Tom Hume

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Lee Oswald had a connection to either John Hurt, or to Raleigh NC, but quite aside from that, “JOHN HURT, RALEIGH NC” is an intentionally created and informative puzzle. First we can look at the puzzle maker’s name: “RICHARD CASE NAGELL”, which anagrams to: “R’S DECAL: A RALEIGH NC” And “RICHARD CASE NAGELL” also anagrams to: “LEE’S ‘RR’ ‘C-276...’. DIAL ‘A N” (we translated some letters to numbers using the device in the footnote) “RR” stands for “Ringer Rod”, and when we “DIAL” the letters “A N” on the telephone, we are dialing the numbers “2 6”. In the process, we loose our instruction, “DIAL”, and we are left with this: “LEE’S ‘RR’ ‘C-2766. C” The "C" at the end stands for "Case", and now back to “JOHN HURT, RALEIGH NC” From merely puzzling out the name, “JOHN HURT”, we are told to make a 17-letter puzzle - the explanation of this is a little long and drawn out and I’ll deal with it in another post. But here's an easy clue to the intended size of the "JOHN HURT" puzzle: Earlier, we saw that "Richard Case Nagell" anagrammed to “R’S DECAL: A RALEIGH NC”. The letter "R" translates to the number "17" and a slight rearrangement yields this anagram: "RALEIGH NC'S DECAL: A '17'". And this is a common method for ICO to reveal the size of one of their puzzles. Lee Oswald’s late-night actions in jail gave us this 17-letter puzzle: “JOHN HURT, RALEIGH NC” There are several instructive 17-letter anagrams of this, and I will present three. “JOHN HURT, RALEIGH NC” anagrams to: “R CHANGE J.H. TURIN. LHO” “R” stands for “Richard”, “J.H.” stands for “J Hoover”, and if you are unfamiliar with the word “TURIN”, it was the place in Italy where the Carcano rifle was invented, and I’ve talked more about this in posts #10 and #11 at the link below. Richard did "Change" J Hoover's "Turin", J Hoover's Carcano. Richard created/modified another Carcano and put his own personal serial number on what he called a "Ringer Rod", C-2766", a serial number that did not match Hoover's carefully laid paper trail. http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=22752 “JOHN HURT, RALEIGH NC” anagrams to: “J.H. ‘RR’ UNIT, CHANGE 17” J Hoover’s “RR UNIT” is C-2766, and we are being told to “CHANGE” something in our “17”-letter puzzle. “JOHN HURT, RALEIGH NC” anagrams to: “JH, HLH, ETC. RING ‘OURNA’” “JH” is “J Hoover”, “HLH” is “H L Hunt”, and once again we are being told to use the telephone on the letters, “OURNA”. This yields the number, “68762”. In the process, we loose the instruction, “RING”, and translating just the “8” to the letter “I”, we now make this anagram: “C-2766, J.E.H. HIT. L.H.” There are several puzzles inside “JOHN HURT, RALEIGH NC” and this, I submit, was one of them. If you are willing to puzzle out what Richard Case Nagell and his "ICO" crew created for us to find, you just might understand at least half of the Kennedy assassination mysteries. "ICO" stands for "Igor", "Case", and, "Oswald". Tom Footnote - Letter/Number translation device: (A=0)(B=1)(C=2)(D=3)(E=4)(F=5)(G=6)(H=7)(I=8)(J=9)(K=10)(L=11)(M=12)(N=13)(O=14)(P=15)(Q=16)(R=17)(S=18)(T=19)(U=20)(V=21)(W=22)(X=23)(Y=24)(Z=25)

In yesterday’s post I pointed out that the Italian Carcano rifle, of which C-2766 is an example, was invented in Turin, Italy, the city that is also home to The Shroud of Turin. I also stated my opinion that not only are The Shroud of Turin and C-2766 associated with Turin, they are both fakes, the latter having been created by Richard Case Nagell. RCN’s “Ringer Rod”, usually abbreviated “RR” in the puzzles, bares a serial number that easily puzzles out of Richard's full name, and he not only fabricated/modified a “RR” Carcano with this serial number, he created a bunch of his puzzles to tell us about what he’d done. Realizing his handiwork is the purpose of this thread. Today’s post will be simple; Richard Case Nagell is merely going to tell us about the missing “K” in the word “SACK”. “CURTAIN RODS” anagrams to: “TURIN ROD SAC” “CURTAIN RODS” also anagrams to: “OUR [sIC]: DT ‘A’. CN” “CN”, of course, stands for “Case Nagell”, and in this puzzle clue we are being told to use the “DT” cypher on the letter “A” (the cypher works from the top down). A..B..C..D..E..F..G..H..I..J..K..L..M..N..O..P..Q..R..S..T..U..V..W..X..Y..Z K..L..M..N..O.P..Q..R..S.T.U..V..W..X..Y...Z..A..B..C..D..E..F..G...H..I...J “The letter “A” decodes to “K”, and our new anagram is: “OUR [sIC] ‘K’. CN” And the above re-anagrams to: “CN’S ‘K’ CURIO” Using “ICO’s” 6-bit binary code system, “CN’S ‘K’ CURIO” decodes and anagrams to (#2): “C.R. '11' IS '13'. C” Our “Curtain Rods” (“C.R.”) puzzle, in its original form, is “11” letters, but we are being told to grow it to “13” letters. Do some anagramming on “CURTAIN RODS” and you will find some anagrams that indicate the same thing - 13 letters. There are, however, a couple anagrams of "CURTAIN RODS" that hint at a 14-letter solution. This isn't really a contradiction, because there is more than one solution. (Tip: The letter "N" translates to the number "13", and "O" to "14" - see footnote #1). “C.R. '11' IS '13'. C” decodes and anagram to (#3): “ICO C-2....” "ICO" stands for "Igor", "Case", and, "Oswald". What we just solved was not the main puzzle of “CURTAIN RODS”, but a side puzzle, an informative “curio” to let us, the puzzle solvers, know that we are on track. This curio was not an anomaly, but the norm for ICO puzzles, and I guarantee this does not happen with random discourse (once in a blue moon - maybe). Yet to come is the puzzling out of “CURTAIN RODS”, once we figure out what the two missing letters are (Hint: "K" is not one of them). Tom Footnote #1 - Letter/Number translation gizmo: (A=0)(B=1)(C=2)(D=3)(E=4)(F=5)(G=6)(H=7)(I=8)(J=9)(K=10)(L=11)(M=12)(N=13)(O=14)(P=15)(Q=16)(R=17)(S=18)(T=19)(U=20)(V=21)(W=22)(X=23)(Y=24)(Z=25) Footnote #2 - CN’S ‘K’ CURIO CNSKCU = 010000, and, 101111, plus tags RIO Yield: RIO OIRUCK = 001000, and, 110111, plus tags SNC Yield: SNCIX. Total yield: RIOSNCIX = CR 13 IS OXI = anagram: “C.R. 11 IS 13. C” Footnote #3 - “C.R. 11 IS 13. C” CRLISN = 011001, and, 100110, plus tag C Yield: CIO CNSILR = 010011, and, 101100, plus tag C “Yield: CC. Total yield: CIOCC anagram: “ICO C-2....”

The series of Italian rifles commonly known as Mannlicher-Carcanos were invented in 1890 at the Turin Army Arsenal in Turin, Italy by a fellow named Salvatore Carcano. Also, the town of Turin famously houses “The Shroud of Turin”. It’s easy to make a metaphorical connection between The Shroud of Turin and the shroud (“sack” or “sac”) that supposedly held C-2766, because Richard Case Nagell makes the metaphorical connection for us. “CURTAIN RODS” anagrams to: “TURIN ROD SAC” (The third word, "SAC", would have been more correct had it been spelled "SACK", and this apparent error is corrected in another anagram of "Curtain Rods" containing the term "[sIC]" in reference to the "SAC" spelling. The missing "K" will be the topic of my next post.) The "TURIN" metaphor is apt in another way, as both The Shroud of Turin and C-2766 are fakes. According to my reading of the ICO puzzles, Richard Case Nagell created/modified the Carcano, C-2766, as a “Ringer Rod” (abbreviated “RR” in the puzzles) to be substituted on assassination day for the Klein’s rod associated with Hoover’s paper trail. “CURTAIN RODS” also anagrams to: “‘RR’ CUSTODIAN” And “CURTAIN RODS” is an ICO puzzle that puzzles out to “C-2766”. I will be offering my solution soon, but don’t be shy, see what you can come up with (Hint: “Curtain Rods” is 11 letters, and you will eventually need to add two or three letters to make a 13 or 14-letter puzzle. The number/letter translation device is below, as is the “DT” cypher). Tom "ICO" stands for "Igor", "Case", and, "Oswald". Number/Letter translation device: (A=0)(B=1)(C=2)(D=3)(E=4)(F=5)(G=6)(H=7)(I=8)(J=9)(K=10)(L=11)(M=12)(N=13)(O=14)(P=15)(Q=16)(R=17)(S=18)(T=19)(U=20)(V=21)(W=22)(X=23)(Y=24)(Z=25) DT ("Double Talk") cypher: A..B..C..D..E..F..G..H..I..J..K..L..M..N..O..P..Q..R..S..T..U..V..W..X..Y..Z K..L..M..N..O.P..Q..R..S.T.U..V..W..X..Y...Z..A..B..C..D..E..F..G...H..I...J

