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Primary Evidence Collections Update

The Central Intelligence Agency Security files of Dr. Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Each offered for your review.  ‪#‎MLK‬ ‪#‎CIA‬ http://tpaak.com/mlk-case-files

Primary Evidence Collections Update

Two documents are offered for your inspection regarding the Central Intelligence Agency Castro Assassination plots. The first is a list of all with foreknowledge of the plots that includes Warren Commissioner Allen Dulles. This infers that Dulles suppressed relevant information from the Commission. The second document is a brief summary and assembled pages from various internal sources regarding portions of the plots. #JFK #CIA #Assassination http://tpaak.com/cia-castro-plots

Evidence and the Big Easy

New Orleans lies beneath the heavy shroud of time. The city has been the site of various notorious crimes, disasters, and myths. The Big Easy was the birthplace of Lee Harvey Oswald and home to members of his family. Lee Harvey Oswald's uncle Charles and Aunt Lillian Murret had two daughter's Marylin and Joyce. The Murret family had deep roots in New Orleans. 

Due to President Johnson's renewed investigation of defectors in 1964, Oswald's cousin  Marylin Dorethea Murret is a noted figure. The Federal Bureau of Investigation states Murret had traveled and temporarily resided in England, France, Germany, Holland, Japan, Pakistan, and India prior. Reporters Robert Allen and Paul Scott claimed Murret to have "defected" similar to Oswald, and they alleged she had Communist ties as well.i  Further Bureau investigation did not yield evidence of value regarding Communism.ii  One Central Intelligence Agency files claims she was a "defector or potential defector."iii  Yet the evidence offers that Murret legally travelled and she never defected. 

Renewed official interest in Marylin's travels recurs when she travels to Haiti and Santo Domingo in 1966.iv In 1972, schoolteacher Marylin Murret traveled to England, France, and Russia. When Murret's sightseeing trip to Russia was confirmed, the Bureau again requested authority to conduct an interview. The Special Agent in Charge of the New Orleans office chided, "The fact that she is a cousin of Lee Harvey Oswald is not in itself enough to justify an interview because of her visit to a Communist country. You should supply justification according to the criteria set out in the Manual of Instructions..."v  

Lee Harvey Oswald prior arrived in New Orleans in May 1963. He called his extended family the Murrets from the bus station asking if his aunt "could 'put him up' a few days." Despite the assertions of some, much of Oswald's time in New Orleans in 1963 was spent doing everyday tasks. He fails to obtain a printer job because he lacked the proper skills.vi Oswald's Aunt Lillian Murret was in contact, hosted, and visited with the Oswald family multiple times during this portion of 1963. He borrows fifty dollars from his Uncle Charles Murret for an apartment.vii  

He remained at the Murret house nearly a weekand spent "all day"viii job hunting, then found employment at his alternate choice, the Reilly Coffee Company. This is notable because while some might claim this job was important, it based on evidence was not. It was not even Oswald's first choice. He went apartment hunting and obtained his Magazine Street dwelling the same day as his new job. 

Federal Bureau of Investigation files state Oswald began his employment at the Riley Coffee Company May 15, 1963. Oswald terminates his employment at Reilly July 19, 1963. Oswald's tells the New Orleans Police following his arrest that he left Reilly's July 17, 1963.ix  He works there for just over two months.x It remains very unlikely that any extraneous unnoted people were frequently around him. However, even more unlikely are persons claiming they escaped all notice of the historical record and every verifiable witness. 

Oswald told his Aunt Lillian he needed "a nice apartment for a short time because the woman with whom his wife had been living in Texas had been very nice to them and that she would probably bring his wife to New Orleans and might stay for a day or two." This would be Ruth Paine, the Oswald's Texas associate. Oswald later brought his family to go "crabbing" during one visit with Marilyn Murret.xi Charles Murret states the Oswald family visited them "on about three occasions."xii Murret transported the Oswalds in his car multiple times. Each day of work, visiting, trips, and the prior extended stay consumes time from the brief months he resides in New Orleans.

