The real Berry Seal contract operative MI/CIA

[Linda Minor]

I did not by the book or read all of it. However, I think there was a reference to the Mayor of New Orleans being ID in a photo with Berry Seal which was a wrong ID. The two people were standing next to a Bell Jet Ranger helicopter. The picture was referenced as being taken around the mid sixties.

The problem with that is the helicopter was not even in production at the quoted time. The Jet Ranger did not appear in military or commercial uses until the mid seventies. (72 if I remember right)

I pointed this out to the author and posted that information on a Forum as well as private email to the Forum host. I did not get a respond from the host and was attack as accusing the "reputable" author of being less that truthful...and my statements were a feeble attempt by the CIA to damage the credibility of the story. I was also asked.., " what did I have to hide concerning the Kennedy assassination?" Shortly after those postings the thread was diverted onto another topic concerning my credibility.

As far as I know to this day that information and proof of the helicopter picture and the alledged mayor standing next to Berry Seal has never been corrected or discussed.

Beware; Just because its writen in a book does not make it a fact.

Take care and be safe:

The Mayor of New Orleans was Victor Hugo Schiro. See photos of him in 1965:
http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov/archives/jjm/jjm-4.htm
http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov/ARCHIVES...public.htm
http://specialcollections.tulane.edu/Schiro/Schiro.htm

The helicopter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_206

The Bell 206 is a family of two-bladed, single- or twin-engine helicopters, manufactured by Bell Helicopter at its Mirabel, Quebec plant. Originally developed for the United States Army's Light Observation Helicopter program, the 206 failed to be selected. Bell redesigned the airframe and successfully marketed the aircraft commercially as the five-place Bell 206A JetRanger. ...Bell produced five prototype aircraft in 1962 for the Army's test and evaluation phase. The first prototype flew on 8 December 1962.[1] That same year, all aircraft began to be designated according to the new Joint Services designation system, so the prototype aircraft were redesignated as YOH-4A. Following a flyoff of the Bell, Hughes and Fairchild-Hiller prototypes, the Hughes OH-6 was selected in May 1965.
First flight 8 December 1962 (206)[1]
10 January 1966 (206A)[2]
Introduced 1967

I have compared photos that appear in Hopsicker's hardback edition of Barry & The Boys (page 463) and find that the photo looks very much like some of the photos I have found of the mayor, though I have not been able to find one online showing a profile of him. He always wore a mustache, but from the photo in the book it is impossible to tell whether the man was mustached or not. The unidentified man in the photo looks a great deal like Lloyd Gaubert, Sr., who died in 2005:

CAREER
Positions Held: founder, owner, pres., L.F. Gaubert & Co., Inc., New Orleans, 1947; tool project engr., Fort Worth Plant Convair, 1946-47; tool engr., Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corp., San Diego, 1941-45. Career-Related: pres. Michoud Industrial Complex, Inc., Marine Industrial Cable Corp., Carmel Devel. Corp.; dir. First Nat. Bank Commerce, New Orleans.

http://www.kreweofmidcity.com/obits/Gaubert/