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[John Dolva]

Re HDH and the final interview:

He drove to church that morning with his Wife.

When he got there he got the idea of going to the DPD.

when he got there Fritz asked him if he wanted to be in on the ionterview.

He then spent most of the last hour stretching out the interview time.

Around the time Ruby was approaching, a knocking on the door brought the interview to an end.

HDH asked a detective if he wanted to come to the PO to watch the transfer on TV.

(also he seemed to have a pass to the evidence room, withdrawing the PO Box key the day before.)

[Thomas Graves]

Re HDH and the final interview:

He drove to church that morning with his Wife.

When he got there he got the idea of going to the DPD.

when he got there Fritz asked him if he wanted to be in on the ionterview.

He then spent most of the last hour stretching out the interview time.

Around the time Ruby was approaching, a knocking on the door brought the interview to an end.

HDH asked a detective if he wanted to come to the PO to watch the transfer on TV.

(also he seemed to have a pass to the evidence room, withdrawing the PO Box key the day before.)

Great post, John.

Just out of curiousity, how did you find out about the knocking on the door which brought the interview to an end?

Thanks,

--Tommy

Edited April 9, 2015 by Thomas Graves

[John Dolva]

I think that was in one of his voluminous wc testimonies.

[Steven Gaal]

Why do you say " ex-Navy man Joe Molina might have been a part of this [alleged ONI-protected gun running operation allegedly being run out of the TSBD] " ?

Because he had been in the Navy?

--Tommy

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My understanding is that the G.I. Forum which Molina was a member was associated more with Army Ex veterans than the Navy veterans.

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"unusual occurrence" (see below) Molina has lunch with other employees

R.K. Locke (DEEP POLITICS FORUM)

I am bumping this thread in light of a very interesting exchange that is taking place right now on the EF, featuring Zach Robertson, James Richards and others.

Zach has highlighted a very intriguing and incriminating piece of marginalia (from a document cited in Larry Hancock's Nexus) relating to John Martino; a figure who appears to link directly to both the Facilitator and Mechanic levels of the plot.

The note in question also appears to incriminate Joe Molina.

Researcher Lee Farley has done some very good work on Joe Molina and William Lowery, including the following post, which I hope he doesn't mind me reproducing here:

In addition to Molina very quickly contacting Bill Lowery after the assassination there was an interview conducted on November 23, with Virgie Mae Rackley by members of the Dallas Police Vice section that was sent to Captain Gannaway.

During the interview Ms. Rackley was asked if she had "any suspicions of any of the employees she worked with. She stated "no". After a few moments she stated "It may sound silly and I shouldn't say anything at all, but my boss, Joe Molina, has had a number of strange telephone conversations. I never have listened to the conversations, but recently I heard him say something about he was going to help somebody 'do it'"

You and I have had many conversations about how November 22, 1963 was a day of many "unusual occurrences". Here is another "unusual occurrence". November 22 was the first time that Joe Molina ate his lunch with other employees. He ate his lunch for the first time with Virgie Rackley and two other TSBD employees. According to Rackley he usually ate lunch by himself.

[Robert Howard]

For those interested, Harry D Holmes died in Garland, Texas on October 14, 1989. Anyone who can get a copy posted here would be very helpful. I have dozens of JFK related obits, but I have never found Harry D. Holmes.

[Paul Brancato]

It took a while to read the whole Holmes interview. Did anyone else find it strange the way Belin asked him to fill in parts of his original affidavit, and what parts Holmes actually chose to do so? In particular, the two parts that come to mind are Oswald in MC, and the curtain rods. So two parts of the LHO incrimination evidence were embellished by Holmes, who claimed verbally to Belin but not previously in his written statement to the WC, that Oswald was questioned during his captivity in Dallas about MC, and he had a tale to tell about why he was there and what embassies he visited. I have always been on the fence about LHO in MC, but after reading this I am now inclined to think that the whole story is made up, that he was impersonated in MC.

[Ron Ecker]

I have always been on the fence about LHO in MC, but after reading this I am now inclined to think that the whole story is made up, that he was impersonated in MC.

And also, then, on the bus ride from Texas.

