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NameBase was a web-based cross-indexed database of names that focuses on individuals involved in the international intelligence community, U.S. foreign policy, crime, and business. The focus is on the post-World War II era and on left of center, conspiracy theory, and espionage activities.[1] Founder Daniel Brandt collected clippings and citations pertaining to influential people and intelligence from 500 investigative books published since 1962 and thousands of periodicals since 1973.[1] In the 1980s, through his company Micro Associates, he sold subscriptions to this computerized database, under its original name, Public Information Research, Inc (PIR). At PIR's onset, Brandt was President of the newly formed non-profit corporation and investigative researcher, Peggy Adler, served as its Vice President. The material was described as "information on all sorts of spooks, military officials, political operators and other cloak-and-dagger types."[2] He told The New York Times at the time that "many of these sources are fairly obscure so it's a very effective way to retrieve information on U.S. intelligence that no one else indexes."[3] One research librarian calls it "a unique part of the 'Deep Web'", equally useful to investigative journalists and students.[4] By 1992, private citizens, news organizations, and universities all were using NameBase.[5] In 1995, these efforts became the basis of the NameBase website.[6] As of 2003, the database contained "over 100,000 names with over 260,000 citations drawn from books and serials with a few documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act."[7] The website is structured so that users can follow hyperlinked information "and thus uncover potential relationships or connections between individuals and groups".[4] The way this is formatted on the website is referred to as a social network and, though the user has to click further to actually determine the relationship between names on a given social network, as they are not specifically listed, NameBase was described by Paul B. Kantor as being the "only web-based tool readily available for visualizing social networks of terrorism researchers."[8] On February 21, 2012, Betabeat.com reported that NameBase, along with several other of Brandt's websites, was no longer in operation. [9] [edit] References 1. ^ a b "NameBase tracks lesser-known political players". Online magazine 20 (5): pp74. Sept-Oct 1996. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-18696782.html. 2. ^ Morley, Jefferson; Corn, David (November 7, 1988). "Beltway Bandits: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spywatcher". The Nation. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-6754640.html. Retrieved January 16, 2012. 3. ^ Gerth, Jeff (October 6, 1987). "Washington Talk: The Study of Intelligence; Only Spies Can Find These Sources". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/06/us/washington-talk-the-study-of-intelligence-only-spies-can-find-these-sources.html. Retrieved January 16, 2012. 4. ^ a b O'Hanlon, Nancy (May 23, 2005). The Right Stuff: Research Strategies for the Internet Age. Ohio State University Libraries. https://dspace1.it.ohio-state.edu/dspace/handle/1811/325. Retrieved 2008-02-24. 5. ^ "Deadly Data". The Progressive (Madison, Wisconsin: Progressive, Inc) 56 (1): 14. January 1992. ISSN 0033-0736. 6. ^ Hand, Mark. "Searching for Daniel Brandt". CounterPunch (January 3, 2003). Retrieved 15 June 2007. 7. ^ Perrault, Anna H.; Ron Blazek (2003). United States History: A Multicultural, Interdisciplinary Guide to Information Sources. Westport, Connecticut; London: Libraries Unlimited. pp. 35. ISBN 1563088746. http://books.google.com/books?id=6GvdlpRu9-kC&pg=PA35&dq=%22Namebase%22+Brandt&hl=en&sa=X&ei=n5sUT479GuixiQLt17nEDQ&ved=0CFgQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22Namebase%22%20Brandt&f=false. 8. ^ Kantor, Paul B. (2005). Intelligence and security informatics. Springer. pp. 324-325. http://books.google.com/books?id=SUwBpvoA1TcC&pg=PA324&dq=%22NameBase%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9pAUT4PkDenXiQKpp8C4DQ&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22NameBase%22&f=false. Retrieved January 16, 2011. 9. ^ Adrianne Jeffries (February 21, 2012). "Scroogle, Privacy-First Search Engine, Shuts Down for Good". Betabeat.com. http://www.betabeat.com/2012/02/21/scroogle-privacy-first-search-engine-shuts-down-for-good/. Retrieved February 21, 2012. External links To paraphrase...... It's the wave of the future......

excerpts pages 5-9 from The Kennedy Assassination Tapes Max Holland http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kennedy-assassination-tapes-max-holland/1100320968 Initially, Dallas seemed intent on playing into the White House’s hands. The Morning News of November 22 carried a full-page advertisement on page 14, rimmed in black, underwritten by a group calling itself the “American Fact-Finding Committee.” Under a sarcastic headline, “welcome mr. kennedy to dallas,” the committee listed twelve deliberately provocative questions, all couched to insinuate that the president (and his brother, the attorney general) were unbearably soft on Communism. The advertisement complemented a handbill that had appeared mysteriously overnight under doors and on the windshields of countless Dallas cars. Featuring the president’s image from the front and the left side, as if taken from a police mug shot, the broadside accused him of turning the United States over to the “communist controlled United Nations.” In case the imagery or text was lost on anyone, the headline read, “wanted for treason.” After reading the paid advertisement, the president sought to prepare Jacqueline Kennedy for any unpleasantness that might occur in the afternoon. “Oh, you know,” John Kennedy remarked to his wife, “we’re heading into nut country today.” Intensely private, often diffident in public, the First Lady disliked retail politicking and the press. Campaigning combined the two and as such represented the ultimate invasion of her privacy and the control she cherished. Her disdain for the gestures expected of a politician’s wife meant her presence was sometimes a mixed blessing when the president was electioneering. The state of being “on,” the lot of political wives, exhausted her. The president would have to remind her not to wear large sunglasses, like some Hollywood movie star, and she almost never partook in the behind-the-scenes bantering with staff. The most frequent adjectives applied to the First Lady were “aloof” and “regal,” and the latter description was not necessarily intended as complimentary. Jacqueline Kennedy had a “formidable” temper in private, and to hardened pols she was “Jackie the Socialite.” She had nonetheless agreed to accompany her husband on his swing through Texas, her presence viewed as a drawing card because of her fluency in Spanish and because Dallas—home of the famed Neiman-Marcus department store—was such a fashion-conscious city that it would turn out just to see what “Jackie” would be wearing. And true to form, the November 7 news that Mrs. Kennedy would accompany the president had substantially increased demand for tickets to the Trade Mart luncheon as well as the other venues on the tour. The Morning News advertisement was a perfect expression of Dallas’s venom for the president. Passions, apparently, had not cooled in the wake of the Stevenson incident, and the prospect of a scuffle or some other unsightly incident along the motorcade route or at the Trade Mart appeared likely. But probably there would be nothing more than that, because Dallas law enforcement authorities had taken every precaution recommended by the Secret Service, and then some. That morning the paid ad seemed destined only to make the laughs that much louder when Lyndon Johnson delivered his closing line at the gala fund-raising dinner scheduled for Friday evening in Austin. “And thank God, Mr. President,” Johnson reportedly intended to say, before pausing for effect, “that you came out of Dallas alive.” At 11:23 a.m. the president and Mrs. Kennedy board the specially designed Boeing 707 popularly known as Air Force One for the short hop from Fort Worth to Dallas. 12:29 p.m. Among the hundreds of people in Dealey Plaza, one of the eye- and ear-witnesses who will be closest to the assassination is Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson, wife of the vice president. She is riding, along with her husband and a tight-lipped Senator Yarborough, in a Lincoln Continental convertible just behind the “Queen Mary,” an armored 1955 Cadillac convertible brimming with eight Secret Service agents and hidden automatic weapons. Just ahead of the Queen Mary, as the motorcade wends its way through downtown Dallas, is the president’s limousine. Though Mrs. Johnson does not capture every detail, her account stands out because she tape-recorded it while her memory was still fresh and relatively untainted. It all began so beautifully. After a drizzle in the morning, the sun came out bright and beautiful. We were going into Dallas. In the lead car [were] President and Mrs. Kennedy, John and Nellie [Connally], and then a Secret Service car full of men, and then our car, with Lyndon and me, and Senator Yarborough. The streets were lined with people—lots and lots of children, all smiling—placards, confetti, people waving from windows. One last, happy moment I had was looking up and seeing Mary Griffith leaning out of a window, waving at me. Then almost at the edge of town, on our way to the Trade Mart, where we were going to have the luncheon, we were rounding a curve, going down a hill [when] suddenly, there was a sharp, loud report . . . a shot. It seemed to me to come from the right, above my shoulder, from a building. Then one moment [passed], and then two more shots in rapid succession. There’d been such a gala air that I thought it must be firecrackers, or some sort of celebration. But then, in the lead car, the Secret Servicemen were suddenly down. I heard over the radio system, “Let’s get out of here!” And our Secret Service man who was with us—Rufe Youngblood, I believe it was—vaulted over the front seat on top of Lyndon, threw him to the floor, and said, “Get down!” Senator Yarborough and I ducked our heads. The cars accelerated terrifically fast—faster and faster. Then suddenly, they put on the brakes so hard that I wondered if they were gonna make it as they wheeled left around a corner. We pulled up to a building. I looked up and saw it said, “Hospital.” Only then did I believe that this might be what it was. Yarborough kept on saying in an excited voice, “Have they shot the president? Have they shot the president?” I said something like, “No . . . [it] can’t be.” As we ground to a halt—we were still the third car—the Secret Servicemen began to pull, lead, guide . . . hustle us out. I cast one last look back over my shoulder and saw a bundle of pink, just like a drift of blossoms, lying in the back seat. I think it was Mrs. Kennedy . . . lying over the president’s body. They led us to the right, to the left, onward into a quiet room in the hospital, a very small room. It was lined with white sheets, I believe. People came and went: Kenny O’Donnell, Congressman [Homer] Thornberry, Congressman Jack Brooks. Always there was Rufe right there, [along with Secret Servicemen] Emory Roberts, Jerry Kivett, Lem Johns, [and] Woody Taylor. It is standard practice for the Air Force One crew to monitor the signals that keep the traveling White House in contact with the real one in Washington at all times, courtesy of the White House Communications Agency (WHCA, or “Whakka”) and the unrivaled virtuosity of Army Signal Corps operators. Secret Service headquarters, the State Department, and the Pentagon’s National Military Command Center are also kept in this communications loop. As Air Force One’s pilot, Colonel James Swindal, eavesdrops on the Secret Service agents’ chatter, he is pleased to hear that Dallas seems to be redeeming itself after the ugliness of the Stevenson visit. The crowds greeting the motorcade are unexpectedly large and friendly, with nary a hostile placard in sight. Seconds after 12:30 p.m. Swindal hears a shout explode on Charlie frequency—and then another. His body tenses up, and he recognizes the voice of Roy Kellerman, head of the Secret Service detail, who is riding in the front passenger seat of the president’s limousine. Swindal can only make out one injunction from Kellerman—dagger cover volunteer!—before the radio becomes a cacophony of screeching voices. Then it falls silent. Something has clearly gone wrong, but Swindal has no idea what. dagger is the code name for Rufus Youngblood, and volunteer is Lyndon Johnson. Has someone thrown an egg at the vice president? Perhaps a riot has broken out along the motorcade route. While Swindal is mulling over the possibilities, WHCA patches a telephone call from Parkland Memorial Hospital into Special Air Missions (SAM) 26000 (the radio designation for Air Force One when it is not airborne). It is Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh, the president’s air force aide, with new, cryptic orders. Refuel the airplane instantly and file a flight plan to return to Andrews Air Force Base (AFB) near Washington immediately. General McHugh does not bother to explain, but since Air Force One is involved, Swindal now knows that whatever happened concerns the president. Minutes later the news is heard over the television set aboard SAM 26000. The president has been shot! The radio traffic is now anything but routine. While trained operators generally maintain a brisk demeanor betraying nothing, other voices quaver and speak haltingly, still reeling from the news. Tongues are tied, and there is an undertone of apprehension in nearly every conversation. The precaution of using code names instead of real names, and the protocol of distinguishing between Air Force One and SAM 26000, are cast aside more often than invoked. A White House Diary Lady Bird Johnson http://www.pbs.org/ladybird/epicenter/epicenter_report_assassination.html The Flying White House: The Story of Air Force One J.F. terHorst and Ralph Albertazzie (New York Coward McCann & Geoghegan 1979) http://www.amazon.com/Flying-White-House-Story-Force/dp/0553134612/ref=pd_sxp_f_pt http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/us/politics/17albertazzie.html Ralph Dayton Albertazzie was fascinated by airplanes since his childhood in Morgantown, W.Va., where he often went to the airport to watch planes and “bum” rides. He was born on July 16, 1923, in Cassville, a small town near Morgantown, where his father was a coal mine superintendent. He won a football scholarship to West Virginia University, where he studied engineering before joining the Army Air Corps in 1943. As a second lieutenant, he served as a B-17 and B-29 bomber instructor until his discharge in 1945. The future colonel then bought a flying school in Morgantown, which he operated until 1951, when he was recalled to serve in the Air Force during the Korean War. He flew 17 combat missions and 75 combat support missions in the Vietnam War, receiving the Bronze Star and two Air Medals. Colonel Albertazzie married his high school sweetheart, Carol Wilson, in 1942. She died in 1999. He is survived by two daughters, Sally Albertazzie and Lynette Crosby, and two grandchildren. After retiring from the Air Force in 1974, he served as West Virginia’s commerce secretary in the administration of Gov. Arch A. Moore Jr. He later owned a truck stop along Interstate 81 and a local radio station. In 1989, with David Fisher, he wrote “Hostage One,” a novel about a plot to kidnap the president and transport him to Libya. In “The Flying White House,” writing in the third person, Colonel Albertazzie recounted a dramatic moment on Aug. 9, 1974, the day Nixon resigned. After Mr. Ford was sworn in as president, the plane had to be redesignated as SAM 27000, indicating no president was on board. “Air Force One was 39,000 feet over a point 13 miles southwest of Jefferson City, Missouri,” he wrote. “The time was 3 minutes and 25 seconds past noon. Albertazzie picked up his microphone and spoke to ground control: ‘Kansas City, this was Air Force One. Will you change our call sign to SAM 27000?’ Back came the reply: ‘Roger, SAM 27000. Good luck to the President.’ “ ‘Roger, 27000.’ ” This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Correction: August 19, 2011 An obituary on Wednesday about Ralph D. Albertazzie, the pilot of Air Force One during the Nixon administration, referred imprecisely to one mission he flew. In July 1971 he flew Henry A. Kissinger to Pakistan and another pilot secretly flew Mr. Kissinger on another plane from there to China, where he discussed plans for President Richard M. Nixon’s trip there. Mr. Albertazzie did not “take Mr. Kissinger to China” on that mission, nor did he fly President Nixon there four months later. (He did fly Mr. Kissinger to China in October of that year, then flew Nixon there four months after that.) The obituary also referred incorrectly to “The Flying White House,” the book Mr. Albertazzie wrote with J. F. terHorst. In that book Mr. Albertazzie wrote about himself in the third person, not the second.

