Bill Simpich

All of your comments are on point. Gary's observation is correct, I was researching my article on the first-day evidence a couple months ago and got access to this photo. For many years I assumed that I was looking at a live round until this better photo was available. So that and a few other items need to be changed in my next edition of the book. In many ways, this is my favorite chapter of the book - the cover-up was what I had originally intended to make my focus, while I tried to figure out the impersonation in Mexico City. What I learned on that front changed the composition of the story. I like what Jon says about the "pre-programming" of the DPD; I'm spending a lot of time trying to figure that part out. I should also say, Tommy, that I agree with you about the absurdity of referring to a 5 foot 10, 165 pound man as "slender". The phraseology of "slender, 5 foot 10, 165" was used repeatedly by both the FBI and the CIA to identify Oswald during the last three years of his life - even though it was totally inaccurate. I never thought I'd agree with Marguerite Oswald on much of anything, but there it is.

I note that Oswald said to Officer Martello in August 1963 before his court hearing that he had a placard, made of brown cardboard, with several pieces of his literature on it around his neck, and with the hand-printed "Viva Fidel" at the bottom. Since the placard was in the court's possession, I would think he was telling on the truth on this one. His main flyer said in big letters "Hands off Cuba" (with more language in smaller font), which would have dominated the placard. The placard had the hand-printed "Viva Fidel" below the flyer. I still can't find the reference to the placard in the attic that I seem to have remembered in the archives, but I do see a brown piece of cardboard found at the Magazine residence on 11/23/63, two months after they moved out, with the aforementioned Hands off Cuba flyer pasted to it. No reference to "Viva Fidel", for whatever reason - maybe Oswald removed this hand-printed statement at some point? The August placard also seems similar to the April placard, which reportedly said from the hasty glance of a cop: "Hands Off Cuba. Viva Fidel." This may explain a lot of the placard story. How did his neighbor Gladys Rodgers know or remember that Bill Stuckey visited Oswald in August? That's probably true, but bizarre that she knew or remembered.

Marguerite worked at the Cox Department store in 1952, says this document https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=145250 In April 1959, Robert Oswald testified that in April 1959 she was working at the Cox's in Fort Worth https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=1621639 I've been thinking that the Cox's box top (pointing to Marguerite Oswald) and the James Jackson slip (a previous Neely St. resident) may have been tools that Oswald carried to prove his identity (whether truly or falsely - it would indicate that this man knew that there was a history of impersonating Oswald!) The Cox's slip being torn in half, of course, still looks like a tool being used to find his contact. Ed LeDoux, I wanted you to know that upon further reflection, I am pretty sure that what I saw at the Archives referred to the placard being found in the attic of the Magazine Street house - not the Neely Street house. I thought that the Neely Street house was in New Orleans, when I realized it was in Dallas I found myself saying oh-oh. I hope this helps and I haven't wasted a lot of your time. Bill

I don't know enough about the evidence for Walker's complicity to do that story justice, nor stories about the JBS or the Minutemen. The one that has caught my eye is the Willie Somersett tape of Joseph Milteer. The National States Rights Party were well-organized and could have been used by disaffected intel or military operatives without much fear of exposure. I don't want to go too far on the theory about "war with Cuba". I think certain people wanted it, but I also think that more sophisticated people like Morales and Roselli may have known that it was a long shot at best. It didn't take a rocket scientist to know that the American people did not want to go to war on 11/22. They wanted to mourn. I agree that most of the evidence was phonied up after the assassination by higher-ups who had nothing to do with killing JFK. They wanted to protect national security or prevent national pandemonium. Let me address blackmail and the fear of leaving trails, quoting my colleague Alan Rogers at length... "On the government side, you have LBJ and his advisors deathly afraid of having to face the public with a clear case of conspiracy. "You have a fearful JEH facing the dissolution of his empire for not stopping someone they clearly should have paid more attention to. "You have Rowley who had to be afraid of having his SS demoted to being an underling of the FBI due to failure of their prime duty." I would add that the CIA officers did not want their empire dissolved either. This wasn't simply about a couple of careers.