Yesterday’s “C-2766” puzzle was a little long and tedious for my taste, today’s will be short and sweet. “ICO” stands for “Igor”, “Case”, and, “Oswald” In puzzle form, ICO inserted the Carcano serial number, “C-2766”, in many places for us to find. Today’s puzzle is not only ubiquitous in the literature, it is as simple to solve as any I’ve seen. Most of the “Fair Play for Cuba” flyers have the following line stamped in the space provided: “F.P.C.C. A J HIDELL” Since the 12 letters above are going to puzzle out to some numbers, “C-2766”, we will need the Number/Letter translation device below, and this is the only tool we will need: (A=0)(B=1)(C=2)(D=3)(E=4)(F=5)(G=6)(H=7)(I=8)(J=9)(K=10)(L=11)(M=12)(N=13)(O=14)(P=15)(Q=16)(R=17)(S=18)(T=19)(U=20)(V=21)(W=22)(X=23)(Y=24)(Z=25) Translating a couple letters to numbers, “F.P.C.C. A J HIDELL” anagrams to: “C-27... DEAL. J FLIP” “J” in this instance would stand for “J Hoover”, and since “J” translates to the number “9”, we could make this anagram: “C-27... FLIP ‘9’ DEAL” It’s apparent that when we “FLIP” the “9” it turns into one of the two “6”s needed to fill the gap in serial number, “C-2766”. With the “9” flipped, the puzzle part looks like this: “C-27... FLIP ‘6’ DEAL” And since the number “6” translates to the letter “G”, for information purposes only, we could temporarily make this anagram: “C-27... FILL DE GAP” Getting back to, “C-27... FLIP ‘6’ DEAL”, this re-anagrams to: “6 FLIP, 3 EACH. C/L” “C/L are “Case” and “Lee”, and our new anagram temporarily looks like this: “666 FLIP, 3 EACH. C/L” And finally, the above anagrams to: “C-2766, GAP FILLED” And that finishes the puzzle. As a point of interest, we could do a little work on this final answer and come full circle vis-a-vis our first anagram of this post: “C-2766, GAP FILLED” re-anagrams: “C-2766 FLIP '6' DEAL” equals: “C-2766 FLIP '9' DEAL” re-anagrams: “C-2766 DEAL, ‘J‘ FLIP” And that appears to have been Richard Case Nagell’s goal; to screw up J Edgar Hoover’s frame of Oswald by having one of Richard’s ICO crew substitute his creation on assassination day - substitute C-2766, for Hoover’s bona fide Klien’s Carcano. Tom

Shortly before the assassination, someone posing as Lee Oswald brought a Carcano rifle to Dial Ryder at the Irving Sports Shop to have a scope mounted and bore sighted. Shortly after the assassination, someone appears to have been energetically tipping off both the media and the police that this incident happened. Dial Ryder supposedly had no memory of the event, and the alleged undated repair tag did not indicate the make of rifle or serial number - just Oswald’s name, and the cost of labor: $4.50. “ICO” stands for “Igor”, “Case”, and, “Oswald”, and according to my reading of the ICO puzzles, Richard Case Nagell created/fabricated a Carcano “Ringer Rod”, usually abbreviated “RR” in the puzzles, which bore the serial number “C-2766”. Richard did this so that the “RR” could be swapped on November 22nd for the Klein’s Carcano with Hoover’s bona fide paper trail. If Richard Nagell and/or Igor Vaganov designed this stunt, it would have been for our benefit. They would have done their homework, and they would have chosen an establishment with pertinent ICO puzzles for us to find. Without a proper repair tag, we are left with two puzzle possibilities: (1) “DIAL RYDER” (2) “IRVING SPORTS SHOP” “IRVING SPORTS SHOP” anagrams to: “O’S HIP ‘RR’ SIGNPOST. V” But today we will be dealing with “DIAL RYDER”, and while it’s not a difficult puzzle, it does have a number of steps. I’ll try to be brief, so hang in there. The first anagram of “DIAL RYDER” is going to tell us where we will find the bulk of our puzzle: “RELY DIARY. I/R” The “I/R” is “Igor” and “Richard”, and as I’ve discussed in other posts, Oswald’s Historic Diary contains “88” puzzles, “44” created by Richard, and “44” by Igor. The next anagram of “DIAL RYDER” is: “‘RR’ DEAL. ID ‘Y’” We are being directed to “ID” the letter “Y”, and we do this with the “DT” cypher below (it works from the top down): A..B..C..D..E..F..G..H..I..J..K..L..M..N..O..P..Q..R..S..T..U..V..W..X..Y..Z K..L..M..N..O.P..Q..R..S.T.U..V..W..X..Y...Z..A..B..C..D..E..F..G...H..I...J The letter “Y” decodes to “I”, and our anagram becomes: “I, 'RR’ DEAL” And everything so far appears to indicate that “Igor” was the Oswald impersonator at Dial Ryder’s shop. The next anagram of “DIAL RYDER” is: “Re: DIAL ‘R D Y’” When we “DIAL” the letters “R D Y” on the telephone, we are dialing the numbers, “7 3 9”, and when we translate the first two numbers to letters, it should look familiar to many of you (the number/letter translation device is in the footnote): “HD-9” Since we loose the instruction “DIAL”, our complete answer is: “Re: HD-9” “HD” stands for “Historic Diary”, and we are being sent there to check out puzzle number “9”. The complete list of “88” Historic Diary puzzles is in post #14 at the link below: http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=20276&hl=%22the+oswald+code%22 Puzzle “HD-9” is: “(CON.)” This is the first puzzle on page #2 of the Diary, and if we didn’t know any better, we’d think that “CON.” was of little importance, merely an abbreviation of “continued”, the second page of discourse being continued from the first. We will need to increase the letter content of this “CON.”, but there are a couple of tips in those three letters we should look at. First, this one: “No. C” We might suspect that since “C” is the first character of the Carcano serial “number”, that this is what the puzzle will be about. Thankfully, ICO puzzles often tell us how many letters the actual puzzle will contain. “CON.” anagrams to: “14. CN” "CN" stands for "Case Nagell", and for this puzzle to work, it actually needs to be 14-letters long, and there is only one way to get them. I am going save you several pages of dead-ends that are interesting from a puzzle solver’s point of view (these dead ends “talk” us through our various possibilities), but we are going to cut to the chase by noticing that “CON.” is the abbreviation of “CONTINUED”. We are going to pump these 9-letters to 14 with the “DT” cypher, but first let’s look at couple of anagrams of “CONTINUED: “ICO TUNED. N” Here’s another that’s more to the point: “DT: CUE IN 14. N” Now for the anagram that will get us our 14 letters: "DT: NICE UNO” A..B..C..D..E..F..G..H..I..J..K..L..M..N..O..P..Q..R..S..T..U..V..W..X..Y..Z K..L..M..N..O.P..Q..R..S.T.U..V..W..X..Y...Z..A..B..C..D..E..F..G...H..I...J We are using the “DT” cypher on “NICE UNO”, which ends up looking like this: “NICEUNO + XSMOEXY” And the 14 letters above anagram to: “EYE 14 MUSIC: 13 X 13 X 14.” We have ourselves an arithmetic problem, “13 x 13 x 14”, and this equals, “2366”. In the “66”, we have two of the five characters we need for the Carcano serial number, but for the time being, I’m going to translate those numbers to their respective letters, “X G G”, and make this anagram: “YO, MC GIGUE: 4 X 18” “4 X 18” is “72”, and now we can make our final anagram: “E, IOU MY C-2766” “E” is ICO’s puzzle designation for the assassination, and it also stands for “Edgar”. Lots of musical references in this puzzle: "Gigue", "Tune", "Music". You might recall from another post that "C-2766" translates to these letters: "CCHGG". And if you are familiar with J. S. Bach's system of naming notes, a system still in use today in many parts of Europe, "CCHGG" are the theme-notes of "O SOLE MIO" (#2). The most famous Italian rifle in the world plays the most famous Italian song in the world. Richard Case Nagell made that happen - but his plan to prevent the assassination failed. Tom Footnote #1: Letter/Number translation key: (A=0)(B=1)(C=2)(D=3)(E=4)(F=5)(G=6)(H=7)(I=8)(J=9)(K=10)(L=11)(M=12)(N=13)(O=14)(P=15)(Q=16)(R=17)(S=18)(T=19)(U=20)(V=21)(W=22)(X=23)(Y=24)(Z=25) Footnote #2: The only difference between the most common system for naming notes and the one prevalent in Germany and some other Northern European countries is the names for "B" and B-flat". What we in the U.S. think of as "B-flat" is called "B" in the German "Bach" system, and our "B-natural" is called "H" in Germany. "CCHGG" in Germany is equivalent to "CCBGG" in most of the rest of the world.