Cord Meyer wrote an interesting passage in his book regarding something not exactly irrelevant to Oswald's Russian sojourn.....and includes Robert Kennedy. From page 103, Facing Reality From World Federalism To The CIA As attorney general, Robert Kennedy took a personal interest in the CIA's support of this democratic challenge and before the Helsinki festival, I was required to view with him in detail the plans we had worked out with the American student leaders. At the conclusion of the Helsinki festival, he was so impressed by the results that he asked to meet with the four or five student activists who had been the principal organizers. We met in his office, and he congratulated them on their effective performance and assured them that the Kennedy administration would continue to support such programs. Arguably, if what Meyer wrote is true, which I personally believe it is...the following activities would have been more than known by Bobby, and add a certain amount of credence to Adrian Alba's claim that RFK knew of Oswald before the assassination. DISPATCH- COSTILLE'S LUNCH WITH GRIGORY GOLUB Found in: HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 8: Golitsyn - Hernandez) REDCAP On 28 June Costille invited Golub to have lunch with him at the Savoy Restaurant in Helsinki as it was Costille's turn to pay the bill. Golub's first remarks concerned the amount of work he had to do...... RIF#: 104-10172-10301 (07/17/59) CIA#: 80T01357A https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=18382 ELSILA, DAVID AUGUST Sources: CD 6, p. 167 Mary's Comments: Had been in Havana, Cuba, and in Helsinki, Finland. Refused to answer any questions for FBI. HELSINKI, FINLAND ----- Sources: WC Vol 18, p. 332; HSCA Report, p. 212; HSCA Vol IV, p. 240; CIA 114-49; CIA 149-606; CIA 239-90A; CIA 758-325; CIA 781-341; CIA 782-342; CIA 1004-400; CIA 1147-431; Mary's Comments: Two other Americans there on Oct 4, 1959, asking for visas to Russia. LHO there Oct 10, 1959. Home/Archive/Documents/JFK Assassination Documents/JFK Documents - Central Intelligence Agency/HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm)/HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 26: DRE - JURE)/ NARA Record Number: 104-10171-10029 TRANSMITTAL OF MATERIAL ON HELSINKI YOUTH FESTIVAL https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=36593 6/19/62 SUBJECT: GYROSE/KUCAGE Transmittal of Material For Helsinki Youth Festival 1. Forwarded herewith are three sets of a special packet prepared by USIA for the Helsinki Youth Festival. You may find these helpful in preparing the AMSPELL delegation to go to Helsinki. 2. Of particular interest in the packet is the article “More Than 500 Children Flee Castro’s Cuba Each Week” and the photo showing KHRUSHCHEV, Blas ROCA and young FIDEL CASTRO together in Moscow. The photograph merits especially wide play. We are also passing a print of it (but not a complete packet) to AMYANG-3 for publication in his magazine. Cheers

Robert, Does such an old (1952) Nash Rambler station wagon somehow factor into the assassination of JFK? --Tommy Absolutely not, the point was you have someone named Bledsoe selling Nash Station wagons in Shreveport...No one knows if he was doing it in 1963, or, if he could be related to the Dallas Bledsoe's,but I thought it was worth mentioning....God knows I have read a lot of things on the Forum, that didn't seem as interesting...... I even found an obit for a W R Bledsoe, but it couldn't be him unless the caption in the Images of America Shreveport book is incorrect, as he looks to be on the other side of 60......whereas the person below just doesent fit those parameters Oklahoman, The (Oklahoma City, OK) - April 3, 2008 Deceased Name: Winifred Ray " W .R." Bledsoe Winifred Ray "W.R." Bledsoe, 83, of Del City, died Tuesday, April 1, 2008, in Midwest City. W.R. was born March 16, 1925 to Roy and Dora Bledsoe in Checotah, Oklahoma. He married the absolute love of his life, Christine Ireland, on December 22, 1943. He was known as a loving and giving person that truly loved to give people a hand and help them in any way possible. Mr. Bledsoe proudly served in the US Navy throughout the South Pacific in WWII as well as Korea. He later retired from the US Air Force. His pride and joy in his life were those he loved; his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. W.R. enjoyed working, especially on his cars. Mr. Bledsoe was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Christine; two brothers, Bob and Merle Bledsoe; and a sister, Nola Bledsoe. He leaves behind a son, Larry Bledsoe and wife Patsy; and a daughter, Shirley Bledsoe. He is also survived by his grandchildren, Karen Blanton and husband Tim, Kim Schafer and husband Alan, Jeff Bledsoe, Robert Fuxa, and Steve Maynard; as well as his great grandchildren, Seth and Blake Blanton, and Tyler and Jared Maynard. Graveside services for Mr. Bledsoe will be 2:00 pm Friday, April 4, 2008, at Greenlawn Cemetery in Checotah, OK, under the direction of Ford Funeral Service. The Bledsoe family would like to express their sincere gratitude to Hospice Quality Care for their outstanding care of both their mother and father. Robert: He would have been twenty-seven in 1952. In Images of America Shreveport Faces of the Past page 114 there is a W.R. Bledsoe posing with Rudy Vallee after purchasing a “Nash Rambler Station wagon,” on Texas Avenue during a March 1952 visit to Shreveport...but the photo can’t be him unless the caption is incorrect; he is at least over 55 if not over 65....... Lastly, there are other reasons the book is compelling, especially if you believe there is evidence, or a likelihood that Shreveport fits into some unresolved aspects of the assassination, It could come in handy. If you find this boring you might want to read the most recent post on A Photographic Puzzle, if that's boring I don't know what to tell you. http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=18186&st=30

Imagine the loose ends of the JFK assassination, work remaining to be done, type of thing. For those who believe Shreveport, Louisiana factors in the above equation, there is a very good book from a series called Images of America Shreveport Faces of The Past Eric J Brock http://books.google.com/books?id=J6VA4MeqEe8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:cs9m9WwoGFMC&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bM4_T6-0Acq02gWr5eCzCA&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=editions%3Acs9m9WwoGFMC&f=false I believe at some point in the future there are going to be some eye-openers regarding connections to this city, although that is a hunch, and not because of anything I am personally aware of. I did not post this on the interesting JFK books thread, because it is not a JFK book... There are several items in it that a good researcher would be interested in...my thoughts on it sort of gravitate to one passage, which is undoubtedly speculative, but worthy of keeping in the back of ones head, at least from where I sit..... In Images of America Shreveport Faces of the Past page 114 there is the following caption: (Actor) Rudy Vallee purchases a Nash Rambler station wagon from W.R. Bledsoe of Bledsoe Motors on Texas Avenue during a March 1952 visit to Shreveport There are a lot of other items of interest, some undoubtedly more substantial than the one above, which, some might call 'taking a stab in the dark.' There are also references to an Edith Pennington a silent screen actress who became a gospel minister... said surname is related to the account of the finding of the Nash Rambler next to a washateria after leaving the front of the TSBD....... For the record, Shreveport, Louisiana was where LBJ attorney J Waddy Bullion was when JFK was assassinated no-one seems to know what his activities there were.... The JFK Administration's Howard Burris is alleged by B C Adamson of making references to not being aware of certain activities taking place at Barksdale AFB prior to his departure to Germany..... Irrespective of that Howard Burris is a formidable name in JFK related matters http://prospect.org/article/did-us-military-plan-nuclear-first-strike-1963

Read On...... NARA Finding Aid - Audio-Visual Listing pag 19 Found in: NARA Finding Aids Road College Park MD 20740-6001 301-713-7060 301-713-6904 NWDNM Assassination Records Review Board Joan Hallett wife of American Assistant Naval Attache Oliver S Hallet recounts life for Americans in the Soviet Union from 1959 to 1961. Hallett worked for the American Embassy during the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959 and was present when Lee Harvey Oswald renounced his American citizenship. Variant Control # Project Number 99302K Accession Number NN3-541-99-001 sound cassette ends abruptly http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=924&relPageId=19 HALLETT, OLIVER S. (COMMANDER, U.S. NAVY) Sources: CIA document dated 8 September 1964 (MMF 1742); Death of a President, Manchester, 34-35, 222, 256, 275, 289 Mary's Comments: Naval attache in US Embassy in Moscow in 1959. His wife was Embassy receptionist. He knew LHO in Moscow. His name appeared on U.S. Embassy, Moscow, Diplomatic List in 1959. His name was in "Sammy" paper (MMF 1742). He then had submarine duty but in Feb 1963, he is posted to White House. He ordered Cabinet plane back to Washington 11/22/63. Ordered White House flag to half mast (the first flag in nation to go down). Hallett died Oct 30, 1992. Survived by wife: Joan and daughter, Carolyn Hallett Maginnis (Mrs. Francis Xavier Maginnis of Herndon, VA.) end NOTE RE SAMMY PAPERS Samy, according to the second document below was the cryptonym for MELVIN KANTOR, who had relatives in the Soviet Union, ostensibly Soviet dissidents, who was born in 1937...whether that is 100% accurate, is left to the readers judgement......What is at the very bottom is rather fascinating in my book...... Home/Archive/Documents/JFK Assassination Documents/JFK Documents - Central Intelligence Agency/Oswald 201 File (201-289248)/ NARA Record Number: 104-10300-10065 MEMO: SUBJECT SAMMY [2 Pages] http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=54692 Home/Archive/Documents/JFK Assassination Documents/JFK Documents - Central Intelligence Agency/HSCA Segregated CIA Collection/HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 43/ NARA Record Number: 104-10120-10521 SAMMY https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=23153 There is more than one SAMMY document above is just a sampling..... Forgive My Grief IV pg 65, by Jones Jr., Penn (1974) ".. In less than a minute the mansion came through Commander Oliver Hallett in the Situation Room was on the other end . Commander Oliver S Hallett USN his wife and sixteen year old daughter, all knew Oswald..... I REALLY WANT TO SEE WHAT THE REST OF THIS SAYS...Does anybody have Forgive My Grief IV (1976) or a link to the article via Baylor University's Penn Jones collection? Did you know? KANTOR, MARVIN ----- Sources: HSCA, Vol. XII, p. 364; CIA 1004-400; CIA 1188-1000; HSCA Reel 9, Box 7, Folder J, K (AMKW 7) Mary's Comments: DOB: 5/9/34. POB: New York, NY. Parents Irving and Sarah Brodsky Kantor. Married Lis Petersen (Danish girl) in Copenhagen 8/13/61. Educ. Copenhagen Univ, 1961. Fordham Univ., M.A. 1962. Univ of Michigan, Ph.D. 1966. Lecturer in Slavic Languages Univ of Michigan, 1964-66. Brooklyn College of City Univ of New York, Brooklyn, NY, asst Professor of Russian, 1966-67. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, asst. prof. of Slavic languages, 1967--. He was a student in Minsk in 1961. Lived with aunt and uncle (mother's sister). Russians tried to recruit him then threw him out of Russia. He was interviewed in Copenhagen by CIA May 3 and 4, 1961. He went back to Russia 6 or 7 years later and received a phone call from the same Russian diplomat who had tried to recruit him in 1961 (just a "social call"). 1952-55, Kantor was an enlisted Marine. Had been to Cuba in the Carribean and to Yugoslavia. Marina was taking English at Univ of Mich in March 1965 at same time Kantor was lecturing there. CIA apparently wanted to keep Marina and Kantor apart and asked help from FBI. One thing that makes all of this a little more interesting than your average post is the somewhat humorous anecdotal comment John Newman [Oswald & The CIA] makes at the beginning of referenced bopok, when he mentions Mrs. Hallett's daughter, Carolyn, asking re LHO "Mommy, who was that weird man?" In that same section of the book Newman mentions someone else in that room in the U.S. Embassy......Ned Keenan, who actually sat down next to Oswald...... Of course, there was a Steve Keenan in Mexico City with a "Lee Oswald." And people, wonder why I am always hammering the genealogy angles........

