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I thought it may be interesting to have a thread bringing together persons involved or connected in the JFK assassination who were from or had connections to the White Russian community starting with George de Mohrenschildt
George de Mohrenschildt
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George de Mohrenschildt ([url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_17]April 17 ( Gregorian calendar), 1911 – March 29, 1977) was a petroleum geologist who befriended Lee Harvey Oswald during the months preceding the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
Early life
George de Mohrenschildt was born in Mozyr in Tsarist Russia, near the border of Poland (his birthdate was April 4, old-style Russian Julian calendar). His wealthy father, Sergius Alexander von Mohrenschildt, an anti-Communist, was arrested and put in prison by the Bolsheviks shortly after the Russian Revolution. After being sentenced to life as an exile in Siberia, he managed to escape with his family to Poland during the 1920s, where George graduated from a military academy in 1931. He received the equivalent of a doctor of science of international commerce from the University of Liège in 1938.
When de Mohrenschildt immigrated to the United States in May 1938, British intelligence reportedly notified the U.S. government they suspected he was working for German intelligence and by some accounts he was under FBI surveillance for a time. At first, de Mohrenschildt worked for the Shumaker company in New York City, purportedly under Pierre Fraiss, who had connections with French intelligence and according to de Mohrenschildt (see his Warren Hearing testimony) was engaged in gathering information about people engaged in "pro-German" activities, such as Nazi bidding for U.S. oil leases before the U.S. became involved in the war. In his testimony, de Mohrenschildt makes it clear that his data-collection was anti-Nazi activity, since it was aimed at helping the French, by out-bidding the Germans.
De Mohrenschildt spent the summer of 1938 with his older brother Dimitri on Long Island, New York, where he became acquainted with the Bouvier family, including young Jackie, future wife of John F. Kennedy, and became a close friend of Jackie's aunt Edith Bouvier Beale.
He dabbled in the insurance business from 1939 to 1941, but failed to pass his broker's examination. In 1941, de Mohrenschildt became associated with Film Facts in New York, a production company owned by his cousin Baron Maydell who was said to have pro-Nazi sympathies (de Mohrenschildt flatly denied any Nazi sympathies of his own, since he was helping raise money for the Polish resistance). De Mohrenschildt made a documentary film about resistance fighters in Poland but when the United States entered World War II his application to join the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was rejected.
George's elder brother Dimitri von Mohrenschildt was a staunch anti-Communist and member of the OSS and one of the founders of the CIA's Radio Free Europe and Amcomlib (aka Radio Liberty) stations. His contacts included top officials of the agency. Dimitri died at the age of 100 in 2002.
George received a master's degree in petroleum geology from the University of Texas in 1945.
Dallas, Oswald and Haiti
After the war de Mohrenschildt settled in Dallas, Texas, and took a job with oilman Clint Murchison as a petroleum geologist. He became a U.S. citizen in 1949. Described as sophisticated and articulate, he became a respected member of the Russian emigre community in Dallas, teaching at a local college, working for various oil companies as a geologist and traveling throughout the Americas with his fourth wife, Jeanne, whom he married in 1959. [1]
Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife Marina Oswald were introduced to de Mohrenschildt in the summer of 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas. De Mohrenschildt had heard of the Oswalds from one of the Russian-speaking group of émigrés in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. George and Jeanne befriended them, trying to help them as best they could, along with introducing them into the Russian community. In his Warren Commission testimony in 1964, de Mohrenschildt stated that he believed he had discussed Oswald with J. Walton Moore, of the Dallas office of the CIA, whom de Mohrenschildt had known since 1957. De Mohrenschildt asserted that shortly after meeting Oswald he asked Moore and Ft. Worth attorney Max Clark about Oswald to reassure himself that it was "safe" for the de Mohrenschildts to assist Oswald. According to his testimony, de Mohrenschildt was told by one of the persons he talked to about Oswald, although he said he could not remember who it was, that "the guy seems to be OK." (Moore said in a 1978 interview for the House Select Committee on Assassinations that the allegations that de Mohrenschildt asked Moore's "permission" to contact Oswald were false.)
On April 13, 1963, three days after Oswald's attempt on the life of conservative activist General Edwin Walker at his home in Dallas (for which the police had no suspects), [2] the de Mohrenschildts visited the Oswalds' apartment. George, knowing Oswald's dislike of Walker, joked to Oswald upon entry, "Hey, Lee! How is it possible that you missed?" Lee and Marina looked at each other but said nothing. [3][4] Jeanne de Mohrenschildt later saw a rifle standing against the wall in a room that served as Oswald's study. [5] When she and George asked why Lee owned a rifle, Marina and Lee both replied that it was for target shooting. [6]
In June 1963, de Mohrenschildt moved to Haiti, where he and other investors had set up an industrial development enterprise whose work was to include conducting a geological survey of Haiti to plot out oil and geological resources on the island. After Kennedy was assassinated, he testified before the Warren Commission in 1964. (For this testimony in the hearing record, see [2] and following pages). The de Mohrenschildts left Haiti in 1967 and returned to Dallas.
Later life & death
In 1977 Dutch journalist Willem Oltmans went to Texas and brought de Morenschildt to Holland. After de Mohrenschildt arrived in Holland, Oltmans invited him with some Russian friends. They went to Brussels and had plans to go to Liege,a Belgium city in the french speaking part of Belgium. The family of Oltmans owned a familyhouse not far from Liege on the countryside. They like to stay there. In Brussels de Mohrenschildt suddenly disappeared after he made a small walk before he would go for lunch with Oltmans and his friends. Oltmans waited for him but he didn't come back. Months later the police found the dead body of Mr de Morhenschildt in Florida. Oltmans conclusion is that the CIA or agents connected to the inner circle of the CIA killed de Mohrenschildt because he was ready to tell the real story of his involvement in the assassination of Kennedy to the journalist Willem Oltmans. Lee Havey Oswalt was not the man who killed Kennedy according journalist Willem Oltmans.He was only the mask. The CIA killed the only witness de Mohrenschildt before he could tell the whole story.
For reasons unknown, George and Jeanne de Mohrenschildt quietly obtained a divorce in Dallas, Texas on 3 April 1973, after nearly fourteen years of marriage. [7] It was not reported in the local newspapers, and the couple continued to present themselves as husband and wife. [8]
By the early 1970s, reportedly, de Mohrenschildt's behavior leaned towards the erratic. On September 17, 1976, the CIA requested that the FBI locate de Mohrenschildt, because he had "attempted to get in touch with the CIA Director." [9] De Mohrenschildt had "written a letter to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency asking for his assistance. It seems that Subject feels he is being harassed as a result of his involvement with the OSWALD case." [10] George Bush wrote back:
Let me say first that I know it must have been difficult for you to seek my help in the situation outlined in your letter. I believe I can appreciate your state of mind in view of your daughter's tragic death a few years ago, and the current poor state of your wife's health. I was extremely sorry to hear of these circumstances. In your situation I can well imagine how the attentions you described in your letter affect both you and your wife. However, my staff has been unable to find any indication of interest in your activities on the part of Federal authorities in recent years. The flurry of interest that attended your testimony before the Warren Commission has long subsided. I can only speculate that you may have become "newsworthy" again in view of the renewed interest in the Kennedy assassination, and thus may be attracting the attention of people in the media. I hope this letter had been of some comfort to you, George, although I realize I am unable to answer your question completely. George Bush, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. [CIA Exec Reg. # 76,51571 9.28.76] [11]
On November 9, 1976, Jeanne had him committed to a mental institution in Texas for three months, and listed in a notarized affidavit four previous suicide attempts while he was in the Dallas area. In the affidavit she stated that George suffered from depression, heard voices, saw visions, and believed that the FBI and the Jewish Mafia were persecuting him.
On March 16, 1977, de Mohrenschildt returned to the United States from his trip in Belgium where he suddenly disappeared in Brussels. His daughter talked with him at length and found him to be deeply disturbed about certain matters and had expressed a desire to commit suicide. De Mohrenschildt contacted Kennedy assassination researcher Edward Jay Epstein, told him that he needed money, and accepted $4,000 for an interview to be published in Reader's Digest, during which he claimed that in 1962 a CIA operative in Dallas named Moore asked him to learn what he could about Oswald's activities in the Soviet Union. De Mohrenschildt said that in exchange he received help in an oil transaction he was attempting to negotiate with Haitian dictator Papa Doc Duvalier. When the Haitian government gave de Mohrenschildt the contract in March 1963, he presumed it was payment for assisting the CIA. On March 29, 1977, while on a break from the interview, de Mohrenschildt received a card from Gaeton Fonzi, an investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
Another backyard photo
Days later, on April 1, 1977, Jeanne de Mohrenschildt gave the House Select Committee on Assassinations a photograph taken of Lee Harvey Oswald, by his wife Marina, standing in his Dallas backyard holding two newspapers and a rifle, and with a pistol on his hip. The existence of this print, while similar to others which had been found among Oswald's effects on November 23, 1963, was previously unknown.
