25-03-2019, 01:42 PM
From the Hood archive, a curious instance of Benavides keeping his FBI handlers informed of developments:
Berendt's Esquire article:
http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm...m/id/28787
Apart from the obvious implications of Benavides' persistent FBI relationship, the item of particular interest is his disclosure to Berendt that the red Ford he saw on 10th Street had a white top, matching Vaganov's Thunderbird, pointed out by William Weston in "Was Jack Tatum an Eyewitness of the Tippit Shooting?" [The Fourth Decade v6 #1]
Benavides' intelligence was passed onto Gemberling, but FBI analysis fell down on the job. This critical detail did not make its way to Moriarty, a pataphysician (scientist of imaginary solutions) whose pataphor ("That which occurs when a lizard's tail has grown so long it breaks off and grows a new lizard") produced a solid red lizard where one with a white top was requisite.
The only serious issue left concerning the BVT trio is whether Vaganov was the tall man wearing khakis on 10th Street observed by Clemons. Superficially he fits, nothing exists in the way of refutation, but there is no corroboration.
BENAVIDES said that on or about 2/7/1967, he received a long distance phone call from a man who identified himself as JOHN BERENDT, a reporter, for Esquire Magazine in New York. BERENDT stated that he wanted to speak with BENAVIDES about a man called IGOR VAGANOV.
Berendt's Esquire article:
http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm...m/id/28787
Apart from the obvious implications of Benavides' persistent FBI relationship, the item of particular interest is his disclosure to Berendt that the red Ford he saw on 10th Street had a white top, matching Vaganov's Thunderbird, pointed out by William Weston in "Was Jack Tatum an Eyewitness of the Tippit Shooting?" [The Fourth Decade v6 #1]
There is, however, a major flaw in his story. It is significant enough to cause the whole thing to come unglued. The problem lies in the paint of Tatum's Ford Galaxie. As mentioned earlier in this article, Tatum was driving a car that was painted entirely red. But the car that Domingo Benavides saw was a red Ford with a white top. This fact does not appear in Benavides' testimony. It is found in a 1967 Esquire article relating the story of an unsavory character named Igor Vaganov, a 25-year old Latvian-born immigrant and Nazi ideologue.
Benavides' intelligence was passed onto Gemberling, but FBI analysis fell down on the job. This critical detail did not make its way to Moriarty, a pataphysician (scientist of imaginary solutions) whose pataphor ("That which occurs when a lizard's tail has grown so long it breaks off and grows a new lizard") produced a solid red lizard where one with a white top was requisite.
The only serious issue left concerning the BVT trio is whether Vaganov was the tall man wearing khakis on 10th Street observed by Clemons. Superficially he fits, nothing exists in the way of refutation, but there is no corroboration.