In my last post, I began making a list of interesting, pertinent, and, I submit, intentional anagrams that emerge using all the letters in the name, “IGOR VLADIMIRS VAGANOV”. At the beginning of the post, I wrote: My reading of the “ICO” puzzles leads me to believe that the name “IGOR VLADIMIRS VAGANOV” was a creation of Richard Case Nagell. “ICO” stands for “Igor”, “Case”, “Oswald”, and this trio led by Richard Nagell was apparently trying to prevent the assassination and at the same time, telling us about their exploits in decodable anagram puzzles. In this post I will be adding two more anagrams to the list, but first, here’s the list of “IGOR VLADIMIRS VAGANOV” anagrams from the last post: (1) “R’S VIVID ANAGRAM LOGO: IV” (2) “MR VV RAN SILVIA ODIO GAG” (3) "IVV IN A 'ARVIDS' LOGOGRAM" (4) “A LO DRIVING ORGASM, A IVV” Number 3 above is referring to the fourth "Logogram" in the "Vaganov Note" below: EL6-6111 E. STRAZDS 353-1539 ARVIDS JZAKS Anagram #3 above required an explanation, and that will also be the case with the two anagrams I’m adding today. Recently, I posted these two new anagrams on another thread, and what follows is a short variation of that post: I’ve found two more interesting anagrams of “IGOR VLADIMIRS VAGANOV”, and these two anagrams go hand-in-hand. In one simple step, the second anagram will elegantly puzzle out to the serial number of the Italian Carcano, “C-2766”. In many of my posts over the past few months, I’ve stated my opinion that the name “IGOR VLADIMIRS VAGANOV” was a puzzle fabrication of Richard Case Nagell, and that Richard also fabricated/modified the Carcano, “C-2766”, a “Ringer” to be substituted on assassination day for the Klein’s rifle matching Hoover’s carefully laid paper-trail. “IGOR VLADIMIRS VAGANOV” anagrams to: “MR VV, A GOOD IRVING ALIAS” And the complementing anagram of “IGOR VLADIMIRS VAGANOV” is: “IRVING’S VV. GO DIAL ‘A ROMA’” “ROMA” is another name for “ROME”, and when we "DIAL 'A ROMA'” on the telephone as instructed by the puzzle, we are dialing the numbers, “2766 2”, and the last digit, “2”, translates to the letter “C” (the number/letter translation chart is in footnote #1). Our final anagram, then, becomes: “IRVING’S C-2766. VV” This set of two anagrams is certainly one of the most simple and ingenious puzzles I’ve found in ICO’s huge collection. The puzzle answer above, “IRVING’S C-2766. VV”, continues to decode using ICO’s 6-bit binary code method, and I’ll do the first step of decoding in footnote #2. New List of "Igor Vladimirs Vaganov" anagrams: (1) “R’S VIVID ANAGRAM LOGO: IV” (2) “MR VV RAN SILVIA ODIO GAG” (3) "IVV IN A 'ARVIDS' LOGOGRAM" (4) “A LO DRIVING ORGASM, A IVV” (5) “MR VV, A GOOD IRVING ALIAS” (6) “IRVING’S VV. GO DIAL ‘A ROMA’” ( = “IRVING’S C-2766. VV”) Arrivederci Roma, Tom Footnote #1 - letter/number translation device (A=0)(B=1)(C=2)(D=3)(E=4)(F=5)(G=6)(H=7)(I=8)(J=9)(K=10)(L=11)(M=12)(N=13)(O=14)(P=15)(Q=16)(R=17)(S=18)(T=19)(U=20)(V=21)(W=22)(X=23)(Y=24)(Z=25) Footnote #2 - first decoding of “IRVING’S C-2766. VV” IRVING SCCHGG = 011010 000100, and, 100101 111011, plus tags VV Yield: ANDNEVV VVGGHC CSGNIV = 110010 000101, and, 001101 111010, plus tags RI Yield: RISF. Total yield: ANDNEVVRISF. Anagrams made from the above decoding result: (1) “VV ENSNARE DF” (“DF” is “David Ferrie”) (2) “ANNE D IS VV RF” (“Anne D” is “Anne Dulin”, Igor’s new 18 year old wife, and the ubiquitous puzzle term "RF" stands for "RAT F__K") Note: The second puzzle anagram is topically related to an anagram of “LEE HARVEY OSWALD: “V WHEEL A 18 YEAR OLD”

I’ve found two more interesting anagrams of “IGOR VLADIMIRS VAGANOV”. In one simple step, the second anagram will puzzle out to the serial number of the Italian Carcano, “C-2766”. In many of my posts over the past few months, I’ve stated my opinion that the name “IGOR VLADIMIRS VAGANOV” was a puzzle fabrication of Richard Case Nagell, and that Richard also fabricated/modified the Carcano, “C-2766”, a “Ringer” to be substituted on assassination day for the Klein’s rifle matching Hoover’s carefully laid paper-trail. “IGOR VLADIMIRS VAGANOV” anagrams to: “MR VV, A GOOD IRVING ALIAS” And “IGOR VLADIMIRS VAGANOV” also anagrams to: “IRVING’S VV. GO DIAL ‘A ROMA’” When we dial “A ROMA” on the telephone as instructed by the puzzle, we are dialing the numbers, “2766 2”, and the last digit, “2”, translates to the letter “C” (the number/letter translation chart is in the footnote). Our final anagram, then, becomes: “IRVING’S C-2766. VV” Arrivederci Roma, Tom Footnote - letter/number translation device (A=0)(B=1)(C=2)(D=3)(E=4)(F=5)(G=6)(H=7)(I=8)(J=9)(K=10)(L=11)(M=12)(N=13)(O=14)(P=15)(Q=16)(R=17)(S=18)(T=19)(U=20)(V=21)(W=22)(X=23)(Y=24)(Z=25)

