John,
Do you have any awareness of "Vala" Valentina Osterman(n) ? I've posted references to her in the "Patrick Hoy" thread:
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http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.ph...st&p=160764Ernest Jr's wife from 1956 to 1970, was a White Russian noblewoman, married previously a Spaniard with fascist ties:
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en...osterman+garciaMrs. Ernest Byfield Jr. Is Dead; Active in Many Society Benefits
New York Times - Aug 19, 1970
"Mrs. Byfield, the former Valentina Osterman, was born to a nobleman and 'his in_ in ... subsequently was married to Pelayo Garcia Olay, a Spanish diplomat, ... "
...this may be her....click on the "translate this page" option:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=1929+va...;fp=23tj5qXL0AYMiss Russland – Wikipedia
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22. Jan. 2009 ... 1929, Valentina Osterman(n) [2], Валентина Остерман. Irina Lewitskaja [Levetky], Ирина Левицкая. 1930, Irene Wentzell [Wentzel] ...
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Russland
....anyway, I thought she would be easier to trace back to her white Russian parents....she came into her marriage to Ernest Byfield Jr., circa 1955, with a 55 carat diamond....I assumed that she inherited the diamond.
Ernest is Ernie Byfield Jr., mentioned in David KE Bruce's book as an OSS officer:
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http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&...;fp=23tj5qXL0AYOSS Against the Reich: The World War II Diaries of Colonel David ... - Google Books Result
by David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce, Nelson D. Lankford - 1991 - Biography & Autobiography - 257 pages
One of our SI men, Byfield,'4 returned yesterday with a slight hand wound. Being on the point of boarding a transport for France, he was taking a photograph ...
As I've documented in the post linked above, after Vala Osterman Byfield died in 1970, Ernest married an Italian countess named Diana Masieri. The widow Masieri Byfield has been married to one Robert Strange McNamara since 2004:
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=dia...=1&ie=UTF-8Ernest's mom was Gladys Rosenthal of Chicago, originally married to Ernest L. Byfield, of the Sherman Hotel Group and the Ambassador East Hotel's Pump Room restaurant.
Glady's second husband was Raymond F. Tartiere, a Parisian and London banker. In 1940, the couple purchased the 400 acre, Glen Ora estate in Middleburg, VA.
In late 1960, at the suggestion of JFK friend, WWII Time war correspondent, turned artist, William Walton, JFK, with Jackie's encouragement, leased Glen Ora from Walton's "old friend", Gladys Tartiere, allegedly relutctantly until Clark Clifford and Walton could convince Tartiere to do so. Glen Ora was the weekend white house until spring, 1963, with Jackie and children usually living there from thursday until monday nights.
Ernest L. Byfield groomed his executive assistant, Patrick Hoy, to assume the presidency of the Sherman Hotel group, upon Byfield's death in 1950. It was reported that Byfield, never having written a word in print, suddenly took off for Europe in 1944 on assignment of Hearst newspapers as a war correspondent.
Chicago columnist Irv Kupcinet, a close friend, along with Patrick Hoy, of mob lawyer Sidney Korshak, lived nightly, for many years in booth one of the Pump Room restaurant, managed by Byfield, and then by Patrick Hoy. Ernest Jr., with white Russian wife Vala at home, was a director of Sherman Hotels, along with his brother, Hugh.
Kupcinet's co-columnists and childhood friends Ira and Jimmy Colitz, owned the Clover bar, next to Hotel Sherman, and were friends since childhood with Jack Ruby. Testimony to the WC revealed that Ruby frequented the Clover Bar, returning there within the year before Nov, 22, 1963, and Ruby's brother testified that Ruby lived at the Sherman Hotel after leaving the military in 1946, and stayed there when visiting Chicago, thereafter.
Henry Crown, largest stockholder of TFX prime contractor, General Dynamics, as head of the executive committee, hired Hoy in 1960, as Gen Dyn corporate VP and president of it's Chicago, Material Service divison.
Henry Crown's personal attorney, Albert E. Jenner, was appointed assistant counsel on the WC, responsible for determining whether Oswald or Ruby were part of a conspiracy...or not, by Earl Warren, a close friend of Henry Crown's principle business partner and friend, Conrad Hilton.
Clark Clifford, mentioned as the JFK aide responsible for "convincing" Gladys Tartiere to lease GLen Ora to JFK, sponsored Albert E. Jenner, a republican, for an LBJ appointment to the Supreme Court.
Clifford's obit describes a scheduled "one on one", one hour meeting on Nov., 23, 1963 at the white house with LBJ, that turned into four hours, lasting "long into the evening".......
Patrick Hoy pled guilty in 1970 to "wire fraud", in the course of fraudulantly obtaining $5 million in bank loans, and declaring bankruptcy with default on loans of $165,000 outstanding to sons of Henry Crown. Although Crown's son, "John J.", was an associate and then law partner of Albert Jenner since 1959, and Crown gained the most financially from the halting of the senate investigations of Bobby Baker, TFX, and LBJ after Nov., 22, 1963, Jenner was still appointed to the WC.
Henry Crown's other son, Lester, net worth $4.8 billion, and his son, James Schine Crown, are early and principle backers of President Obama's presidential bid.
Lester's wife, Renee Schine, is the sister of the late G. David Schine, close associate of Roy Cohn in 1954, and target of RFK's embarassing exposure of Cohn's 43 attempts to persuade the US Army to provide special treatment, exemption from the draft, or officer's commission for draftee Schine.
Schine later served as the GM of his father's Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, still owned by the Schine family when RFK was shot there in June, 1968.
Probably all unrelated, just the work of an all knowing and omnipotent God, laying down a series of unrelated coincidences, intended to confuse and confound us, for his amusement?