On the back was written To my friend George from Lee Oswald, and the date “5/IV/63” [this is in non-USA convention with day in front and month in Roman numerals, and means 5 April 1963] [12] along with the words “Copyright Geo de M”' and a Russian phrase translated as “'Hunter of fascists, ha-ha-ha!” Handwriting specialists later concluded that the words “To my friend George…” and Oswald's signature were written by Lee Harvey Oswald but could not determine whether the rest was the writing of Lee Oswald, George de Mohrenschildt or Marina Oswald. Some historians have speculated the Russian line was written by Marina, in sarcasm. (George de Mohrenschildt in his memoir translated it as "This is the hunter of fascists, ha, ha, ha!" and also assumed that Marina had written it sarcastically).
George de Mohrenschildt wrote in his manuscript (reference and pages cited above) that he had missed Oswald's photograph in packing for the move to Haiti in May, 1963, and this was why he hadn't mentioned it to the Warren Commission (though he had noted in his manuscript that Oswald had a rifle in April, 1963, because he had seen it in the apartment at Easter and scoffed to Lee that he had missed General Walker, remembering in memory that Lee had blanched at the joke). According to de Mohrenschildt, the photo was not found among his stored papers until his wife found it in 1967. When analyzed by the HSCA in 1977, this photo turned out to be a first generation print of the backyard photo already known to the Warren commission as CE-133A, and which had probably been taken on March 31, 1963.
Memoir
Jeanne de Mohrenschildt also gave the HSCA committee a copy of a manuscript called I Am a Patsy! I Am a Patsy! which George de Mohrenschildt had recently written about his relationship with his "dear, dead friend" Oswald, wherein he said that the Lee Oswald he knew, while capable of violence and petty meanness, would not have been the sort of person to have killed John F. Kennedy. In part this judgment was based on de Mohrenschildt's estimation of Oswald's political views and Kennedy's liberal ideas. The memoir has never been published as a trade book but has been available online since the entire typescript was published as an appendix in the HSCA report [3]. (For a partial re-type see [4]). De Mohrenschildt's testimony to the Warren Commission in early 1964, however, paints a quite different view of Oswald — a man de Mohrenschildt said he considered a "kid" and not a friend. Due to the largely complete conflict in point of view between these two accounts (one given under some duress and the other written ostensibly for money) most historians give neither account of de Mohrenschildt great historical value [5].
Depictions in the Popular media
De Mohrenschildt was played by Willem Oltmans in the 1991 film JFK and by Bill Bolender in the 1993 TV movie Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald.
References
-The film made by Theo van Gogh (he was later killed in Amsterdam by a Muslim fanatic) in 1997 is a long interview with journalist Willem Oltmans. The interview is more then 4 hours on DVD. Name of the film: Theo van Gogh, Willem Oltmans "De Eenmotorige Mug". A film from the Shooting Star Filmcompany Inc, Holland 2004. Oltmans tells in detail the story of his contacts with de Mohrenschildt (and the mother of Lee Havey Oswald, Mrs Marguerite Oswald) till the moments de Mohrenschildt was killed in 1977.
- Willem Oltmans' Book, "Memoires 1963-1963". Publisher Stichting Uitgeverij De Papieren Tijger, Holland, 2000. ISBN 90 6728 111 5.
- ^ Warren Commission Hearings, Testimony of Jeanne de Mohrenschildt.
- ^ "Police Keep Watch on Walker's Home", Dallas Morning News, April 12, 1963, section 1, p. 11.
- ^ Warren Commission testimony of Marina Oswald, 1 H 18.
- ^ Warren Commission testimony of George de Mohrenschildt, 9 H 250.
- ^ Warren Commission testimony of Jeanne de Mohrenschildt, 9 H 314–316.
- ^ Warren Commission testimony of Jeanne de Mohrenschildt, 9 H 314–316. Warren Commission testimony of George de Mohrenschildt, 9 H 249.
- ^ Ancestry.com. Texas Divorce Index, 1968-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: Texas Department of State Health Services. Texas Divorce Index, 1968-2002. Texas, USA: Texas Department of State Health Services.
- ^ For example, from the death investigation report by Thomas Neighbors of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office:
At 2315 hours, on 29 March, 1977, this writer made contact with the victim's wife, MRS. JEANNE deMOHRENSCHILDT, in California … and advised her of her husband's demise; a fact which she had already been made aware of by several newsmen who had telephoned her seeking a story. She stated that she has been married to the victim for the past twenty-one years and noted that over the past several years he has been acting in an "insane manner".
- ^ CIA Message Reference Number 915341.
- ^ CIA MFR Raymond M. Reardon SAG 9.20.76.
- ^ George H. W. Bush recalled, "I first met de Mohrenschildt in the early 1940s. He was an uncle to my Andover roommate." (The roommate, Edward G. Hooker, was actually Dimitri von Mohrenschildt's stepson).
- ^ This date was confirmed by de Mohrenschildt in his memoir, see [1], pp. 254-262]
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In charge of CIA assassination teams
Went to Russian and fought with White Russians
He was top counterintelligence officer for the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, and, toward the end of the war, the military leader of the Operation ALSOS.
Served under General Douglas MacArthur with Landsdale in Japan (1946-47). From 1948-51, he served as a military representative to the Central Intelligence Agency, and during this time, he was in charge of a controversial CIA program PB/7, also known as Operation Bloodstone which involved recruiting former German officers and diplomats who could be used in the covert war against the Soviet Union. This included former members of the Nazi Party such as Gustav Hilger and Hans von Bittenfield.
He also served in Austria (1952-53), and in Washington, D.C. (1953-57)
In 1954, he testified against Dr. Robert Oppenheimer
Involved with Gottlieb in drug experiments.
ALSOS went after both nuclear and chemical warfare and scientists
ALSOS got 70.000 tons of U ore and many scientists, etc.
Pash’s role in assassinations in Final Report U.S. Senate 1975-76 Report on U.S. Intelligence Activities
Bloodstone was planning Cold War [Simpson] taking in many pro-nazi/anti-soviets
Brought many high-level propagandists, bureaucrats, scientists, academics US
Superseded by similar CIA programs when phased-out
Championed by Wisner and Robert Lovett
Killed double agents and persons in DP camps
Pash earlier had had role in Japanese Depention camps in CA
Was Chief of counterintelligence Manhattan Project
Pash moved to CIA in March 1949 to form PB/7 – assassinations, kidnappings, druggings, etc.
James Richards says he maybe was in DP and on AF1 – photos convincing.
PASH BORIS T
Assn. Former Intelligence Officers. Membership Directory. 1983
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1995-W (14-5)
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1996-SP (22)
Constantine,A. Psychic Dictatorship in the U.S.A. 1995 (192)
Copeland,M. The Game Player. 1989 (34-6, 38)
Corson,W. The Armies of Ignorance. 1977 (362-5)
DiEugenio,J. Pease,L. The Assassinations. 2003 (164)
Galiullin,R. The CIA in Asia. 1988 (50, 52)
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (165, 226, 243)
Hinckle,W. Turner,W. The Fish is Red. 1981 (29)
Hunt,L. Secret Agenda. 1991 (11)
Intelligence/Parapolitics (Paris) 1986-11 (B2)
Lane,M. Plausible Denial. 1991 (155)
Minnick,W. Spies and Provocateurs. 1992 (172)
Peake,H. Reader's Guide to Intelligence Periodicals. 1992 (50)
Piper,M.C. Final Judgment. 1993 (207)
Sayer,I. Botting,D. America's Secret Army. 1989 (71, 76, 78, 346)
Simpson,C. Blowback. 1988 (26, 108, 152-5)
Thomas,E. The Very Best Men. 1996 (85)
Trento,J. The Secret History of the CIA. 2001 (193-4)
Associates of Pash:
ADAMS ARTHUR ALEXANDROVICH
Sayer,I. Botting,D. America's Secret Army. 1989 (76)
ANGLETON JAMES JESUS
DiEugenio,J. Pease,L. The Assassinations. 2003 (164)
Lane,M. Plausible Denial. 1991 (155)
Piper,M.C. Final Judgment. 1993 (207)
BANDERA STEFAN
Simpson,C. Blowback. 1988 (152)
BISSELL RICHARD MERVIN JR
Galiullin,R. The CIA in Asia. 1988 (52)
Trento,J. The Secret History of the CIA. 2001 (193)
BOYD JOHN P
Simpson,C. Blowback. 1988 (108)
BURNHAM JAMES
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (243)
CALOGERO JAMES
Peake,H. Reader's Guide to Intelligence Periodicals. 1992 (50)
CALVERT ALLEN
Copeland,M. The Game Player. 1989 (35 38)
CALVERT HORACE K
Sayer,I. Botting,D. America's Secret Army. 1989 (71)
CASEY WILLIAM JOSEPH
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (165)
CLARK RONALD W