[Steven Gaal]

The TACA case. How the government allowed arms and drug trades into Central America and intentionally looked the other way rather than prosecuting the mafia. This action in the 30s made Sam Carolla rich and set the stage for the infamous Marcello brothers and other in the New Orleans branch of the Mafia in the 50s and 60s. Who many believe were involved in the Kennedy assassinations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ5oSS_UQeA

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The TACA operation of guns to Central American dictators run by the State Department and the mafia predates the creation of the CIA.

To help in the operation the State Department would tap ONI. Bill Weston's Spiders Web contends that the TSBD had a gun running operation.
Ex Navy man Molina TSBD employee may have been part of this.

Harold Byrd (owner TSBD building) was one of the three major owners of LTV. LTV was trying to develop a sea torpedo to air weapon system.

ONI would have been all over any of the LTV owners.

Harold Bird sat on the board of Dorchester Gas with Jack Crichton of Empire Trust. Empire Trust's private intelligence service had ONI connections.

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It may be that ONI man Holmes is watching/reporting on in real time a CIA assassination operation run out of the ONI/TSBD building. (GAAL)

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Marguerite Oswald worked as a receptionist for a Standard Fruit Company law firm.Marguerite Oswald's uncle's law partner did work for United Fruit. Marguerite Oswald's Uncle seems to have gotten Marguerite the receptionists job. Odd for Standard Fruit and United Fruit were until around WWIi were at loggerheads against each other. Could Marguerite Oswald been a United Fruit spy ???? (GAAL)

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CIA shuts-down Drug Law Enforcement 1915 to 1963

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In 1915, the U.S. outlawed opium based patent medicines with the adoption of the Harrison Narcotics Act. In 1921, the Hague Convention made it illegal to import opium from India to China. In 1921, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal for doctors to prescribe narcotic drugs to addicts. Arnold Rothstein was not unlike the robber barons of the 1920's, but unlike Morgan, Mellon, and Rockefeller, Rothstein was America's premier Labor racketeer, bookmaker, bootlegger, and drug trafficker, He was financing an international drug cartel and supplied millions of dollars' worth of illicit drugs to American gangsters. (The Strength of the Wolf, The Secret History of America's War on Drugs by Douglas Valentine, pgs. 6-10)

In 1921, an estimated 300,000 ounces of heroin were being produced my manufacturers every month in New York, much more than was needed by area hospitals. Huge amounts of narcotics were being diverted onto the black market. As a result, the Jones-Miller Act of 1922 required standardization of manufacturing licenses and registration practices, and made the mere possession of narcotics a crime. This Act also created a federal narcotics commission.(p. 26)

Around 1925, dope peddlers Charles Luciano, Frank Costello, and Meyer Lansky became a self-appointed heirs to Rothstein's drug trafficking operation. By 1929, the two main sources of illicit drugs from the Far East were the Ezra brothers gang in China and the Eliopoulos ring in Paris. In 1926, the U.S. War and State Departments thwarted the Treasury Department`s Narcotics Division and accommodated the Nationalist Chinese, whose survival depended on profits from drug smuggling.

In the future, national security and political interests superseded those of the drug law enforcement agencies of the U.S. government. In the process of penetrating the mafia and the French connection, case-making agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) would uncover FBI's and CIA's ties to organized crime and the FBN would be prevented from investigating the CIA and its Nationalist Chinese allies who operated the world's largest drug-trafficking syndicate. ( pgs. 3 and 10-12)

In 1924, an American citizen formed a relationship the intelligence officer for General Chang Tsung-chang, a Shangtung warlord contending with Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang Party for control of Shanghai. This American with the knowledge of the State and War Department, provided 6,500 Mausers (rifles) acquired from an Italian arms merchant, in exchange for $500,000 worth of opium. (pg. 12)

During the Great Depression there was a controversy over national drug policy. Social scientists and other liberals were advocating legalization and a reduction in the price of prescription medicines as a most cost-effective way of putting drug traffickers out of business. Harry J. Anslinger, an apparatchik of corporate America, convinced Congressmen to wage a popular "tough on crime" campaign that to ensure their re-election. He promoted mandatory sentencing and longer prison terms. Relying on Anslinger's contacts in the press, the drug industry, and the Southern (U.S.) evangelical (religious) movement, he conjured up a rogue's gallery of undesirable minorities that appealed to traditional race and class prejudices. Pushing the idea of Killer Weed (Reefer Madness) used by lazy Mexicans on the southwest border, sex-crazed Negros and Puerto Rican seamen, inscrutable Chinese pagans who turned week-willed white women into prostitutes, and lewd Lost Generation atheists preaching free love and Bolshevism in Greenwich Village Cafes.