Jon makes good points. I should state my skepticism on all hypotheses, including my own, at this point. I think this entire investigation should be conducted in the spirit of humility. What we believe we know - and what we're pretty sure we don't know. I should say I remain amazed that anyone assassinated JFK from long-distance in the public square. To my knowledge, no other attempt on a president was ever conducted in such a frightening manner. Government officials as suspects add another level of mystery. But that's where the evidence is taking me. It had to be an inside job to control the autopsy. The doctors were tightly controlled from above. I believe they were told to shut up and follow orders. Harvey was very loyal to his men, while allegedly having sex with the women every day. He was one of the worst kind of thugs. Phillips was a xxxx. Both of them expressed their hatred for JFK. I don't know where patriotism fits in for these two. Once you review the autopsy evidence, everything indicates the president was shot in a crossfire. Thus, there's more than one gunman. The forensic evidence makes it hard to believe LHO did any shooting, or whether he even owned the rifle or the revolver that went into evidence. If LHO got set up, and if he got impersonated in Mexico City (and in Dallas!) - which I also believe after all that research - the next tough question is whether he was the quarry in a Mexico City molehunt. To me, that should be the centerpoint of further analysis. If there was no molehunt, I would look at everything in another way. If the molehunt hypothesis stands up, the next question is whether Miami was cut out of the molehunt. That's an easier call. The fascinating thing to me is how prior to 11/22 Oswald's Cuban contacts are hidden by Mexico City from Headquarters - and how Oswald's FPCC background is hidden by Headquarters from Mexico City. To me, that means there was a back-channel agreement to cut Miami out of the action. Where that takes me is that Miami was at least one of the suspects in the molehunt. Given the persona of LHO, and the crazy attempts by military and intel figures to move towards war with Cuba in the hours after the assassination - it seems like the motive was war on Cuba. However, I think the Alvarado maneuver in particular (which didn't surface until 11/25) was so poorly done that it wasn't set up in advance, and Phillips' fingerprints are all over it. The same is true with Diaz Verson and other after-the-fact provocations to link LHO to Cuba. That's why (like Jon) I don't see Phillips as a suspect. Harvey is a slightly different matter. He was allegedly in Italy during that time and couldn't have been very hands-on. But he could've been the mastermind, or the reason people like Roselli took action. As Paul Brancato says, neither Harvey nor Phillips were ever in the cross-hairs of the Warren Commission - but they were certainly the focus of the Spanish-speakers like Eddie Lopez in the HSCA, who could read the documents and understand where things were going. It should be added that both men were considered suspects by the research community before the HSCA began. Since Roselli talked, and Carbajal talked, I have to take Harvey and Morales more seriously b/c of their work together in assassination planning and the like. It could have been other forces out of Miami or the anti-Cuban sector - it didn't have to be them. Paul Trejo suggests: "Instead of BLACKMAIL, I propose that whoever 'impersonated' Duran and Oswald on a wire-tapped telephone in Mexico City believed that such a media trail would convince the CIA and FBI that Lee Harvey Oswald was in league with KGB Agent Valery Kostikov. With that connection, the US Government might have concluded that the Communists killed JFK, and that we should immediately commit military forces to war against Cuba and the USSR." John Newman offers the same suggestion. I am not as moved by this idea as I used to be. The reason why, as I write in the book, is that Angleton conceded to Hoover in June 1963 or so that Kostikov had nothing to with any "Chapter 13 assassination team". Hoover's people reminded Angleton of this after 11/22. Granted, Golitsyn went back to the Kostikov story within hours of the assassination, but that to me seems more like a cover-up stunt of Angleton than anything else. My point is that the impersonation shook up everyone who knew about it. Everyone who knew about the impersonation knew that this phone call between Oswald and Kostikov was made-up! It would turn those people away from actually believing the Commie plot theory. For those who didn't know about the impersonation - people like Angleton's analyst Ray Rocca - Rocca went right for the Kostikov-was-Oswald's-buddy explanation. Outside of Hosty and Angleton, few people bought it, not even on the Warren Commission. Blackmail was the way to keep officers in line. No one wanted to look incompetent by admitting they were watching Oswald between 1960 to 1963. We only found out which CIA officials were watching over him after an epic battle over release of these documents in the wake of the Stone movie. When Win Scott tried to break away from looking incompetent - by writing a book with a whole new questionable story about how he was on top of all of Oswald's alleged entries into the Soviet and Cuban compounds - he wound up dead, and most of the book remains buried.

