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Bill Kelly

You can't understand who the DeMenils were without understanding who Jesse Jones was. Dominique Schlumberger deMenil became part of Jesse Jones' artsy clique in Houston just after Jones and FDR parted ways because of FDR's favoring of Henry A. Wallace, whom many accused of being a communist. The Menil Foundation is a heavy presence in Houston "culture" today, alongside the name of Jesse's step-granddaughter Audrey Jones Beck and the names of family members of the original Humble Oil Company, of which Jones was initially a director when it was founded in 1917. It was that same year Jesse was recruited through the influence of Col. House, who was running intelligence operations for Woodrow Wilson, and placed in the Red Cross, alongside Morgan banker Henry P. Davison: "During the War, President Wilson called upon him to become Chairman of the Red Cross War Council, where he displayed his financial abilities by raising more than $100,000,000 in one campaign. The world of finance generally agrees that at the time of his death in June, 1922, H. P. Davison was the ablest partner in the Morgan firm. " (See http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/...0818-2,00.html) Together they worked to set up the funding mechanism for the highly secretive civilian intelligence service that in 1939 became the OSS.

Jones' role in setting up the financing network for U.S. intelligence operations has never been fully appreciated because it is so secret and so off-the-books that there is no direct evidence about it. But circumstantial evidence of its existence abounds.

[photo] Jack S. Blanton and Audrey Jones Beck breaking ground for the Audrey Jones Beck Building at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - 1997

Today, the John A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection hangs in the Audrey Jones Beck Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), and includes some of the finest paintings by the great artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. According to “Art News,” Mrs. Beck was among the world’s most important art collectors. Through John and Audrey Beck’s vision, effort and generosity, Houstonians are privileged to have these priceless paintings in their hometown.

In addition to her position as a lifetime trustee of the MFAH, Mrs. Beck also was a founding trustee of the Houston Grand Opera and the Houston Ballet, and served as a Houston Symphony Society trustee. Mrs. Beck served on Houston Endowment's board of directors, where, until her death on August 22, 2003, she helped guide her grandparents' legacy for 42 years.

After Audrey graduated from The Kinkaid School in 1939, she enrolled at Mount Vernon College near Washington, D.C., and spent many evenings and weekends with her grandparents at their Shoreham Hotel apartment and sometimes at the White House when her grandparents visited the Roosevelts. In 1940, Audrey transferred to The University of Texas and one year later met Ensign John Beck at Corpus Christi’s Naval Air Base during the opening of the Officers’ Club. Eight months later, they had the first military wedding at Christ Church Cathedral in Houston. As a war bride, Mrs. Beck followed her husband from assignment to assignment, and once he was released from service, the couple made their home in Houston. Mr. Beck developed a booming business selling and leasing heavy construction equipment, and Mrs. Beck began studying and collecting Impressionist and Post-impressionist art.

In the most recent catalogue of her collection, Mrs. Beck wrote, “My romance with Impressionism began when I first visited Europe at the age of 16 as a student tourist, complete with camera to record my trip. I paid homage to the ‘Mona Lisa’ and the ‘Venus de Milo,’ but the imaginative and colorful Impressionist paintings came as a total surprise. Works by these avant-garde artists, who had rebelled against the academic tradition of the day, were scarce in American museums at the time. For me, they were not only the epitome of artistic freedom, but a visual delight. I returned home with many pictures, but none taken with the camera. My images were museum reproductions.”

Audrey Jones Beck was born on March 27, 1922, in Houston, Texas, to Audrey and [Martin] Tilford Jones, Mrs. Jones’s son from her first marriage.
[Note: M.T. Jones, Jesse's uncle, had a son named William E. Jones, who left Houston in about 1920 and moved to San Diego. Will and his wife secretly divorced, and she claimed to be a widow, but Jesse was always in contact with his cousin, even after he married Will's former wife.]
However, Jesse Jones was the only grandfather Audrey ever knew, and her grandparents treated her more like a daughter than a grandchild....She spent as much time with the Joneses as she did with her parents and had her own room in her grandparents’
Lamar Hotel penthouse on Main Street
, in the heart of downtown Houston, where she grew up.