This is what I found, certain aspects of his career, seem to be a little difficult to find, ie Legion of Merit biography Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - October 31, 1992 Deceased Name: Oliver Sawyer Hallet , Former Naval Assistant Retired Navy Capt. Oliver Sawyer Hallet, 69, White House naval assistant under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, died Friday in the Hinsdale home where he had lived for 10 years. When he retired in 1975, he was commanding officer of recruit training at Great Lakes Naval Station. His 30-year career in the U.S. Navy included submarine command and diplomatic assignments in the former Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Germany. He was a graduate of Phillips Andover (Mass.) Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Survivors include his wife, Joan; a son, Christopher; two daughters, Carolyn Maginnis and Polly Kawalek; a brother, Moses; a sister, Katherine Sutton, and five grandchildren. A memorial mass will be offered at 10 a.m. Monday in St. Isaac Jogues Church, 408 S. Vine St., Hinsdale. another Ex-navy Capt. Oliver Hallett, Supervised Great Lakes Recruits October 31, 1992|By Kenan Heise. Oliver Sawyer Hallett, 68, a retired captain in the Navy, was the commanding officer in charge of recruits at Great Lakes Naval Base in the early 1970s, then the largest naval training command in the country. A resident of Hinsdale for the last 10 years, he died Friday at home. ``He really cared about people,`` his daughter-in-law, Jackie Lustig, said. ``He was very intelligent and had integrity. A lot of people are going to remember him.`` more Oliver Sawyer Hallett Captain Oliver Hallett, USN was born 1 December 1923 in Denver, Colorado and died at Hinsdale, Illinois on 30 October 1992. Naval Career Highlights (June 1943 to July 1945): Graduated from Phillips Academy and from the US Naval Academy. He served on various submarines, including Executive Officer on the USS Piper SS409 in 1957, and was the Commanding Officer of the USS TIRU SS416 from August 1961 through February 1963. Captain Hallett was a White House naval assistant in the terms of Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. He was duty officer in the Situation Room when President Kennedy was shot on 22 November 1963. He also served in diplomatic assignments in the former Soviet Union and in the Federal Republic of Germany. When he was at Great Lakes, his command included 300 officers and 15,000 recruits. He was there from 1972 until he retired in 1975. He was awarded the Legion of Merit. http://usstiru.org/history/co/Hallett.html Yes, he was indeed awarded the Legion of Merit, but is not included in relevant documents regarding same, as far as I can tell. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Recipients_of_the_Legion_of_Merit&pagefrom=Eyre%2C+Trulan+A%0ATrulan+A.+Eyre#mw-pages end

I have been working in a lot of different things, but wanted to post this at least for Tom Scully.... While there is nothing to indicate the following person's genealogy connects to Harry D Holmes, [i tend to think he is related to the Mrs. Holmes whom Gary Marck referenced in an earlier post] there is something in the reference to Troup, Texas that made me perk up, I wonder if Tom feels the same way..... January 18, 2012 10:47 PM CST January 18, 2012 10:48 PM CST Sam F. Holmes Jr., former Dallas Morning News reporter, business editor, dies at 91 By JOE SIMNACHER JOE SIMNACHER The Dallas Morning News Staff Writer jsimnacher@dallasnews.com Published: 18 January 2012 10:47 PM Sam Ferris Holmes Jr. had passions for reading, writing and people, which he used throughout his Dallas careers in journalism and banking. The World War II veteran was a courthouse reporter and business editor for The Dallas Morning News before he held several management positions at the First National Bank in Dallas. He also was also active with numerous civic groups. Mr. Holmes, 91, died Monday of natural causes at The Forum at Park Lane in Dallas. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at East Dallas Christian Church in Dallas, where he was an active member for more than 60 years. He will be buried in Restland Memorial Park. “He was an avid reader and he loved to write,” said his son, Charles Holmes of Garland. “He certainly was a people-oriented person and that got him in places where he met lots of people.” Mr. Holmes kept track of many of the people he met over the years, his son said. “He would call them up and write them notes.” He was also fond of cats and “could always tell a story with a good punch line,” his son added. Born in Wichita Falls, Mr. Holmes was raised by an aunt and uncle in Troup, Texas, after his mother died when he was 2 years old. He lettered in four sports at Troup High School, where he graduated in 1938. He attended Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, and received his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 1942. Mr. Holmes joined the Navy Reserve in January 1942 and he was sports editor of the Austin American, now the American-Statesman, while he waited to attend midshipman school that fall. He was commissioned an ensign in January 1943. He served aboard the USS Thomas Jefferson, delivering some of the first Allied troops to North Africa, Sicily and Italy. On June 6, 1944, he was the Jefferson’s officer of the deck during the D-Day landing at Omaha Beach. He then served 18 months in the Pacific aboard the USS Mayfield Victory, an ammunition ship. Mr. Holmes held the rank of lieutenant when he was released from active duty in April 1946. He was a lieutenant commander when he left the Navy Reserve. In 1947, Mr. Holmes joined The News and married Doris Kolb. He earned a master’s degree in government from Southern Methodist University in 1953. Mr. Holmes, who was a dance-band singer in college, often casually performed with Mrs. Holmes, who had a master’s degree in music and played the piano. He was a courthouse reporter for The News until he was named business editor in 1954. In 1955, he joined the public relations department of the First National Bank in Dallas, where he became personnel director, worked in policy administration and was later the bank’s vice president of economic development. “He served on a lot of community boards as kind of a bank representative out doing community service,” his son said. Mr. Holmes served as president of the board of directors for the Visiting Nurse Association, the Greater Dallas Council of Churches and Neighborhood Housing Services of Dallas. He was also a member of Brookhaven Country Club, a scouting leader and a director of the American Institute of Banking. In addition to his wife and son, Mr. Holmes is survived by a daughter, Charlotte Davis of Hurst; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Memorials may be made to East Dallas Christian Church, Troop 70 of the Circle 10 Council of the Boy Scouts of America, or a charity of choice. http://www.dallasnews.com/obituary-headlines/20120118-sam-f.-holmes-jr.-former-dallas-morning-news-reporter-business-editor-dies-at-91.ece In 60's, They Missed Assassination Evidence; The Postal Inspector Published: March 02, 1992 In "Fueling the Conspiracy" (letter, Feb. 19), Edward Early questions the interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald by Harry Holmes, a postal inspector: "It's hard to fathom that a civilian with no apparent involvement would be allowed to question a man who was in custody for the assassination of the President." Mr. Early thus suspects that Harry Holmes may have deliberately delayed the transfer of Oswald to another jail, providing Jack Ruby with the opportunity to murder Oswald. Indeed, an ordinary citizen brought in to question the accused murderer of the President is hard to fathom, except that Harry Holmes had an important involvement in the investigation of President Kennedy's death: Oswald had sent himself the rifle he used to kill the President through the mail. As David W. Belin, Warren Commission attorney, notes in "Final Disclosure," Oswald bought the murder weapon in Chicago and sent it to himself, via the United States Postal Service, in Texas. It was Harry Holmes's duty as postal inspector to investigate the Oswald case and the mailing of a weapon across state borders. His presence in Oswald's cell was not the least incongruous. DOUGLAS KROHN New York, Feb. 19, 1992 http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/02/opinion/l-in-60-s-they-missed-assassination-evidence-the-postal-inspector-920892.html This is also for Tom Scully There have been a lot of attempts, [see mary ferrell chronologies; which end around the time of Clay Shaw's death] to determine if some of the murders after the assassination possibly tie-in to JFK characters, I have discovered one that begs the question. Why Would A Dallas Policeman who was killed in the line of duty, not be on the Dallas Police Departments blog of Dallas Police officers killed in the line of duty? Someone needs to take a look see into the name HAMMETT and linkages to the JFK assassination.

Zach While the DAVID ATLEE PHILLIPS/BISHOP certainly qualifies as THE BISHOP at least in the real world, the Clarence Ward Bishop and other individuals cited on this thread are also compelling.... But I have a question that hopefully tries to look at a larger issue, or, at least that is my intent.... Much has been made, and rightly so regarding destroyed, missing or unreadable documents. Sometimes there are exceptions, such as, if I am not mistaken, the assertion that, I believe this is right "All ONI documents pertaining to Lee Harvey Oswald have been destroyed." Anyone who read the thread about Commander Terri Pike courtesy of Bill Kelly knows that such a blanket statement is NOT True. From my own efforts to keep up, with the Archival materials not yet declassified, [i take exception to the Archives claim regarding the percentage of documents being such a low number, and believe there still an incredible number of documents that HAVENT been released, but that is a topic for another day.... My question has to do with the CIA Document coding, specifically AE AM ET[HYROID] GP HT JM KU LC LI OD PB QD QK RYBAT WO ZR The above is not meant to be comprehensive but the generalized basic structure. Considering BISHOP as an important cryptonym; does anyone believe that there was, or there are classifications missing or destroyed not released yet; say...... BI[sHOP] HI[DELL] and other Crypt two letter headings beginning with the letters C/D/I/M/N/R/S/T/X/Y ? I don't mind admitting that the Cryptonym area is not my area of expertise, so if it appears to be a stupid question, I will admit possibly it is. But I have never read anyone asking the question....

I am going to jump in here, solicited or not, to make what I believe are some rather salient points. History is full of "secret revelations now known;" it is also, and has been, also printed thousand of times on the cover of the National Tattler and National Enquirer to make a point of comparison. Regarding JFK, or ANY historical figures private life can, and has been used for cannon fodder to demolish legacies of accomplishment is a historical fact. I am sure Seymour Hersh and Nigel Hamilton have been mentioned a few times, for their contributions to "helping us 'understand' the real JFK" sarcasm intended. Somewhat related "I always wondered why prostitutes had to have bad eyesight" President's having extra-marital affairs is not something that began with JFK, to state the obvious. The Achilles Heel for those who are attracted to JFK for his accomplishments is that it is no accident that JFK's legacy has been seriously and/or critically damaged to a great degree by the reality of his womanizing. But JFK, as other Kennedy's, affairs have been used as a not so subliminal means to denigrate every contribution this family and specifically JFK ever made, at its extreme form a not so subtle "The man deserved to die, he brought shame on the office of the Presidency;" et al. perhaps someone might take pause, to admit that JFK is not alive to present HIS recollections of these various memoirs that come out; I am told there are two sides to every story. Regarding JFK's teen mistress, are we to take her account as the fifth gospel of the Bible..... The key point to remember is impartiality in analysis and judgement because once you make the judgement that JFK's womanizing in 1963 equates to "deserved to die" then the controversy over the unanswered questions over the assassination, become the lowest common denominator; as in "what difference does it make How he died, or Who killed him," a fact that makes us all arguably to stop assassination research, because our culture has decided it does not matter. A culture that has a reputation for being a little overtly judgmental to begin with.

