Was Boris Pash at Parkland Hospital?

James Richards · May 21, 2005

Robin,
Thanks for the photo.

On the man in the jeep who is compared to Pash, according to this webpage the man in the jeep is Marinus Toepel:

http://www.haigerloch.de/stadt/keller_englisch/EENDE.HTM

The only thing I’ve been able to find on Marinus Toepel (how many people would be named that?) is that he taught political science at the University of Wisconsin, and was chief of Wisconsin’s Legislative Research Library (now the Legislative Research Bureau) when he died in July 1963.

There is a photo of Toepel on page 14 of the below document about the library. I would post the photo but it’s a pdf doc and I can’t copy the photo.

http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lrb/pubs/ib/04ib4.pdf

The photo is not real clear but he does look like the man in the jeep. And the man in the jeep looks like the man at Parkland. This reminds me of the tramps with their multiple resemblances. It's almost like the gods themselves are mischievously at work to confound us in sorting out who's who in the JFK case.

Ron

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Hi Ron,

Marinus 'Gus' Toepel was Military Intelligence during WW2. I have come across this guy before in past research and it's like chasing a shadow. At one time I thought Toepel was actually Boris Pash but there are so many huge gaps and contradictions that I don't really know who he is. Bottom line, Pash and Toepel were both involved with Military Intelligence.

The identification of the guy in the jeep came from a veterans newsletter which used to be available on-line a few years ago.

Anyway, here are some photos of Toepel.

James

Shanet Clark · May 21, 2005

This is an anonymous piece on the internet about PASH.

It is generally logical and informative:

FIRE FROM THE SKY

by "One Who Knows"

PART 27:

WHO CREATED THE ATOMIC BOMB?

Boris Pash, head of security for the Manhattan Project, and scientist

Samuel Goudsmit followed the lead tanks into Paris and into Germany,

looking for the German nuclear laboratory, which they found in Strasbourg.

This was called Operation Alsos (Greek for "Groves"). Peter Goodchild in

his book *J. Robert Oppenheimer, Shatterer of Worlds,* p. 110 said: "Very

soon a picture of the Germans' progress began to emerge. They revealed that

Hitler had been told of the possibilities of a nuclear weapon in 1942 and

that there had been a whole series of uranium pile experiments.

But the crucial facts were that even as late as August 1944 the experiments

were still at an early stage. The Germans had neither the certain

information that an explosive chain reaction was possible, nor did they

have the material or the mechanism to make their bomb. It was apparent that

the project had moved forward hardly at all since 1942. There were one or

two people in Washington who, when they read Goudsmit's final report,

suspected that the information had come too easily, but most people

believed it."

It is possible that Germany DID develop the bomb, and the Allies kept it

secret? In *Heisenberg's War,* p. 481, Vannevar Bush is quoted as saying in

June 1949: "The Nazis wanted an atomic bomb; we knew that. They had as good

a chance at it as we had. In the tense years up to 1945 we thought that

they were close competitors, even that they might be six months ahead of

us. Then after Stuttgart fell and the Alsos mission did its work, we found

out. The Nazis had not even reached first base." Surprise, surprise. Or was

it lie, lie?

My best guess, based on the evidence, is that there is a strong possibility

Germany DID develop the atomic bomb! The Americans managed to capture some

of them in early 1945, then on August 6, 1945, dropped one on Hiroshima.

This would account for J. Robert Oppenheimer's curious statement that the

bomb dropped on Hiroshima was made in Germany. Could the Germans have taken

some bombs with them when Hitler escaped? Was the submarine convoy

protected by nuclear weapons, and were they what stopped Operation

Highjump? Perhaps not, that is just conjecture, but I strongly suspect we

got the "bomb" from the Germans.

In *Blowback,* "the first full account of America's recruitment of Nazis,

and its disastrous effect on our domestic and foreign policy" by

Christopher Simpson, he states: "On July 6 [1945] the Joint Chiefs of Staff

(JCS) specifically authorized an effort to 'exploit... chosen, rare minds

whose continuing intellectual productivity we wish to use' under the top

secret project code-named Overcast... At first this was justified on the

grounds that German scientists might be useful in the continuing war

against Japan" (p.33).

When the Allies found the German atomic bomb laboratory, they were amazed

that it was just a small concrete reactor in a cave, too small to go

critical. Yet they went to considerable trouble in a top secret program to

grab these scientists because they might be useful in defeating Japan? What

were they going to do, throw radioactive concrete at the Japanese? Tom

Agoston in *Blunder!* says (p. 38) that "Unknown to Allied scientists, the

Germans had been able to build up a sizeable stockpile of U-235 and had

held up to two tons, as well as two tons of heavy water."