On 30 June 1930 the Bureau of Narcotics was formed from the remnants of the Narcotics Division and the Treasury Department's Foreign Control Board. In September 1930, Anslinger, 38 yeas old, took charge - became the head of the new Federal Bureau of Narcotics. He had served as a U.S. Foreign Service officer (with the State Department) from 1918 to 1926 in Germany, Venezuela, and the Bahamas qualified him in view of the mandate imposed by Congress upon the Commissioner of narcotics, go to the foreign source of America's narcotics problem, without upsetting the State Department's apple cart. For the next, 32 years until he retired in 1962, defined the nations war on drugs. Anslinger put top agents in France, German, Holland, Canada, and Italy. Anslinger would become one of the founding fathers of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the CIA in 1947. (pgs. 16 and 22, 26)

In addition in 1926, Anslinger, was transferred from the State Department to the Treasury Department, where he served until 1929 as chief of the Probation Unit's Division of Foreign Control which had the mission stopping the flow of illegal liquor and narcotics into U.S. ports, arresting smuggling rings, and eliminate corruption. Anslinger's staff assistant Malachi Harney, in the 1920s oversaw Eliot Ness and the Untouchables in the successful pursuit of Al Capone in Chicago. (p. 22)

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Anslinger had the power to enable him to decide, in consultation with other top U.S. officials, which drug smuggling rings were to remain intact and which ones would be targeted for investigation and prosecution. This applied especially to the Nationalist Chinese government, which since its inception in 1927, relied heavily on drug-smuggling revenues. China and Japan were the major exporters of opiates to the U.S. illicit market throughout the 1930s. After the Japanese forces seized Shanghai in August 1937, Anslinger was less willing to target Chiang Kai-shek heroin trade to North America. Massive profits from the sales of drugs enabled the Kuomintang Party (KMT) to purchase $31 million worth of fighter planes for Chian Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army. (p. 38)

Starting in 1932, Stuart J. Fuller was Anslinger's counterpart at the State Department. As chief of the East Asia Division and he was the government's representative to the Opium Advisory Committee.

In 1934, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau created an Enforcement Board consisting of the heads of the Secret Service, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Tax, the Internal Revenue Service's Intelligence Unit, the Coast Guard, the custom service, and the (Federal) Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) . The Board's chief coordinator Harold Graves became Alslinger's boss. Also in 1934, Morgenthau gave the custom service jurisdiction for drug investigations in Asia, Latin America, and Mexico and in 1937, he put Customs agent Alvin Schariff in control of anti-narcotic operations in Europe. (pgs. 21-23)

Schariff and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover were bureaucratic adversaries of Anslinger. While operating as a special employee of the War and State Department during the First World War, Schariff assassinated two German spies. (p. 23)

Schariff and his 46 agents in European cities, developed a vast network of informants. They learned that narcotics from the Far East were smuggled through the Suez Canal into Italy and Turkey, then to Corsica and Marseilles (France), and that French Corsicans, financed by Greek racketeers, controlled the drug traffic. They also discovered that the over-land narcotics route included the Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Vienna Express from Istanbul to Paris. They located poppy fields in Yugoslovia.

The Chief of U.S. Naval Intelligence wanted Schariff to obtain information in Europe and to use his narcotics investigations for merely a cover for espionage activities. In Paris as part of his espionage mission, Schariff worked with Ambassador William Bullitt in an effort to penetrate a faction of the Surete that protected Louis Lyon.

NOTE: Sûreté

(French for "surety" but transliterated as "safety" or "security") is a term used in French speaking countries in the organizational title of a civil police force.