I listed these in the order of numerical hits, sorry I wasn't able to do more..... BOYSEN http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSfn=&GSmn=&GSln=Zaboth&GSbyrel=all&GSby=&GSdyrel=all&GSdy=&GScntry=0&GSst=0&GSgrid=&df=all&GSob=n By far the most common of the three surnames...Germanic...lots of Illinois Boysen’s as is the case for Zaboth origin of the idea for pseudonym? Chicago Tribune (IL) - January 26, 1964 Henry Boysen Jr. Deceased Name: Henry Boysen Jr. Henry Boysen Jr., 69, of 180 Homewood av., Libertyville, died yesterday in St. Petersburg, Fla. He was president of the Henry Boysen Well Drilling company, Libertyville. Mr. Boysen is survived by his widow, Eda; a son, Richard; four daughters, Mrs. Ruth White, Mrs. Evelyn Carlsen, Mrs. Lucille Meyers, and Mrs. Eleanor Smith; two brothers, and two sisters. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the chapel at 128 E. Park av., Libertyville. Another example ...just for geography’s sake La Crosse Tribune (WI) - September 15, 2011 Deceased Name: Hildegard 'Omi' Boysen Mrs. Hildegard "Omi" Boysen, 91, went to be with her Lord on Thursday evening, Sept. 8, 2011, in Norton Shores. She was born Aug. 14, 1920, in Ochsendorf, Germany, to the Rev. Franz and Elizabeth (Woltmann) Seiffert. In 1939, she came to New York City to visit her sister, Elizabeth, only to become stranded due to the onset of World War II. Initially, while living on Long Island, she worked as a governess. Later she met Hermann Boysen, and on Dec. 16, 1950, they married, prior to moving to Oklahoma and Rochester, N.Y., before settling in Milwaukee. Hildegard has resided primarily in Muskegon since 2005. She was a member of Pilgrim Lutheran Church of Wauwatosa, where she loved playing both the piano and organ. Her musical repertoire included both hymns and classical music. She enjoyed playing golf and was a loving and giving volunteer at the Lutheran Home in Wauwatosa. Survivors include two sons, Carsten P. Boysen, M.D., and wife Kandace Boysen of Norton Shores, and John "Peter" and wife Joyce Boysen of La Crosse; four grandchildren, Paul and Christopher Boysen of Norton Shores and Lexie and Annie Boysen of La crosse. She was preceded in death by her husband, Hermann, in 1976; and by her siblings, Eduard, Franz, Elizabeth, Karl and Mariechen. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011, at Forest Park Covenant Church, 3815 Henry St., Norton Shores, Mich., 49441. Interment will be in Wisconsin Memorial Park, Brookfield, Wis. Memorial gifts to the Lutheran Home, 7500 W. North Ave., Wauwatosa, WI 53213, or American Diabetes Association will be appreciated. You are also invited to sign the family's online guest book at www.sytsemafh.com. Arrangements are by The Lee Chapel, Sytsema Funeral Homes, Inc., 6291 S. Harvey St., Norton Shores, Mich., 49444, (231) 798-1100. La Crosse Tribune (WI) Date: September 15, 2011 RAYNOCK http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSfn=&GSmn=&GSln=Raynock&GSbyrel=all&GSby=&GSdyrel=all&GSdy=&GScntry=0&GSst=0&GSgrid=&df=all&GSob=n [Note There was not a single obit I found for a Nelson Raynock, which is not to say there isn't one] Joseph F. Raynock Morning Call, The (Allentown, PA) - December 19, 2011 Anna Raynock West Volusia Beacon, The (DeLand, FL) - August 18, 2011 Raynock, Pauline M. Palm Beach Post, The (FL) - September 20, 2010 Claire (Raynock) Radziwon Bristol Press, The (CT) - August 21, 2010 Dorothy (Raynock) Skwiot Herald, The (New Britain, CT) - August 3, 2010 ZABOTH http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSfn=&GSmn=&GSln=Zaboth&GSbyrel=all&GSby=&GSdyrel=all&GSdy=&GScntry=0&GSst=0&GSgrid=&df=all&GSob=n Persons named Zaboth tend to come exclusively from Illinois, a melting pot city of emigrants See Kenneth D. Zaboth Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) - August 17, 2009 Edwin A. Zaboth Chicago Tribune (IL) - 1981-12-15 Victoria Louise Zaboth, nee Popera Chicago Tribune (IL) - 1972-08-23 Sgt. Dennis S. Zaboth Chicago Tribune (IL) - 1948-12-22 Happy Hunting

David, I appreciate your interest in my participation here at the Forum. I have too much invested in ascertaining the real truth of the JFK assassination, to just up and leave. I get a little bit frustrated at times, because of the condescending, patronizing analysis of my posts by some of the experts who don't contribute much to the revealing of facts, but have plenty of caustic, snide remarks if what they read does not fit in with their opinions about what happened. Some of the areas that are of intense interest, Oswald and ONI, details about the real Jack Ruby and his role in the JFK assassination, and German connections to the JFK assassination, as well as MK-ULTRA, are areas I have done extensive research on......I can make my case, which I fully intend to continue doing... Hope you do stay. Enjoy the posting that you do. Yes you are right about the condescending, that is going on. I think two people can disagree on a topic like this. But i think they can do it in a more civilized manor. Without getting nasty about it. Thanks for the comments, Mark...... As for below..... Robert, If you haven't done so already, I highly suggest that you read "The Strength of the Wolf" by Douglas Valentine. The book has a lot on the (CIA-FBN) MKULTRA project. Nothing on Cameron, but lots on Sid Gottleib, Charles Siragusa, George White, et al. There's a fascinating chapter called "The FBN and the Assassination of JFK" I actually have had the pleasure of having a few email conversations with Doug, and am intimately familiar with the chapter on the FBN....... The fact that the Warren Commissioners either intentionally kept FBN out of the written record, re Jack Ruby's background and nefarious MK-ULTRA related issues, or just didn't know, is a question I can't answer..... But, thanks to Douglas Valentine and the Congressional Hearings re MKULTRA, we have a fairly good understanding of how all that worked. When I think about that area, the best insight I can offer is not anything from the Strength of The Wolf, but some independent work I did on Timothy Leary's life and times in the decades afterwards. There is a lot of material out there on the subject, but what caught my eye were his own writings, while some might respond to a comment that Leary's writings in the 1970's were really weird, which was my reaction, a kneejerk reaction might offer "Well what do you expect from someone who ingested massive quantities of the dreaded lysergic," but to me there was something even darker to it. One thing is quite certain and that is, while the mind-control MK-ULTRA area could be said to have peaked right around the time of the JFK assassination, if you've ever read Peter Levenda's works, [he is the real deal, IMO] not just The Trilogy, but Unholy Alliance, which is about as dark of a netherworld, as one would ever care to glimpse into, I personally get the impression that if one had the ability to personally know the "history of intelligence operations in the 20th century", not just CIA, but KGB, Mossad, Ustashi, etc., a person might be radically exposed to the reality that "the truth is stranger than fiction." Which in this case is, IMO the relationship between mind-control and the occult. I will give you something to chew on, as serious as I can be. If you can read Levenda's account of the assassination of Walter Rathenau in June 1922 [contained in pages 93-97 of Unholy Alliance] if Levenda is correct, and I am sure that he is, there was a terrorist cell within the Ehrhardt Freikorps, called the Organization Consul. The Freikorps were ideologically attuned to the message of, what became the Protocols of Zion; Rathenau, to make a long story short, represented the epitome of the boogeyman the crafters of The Protocols of The Elders of Zion, a forged document, had encouraged anyone who had a proclivity to blame "Capitalists, Communists, International Jewry, and Freemasons [and Hitler], as Rathenau, who had been the Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic, and was also Jewish; the Freikorps actually believed he was a "member" of the alleged Elders, so he was assassinated. If you had the luxury of being able to read the vast amount of literature I have read, not just about the Kennedy Assassination, ANDother 'significant' events of the 20th century, the fact that auto icon Henry Ford was awarded the Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle by Hitler in 1938, and was the only American to make that claim; when you consider that after JFK's assassination, the limo SS-100-X and Ford Motor Co., became intertwined with each other in a manner that...... see http://www.in-broad-daylight.com/ ...well, lets just say it makes you try to take a few steps back, when your assimilating all this data.