After Oswald's 1963 arrest in New Orleans for disturbing the peace, another cousin "Joyce O'Brien was instrumental in securing his release on parole through a friend of the family."xiii  Joyce undertook multiple visits to the New Orleans Police Department and was not eager to pay for Oswald's release. She was disinclined after reviewing the Fair Play for Cuba literature he previously distributed. A police officer suggested that Joyce not pay the bond. The officer advised she contact an official who could release Oswald on parole without paying his bail. Murret family friend "Emile Bruneaux" (sic) (Bruno) contacted someone who had Oswald paroled.xiv xv    

Another occasion served for a family trip including the Oswalds and Murrets to Mobile, Alabama during the summer of 1963. Oswald made a brief speech to the gathered Jesuits at his cousin's school. Mr. Murret financed the entire trip; Oswald did not have the means to do so.xvi  Lillian Murret stated to the Bureau that Oswald "did not appear to have very much money."xvii  Oswald and the Murrets visit at least two additional times, once on Labor Day, and once after his aunt's scheduled operation.xviii  He is concerned with his wife, his family, his new job, his disruptive political activities, and had little time for much else. He visited his aunt then faces arrest later the same day. 

His time in New Orleans was not the spy novel romance some would claim, Oswald left New Orleans with unpaid bills. Jessie Garner, Oswald's apartment manager states "the subject (Oswald) and his wife vacated their apartment on September 25, 1963...She remarked that Oswald left New Orleans owing her 17.00 rent for the apartment."xix Notable again is Oswald's lack of funds to undertake basic costs, it does not infer he was funded at by any outside group in New Orleans. Influenced perhaps, but not funded. He is frequently at home, reading on the porch, and never gone for long periods.

Oswald briefly discussed his prior claims regarding the Fair Play for Cuba Committee with Charles Murret. Oswald denied being an officer in the group, despite prior assertions he offered to the police and Federal Bureau of Investigation.xx  Lillian Murret disapprovingly stated, "that he was 'stupid' to be used as a 'dupe'."xxi Lee Oswald told her he knew too much to be a 'dupe'."  Seemingly, he underestimated his fallibility and the potential consequences. The House Select Committee on Assassination in a brief statement regarding some of the Murrets state, "They so far have been very uncooperative".xxii  

Sincerely,

C.A.A. Savastano

References: 

i. President's Commission Document 942, FBI Letterhead Memo Re: Marylin Dorothea Murret, May 7, 1964, pp. 1-3

ii. House Select Committee on Assassinations, Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject files, I-J, Harold Isaacs, No Title, June 1, 1964, p. 1

iii. HSCA, Segregated CIA files, Personality File Action Request Re Marilyn Murret, Box 15, September 17, 1964

iv. HSCA, Segregated CIA files, Letter to DD/Plans Re Request for info on Marilyn Dorothea  Murret, January 17, 1967

v. HSCA, FBI Administrative Folder, Lee Harvey Oswald, Volume XXII, Marilyn Dorothea Murret, February 25, 1972, pp. 1-2

vi. Central Intelligence Agency, Oswald 201 File, Volume 6, CD 6, Part 1, Report of S.A. J. Engelhardt and Ernest C. Wall, December 2, 1963, p. 4

vii. Ibid, Report of S.A. Eugene Bjorn and J. Engelhardt, December 4, 1963, p. 2

viii. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Oswald Headquarters file, Section 232, Special Agent in Charge of New Orleans to Director, March 1, 1967, p. 1

ix. CIA, Russ Holmes Work File,  File: Information in CIA's possession regarding Lee Harvey Oswald prior to November 22, 1963, Report of FBI SA Kaack, p. 6

x. CIA, RHWF, Information in CIA's possession regarding Lee Harvey Oswald prior to November 22, 1963, Report of FBI SA Kaack, pp. 2-3  

xi. CIA, Oswald 201 File, Vol. 6, CD 6, Part 1, Report of Special Agents E.C. Wall and J.G Engelhardt , pp. 5-6

xii. CIA, Oswald 201 File, Vol. 6, CD 6, Part 1,  Report of S.A.'s E. Bjorn and J. G. Engelhardt, December 4, 1963, p. 2

xiii. CIA, Oswald 201 File, Volume 6, CD 6, Part 1, S.A.'s Wall and Engelhardt, December 2, 1963, p. 7

xiv. CIA, Oswald 201 File, Volume 6, CD 6, Part 1, Report of S.A. J.B. Killgore, November 30, 1963, p. 1

xv. CIA, Oswald 201 File, Vol. 3, CD 75, Part 1, FBI Report of S.A. J. G Engelhardt, November 30, 1963, p. 2

xvi. CIA, Oswald 201 File, Vol. 6, CD 6, Part 1, FBI Report of S.A.'s Wall and Engelhardt, December 2, 1963, p. 6

xvii. Ibid, p. 8

xviii. Ibid, p. 7

xix. CIA, Oswald 201 file, Vol. 53 b, Report by FBI on Oswald admitting being a Marxist to Subve, October 31, 1963

xx. Oswald 201 File, Vol. 6, CD6, Part 1, Report of S.A. Wall and Engelhardt, p. 7

xxi. Ibid

xxii. HSCA, Executive Session, November 9, 1978, p. 7

Primary Evidence Collection update

A CIA memo revealing over thirty documents had been extracted from Lee Harvey Oswald's 201 file. http://tpaak.com/case-related-files

Primary Evidence Collections update

A growing list of Central Intelligence Office of Security files offered for your review. 