I made a mistake when I posted this a year ago - can someone blow it up for me? This set of photos dated Oct 2 1963, at 12:05 pm, taken at,the Soviet consulate minutes before the so-called Mystery Man, at numbers 6 and 7, shows the man looking like Witt listed as "LEON", https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=4490&relPageId=3 Could "Leon" be short for "Nikolai Leonov", the third consul who is in the russian parliament today? The two photos in the top half of this page are blow-ups of Leon looked at by HSCA - some thought he looked like LHO Here is a picture of Leonov during this era. For what it's worth, Leonov was a short blond man.

We can add Gerald Hill, that's for sure. He's a suspect in my eyes. I can't go any farther than that, but Westbrook and Hill both worked in the personnel division of the police department, with access to the files of the applicants, those in trouble, and those having to deal with internal affairs. They knewall the dirt on the officers, and who they could and couldn't trust. Westbrook went on to work as a liaison to the CIA in South Vietnam (source: Jones Harris) http://www.opednews.com/articles/How-the-Warren-Commission-by-Bill-Simpich-Assassination_Evidence_JFK_JFK-Assassination-141119-717.html I do think that's the task in the next period - try to distinguish between who was in on the planning to kill JFK, vis-a-vis those who were in on the cover-up afterwards. I have a new article on the framing of Oswald, focusing on the forensic evidence. I find that some of the evidence in Mexico City (5 foot 10, 165 pounds) is repeated in the ID of the shooter on the police radio 15 minutes after the assassination. No one ever commented in the documents - hey, that's the inaccurate description of Oswald that the CIA and the FBI relied on continuously between 1960 to 1963.

Paul Brancato wrote that I thought that if "Phillips (was) involved in hijacking Oswald from covert anti-FPCC operations and helping to set him up as the patsy he would have taken more precautions after the assassination, as he left plenty of clues that might have made him a suspect." He also pointed out that I thought "the most likely suspect to have hijacked Oswald and set him up was Morales, claiming that Morales was experienced enough to know that CIA would cover his tracks rather than risk exposing Mexico City covert surveillance and wiretapping of the Cuban and Soviet embassies and their staffs." Brancato's response was that he "would argue that if anyone knew how to play the system it was Phillips. Wouldn't he likewise have known that he was in no danger of exposure for the same reasons as Morales?" My response is that no one knew Morales was anywhere near the JFK case until the late 70s. Phillips, by contrast, was in the cross-hairs of the HSCA committee for many obvious reasons. Alvarado, Salvador Diaz Verson, and many other disinformation story-tellers in the immediate aftermath of the assassination were Phillips' assets. Phillips was the Cuba desk chief in Mexico City and the covert action chief on Cuban affairs during the fall of 63. The buck stopped with him. I am not convinced that Phillips was the victim of blackmail, but that's where the evidence leads me to date. The same is true for Angleton. The reason I feel this way is because I believe a molehunt took place after Oswald was impersonated. It's been difficult to get people to weigh in pro or con on that part of my hypothesis. If someone comes in with a plausible alternative for the events that I described as the precursor to a molehunt and the molehunt itself, I would feel differently. Trejo is right - my tentative conclusion is that it was a rogue operation led by Morales and Harvey, or people like them within JMWAVE and/or SAS. Besides the molehunt hypothesis, I don't see strong evidence pointing to people like Angleton and Helms asnce the architects of 11/22. I see Angleton, like Phillips, very busy on the cover-up side of the assassination. With his colleague Egerter all over the paperwork of Oswald on a steady basis between 1960-63 and again in the Mexico City phase, I just can't understand why a wily man like Angleton would leave a trail like that. Oswald had to be a humiliation for his office. I don't agree with Trejo that blackmail is a weak argument. I was not arguing the CIA botched the investigation "to save a few jobs of a few CIA people". I am saying that the political future of the CIA was jeopardized by the events of 11/22. If the American people had known how Angleton had been tracking Oswald since 1960, how Mexico City had been highly concerned about Oswald in the last few weeks before 11/22, how Phillips had gone to DC and Miami in the days after Oswald was impersonated, how Johnson and Hoover had discussed the Oswald impersonation on 11/23...there would have been domestic upheaval. I am open, of course, to new evidence. I am looking forward to David Talbot's book on Allen Dulles, due to come out n tihe autumn of 2015. My understanding is that he is going to point to Dulles and the Rockefeller interests as the architects of 11/22. I have expected more critical analysis than I have received so far. Hopefully it will come in time. I know I'm not the only researcher who sometimes feels like he or she is working in the bottom of a well. Thanks and appreciation to both Brancato and Trejo for weighing in.