The following paragraph from John Armstrong: “Cliff Shasteen operated a barbershop less than a mile from the Paines’ house in Irving. Shasteen, an Irving city council member, was Lee Oswald’s barber. He saw Oswald at various Irving locations including Williamsburg’s Drug Store, Hutchison’s Grocery and the Paines’ house. Every other week Oswald drove the Paines’ station wagon to his shop for a haircut. Shasteen thought he lived with the Paines.... Shasteen and his fellow barbers cut Lee Oswald’s hair twice a month beginning in the summer of 1963. FBI Agent Bardwell Odum told Shasteen that his memory of cutting Oswald’s hair in the summer of 1963 was during the time Oswald lived in New Orleans; Shasteen replied, “I can’t help what it contradicts, that’s just the fact and that’s it. He remembered Oswald had “nearly black hair” as well as “hairy arms,” also with black hair. He remembered that Oswald always wore either long-sleeve or short-sleeve coveralls that buttoned up the front; yet no coveralls were found among Oswald’s possessions, nor was Oswald known to wear coveralls. Shasteen noticed Oswald’s yellow shoes, which Oswald said he had purchased in Mexico for $1.50. Oswald said he frequently traveled to Mexico. Shortly after the assassination the FBI was trying to find evidence of Oswald’s visit to Mexico. The yellow shoes noticed by Shasteen would have helped the FBI place Oswald in Mexico. Yet no yellow shoes were found among Lee Harvey Oswald’s Possessions...” If all you had to go on was the paragraph above, who would you guess was the Chevy-driving Irving resident with "nearly black hair" posing as Lee Oswald? “ICO” stands for “Igor”, Case”, and, “Oswald”, and there appear to be several key words or phrases, red flags if you will, embedded in the behavior of this apparent Oswald imposter. Here are a few: (1) “YELLOW SHOES” (2) “$1.50 YELLOW SHOES” (3) “$1.50 MEXICAN YELLOW SHOES” (4) “COVERALLS” (5) “HAIR CUT” “YELLOW SHOES” is “11” characters and anagrams to: “LHO’S WESLEY. O” And, "WESLEY'S LHO. O" The apostrophe "S" in the first anagram shows possession, and the apostrophe "S" in the second shows a contraction (elision). Notice the slightly redundant letter “O” at the end of the anagrams above. "O" translates to the number “14.” (A=0)(B=1)(C=2)(D=3)(E=4)(F=5)(G=6)(H=7)(I=8)(J=9)(K=10)(L=11)(M=12)(N=13)(O=14)(P=15)(Q=16)(R=17)(S=18)(T=19)(U=20)(V=21)(W=22)(X=23)(Y=24)(Z=25) “LHO’S WESLEY 14” "WESLEY'S LHO. 14 In typical ICO fashion, it appears that we are being instructed to expand “YELLOW SHOES” from “11” characters to “14”, and the obvious “14” character starting point is: “$1.50 YELLOW SHOES” “1.50” translates to the letters, “BFA”, and the easy anagram of “BFA YELLOW SHOES”, is: “YELLOW SHOES, A B.F.” “A B.F.” = “A Buell Frazier”, but the intended anagram for “BFA YELLOW SHOES” is probably this one: “WES BOY, FALSE L.H.O.” Using ICO’s 6-bit binary code method, “WES BOY, FALSE L.H.O.” decodes and anagrams to (footnote #1): “i.e. B.W. HOOFER” "i.e. H.O. ROBE W.F." "i.e. B.F. WORE H.O" "i.e. B.W.F. HERO. O" Study the four anagrams above. When you finish this post, you might agree that B.W.F. was posing as Lee Harvey Oswald at the Irving barbershop, and that all four statements above appear to be true. I'll list them again at the bottom. The 14-letter puzzle-clue we’ve been working with is “$1.50 YELLOW SHOES”, and this could be expanded again to this 21-letter monster: “$1.50 MEXICAN YELLOW SHOES”. However, it would be nice to have an instruction to do this, and we don’t have far to look for it. “LEE HARVEY OSWALD” anagrams to: “21 RELAY W SHOE DEAL” It looks like we might have permission to try and puzzle out, “$1.50 MEXICAN YELLOW SHOES”, but for good measure, here are a couple more anagrams of “LEE HARVEY OSWALD”: “E.H. ROAD: A WESLEY 21. L” “E.H. READS A YELLOW 21” Okay, so the “21” letter puzzle is “$1.50 MEXICAN YELLOW SHOES” (BFA MEXICAN YELLOW SHOES), and this can anagram to: “A 'B' FLASH: NO MEXICO WESLEY” Here's a more productive anagram of "$150 MEXICAN YELLOW SHOES": “ICO EMBASSY HALLOWEEN, X F” I take the “X F” to mean, "get rid of the 'F', Frazier had no role in Mexico". Once we dispose of the "X F", "ICO EMBASSY HALLOWEEN" re-anagrams to: "A EMBASSY CLONE. WHO LIE? As I said in the introduction to this thread, I’m not going to try to finish many of these puzzles. I have several pages of notes for the 21-letter monstrosity, “$1.50 YELLOW MEXICAN SHOES”, and unless I spend considerable time I won’t get to the bottom of it. I think the huge labyrinth of interconnecting ICO puzzles deserve to be tackled by a team of experts. I wouldn't make the team - I'm too slow and I know I often miss some of the best intended anagrams. Moving on, then, the Oswald impersonator at the barbershop wore yellow Mexican shoes, and he also always wore, according to the barber, “Coveralls”. But that was the barber’s term; the actual word should be “OVERALLS”, because like the “YELLOW SHOES”, the genesis for the “OVERALLS” trait came from Richard and Igor anagramming “LEE HARVEY OSWALD”, which anagrams to: “YEH! WES OVERALL AD” “WES, E.H. OVERALL DAY” And so forth, but I might as well add this one: "A W YELLER SHOE AD. V" The next possible puzzle is “HAIR CUT”, which anagrams to: “RUTH, CIA” “HURT, CIA” Here’s one final easy puzzle that sends us to Oswald’s Historic Diary for confirmation. “LEE HARVEY OSWALD” anagrams to: “SEE A YELLOW, A HD-21. R” Puzzle HD-21 in Oswald’s Historic Diary is: “NOT FOR INSANE” “NOT FOR INSANE” anagrams to: “SIENNA FOOT. RN” (Not to be confused with "Burnt Sienna" which is redish-brown)The complete list of “88” puzzles in Oswald’s Historic Diary can be found in post #14 at the link below: http://educationforu...he oswald code" So far, it looks to me like the primo puzzle that was given to us by the Lee Oswald barbershop imposter was “$1.50 YELLOW SHOES”. This anagrammed to “WES BOY, FALSE L.H.O.”, and decoded to the four anagrams below: “i.e. B.W. HOOFER” "i.e. H.O. ROBE W.F." "i.e. B.F. WORE H.O" "i.e. B.W.F. HERO. O" And for now, this finishes my short take on the possibilities listed at the beginning of the post. Tom Footnote #1 - WES BOY, FALSE LHO WESBOY FALSEL = 000100 101001, and, 111011 010110, plus tags HO Yield: HORFE OHLESL AFYOBS = 011001 010010, and, 100110 101101, plus tags EW Yield: IOBEW. Total yield: HORFEIOBEW anagram: “i.e. B.W. HOOFER”

I think today’s puzzle is going to tell us who posed as Lee Oswald in the test driving orgasm at Downtown Lincoln Mercury. My favorite author, Kurt Vonnegut, liked to say, “Screw suspense - tell the ending at the beginning....” Okay, I think the driver was Igor Vladimirs Vaganov, and I’ll ask your opinion at the end. Before we puzzle out the wild driving stunt by the supposed Lee Oswald, take a long look at this anagram of “IGOR VLADIMIRS VAGANOV”: “A LO DRIVING ORGASM, A IVV” In the world of name-anagrams, this one is breathtaking. I believe this is because “Igor Vladimirs Vaganov” was a name made up by master anagrammer Richard Case Nagell, a name he created that would anagram to some very specific things. Also consider this anagram of “IGOR VLADIMIRS VAGANOV”: “R’S VIVID ANAGRAM LOGO: IV” “ICO” stands for “Igor”, “Case”, Oswald”, and although the length of ICO puzzles can sometimes run to 24 letters, shorter puzzles are the norm, and 13 letters is by far the most common. This is especially true for ICO stunts where the puzzle solver must supply the exact intended puzzle-phrase. I believe this stunt's 13-letter puzzle-phrase is: “TEST DRIVE MERC” But before we set about to solve “TEST DRIVE MERC”, there is some substantiation for my obvious 13-letter puzzle choice. While “Igor Vladimirs Vaganov” was a made up name, Richard Nagell had nothing to do with creating the name, “Downtown Lincoln Mercury”, but being a master anagrammer, he saw that the name would puzzle out to instructions that puzzle solvers would appreciate and wonder at. Watch closely. “DOWNTOWN LINCOLN MERCURY” is 22 letters, and as the ICO puzzles go, it’s a little long to anagram. ICO gives us a couple of tools to reduce the number of letters in a long piece of discourse, and one of them ICO calls the “ONION”. We are to “PEEL” the “ONION” by removing all the duplicate letters. The word “ONION”, for example, would become “ONI”. But before we cut “DOWNTOWN LINCOLN MERCURY” down to size, let's look at an instructional anagram that uses all 22 letters. "DOWNTOWN LINCOLN MERCURY” anagrams to: “MR RC YELL: ‘CUT DOWN 22!’ ‘ONION 13!’” ("MR RC" is "Richard Case". As you can see, some of the letters above were translated to their number equivalents - the letter/number translation device is in footnote #1) And when we use the “ONION” to "cut down" the "22" letters of “DOWNTOWN LINCOLN MERCURY, we do in fact end up with “13” letters: “DOWNTLICMERUY”, and this 13-letter reduction anagrams to: “MY 11/22 REDUCTION” Very cool. Now we can re-anagram the above answer to: “YOUR 11/22 ’13’: i.e. ‘TDM’. C” So here’s a pretty good indication that our “13” letter puzzle is “TDM” ("Test Drive Merc") as I indicated above: “TEST DRIVE MERC” The anagram that literally falls out of the above expression is: “IV TEST RED MERC” Now we not only have some confirmation of who the Oswald actor was, but what color the Merc was - “RED”. The above answer decodes and anagrams to (#2): “I.B. ACTOR FIT” ("I.B." = "Igor Baganov") I'll end this post here for now, because at this point the ICO puzzle spits into separate puzzles and becomes difficult to follow for the casual reader Marina’s husband was someplace else at the time, and Marina’s husband supposedly didn’t drive. We’ve been puzzling over enigmatic events like the Mercury test drive for over 50 years - dozens of events. To some extent, study and debate about the assassination has been fueled and kept alive by these enigmas, these mysteries, these puzzles. For you Harvey and Lee folks, I think the man known as Igor Vladimirs Vaganov was your “Lee”, at least in the year leading up to the assassination. However, he was acting totally in consort with his ICO crew when he used Lee Oswald’s name to create a memorable show of test driving a red Mercury Comet at Downtown Lincoln Mercury. He was creating just one of ICO's many assassination enigmas for us to notice, ponder, and solve. What do you think? Tom Footnote #1 - number/letter translation device: (A=0)(B=1)(C=2)(D=3)(E=4)(F=5)(G=6)(H=7)(I=8)(J=9)(K=10)(L=11)(M=12)(N=13)(O=14)(P=15)(Q=16)(R=17)(S=18)(T=19)(U=20)(V=21)(W=22)(X=23)(Y=24)(Z=25) Footnote #2 -IV TEST RED MERC IVTEST REDMER = 011001 101001, and, 100110 010110, plus tag “C” Yield: ICORF CREMDE RTSETV = 010010 110011, and, 101101 001100, plus tag “I” Yield: IBTAT. Total Yield: ICORFIBTAT