Who was WIROGUE-1?

(A review of the other assassin hired by the Central Intelligence Agency)

Central Intelligence Agency officer William K. Harvey hired assassins with the intention of eliminating adversarial world leaders. The first was Jose Andre Mankel (QJWIN) and other was David Tzitzichvili (Tzitzichvilli, Dzidzichvili).i ii Tzitzichvili used the alias David de Panaskhet, and the Agency assigned him the cryptonym WIROGUE-1. He was among those expressly secured for the staging of assassinations.

WIROGUE-1 was "an ethnic Georgian recruited and trained for the old REDSOCKS program."iii Tzitzichvili's family moved to Europe and he later served in the French Foreign Legion. He was briefly involved with the French Resistance in WWII. The Nazis captured him and received a death sentence. The timely arrival of the United States Army liberated the area before his sentence was passed.

"In 1950 he had managed to rob a Paris bank of a sizeable sum of money, receive a prison sentence and be released five years later for good behavior." "...as of 1960 he was essentially stateless...the Agency was involved in a reasonably major effort to resettle WIROGUE/1, possibly in Mexico, for the mission which he had been brought to the United States had been canceled. However, on 19 September 1960 two members of the Africa Division met with him to discuss 'an operational assignment in Africa Division." "He was provided a new pseudonym" and travels to Africa. Tzitzichvili is subject to the needs of multiple African Agency stations, yet he resides in Leopoldville, the capital of the Congo.

WIROGUE-1 attempted to recruit a European to be a member of an execution squad".iv v Yet this was no mere European but Jose Andre Mankel (QJWIN) himself, Mankel declined.vi vii A rather lengthy assessment of his (Tzitzichvili's) character can be summed up by saying he was able to rationalize any action if he had strong case officer direction." Tzitzichvili serves the Agency in Africa, "Headquarters noted the intent to use him as utility agent in order to (a) organize and conduct a surveillance team; (b) intercept packages; (c) blow up bridges; and (d) execute other assignments requiring positive action."viii

Subsequently during training, WIROGUE's association with another Agency operative is a possible issue. The other agent "was never involved in any assassination schemes."ix The feasible scheme was the assassination of Patrice Lamumba. The local Agency Station chief refused to authorize the assassination. Subsequently, local militants serving Mobutu Sese Seko captured and executed Lamumba.

Yet a few in the Agency had planned to utilize criminals and militants to assassinate Patrice Lamumba and Fidel Castro. Agency member John Scelso (Whitten) stated during testimony, "...setting out by stealth and surprise to kill an important foreign person was abhorrent to the standards of the clandestine service and the fact that the way--you know, what the response was in the Lamumba case. They refused to carry out the order, but they were guilty of conspiring to commit homicide."x Thus while operatives did not complete the proposed assassination, it was their feasible murderous intent.

A few Executive branch leaders twisted assigned duties to include a series of assassination plots; to accomplish what intelligence gathering could not. These plots largely focused on the Castro regime with repeated attempts to overthrow it. A few were confirmed instances of Agency operatives conspiring to murder world leaders. The similar tactics of multiple assassinations could feasibly denote other potential targets.

Each illegal plot disseminates key tactics and operations to outside groups and individuals. A compartmentalized group could accomplish what larger groups could not without detection. The Agency collaborated with the Mafia, Cuban exile groups, and paramilitary mercenaries.  A few could turn such power to advantage, perhaps even striking at those who constructed the operation.