[photo]Audrey Jones (Beck) with her mother, Audrey Thompson Jones

It took a while to persuade her husband of their beauty and value. She married John Beck, a financier and owner of Boehck Engineering, in 1942.
[Note: Her husband's real name was Boehck, but he must have changed it secretly after he married Audrey because he was from a German-American family.]
As she tells her story in the catalog of her collection, "I told John of my dream to collect a representative group of Impressionist works for Houston. He thought his wife had gone quite mad."

Dealers from Europe and New York visited Houston periodically in the 1950s and 1960s, bringing works for the consideration of collectors such as Beck,
Sarah Campbell Blaffer
and
Caroline Wiess Law
.
[Two names in bold were daughters of two of the founders of Humble Oil (later Exxon)]
Beck hosted soirées to display the paintings, photographing them and noting their prices. When her husband, "a strict businessman," saw how greatly the
pictures appreciated in value, he exclaimed that they were doing better than his investments in the stock market
. Thereafter both Becks engaged in the research and acquisition of art.

"We made a great team," she says.

The Becks were deeply engaged in the city's cultural growth. They opened their home and growing collection to students. Both served as
trustees of the Houston Endowment, the philanthropic organization established by

her grandfather
, which contributed $20 million to the Beck Building's capital campaign; Audrey Jones Beck still does. She was a founding trustee of the Houston Grand Opera and the Houston Ballet and is a lifetime trustee of the MFA. John Beck served on the museum's board as well, and together they established a fund to help it acquire Impressionist art.

[Jesse Jones' brother's son,] John Tilford Jones Jr. was born Dec. 2, 1917, in Dallas, the only son of John Tilford and Margaret Wilson Jones. When he was a child, the family moved to Houston, where he attended Montrose Elementary and Lanier Junior High and graduated from San Jacinto High School in the class of 1935. He also attended New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, and upon graduation was commissioned a second lieutenant in the cavalry. He later attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he met his
future wife, Winifred Ann Small
, the daughter of state
Sen. Clint Small
of Wellington in the Panhandle. They married in 1945 and moved to Pasadena.

In 1941, Jones joined the 1st Armored Division. After serving in Northern Ireland and England, Jones was captured by the Germans in North Africa in 1943 as the Battle of Kasserine Pass was beginning. He was sent to the Szubin prison camp in Poland. On Jan. 21, 1945, Jones and 1,400 other American prisoners were marched through freezing weather from Szubin to Luckenwalde, a prison south of Berlin. After walking for 16 days, he finished the final five days of the journey in a crowded boxcar.

Jones was liberated in May 1945 along with
Amon Carter Jr.,
son of the publisher of the
Fort Worth Star- Telegram
, a fellow prisoner of war. The flamboyant elder Carter, then credentialed as a war correspondent in Europe, used his influence to have his son and Jones flown to Paris. They arrived in time to join the celebration there of the Allied victory over the Nazis — one of Jones' most cherished memories.

Jones later helped organize and headed the Texas Prisoners of War Association. As a prisoner of war, he said, "I made some of the best friends of my life. There is a common bond that holds us together."

After the war, Jones returned to the Chronicle, where he had held summer jobs during his high school and college days. Starting as a route man in the circulation department, he worked in the paper's major departments with an emphasis on editorial and retail advertising. Jones worked in the city room and served in the paper's Austin and Washington bureaus.

"I made myself familiar with the Jones enterprises by the time-honored practice of listening a lot, sticking my nose into things and asking a few questions," Jones said. In 1948, he became assistant to the president and two years later, he became president. When his uncle died in 1956, he became publisher.

Over a three-year period starting in 1960, Jones was one of the key figures in the dismantling of Jim Crow laws in Houston. He and other influential city players forced the opening of area businesses to blacks and kept it out of the news to minimize the possibility of segregationist reprisals. Jones basically strong-armed downtown hotel

operators into integrating, telling them the Houston Endowment wouldn't renew their leases otherwise.

Jones and his wife were among the last Houstonians to say goodbye to President John F. Kennedy . On the night of Nov. 21, 1963, after a dinner in Houston honoring longtime local congressman Albert Thomas, the Joneses accompanied the Kennedys to the airport, where the first lady gave Mrs. Jones a tour of Air Force One. The next day, Kennedy was assassinated.