“ICO” stands for “Igor”, “Case”, “Oswald”. The following excerpt is from John Armstrong: https://books.google.com/books?id=AVdjCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&dq=LEE+OSWALD'S+YELLOW+SHOES&source=bl&ots=7k3p8Oo5UI&sig=qN3lBric-C8HRHx30dNS_Fo2gCA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjBwbio2trNAhVOzmMKHViCCLgQ6AEILzAG#v=onepage&q=LEE%20OSWALD'S%20YELLOW%20SHOES&f=false “From September 25 through October 5th, Oswalds can be found in New Orleans, Mexico City, Houston, and a number of small towns near Alice, Texas at the same time. These multiple sighting have confused researchers for years and continue to confuse us today. The available evidence simply does not allow us to accurately pinpoint which Oswald was at a particular location at a given time. What is obvious from the multiple, concurrent, Oswald sightings is the unseen hand of covert operations....” Question: Why would this “unseen hand of covert operations”, arguably the best in the world, arrange for nearly simultaneous, yet far-ranging, impersonations of their assassination patsy? I can think of at least two possible reasons: (1) The brain operating this “unseen hand of covert operations” was very stupid, or: (2) Part of this “unseen hand” belonged to a group of low-level spooks calling themselves “ICO”. Richard Case Nagell voluntarily took himself out of ICO’s activities on September 20, but according to plan, the other members carried on with Nagell’s scenario; to prevent the assassination, to create enigmas associated with Oswald’s patsy bona fides, and to embed their informing puzzles in all of their activities. Today’s ICO puzzle has something to say about one these puzzling Oswald sightings. Again, from John Armstrong: “George Ryan, manager of the Stop-N-Go drive-in grocery in Houston, told the FBI that Oswald tried, on three successive days, to cash a $65 check at his store. He told the Houston Press that he was under orders from the FBI not to discuss the case.” Why would a guy claiming to be Oswald try to get the same store manager to cash a rather large check on three consecutive days? An obvious answer is that so the guy claiming to be ”Oswald” wanted to be remembered - and he is. But it’s entirely possible that the FBI silenced George Ryan because the Oswald stunt occurred during the period when Oswald was supposed to be in Mexico, and these dates appear to have gone down the memory hole. Other than the missing dates, this is great puzzle and, one at a time, we will deal with three pieces of information we have. (1) “CASH 65 DOLLAR CHECK” (2) “HOUSTON” (3) “STOP-N-GO” Starting with the check, we first have to figure out what the exact puzzle phrase is, and there are two competing possibilities: (1) “65 DOLLAR CHECK” (2) “CASH 65 DOLLAR CHECK” Number one is 13 letters, and number two is 17 letters. Thankfully, anangramming number one instructs us to use number two - the 17-letter version. “65 DOLLAR CHECK” anagrams to: “65 CHECK, DO ALL 17” Notice that I translated an “R” to its equivalent, “17”, using the number/letter device below. Since this puzzle deals with the Carcano serial number, we will be using it now and then: (A=0)(B=1)(C=2)(D=3)(E=4)(F=5)(G=6)(H=7)(I=8)(J=9)(K=10)(L=11)(M=12)(N=13)(O=14)(P=15)(Q=16)(R=17)(S=18)(T=19)(U=20)(V=21)(W=22)(X=23)(Y=24)(Z=25) Now for the 17-letter version, “CASH 65 DOLLAR CHECK”, which can anagram to: “FAKE ROD C-276....CALL ‘HS’” We are being told to “CALL” the “HS” letters on our telephone to see what numbers they yield, and we get the numbers, “4 7”. These numbers do not supply our missing number “6”, but they translate to the letters, “EH”, Edgar Hoover’s initials, and we can re-anagram our puzzle answer thus: “FAKE E.H. ROD C-276...” Although I think this tentative solution was intended, it will not give us the number "6" we need to complete our “FAKE” Carcano’s serial number. So we need to find the right anagram of “CASH 65 DOLLAR CHECK”, and here it is: “FAKE C-276...CALLS ‘O’. HD-17” There are a few interesting things in this anagram: First, when we call “O” on the telephone, we in fact get the “6” we need to complete our serial number, "C-2766". Second, the expression “HD-17” is sending us to Oswald’s Historic Diary to check out puzzle #17 for supplemental information (It should be noticed that not only are we being sent to puzzle #17 in Oswald’s Diary, but the puzzle we are solving is “17” letters. We’ll get to "HD-17" in a moment). (A subtlety: Notice the “S” at the end of “CALLS”, which makes it a verb, which seems to imply that it is the “FAKE C-2766” that “CALLS ‘O’". Please refer to post #5 at the “C-2766 - a puzzle” thread linked below. “C-2766" does "CALL O". It '"calls" out in musical notes, the signature chorus notes, of “O sole mio”) http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=22752 So in a few short steps, “CASH 65 DOLLER CHECK” puzzled out to “FAKE C-2766. HD-17”. The puzzle itself talked us through the process, and ordinary discourse simply does not do this in an informative, consistent, and, clever way. The name “RICHARD CASE NAGELL” can be regarded as ordinary discourse, and in a recent post, we puzzled out “C-2766” from Richard’s name in a manor similar to the solution we just accomplished - the last number, a "6", came from dialing the telephone. But there is a difference; Richard's creation/fabrication of the specific serial number C-2766” appears to have originated within a naturally occurring cluster of anagrams inside of Richard's full name. He and his crew appear to have seized on and taken advantage of characteristics like this. I think they created an art form worthy of study. See post #1 at the link above, and I’ll also summarize this in footnote #2 at the bottom. We still need to check out “HD-17” for more information, but first let’s look at the remaining Oswald clues from our original list: (1) “CASH 65 DOLLAR CHECK” (2) “HOUSTON” (3) “STOP-N-GO” There are a few anagrams that can be made from “HOUSTON”, and a couple of them appear to suggest that this stunt was not an impersonation, but conducted by Oswald himself. There is a short explanation in Footnote #1. "Stop-N-Go" is quite interesting. First, here are three simple anagrams of “STOP-N-GO”: (1) “STOP! NO 6!” (2) “P.S. - TO NO. 6” (3) “OPT SN 6. O” It’s very often instructive to look at the primary letters of a puzzle, and the primary letters are the first letter of each word plus any numbers present. The primary letters of “STOP-N-GO” are “SN G”, and once the "G" is translated to “6”, we can anagram: “SN 6” And that’s exactly what we were looking for in the first puzzle above, the “Serial Number ‘6’” to complete our answer. But it gets even better when we take a look at all of the primary letters in our original three puzzle possibilities created by the Oswald check-cashing incident in Huston. Here's our original list, and watch closely, this is impressive: (1) “Cash 65 Dollar Check” (2) “Houston” (3) “Stop-N-Go” Next, we’ll look at only the primary letters and numbers: (1) “C65DC ” (2) “H” (3) “SNG” Five of those nine characters create the serial number “C-2766”. First I’ll line them up in a row. “C 6 5 D C H S N G” Next I will translate some of the letters to numbers, and vice versa: “C 6 F D 2 7 S N 6” Next we can make a tentative anagram these: "D.F. SN: C-2766" Once again, all five characters of the Carcano serial number exist within the nine primary letters of the only three clues this Oswald sighting intentionally left us with. Using only the primary letters is a major ICO puzzle technique, and in fact the label on the Undeliverable Package is based on this technique. So notice what just happened: Not only did the primary letters from our three clues yield "C-2766", but our first clue, "Cash 65 Dollar Check", easily puzzled out to the same result. However, we need to fix up our last puzzle answer, "D.F. SN: C-2766". “DF” obviously can stand for David Ferrie, and we can make better sense of the above answer when it’s remembered that the puzzle designation for Nagell’s assassination prevention program, etc, is “N”, and “N” is often used as a verb. Our better anagram is: “C-2766 'N's D.F.” This puzzle has a lot in common with the first puzzle on the “C-2766 - a puzzle” thread. The genesis for Nagell creating the fake Carcano C-2766 came from his own name. A Carcano “Ringer” to be switched for the Carcano ordered from Klein’s with a different serial number that matched Hoover’s depended-upon trail of evidence. I have a quick summary of that post in footnote #3 at the bottom. As an aside, here’s an anagram of “RICHARD CASE NAGELL” that I don’t think I’ve posted before: “DALLAS 'RINGER' CACHE” And Nagell’s “cache” includes two kinds of “Ringers”: “Ringer” Carcanos, and “Ringer” Oswalds. Now we’ll get back to our earlier answer: “FAKE C-2766. HD-17”. The complete list of “88” puzzles in Oswald’s Historic Diary can be found in post #14 at the link below (one might also recall that “HISTORIC DIARY” anagrams to “RICHARD’S ’88’ TOY”): http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=20276&hl=%22the+oswald+code%22 Historic Diary puzzle #17 is: “my friend” As pointed out in some of my other posts, several puzzle answers tell us that the Historic Diary puzzles often require the use of ICO’s “DT” cypher shown below: A..B..C..D..E..F..G..H..I..J..K..L..M..N..O..P..Q..R..S..T..U..V..W..X..Y..Z K..L..M..N..O.P..Q..R..S.T.U..V..W..X..Y...Z..A..B..C..D..E..F..G...H..I...J When the “DT” cypher ("DT" stands for "Double Talk") is applied to “MY FRIEND”, it looks like this: “MYFRIEND + WIPBSOXN”, and this anagrams to: “FIND SIX. EMBRYO: ‘WPN’” We are being told to deal with the puzzle embryo, “WPN”, in order to “FIND SIX”, and there are only two possibilities: We can translate the letters to numbers, which turns out to give us absolutely no help, or we can apply “WPN” to the “DT” cypher, and this yields: “FIND SIX. EMBRYO ‘6’. ZX” We have found the “SIX” (“6”) that our puzzle wanted us to “FIND”, and we also have a chore - "ZX". Those that have been following my posts will know that “Z” is ICO’s puzzle term for their code work. Since we are being told to "Z" a solitary letter, “X”, our only option is to use the “DT” cypher. This yields the letter “H”, and we can now re-anagram “FIND SIX. EMBRYO ‘6’ ‘H’” to: “DESIGN FIX BY MR H.O.” Using ICO’s 6-bit binary code, “DESIGN FIX BY MR H.O.”, decodes and anagrams to (#1): “17 CODES J.H.. ICO” Note that two separate “17” puzzles brought us to this point, and “17” also translates to the letter “R” for “Richard”. I’m going to end this post here, however, because our answer "DESIGN FIX BY MR H.O." appears to fork into several other puzzle possibilities that could take me weeks to unravel, if at all ("DESIGN FIX BY H.O." implies an alternative, "FIX DESIGN BY H.O." which implies an arithmetic problem "F x I", which equals, "40", which translates to, "EH", which anagrams to a new puzzle, etc.). Except for some possibilities in Footnote #3 below, this leaves us not knowing if this check cashing incident was staged by Lee Harvey Oswald, his friend IGOR, or some other associate of ICO. But the puzzle did yield two entirely different "C-2766" results, and the puzzle sent us to Oswald's Historic Diary for an interesting conformation. If I find the answer I'll let you know. Even better, you could work this out. Tom Footnote #1 - DESIGN FIX BY MR. H.O.” DESIGN FIXBYM = 100001 101100, and, 011110 010011, plus tags RHO Yield “JCRHO OHRMYB XIFNGI = 011001 101100, and, 100110 010011, plus tags SED Yield: SECICO. Total yield: JCRHOSECICO, anagram: “17 CODES J.H.. ICO” Footnote #2 In the first post on the “C-2766 - a puzzle” thread, Richard Case Nagell also had us looking for the the final “6” to complete a puzzle in his name. “Richard Case Nagell” anagrams to: (1) “C-276..., RN SERIAL DEAL” (2) “RC CHANGE LAD SERIAL” (3) “R DANGLE A SERIAL C-27...” (4) “A L SERIAL READ ‘C-276... N” (5) “C-27... SERIAL END ALA ‘6’. R” Finally, we get closure when we find this anagram of “Richard Case Nagell”: “C-276...CLOSURE: DIAL A ‘N’. R” When we “dial a ‘N’ on the telephone, we get our ‘6’, and we can re-anagram our final answer to: “C-2766 CLOSURE. R” Footnote #3 - "HOUSTON" In my view, it’s likely that “HOUSTON” was chosen for the three-day check cashing event for puzzle reasons. I see two anagrams of “HOUSTON” that appear to suggest that this stunt was not an impersonation, but conducted by “H” himself. “HOUSTON” anagrams to: “20’s NOT HO”, or, “HO’s NOT ’20’” What might be concluded from these two anagrams is that the person being referred to as “20” was not “HO’s” impersonator in Huston. My candidate for “20” is this tangle of “20” letters, “IGOR VLADIMIRS VAGANOV”. And “HOUSTON” anagrams to: “HO, NOT US” One might assume that "US" is the two puzzle makers, Richard and Igor, in which case the would-be check-casher is "HO". I will continue looking for a more definitive puzzle answer.