Lyon had work with Eliopoulos gang in Paris smuggling narcotics to various American gangsters. He operated a heroin factory in Paris. From his factories in Turkey and China, tons of opium moved to his accomplice, Corsican Paul Carbone in Marseillus, France. By 1940, Paul Carvone and Elie Eliopoulos became Nazi collaborators. The Surete protected Lyon because he spied against fascist French with ties to Nazi Germany. Lyon posed as a Nazi sympathizer in order to expose Gestapo agents trying to infiltrate the French Resistance. Following World War II, Lyon was awarded the French Legion of Honor. (p. 24-25)

A member of the mafia boss Vincent Mangan's crime family in Brooklyn provided Ford Motor Company with the muscle it needed to smash an autoworkers strike outside Detroit in 1932. He was rewarded with a lucrative franchise until 1951 to move cars (and secretly, drugs) between Detroit and New Jersey and throughout New England and the East Coast. (p. 29)

In 1930, Charles "Lucky" Luciano made a five-family crime group, made peace overtures to his rival crime lords in Chicago, and formed a national commission. of mafia bosses. Luciano became the American mafia's boss of bosses, and his partner, Meyer Lansky, incorporated crime in America. Meyer channeled mafia profits into legitimate business ventures, including Florida land deals, Mexican racetracks, and casinos in Cuba.

Lansky became the chief financial officer and liasion to a worldwide network of Jewish gangsters. The Commission settled disputes and regulated four industrial-sized rackets: labor racketeering, gambling, prostitution, and drug trafficking. (pgs. 31-32.)

In 1936, Luciano was convicted of compulsory prostitution and received a 32 year prison sentence. He remained the boss of bosses behind bars. He entrusted his mafia family to Vito Genovese. But Genovese was indicted for murder and fled to Italy in 1939. and Frank Costello ran took leadership of the Commission. Costello also managed gambling operations and casinos with Meyer Lansky , a Louisiana casino with Carlos Marcello, had a joint gambling and labor racket venture with Bugsy Siegel on the West Coast, Los Angeles and Las Vagas (Jack Dragna in California), and in New Jersey with Joe Adonis. Costello was said to have been a bootlegging partner of Joseph Kennedy's (a made man), father of JFK. He also had political contacts with Congressmen and Tammany bosses. In 1943, Costello got Thomas A. Aurelio a seat on the New York State Supreme Court. (pgs. 31 and 41)

In 1934, Pendergast, the man who hand picked Harry Truman for the Senate and supported Truman through his political career helped Kansas City survive the Depression. He opened up the City to gambling, Black jazz musicians and by extension, the mafia's drug syndicate. (p.56)

The FBN made a case against the Hip Sing T'ong, the drug-smuggling Chinese-American trade association and in November 1937, made mass arrests. (p. 27)

In his autobiography, Narcotic Agent , FBN agent Maurice Helbrant explains that in the early days of the FBN, ambitious FBN supervisor in their quest to show success, asked agents to set up illegal wiretaps or break into a drug dealer's apartment to plant evidence.

Helbrant learned that Jose Guillen was trafficking in drugs to finance a rebellion in Honduras. A collapse of the banana economy in Honduras prompted Honduran President Tiburcino Carias to also resort to drug smuggling . Associates of a cargo airline, Transportes Aereos Centro-Americanos (TACA) were backing Pres. Carias for re-election in October 1936, the U.S. had backed candidate. The State Department "ordered all (FBN) surveillance of the TACA group curtailed." In March 1936, the investigation concluded without uncovering any hint of TACA involvement in drug smuggling. Carias

won the election. FBN knew he was smuggling drugs into Panama on TACA planes in 1937. Top U.S. officials including Stuart Fuller (State Department) and Harry Anslinger, looked the other way, because Carias provided the U.S. government and its corporate backers, with a with a valuable ally in Latin American as war loomed on the horizon. (pgs. 34-36)

By March 1939, TACA held cargo service concessions in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras and continued to engage in smuggling activities, "virtually untouched by (U.S.) government action. - William K. Jackson, the vice president of United Fruit (Company- now Chiquita Brands) put this situation in economic prospective "The greater the development of our trade relation with Latin America, the lesser their dependence on....." end quote (snip) Hitler (my word).. (The Strength of the Wolf, p.36)

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In 1942, Naval intelligence was convinced that information about ship convoys leaving the US was being transmitted to the Axis by longshoreman of German and Italian

extraction. Naval intelligence turned to the mob/outfit for help.