As head of the Houston Endowment, Jones also was a prime mover in initiating the plan to build the Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, a gift from the Endowment. Construction began in 1964, and the hall opened in 1966. Soon after it opened, Jones founded the Society for the Performing Arts, a nonprofit organization to bring musical artists and other attractions to Houston. Jones, president of KRTK-TV Channel 13 from its inception in 1954 until its sale in 1967, also was a director of the Houston Symphony Society and the Alley Theater.

As publisher, Jones dramatically changed the paper — and his own future — with one move. Overtaken by the rival Houston Post in circulation, Jones brought in an editor from outside — William P. Steven from the Minneapolis Tribune — who fast changed the paper's approach from conservative to moderately liberal.

The conservative members of the Houston Endowment were not pleased. Jones tried to defend his editor but finally got his orders: Fire Steven or face dismissal himself. In September 1965, Jones did so but resigned

the following January to head the Rusk Corp., operators of KRTH radio and other properties.

Jones died in 1994, at 76, of prostate cancer.
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(accessed July 7, 2007)]

The people who made it possible for Howard Burris' daughter to become a deb in fashionable Newport in 1967 were the same people who were friends of Jesse Jones' granddaughter and also involved in her art circle. It is possible the network they were part of was absorbed into the CIA founded after Truman succeeded Roosevelt, but it is also possible they ran their own intelligence; they knew how to raise the money to do so from many years of experience. (See The Hogg Family and Houston By Kate Sayen Kirkland Page 225:http://books.google.com/books?id=-4NcDgsdrk0C&pg=PA225&lpg=PA225&dq=menil+%22jesse+jones%22&source=bl&ots=t-aPAngwH2&sig=x6owf0bMI5fVHCLqQUaLBbQDhRw&hl=en&ei=sMhQSvnyBceptgfs3eGvBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6)

The De Menils helped to promote "contemporary art," which could be acquired cheaply, promoted and held to increase in value to finance the foundations' tax-exempt activities. In 1967 Ramparts (Ex-FBI man William W. Turner) revealed that these and many other "charitable" foundations were mere puppets and funding mechanisms for the CIA. (See http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=4793)

Is it possible, I wonder, that Turner's source for much of the information he revealed may have been a Menil? Turner was Jesuit-trained, and the Menils were also French Catholic. The Ramparts disclosures also came after Jean de Menil allegedly became disenchanted with the CIA because of the Bay of Pigs and tried to get out of his contract with the Agency, leading to the munitions raid on the Schlumberger bunker in Houma.

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Do you have anything on deMenils?

Thanks,

Bill Kelly

You can't understand who the DeMenils were without understanding who Jesse Jones was. Dominique Schlumberger deMenil became part of Jesse Jones' artsy clique in Houston just after Jones and FDR parted ways because of FDR's favoring of Henry A. Wallace, whom many accused of being a communist. The Menil Foundation is a heavy presence in Houston "culture" today, alongside the name of Jesse's step-granddaughter Audrey Jones Beck and the names of family members of the original Humble Oil Company, of which Jones was initially a director when it was founded in 1917. It was that same year Jesse was recruited through the influence of Col. House, who was running intelligence operations for Woodrow Wilson, and placed in the Red Cross, alongside Morgan banker Henry P. Davison: "During the War, President Wilson called upon him to become Chairman of the Red Cross War Council, where he displayed his financial abilities by raising more than $100,000,000 in one campaign. The world of finance generally agrees that at the time of his death in June, 1922, H. P. Davison was the ablest partner in the Morgan firm. " (See <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,720818-2,00.html)" target="_blank">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/...0818-2,00.html)</a> Together they worked to set up the funding mechanism for the highly secretive civilian intelligence service that in 1939 became the OSS.

Jones' role in setting up the financing network for U.S. intelligence operations has never been fully appreciated because it is so secret and so off-the-books that there is no direct evidence about it. But circumstantial evidence of its existence abounds.....

So it should come as no surprise that Henry P. Davison's son was Robert A. Lovett's best friend. Lovett was chosen by the secretary of war (can't think of his name, but he died in a still unsolved airliner crash in Newark NJ in Jan., 1952) in 1945 to chair the committee that designed what became the CIA.

(Only in a Thugocracy do the Thugs get to investigate themselves.)

http://news.google.c...u...&lnav=hist0

TRAVELS BY AIRPLANE FOR ZINSSER WEDDING; F. Trabee Davison, …

- New York Times - Apr 25, 1930

Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison arrived here today by plane from ... and Mrs. :r Ci. , to John J. McCloy of New York and Philadelphia at the ...

