outdoors; Central Southern States
  
• Ingredients: shrimp; spicy hot sausages; crab boil seasoning; sweetcorn on the cob
  

AN ISLAND OF GULLAH CULTURE - NYTimes.com

www.nytimes.com/.../an-island-of-gullah-culture.ht...


The New York Times


Feb 2, 1986 - Called Frogmore stew, it is what the natives of the coast, many of whom are ... By George McMillan; GEORGE McMILLAN is a writer who lives in ...

Tom Scully - Posted 23 June 2012

Miss Stanwyck To Be Starred In Other Love' .

‎Deseret News - Mar 6, 1946
Jinx Falkenburg and Tex McCrary have rented the guest house on Jock Whitney's estate in Manhassett, Long Island, and moved in last week. They will stay...

Tex McCrary: Wars, Women, Politics : an Adventurous Life Across ... - Google Books Result

books.google.com/books?isbn=0761844554...Charles J. Kelly - 2009 - Biography & Autobiography - 256 pages
Page 146
.....On another program, Tex picked up the story which he had heard on election night when U.E. Baughman, Chief of the U.S. Secret Service, had briefed Eisenhower on security matters. He began the program, "In such a world as we face today, our guest has a very special mission. He is U.E. Baughman, Chief of the Secret Service. Chief, could you explain just what your job is? In the beginning the Secret Service was formed to catch counterfeiters. What's your job now?" The Chief took out of his pocket a little cloth, opened it on the table, and removed something that looked like a wad of chewing gum. He poked it with a red pen. Tex asked, "What's that thing?" He said, "That is to remind us of what our job is. This is the bullet that killed President Lincoln." Years later, when Tex thought about Kennedy's assassination and Reagan being shot, he remembered Baughman's statement....
Page 167

.....Jock died in 1982, Betsey lived until 1992. Whitney estate lawyers served an eviction notice on Jinx the day following Betsey's death. [Footnote: Jinx attended a birthday party for Tex at the Racquet and Tennis Club and my wife, Maggie, and I .....

I had never heard of Jinx & Tex, until I stumbled onto this:

Clinton County Times - Apr 2, 1942
Behind the Scenes in Hollywood by Harrison Carroll

family reunion for Jinx Falkenburg. Since the war, members of her family have been flocking to York from all over the world.
They now include 23 aunts, uncles and cousins. One of them. Robert mcatee was the former United. States consul general in Yugoslavia. Other branches of the family have arrived fropm Antwerp and Barcelona.
The Foreign Service

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New York Times - Oct 27, 1940
Robert B. MacAtee of Front Royal, Ya., consul at Belgrade. Yugoslavia, also designated first secretary o! legation. Karl L. Rankin of New York, attache at ...
Government to Be Moved

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New York Times - Apr 6, 1941
The Yugoslavia Government was in emergency session early today while, with Yugoslav-Axis ... Robert B. Macatee, the United States Consul, will accompany the ..

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Jinx Falkenburg, Model, Actress, Pioneer Of Radio and TV...

‎New York Times - Aug 28, 2003
By RICHARD SEVERO Jinx Falkenburg, one of America's highest paid cover-girl ... died on Wednesday in Manhasset, NY She was 84 and lived in the nearby .
John 'Tex' McCrary, 93; Radio, TV Pioneer Urged Voters to Like Ike

articles.latimes.com/2003/aug/02/local/me-mccrary2
Aug 2, 2003 John Reagan "Tex" McCrary, a radio and television host and a publicist who masterminded the political rally that helped launch Dwight D.
Barbara Walters Talks .

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Feb 13, 1972
Barbara Walters first applied for a job at She even' tually quit and went to work for Tex mccrary Inc., a publicity firm, in charge of . the radio and TV department.

William Safire: Knocking Them `When They're Up'

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  Los Angeles Times - Aug 31, 1987
  The late CIA director William Casey was a longtime ally from the days when ... In the summer of 1949, Safire went to work for McCrary and Jinx Falkenberg.
  
• Salon.com News | William Safire's dubious legacy
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  Salon - Nov 22, 2004
  So why does New York Times pundit William Safire want to be remembered as ... famed broadcaster, publicist and political strategist Tex McCrary, Safire went to .... punches" in a 1987 column about his old friend Bill Casey and the major role ...
  
• Long Island Business News : The era of Paul Townsend, Long...
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  Long Island Business News - Jan 24, 2003
  Friends and associates included William Casey who became Ronald Reagan's ... Townsend was a partner with Safire at Tex McCrary Inc. a public relations firm ...
  
• And The New York Times .
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  Times-News - Jan 19, 1994
  He said that Safire had com plained about the decision to William Casey, ... when Safire was a vice president of the Tex mccrary public relations firm. ...