“ICO” stands for “Igor”, “Case”, and “Oswald”, and I think I’ve encountered enough ICO puzzles embedded in the pre-assassination Oswald impersonations to start a dedicated thread. I will be merely introducing these puzzles, and not necessarily completing them. Stay tuned. Tom

Hi Ron, We can talk about this on another thread, but imagine this hypothetical scenario: An ordinary guy named Ron takes his full name and makes as many elegant anagrams as he can from it. Maybe he comes up with a dozen or so, and most of them have nothing to do with him, and some of them are quite strange. Next, he starts secretly living his life as if these weird anagrams of his name were self-fulfilling prophesies. He starts dressing like Pee-wee Herman, he takes up playing the viola da gamba nude, he only communicates through farting and tap-dancing, he dyes his hair blue, and on and on. Then long after he's dead and gone, one of his grandchildren, a good anagrammer, notices this correlation between Granddad's behavior and the anagrams of his name, and another of his grandchildren, a statistician, declares that the odds of this happening by chance are a trillion to one. Pretty good joke, yes? But I think Richard Nagell was deadly serious, and he apparently did this anagram = event business with the three names in his "ICO" group: “Richard Case Nagell”, “Lee Harvey Oswald”, and, “Igor Vladimirs Vaganov”, and he inserted as many of these name-anagrams as he could into the events surrounding the assassination. This is only part of Richard's puzzle system, however. My goal is to get real puzzle-solvers involved in this - I'm way over my head. Thanks for the response, Ron, I don’t get many. Tom PS - Here's another anagram of "LEE HARVEY OSWALD": "A V/O EYED WAR'S HELL" Vaganov, the twin in the balcony? It's consistent with my reading of the ICO puzzles.