A New York U.S. District Attorney gave Navy officials access to his Racket Bureau files so they could hire (recruit) low-level mafiosi to spy on potential saboteurs along the waterfront. (The Strength of the Wolf, p. 40)

Navy Secretary Frank Knox created a special intelligence unit headed by Lt. Commander Charles Radcliffe Haffenden. Haffenden met with mob figures in his office at the Manhattan Astor Hotel. Gangster Meyer Lansky met with Haffenden and promised to get Lucky Luciano's support. Lucky Luciano became a partner with the U.S. Government to prevent sabotage on East Coast ports.

Mafia bosses began providing Navy intelligence officers with union books and undercover jobs on fishing boasts from Maine to Florida. In return for services to the U.S. government, ruthless hoods were protected from prosecution for dozens of murders. This included the January 11, 1943, murder of Carlos Tresca in New York by Genovese's boys. He was a staunch anti-fascist and socialist publisher. Anslinger was fully aware of the Costello`s immunity through the Luciano Project (p. 40 and 41)

Alslinger directed the FBN's New York office to investigate Costello link to drug smuggling, Starting in 1939, FBN had been building a case and as a result, in 1943 FBN arrested 106 smugglers in Mexico and the U.S. The gangsters had been moving drugs from Mexico through Texas to New York, where clandestine labs processed opium into heroin. Thomas Lucchese, Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello were the financial backers of this drug trafficking and were implicated in it, but were not indicted. (The Strength of the Wolf, p. 42)

Union strikes

and sabotage were practically nonexistent on the New York docks during the war. And when the U.S. forces landed in Sicily, there were mafia men waiting to show them the location of German position and safe routes through minefields.

During this final phase of the war, the mafia-military cooperation - known as the Luciano Project or Operation Underworld - moved from the Navy to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) forerunner of the CIA.

Source: Crossfire, The Plot that Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs 156 - 167

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After World War II, the Americans' great fear for Italy was that communist partisans fighting in the north would join with organized labor to bring the left to power. The OSS and its successors were apparently prepared to use any measures to forestall that event, including political assassination, terrorism, and alliances with organized crime. According to one OSS memo to Washington, the U.S. seemed to support a monarchist plan to use ``fascist killers'' to commit acts of terror and blame the left. U.S. involvement in Italian politics began in 1942, when the OSS successfully pressured the Justice Department to release imprisoned mobster Charles ``Lucky'' Luciano. Luciano had agreed to make contacts with Mafia pals to ease the way for the U.S. invasion of Sicily in 1943.

The Luciano deal forged a long-standing alliance between the U.S. and the international Cosa Nostra. It also set a pattern of cooperation between U.S. intelligence agencies and international criminal organizations involved in drugs and arms traffic. The deal's godfather was Earl Brennan, OSS chief for Italy. Before the war, he had served in the U.S. Embassy, using his diplomatic cover to establish contacts with Mussolini's secret police and leading fascists.

The Catholic Church also cooperated. U.S. ties to the Vatican were already substantial; one of the strongest links was a secret fraternity, the Rome-based Sovereign

Military Order of Malta, which dates back to the First Crusade. OSS head William ``Wild Bill'' Donovan was a member. So were other top U.S. officials, including Myron Taylor, U.S. envoy to the Vatican from 1939 to 1950, and OSS officer William Casey. OSS Italy chief Brennan had contacts as early as 1942 with Vatican Under-Secretary of State Gian Battista Montini, who became Pope Paul VI in 1963

Sources: Operation GLADIO: THE SECRET U.S. WAR TO SUBVERT ITALIAN DEMOCRACY by Arthur E. Rowse

http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/gladio.html

Luciano Project gangsters helped the US intelligence agencies keep in touch with Sicilian Mafia leaders exiled by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Domestically, the aim is while in Italy the goal is to gain intelligence on Sicily prior to the allied invasions and to suppress the burgeoning Italian Communist Party., Luciano developed connections in Lebanon and Turkey that supply morphine base to labs in Sicily. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) also work closely with Chinese gangsters who control vast supplies of opium, morphine and heroin, helping to establish the third pillar of the post-world War II heroin trade in the Golden Triangle, the border region of Thailand, Burma, Laos and China's Yunnan Province.