David, John, Evan; You probably don't realize how much your words mean to me. I have a point to make that may or may not surprise you, and that is my JFK collection...documents, books, videos articles, numbers, we'll lets say 1,000 is a starting point. I don't say that to boast, but to point out that the chronology of assassination related information ascends chronologically to include practically everything that is important to me..... Maybe that is why I am still optimistic about the issue of resolution. I will give you an example.... The Oswald/Ruby issue...... I believe there was something regarding Jack Ruby about two-weeks before the assassination, that provides a clue to who was directing the convergence of Ruby and Oswald at least on Ruby's end. Jack Ruby did something that day he hadn't ever done in the almost 17 years that he had lived in Dallas. It was the fact that Jack Ruby rented a PO Box..... Oswald had rented his Dallas PO Box on November 1, 1963 I learned this initially by reading that claim by Michael Eddowes.....I was skeptical at first thinking that Ruby had been a PCI for the FBI in 1959..... But back then Ruby had used a safety deposit box as part of his PCI informant setup [in Dallas in the period August 21, 1959 and September 4, 1959], during the period when he was acting as a Potential Criminal Informant (PCI) for the FBI’s SA Charles T. Flynn. It does appear Eddowes was correct in saying that this was Ruby’s first use of a Post Office Box since moving to Dallas in 1947. I'm still working on it, but this isn't exactly Trivial Pursuit, at least not to me. Yes, Robert, thanks for the insight into the MKULTRA docs on 11/22/63 and how it affected their work. I had missed it when you first posted it. Also Evan, have you read William Kennedy Toole's "Confederacy of Dunces,"? It takes place in the French Quarter of New Orleans and depicts a young man who is almost arrested at one of Oswald's FPCC leafleting spots by a cop named Mancuso for being a communiss, and takes on quite a funny bent. Toole couldn't get the manuscript published and committed suicide, but his mother took it to a literature professor at a New Orleans university and he had it published and it won a Pulitzer Prize. I think Toole began his story because of Oswald's activities in New Orleans in the summer of '63, And Robert, Keep up the good work, and keep me (us) posted on what you find, BK JFKcountercoup Still doing some digging, on the aforementioned topics, but in the meantime I thought the following were rather interesting....... ALLEGATION - “In 1963, When Timothy Leary was thrown out of Harvard, [William "Billy" Mellon] Hitchcock rented a fifty-room mansion in Millbrook, New York where the entire Leary-Huxley circle of initiates was housed until its later move back to California The Story of Acid Profiteers - Mary Jo Warth Village Voice My God What Have We Done In the spring of 1963, Leary and Alpert left Harvard and founded the International Foundation for Internal Freedom (IFIF) – later renamed the Castalia Foundation – on a 2,500-acre estate in the small upstate New York community of Millbrook. There, the pair of psychologists continued their hallucinogenic drug research and soon became the chief investigative target of an ambitious Dutchess County district attorney named G. Gordon Liddy. Multimillionaire William Mellon Hitchcock generously bankrolled the founding and operation of IFIF/Castalia and later financed a huge black-market LSD manufacturing operation. http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/kreca1.html END Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA) - November 12, 1998 Deceased Name: MARGARET MELLON HITCHCOCK 'THROWBACK' TO THE GOLDEN AGE OF WEALTH AND POWER IN THE CITY The death of Margaret Mellon Hitchcock - wealthy daughter of Gulf Oil's patriarch, world traveler, wife of an international polo star and war hero and mother of five children after being widowed twice by age 43 - marks the latest ending to an age of incredible but fading industrial wealth and power. Though she did her part to keep the age alive. For years, Mrs. Hitchcock kept her summer house in Beaumaris, Canada - where she and other Mellon family members have gathered for generations - preserved as it was when she was a girl. Boats bought by Mrs. Hitchcock's father, William Larimer Mellon, a co-founder and longtime president of Gulf Oil, looked the same as they did in the 1920's. Furnishings were the same. Manners were the same, too. ''She ran the house the way her father ran it,'' said a grandson, Peter H. Stephaich of Shadyside. ''We had sit-down meals every day. Most people, when they're on vacation, go into the kitchen and make a sandwich. Not at her house.'' ''She was a throwback to another era,'' he said. Mrs. Hitchcock, a resident of Palm Beach, Fla., died Monday night of natural causes in her apartment in New York City. She was 97. The grandniece of U.S. Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon and great-granddaughter of Mellon Bank founder Judge Thomas Mellon was born in Pittsburgh in 1901. As her father built Gulf Oil into one of the largest companies in the world - it once was twice as big as U.S. Steel - she grew up in her family's now-demolished 40-room mansion at the end of Darlington Road at the edge of Schenley Park. Mrs. Hitchcock spent summers and other time off from her finishing school in Dobb's Ferry, New York, fishing with her father. Along with other family members - including her late brother Larry, who founded the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in central Haiti - they went for smallmouth bass in Canada and bonefish in the Florida Keys and the Caribbean. Other times they took her father's 220-foot yacht ''Vagabondia'' to South America, Tahiti and the South Seas in search of other trophies, some of which were brought back to the Carnegie Museum for study. In 1924, Mrs. Hitchcock married Alexander Laughlin, grandson of the founder of Central Tube of Ambridge, and had a son the next year. Laughlin died in 1926. Later that year she married Thomas Hitchcock Jr., a World War I flyer, polo star and stockbroker, and moved to New York. By the time they married, Thomas Hitchcock had been shot down behind German lines and escaped 100 miles on foot to Switzerland; had led the American polo squad to International Cup wins over the British; and routinely flown his Fairchild 24 seaplane to work on Wall Street, landing it in the East River. They had four children and lived on Long Island. Lt. Col. Thomas Hitchcock went to England in 1942 to fight in World War II and died two years later when his P-51 Mustang fighter crashed in a training exercise in Salisbury. Mrs. Hitchcock was left to raise her five children on her own. As her children grew, Mrs. Hitchcock divided her time between New York, Florida and Canada and became a patron of arts and charities. ''She knew the arts, ballet, music. . . . She was from an old school of ladies who didn't go to college but lived to raise families and entertain people,'' said Bill Simpson, a longtime friend. Mrs. Hitchcock supported Carnegie Mellon University's Graduate School of Industrial Administration - endowed by her parents a year after her father's death in 1949 - and the Carnegie Museum. She also supported the Raymond F. Kravits Center for the Performing Arts, the Hospice Guild of Palm Beach, the Intercoastal Health Foundation in West Palm Beach and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Hitchcock rarely came to Pittsburgh in later life but the city was ''near and dear'' to her, said Stephaich. ''With her family history and the wealth it created, she believed in the values that Pittsburgh stood for. She was very attached to the city, so much so that she asked to be buried here,'' he said. Mrs. Hitchcock is survived by her sons, Alexander Mellon Laughlin, Thomas Hitchcock III and William Mellon Hitchcock; daughters Louise Stephaich and Peggy Hitchcock; and 11 grandchildren. A private service and interment will be held today at Homewood Cemetery. The family suggests memorial contributions to Carnegie Mellon University's Graduate School of Industrial Administration, 4902 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh 15213. END William Pickard's long, strange trip Suspected LSD trail leads from the Bay Area's psychedelics era to a missile silo in Kansas Seth Rosenfeld, San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, June 10, 2001 (06-10) 04:00 PST Wamego, Kan. -- - On a cold afternoon last November, federal drug agents staked out a decommissioned nuclear missile silo in the gently rolling fields and watched as a tall, thin San Francisco man in black clothing and long silver hair tried to get in. Oblivious to the trap, William L. Pickard Jr., a University of California at Los Angeles researcher who studies psychoactive drugs of the future, took several aluminum canisters from a silo shed, put them in his rented Buick and merged into traffic. Minutes later, red lights and sirens pulsing, Kansas Highway Patrol officers stopped Pickard and a friend following him in a van. Clyde Apperson, a Mountain View business consultant, was arrested. But Pickard bolted from his Buick, which rolled into a ditch as the marathon-running vegetarian vanished into the heartland dusk. Inside the vehicles, agents found sophisticated laboratory equipment and what they allege is enough raw material to make 16 million doses of LSD. Pickard, they say, was poised to use the missile base, built during the Cold War to defend the American way of life, to make the drug that helped launch the 1960s counterculture and inspired Timothy Leary's exhortations to "turn on,tune in and drop out." This is the story about the life and times of Pickard, a brilliant chemist who was deputy director of UCLA's Drug Policy Research Program, and how he came to be accused of conspiring to run one of the nation's largest LSD labs. The tale unfolds amid a budding psychedelic renaissance rooted in the Bay Area. Hallucinogens have turned up at raves where they are used to party, at psychiatrists' offices where they have been part of therapy and at universities where scientists are conducting the first authorized human tests on them in decades. The case highlights law enforcement suspicions that since the hippie era, Northern California has been a haven for elusive, close-knit groups who supply most of the nation's "acid" in the belief that it fosters enlightenment. The Chronicle has learned that the Drug Enforcement Administration has investigated whether a surreal assortment of other people played a part in the alleged conspiracy - including women from a San Francisco strip joint, a Harvard psychiatrist, and a Manhattan financier who is a trustee of the American Ballet Theatre. The DEA also has probed claims that Pickard funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars in LSD profits to fund his own position at UCLA and to support ostensibly legitimate drug researchers at Harvard and the Heffter Research Institute, a Santa Fe, N.M., group leading the push for more studies of psychedelics. Heffter's lawyer denied the claim. Pickard, 55, and Apperson, 46, have denied charges of possessing LSD and conspiracy, and face a June 21 hearing in Topeka. Pickard's lawyers, William Rork of Topeka, and William Osterhoudt of San Francisco, contend their client was framed by an Oklahoma con man who owned the missile silo and became an informant to avoid his own charges of making LSD. In a phone call from Leavenworth federal prison, where he is being held without bail, Pickard said he opposes drug abuse and is straighter than most narcs. "I'm not a drug user at all," he said softly. "Nor do I synthesize controlled substances or distribute them. I don't even drink. A big drug experience to me would be a cup of coffee." It was 1974 and Pickard went to San Francisco's federal building to pay his respects. Tim Scully was on trial for making huge batches of LSD in a Sonoma County farmhouse. Scully believed the drug could raise people's consciousness and had bluntly told the court he had wanted to "turn on the world." "There was a break, and I walked out into the hall, and he introduced himself as a fellow chemist," recalled Scully, once an "apprentice" to Augustus Owsley Stanley III, the most infamous psychedelic sorcerer of the '60s. Pickard smiled and handed Scully a U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Group pin with a flask and test tube design. "He was trying to express some brotherhood of underground chemists," said Scully, noting that many acid chemists felt "we were doing a public service." Later, Pickard paid $5,000 for a print by Dutch artist M.C. Escher, "Heaven and Hell," that Scully sold to pay legal fees. It showed angels and devils and seemed to reflect the LSD experience. Nowhere was that experience more concentrated than the Haight in the sixties, which became a world center of a counterculture electrified by LSD. The most potent hallucinogen known, LSD can produce kaleidoscopic hallucinations, profoundly alter perceptions and cause experiences ranging from transcendent to terrifying. Used initially to study personality disorders, LSD had seeped into the mainstream before the government banned it in 1966. Then clandestine chemists like Scully filled the void. Pickard, a bright young man who had had trouble with authority and a special interest in chemistry, was among the throngs drawn to the Bay Area in 1967. "No one had quite seen anything like it," Pickard said, "so many people stepping out of line . . . discussing theology and philosophy, seeking explanations, exploring their place in life." Pickard was raised in a Baptist family in the Atlanta suburbs. His father was a lawyer, and his mother was a fungal disease expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In high school, he was an honors student, played basketball and was named "most intellectual." But in 1965, he was arrested for driving a stolen car. Pickard still won a scholarship to Princeton University. But he cut class to hang out in Greenwich Village jazz clubs and withdrew after one term, he said. By 1971, he had landed work as a research manager at UC Berkeley's Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, a job he held until 1974, when his academic resume begins a 20-year gap. Public records show he studied chemistry at San Jose State and Stanford universities. And at San Francisco State University, he took a course on social drugs taught by Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, whose pioneering research on the hallucinogenic amphetamine MDMA has earned him renown as the "Godfather of Ecstacy." "He was a very interested student," recalled Shulgin. In 1976, San Mateo County Sheriff's deputies arrested Pickard for possessing hallucinogenic peyote cactus. In 1977, they raided his Portola Valley home, seizing a small Ecstacy lab. He served six months. On his release, he faded into the background, favoring inconspicuous cars and clothes. "He looked like a guy on his way to a golf course," said Mark Dowie, a former Mother Jones editor who met him in the 1980s. "He was, in a way, part of the love generation. He really believed LSD and its derivatives could produce a better culture." And he could be dramatically romantic, a friend recalled, and once hired Stanford University Band members to serenade a woman friend. By the early 1980s, Scully was out of prison and home near Mendocino. Pickard dropped by. "He wanted to compare and contrast methods of making acid," said Scully. Pickard said his interest was purely academic, but the elder chemist declined. He had quit the psychedelic scene. Pickard left after an hour, said Scully, now a computer engineer. "All I could do is be friendly and offer him a cup of tea." In December 1988, a neighbor noticed an odd chemical odor emanating from the architectural shop at a Mountain View industrial park and phoned police. Agents found a lab and seized more than 200,000 doses of LSD, including blotter paper featuring Grateful Dead album covers. When officers shined a black light around the lab, the surfaces glowed eerily with LSD dust. While taking the lab apart, one agent became so heavily dosed he collapsed in convulsions. Pickard was charged with making LSD, pleaded guilty and served about five years. Later, officials revealed that Pickard "had been an informant" for state and federal drug agents. Pickard said he helped police investigate people supplying equipment to make methamphetamine, which like heroin and cocaine is addictive. He seemed to see psychedelic drugs as beneficial, but eyed addictive drugs as a blight: "I agree with (hippie leader) Wavy Gravy. There's blood on heroin and cocaine." At a hearing related to his LSD bust, U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel warned the then-44-year-old Pickard: "I hope that the . . . years in the federal penitentiary will be spent wisely. You don't have much time left to straighten out your life." Released from Terminal Island prison near Los Angeles in August 1992, Pickard went straight to the San Francisco Zen Center. In prison, he had become a vegetarian and learned to meditate. He would later be ordained as a Buddhist priest. Pickard lived at the center two years. Each morning, he would ring the temple bell, calling people to 5 a.m. meditation. And after sweeping the sidewalks outside the center, Pickard went off to classes at UC Berkeley. To journalist Dowie, Pickard seemed "set on his science and doing something with his life." Occasionally, Pickard attended potluck dinners that brought together some of the leading thinkers on altered states of consciousness. The psychonauts, as many of them called themselves, met monthly at the Marin County home of John Weir Perry, a Harvard-trained psychotherapist who died in 1998. Perry had studied with Carl Jung. Shulgin, who had taught Pickard 20 years earlier, was among the resident elders. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, computer engineers, scientists, writers and artists also dropped in, the Shulgins said. The talk lasted into the wee hours and covered consciousness, drugs and policy. Ann Shulgin noted drug use was forbidden. Mark Kleiman, a professor of public policy at Harvard who had dined with the psychonauts, said Pickard was seen as a "superbrilliant chemist." In 1994, Pickard enrolled at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he became personally and professionally close with research fellow Deborah Harlow. They wed, had a daughter, but later separated. Harlow was a Bay Area therapist who helped pioneer the use of MDMA - before it became illegal in 1985 - as a tool to help clients become more emotionally open. She also worked on a federally funded study of MDMA users. Over the next few years, Pickard co-wrote a series of brief papers, including a 1994 study on 12 raves that found LSD more common at New York raves and MDMA more common at California raves. He focused on drug abuse in the former Soviet Union, theorizing that the booming black market and many unemployed chemists could flood the drug market. As part of the school program, some of Pickard's Russian research was reviewed by Robert S. Gelbard, a Harvard graduate and then-Assistant Secretary of State for International Matters and Law Enforcement Affairs. Gelbard's involvement helped Pickard meet top Russian drug officials, Pickard said. Gelbard did not return calls seeking comment. The research resulted in a paper, "What can the State Department do about drug problems in Russia?" But according to DEA records, Pickard himself was about to resume work as an underground acid chemist. On a spring day in 1995, Pickard showed up at the New Mexico home of Al Savinelli, a subject in the first authorized test of psychedelics on humans since the 1970s. Savinelli had been given successive doses of a powerful hallucinogen called DMT at the University of New Mexico. The experiment drew attention from drug researchers including Pickard, who that day met one of his more prominent colleagues at Savinelli's house. John Halpern, a psychiatric resident at Harvard University Medical School, had a strong interest in psychoactive drugs. He had recently published a study finding "the illicit use of hallucinogenic drugs is a re-emerging public health problem, especially among well-educated adults and teenagers." But that day in Taos, Halpern himself was using ayahuasca, a potentially dangerous hallucinogenic tea made from rain forest plants. He was having a bad trip. He was lost in thoughts of despair and death, he later told the DEA, and Pickard calmed him. Pickard confided that he had taken "more LSD than anyone on the planet," said Halpern. And as the two Harvard researchers discussed mutual interests over the following months, Pickard became a father figure. According to a statement Halpern gave the DEA, Halpern told Pickard he was financially strapped and might have to stop his research to take a better- paying job. Pickard replied that he had more than $1 million in cash from an inheritance - and other money from "the old days," which Halpern figured meant his 1988 LSD operation. But when Halpern returned to Taos in 1996, Savinelli suggested another source of the money: He said he'd helped Pickard set up an LSD lab. Halpern claimed he didn't know whether Pickard was doing anything illegal. But he told the DEA that, within a year, Pickard said he was generating lots of cash and wanted to invest it. Halpern set up a meeting between Pickard and an old friend and financial adviser, Stefan Wathne, 31, who lives in Manhattan and is a trustee of the American Ballet Theatre. In return for the introduction, Pickard offered Halpern a 10 percent commission on any deals with Wathne. Both Pickard and Wathne later told Halpern that none materialized. But in January 1998, Pickard handed Halpern a cigar box containing $100,000, Halpern said, which was followed by another $199,000 in cash. The DEA has investigated whether Wathne laundered LSD profits for Pickard, records show, and whether Savinelli helped set up LSD labs. Halpern and Wathne both refused to comment. Pickard denied giving either man drug money. Savinelli denied wrongdoing. Pickard had said he was not making LSD, Halpern told the DEA, and that he was working for the FBI, the DEA and American spy agencies. That, he said, might explain his "sometimes bizarre and secretive behavior." Pickard had other means of moving money, an informant told the DEA. He may have shipped $1.2 million to Los Angeles with help from three exotic dancers who worked at San Francisco's Mitchell Brothers' O'Farrell Theatre, the informant said. But the women denied the claims, telling the DEA that they knew Pickard only as a frequent customer of the theater who sometimes dined with them. And in 1998, the informant said, Pickard used Federal Express to send $97, 700 in LSD profits to Heffter Research Institute, which supports medical studies of psychedelics. The institute is financing federally approved human experiments with psilocybin at the University of Arizona, and funds studies at Harvard and universities in Switzerland and Russia. Founded partly out of frustration with what it sees as inadequate government support for such research, Heffter has raised funds from Laurence S. Rockefeller and includes respected scientists at the University of California and other schools. Halpern is a consultant; Shulgin is an adviser. Jerry Patchen, Heffter's lawyer, said in a letter to The Chronicle that the institute had received no money from Pickard, has complied with all laws and was not the subject of any investigation. David Nichols, Heffter's president and a professor of pharmacology at Purdue University, said he's seen growing interest in the scientific study of psychedelics. "I'd like to think its the beginning of a renaissance," he said. By 1999, Pickard's academic career was peaking. Kleiman had left his Harvard post to head UCLA's Drug Policy Analysis Program, and named Pickard assistant director. Funding for Pickard's post mysteriously materialized. "I got a letter one day from some guy I didn't know," said Kleiman, followed by two checks totaling about $140,000. Pickard used LSD profits to fund his own post, but disguised its origin by sending it through financial adviser Wathne, the informant said. Pickard denies this. While at UCLA, Pickard did research in Russia, learning about a plan to make a synthetic opiate and told former DEA head Robert Bonner. "I referred him to a DEA official," Bonner said. Pickard's main focus at UCLA was the Future and Emerging Drugs Study (FEDS), a proposal for an international group of experts to monitor new drugs that could have "novel effects upon personality, memory and learning, addictive behavior, and human performance." Despite Pickard's academic achievement, Kleiman said, Pickard was rarely around the office and produced few finished papers. "That was making me nervous," he said. It was at the Palace of Fine Arts, at a 1997 conference on entheobotany, the study of hallucinogenic plants, that Pickard encountered an eccentric Oklahoma man with an interest in psychedelics and a history of legal trouble. Gordon Todd Skinner, 36, had lots of cash, Porsches and a missile silo near Topeka, in Wamego. He bought the Atlas E silo in 1996, lavishly remodeling it and turning the silo grounds into a menagerie of Clydesdale horses, llamas and rare rabbits. In 1989, he was arrested in New Jersey on charges of selling a large quantity of marijuana. To avoid a stiff sentence he offered to sell three people 30 pounds of pot, then turned them in. The case was dismissed in 1995 after a court said the suspects were illegally wiretapped and "the credibility and character of Skinner was . . . questionable." Last month, he was arrested for involuntary manslaughter in connection with a 1999 incident in which a man overdosed on depressants at the silo. Skinner has denied the charge. Skinner also found himself facing potential charges of bank fraud and manufacturing LSD. Last October, he met with DEA agents and in return for immunity admitted he had laundered LSD profits, delivered thousands of doses and secured lab sites. He claimed Pickard was a longtime LSD chemist, had laundered money through Wathne and sent profits to Heffter. He offered to help ensnare Pickard. Skinner and his lawyer could not be reached for comment. In recorded calls, Skinner asked Pickard to help move a piano and some boxes from the silo, Pickard said. In early November, he met Skinner at the silo grounds and discovered that the boxes held an illegal drug lab, Pickard said in court. He said he wanted to call the DEA immediately, but Skinner refused and drove off. On Nov. 6, Pickard loaded the boxes with plans to destroy the lab, he said. But when he tried to enter the silo, DEA agents hidden inside held the door shut, as if it was locked. Then Skinner called on a cell phone, telling Pickard to go to the shed and take some aluminum canisters - allegedly containing the raw material for LSD. When the officers stopped his Buick, Pickard said, he panicked and fled into the fields. The next day, a farmer found him in his barn and phoned police. Again Pickard ran - but the squad car chased him through the mud until he stopped. "You've got me," he said. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/06/10/MN170988.DTL&ao=all#ixzz1ltEPjp44 E-mail Seth Rosenfeld at srosenfeld@sfchronicle.com.