William Stevenson, in *A Man Called Intrepid,* says "The Germans had the

man [Heisenberg] whose theoretical work was the basis of the bomb" (p. 456)

and "In the military field, the view prevailed in 1939 that the country

with the greatest chance of bringing together the pieces was Germany."

Let's see now, the atomic bomb was a German idea, they had the best

scientists, they had a proven ability to develop advanced weapons, they had

plenty of raw material, and yet their "bomb" consisted of nothing more than

some radioactive concrete in a cave in a hill at the base of a church?

(*Heisenberg's War,* p. 421.) The German laboratory was captured on April

21, 1945, then three months later on July 16 a bomb was tested at

Alamogordo, New Mexico. Then on August 6, 1945, one was dropped on

Hiroshima, and August 9 on Nagasaki. This is not counting the nuclear

explosion in the Oakland, California, area, but we are not supposed to know

about that.

Pash and Goudsmit in Operation Alsos captured several tons of uranium and

"it was shipped to Britain and then the United States, transformed into

uranium hexaflouride gas for isotope separation at Oak Ridge, Tennessee,

and finally in the form of U-235 used to destroy Hiroshima." (*Heisenberg's

War,* p. 362.)

Most classified files from World War II have been routinely declassified

under the provisions of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. Tom Agoston

(*Blunder!,* p. 124) said of the Alsos information, "The files continued to

be suppressed and remain under lock and key in Washington, well beyond the

thirty-year rule. The motive for this remains a four-decade mystery."

He also said that the testimony of Albert Speer, referring to General

Kammler, "The transcript continues to be classified beyond the normal

thirty-year rule, and is not expected to be made public before 2020."

Kammler disappeared at the end of the War and it was reported that he

committed suicide (four different versions). If he were dead, why the

secrecy? Kammler was regarded as "the most important man in Germany outside

the Cabinet." The chain of command was Hitler to Himmler to Himmler's

Deputy SS General Karl Wolff to SS General Oswald Pohl to Kammler, and

later the link was more direct.

Dr. Wilhelm Voss told Agoston what happened to Kammler was a "hot matter"

that could not be revealed. Agoston said one of Kammler's close associates

was Rudolph Hess, who flew to Britain on a secret mission in May 1941. "The

secret British file that might explain why he flew to Britain will remain

closed until the year 2020" (p.160).

What clinched the proof for me was when I read in Phoenix Journal #18

(*Blood And Ashes*), speaking of the Manhattan Project, "Of course, they

utilized the German production urn and, actually, the bomb used on Japan

was constructed in Germany" (p. 159). The author of those Journals is "One

Who Knows."

GERMAN SUBMARINES IN SOUTH ATLANTIC

The newspaper *France Soir* had the following account: "Almost 1-1/2 years

after cessation of hostilities in Europe, the Islandic Whaler, "Juliana"

was stopped by a large German U-boat. The Juliana was in the Antarctic

region around Malvinas [now Falkland] Islands when a German submarine

surfaced and raised the German official naval Flag of Mourning - red with a

black edge.

The submarine commander sent out a boarding party, which approached the

Juliana in a rubber dinghy, and having boarded the whaler demanded of Capt.

Hekla part of his fresh food stocks. The request was made in the definite

tone of an order to which resistance would have been unwise. The German

officer spoke a correct English and paid for his provisions in U.S.

dollars, giving the Captain a bonus of $10 for each member of the Juliana

crew. Whilst the food stuffs were being transferred to the submarine, the

submarine commander informed Capt. Hekla of the exact location of a large

school of whales. Later the Juliana found the school of whales where

designated."

The French *Agence France Press* on 25 September 1946, said: "The

continuous rumours about German U-boat activity in the region of Tierra del

Fuego (Feuerland, in German), between the southernmost tip of Latin America

and the continent of Antarctica are based on true happenings."

There have been stories and books written about Germans counterfeiting U.S.

currency and otherwise obtaining American money printing plates, which may

account for the German use of American money.

The Guinness Book of World Records says that the "greatest unsolved

robbery" was the disappearance of the entire German treasury at the end of

the war.