In its first year of existence, 1947, the CIA continues U.S. intelligence community's anti-communist drive. Agency operatives help the Mafia seize total power in Sicily and it sends money to heroin-smuggling Corsican mobsters in Marseille to assist in their battle with Communist unions for control of the city's docks. By 1951, Luciano and the Corsicans have pooled their resources, giving rise to the notorious `French Connection' which would dominate the world heroin trade until the early 1970s. The CIA also recruits members of organized crime gangs in Japan to help ensure that the country stays in the non-communist world. Several years later, the Japanese Yakuza emerges as a major source of methamphetamine in Hawaii.

Source: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1998_cr/980507-l.htm

In March 1941, on returning from China, Lauchlin Currie, a young economist in the White House, recommended to President Roosevelt that China be added to the Lend-lease program (lend or supply military aid or supplies) . In May 1941, he presented a paper on Chinese aircraft requirements to General George Marshall and the Joint War Board. The Lend-lease program began in March 1941, nine months before attack on Pearl Harbor.

The American Volunteer Group, a group of USAAF, USN and USMC pilots recruited under a secret executive order signed by President Roosevelt April 15, 1941 authorizing Army Reservists on active duty to resign from the Army Air Corps in order to sign up for the AVG.

The AVG was largely the creation of General Claire Chennault, retired from the U.S. Army Air Corps. The resultant clandestine operation was organized in large part by Lauchlin Currie, and by Franklin D. Roosevelt intimate Thomas Gardiner Corcoran.. Chennault spent the winter of 1940-1941 in Washington, helping to negotiate the purchase of 100 Curtiss P-40 fighters. He also supervised the recruiting of 100 pilots. The AVG is unique in that it had government funding and approval to recruit from active duty units in the United States. The pilots were either currently serving in American armed services or reserve officers. The pilots who volunteered were discharged from the American armed services, to fly and fight as mercenary for the Republic of China Air Force. They were officially employees of a Private military contractor, the Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company, which employed them for "training and instruction". Currie also organized a large training program in the United States for Chinese pilots.

These activities, together with Currie's work in helping to tighten sanctions against Japan, are said to have played a part in provoking Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tigers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauchlin_Currie

To protect Taiwan from the PRC, the U.S. China lobby raised nearly $5 million of private money, which the CIA used to buy airplanes for Gen. Chennault. (The Strength of the Wolf, p. 77)

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[Robert Howard]

Holmes death if it is even in the Dallas Morning News archives is for 10/16/89... I did a search that did not pull it up but I think there is some mechanism that screened it out. As soon as my health gets better I will go to the source.

I am not the only one working on this. If there was a counterpart to Harry Holmes it was the Dallas Secret Service'S Robert Steuart; he was so similar he was not mentioned period in some of the recent JFK/Secret Service tomes.

Thought for the day: During the Worlds Fair in Chicago, a mass murderer was killing people in droves who came to the fair his name...... Harry Holmes........

[Thomas Graves]

Holmes death if it is even in the Dallas Morning News archives is for 10/16/89... I did a search that did not pull it up but I think there is some mechanism that screened it out. As soon as my health gets better I will go to the source.

I am not the only one working on this. If there was a counterpart to Harry Holmes it was the Dallas Secret Service'S Robert Steuart; he was so similar he was not mentioned period in some of the recent JFK/Secret Service tomes.

Thought for the day: During the Worlds Fair in Chicago, a mass murderer was killing people in droves who came to the fair his name...... Harry Holmes........

[emphasis added by T. Graves]

Dear Robert,

I didn't know that Dr. Harry Holmes (real name Herman Webster Mudgett) was a mass murderer in 1893!

My God, Didn't the Postal Service know?

--Tommy

Ah ha! His middle name was "Webster", as in Robert E. Webster !!!

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[John Dolva]

Second thought for the day...

Also from Kansas : In about 1905 two young boys were playing 'frontier' in an empty house. One was on his knees pretending to be a bear. The other, older boy, was behind him, on his right, with a shotgun which went off blasting a hole in the right rear of his head. The older boys name was...