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F. Trubee Davison Dies at 78; Led Natural History Museum; Aviation …

- New York Times - Nov 16, 1974

F. Trubee Davison, a pioneer in aviation and former president of the American ... I.A. In July, - Mr. Davison became director of personnel for the Central ...

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F. TRUBEE DAVISON JOINS INTELLIGENCE; NAMED TO THE CIA

- New York Times - Jul 5, 1951

Named Director of Personnel and Assistant to Gen. Smith, Central Agency Head Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. WASHINGTON, July 4 F. Trubee Davison, ...

Some old and some new stuff on the Rivera family: (I erased the first and middle name of the grandchild.)

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August 30, 1988

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Anne J. Rivera, 73, a former registered nurse and research assistant at the National Institutes of

Health, died Aug. 29 at Bethesda Naval Hospital after a heart attack. She lived in Kensington.

She had worked for NIH from 1960 to 1972. She also was a nurse at Columbia Hospital for Women in the

early 1940s. Mrs. Rivera, who had maintained a home here since the late 1950s, was a native of

Pennsylvania. She graduated from nursing school in Brooklyn, N.Y., and received a degree from Columbia

University. She accompanied her husband, Jose A. Rivera, now a retired Army colonel, on assignments to

Japan. While there, she worked at the U.S. Army Hospital in Tokyo. Mrs. Rivera was a charter member of

the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She also was a She also was a member of Blessed Sacrament

Catholic Church in Washington,

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In addition to her husband, of Kensington, survivors include a daughter, Linda Rivera King of

Jenkintown, Pa.; a sister, Hilda Aldunate of Miami,

http://www.troyrecor...1d797425174.txt

Hilda Aldunate

CLIFTON PARK — Hilda Aldunate, 103, of Leonardo Drive, died on Sunday Aug. 2, 2009, comfortably at

home surrounded by her family and health care attendants. A memorial service will be held at a later

date. Interment will be in Miami, FL. Memorial contributions may be made to Community Hospice of

Saratoga, 179 Lawrence St., Saratoga Springs, NY 12866.

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According to the information in the more recent post linked here,

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=3883&st=120#entry256797 unless Col. Rivera was younger than 15 years of age when Natalie Rivera Frederick was conceived, Col. Rivera had to be closer to 82 years of age, or older, since Natalie's 2009 obituary states that she died at age 83 in December, 2009, was born on 5 February, 1926, and was survived by a sister, Linda Rivera King......

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Trying to develop more on Col. Jose A. Rivera's background, interests, and acquaintances:

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Nov, 19, 1954 Host Party

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Oct. 25, 1955 Ptogram for Lunch

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One of two posts....forum sys would not permit posting of ten images in one post.....

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2nd of 2 posts of article images and Life Magazine article on background of Mrs. Preston H. Dial. (Displayed under tenth of ten article images posted.)

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May 23, 1957 Stamps Photo

It is likely Maj. Jpse A. Rivera was promoted to the rank of Lt. Col, when he was transferred to DC early in 1958:

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April 1, 1958 "In Capital"

In depth article on Mrs. Preston H. Dial of San Antonio, TX:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZEIEAAAAM...ial&f=false

LIFE‎ - Page 49

Magazine - Jul 13, 1953 - v. 35, no. 2 - 148 pages

... Mrs. Preston H. Dial of San Antonio dragged a local newsman aside and told him a

story about a Texan who was wounded in Korea. ...

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2nd of 2 posts of article images and Life Magazine article on background of Mrs. Preston H. Dial. (Displayed under tenth of ten article images posted.)

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May 23, 1957 Stamps Photo

It is likely Maj. Jpse A. Rivera was promoted to the rank of Lt. Col, when he was transferred to DC early in 1958:

4095543764_d267668e1d_b.jpg

April 1, 1958 "In Capital"

In depth article on Mrs. Preston H. Dial of San Antonio, TX:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZEIEAAAAM...ial&f=false

LIFE‎ - Page 49

Magazine - Jul 13, 1953 - v. 35, no. 2 - 148 pages

... Mrs. Preston H. Dial of San Antonio dragged a local newsman aside and told him a

story about a Texan who was wounded in Korea. ...