From The Kennedy Presidency An Oral History of The Era by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober [Note This book is an updated edition of “Let Us Begin Anew:” An Oral History of the Kennedy Presidency by the same authors] page 450 ROBERT MANNING We took off from Honolulu in one of the presidential aircraft and were several hundred miles west of there. Several cabinet secretaries were with us, as was Pierre Salinger. I had been in the press, so I knew by the sound that there was a flash on the news ticker. I walked toward the communications area and the sergeant had a piece of wire copy in his hand. He said, “The secretary [Rusk] will have to see this.”.... It was a flash saying: “Dallas. President Kennedy shot.” Then a bulletin. “Perhaps shot fatally.” We took it to Rusk and he asked me to bring the Cabinet secretaries to his compartment. We immediately got on the phone with the White House Situation Room. They confirmed that something had happened and that the president had been rushed to the hospital. Rusk got on the public address system and told everybody we had some bad unclear news: President Kennedy had been wounded and we were going to turn back. Salinger got in touch with the White House and used his code name. He said "This is Wayside. What word do you have on Lancer?” At the other end the fellow said "Lancer is dead. Rusk then went back on the PA system and said "I am sorry to have to bring you this grievous news, but President Kennedy has been killed. We now have a new president. May God bless our President and the United States of America. page 449 PIERRE SALINGER “I was trying to find out what had happened. When we first got the news, we were not getting the information that he was dead but that he had been shot. That is why Rusk asked me to establish communication between the plane and the White House; there was a lot of confusion. When we got the news that the president was dead, there was some discussion on the plane as to who could be responsible. Rusk thought it might be an international affair, and we sent a message to all U.S. Embassies to see if they could find out anything. The partial interview below is taken from C-SPAN Booknotes Pierre Salinger: P.S., A Memoir Program Air Date: November 12, 1995 For more information about this program, visit www.booknotes.org LAMB: How many times in your life have you been asked where you were the night or the day that John F. Kennedy was shot? SALINGER: Very often. A lot of people thought that I was with John F. Kennedy when he was shot, and they were always surprised to discover that I was on a plane flying with six members of his Cabinet and going to Tokyo. I mean, the reason the president was sending me to Tokyo was -- it was an conomic conference, but he wanted me to start working on a visit he was going to take in February of 1964, the first American president to visit Japan after the end of World War II. That's why I was on the trip. But we were only about three hours out of Honolulu, where we had spent a couple of days looking into the Vietnam issue, when suddenly we discovered that he had been shot. And we turned around. We didn't know he'd been killed, but we heard he was shot. And I was asked by Dean Rusk, who was then secretary of State, to open up the line to the White House so that we could have specific information as rapidly as possible. Well, it was about a half-hour after we turned around that we actually got the news that President Kennedy was dead. LAMB: How many Cabinet officers were with you? SALINGER: Six Cabinet officers: There was Rusk; there was McNamara; there was, well, I have all of them in the book, but they were coming for this economic conference, and that's why I was accompanying them. LAMB: What happened after you got back? SALINGER: Well, that was a long, long flight, as you know. We stopped in Honolulu. We had to put on the oil in this plane, then we flew. It was about 11 hours. We arrived here in Washington around 1:00 in the morning, went to the White House. It was about, I think, 2:30 or 3 in the morning that John Kennedy's body arrived, went into the West Wing. And then there was a Mass that I attended. And Jackie came up to me afterwards and put her arm around my shoulder and said, "Pierre, you know, you've just had a terrible day. I know, so why don't you spend the night here in the White House?" I mean, I had never spent the night in the White House in my life. Anyway, I went upstairs with Larry O'Brien and Ken O'Donnell, and we spoke probably right up till about 6:30, 7:00 in the morning and then went to bed. And about 15 minutes later the phone rang, and it was the secretary at the White House who said, "Oh, Mr. Salinger, the president wants to speak to you." I must say, I had a little brain thing saying, "Oh, my God, I got a terrible -- I've had a terrible dream." But then I hear this voice saying, "Pierre, this is Lyndon Johnson," and he was the new president.

Probably Reynold C. Dorman. http://www.legacy.co...50516&fhid=4301 Thanks Ron, a Lurker had sent me that too. I guess we can't ask him what it was that was so important that he had to tell LeMay before he landed in DC. BK The person at the far left [behind Lemay] with the glasses is definitely McGeorge "Mac" Bundy. See google images searching McGeorge Bundy....If you have ever heard Bundy speak, he comes off as extremely intense, with a razor sharp mind. Maybe a little too sharp, for my tastes.

END Where LeMay's connections to the JFK assassination get really interesting is the fact that it was LeMay himself who worked very closely in putting together the "communications system" that was in use aboard Air Force One the day of the assassination in Dallas. The following was written by moi..... It is beyond dispute that the Collins Radio Company, headquartered in Dallas, interfaced with the CIA as far as the operations out of the JMWAVE station, especially regarding the SS Rex, in anti-Castro operations in 1963. The key to deciphering the relationships is not found in a JFK assassination document, but in the activities of Arthur Collins in the years of his life and his company beginning in 1956. It is not even suggested that Arthur Collins was a conspirator in any way shape or form. But that the communications sysytem he helped perfect led to what is the strongest area of conspiracy regarding the Kennedy Assassination. The parties included General Curtis LeMay, who at the time was the head of the Strategic Air Command, Major General Francis Griswold and Arthur Collins. LeMay would later bragg to fellow Joint Chiefs of Staff members how he confronted John F Kennedy in a meeting during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1954 LeMay had invited via “special invitation,” Arthur Collins to attend a meeting of business executives at Offut, AFB in Nebraska. While there Collins hobnobbed with officials of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. While there, Collins also informed LeMay of advances his company had made in single-sideband radio, an area that the Air Force was looking to develop and improve on. What LeMay’s relationship with Arthur Collins eventually led to, was something called BIRDCALL, an “air-to-ground and point-to-point SSB communication system.” Further testing on this communications system continued throughout 1956. Navy personnel were among voluminous radio contacts Arthur Collins made during the testing of this system, one at a WAC Navy station in Antarctica, and others, Collins biography relates he communicated with over 1,000 persons worldwide. The end result of BIRDCALL was a incremental improvement of SSB single-sideband communications that were incorporated into the Department of Defense radio communications system, and it was this system that structured the communications network on November 22, 1963; Three persons definitively related to the implementation to the development of Air Force One's Communications System which was in place on November 22, 1963, were General Curtis Lemay,* General Francis W. Griswold** and Arthur A. Collins......See pages 221-233, Arthur Collins Radio Wizard - Ben W Stearns Although the following is more of a factoid than anything else, I found it to be noteworthy..... Lexington Herald-Leader (KY) - February 26, 1987 Deceased Name: CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Arthur A. Collins Iowa -- Arthur A. Collins, 77, a pioneer inventor in radio and aviation communications, died yesterday. An inventor, amateur radio operator and licensed pilot, Collins was an innovator in aviation communications. He also was a pioneer in the development of advanced data communications and control concepts -- techniques used in digital switching for the telecommunications industry. He founded Collins Radio Co. in 1931. Rockwell International took control of Collins Radio Co. in 1972. He formed a new firm, Arthur A. Collins Inc. At his death, he continued to head that company, which conducts system engineering studies in communications and computer fields. Collins wrote the book Telecommunications -- A Time For Innovation with longtime colleague Robert Peterson in 1973. https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/history/timeline * For more on General Curtis Emerson LeMay see http://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio.asp?bioID=6178 ** For more on General Griswold see http://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio.asp?bioid=5636 From CIA Foundations Thread Tom Scully wrote Gentlemen, as I've often posted about recently, the February, 1967 Ramparts article exposed the sources of funding of the student organizations. Mr. Houghton, chairman of the Met. Museum of Art, was the head of the only CIA backed student supporting foundation having an actual staff and a physical office. George Plimpton's father, Francis was on the board of both the foundation and the Met. He had to be a witting participant. Plimpton's brother [Calvin Hastings] was McCloy's choice in 1960 as president of Amherst College. Paul Hellmuth, attorney and enabler of CIA operative, Dr. Tom Dooley, was partnered in a minor, as well as a top contributing foundation of CIA supplied funds to student groups, with David B. Stone. Hellmuth was known to have coordinated the creation of at least two CIA propietary corps., Anderson Security Consultants and Zenith Technical Enterprises, as well. end Other notables associated with Amherst College Stanley Marcus [freshman year] page 33,Dealey Plaza Echo, Volume 12, Issue 3 The Strange Absence of Stanley Marcus, by Terry J. Moore Judge Burt W. Griffin - Warren Commission Frederick C. Barghoorn - was arrested by Soviets during JFK's last months in office, and was center of controversy regarding divergence of information as to whether he was spying, JFK denounced the Soviet's for the arrest, but later it seems highly possible, if not probable he had indeed acted on behalf of the CIA. Arthur A Collins page 22, Arthur Collins Radio Wizard - Ben W Stearns James Olds [eminent psychiatrist] Olds was born in Chicago, Illinois. His father Leland Olds later became Chairman of the Federal Power Commission under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His grandfather George D. Olds was the ninth President of Amherst College. Olds grew up in Nyack, New York. Olds attended college at a number of schools including St. John's College, Annapolis, and the University of Wisconsin, but received his undergraduate B.A. from Amherst College in 1947. http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/jolds.html From 1963 Timeline of Amherst College Walker Hall razed to build Frost Library. October U.S. President John F. Kennedy speaks at Convocation and the groundbreaking for the Robert Frost Library. It is one of the president's last public appearances; he is assassinated one month later. The library was completed in 1965, and poet Richard Wilbur (AC 1942) spoke at the dedication. Another not so well known fact is that amongst the Collins Radio associates was Siegfried Knemeyer would would have been very at home, as if he had been a moving, [literally from Germany to America] participant in Operation Paperclip; Stearns wrote "Knemeyer had an interesting background as a scientist and an aviator. He was born in Germany in 1909 the same year as Arthur Collins’ birth. He studied physics and aeronautical engineering, and learned to fly in his teen years. After Adolph Hitler came to power in 1933 and began to build a German air force. Knemeyer taught many military officers how to fly, including future Nazi generals. In 1936 he invented a small circular slide rule computer enabling a pilot to estimate time, distance and speed when flying. It was known as The Knemeyer and was long used by most European pilots. With the start of World War II in 1939, Knemeyer had to become a German military pilot. He did not fly combat missions, but had other assignments including reconaissance. One plane he flew was a special version of the twin-engine Junkers JU-88 equipped for long range. It could fly at 37,000 feet, too high to be reached by enemy fighters ar anti-aircraft fire. Reportedly on one mission Kenmeyer’s JU-88 crew photographed a large group of British Navy and merchant ships in the Suez canal, which led to German forces inflicting heavy losses when the ships entered the Mediterranean. Later he headed German air force technical development including early jet airplanes. Coming to the US after the war, he was allowed to be a consultant to industry on commercial projects while also working for the Air Force. He was retained by Collins for more than 20 years.