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On another note :

Ian Griggs hinted to me, but never got back on it, that HDH was neither of the age as known nor from where known. In fact he suggested he might be born overseas. Apparently he was born in "Indian Territory". He spent years, before going to Dallas, in Kansas. Before the PO hub centre moved to Chicago it was in Kansas City.

The USPO was scrapped in 1970 by Nixon and its records apparently have disappeared. It was replaced by the privatised USPS where the PMG no longer is an automatic member of the Cabinet nor is it a patronaged position. HDH was warned of its closure (along with other PI's) and, like many, left. It's hard now to find any info on the old USPO or the USPO PI department. The USPS is different. Presumably the more secret USPS PI department is too.

[Thomas Graves]

The definitive interview of Harry Holmes is in the book No More Silence, after I saw this thread had been bumped I went back to see if there was anything I had overlooked. And there was something I had overlooked that was so glaring that I was embarrassed I hadn't noticed it. Holmes, in addition to watching the Plaza at the time of the assassination through binoculars had an open line to Washington.

If that isn't a smoking gun, I don't understand what the word means. Someone should post the entire interview, it is not exactly your father's Oldsmobile.

Here's the whole interview, Robert. Scroll down to page 353:

https://books.google.com/books?id=7uT-47ysB5MC&pg=PA351&lpg=PA351&dq=%22no+more+silence%22+holmes&source=bl&ots=eicayMeQp8&sig=Y0YdzIRV-iPYQTLkdq9j5Vpyrkk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=K7cmVc-4E5G1oQSO4oC4DA&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22no%20more%20silence%22%20holmes&f=false

--Tommy

emphasis added by T. Graves

I wonder what Holmes' excuse was for having an open line to Washington during the assassination?

His plaza-facing office on the fifth floor of the Terminal Annex Building would have made an excellent observation center / command center. It's interesting that the W.C. lawyer already seemed to know that Holmes was watching the motorcade through binoculars.

Mr. HOLMES. As it came out of Main Street, the President was sitting on the right in the back seat. His wife was on the left. Governor Connally, whom I also recognized, was sitting on the right of the middle seat.

Mr. BELIN. Were you looking with the aid of any optical instrument?

Mr. HOLMES. I had a pair of 7 1/2 x 50 binoculars.

http://jfkassassination.net/russ/testimony/holmes1.htm

View from that side of the Terminal Annex Building:

Thanks,

--Tommy

PS I wonder why keen observer Holmes didn't notice the same guy Jesse C. Price saw running very fast through the Grassy Knoll parking lot immediately after the assassination?

bumped

Bumped for Mark Vanenti

Edited April 11, 2015 by Thomas Graves

[Steven Gaal]

The Post Office Department has worked with ONI since at least 1917. (GAAL)

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monitor communications to and from foreign countries, a Postal Censorship

Committeee was formed in which representatives of ONI and MID worked with

the Chief Cable Censor and the Post Office Department.

　

　

[PDF]FEDERAL SURVEILLANCE (1917-1925): - ProQuest

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http://fas.org/irp/ops/ci/docs/ci1/ch3f.htm

The Staff reorganization, effected by General Orders, No 80, War Department, August 26, 1918, made the Military Intelligence Service a coordinate division of the General Staff and placed it on a par with similar services of general staffs of other nations of the world. The additional authority and prestige thus provided made it possible for this division to deal with other governmental agencies and with the intelligence services of our allies much more expeditiously and effectively than was possible under the previous imperfect organization. At the time of the armistice the Military Intelligence Division in Washington was made up of a highly specialized personnel consisting of 282 officers, 29 noncommissioned officers and 948 civilian employees, there field force had been greatly improved and enlarged, the assistance furnished the intelligence section of Gen. Pershing's staff was becoming daily more direct and more valuable, as was the staff was becoming daily more direct and more valuable, as was the cooperation with State Department, the Treasury Department, the Department of Justice, the Post Office Department, Naval Intelligence, the War Trade Board, the War Industries Board, and the National Research Council.

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[Steven Gaal]

OV CAMPBELL dosent want the TSBD involved.