Good work Tom!

-Bill

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2nd of 2 posts of article images and Life Magazine article on background of Mrs. Preston H. Dial. (Displayed under tenth of ten article images posted.)

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4095543650_02294554b3.jpg

4094784477_5e8972bc09_b.jpg

4095543732_72ab298b70_b.jpg

May 23, 1957 Stamps Photo

It is likely Maj. Jpse A. Rivera was promoted to the rank of Lt. Col, when he was transferred to DC early in 1958:

4095543764_d267668e1d_b.jpg

April 1, 1958 "In Capital"

In depth article on Mrs. Preston H. Dial of San Antonio, TX:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZEIEAAAAM...ial&f=false

LIFE‎ - Page 49

Magazine - Jul 13, 1953 - v. 35, no. 2 - 148 pages

... Mrs. Preston H. Dial of San Antonio dragged a local newsman aside and told him a

story about a Texan who was wounded in Korea. ...

Good work Tom!

-Bill

What a "coinkydink"...Ozzie Rabbit apparently was ALSO a collector of stamps!

Stamp Collection Taken From Oswald's Residence

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I was trying to find the photo of Col. Jose Rivera at Fort Detrick demonstrating something to some high ranking officers with a special patch on their arms.

Does anyone know of a link to this photo?

Thanks,

BK

I KNOW OF NO LINK BILL...IS THIS THE ONE YOU NEED. :lol: .B

Hey,

That's It!

Tree Frog sent around an old article from a decade ago and I told him I'd update it but I want to post a photo to go with the update, and that's the pix, but can I get a more clear copy?

You are the Busy Beaver B,

Thanks for all your help,

You don't have time to stop to argue,

BK

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I was trying to find the photo of Col. Jose Rivera at Fort Detrick demonstrating something to some high ranking officers with a special patch on their arms.

Does anyone know of a link to this photo?

Thanks,

BK

I KNOW OF NO LINK BILL...IS THIS THE ONE YOU NEED. :ph34r: .B

Hey,

That's It!

Tree Frog sent around an old article from a decade ago and I told him I'd update it but I want to post a photo to go with the update, and that's the pix, but can I get a more clear copy?

You are the Busy Beaver B,

Thanks for all your help,

You don't have time to stop to argue,

BK

I think that's it Bill it is the upper half of two together if i recall neither very good more than likely from the newspaper which you do not have too much luck with not like the printed word but i will have another look...busy time of year and if you stay busy enough i figure you might stay out of trouble, well sometimes...ha.. :blink::lol: best b..

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Sorry Bill the original copy i was sent run off on a copy machine appears no better if not worse...B

Thanks B.

It came out okay, but I'd rather have a more clear copy.

Do you know where this came from? Rivera's file? James Richards?

http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2009/12...ft-detrick.html

Another feather for your cap.

And one for the Pig.

BK

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I've been doing some research along those lines. I think the link to Gottlieb travels right through Dr. Jose Rivera to H. Warner Kloepfer and then Ruth Paine and LHO. I'm still convinced that there's a Gottlieb/Rivera connection when I consider Adele Edison's account of events prior to Nov. 63. Rivera was in Gottlieb's employ.

I thought it might be a good idea to start a thread on Dr. Jose Rivera. He was born in Lima, Peru, in 1911. After studying medicine at the University of San Marcos he moved to the United States. He resumed his studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He earned his doctoral degree from Georgetown University in 1939.

In 1942 Rivera joined the United States Army and served as first lieutenant in the medical corps. He was stationed at Walter Reed Army Hospital and later assigned to Halloran General Army Hospital in New York. In 1944 he was promoted to captain and went on a series of assignments in Italy and France and at the 198th General Army Hospital in Berlin.

During the Korean War he served in the Medical Field Unit and was promoted to the rank of major. After the war, he was chief of laboratory service and pathology at the U.S. Army Hospital in Tokyo. In 1958, he was assigned to the Reserve Training Center in Washington.

In April, 1963, Adele Edisen met Rivera at a biomedical scientific conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The conference had been organized by the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology. Rivera told Edisen that he been on the faculty of the biochemistry department at Loyola University in New Orleans, and that he was now living in Washington. Edisen was planning to visit Washington and so Rivera suggested she telephone him when she arrived in the city.