Intelligence/Parapolitics (Paris) 1986-11 (2)
CLINE RAY STEINER
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (165)
COPELAND MILES
Trento,J. The Secret History of the CIA. 2001 (194)
CORSON WILLIAM R
Galiullin,R. The CIA in Asia. 1988 (50)
COUNTER INTELLIGENCE CORPS
Peake,H. Reader's Guide to Intelligence Periodicals. 1992 (50)
DAENZER HERMANN
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1996-SP (22)
DEACON RICHARD
Intelligence/Parapolitics (Paris) 1986-11 (2)
DEAN GORDON E
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1995-W (15)
DEDEYAN SAHAG K
Minnick,W. Spies and Provocateurs. 1992 (172)
DEMNITZ ARTHUR
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1996-SP (22)
DENESELYA DONALD E
Trento,J. The Secret History of the CIA. 2001 (194)
DOSTI HASAN
Simpson,C. Blowback. 1988 (154)
DOYLE ROBERT
Copeland,M. The Game Player. 1989 (36)
DULLES ALLEN WELSH
Lane,M. Plausible Denial. 1991 (155)
EARMAN JOHN S JR
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1995-W (14)
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (226)
EDWARDS DUVAL A
Peake,H. Reader's Guide to Intelligence Periodicals. 1992 (50)
EISENHOWER DWIGHT DAVID
Trento,J. The Secret History of the CIA. 2001 (194)
EVANS ROBLEY D
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1996-SP (22)
FLEISHMAN RUDOLPH
Hunt,L. Secret Agenda. 1991 (11)
FOSTER JANE
Intelligence/Parapolitics (Paris) 1986-11 (2)
FRANK JOSEPH (CIA)
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1995-W (15)
FREER CHRISTIAN M
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1995-W (15)
GAGEN NORBERT I
Sayer,I. Botting,D. America's Secret Army. 1989 (76)
GEHLEN REINHARD
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (165)
GESCHICKTER CHARLES F
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1995-W (14)
GOTTLIEB SIDNEY
Hinckle,W. Turner,W. The Fish is Red. 1981 (29)
Trento,J. The Secret History of the CIA. 2001 (194)
GOUDSMIT SAMUEL
Hunt,L. Secret Agenda. 1991 (11)
GREENWAY GILBERT
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (243)
GREEN ED (CIA)
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (243)
HARBISON EARLE HARRISON JR
Constantine,A. Psychic Dictatorship in the U.S.A. 1995 (192)
HARLEY DON
Sayer,I. Botting,D. America's Secret Army. 1989 (76)
HARVEY WILLIAM KING
DiEugenio,J. Pease,L. The Assassinations. 2003 (164)
HAYMAKER WEBB
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1995-W (14)
HISKEY CLARENCE F
Sayer,I. Botting,D. America's Secret Army. 1989 (76)
HUGHES JOHN C
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (165)
HUGHES VINCE
Peake,H. Reader's Guide to Intelligence Periodicals. 1992 (50)
HULICK CHARLES VINAL
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (243)
HUNT E HOWARD
DiEugenio,J. Pease,L. The Assassinations. 2003 (164)
Piper,M.C. Final Judgment. 1993 (207)
Thomas,E. The Very Best Men. 1996 (85)
Trento,J. The Secret History of the CIA. 2001 (193)
JACOBS ARTHUR L
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (243)
JAMISON LEN
Sayer,I. Botting,D. America's Secret Army. 1989 (76)
KHRENOV VLADIMIR M
Minnick,W. Spies and Provocateurs. 1992 (172)
KNIGHTLEY PHILLIP
Intelligence/Parapolitics (Paris) 1986-11 (2)
LEAGUE YOUNG GERMANS
Sayer,I. Botting,D. America's Secret Army. 1989 (346)
LINDSAY FRANKLIN ANTHONY
Simpson,C. Blowback. 1988 (152)
LUTHER WOLFGANG
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1996-SP (22)
LYSENKO NIKOLAI Y
Minnick,W. Spies and Provocateurs. 1992 (172)
MADDOX WILLIAM PERCY
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (165)
MAHEU ROBERT AIME
Hinckle,W. Turner,W. The Fish is Red. 1981 (29)
MANDELSTAM ROBERT STANLEY
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (243)
MCDOWELL ROBERT
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (226)
MERRILL LYNCH COMPANY
Constantine,A. Psychic Dictatorship in the U.S.A. 1995 (192)
MILLER FRANCIS PICKENS
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (165)
MITCHELL HARVEY
Intelligence/Parapolitics (Paris) 1986-11 (2)
MONSANTO COMPANY
Constantine,A. Psychic Dictatorship in the U.S.A. 1995 (192)
MURPHY ROBERT DANIEL
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (226)
NASSER GAMAL ABDEL
Trento,J. The Secret History of the CIA. 2001 (194)
OCONNELL JAMES P
Hinckle,W. Turner,W. The Fish is Red. 1981 (29)
OFFICE POLICY COORDINATION
Trento,J. The Secret History of the CIA. 2001 (193)
OGARA JOHN F
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (165)
OPERATION BLOODSTONE
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1995-W (14)
Sayer,I. Botting,D. America's Secret Army. 1989 (346)
Simpson,C. Blowback. 1988 (108)
OPPENHEIMER JONATHAN ROBERT
Sayer,I. Botting,D. America's Secret Army. 1989 (76)
PAQUES GEORGES
Minnick,W. Spies and Provocateurs. 1992 (172)
PARSONS W B
Sayer,I. Botting,D. America's Secret Army. 1989 (71)
PASKALIAN SARKIS O
Minnick,W. Spies and Provocateurs. 1992 (172)
RAJEWSKI BORIS
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1996-SP (22)
REBET LEV
Simpson,C. Blowback. 1988 (152)
RHODES RICHARD
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1995-W (15)
ROCCA RAYMOND G
Lane,M. Plausible Denial. 1991 (155)
ROOSEVELT ARCHIBALD B
Trento,J. The Secret History of the CIA. 2001 (194)
ROSSELLI JOHN
Hinckle,W. Turner,W. The Fish is Red. 1981 (29)
RUCKELSHAUS WILLIAM DOYLE
Constantine,A. Psychic Dictatorship in the U.S.A. 1995 (192)
SAMUELS NATHANIEL
Copeland,M. The Game Player. 1989 (36)
SCHUBERT GERHARD (RADIATION RESEARCHER)
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1996-SP (22)
SHACKLEY THEODORE GEORGE
Trento,J. The Secret History of the CIA. 2001 (193)
SIBERT EDWIN LUTHER
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (165)
SMITH WALTER BEDELL
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (165)
STASHYNSKY BOGDAN
Simpson,C. Blowback. 1988 (152)
STONE ROBERT S
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1996-SP (22)
STRANG DIETER
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1996-SP (22)
STRICKLAND LEE S
Intelligence/Parapolitics (Paris) 1986-11 (2)
STRUGHOLD HUBERTUS
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1995-W (14)
STUDIES INTELLIGENCE JOURNAL
Intelligence/Parapolitics (Paris) 1986-11 (2 2)
TAYLOR MICHAEL (FDA/MONSANTO)
Constantine,A. Psychic Dictatorship in the U.S.A. 1995 (192)
THOMPSON LLEWELLYN E JR
Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (226)
TRENTO JOSEPH JOHN
Lane,M. Plausible Denial. 1991 (155)
Piper,M.C. Final Judgment. 1993 (207)
TRUSCOTT LUCIAN K (GEN)
Trento,J. The Secret History of the CIA. 2001 (194)
TURNER STANSFIELD
Constantine,A. Psychic Dictatorship in the U.S.A. 1995 (192)
VLASOV VASILI P
Minnick,W. Spies and Provocateurs. 1992 (172)
VON HAAGEN EUGEN
Hunt,L. Secret Agenda. 1991 (11)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Lemkin
In charge of CIA assassination teams...
Worked under LHO's boss, James Jesus, did he not? Anyone got a copy of the NYT piece sourced to Howard Hunt when he was in the nick and in the mood to play to hardball, the piece in which he introduced the (outside) world to Pash and his CIA assassination unit? (Damned if I can find mine.)
Paul
Paul Rigby
Peter Lemkin
Member
Yes, It seem he worked with Angleton.
"The stakes in the search for the scientific expertise of Germany were high. The single most important American strike force, for example, was the Alsos raiding team, which targeted Axis atomic research, uranium stockpiles, and nuclear scientists, as well as Nazi chemical and biological warfare research. The commander of this assignment was U.S. Army Colonel Boris Pash, who had previously been security chief of the Manhattan Project - the United States’ atomic bomb development program - and who later played an important role in highly secret U.S. covert action programs. Pash succeeded brilliantly in his mission, seizing top German scientists and more than 70,000 tons of Axis uranium ore and radium products. The uranium taken during these raids was eventually shipped to the United States and incorporated in U.S. atomic weapons."
(Simpson, Christopher, "Blowback," Collier Books, New York, 1988, p. 26.)
"Another notable Bloodstone veteran is Boris Pash, a career intelligence officer identified in the Final Report of the U.S. Senate’s 1975-1976 investigation into U.S. intelligence activities as the retired director of the CIA unit responsible for planning assassinations"
("Blowback," p. 108). "
"Blowback," p. 152-153 says:
"The records of Operation Bloodstone add an important new piece of information to one of the most explosive public issues of today: the role of the U.S. government - specifically the CIA - in assassinations and attempted assassinations of foreign officials. According to a 1976 Senate investigation, a key official of Operation Bloodstone is the OPC officer who was specifically delegated responsibility for planning the agency’s assassinations, kidnappings, and similar ’wet work.’