Grassy Knoll Witnesses : The JFK Assassination

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xyYkR_DISEEJ:22november1963.org.uk/jfk-assassination-grassy-knoll-witnesses+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

　

22 November 1963: A Brief Guide to the JFK Assassination .... Campbell says he ran toward a grassy knoll to the west of the building, where he thought the ...

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Molina, a TSBD employee, heard shots coming from west of the building.

　

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh6/pdf/WH6_Dougherty.pdf see page 373 MOLINA Afraid does not want to be involved.

HOLMES - Molina connection see Scully post this thread

http://educationforu...?showtopic=1097

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The TACA case. How the government allowed arms and drug trades into Central America and intentionally looked the other way rather than prosecuting the mafia. This action in the 30s made Sam Carolla rich and set the stage for the infamous Marcello brothers and other in the New Orleans branch of the Mafia in the 50s and 60s. Who many believe were involved in the Kennedy assassinations. (SEE POST ABOVE # 83 video)

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for link http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=20291&p=298381 see 4 below

　

1. FERRIE RECRUITED OSWALD FOR ONI (FERRIE HAD CONTINUED NAVY-ONI CONNECTIONS POST ASSASSINATION)
2. ONI MONITORED ASSASSINATION per GRAVES ONI man (see post # 149 above)
3. ONI wanted cremated OSWALD
4. First of all, Mason Lankford’s father, John Mason Lankford Sr., was an employee of Temco in the early 1950s, suggesting a possible relationship with David Harold Byrd.

POST OFFICE HOLMES ONI CONNECTION SEE POST # 88 above // SEE MOLINA SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR POST # 78 above tis thread
ONI worked with United fruit since the 1920. (BOOK LINK BELOW)

Marguerite ONI connection via Uncle and husband and also the Amon Carter Family. (THESE CONNECTIONS SEE BELOW)

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also see Husband Marguerite link

http://quixoticjoust...rch-ekdahl.html

also see Uncle Marguerite link

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=21136&p=286218

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Marguerite Oswald worked as a receptionist for a Standard Fruit Company law firm.Marguerite Oswald's uncle's law partner did work for United Fruit. Marguerite Oswald's Uncle seems to have gotten Marguerite the receptionists job. Odd for Standard Fruit and United Fruit were until around WWIi were at loggerheads against each other. Could Marguerite Oswald been a United Fruit spy ? Marguerite worked in the home of AMON CARTER JR. Carter family connected to ONI via General Dynamics .

Amon Carter SR. bio

Besides American Airlines, he also was instrumental in General Dynamics and Bell Aircraft Corp. establishing plants near Fort Worth. Amon G. Carter Field was named for him in 1950.

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SEE United Fruit / ONI connection below

• Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect ...

https://books.google...isbn=0822389126

David H. Price - 2008 - Social ScienceThe U.S. O≈ce of Naval Intelligence (oni) secretly trained and deployed a ring of ... along the Gulf of Mexico coastlines of Mexico, British Honduras, and Belize.

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The TACA operation of guns to Central American dictators run by the State Department and the mafia predates the creation of the CIA.

To help in the operation the State Department would tap ONI. Bill Weston's Spiders Web contends that the TSBD had a gun running operation.
Ex Navy man Molina TSBD employee may have been part of this.

Harold Byrd (owner TSBD building) was one of the three major owners of LTV. LTV was trying to develop a sea torpedo to air weapon system.

ONI would have been all over any of the LTV owners.

Harold Bird sat on the board of Dorchester Gas with Jack Crichton of Empire Trust. Empire Trust's private intelligence service had ONI connections.

POST OFFICE HOLMES ONI CONNECTION SEE POST # 88 above
ONI worked with United fruit since the 1920.

Marguerite ONI connection via Uncle , husband and also the Amon Carter Family

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It may be that ONI man Holmes is watching/reporting on in real time a CIA assassination operation run out of the ONI/TSBD building. (GAAL)

The shooting out of the TSBD is a classic example of covert operation compartmentalization.

Edited August 3, 2015 by Steven Gaal

[Steven Gaal]

modified post # 88 above

• adding two links re UNCLE and Marguerite husband
• additional ONI linage to the Oswalds