Great news that the forum will continue. Many thanks for helping us move forward and preserving the history on the internet. Looking forward to the discussion on next steps.

I think the documents cited here resolve the identify of QJ/WIN as Jose Mankel (while recognizing that "Mankel" may not have been his true name, as shown in this ARRB memo: https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=60509&relPageId=3 This memo identifies QJ/WIN as 201-236504 https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=249226 This memo identifies Mankel as 201-236504 https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=447736 That alone should make the case. As mentioned earlier in this thread and in Douglas Valentine's The Strength of the Wolf, p. 228, Rockefeller commission staffer Mason Cargill identified Mankel as QJ/WIN back in 1975. http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.culture.discuss.conspiracy/month=19700101/page=47 Here is a description of a review of Mankel in September 1958 https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=390988 This tracks with the ARRB's description of Mankel, and that he was a ZRRIFLE agent whose contract expired in Feb. 1964 https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=60509&relPageId=3 Here is QJ/WIN's termination during February 1964 https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55112&relPageId=13 This memo from Bill Harvey (aka Daniel Presland) discusses the movements of Mankel and his colleague Wanda Crickard at length. It would be good to figure out her identity as well. I'd like to know more about Louise Van Hook... https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=19084&relPageId=4

I don't know if Quiroga was at the center of things on 11/22, but I do know that when Quiroga was finally questioned during the HSCA hearings, he was well prepared. Too bad his questioner was not. Quiroga had his lawyer with him, and nothing was learned during that interview.

John, I think a strong historical case is being made by yourself and many others that David Morales led the assassination of JFK. I also think the evidence will continue to mount during this decade.

John - On your post back in the day about RAFAEL ANSELMO RODRIGUEZ MOLINS, who was allegedly traveling from Miami to Chicago to kill JFK in 1962, I saw a reference to him in Dec. 61 as "the man who shot Galindez". There's quite a story here. A document identifies "the rogue FBI agent John Frank" as the engineer of the assassination of Jesus de Galindez in 1956 on behalf of the dictator Trujillo. Robert Mayhew, an ex-FBI agent sheparding the Hughes interests, was closely associated with Frank. Galindez was a Basque nationalist and an anti-Trujillo professor at Columbia, and was allegedly kidnapped in the NYC subway and flown to the DR. Also involved with the Galindez killing was Joseph Arthur Zicarelli of the Bonanno family, and Dominican intelligence chief Arturo Espaillat. A Teamster named Frank Chavez was a friend of Espaillat, and turned on him and exposed him as part of Trujillo's payoff apparatus. To bring this full circle, after Espaillat was arrested, former Dominican intelligence officer "Ralph Molins" was contacted by Frank Chavez in an effort to bring the Teamsters to the DR. A new book by Stuart McKeever says that the Galindez assassination set the stage for the killing of Trujillo. Robert Maheu helped Trujillo during this period, according to McKeever. Maheu relied on his connections with people like FBI #3 man Alan Belmont. McKeever says the CIA Security Support officers received commendations for their work in this case. McKeever has now filed suit against the CIA for records on the case that have apparently disappeared. Given that Trujillo was killed in mid-61, was Molins hunting for JFK as an act of revenge by the pro-Trujillo forces? We see a nasty network emerging here. Bill

Robert, The Aragon story is something - I used the 1962 portion of it in my last chapter of State Secret. Do you remember the documents you used for the Bill Finch and the Mitch Lawrence portion? I noticed that Lawrence worked with TFW Security in 1962, and Finch was with WAVE Security in 1966. I think he is different than the Ernesto Aragon in Miami, who was Miro Cardona's deputy and referred to as Dr. Aragon. He lived in NYC in 1961, 1962, and 1963. Here, an Ernesto Aragon is described as the Security Officer with the CRC, asking for Secret Service traces on a Pedro Charles letter sent on 11/10/63. On Dec. 1962, Shackley sent a memo to Bill Harvey discussing Aragon's thoughts on the Cubans and Miro Cardona in particular at some length. WAVE intelligence officers tracked Aragon's relations with Bobby Kennedy and Cardona into April 1963. After the assassination, the Secret Service Aragon reported security lapses while his Miami boss John Marshall twice mentioned that he was concerned that the Secret Service was involved in the killing of JFK. Were Lawrence and Smith JMWAVE chiefs before Bill Shackley? I'm trying to track the history of those chiefs.