"Colonel Boris Pash, one of the most extraordinary and least known characters in American intelligence history... his work for U.S. intelligence agencies places him in the critical office given the responsibility for planning postwar assassination operations... Colonel Pash is one of the few remaining originals of U.S. intelligence, and his experience in ’fighting the communists’ goes back to the 1917 Russian Revolution.
He was in Moscow and Eastern Europe in those days with his father, a missionary of Russian extraction, and the young Pash spent much of the Soviet civil war working on the side of the White armies, then with Czarist refugees who had fled their country. In the 1920s Pash signed on as a reserve officer with the U.S. military intelligence service... he... played a role in the internment of Japanese civilians in California, and was soon assigned as chief counterintelligence officer on the Manhattan Project, the super secret U.S. effort to develop the atomic bomb.
(More than a decade later it was Colonel Pash’s testimony that helped seal the fate of scientist Robert Oppenheimer in the well-known 1954 security case.)
Before the war was out, it will be recalled, Colonel Pash led the series of celebrated special operations known as the ALSOS Mission that were designed to capture the best atomic and chemical warfare experts that the Nazis had to offer.
"After the war Colonel Pash served as the army’s representative on Bloodstone in the spring of 1948, when the tasks of that project, including recruiting defectors, smuggling refugees out from behind the Iron Curtain, and assassinations, were established. Bloodstone’s ’special operations,’ as defined by the Pentagon, could ’include clandestine warfare, subversion, sabotage and... assassination,’ according to the 1948 Joint Chiefs of Staff records. In March 1949, Pash was assigned by the army to the OPC division of the CIA... His five-man CIA unit, known as PB/7, was given a written charter that read in part that,
’PB/7 will be responsible for assassinations, kidnapping, and such other functions as from time to time may be given it... by higher authority.’"
From "Dulles" by Leonard Mosley (A Biography of Eleanor, Allen and John Foster. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1978.), we find, p. 459:
"But now he [Allen Dulles] was interested in the more sinister Agency experiments in mind-bending drugs, portable phials of lethal viruses, and esoteric poisons that killed without trace. Allen’s sense of humor was touched when he learned that the unit working on these noxious enterprises was called the "Health Alteration Committee" (directed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb and Boris Pash)... Richard Bissell... had now succeeded Frank Wisner as deputy director of Plans..."
To learn more about the mind-control and torture experiments of Pash and Gottlieb, read "Journey Into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse" by Gordon Thomas (Bantam Books, New York, 1989).
One of the people they killed was Frank Olson (a CIA germ warfare doctor whose specialty was anthrax), while they were working on Subproject-68, also known as MK-ULTRA. MK-ULTRA started as "Project Bluebird," set up on April 20, 1950, by CIA Director Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter (who later was a member of NICAP), and on July 20, 1950, they began using sodium amytal, Benzedrine and other drugs to "brainwash" prisoners. In September 1950, the "Miami News" published an article under the headline BRAIN WASHING TACTICS which was considered the first formal use of the term. One of Gottlieb’s partners was Dr. Harold Wolff, who appears to be a Paperclip doctor. He worked with Parke-Davis and "...remained closely connected with the M-K Ultra brainwashing project" (p. 191). He helped set up an apartment and introduce LSD to the hippies in San Francisco, and worked on Project Mindbender (a Manchurian-Candidate type operation) with William Buckley.
Isn’t it interesting that so many of the participants in the most secret of secrets of World War II are still very involved in the Kennedy assassination and other more current affairs. Many books and articles have been written about the CIA being involved in the JFK assassination, and now you know that the man in charge of CIA assassinations was Boris Pash, formerly chief of security for the Manhattan Project. He was also head of the group trying to capture Hitler’s advanced technology, including "flying saucers" and other secrets.
The book "ZR Rifle - The Plot To Kill Kennedy And Castro" by Claudia Furiati, p. 36, says that a man named William Harvey had been in charge of the CIA post in West Berlin until 1960, then was placed in charge of CIA assassinations by Richard Bissell in 1961. The plans to assassinate political leaders was code-named "ZR-RIFLE," headed by Harvey. Bo Gritz said on p. 525 of his book: "The Kennedy assassination was code-named ’ZR-RIFLE’." It seems apparent to me that Harvey and Pash were wearing the same pair of pants.
In 1941, Ian Fleming, the future creator of the "James Bond" stories, and at that time a high ranking officer of British Intelligence, suggested to William Donovan that he set up a specially trained and selected assassination unit. PB/7 (Pash Boris Seven) was the original of the "Agent 007" concept. If my memory is correct, I believe Nixon stated that William Harvey was the real 007.
I assume Pash was Agent 001, or perhaps he had seven agents working for him (originally five). If you want to understand more of how these various factions such as CIA, KGB, Nazis, Communists, FBI, etc., can be fighting each other and working together at the same time, you need to understand who was above them, controlling them. To understand that, look to British Intelligence! You will find British Intelligence to be an operation of British and European Royalty and "Aristocracy"!
E. Howard Hunt, while in prison in December, 1975, in an interview with the "New York Times," said that the head of the CIA assassination unit was Boris Pash. Pash was assigned to Angleton at this time (see "Final Judgment," p. 207). Angleton was head of the Israel desk of the CIA and was very pro-Israel. He was also closely involved with Meyer Lansky.
In "Cold Warrior," the biography of James Jesus Angleton by Tom Mangold, he says on page 362:
"I would like to place on the record, however, that Angleton’s closest professional friends overseas, then and subsequently, came from the Mossad (the Israeli intelligence-gathering service) and that he was held in immense esteem by his Israeli colleagues and by the state of Israel, which was to award him profound honors after his death."
His place was taken after his death by William Colby. When Kissinger wanted to "get LaRouche," he turned to Angleton for help. Angleton’s tombstone is in Hebrew.
On page 97 of "Final Judgment," Piper says that "The ZR/Rifle Team, in fact, was one of Angleton’s pet in-house CIA projects, which he ran in conjunction with his CIA colleague, William Harvey."
According to Claudia Furiati, Joseph Schreider was in charge of the CIA laboratories and of developing poisons for assassinations, and says that Harvey was in charge of political assassinations, working out of the Miami office run by [Paperclip] Shackley, and was working with Schreider to try to poison Castro. Above we have Boris Pash and Sidney Gottlieb working together in the same manner. We have Pash and Harvey in the same locations, doing the same jobs, in charge of the same projects - talk about featherbedding. I believe that Harvey was actually at headquarters in Langley, over Shackley in Miami.
"Blowback," p. 153, says that Pash
"...served as the Army’s representative on Bloodstone in the spring of 1948, when the tasks of that project, including recruiting defectors, smuggling refugees out from behind the Iron Curtain, and assassinations, were established. In March 1949, Pash was assigned by the Army to the OPC division of the CIA."
Harvey died June 6, 1976, according to Dick Russell, and Pash was in his 80s in 1988 according to Simpson.
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To me what is especially intriguing about Pash is his relationship with William Harvey during the Manhattan Project.
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Pash-Anglelton-Harvey-Gottlieb-Lansdale and others make quite an unsavery bunch. Here is Pash's testimony before the Church Committee Hearings
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
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Finally had a moment this weekend to reread parts of Family of Secrets. It holds up, pretty well I'd say. The chapter on Bush and de Mohrenschildt is stunning. Remarkable for the way it blends personal detail with wider corporate implications. I typed this, which includes one small part of the brilliant chapter 5. It may be useful for those who have not seen this book yet.
This book is an absolute must read. BY THE WAY I POSTED THIS ALL OVER THE PLACE TODAY. ONE PLACE IM NOT ALLOWED ON ANYMORE ( FOR CRITICIZING BUSHBAMA) IS DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND. IF ANYONE COULD PLEASE POST THIS ON THIS THREAD OVER THERE I WOULD APPRECIATE IT. It gets a lot of views. and can really help the sale of this important book. http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis...sg_id=7010
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“In an era dominated by corporate journalism and an ideological right-wing media, Russ Baker’s work stands out for its fierce independence, fact-based reporting, and concern for what matters most to our democracy…A lot of us look to Russ to tell us what we didn’t know.” —Bill Moyers, author and host, Bill Moyers’ Journal (PBS)
There is probably nobody more important or laboriously multi-faceted in character through all Kennedy assassination literature than George de Mohrenschildt, the White Russian aristocrat, who met the Oswalds in Dallas, after their return form the USSR, and proceeded to introduce them to a key group of very highly connected oil and intelligence volk in the booming city's ever more influential petroleum circle. It was de Mohrenschildt who introduced to the Oswalds to the Paines, who put up Marina Oswald and her children, and who took such strange and detailed interest in the life of a professed "Marxist" defector to the Soviet Union's repatriation to the single most rightwing metropolis on the face of the earth. (Later it would be discovered that the both Paines had an immediate family history that was inseparable from US intelligence history.)