However implausible one considers Tommy's point about joint hardliners in the KGB and CIA to be, the fact is that there are overtones that suggest somewhere this dynamic was in play...Consider the cooperation that the Warren Commission recieved getting files on Oswald after the assassination, the fact that the Russians seem to have helped quash a lot of controversial issues related to key aspects of the assassination such as Oleg Nechiporenko's book helped preserve some of the myths of Oswald in Mexico, Oswald's note to "Mr. Hunt" see below...... http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=8816&st=30 http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/mrhunt.txt We are still wondering 'where's the beef' regarding the files former President Clinton recieved from another ex-KGB head Vladimir Putin. The Nagell issue with 'Bob' is, of course a salient point, then there are the overtones of CIA connections in Russia itself, the fact that they knew there was no assassination training school in Minsk, it was actually in Kiev. I would even point out that the McMillan government's disintegration in England factors in there somewhere.... Three heads of state removed from office in how many months? http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/23/world/son-tells-of-khrushchev-s-last-days-in-power.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm Khrushchev even joked once about sharing intelligence with the US once since they oftimes had sources playing the middle..... I think it is more than a silly theory, and although I do not think this was some kind of central plot in the JFK assassination I believe there is some smoke there. Harold McMillan - October 1963 John F Kennedy - November 1963 Nikita Khrushchev - October 1964

The Dallas Cinema Associates Films, thread here on the forum were my baby, in the sense that I transcribed a large part of them and placed the excerpts here, so I can claim to have a little bit of insight into all the Martin personages....The John Martin whose clip is on youtube, just seemed eerie as all get out when I was looking into his history, anyone who digs into that cranny shouldn't come away disappointed..... May 28, 1964 On Dec. 11, 1963 the Dallas Division advised that John Martin, Superintendent of Safety, United States Post Office, Dallas Texas took a roll of 8 mm color movies of the Presidential motorcade on November 22, 1963. According to Martin, the movies were taken of the motorcade as it neared the spot where President Kennedy was assassinated and he thought possibly he had a shot of the window of the Texas School Book Depository from which the fatal shots were fired. According to information available to the Dallas Division, the film was in the possession of Life Magazine, New York City. On December 17, 1963, the film taken by Martin was obtained by SA Robert J. Lawson from Dick Pollard, Time and Life, Inc., 50th Street and 6th Avenue, New York City. On the same date the film was forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C. for review John Martin, Jr., Superintendent of Safety, Room 517, United States Post Office, Terminal Annex, 207 South Houston Street, Dallas, Texas, RI 9-3181, advised he resides at 9846 Shoreview Road, Dallas, Texas. Martin said he was born September 21, 1905 at Two Harbors, Minnesota. Martin stated that following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy the twenty-five feet of film he took was included in this movie. Martin advised that the following are members of the Dallas Cinema Associates Corporation and each will share equally in any profit made on the sale of the film. Rudy Brenk, President, 4404 Ivy Street, Mesquite, Texas telephone BR 9-7148 Bryant Boren, Vice-President, 605 West Vista Drive, Garland, Texas telephone BR 8-2397. Martin said Boren is employed as Manager of the Sanger-Harris Camera Shop; Mrs. Frances Hays, Secretary, 913 Forest Ridge Drive, Garland, Texas BR 6-0140, Martin said her husband took the movies but is not active in the corporation; Wyman Parr, 4448 South Marsalis, Dallas, Texas home telephone, FR 6-5918, business telephone FR 4-6465 George Shawver, 4926 Frio Drive, Dallas, Texas telephone, FR 4-1119. He is employed by Greyhound downtown, according to Martin. Dick Allen, 4222 Summit Ridge, Dallas, Texas, telephone FR 4-3053. Martin said Allen is employed by Hine Pontiac, Dallas, Texas; Mrs. Hazel Gooch, 208 W. Louisiana Street, Dallas, Texas, telephone unknown; Mr. Jules Speigel, 2723 Crestview Drive, Dallas, Texas, telephone BR 9-2289, salesman Southwest Fixture Company, 907 Commerce Street, Dallas, Texas John Martin Jr, 9846 Shoreview Road, Dallas, Texas, telephone DI 8-3546; George Kinkaid, Kincaid Photo Service, telephone RI 1-3271. Martin advised that Kinkaid is not a member of the corporation as yet but did take some movies of the motorcade; Alan Rhodes, 4640 Cole Avenue, employed Sanger-Harris Camera Shop, at Lamar and Main Streets, Dallas, Texas. Martin stated he took 35 mm stills and the stills were incorporated into the movie. Albert Bunnell, 1314 English Street, Irving, Texas office telephone FL 2-4761, Martin said he is employed at Love Field; Joe Brown, 7008 Hovenkamp Street, Fort Worth, Texas Can be reached at telephone number AN 2-4544; C.W. Gray, 11627 Fernald Street, Dallas, Texas telephone DA7-2972; Earl Mester, 232 Alta Drive, Garland, Texas telephone BR 8-6918; Doctor Howard Sigler, 6936 Lakeshore Drive, Dallas, Texas telephone DA 7-3649; Irving Gewertz, 6422 Walnut Hill Lane, Dallas, Texas telephone EM 1-7785 Charles Mentesana, 5103 Vickery Street, Dallas, Texas, telephone TA 3-0006 or TA 4-0803; Larry Thomas, Route 1 Box 1820, Grand Prairie, Texas. From Post Thread of Movies Taken of Presidential Motorcade/Dallas Cinema Associates http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=14545 Martin Film (0:25) John Martin's film shows the motorcase on Houston Street, and rounding the corner onto Elm through some trees. It also shows the aftermath of the shooting in Dealey Plaza. There is also another kicker in this whole area; one of the Oswald impersonators, who was posing as Oswald was Dudley Lee Farrell, he was a Postal employee in Dallas also.... Can you do the math? FERRELL, DUDLEY LEE Sources: CE 2999; CD 6, pp. 321-323; CD 7, pp. 543-545 Mary's Comments: White male. DOB: 5/25/25. POB: Shreveport, LA. Ferrell bears a marked resemblance to LHO. Supervisor of Mails at Main Post Office, Dallas. His mother, Mary Elizabeth Ferrell, 12210 Brookmeadow, Dallas, died Sat, June 24, 1978. END Radio Manager Recalls Oswald as Job Seeker; ALICE, Texas (AP) Lee Harvey Oswald, the 24-year-old accused assassin of President Kennedy was interviewed for a job at a radio station here last month, the station’s manager said Wednesday. Oswald drove into the parking lot of station KOPY in a battered 1953 model car on the afternoon of October 4, station manager Sonny Stewart, said. Stewart said Oswald was in his office for about 25 minutes. “Bob Janca, a station employee, and I neither one of us paid him a heck of a lot of attention. Just about the first thing he told us was that he had no radio experience,” Stewart said. “It’s a strange thing,” Stewart said. “The first time I saw Oswald’s picture on TV I recognized him. It was like a song that you can’t remember the name. When it finally hit me who it was, I almost fell on the floor.” Stewart said the notified the FBI on Saturday and agents from the Bureau’s regional offices came to Alice this week. The FBI is interested in establishing Oswald’s route and whereabouts from the time he left Laredo on Oct. 3 until Friday. The station manager said Oswald had his wife and a small child in the car with him. He refused an offer to have the woman brought inside the station, Stewart said with the explanation, “she doesent speak any English.” Oswald’s actions weren’t exactly suspicious or eccentric, Stewart said, ‘But he just didn’t act normal.” After he told Oswald there were no job openings at KOPY he asked about other radio stations in the area. He was particularly interested in the station at Pleasanton, Stewart said. Oswald also asked about the station at Sinton, Stewart said. https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=146617 I'm waiting for someone to challenge me on this because I know this area better than anyone.....Maybe somebody should pay more attention to the post office angle.....

I probably appear to be beating a dead horse, but Walt Brown referenced this document in his book Treachery In Dallas, [Chapter Five: The FBI page 77]; while the document itself seems to suggest the person was linked to San Antonio, the location where the report was made, the fact that he is so similar to the individual described in the 12/4/67 Dallas Morning News, made me want to post this here in case there could be some sort of linkage, as well as the fact that surely there is some way to look into the Piedras Negras stolen automobile indictment...... Warren Commission Hearings Volume XVII Current Section: CE 762 - Document prepared by Special Agent Bouck entitled "Protective Research Cases, November 1961 through November 1963." U.S. Secret Service Protective Research Section, C0-2-33,998 SAN ANTONIO OFFICE DATE OF ORIGIN: November 15, 1963 ORIGIN: Information received telephonically from FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C. DETAILS: Subject interviewed by FBI on November 14, 1963, and stated he is a member of the Ku Klux Klan; that during his travels throughout the country, his sources have told him that a militant group of the National States Rights Party plans to assassinate the President and other high-level officials. He stated that he does not believe this is planned for the near future but he does believe this attempt will be made. BACKGROUND OF SUBJECT: Subject was arrested on September 30, 1963 near Piedras Negras, Mexico with two other men for stealing three automobiles. Information developed by the FBI indicated that the subject was attempting to make some sort of deal with them for his benefit in the criminal case now pending against him. There was no information developed that would indicate there was any danger to the President in the near future or during his trip to Texas. As of January 27, 1964 subject was still incarcerated pending Federal court action. EVALUATION OF DEGREE OF DANGER: In view of subject’s incarceration, he was considered to be of no danger at this time. ACTION: No further action taken SUBSEQUENT ACTIVITY: None. An FBI report received January 31, 1964, relative their interview in jail. STATUS ON NOV 22, 1963: Subject Incarcerated https://www.maryferr...4&relPageId=592 It is also noteworthy that the document poses some very interesting similarities to the alleged FBI memo as described by William Walter, the one with the eight typos.

No blood no foul, I would rather face sincere criticism, rather than being mocked by the "Oswald did it," haranguers, because I believe the JFK assassination was the conspiracy I believe it has been proven to be. You presence here on the Forum has really been a good thing, and I may not agree with every perception you have but I do have an incredible appreciation for the things you have accomplished. Addendum: I cannot help but feel this obit may provide some type of linkage; It should also be pointed out that just because the persons are listed here does not in any way cast aspersions on the persons, character in any way shape or form; but is strictly for informational purposes. Ethel B. "Bunnie" Martin(1916 - 2012) Martin, Ethel B. "Bunnie" Ethel Martin, known to all as Bunnie, of Los Angeles, California and formerly of Dallas and Rockwall, Texas, died of respiratory failure January 9, 2012 at Solheim Lutheran Home in Los Angeles. She was 95. Born November 14, 1916 in Mineral Wells, Texas, she was the daughter of The Rev. Fred L. Chunn and Eva Mae (nee Chamberlain) Chunn. She was one of seven sisters and a brother. She married and settled in Nashville Tennessee, where her son Kenneth was born in 1944. Later the family lived in Shreveport, LA before moving to Dallas. In Dallas Bunnie worked as a sales associate and later as a buyer as Tiche-Goettinger's department store, Volk Bros. department store, and later as a sales representative for Moore-DeGrazier Jewelry Co. until her retirement in 1985. She then moved to Rockwall Texas, where she lived near Lake Ray Hubbard. She moved to Los Angeles in 2003 and became a resident of Solheim Lutheran Home until her death. She was active in Stevens Park Christian Church in Dallas, and participated in the local Meal on Wheels program. She enjoyed vacations to Hawaii, Alaska, the Caribbean and Britain. She is survived by loved ones sister Helen Gilmore of Dallas, sister-in-law Norma Chunn of Rockwall, son Kenneth Martin and caregiver Leonard Kohout of Los Angeles, as well as many nieces and nephews and their children. Services will be at Laurel Land Funeral Home in Dallas TX on Saturday, January 21, at 10 AM, with The Rev. Ron Williams presiding. A visitation and viewing will precede the service at 9 AM; burial will follow the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Solheim Lutheran Home, 2236 Merton Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90041. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dallasmorningnews/obituary.aspx?n=ethel-b-martin-bunnie&pid=155542019

I didn't think I was trying to make a point, my post you are analyzing contained Martin obit's who were either CIA or had a ONI background, during the Kennedy era....nothing more and nothing less.... Seems rather cut and dried to me.... Maybe it seems like a waste of time to you, but I like knowing who some of these persons were, it certainly isn't old news too me, irrelevant? I guess that argument can be made....