Jim, in post #3 on this thread you introduced the two half-dollar bills found on Oswald. Thinking I had some insight to their meaning, I posted my take in post #5. Denny Zartman responded with what I felt were a bunch of uninformed questions and comments requiring detailed answers. Not wanting to derail your thread, I pulled my post. Rewritten and expanded, my post is now on the “C-2766 - a puzzle” thread and I think I’ve answered most of Denny’s questions. I’ll try not to derail your thread any more. But by the way, “LEE HARVEY OSWALD” anagrams to: “YO, WAR’S HELL. EVADE” Tom

A few weeks ago in post #3 at the link below, Jim Hargrove posted a DPD report, which I can't seem to paste up at the moment. http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=22875&page=1 Among other things, Jim said: “According to the DPD report, Harvey had on his person two torn in half dollar bills when he was arrested. No doubt these halved bills were supposed to be used to find his "contact," who would hold one or two of the matching halves. At least that's probably what the poor schmuck was told. I don't think Harvey had any idea he was being set up for either murder as he walked into the theater. He was just following orders and playing more spy games, as he had for years.” I’ll offer an alternative possibility - I’m going to suggest that Lee Oswald (Harvey, if you wish) knew exactly what was going on, and that the halved bills were a typical and carefully-crafted enigmatic ICO puzzle. Here are the serial numbers of the two torn-in-half dollar bills: “F 38355215 A” “F 35031413 A” Since the bills were torn in half, the first thing that might occur to a puzzle solver is to add the two numbers together. We have a choice. We can translate the beginning and ending pair of “F-As” to numbers and include them in our addition process, or handle them as a separate problem? It turns out that for our purposes, it makes no difference, and for clarity, I’m going to do the two arithmetic problems separately. First the numbers: 38355215 + 35031413 = 73386628 A quick look at our answer reveals four of the five characters in the Carcano serial number, and I will anagram the whole eight-character answer: “2766. 88-33” Those that have been following my posts will recognize the meaning of the second set of characters, “88-33”, as a common kind of puzzle ending. We are being sent to one of the “88” puzzles in Oswald’s Historic Diary for more information, and we’re being sent to “88-33”, which is (the complete list of the “88” Historic Diary puzzles are linked in footnote #1): 88-33: “THEY MAKE NOTES” Wow! "They make notes!" But then again, we already suspected this from yesterday’s post. The Italian rifle’s serial number that Richard Case Nagell fabricated, his “Ringer Rod” that would be switched on assassination day for Hoover’s patsy rod, is the sheet music for “O Sole Mio”. “They make notes” - “C-2766” = “CCHGG” = “O Sole Mio”. The serial number of the most famous rifle in the world, is also the sheet music for the most famous Italian song in the world? But let's not get ahead of ourselves. We’re missing the letter “C” to complete “C-2766”, so let’s try adding up our four letters, “FA”, and “FA”, and see if that helps. First we need to translate the “Fs” to “5s”, and the “As” to “zeros”, and then add: (There is actually an instruction contained in the puzzle itself that tells us to add up the two “Fs” and “As”, but to simplify the flow, I’ll explain this in Footnote #3) (A=0)(B=1)(C=2)(D=3)(E=4)(F=5)(G=6)(H=7)(I=8)(J=9)(K=10)(L=11)(M=12)(N=13)(O=14)(P=15)(Q=16)(R=17)(S=18)(T=19)(U=20)(V=21)(W=22)(X=23)(Y=24)(Z=25) 50 + 50 = 100 We can now include this "100" in our first answer: “2766. 88-33. 100” Contemplate the number “100” for a moment, but if it’s still not clear where our needed letter “C” is, let’s translate the “88-33” to the letters “II”, and “DD”, and make this new anagram: “ID 2766, ID 100” I’m going to make the logical leap that we’ve got permission to change “100” to its synonym, “C”. If we’re not convinced, let’s anagram “THEY MAKE NOTES” and see if that strengthens the argument: “MATH NOTES: KEY 4” On the “88” notes of the piano, key number “4” is “C”. This puzzle might have been penned by Richard Case Nagell, because another anagram of “THEY MAKE NOTES” is: “THAT No. ‘4’ KEY’S ME” No. 4 key on the piano is “C”, which in this instance, appears to stand for “Case” Our final answer, “C-2766, 88-33” can also re-anagram to: “C DID ‘27...’ GIG” This ICO puzzle had us looking for a “C” to complete the Carcano serial number. In the first post on this thread, Richard Case Nagell had us looking for a “6”. “Richard Case Nagell” anagrams to: (1) “C-276..., RN SERIAL DEAL” (2) “RC CHANGE LAD SERIAL” (3) “R DANGLE A SERIAL C-27...” (4) “A L SERIAL READ ‘C-276... N” (5) “C-27... SERIAL END ALA ‘6’. R” Finally, we get closure when we find this anagram of “Richard Case Nagell”: “C-276...CLOSURE: DIAL A ‘N’. R” When we “dial a ‘N’ on the telephone, we get our ‘6’, and we can re-anagram our final answer to: “C-2766 CLOSURE. R” (puzzle instructions, such as “DIAL A ‘N’”, are typically dropped). You can read the other posts on this thread yourself, but the point is that Richard and his "ICO" (#2) crew created a bunch of enigmas and bathed them in decodable anagram puzzles that could tell the ICO story in the event their efforts to prevent the assassination failed. What Richard was doing with his serial number schtick, was not so much giving us assassination information, but telling us that ICO was serious, that it had crafted a ton of "HOT-DAMN PUZZLES" for you and me to behold and ponder - works of genius, in my view. Many of these enigmatic ICO puzzle/stunts were drawn from anagrams of three names: (1) Richard Case Nagell (2) Lee Harvey Oswald (3) Igor Vladimirs Vaganv One of the things that has kept the assassination debate alive all these years is the abundance of strange events. It appears to me that many of these events, at least in part, were staged for our benefit. While the ICO puzzles have little to say about Lee Harvey Oswald’s childhood (as far as I can tell so far), I think the “Harvey and Lee” folks have it backwards in one key area: Harvey and Lee were on the same side. Lee was helping create enigmatic paradoxes for us to ponder - the guy that posed as Lee also went by the name of Igor V Vaganov, an identity that appears to be the creation of Richard Case Nagell. In a very real sense, in my view, Richard was the "Wizard of Oz". Good find on the half-bill serial number report, Jim. This was all new to me. Tom Footnote #1 - Post #14 contains a list of the 88 puzzles located in Lee Oswald’s Historic Diary: http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=20276&hl=%22the%20oswald%20code%22 Footnote #2 - "ICO" stands for "Igor", "Case", "Oswald". Footnote #3 - adding the “Fs” and “As”. Below is the number/letter key and the two serial numbers. We can convert the numbers to letters and analyze the two numbers separately to see what they might yield. (A=0)(B=1)(C=2)(D=3)(E=4)(F=5)(G=6)(H=7)(I=8)(J=9)(K=10)(L=11)(M=12)(N=13)(O=14)(P=15)(Q=16)(R=17)(S=18)(T=19)(U=20)(V=21)(W=22)(X=23)(Y=24)(Z=25) “F 38355215 A” = FDIDFFVFA “F 35031413 A” = FDFADONA The first set of letters is of very little help. The only reasonable anagram appears to be: “ADD: FIFFVF”, which translates to, “ADD: 5, 8, 5, 5, 21, 5. And the answer is “49”, which translates and anagrams to “JE”, a couple of Hoover’s initials - like I said, “very little help”. The second serial number is instructive, and the anagram of “FDFADONA” is: “DON 3: FA, FA” “DON” as in “Donning a jacket”, and we are supposed to “DON 3” things, and we have four things, “FA, FA”, but once we translate the letters to “50, 50,” and add them together, we indeed do have "3": “100”, which for puzzle purposes can be replaced by a "C".