For much more on the fascinating Ruth Hyde Paine see http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKpaine.htm
(SEE SPARTACUS THREAD ON DE MOHRENSCHILDT FOR MORE ON THIS KEYSTONE FIGURE. THE GREAT THING ABOUT THE SPARTACUS THREADS ARE THE NUMEROUS DIFFERENT SOURCES, WHICH ARE DIRECTLY EXCERPTED AT THE BOTTOM OF EACH PATE. INVALUABLE RESOURCE, PROVIDED BY JOHN SIMKIN http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFK...childt.htm )
Russ Baker, in his new book Family of Secrets, has discovered a wealth of incredible detail that connects the de Mohrenschildt family with the Bush family on many different levels long before Oswald's #1 CIA handler ever met the returning marine and his Russian wife in Dallas in 1962. Baker traces these direct, high level intelligence and economic relations between the families of Bush and de Mohrenschildt right back to 1917 and shows that they also involved those at the summit of US diplomacy, including, Wilson's Secretary of State Lansing, Allen Dulles, and key Houston Anglophile (and Petrophile) Colonel Edward House, as well as the ancestors
of Bush Uber-aid, James A. Baker III.These ties are described in great detail, were not passing in nature, and are between five and seven closer than the "six degrees" type with which we have been encouraged to glaze over political history in recent years.
Then, barely into his new job as director of the CIA in 1976-- a job that he claimed was his first work for the Agency, but which is proven blatantly false by this book-- George H.W. Bush received this desperate plea for help from his old personal and family acquaintance:
Maybe you will be able to bring a solution into the hopeless
situation I find myself in. My wife and I find ourselves sur-
rounded by some vigilantes; our phone bugged; and we are
being followed everywhere. Either FBI is involved in this or
they do not want to accept my complaints. We are driven to
insanity by this situation... I tried to write, stupidly and un-
successfully , about Lee H. Oswald and must have angered
people... Could you do something to remove this net around
us? THis will be my last request for help and I will not annoy
you any more.
The writer signed himself "G. de Mohrenschildt."(1) p. 67.
The CIA assumed the latter writer to be a crank, Just to be sure, however, they asked their boss: did he by any chance know a man named de Mohrenschildt?
Bush Responded by Memo, seemingly, self-typed: "I do know this man DeMohrenschildt. I first men [sic] him in the early 40'3 [sic]. He was an uncle to my Andover roommate. Later he surfaced in Dallas (50's maybe)... Then he surfaced when Oswald shot to prominence. He knew Oswald before the assassination of Pres. Kennedy. I don't recall his role in all this."
Half a year later, de Mohrenschildt was dead. It was one of the most suspicious deaths in a very long list associated with the Kennedy assassination and its investigation. The death occurred just two days before de Mohrenschildt was scheduled to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations, and only around an hour after an interview with a journalist employed by Time-Life, the single most intelligence connected media company in US history, and a company present at nearly every crucial turn of the investigations long history-- including the purchase and storage of the Zapruder film by top Psychological Warfare expert and Henry Luce's Far Right hand, C.D. Jackson (see Spartacus thread). Here is more from Russ Baker's incredible book. While it is very difficult to capture how the pieces fit together in a book filled with such byzantine detail-- yet also impeccable documentation-- this passage is useful in showing that the assassination was much more than a case of spies and individuals disconnected form clear policy forks in the road. On the contrary, vast structures of political and economic power were involved in such a way as to constantly remind us of the single, vulgar reality: when Allan Dulles played midwife to the CIA, the manger was Wall Street.
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Cuba Si, Cuba No
During the 1950's, as petroleum reserves in the Southwest declined, oilmen there were looking to the southern hemisphere for new opportunities. George de Mohrenschildt, who always seemed to move at the behest of people of higher rank than himself, turned to Cuba. He later told the Warren Commission that he left the Buckley's [as in William F.] Pantepec Oil back in 1946 after a falling-out with a company vice president. Yet by 1950 he was working with his former boss, Pantepec president Warren Smith, on the latter's new firm called the Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust Company (CVOVT). In passing, de Mohrenschildt mentioned to the commission that the CVOVT had managed to obtain leases covering nearly half of Cuba. He appears to have been telling the truth, but Warren Commission counsel Albert E. Jenner Jr. did not find this remarkable fact interesting. (21)
This showed that de Mohrenschildt was no rogue operator or bohemian-- as Jenner repeatedly sought to characterize him. Rather he was at the center of a major corporate effort, involving many of America's largest institutions. Through connections in the Batista regime, the CVOVT had managed to corner exclusive exploration rights to millions of acres on the island. Like all foreign businesses operating in Cuba, it had to work through the dictator's American intermediaries, notably, the mobster Meyer Lansky, who was de facto representative of American "interests" on the island(22).
The CVOVT never amounted to much besides promising reports and modest production(23) Still it became a Wall Street darling. Though now almost completely forgotten, on many days in the mid-1950's, it was one of the four or five most actively traded issue on the American Stock Exchange. By November 30, 1956, the New York Times had this announcement:
The Cuban Stanolind Oil Company, an affiliate of the Standard Oil
Company (Indiana), has signed an agreement with the Cuban Ven-
ezuaelan Oil Voting Trust and Trans-Cuba Oil Company for the
development of an additional 3,000,000 acres in Cuba. This is in
addition to the original agreement covering 12,000,000, acres.
Stanolind has agreed to start drilling within 120 days and maintain
a one-rig continuous drilling program [for] three years (24)
This was apparently a big deal for companies like Stanolind, which had no foreign production at all until it went into Cuba. Affording to its filing, it was formed in Havana in 1950 "to assure continuity of management and stability of policy for shareholders of twenty-four oil companies in South America" (25) That is it was some kind of holding company with a focus on "Stability" in Latin American countries, which could reasonably be assumed to refer to creating conditions of political stability favorable to the exploration activities.
The Empire Trust Company, a New York-based bastion of power and wealth, appears to have played a key role in the financing of the Cuban venture. A short item in the New York Times of May 14, 1956, noted:
Election of Charles LEslie Rice, a vice president of the Empire
Trust Company of New York, as a voting trustee of the Cuban-
Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust, was announced over the week-end.
Empire Trust's John Loeb had a network of associates that amounted to "something very like a private CIA," wrote Stephen Birmingham in Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of
New York.(26) Empire worked hard to protect its foreign investments and especially its stake in the defense contractor General Dynamics. Empire entrusted its affairs in Texas to Baker Botts, the law firm of James Baker's family(27) Besides Rice, another Empire Trust director was Lewis MacNaughton, a Dresser Industries board member from 1959 to 1967.
[Dresser industries, as Baker shows earlier in the book, was an oil drilling equipment company with global intelligence connections that in some ways remind one of Howard Hughes Hughes Tool Co. The company connected the Harriman, Bush, Walker and Mallon families, and was a key platform for both H.W. Bush's political career in Taxes and, in the more literal sense, for CIA operations against Fidel Castro's Cuba in the late 1950's and the early (but how late??) 1960s --N.H.]
MacNaughton was the employer of George Bouhe, the Russian emigre who would later introduce George de Mohrenschildt to Lee Harvey Oswald. Perhaps the most curious of the Empire Trust figures was Jack Crichton, a longtime company vice president who joined Empire in August 1953 and remained through 1962. (28)
Crichton, who had been hired soon after leaving the military in 1946 by oil industry wunderkind Everette DeGolyer, quickly, quickly became a go-to guy for numerous powerful interests seeking a foothold in the energy arena. He started and ran a baffling array of companies, which tended to change names frequently. These operated largely bellow the radar, and fronted for some of North America's biggest names, including the Bronfmans (Seagram's liquor), the Du Ponts, and the Kuhn-Loeb family of financiers. According to his former lawyer Crichton traveled to the Middle East on oil-related intelligence business. On behalf of prominent interests, he was involved with George de Mohrenschildt in his oil exploration venture in Pre-Castro Cuba. In a 2001 oral history, Crichton volunteered that he was a friend of George de Mohrenschildt's: "I liked George. He was a nice guy." (29)
By 1956, in addition to his other duties, Crichton started a military intelligence reserve unit on the side. (30) On the day of Kennedy's assassination, as will be elaborated upon in Chapter 7, he would arrange for a member of the Dallas Russian Community to rush to Marina Oswald's side and provide translations for investigators--which were far from literal translations of her Russian words and had the effect of implicating her husband in Kennedy's death. Shortly after the assassination, Crichton would become the GOP nominee for governor of Texas in a race against the incumbent John Connally, who had recovered from his wounds of November 22. On the same ticker was the Republican nominee for the United States Senate, Poppy Bush. Unfortunately for the rich and powerful behind the Cuban oil venture in the 19560s, just as the possibility of extracting vast wealth from that small island drew increasing interest from Wall Street, Fidel Castro's revolution was gaining strength. At the same time, what look to have been intelligence operations under oil industry cover were moving into position, as Poppy Bush began moving his rigs to Howard Hughes's Cay Sal Bank in the Bahamas.
On January 1, 1959, Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba, and the next day Casto's Army marched into Havana.