Hi Robert, I see the discussion re Ramon Quiroga at CD 27, pages 6-8. Don't know what to make of it. Thanks for your kind words about the Mexico story. I do think the story is coming together. Bill

Tommy, I think Win Scott was referring to Moskalev as someone that both he and JC King knew, in this private note between Scott and JC. In his other communmications, Scott denied knowing who the Mystery Man was. I don't think Scott believed his letter to King would ever be made public. I should add that my previous post contained a typo - it should have said "Anderson may have known that the Oswald character was Impersonated, but may have known no more than that." Bill

Gene, you nailed it when you said Oswald was a firewall. I had been searching for the right way to gedet that idea across. It's more than just the blackmail or the complex legend. He heightens the compartmentalization that already existed. For example, I don't think John Whitten had any idea that Oswald was being used for a molehunt, even though his subordinate Charlotte Bustos may have had a clue. Tilton had a propaganda job answering to Seymour Bolten during Harvey's tenure. In 63, Tilton worked with the SAS' Maritime Operations Branch. An anti-FPCC operation was easy for him. Tilton was a tough guy, but why would he want to be involved in an assassination attempt while he's all over the FPCC paperwork? Makes no sense to me. Anderson is tougher to figure out. He only had the FPCC file between August 1 to Oct 15. He monitored LHO's NO time very closely. On Sept 13, he got the memo from Hosty saying Oswald had an FPCC card and a subscription to the Daily Worker. Two weeks later, the Oswald character is at the Cuban consulate displaying an FPCC card and a CPUSA card. That's more than simple coincidence. Right after Anderson convinced Gheesling to dim the lights on Oct 9, Anderson got a copy of the Oct 10 memo saying that Oswald called the Soviet consulate on Oct 1. All indications are that was a call by the Oswald impersonator. That would mean that Anderson got wind of the news that someone used the legend to piggy-back on his operation. That would mean that the FBI knew something was wrong. Anderson passed on the FPCC file to another colleague on Oct 15. Anderson may have known that the Oswald character was, but may have known no more than that. Was that a good reason to be complacent and not have Oswald on any kind of security? It doesn't seem like it, even if they trusted Oswald himself. No evidence that Harvey was physically in MC during this period, but he had access to the Staff D wiretap traffic until at least Oct 11. His former subordinate Alex MacMillan was running Staff D at this time. A specialist known as "Paul Levister" visited MC between Sept 21-Oct 1 and wrote a fifty page memo about the two wiretap systems in Mexico City. So Harvey had intimate access to many aspects of the MC station. Your point is well taken that Harvey understood the internal workings of the FBI hierarchy as well as the CIA. Morales brought similar knowledge about the internal workings of the AMOTs and military intelligence.

Thanks, Robert. I spent a lot of time thinking about "Oswald in Memphis". At the end, it's inconclusive for me because Felde refuses to be interviewed. I don't know how to evaluate his story. Bill

Gene, Tilton and Anderson are really interesting. I'm not convinced that they had knowledge of any plan to kill the President. I think the plans were very tightly held by the group that impersonated Oswald. Everyone else at the CIA, from Angleton to Phillips to Goodpasture, was just trying to figure out who impersonated Oswald and Duran. The FBI didn't know about the impersonation until the Dallas agents heard the tape after the assassination. Bill

Tommy, Once we agree on a format, we can add and subtract to this model. I have several changes I'd like to make, but wanted to get it out there rather than jiggle the already-shaky formatting.