If I asked the members of this forum to name the first Italian song that came to mind, and then the first serial number of an Italian rifle that came to mind, I imagine the most common answer would be, “O sole mio”, and “C-2766”. While it may not be immediately obvious, “C-2766” plays the signature theme of “O sole mio”, and, I submit, this is no accident. To realize the song, or to "hear" the song, we need to know one piece of information about musical scales, and we need to translate the numbers in "C-2766" to letters. Below is is the number/letter translation devise. (A=0)(B=1)(C=2)(D=3)(E=4)(F=5)(G=6)(H=7)(I=8)(J=9)(K=10)(L=11)(M=12)(N=13)(O=14)(P=15)(Q=16)(R=17)(S=18)(T=19)(U=20)(V=21)(W=22)(X=23)(Y=24)(Z=25) “C-2766” translates to “CCHGG”. Now that I’ve suggested that “CCHGG” might be a song, I imagine that most of the German and many of the Scandinavian members of the forum will recognize the tune immediately. All of the Music Majors, world wide, should recognize this collection of notes as well. And how about you jazz fans - you know about the Modern Jazz Quartet’s classic song, “Blues in ‘H’”, right? But if you're new to this "H-note" business, here's some help: The most common method today for naming the 12 notes of the musical scale is, “A B C D E F G” for the white notes on the piano, and the five black notes in between called either sharps or flats, depending on what key you’re in. However, there was a time in most of Europe when a slightly different system for naming notes was used, and it’s still in use today in Germany and several other countries. For lack of a better term, I’m going to call this system the “Bach” system because it’s well known that J. S. Bach occasionally wove his name, the musical phrase “B A C H”, into his genius contrapuntal creations. The only difference between the Bach note-names and the one most commonly used today, involve the notes “Bb” and “B”. In the Bach system, “Bb” is called “B”, and “B” is called “H” - everything else is the same. My degrees are in Music Theory and Composition, and I’m not going to give you a music lesson, but there are a couple of terms I want you to know. “O sole mio”, as played by the Carcano serial number, is in the key of “C”, but regardless of what key a song is in, each of the seven notes of any scale has a general name. The first note of any scale is called the “Tonic”, and the seventh note is called the “Leading Tone”. The “Leading Tone” is a half-step below the “Tonic”, and most often “leads” to the “Tonic” - hence its name, “Leading Tone”. The “Leading Tone” in “O sole mio” is “H”, and the “Tonic” is “C”. While keeping the term “Leading Tone” in mind, recall from my other posts that, from my reading of the "ICO" (footnote) puzzles, Richard Case Nagell fabricated/modified C-2766. The one A Hidell ordered from Klien's, the Carcano with the paper trail Hoover was counting on, a Carcano with an entirely different serial number, was not the Carcano found at the TSBD. Richard Nagell’s “Ringer Rod”, C-2766, was. It was switched by one of the ICO crew prior to the assassination. “Ringer Rod” appears to be ICO’s term for “C-2766”, and is usually abbreviated “RR” in the puzzles. Consider this anagram of “CURTAIN RODS”: “RR CUSTODIAN” Keeping in mind that “H” is the “leading tone” in the key of “C”, consider this anagram of “RICHARD CASE NAGELL”: “A RR SCALE: ‘H’ LEADING ‘C’” I bring all of this up because the Bach system of note-naming is a small but important part of ICO’s larger labyrinth of inter-connected information-packed puzzles, some using the piano keyboard (“Historic Diary” anagrams to “RICHARD’S ’88’ TOY”). J.S. Bach was a genius puzzle maker and musical notes were his medium. Bach fugues are giant musical puzzles, and he also penned a number canon themes which are known as “Bach’s Puzzle Canons”. I don’t think this term was lost on Richard Nagell, and I’d originally considered naming this thread, “Richard’s ‘Cannon’ Puzzles” - Richard's "Cannon", of course, being C-2766. "C-2766", "CCHGG", "O Sole Mio", "It's Now or Never" - there's more to come. Tom Footnote: "ICO" stands for "Igor", "Case", Oswald"." (If you U.S. non-music majors can’t tolerate the “H”, just play CCBGG on whatever instrument you have around the house, or maybe you could program it into your iPhone)

Here’s another interesting anagram of “IGOR VLADIMIRS VAGANOV”: “A LO DRIVING ORGASM, A IVV” This one serving to explain, I would guess, who test drove the red Mercury Comet at the Downtown Lincoln-Mercury "driving orgasm". My reading of the “ICO” puzzles leads me to believe that the name “IGOR VLADIMIRS VAGANOV” was a creation of Richard Case Nagell. “ICO” stands for “Igor”, “Case”, “Oswald”, and this trio led by Richard Nagell was apparently trying to prevent the assassination and at the same time, telling us about their exploits in decodable anagram puzzles. The anagram of “IGOR VLADIMIRS VAGANOV” above can be added to my work-in-progress list contained in the last three posts on this thread. (1) “R’S VIVID ANAGRAM LOGO: IV” (2) “MR VV RAN SILVIA ODIO GAG” (3) "IVV IN A 'ARVIDS' LOGOGRAM" (4) “A LO DRIVING ORGASM, A IVV” Number 3 above is referring to the fourth "Logogram" in the "Vaganov Note" below: EL6-6111 E. STRAZDS 353-1539 ARVIDS JZAKS Here are a couple of anagrams of a “real” name for the Harvey and Lee folks. "LEE HARVEY OSWALD” anagrams to: “LEE ALWAYS DROVE. H” and, “H LEE ALWAYS RODE. V” The reason Lee had Wesley Frazier take him to work that fateful day could well have been another "heads-up" for us to eventually notice. "Lee Harvey Oswald" also anagrams to: "A WESLEY DROVE A LH" But the main reason that Marina’s husband appeared to not drive may have been that an anagram of Richard’s name had required some puzzle-to-reality continuity. “Richard Case Nagell” anagrams to: “L CAR SILENCED - AARGH” And Richard might have pulled another car stunt, arranging for the display of a Nash Rambler on assassination day, and later at the University of Texas at Austin. “Richard Case Nagell” anagrams to: “GALLERIED NASH CAR. C” And finally, here’s a bonus anagram unrelated to driving; “ALEK JAMES HIDELL” anagrams to: “A J.E.H. DEAL KILLS ME” Tom

In post #280, Chris wrote, “Sandy, I was wrong. It appears the person in Weigman is a woman, holding a coffee mug, out in front of her mouth.” When I read that, I thought Chris was making a joke, but Claude apparently took him seriously. I sincerely value your opinions, Chris, could you clear this up for me? Tom

Hi David. I was responding to your comment in post #422: “The money order shows no sign at all of any “bleed thru” on either the front side or the back side, and is a picture that must have been taken prior to the document being chemically processed for fingerprints (just like Cadigan Exhibit No. 11).” You may be right about Exhibit 11 having been taken prior to the document being chemically processed, I don’t have an opinion, but I’m just saying that if the photographer’s goal is to make a messy looking document look pristine, it’s not only possible, it’s done all the time. Without suggesting anything sinister, if there was bleed thru on the document (or even lightly pencilled secret messages), we would never know by looking at the two “clean” appearing high-contrast document photos you’ve written about. http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2015/10/jfk-assassination-arguments-part-1058.html A little over half way down the page on your long article linked above, we see your side by side comparison of CE 788 and Cadigan Exhibit No 11. In addition to the FBI’s markings on CE 788, many other artifacts, real or illusionary, can be seen. If it’s true that the devil’s in the details on some of the evidence the Government has provided, I want to see the details, and the rather stark difference between the “138...” number at the top of the two examples appears to show the document photographer’s preference for “clean” readability over “dirty” detail. But thanks for pointing out your new find. Tom

Hi David This photo appears to have been taken with high-contrast film - I think they used to call it “line copy film”. It was good for taking pictures of documents, and one just sees the stark difference between black and white. All extraneous grey details are lost. Notice how the “138.....” number across the top is almost gone. If they'd tweaked the exposure a little more, it probably would've disappeared. In a previous life, I took and processed a lot of high-contrast photos. Tom

I've moved this post to post #6, here: http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=22752

Some may find this anagram of “IGOR VLADIMIRS VAGANOV” interesting: “MR VV RAN SILVIA ODIO GAG”

Sandy wrote: "But what part of a movie camera would be bright? A light, as Tom suggests? Did movie cameras back then even have a light? If so, how were they powered? This was back in the days when a flash bulb could be used just once. How could a camera light remain lit for an extended period? It seems that it would require a large battery." I don't have any links for you Sandy, but I looked at this many months ago and found a plethora of 1960 vintage movie camera light attachments - some plug-in, and some battery powered. Andrej wrote: "...I suspect that the possibility you advocate (a stool + camera) must have popped up as a solution in some puzzle. Please, bring it on if you can, or please point to the post in which you have described it - I will certainly read it. The stool: no one has ever mentioned there was any stool in the doorway, is it not a problem?" I don't have enough information from the puzzles to make much of an argument for what I suspect Oswald, and Frazier too, were doing that day, but I'll see if I can put together some low hanging fruit that appear suggestive. But you raise an interesting point about not having heard of any stool in the doorway. Several years ago I read a discussion of just such a stool being found at the entrance of the TSBD. It didn't seem too interesting at the time, I made a mental note, but I have not been able to locate this source since PM became topical. It was likely just an unfounded Internet rumor, but on the off chance it wasn't, I thought it was worth mentioning in case one of you run across such a report.

Andrej, I too am looking forward to the next phase of your fine work. Diverging a bit from Andrej’s hypothesis, I’ll repeat a suggestion I’ve made before on other threads: The round bright area we see in PM’s hand is the light mounted to his movie camera. One of his alibis was to create a continuous strip of film of the people he was with at the time of the shooting. To make this work, he would also have taken some selfies, which would have required a light, since he was sitting on a stool in the shadows.

For all we know, Lee Oswald could have been sitting in the shade on a tall stool, busily taking photographs for his alibi.

The link below is to a photograph of Jerry Boyd Belknap I had not seen before. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=69084902 The photo was apparently posted by a member of this forum, Linda Giovanna Zambanini. Linda, do you have any new information about Jerry B Belknap to share? Tom