On November 22, 1959, the New York Times reported that the new Cuban government had approved a law that would reduce the size of private companies. These claims were now limited to twenty thousand acres, a major setback for companies such as CVOVT, with its fifteen million acres. (31).
According to the Times, big foreign oil companies had already spent more than thirty million dollars looking for oil over the preceding twelve years. The article cited petroleum industry sources speculating that nationalization of the refining industry was soon to come. The government also imposed a 60 per cent royalty on oil production believed to be the highest anywhere. Standard Oil of New Jersey had, according to the article invested thirty-five million dollars in a Cuban refinery, and other companies had invested comparable sums. (32)
Among other things, the new law put an end to the go-go days of the Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust stock. That story was summed up neatly in William A. Doyle's syndicated advice column, the Daily Investor," on August 14, 1961:
Q.I bought some shares of Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust a couple years ago.
This stock was listed on the American Stock Exchange but I never see it quoted
there any more. What's the trouble?
A. The trouble is spelled C-a-s-t-r-o.When that bearded dictator took over the
government in Cuba, he started kicking American investors smack in the pocket-
book. The Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust story is somewhat involved. But
its chief cause of grief came when the Communist-oriented Cuban government
refused to explore its concession to explore for oil. That just about wrecked this
outfit. The stock's price dropped. You won't find the shares quoted on the
American Stock Exchange, because this stock was de-listed from that exchange,
as of Dec. 1, 1960. Technically, it is still possible to buy and sell these shares in
the over-the-counter market. But you'll be lucky if you can get 10 cents a share.(33)
Brown Brothers Harriman [very very close Bush-Malon ties discussed earlier in book] also had a stake in Cuban affairs that went back at least to the 1920's. ITs affiliate, the Punta Alegre Sugar Corporation, controlled more than two hundred thousand acres in the province of Cameguey (34). Officials of the firm served on the board of Punta Alegre up to the moment that Castro expropriated its land-- and even afterward, as the sugar company began moving its remaining assets to the United States.
The CIA's Allen Dulles responded quickly to developments on the island. He created the Cuban Task Force, with teams in charge of clandestine operations, psychological warfare, and economic and diplomatic pressure. Out of these emerged Operation 40, an elite group of Cuban exiles who, after specialized training, were to infiltrate Cuba and deal a mortal blow to the revolution, including the assassination of its principal leaders.
The chief of the task force was Tracy Barnes, a Yale graduate and Dulles's wartime OSS comrade who was related to the Rockefeller clan by marriage. More than a decade earlier, Barnes's first CIA job had been as deputy director of the Psychological Strategy Board, a little-known entity that explored everything from the use of psychotropic drugs as truth serum to the possibility of engineering unwitting assassins, i.e. Manchurian Candidates. Later, he worked on the successful 1954 operation to overthrow the democratically elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz. Barnes had received propaganda support form David Atlee Phillips and E. Howard Hunt, including the distribution of faked photographs
purporting to show the mutilated bodies of Arbenz opponents.
Phillips and Hunt would be hounded by allegations that they had been present in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Both men consistently denied it. But according to his son St. John Hunt, E. Howard began confessing knowledge of a plot against Kennedy near the end of his life and named Phillips as one of the participants.(35)
Hunt and Phillips attended the first meeting of the Cuba Task Force, held January 18, 1960 in Barnes office. Barnes spoke at length on the objectives. He explained that Air Force General Charles Cabell, a Texan (and brother of Dallas's mayor), would be in charge of air cover for an invasion, and that VIce President Richard Nixon, whose brief included some national security areas, was the administration's Cuba "case officer."
In his memoirs, former Cuban intelligence official Fabian Escalante asserted that Nixon had met with an important group of Texas businessmen to arrange outside funding for the operation. Escalente, whose service was vaunted for its U.S. spy network, claimed that the Texas group was headed by George H.W. Bush and Jack Crichton. Escalente's assertion cannot be easily dismissed: Crichton's role in covert operations, about which extensive new information is provided in chapter 7 was little understood at the time Escalante published his memoirs. (36)
In March 1960, the Eisenhower administration signed off on a plan to equip and train Cuban exiles, and drills soon began in Florida and Guatemala. One of Dulles's top three aides, the covert operations chief Richard M. Bissell (Yale '32), was made director. Around this time, George de Mohrenschildt happened to take a business trip to Mexico City , where the CIA station was deeply involved in the coming attractions.
By the fall of 1962, when de Mohrehschildt was devoting much of his time to squiring Lee Harvey Oswald, he had gained entree to the creme de la creme of the petroleum world. One longtime buddy of his and of Poppy Bush's, offshore drilling expert George Kitchel, would tell the FBI in 1964 that de Mohrenschildt counted among his good fiends the oil tycoons Clint Murchison, H.L. Hunt, John Mecom, and Sid Richardson. Other commission testimony revealed that in the couple of years prior to the Kennedy assassination, de Mohrenschildt had traveled frequently from Dallas to Houston, where he visited with figures such as George Brown of Brown and Root, the construction and military contracting giant that helped launch LBJ's career, and Jean de Menil of Schlumberger, the huge oil services firm.
Several of these men had even sent de Mohrenschild abroad on business; one could be forgiven for wondering if these trips were in fact what the CIA calls "commercial cover." George Brown had dispatched him to Mexico, where his mission seemed to be heading off a Mexican government oil deal with the Soviet deputy premier Anastas Mikoyan, who arrived at the same time. (37) Murchison dispatched him to Haiti on several occasions. In 1958, he went to Yugoslavia on what was said to be business for Mecom--whose foundation, the San Jacinto Fund, was later identified as a CIA funding conduit.
The Warren Commission knew at least pieces of all this. Yet in 1964, after two and a half days of testimony by George de Mohrenschildt and his wife Jeanne, the commission would conclude that George was essentially an eccentric if well-connceted figure whose life encompassed a series of strange coincidences. (Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, The Powerful Forces That Put It Into the White House, and What Their Influence Means For America) p. 79-84)
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While well educated, generally, GdM was NOT a geologist and not a petroleum geologist, though he posed as one and had many fiends in the petroleum businesses. It seems to have been his cover used most of the time. He used others at other times to cover his covert goings on. It has become fixed in the minds of many that he was - he was not. He never trained formally nor informally in the field, as far as I can determine. He was a petroleum geologist the way Al Capone was a tomato salesman. The whole White Russian community that befriended LHO and had other bit parts in the Dallas escapade are interesting and sinister. They long had associations with the ultra-right and intelligence community in the U.S. They basically were those Russians who were against the Soviet regime and many were pro-Nazi. From those who 'babysat' Lee and family, to those who translated and mistranslated for Marina and more - many were an essential part of the plot. On the EF and elsewhere are many great threads on the details.
Not the best, but covering a few highlights - an older [tad out of date] piece by MB:
Excerpt From "The Nazi Connection to the John F. Kennedy Assassination"
(from The Rebel, Nov. 22, 1983)
1963: A Few Connections in Dallas
Gen. Walter Dornberger, Michael and Ruth Paine
When George de Mohrenschildt was busy introducing Lee and Marina to the Dallas-Ft. Worth White Russian displaced Czarists, he managed to keep the social level equal with his American contacts. One casual dinner in the company of Michael and Ruth Paine, and that was enough meeting to set the Oswald's course. George and Jeane didn't have to meet with them again.
Ruth Paine would provide housing for Marina while Lee went to New Orleans. A few weeks later, she drove Marina to join Lee. After summer vacation at Wood's Hole, Mass., Ruth returned and brought Marina to her home in Irving, Texas, while Lee was on the bus to Mexico with Albert Osborne/John Bowen, and four other Solidarists from the Russian network. After Kennedy was murdered, the Dallas police rushed to the Paine's home. From that garage and elsewhere, via the Paines, came most of the incriminating evidence against Oswald. The alleged murder weapon never could be proven by the Warren Commission as ever having come from their garage.
The cropped photo that Life printed with Oswald holding a rifle came from a box removed from the garage, taken to the police department, then returned the next day, with nobody present to indicate where it came from.
Accessory after the fact, the letter was delivered to Marina in December undated and unsigned, to cover up General Walker's anxiety to blame a "Communist,' Lee, for shooting at him in April and came from Ruth to Marina. It wasn't in the home before then. The Warren Commission required planted evidence sometimes in order to divert from Lee Oswald's links to the Defense Department, assisted by Ruth and Michael Paine.
Michael Paine's occupation at Bell Aircraft is the Defense Department. This job requires security clearances, so what would the unlikely Oswalds be doing in his home? Oswald, the "defector?" Paine's boss at Bell Aircraft as Director of Research and Development, was none other than the notorious war criminal General Walter Dornberger. Dornberger was supposed to be hanged at Nuremburg for his war crimes, slave labor and mass murders. The British warned the U.S. not to let him live because even after the war he was conniving for another one. As stated, "Dornberger is a menace of the first order who is untrustworthy. His attitude will turn ally against ally and he would become a source of irritation and future unrest." (Project Paperclip, Clarence Lansey.)
The very first call to authorities after the gun went off on November 22, 1963, was from an employee at Bell Helicopter who suggested "Oswald did it." Police never located the source of both Oswald addresses that day.