My apologies, I posted the last item a little too quickly. This is better. Better version of the State Secret timeline... November 1962 – Harvey is told that he is being transferred from Cuban operations January 1963 – Harvey suggests trying to recruit Cuban consul Eusebio Azcue July – SAS chief Des FitzGerald is extremely interested in recruiting Azcue August – Mexico City chief Win Scott agrees to try to recruit Azcue September 10 - FBI agent Hosty reports Oswald has FPCC card and subscribes to CPUSA newspaper September 13 – Scott suggests using two agents in a compartmented 1-2 punch September 16 – SAS officer Tilton suggests deceptive op to embarrass the FPCC September 17 – Oswald receives a visa to go to Mexico City for fifteen days September 19 – Azcue recruitment fails – “let’s wait for further developments” September 23 – Lechuga and Attwood discuss Castro-JFK rapproachment September 25 - Harvey's pal Will Potocki receives Hosty's Sept 10 memo about Oswald September 26 – Anderson: Fabricated evidence OK, if not initiated by CIA September 27 – Oswald shows FPCC and CPUSA cards during 3 visits to Cuban consulate September 28 – Call from Duran and Oswald at Cuban consulate to Soviet consulate September 30 – David Phillips leaves for CIA HQ in DC October 1 – Oswald identifies self by name in call to Soviet consulate October 1 or 2 – Tarasoff identifies “Lee Oswald” as caller on the 28th and 1st October 2 – Actual date of visit by “mystery man” to Soviet consulate, not Oct 1 Early October – Three CIA memos express concern that FBI/MC is penetrated October 8 – Goodpasture dictates a memo linking Oct 1 call to Mystery Man October 9 – Gheesling & Anderson take Oswald off the FBI security watchlist October 10 – CIA HQ conducts molehunt aimed at SAS/JMWAVE, FBI, Mexico City Mid-October - Goodpasture claims this is when Tarasoff linked the two calls November 22 - CI/SIG chief says only CIA information on Oswald comes from FBI and State November 23 - FBI Dallas agents say that the tape of Oswald doesn't match his voice November 23 - Hoover tells LBJ that there were two different men in Mexico City

State Secret timeline... November 1962 – Harvey is told that he is being transferred from Cuban operations January 1963 – Harvey suggests trying to recruit Cuban consul Eusebio Azcue July – SAS chief Des FitzGerald is extremely interested in recruiting Azcue August – Mexico City chief Win Scott agrees to try to recruit Azcue September 13 – Scott suggests using two agents in a compartmented 1-2 punch September 16 – SAS officer Tilton suggests deceptive op to embarrass the FPCC September 17 – Oswald receives a visa for “Harvey Oswald Lee” September 19 – Azcue recruitment fails – “let’s wait for further developments” September 23 – Lechuga and Attwood discuss Castro-JFK rapproachment September 26 – Anderson: Fabricated evidence OK, if not initiated by CIA September 27 – Oswald shows FPCC and CPUSA cards during 3 visits to Cuban consulate September 28 – Call from Duran and Oswald at Cuban consulate to Soviet consulate September 30 – David Phillips leaves for CIA HQ in DC October 1 – Oswald identifies self by name in call to Soviet consulate October 1 or 2 – Tarasoff identifies “Lee Oswald” as caller on the 28th and 1st October 2 – Actual date of visit by “mystery man” to Soviet consulate, not Oct 1 Early October – Three CIA memos express concern that FBI/MC is penetrated October 8 – Goodpasture dictates a memo linking Oct 1 call to Mystery Man October 9 – Gheesling & Anderson take Oswald off the FBI security watchlist October 10 – CIA HQ conducts molehunt aimed at SAS/JMWAVE, FBI, Mexico City Mid-October - Goodpasture claims this is when Tarasoff linked the two calls November 22 - CI/SIG chief says only CIA information on Oswald comes from FBI and State November 23 - FBI Dallas agents say that the tape of Oswald doesn't match his voice November 23 - Hoover tells LBJ that there were two different men in Mexico City

David, I'm looking forward to seeing what it looks like - if you give me a heads-up at whatever the right moment, I can correct a few things I have learned since I put it together. Bill

To David's question about organizational charts for use in reading State Secret...I could build on this, but this should help. You will notice that many of these players didn't make the final cut, but it's good to get them out there. Headquarters CI Staff and Staff D: "Division D ranked with Jim Angleton's Counterintelligence/Counterespionage Staff as the most secret of the Agency's Clandestine Services." - Bayard Stockton, Flawed Patriot, p. 111. James Angleton Bill Harvey Frank Belsito Joseph Langan, C/WH/4/Security William E. Eisemann, C/WH/4/Support[/indent]

On the question Tommy asked - sorry I missed it earlier - I think goodpasture chose the mystery man picture for two reasons. One reason is because he had a similar build as Robert Webster. The second reason is because he was Russian - CIA experts thought he was probably KGB officer Yuri Moslalev. I should add , however, that if you study the photos of people going in and out of the Soviet embassy, there weren't many people who could be plausibly mistaken to be Americans. She had few choices. - that's the best clue as to why she chose a man who visited the consulate on oct 2 rather than oct 1. She figured she could just pass it off as a mistake if she was ever challenged. She never imagined these top secret documents would ever be reviewed by anyone.