RAND CORPORATION

In January 1946 industrialist Donald Douglas approached the Army Air Force

with a plan for government and industry to work together on long range

strategic planning. This was called Project RAND, a name coined by Arthur

Raymond from Research ANd Development. Much of their first government money

went to the von Braun team. (McDougall, Walter al. ...*the Heavens and the

Earth, A Political History of the Space Age,* Basic Books, New York, 1985,

p. 89.)

LESLIE R. GROVES

Groves is known as the General in charge of the Manhattan Project which

built the Atomic Bomb. He was chosen because he is the one who supervised

the building of the Pentagon, and by 1942 was in charge of all U.S.

military construction everywhere. After the war he went to work for

Remington Rand Corporation.

BORIS PASH

"The stakes in the search for the scientific expertise of Germany were

high. The single most important American strike force, for example, was the

Alsos raiding team, which targeted Axis atomic research, uranium

stockpiles, and nuclear scientists, as well as Nazi chemical and biological

warfare research. The commander of this assignment was U.S. Army Colonel

Boris Pash, who had previously been security chief of the Manhattan Project

- the United States' atomic bomb development program - and who later played

an important role in highly secret U.S. covert action programs.

Pash succeeded brilliantly in his mission, seizing top German scientists

and more than 70,000 tons of Axis uranium ore and radium products. The

uranium taken during these raids was eventually shipped to the United

States and incorporated in U.S. atomic weapons." (Simpson, Christopher,

*Blowback,* Collier Books, New York, 1988, p. 26.)

"Another notable Bloodstone veteran is Boris Pash, a career intelligence

officer identified in the Final Report of the U.S. Senate's 1975-1976

investigation into U.S. intelligence activities as the retired director of

the CIA unit responsible for planning assassinations" (*Blowback,* p. 108).

*Blowback,* p. 152-153 says: "The records of Operation Bloodstone add an

important new piece of information to one of the most explosive public

issues of today: the role of the U.S. government - specifically the CIA -

in assassinations and attempted assassinations of foreign officials.

According to a 1976 Senate investigation, a key official of Operation

Bloodstone is the OPC officer who was specifically delegated responsibility

for planning the agency's assassinations, kidnappings, and similar 'wet

work.'

"Colonel Boris Pash, one of the most extraordinary and least known

characters in American intelligence history... his work for U.S.

intelligence agencies places him in the critical office given the

responsibility for planning postwar assassination operations... Colonel

Pash is one of the few remaining originals of U.S. intelligence, and his

experience in 'fighting the communists' goes back to the 1917 Russian

Revolution.

He was in Moscow and Eastern Europe in those days with his father, a

missionary of Russian extraction, and the young Pash spent much of the

Soviet civil war working on the side of the White armies, then with Czarist

refugees who had fled their country. In the 1920s Pash signed on as a

reserve officer with the U.S. military intelligence service... he... played

a role in the internment of Japanese civilians in California, and was soon

assigned as chief counterintelligence officer on the Manhattan Project, the

supersecret U.S. effort to develop the atomic bomb. (More than a decade

later it was Colonel Pash's testimony that helped seal the fate of

scientist Robert Oppenheimer in the well-known 1954 security case.)

Before the war was out, it will be recalled, Colonel Pash led the series of

celebrated special operations known as the Alsos Mission that were designed

to capture the best atomic and chemical warfare experts that the Nazis had

to offer.

"After the war Colonel Pash served as the army's representative on

Bloodstone in the spring of 1948, when the tasks of that project, including

recruiting defectors, smuggling refugees out from behind the Iron Curtain,

and assassinations, were established. Bloodstone's 'special operations,' as

defined by the Pentagon, could 'include clandestine warfare, subversion,

sabotage and... assassination,' according to the 1948 Joint Chiefs of Staff

records. In March 1949, Pash was assigned by the army to the OPC division

of the CIA... His five-man CIA unit, known as PB/7, was given a written

charter that read in part that 'PB/7 will be responsible for

assassinations, kidnapping, and such other functions as from time to time

may be given it... by higher authority.'"

From *Dulles* by Leonard Mosley (A Biography of Eleanor, Allen and John

Foster. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1978.), we find, p. 459: "But now he

[Allen Dulles] was interested in the more sinister Agency experiments in

mind-bending drugs, portable phials of lethal viruses, and esoteric poisons

that killed without trace. Allen's sense of humor was touched when he

learned that the unit working on these noxious enterprises was called the

*Health Alteration Committee* (directed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb and Boris

Pash)... Richard Bissell... had now succeeded Frank Wisner as deputy

director of Plans..."