 Sincerely,

C. A. A. Savastano

References:

i. HSCA, Segregated Central Intelligence Agency files, List of names re Kennedy Assassination investigation, Box 9, February 15, 1978

ii. CIA files, FOIA Request, Dickopf, Paul, Volume 1, April 8, 1963

iii. HSCA, Seg. CIA files, Subject: WIROGUE/1, March 14, 1975, pp. 1-2

iv. Ibid

v. Nina D. Lowland, David C Humphrey, Harriet D Schwar, Adam T. Howard, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, V, XXII, Congo, US State Department, Government Printing Office, March 18, 2014, p. 67

vi. HSCA, Seg. CIA files, Microfilm Reel 18 (Webster-WiRogue), Subject: WIROGUE, December 27, 1966, pp. 1-2

vii. Senate Select Committee to Study Intelligence Activities, Boxed files, Testimony of Richard Bissell, September 10, 1975

viii. N. Lowland, D. Humphrey, H. Schwar, A. Howard, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968 GPO, March 18, 2014, p. 67

  ix. Ibid, p. 3

 x. HSCA Exec. Session, Classified Testimony of John Scelso, p. 145

Contributions from C. A. A. Savastano at the Mary Ferrell Foundation

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Primary Evidence Collections Update

Central Intelligence Agency Operations AMWARM and LIFIRE revealed for your inspection. http://tpaak.com/primary-evidence-collections/

Disputed Claims and Suspects

Regarding the Kennedy assassination, a divisive atmosphere surrounds many claims and various asserted suspects. Some believe they have all the answers, if not the evidence to prove them. Often some dispute even the most trifling claims regarding the case or people relative to it. Perhaps no greater differences exist than assumptions made about the official suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald. 

Among the disputed claims were the origins of the alias Alek Hidell (Hydell, Hideel). Based on the President's Commission evidence Oswald's nickname while in Russia was Alek.i  The Commission suspected the surname Hidell emerged from a variation of Fidel, the Cuban dictator. However, another possible source of the name was a fellow Marine stationed with Oswald prior. 

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the President's Commission deposed John Rene Heindel. He disclosed that while in the military he was often referred to as Hidell. Oswald might have known this nickname, and Heindel speculated Oswald might have called him by the moniker.ii iii Neither claim requires more than Oswald's actions to eventually use the name. Yet it remains improbable Oswald did everything attributed to him alone.  

In 1961, Edward J. Hickey the official issuing Lee Harvey Oswald's passport was concerned. Hickey stated Oswald was not receiving his mail, and "it has been stated there is an imposter using Oswald's identification data and that no doubt the Soviets would love to get hold of his valid passport..." Why did officials eventually grant Oswald a passport and a loan if his impersonation was possible? Hickey comments "it is my opinion that the passport should be delivered to him only on a personal basis and after the Embassy is assured, to its complete satisfaction, that he is returning to the United States."iv Despite the prior claims, no substantial evidence supports anyone besides Lee Harvey Oswald returned to the United States. Yet officially, his impersonation was a repeated consideration.

Many were unaware of a possible threat reported to the Secret Service in 1962. "During December 1962, for example, a letter originating in Havana and containing information on plans directed against President Kennedy which were to be implemented in Washington or Brazil, was sent by the CIA to the Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of State." Jose Menendez sent the letter to Bernardo Morales in Miami November 29, 1962.v vi A following Agency message alleged that Menendez might be "identifiable with Juan Jose Mulkay Gutierrez...DGI". The Dirección General de Inteligencia (DGI) was Cuba's intelligence agency. 

However, a follow up report states Menendez was actually "Jose Menendez Ramos" a baker in Tampa Florida. He was a member of the executive committee of the FPCC (Fair Play for Cuba Committee). Additionally, Ramos' wife and children defected to Cuba in October 1961. He followed them and received a prestigious job in Cuba.vii The Agency source believed the matter was a harassment operation of the Cuban intelligence.  Yet the letter's origins are troubling. The letter's original destination was the P.O. Box of Radio Libertad, to whom Bernardo Morales was unknown. Radio Libertad sent the letter to the Central Intelligence Agency JM Wave Station in Miami. The JM Wave Station was responsible for conducting various Agency clandestine actions targeting Cuba. 

"JM Wave was anxious to receive results of both of the letter on the grounds that they may be part of a planned G-2 PW operation in the U.S. or against U.S. targets." The letter falling so conveniently into the hands of Agency officials is problematic. It reflects in my view the enduring agenda of officials to create a motive for military action.viii It aligns with prior official and Mafia claims of a militant Fair Play for Cuba Committee that has no basis in substantial evidence. Another document states that Bernardo Morales is possibly Luis Ernesto Conte Aguero.ix Yet not just these little known personalities were disputed, but even official claims regarding the alleged suspect.