Michael Paine took Lee to a meeting with General Edwin Walker shortly before the assassination. Soon Oswald would be charged with having shot Walker in April, and Walker would be calling his nazi cronies in Germany 24 hours after JFK was killed telling them he finally solved "who shot through his window" seven months earlier: the same Oswald.
Who were the Paines? To believe the Warren Commission and the CIA staff of lawyers, they were Mr. and Mrs. Good Neighbor, all heart, altruistic. Ruth simply wanted to learn more Russian from a native. For that price, she housed Marina, a two-year-old daughter, a new infant, with all the fuss and mess of three extras in a tiny house.
Michael Paine was a descendant of the Cabots on both sides. His cousin Thomas Dudley Cabot, former president of United Fruit, had offered their Gibraltar Steamship as a cover for the CIA during the Bay of Pigs. Another cousin was Alexander Cochrane Forbes, a director of United Fruit and trustee of Cabot, Cabot, and Forbes.
Both Allen Dulles and John J. McCloy were part of the United Fruit team. The Paine family had links with circles of the OSS and the CIA.
Ruth Hyde Paine maintained close ties with the Forbes families. Peter Dale Scott investigated the Paines, "the patrician Paine and Forbes families." A far cry from anybody's neighbor.
Michael's education came as a tradition, third generation physicist at Harvard before working for Bell Helicopter.
The British were correct on the Dornberger evaluation.
Another clue to Albert Speer, the Reichmaster for Munitions and War Production, and General Dornberger, is their meeting as early as April, 1943. When it was obvious to Hitler they would be losing the war against the USSR, all top Nazis made detailed plans for two years on how to proceed next. Speer met with Dornberger, at Peenemunde, the missile and rocket factory run with Werner Von Braun, and instructed him in "the dispersion of functions throughout the Reich."
Translated, that meant get ready to come to the U.S.
Lee Harvey Oswald, Albert Osborne
When Lee Harvey Oswald entered Mexico at Laredo, Texas, on Sept. 26, 1963, his companion on the Red Arrow bus was Albert Osborne, alias John Howard Bowen. Bowen-Osborne had been running a school for highly professional marksmen in Oaxaca, Mexico, since 1934. The cover for the place was his particular mission, and he was the missionary.
The FBI records on Bowen go back to June 4, 1942, in Henderson Springs, Tennessee. He operated a camp for boys known as "Campfire Council." Neighbors complained it was for pro-nazi activities with young fascists. Bowen vehemently opposed the U.S. going to war with nazi Germany. They stomped on the American flag.
Before that, Bowen worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority since 1933. His dual citizenship between Great Britain and the U.S. took him over the entire globe. So did his use of multiple aliases.
After the Warren Commission published their report in September 1964, several attorneys in the Southwest recognized the name of Osborne. September 8, 1952, Jake Floyd was murdered. The target was meant to be his father, District Judge Floyd. Two suspects were caught, one got away. Their testimony was about being hired by Osborne and how he ran the school for assassins.
Later investigation revealed Osborne's connections to Division V of the FBI, and to Clay Shaw's Centro Mondiale Commerciale, with funding coming from New Orleans for the CIA, Anti-Castro Cubans, and others. Lee Harvey Oswald applied for a tourist card to enter Mexico while still in New Orleans on September 17, 1963
Four other persons, having consecutive tourist numbers, departed nine days later, like Oswald, all to arrive at the same time, entering from several different cities. They were part of the White Russian Solidarists, the Gehlen emigre community that Lee and Marina mingled with.
This assassination team funded Maurice Brooks Gatlin, Guy Bannister, and the Miami office of Double Check Corporation. J. Edgar Hoover's Division V, Domestic Intelligence, working with the American Council of Christian Churches, had used this group from the Bowen-Osbome academy of assassins.
Volume XXV of the Hearings has many pages of interviews with people who had sent money to Jack Bowen. They never met him, and some like Mrs. Bessie White, Pikesville, Tenn., mailed $35 a month to John Howard Bowen who she believed had been doing missionary work for 18 years in Mexico." Osborne-Bowen had a mission.
Lee Harvey Oswald, agent from U.S. Defense Dept., had a team of doubles impersonating his behavior, leaving trails of anti-American frustration and meetings with various people.
While Oswald was in Mexico just prior to Kennedy's murder the purposes were concealed. Meanwhile, the CIA and various authorities led Oswald to the Cuban Embassy, the Soviet Embassy. When the face or voices didn't match the authentic Oswald, it didn't matter, given a difference of 40 to SO pounds and shape. What came from all this was the conclusion that Oswald had really wanted to go to Cuba next.
Which Oswald, and why?
This was to finalize with the illusion of an Oswald-Casto admiration just days before Kennedy would be killed.
"Treason for My Daily Bread"
Argentina and Martin Bormann
In August 1971, a French paper headlined a news story, "Martin Bormann behind the Kennedy murders." It listed an international band of killers that was located in Texas. They carried out the two assassinations at the German command.
Six years later, June 8, 1977, the London Guardian reported, "Bormann Linked with Kennedy Murder." This story was based on a new book titled, Treason for My Daily Bread by Mikhail Lebedev.
Lebedev detailed how Martin Bormann left Europe, established his current life in Paraguay, and how the fatal head shot to Kennedy was delivered by an agent paid by Bormann, alias of Zed.
Is any of this true?
Many of these allegations and names come together with both Paris Flammonde's The Kennedy Conspiracy and the Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal, known as the "Torbitt Document."
"Zed" allegedly used a .45 for the final shot.
Buddy Walters, murdered January 10, 1969, picked up a .45 slug in Dealey Plaza and gave it to the Dallas Police.
There were two possible assassination teams in Dallas.
The military from Munich, Germany, that was to take over the YAF, with Robert Morris' help, have yet to be identified or interviewed. (Morris from U.S. intelligence, having to do with USSR covert work.) Gen. Edwin Walker's arrangement with U.S. Military in Germany or, the arrival of such people for Nov. 22, 1963, is open to question.
Albert Osborne's "mission" in Mexico, with direct links to Clay Shaw's Centro Mondiale Commerciale, has never been touched. This was the international band of killers with the Borghese-James Angleton operations working throughout the world.
Otto Skorzeny's CIA and Reinhard Gehlen death squads, with headquarters in Madrid, were founded by Martin Bormann when the Evita Peron funds were shared after 1952.
Lebedev mentions "Ruth," David Ferrie, Clay Shaw, Guy Bannister, and Colonel Orlov. The very first day George de Mohrenschildt visited Marina Oswald she was alone and Lee was working. He brought with him a "Colonel Orlov."
The House Select Committee on Assassinations "investigated" the murder of President John E Kennedy from 1976-1978. The information about Bormann was available from 1971. Treason for My Daily Bread was published while they were supposed to be finding the smoking gun.
G. Robert Blakey, Chief Consul for the Committee, refused to admit any research or documents on these subjects. He would hang up the telephone and even refused to say if he had ever seen the Torbitt Document. Six million dollars was allotted by Congress to investigate the assassination of president Kennedy. Martin Bormann may have had his motives for his actions through the years. What were G. Robert Blakey's? What form of prosecution should be suggested for committees paid to uncover the truth who continuously sweep under the rug?
In A Study of a Master Spy, published in London in 196l, Bob Edwards, a member of Parliament and Kenneth Dunne, presented documentary evidence that Allen Dulles of the CIA carried on secret conferences with representatives of Hitler's SS Security Office in February and March 1943. They learned that "Official Washington knew Martin Bormann, Deputy Fuhrer of Hitler's Germany, master-minded the international 'Die Spirule' (Spider) underground organization which is planning to revive nazism as soon as West Germany is adequately rearmed by the United States. Official Washington seems disinterested."
With John J. McCloy, Allen Dulles and J. Edgar Hoover in control of the Kennedy assassination investigation, these nazi connections were buried.
The Bunge Corporation, Argentina & Germany
The stock market dropped 24 points in 27 minutes when news of President Kennedy's assassination was announced. 2.6 million shares were sold off. It was the greatest panic since 1929. Somebody made a huge profit selling short in many markets. Somebody made half a billion dollars in one day.
Coincidentally, the Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Corporation, headed by New Jersey commodities dealer Anthony De Angeles, crashed the same day, driving the market down.
Allied Crude was controlled by U.S. American Bunge Corporation and financially controlled by a group of share-holders headquartered in Argentina, known as "Bunge and Born, LDA."
Business Week of October 19. 1963, one month before the Kennedy assassination, described the Born family in Argentina, the biggest shareholders for Bunge, as being from Europe, specifically Germany.
Everything about Bunge has German influence. They have a $2 billion annual business in 80 countries. There are over 110 offices, all linked by Telex and under-the-ocean telegraph channels. The Bunge Corporation is referred to as "the Octopus." The book Were We Controlled? detailed the relationship of the Bunge Corporation, the foreknowledge of Kennedy's murder, and the Argentine-German connections.