To learn more about the mind-control and torture experiments of Pash and

Gottlieb, read *Journey Into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind

Control and Medical Abuse* by Gordon Thomas (Bantam Books, New York, 1989).

One of the people they killed was Frank Olson (a CIA germ warfare doctor

whose specialty was anthrax), while they were working on Subproject-68,

also known as MK-ULTRA. MK-ULTRA started as *Project Bluebird,* set up on

April 20, 1950, by CIA Director Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter (who later was

a member of NICAP), and on July 20, 1950, they began using sodium amytal,

Benzedrine and other drugs to "brainwash" prisoners.

In September 1950, the *Miami News* published an article under the headline

BRAIN WASHING TACTICS which was considered the first formal use of the

term. One of Gottlieb's partners was Dr. Harold Wolff, who appears to be a

Paperclip doctor. He worked with Parke-Davis and "...remained closely

connected with the M-K Ultra brainwashing project" (p. 191). He helped set

up an apartment and introduce LSD to the hippies in San Francisco, and

worked on Project Mindbender (a Manchurian-Candidate type operation) with

William Buckley.

Isn't it interesting that so many of the participants in the most secret of

secrets of World War II are still very involved in the Kennedy

assassination and other more current affairs. Many books and articles have

been written about the CIA being involved in the JFK assassination, and now

you know that the man in charge of CIA assassinations was Boris Pash,

formerly chief of security for the Manhattan Project. He was also head of

the group trying to capture Hitler's advanced technology, including "flying

saucers" and other secrets.

The book *ZR Rifle - The Plot To Kill Kennedy And Castro* by Claudia

Furiati, p. 36, says that a man named William Harvey had been in charge of

the CIA post in West Berlin until 1960, then was placed in charge of CIA

assassinations by Richard Bissell in 1961. The plans to assassinate

political leaders was code-named *ZR-RIFLE,* headed by Harvey. Bo Gritz

said on p. 525 of his book: "The Kennedy assassination was code-named

'ZR-RIFLE'." It seems apparent to me that Harvey and Pash were wearing the

same pair of pants.

In 1941, Ian Fleming, the future creator of the "James Bond" stories, and

at that time a high ranking officer of British Intelligence, suggested to

William Donovan that he set up a specially trained and selected

assassination unit. PB/7 (Pash Boris Seven) was the original of the "Agent

007" concept. If my memory is correct, I believe Nixon stated that William

Harvey was the real 007.

I assume Pash was Agent 001, or perhaps he had seven agents working for him

(originally five). If you want to understand more of how these various

factions such as CIA, KGB, Nazis, Communists, FBI, etc., can be fighting

each other and working together at the same time, you need to understand

who was above them, controlling them. To understand that, look to British

Intelligence! You will find British Intelligence to be an operation of

British and European Royalty and "Aristocracy"!

E. Howard Hunt, while in prison in December, 1975, in an interview with the

*New York Times,* said that the head of the CIA assassination unit was

Boris Pash. Pash was assigned to Angleton at this time (see *Final

Judgment,* p. 207). Angleton was head of the Israel desk of the CIA and was

very pro-Israel. He was also closely involved with Meyer Lansky.

In *Cold Warrior,* the biography of James Jesus Angleton by Tom Mangold, he

says on page 362: "I would like to place on the record, however, that

Angleton's closest professional friends overseas, then and subsequently,

came from the Mossad (the Israeli intelligence-gathering service) and that

he was held in immense esteem by his Israeli colleagues and by the state of

Israel, which was to award him profound honors after his death." His place

was taken after his death by William Colby. When Kissinger wanted to "get

LaRouche," he turned to Angleton for help. Angleton's tombstone is in

Hebrew.

On page 97 of *Final Judgment,* Piper says that "The ZR/Rifle Team, in

fact, was one of Angleton's pet in-house CIA projects, which he ran in

conjunction with his CIA colleague, William Harvey."

According to Claudia Furiati, Joseph Schreider was in charge of the CIA

laboratories and of developing poisons for assassinations, and says that

Harvey was in charge of political assassinations, working out of the Miami

office run by [Paperclip] Shackley, and was working with Schreider to try

to poison Castro. Above we have Boris Pash and Sidney Gottlieb working

together in the same manner. We have Pash and Harvey in the same locations,

doing the same jobs, in charge of the same projects - talk about

featherbedding. I believe that Harvey was actually at headquarters in

Langley, over Shackley in Miami.