Robert, homing in on just one of a number of rich points to ponder in your post, it would have been one thing if the only misguided gesture the JFK-RFK administration had made was the appointment of election opponent Lodge as Ambassador to South Vietnam, but this sort of bipartisan appointment seemed part of an apolitical pattern of reasonableness I regard as a flaw of all Democratic party administrations since FDR. Obama has probably been as busy doing it as JFK was. Politically, Bartlett, Smathers and Billings seemed more likely adversaries than intimate friends. Jackie and her mother had a history with DeMohrenschildt, Billings was godfather to DeMohrenschildt's cousin, Frances McaDoo's son and namesake. Bush is steered by Bartlett to ask Nixon for the UN Ambassadorship, and Bush is a 20 year acquaintance of DeMohrenschildt in 1963, with Bush friends Hooker and Devine also involved with DeMohrenschildt. At least the Republicans make a good show of being in opposition to Democrats, to give the appearance that for Republicans it is a visceral competition. Tom, you are dead-on accurate in your comments, I can't really disagree with anything in that above paragraph, although Billing's is kind of hard to figure, not your mentioning him, but his oddities..... Smather's was a real SOB, IMO to JFK when you get down to it, a real chameleon, that fellow....from what I've read about the intel/political landscape of late fall 1963 there was no way he was not picking up some static on the [Florida] frequency, if you know what I mean....But so were a lot of other people as we all know.....

"Voltaire once said of Martin Luther that if he hadn't had lived it would have been necessary to invent him;" Sorry to be pedantic, Robert, but Voltaire's quote was "If God had not existed...." Not being pedantic at all, I deserve to be raked over the coals for screwing that up.....Gosh I feel like a real-life version of Chris Farley interviewing Paul McCartney. Voltaire: Je suis vraiment désolé! Dear God: I am really, really sorry!

Seems like a decent follow-up post to me...See below END Sun, The (Baltimore, MD) - August 10, 1997 Deceased Name: John J. Martin 74, NASA and CIA official John J. Martin, a retired NASA administrator and associate deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency during the Nixon administration, died Thursday of complications from Parkinson's disease at Charlestown Retirement Community in Catonsville. He was 74. Born in Detroit and raised in South Bend, Ind., Mr. Martin graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1943 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He enlisted in the Navy in 1943, was commissioned a lieutenant and served in Guam. He attended the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before being discharged in 1946. He subsequently earned a master's degree from Notre Dame and a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in 1951. After working several years as an engineer, he became a consultant on logistics and foreign affairs to President Richard M. Nixon in the federal Office of Science and Technology from 1969 to 1973. In 1974, he became associate deputy director of the CIA, then special assistant to the director. He also served in several positions at the Pentagon, including principal deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force. After returning to work in the private sector, he was named associate administrator of aeronautics and space technology at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1983. He helped establish the Advanced Technical Center for Bendix Corp. in Columbia, where he worked from 1979 to 1983. He retired from NASA in 1985, and he and his wife, the former Carol Kline, moved to Charlestown from Bethesda several years ago. Services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the chapel at Charlestown, 701 Maiden Choice Lane. In addition to his wife of 49 years, survivors include a daughter, Anne Moran of Louisville, Ky., and two sons, Peter Martin of Arlington, Va., and Stephen Martin of Ellicott City. Pub Date: 8/10/97 END San Diego Union-Tribune, The (CA) - April 30, 1996 Deceased Name: Barney Martin , 70 retired Navy captain Barney Martin, a retired Navy captain who devoted himself to community causes and land development after a career as an intelligence specialist, died of leukemia Thursday at Scripps Memorial Hospital-Encinitas. He was 70. Upon leaving the military in 1976, Capt. Martin designed and built his home in Rancho Santa Fe and assumed leadership roles in many civic and cultural organizations. President for the past five years of Rancho Santa Fe's Public Interest Committee, he had been selected to receive an annual community service award this year in recognition of his civic commitment. Capt. Martin and his wife, Virginia, were members for the past 19 years of the Zoological Society of San Diego, hosting many fund-raising events. The Martins were selected last year as co-chairmen of the 1996 Rendezvous In the Zoo gala. For three years beginning in 1973, Capt. Martin served as director of the Naval Investigative Service in Washington. He commanded a worldwide counterintelligence agency with 150 field offices and more than 1,200 civilian agents. At the end of his Washington tour in 1976, which marked the final stop in his military career, he was awarded the Legion of Merit. Capt. Martin entered private business after leaving the military. He formed a firm that would become known as Terrain Ventures, which developed commercial properties in Orange County and the Palm Springs area. He also joined Long Beach Cemetery Association Investments, following his late father and brother into the business. Capt. Martin became the firm's principal stock holder and president in 1987, overseeing interests in oil, gas and real estate. In 1978, he joined Robert H. Davis of La Jolla in forming a general partnership, Delta Development, which has holdings in four states. Capt. Martin continued to pursue his investment career until December, when his condition worsened and he underwent heart surgery. He had served as chairman of the development committee for the Rancho Santa Fe Community Foundation and was involved in the Rancho Santa Fe Library Guild, Garden Club, Historical Society and Golf Club. He was an associate member of his community's Republican Women's Club. Capt. Martin was born in St. Louis, Mo., and raised in Salem, Ill., graduating in 1942 as valedictorian of his high school class. Four years later, he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, ranking 47th among 809 students. He served three years on the cruiser Dayton in the Mediterranean before being assigned to the Naval Air Basic Training Command in Pensacola, Fla. He received his wings in December 1949. Capt. Martin became an intelligence specialist in 1956, serving in the Office of Naval Intelligence in the Pentagon. He returned to the Mediterranean in the 1960s as a commanding intelligence officer of the 6th Fleet aboard the guided missile cruiser Springfield. After settling in Rancho Santa Fe, Capt. Martin became a member of the President's Circle of the San Diego Museum of Natural History. He was a supporter of the Boy Scouts, YMCA, Meals on Wheels, the Museum of Man, the San Diego Historical Society, the Old Globe Theatre and the Stephen Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is survived by his wife. Services are scheduled for 3 p.m. Thursday at the North Island Naval Air Station Navy chapel, Coronado. Donations are suggested to the Zoological Society of San Diego or the Rancho Santa Fe Community Foundation. San Diego Union-Tribune, The (CA) Date: April 30, 1996 Author: JACK WILLIAMS Edition: UNION-TRIBUNE 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Page: B-5:1,6,7,8 B-7:2,3,4,5 Record Number: SDUN3043048 Copyright 1996 Union Tribune Publishing Co. END Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - August 11, 1986 Deceased Name: Carl N. Martin Jr. Carl N. Martin Jr., 83, a retired U.S. intelligence agent who headed the Philadelphia office of the CIA, died Saturday at Dunwoody Village, Newtown Square. He was formerly of Chester Springs. He served in naval intelligence during World War II. After the war, he served in the Central Intelligence Agency until he retired in 1965. According to his brother Oliver Martin, he was chief of the Philadelphia office of the CIA for 10 years until retiring. He was a 1926 graduate of Yale University. He was a member of the Merion Cricket Club and the Philadelphia Club. Survivors: a sister, Evelyn Maturin-Baird; two brothers, Hollinshead T. Martin and Oliver Martin; three nieces, and three nephews. Services: Private. END San Diego Union, The (CA) - April 3, 1985 Deceased Name: Edward Martin dies; Navy hero Edward Martin, 75, of Del Cerro, who completed careers in Navy intelligence and in the San Diego Fire Department, died March 21 in Mercy Hospital. Mr. Martin's most recognized exploit was the virtual single-handed capture of 90 Japanese soldiers who were fleeing Shanghai at the end of World War II. The soldiers were coming down the Yangtze River on six armed junks with the aim of sailing to Taiwan, which still was in Japanese hands. His daughter, Molly Allaire, recalls the story. "He boarded the lead junk with a .38-caliber pistol and sat down on a heap of hand grenades. He gave the fleeing Japanese the choice of returning to Shanghai or 'all of us being blown up together.' The junks returned. "My father took the direct approach when possible," his daughter said. He was awarded the Silver Star and a citation for the capture. Most of his work, however, was in intelligence. He prized highly a commendation from the late Adm. Milton E. Miles, author of the book, "A Different Kind of War." Adm. Miles wrote that "Cmdr. Martin was involved in combat intelligence, spending much of his time behind enemy lines, where his life constantly was in danger." Adm. Miles said that he relied on Mr. Martin, not only in the field, but as a personal adviser. Mr. Martin remained in the Naval Reserve and was recalled to active duty, in Naval intelligence in the Korean Conflict. He retired, as a captain, in 1967. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., but the family moved to San Diego when he was 10 months old. He was a graduate of St. Augustine High School. Later, he graduated from from Villanova University with double majors in transportation and economics. He joined the San Diego Fire Department in 1930 and advanced to head arson investigator. During afternoons and weekends, during the same period, 1932 to 1942, he was athletic director and track and football coach at St. Augustine High. During World War II, he worked principally with the Sino-American Cooperative Organization in China. After the war, he returned to the Fire Department, working his way through the ranks from investigator to assistant fire marshal and captain in the Fire Prevention Bureau. He retired from the Fire Department in 1950 and within a few weeks was recalled to active duty to go to Korea. He is survived by his wife, Esther; a daughter, Molly Allaire; and two sisters, Bea Baker and Marie Martin, all of San Diego, and one granddaughter. Private services were conducted in the Carmelite Monastery in San Diego, with Humphrey Mortuary in charge. Burial was in El Camino Memorial Park. The family suggests memorial donations to the Sisters of Carmel, 5158 Hawley Blvd., San Diego, or the San Diego Hospice.

I guess late is hopefully better than never, [inside joke lol] Call this post a little thinking out loud, to some of my friends I have managed to develop here since 2005, when I joined. All of the best and brightest amongst the JFK research community have done such incredible labors for almost five decades now, the point can be argued that when taken as a whole the collective work of research, has revealed so much, the sad part is that the JFK assassination as an event has been relegated to the historical dustbin in much the same way that the Lincoln assassination had been, in about 1910; as an aside Lincoln's grave was exhumed after it was tampered with by some fundamentalists, [loose interpretation] in that day..... There are a few last things I wanted to share before doing anything else. When you get to your fifties, you can lose that feeling of believing you have to save the world, just a figure of speech mind you..... Among the most strange aspects of the assassination, in retrospect are the "dopplegangers" phenomenon, same people same name.....it is rampant, and I have always wondered if it is the law of coincidence or planned, I believe anything is possible at this point.... Over the holidays I decided I would do my last batch of JFK bookbuying, they are listed among one of my last posts. I have always been an avid reader, and always been extremely interested in historical mysteries.... Even before I jumped into JFK research, I had already, at 15 been reading about Amelia Earhart, Hitler and the OSS's preoccupation with his demise, but the JFK assassination has always been a real nightmare for me, because of the fact that when a country has the ability to make an illusion appear as reality, a bellwether of sorts, then there is a discordance that never fully divests itself from its effect on that culture. And it can be done again and again and.... If there is a message I have for persons here it is twofold, one do not fool yourself into believing that it is impossible to realize what really happened on November 22, 1963. My contribution I would like to think, is in pointing out that the following areas are intrinsically linked to the assassination of JFK....... MKULTRA Nazi connections from end of World War II ascending into occult activities at the time of the JFK assassination, which the best kept secret about hidden knowledge is that there is always an "intelligence related" dynamic with the mysterious magicians of esoterism. see Peter Lavenda JFK's cabinet and their friends and the fact that, in the big picture JFK became President at the wrong time as far as longevity was concerned. The Kennedy's were very naive about the wisdom of such matters as having Richard Nixon's running mate as your Ambassador to Vietnam, and the inherent corruption of Republican politicians. The media.....Time. Life the Luces...as Gerry Hemming would intone, Enuff said. Oswald.....Voltaire once said of Martin Luther that if he hadn't had lived it would have been necessary to invent him; one can say the very same exact thing of Lee Harvey Oswald and be every bit as accurate, although I am not a big admirer of the worldview of the Voltaire's and Nietzsche's....Probably a liitle more like Woody Allen....lol Last, but certainly not least, beware of the process of pinning the tail of whodunit to the historical donkey of the Evil man, LBJ seems to be the favorite, although the case could be made equally and with more resonance towards Richard ("I am not a crook") Nixon, circumstantial evidence is not historical reality, that evidence was probably on the erased tapes of both persons....... Cheers