Adele Edisen arrived in Washington on 22nd April, 1963. She telephoned Rivera and had dinner with him at Blackie's House of Beef restaurant. During the meal Rivera asked Adele if she knew Lee Harvey Oswald. He also talked about the Carousel Club in Dallas.

The following evening Rivera gave Adele Edisen a tour of Washington. When they passed the White House he asked Edisen, "I wonder what Jackie will do when her husband dies?" After Adele replied "What!", Rivera said, "Oh, oh, I meant the baby. She might lose the baby."

During the tour Rivera made several comments about JFK. Adele later reported: "He asked me if I saw Caroline on her pony Macaroni, and all kinds of crazy nonsense, and I was beginning to think I was with an absolute madman.... Rivera's part of the conversation at times was difficult to follow, but many of his statements, such as the reference to 'Jackie,' seemed deliberately placed. When he spoke of President Kennedy, Rivera was extremely critical of Kennedy's position on civil rights. Rivera made many disparaging remarks about black people and the civil rights movement."

Later that evening Rivera asked Adele to carry out a couple of tasks when she arrived home in New Orleans. This included contacting Winston DeMonsabert, a member of the faculty at Loyola University. He then asked her to call Oswald at 899-4244. "Write down this name: Lee Harvey Oswald. Tell him to kill the chief." Rivera then said, "No, no, don't write that down. You will remember it when you get to New Orleans. We're just playing a little joke on him."

Adele phoned this number in early May and was told by the man who answered that there was no one there by the name of Oswald. Later, when she called again, the same man answered, saying that Oswald had just arrived but was not there at the time. Instead she spoke to Marina Oswald and asked her if she might call again in a few days to speak with her husband when he was at home. Marina only spoke Russian to Adele but seemed to understand her request because she replied, "Da". The next time she phoned she got Oswald, but he denied knowing Jose Rivera. Adele asked Oswald for the address where the telephone he was speaking on was located. Oswald gave her an address on Magazine Street. She did not give Oswald Rivera's message.

Adele was concerned that Rivera might be involved in a plot against JFK. She decided to contact the Secret Service in New Orleans and spoke to Special Agent Rice. According to Adele, "After giving my name, address and telephone number to him, I told him I had met a man in Washington in April who said some strange things about the President which I thought they should know. It was my intention to go there and tell them about Rivera and his statements, but I began to think they might not believe me, so I called back and cancelled. Agent Rice told me they would be there any time I would care to come in."

Two days after the assassination Adele arranged a meeting with Secret Service Agent John Rice. Also at the meeting was Orrin Bartlett, Liaison Special Agent of the FBI: "Mr. Rice was seated at his desk, and I was seated to his right, and the FBI agent remained standing most of the time. I believe he may have taped it because every time Mr. Rice got up from his desk, there was a partition over there, for example, and there was a phone there which they used even though there was a phone on the desk, which I didn't understand, but apparently there was some reason for that. So every time Mr. Rice got up to answer the phone or to use the phone, I noticed his hand would do this, and I would either hear a whirring, a mechanical sound like a tape recorder or something. It may have been audiotaped."

Adele told them the story of how she met Rivera in Atlantic City and Washington in April. She also supplied the agents with Rivera's office and home telephone numbers. Edisen later claimed that: "Agent Rice asked me to call them if I remembered anything else, and requested that I not tell anyone I had been there to speak with them. I understood this to be for my own protection as well as for their investigation. Both agents thanked me for speaking with them.

Adele contacted Rice a few days later and he told her, "Don't worry. That man can't hurt you." Edisen assumed that Rivera had been arrested and that she would be called as a witness before the Warren Commission. "When the Warren Report was published, I was mystified and dismayed by the conclusion that Oswald acted alone, and that Jack Ruby acted alone, for my experiences told me otherwise."

After retiring from the United States Army in 1965 Rivera started a second career as a medical research analyst at the Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness.

Jose Rivera died of pancreatic cancer in Naval Medical Center in Bethesda on 16th August, 1989.

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Hi Hank,

Congradulations on your book Terrible Mistake. It looks really good and I can't wait to read it. I'm sure there are a lot of overlaps between Olson and JFK research.

Dr. Jose Rivera should be right down your alley.

You know he worked under Dr. Lamanna, who also did research on Anthrax.

Bill Kelly

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