1960 Elections: Richard Nixon vs. John F. Kennedy
Before the election of 1960, a group within the Christian Right plotted to kill Jokn Kennedy in Van Nuys, California while he was still a candidate. The group was a meld of anti-Castro Cubans, Minutemen and home-grown nazis. Some were sought by Jim Garrison, following his arrest of Clay Shaw, for testimony before the New Orleans grand jury. When Garrison forwarded extradition papers for Edgar Eugene Bradley, a member of the group, Governor Ronald Reagan refused to sign them. The leader of one of these groups, the Christian Defense League (CDL), was the Reverend William P. Gale. During the war Gale had been an Army colonel in the Philippines training guerrilla bands. His superior officer was Willoughby. By the late 1950s Gale was recruiting veterans for his "Identity" group, which was financed by a wealthy Los Angeles man.
One of the CDL's contacts was Captain Robert K. Brown, a special forces professional from Fort Benning, Georgia. Brown was working with anti-Castro Cubans, mercenaries similar to Skorzeny's teams. Brown is now publisher of Soldier of Fortune magazine and paramilitary texts such as Silencers, Snipers and Assassins. The book explains how Mitchell WerBell made special weapons for the CIA, Bay of Pigs assault squads and other customers. WerBell, son of a wealthy Czarist cavalry officer, perfected a silencer so effective a gun can be shot in one room and not heard in the next. It is ideal for assassinations.
There had been prolonged controversy about how many shots were fired the day Kennedy was killed. The President's wounds, nicks on the limousine and curb, and other bullet evidence indicated quite a few. But the Warren Commission concluded there were only three. It took the testimony of spectators in Dealey Plaza who said they only heard three. It never considered the possibility that silencer-fitted guns were fired.
When Clay Shaw was arrested by Jim Garrison the news was of particular interest to the Italian newspaper Paesa Sera. It followed up with a story that Shaw belonged to a cover organization in Rome named Cenuo Mondiale Commerciale (CMC). Its location was frequently moved, its presidents rotated; its modus operandi altered. CMC included Italian fascists, elements of the European paramilitary right, the CIA, and the U.S. Defense Department. There were major shareholders with banks located in Switzerland, Miami, Basel and other major cities. CMC had been formed in 1961, one year after Kennedy was elected. Its principals had worked with fascist networks established after World War II. The board of directors numbered Ferenc Nagy, a former Hungarian premier who led that country's Anti-Communist Countrymen's Party in exile. J. Edgar Hoover brought Nagy to the United States, where there were numerous Gehlen-supported emigre organizations.
On August 18, 1951, the Saturday Evening Post pictured Nagy with Czech, Pole, Hungarian and Russian exiles under the heading: "They Want Us To Go to War Right Now." On November 22, 1963 Nagy was living in Dallas. CMC was actually a subsidiary of Swiss-based Permindex, whose president was Prince Gutierez de Spadafora, Italian industrialist and large landowner. Spadafora's daughter-in-law was related to Hjalmar Schacht. Clay Shaw, who managed the New Orleans International Trade Mart, was a director. Another was Giorgio Mantello, aka George Mandel, who would later move to New Orleans. Once convicted of "criminal activities" in Switzerland, Mantello worked closely with his fellow Hungarian Nagy. One of the goals of the CMC was that "Rome will recover once again her position as center of the civilized world." Major L. M. Bloomfield, a veteran of the OSS who resided in Montreal, was a suspect Garrison wanted to question. In Canada he reportedly controlled Credit Suisse, Heineken's Breweries, Israel Continental Company, Grimaldo Siosa Lines and other international firms. Shaw's name was found among eleven directors of a company in Montreal that actually was based in Rome. Who was giving the virtually unlimited money to CMC, and who was getting it? The answer might have been found in the huge amounts that flowed out of Evita Peron's accounts.
Paesa Sera reported on March 4, 1967 that CMC was a creature of the CIA serving as a money conduit, and that Shaw and Bloomfield conducted illegal political espionage under its cover. In New Orleans, Shaw was the respected citizen who had helped restore the French Quarter. In Rome he was a vital member of the boards of twin companies dealing with fascists accused of European assassinations. Shaw's address book contained the private number of Principessa Marcelle Borghese, now Duchessa de Bomartao, who is related to Prince Valerio Borghese. Called the "Black Prince" and "The New Duce," Borghese was leader of the Movimento Sociale Italiano, a neo-fascist syndicate. The Black Prince, who was a decorated submarine captain in the First World War, was convicted of cooperating with the nazis in WW II and given 12 years in prison.
The Black Prince is the same Borghese rescued by the CIA's James J. Angleton. No wonder Angleton was awarded the Sovereign Military Order of Malta by the Pope after the war. It might explain what Angleton was hinting at when questioned about the murder of JFK: "A mansion has many rooms; there were many things during the period; I 'm not privy to who struck John."
Clay Shaw's affiliation with Permindex would plug in later to Argentina, Spain, Rome, New Orleans and Dallas. The international range of hit teams, using CIA money diverted overseas to cover companies set up by the Gehlen Organization, started coming together after Shaw's arrest.
In November, 1960 it would be Nixon versus Kennedy. Frank Sinatra introduced Judith Exner to John Kennedy on the eve of the New Hampshire primary. A few weeks later Sinatra introduced Judith Exner to Chicago Mafia boss Sam Giancana. So Exner became involved, as William Safire put it, in a "dual affair with the nation's most powerful mobster and the nation's most powerful political leader."
Giancana was busy with more than his love life; he was hired to form assassination teams to go after Fidel Castro. The man who retained him was Robert Maheu, a former FBI and CIA operative. It was a classic cutoff. Maheu never mentioned that the CIA was behind it. He intimated to Giancana that wealthy Cuban exiles were providing the funds. This sounded plausible, since Maheu was Howard Hughes' right-hand man.
Giancana put his Los Angeles lieutenant, Johnny Roselli, in charge of the hit squads. In 1978 when the House Select Committee questioned him, Roselli hinted that his assignment was aimed at Kennedy as well as Castro. Shortly afterward, his body was found floating in an oil drum off the Florida coast. Giancana never got a chance to testify. He was shot to death in his Chicago home.
The Howard Hughes organization, used as a cover for the kill-Castro conspiracy, (Hughes thought it was a patriotic idea) has long retained Carl Byoir Associates as its public relations arm. Throughout the war Byoir represented nazi bankers and industrialists and the I.G. Farben interests. One of his clients was Ernest Schmitz, member of the I.G. Farben-Ilgner and the German American Board of Trade. His Information Services was subsidized by the nazi government. George Sylvester Viereck, editor of the German Library of Information, was also in business with Byoir. A lucrative Byoir client was the Frederick Flick Group. Flick, a Nuremberg defendant released by McCloy, was the single greatest power behind the nazi military muscle.
Frederick Flick's son was close to the W.R. Grace Company, and invested over $400,000 in partnership with J. Peter Grace in the United States. During the war, W.R. Grace was accused in a military report of protecting a certain nazi Colonel Brite in Bolivia. In 1951, when the CIA smuggled Barbie out of Germany, he was sent to join the same Colonel Brite. George de Mohrenschildt was a close associate of the company's founder, William Grace.
De Mohrenschildt was a man of many faces. He befriended Lee and Marina Oswald, introducing them to the White Russian community. He made phone calls to obtain Lee jobs and housing. As he told it to the Warren Commission, he was fascinated with this strange couple just out of Russia. But at the Petroleum Club in Dallas, De Mohrenschildt sang the praises of Heinrich Himmler. His travels took him all over the world on missions identified with intelligence. In 1956 he was employed by Pantetic Oil Company owned by the family of William Buckley. De Mohrenschildt often discussed Oswald with J. Walton Moore, the CIA's Domestic Contacts Division resident in Dallas. In the spring of l963, just after visiting the Oswalds, he went to Washington. There is a record of a phone call de Mohrenschildt made on May 7, 1963, to the Army Chief of Staff for intelligence. The same month he had a meeting in person with a member of that staff. His military connections seem to have been wide. One of the first persons de Morgenschildt took the Oswalds to see in Dallas was retired Admiral Chester Barton.
Although De Mohrenschildt and his wife Jeanne testified at length before the Warren Commission, only attorney Albert Jenner and Pentagon historian Alfred Goldberg attended. One of Jenner's clients was General Dynamics, maker of the F-111 fighter that would achieve fame in Vietnam. The chief of security for General Dynamics in Dallas, Max Clark, was another De Mohrenschildt associate donating money to help Marina while George got Lee his next job in Dallas. He found one at the graphics house of Jagger-Chiles-Stovall, which held classified military contracts.
Jeanne de Mohrenschildt was originally brought to the U.S. by a family member employed by the Howard Hughes organization. In 1977 George was found fatally shot, allegedly a suicide, on the day a House Select Committee investigator came by looking for him. Jeanne consented to a press interview. She said George had been a nazi spy.
The placement de Mohrenschildt got for Oswald allowed him to visit the Sol Bloom agency at least 40 times. It was this agency that later decided the motorcade route for Kennedy's fatal visit.
Ruth Paine, whom Oswald met via George, had called Roy Truly and procured work for Oswald at the Texas School Book Depository. If Maydell and the Gehlen agents were active in the U.S. they knew all the right moves to secure their patsy.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
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