*Blowback,* p. 153, says that Pash "...served as the Army's representative

on Bloodstone in the spring of 1948, when the tasks of that project,

including recruiting defectors, smuggling refugees out from behind the Iron

Curtain, and assassinations, were established. In March 1949, Pash was

assigned by the Army to the OPC division of the CIA."

Harvey died June 6, 1976, according to Dick Russell, and Pash was in his

80s in 1988 according to Simpson.

END OF QUOTE / ONLINE MATERIAL .

James Richards · May 21, 2005

Thanks, Shanet.

The Samuel Goudsmit mentioned in Shanet's post is the guy who along with Pash participated in Op Alsos.

In the photo below, the guy on the right is identified as Goudsmit. I do believe that the man on the left is Boris Pash not Marinus Toepel.

Having said that, Toepel is mysterious to say the least.

James

James Richards · May 22, 2005

I don't wish to run this thread off topic but Samuel Goudsmit is curious given his close relationship to Boris Pash. He was also connected to several individuals who on their own deserve spirited research.

One of those in particular is Enrico Fermi who I believe was the subject of some serious attention by Military Intelligence and Boris Pash. Fermi was behind the first controlled nuclear chain reaction. He died in 1954.

The image below shows Samuel Goudsmit second from the left and Enrico Fermi second from the right. The photo is circa 1924.

James

Steve Rosen · January 18, 2010

The website FFiDP-2. or Familar Faces in Dealey Plaza 2, has an update (as of June 18, 2009) on the photo of LBJ leaving Parkland Hospital with an unknown man, originally suggested to be Boris Pash:

http://www.manuscriptservice.com/FFiDP-2/

- Steve

William Kelly · March 20, 2013

I think it has been established the fellow in the photos leaving Parkland is not Boris Pash but a Secret Service officer; isn't that correct?

Here's the SSCIA (Church Com) Testimony of Boris Pash, 7 JAN 1976

Church Committee Boxed Files

www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=1430

RIF#: 157-10014-10071 (01/07/76) SSCIA#: 10-H-03

Boris Pash

From US Army, detailed to CIA in 1948-51

In 1954 and ’55 and early ’56 I was stationed in the Presidio of San Francisco as a Deputy G-2 in charge of Security Matters.

In a 1976 interview with NYT E. Howard Hunt Says CIA Had Assassinations Unit led by Pash

http://www.maryferre...30&relPageId=62

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Boris_Pash

Biography

He was born in San Francisco, California, on June 20, 1900. His father was Rev. Theodore Pashkovsky (would become Most Reverend Metropolitan Theophilus from 1934–1950), a Russian Orthodox priest who had been sent to California by the Church in 1894. Because his father had been recalled to Russia, the entire family returned to Russia in 1912. Boris attended Seminary school and graduated in 1917. During the Russian Revolution, he served in the White movement navy. In 1920, he married Lydia Ivanov, and chose to return to the United States when the Bolshevik consolidation of power became apparent. He was able to secure employment with the YMCA in Berlin [Germany] where his son (Edgar Constantine Boris Pashkovsky; aka Edgar C.B. Pash) was born on June 14, 1921. Upon returning to the United States with his family, he attended Springfield College, in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he graduated with a B.A. in physical education. It was during this time that he changed the family name from Pashkovsky to Pash.

Boris Pash (right) in April 1945 with the Alsos Mission in Hechingen

Before World War II, Pash taught at Hollywood High School in Los Angeles. He continued his education, and received an M.A. from theUniversity of Southern California. A reserve officer, he was called to active duty in 1940. He was asecurity officer for the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, and, toward the end of the war, the military leader of the Operation Alsos. Its purpose was to determine how far the Axis had progressed toward developing nuclear weapons, and to secure atomic material and capture the scientists working on the Nazi atomic project.

After the war, Pash served in various military intelligence positions. He served under GeneralDouglas MacArthur in Japan (1946–47). From 1948-51, he served as a military representative to the Central Intelligence Agency, and during this time, he was in charge of a controversialCIA program PB/7, also known as Operation Bloodstone which involved recruiting former German officers and diplomats who could be used in the covert war against the Soviet Union. This included former members of the Nazi Party such as Gustav Hilger and Hans von Bittenfield.

He also served in Austria (1952–53), and in Washington, D.C. (1953–57) and in 1954, he testified in the Dr. Robert Oppenheimer security investigation. He would also appear before the Church Committee in 1975.

He retired from the Army in 1957. He died on May 11, 1995 in Greenbrae, California. Colonel Pash is a member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame.

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