Among the most disputed "Oswald" visits were to Communist aligned diplomatic compounds within Mexico City. Oswald impersonation again becomes a concern for the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Officials reviewing the evidence state, "Nevertheless, the Committee did receive other evidence of a possible Oswald imposter. The former Cuban Consul in Mexico City, Eusebio Azcue, who states that he dealt with Oswald on three occasions, testified that the individual who was seeking a [transit] visa to the Soviet Union was not Lee Harvey Oswald. Azcue described this person as a 30-year-old white male, approximately 5'6-5'7 in height, who had a very long face with straight eyebrows and a very straight and pointy nose."x  This person does not resemble Oswald. 

Nor could they produce tapes of his voice in the alleged calls, they already had been destroyed. No tapes were given to the Federal Bureau of Investigation but rather written transcripts. "Gordon Shanklin, who had been Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Dallas office in 1963, stated in a Committee interview that no tape recording had ever been received by FBI officials in Dallas. Moreover for Agents Hosty, Fain Carter, and Brown, each of who had conversed with Oswald at one time, informed the Committee that they never listened to a tape recording of Oswald's voice."xi Thus, the Bureau never verified the Agency's problematic assertions.

"Finally on the basis of an extensive file review and detailed testimony by present and former CIA employees, this Committee has determined that CIA headquarters, which was notified on October 10, 1963 of a reported Oswald contact with the Soviet Embassy on October 1, 1963, never received a tape recording of Lee Harvey Oswald's voice."xii This prevents authentication and further supports no evidence of Oswald making the all disputed appearances. While some appearances do support that Oswald was in Mexico, the evidence additionally supports on different occasions other men feasibly were as well. Allegedly, they are using Oswald's name and implicating him in acts he never undertook. The questions remain as to their possible identities, but the evidence infers they were feasibly present serving an unknown purpose.

Nor was Lee Harvey Oswald the only suspect arrested for the murder of President Kennedy. Donald Wayne House faces arrest "about 1:30 pm on 11/22/63 (Special Agent) Howard informed (Agent) Warner that a suspect had been captured by Fort Worth Police. Howard and Warner went to FWPD and questioned Donald Wayne House of Ranger, Texas." House resembled Oswald according to the media and was released after Oswald's subsequent arrest.xiii  

Perhaps Oswald had collaborators or perhaps others collaborated to entrap him. Substantial evidence both supports and dispels official claims regarding his involvement in the assassination of President Kennedy. Neither complete innocence, nor complete guilt is consistent when considering Oswald in my view. His actions are peripheral to immense webs of official and covert programs. Substantial evidence puts much outside his control. 

Sincerely, 

C. A.A. Savastano

References:

 i. Report of the President's Commission, Chapter IV, pp. 118-122

ii. Hearings of the President's Commission, Volume VIII, Affidavit of John Rene Heindel, p. 318

iii. Federal Bureau of Investigation documents, Oswald Headquarters File (105-82555), Interview of John Rene Heindell, December 20, 1963

iv. Central Intelligence Agency file, Oswald 201 file, Volume 53b, Lee Harvey Oswald, Delivery of Passport to Oswald, March 21, 1961

v. House Select Committee on Assassinations, Segregated CIA files, Criteria for Dissemination of information to Secret Service, Box 50, May 5, 1964, p. 2

vi. CIA, Los Angeles Division Work File, Letter and envelope from Jose Menendez to Bernardo Morales, November 27, 1962

vii. CIA, L.A. Division Work File, Reports Relating to possible plot to assassinate President Kennedy, December 12, 1962  

viii. CIA, L.A. Division Work File, Memorandum: Plots to Assassinate the President of the US, (n.d.), pp. 1-2

ix. HSCA, Segregated CIA files, Microfilm Reel 63 (CRC), List Names to look for Re JFK Assassination, (n.d.), p. 2

x. HSCA, Segregated CIA files, Staff Notes, Report of the HSCA on the CIA's investigation of the Assassination, p. 7

xi. House Select Committee on Assassinations, Segregated CIA files, Staff Notes, Report of the HSCA on the CIA's investigation of the Assassination, p. 6

xii. Ibid, p. 6-7

xiii. Federal Bureau of Investigation documents, JFK HQ file (62-109060), Section 176, Dallas Times Herald article, p. 1-A   

Primary Evidence Collections update

Neapolis Media Group researcher Matthew Scheufele offers five new cryptonyms and one new alias. AMPANIC 7, AMBRONC-5, AMSAIL-1, AMSUPER-1,  LIOVAL-1, and the alias Brand.