Steve Thomas

Gene, Colonels? Did somebody say something about Colonels? Cryptonym: JMFIG JMFIG is defined as the "Opa-locka Naval Base. Opa-locka CAC (note: Caribbean Admissions Center) https://www.maryferrell.org/php/cryptdb.php?id=JMFIG 198-10004-10157 MOVEMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN ADMISSION CENTER (CAC) 1 Background on the use of the Opa-locka facility. "The Caribbean Admission Center was established in March 1962 as a joint DOD/CIA operation under CIA operational control and Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) cover..." See https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=19773#relPageId=10&tab=page - it shows that "CIA's Domestic Contact Division (DCD) had primary responsibility for obtaining positive intelligence interest from refugees." DCD officers conducted interviews with refugees at the CAC. 124-90019-10155: No Title Deputy Chief of the CAC is Colonel Sam Kail. Remember too, Colonel Frank Brandstetter. He also was in Havana during that same time period. More blurring of the CIA and DOD. Both lived in Dallas, BTW. Colonel Frank Maryan "Brandy" Brandstetter (U.S. Army Ret.) died in the Hospital Megallanes in Acapulco, Mexico on August 21, 2011 at age 99. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=153634344#sthash.woUiR4U2.dpuf "Brandy continued for 40 years in uniform as a U.S. Army Reservist frequently providing assistance to the Office of the Army Chief of Staff for Intelligence, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the FBI, and the CIA." Steve Thomas

I was reading through the minutes of the FIA Board (Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board) meeting of January 30, 1964 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1961#relPageId=1&tab=page and a couple of things jumped out at me: 5) The Dunlap case was a lot more serious than most of us know about. Finnegan, James Patrick. Military Intelligence. Center of Military History, United States Army. Wasshington, D.C., 1998. page 139. https://history.army.mil/html/books/060/60-13-1/cmhPub_60-13-1.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0fXdB8NCpxTOmB-WsJRPxhcgxc9RCvfEdezKJReRSM8mmSPjMe-jr1rVM Dunlap will be a concern in the Eugene Dinkin case. Steve Thomas

I remembered a conversation Larry Hancock and I had in the Forum back in 2017 about JFK's, Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/23631-foreign-intelligence-advisory-board/ Larry and I had some pretty good exchanges, I think. The Minutes of those meetings make for pretty interesting reading. https://www.maryferrell.org/php/showlist.php?docset=1062 At the time I was struck by the minutes of the meeting on September 12-13, 1963 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1960 Steve Thomas

Jim, I wouldn't doubt it. One look at his profile pic brings to mind descriptions such as "wild eyed", "crazed", "delusional", "slathering", and more. Steve Thomas

Pure speculation and innuendo.

This was an interesting article: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2013/09/14/dallas-mexican-americans-remember-the-jfk-years-surveillance-by-fbi/ " Lowery discussed his role in 1963 testimony in Washington before the Subversive Activities Control Board, a government group established in 1950. Days later, he gave interviews to reporters like Jim Lehrer, then a Dallas Times Herald reporter." One thing I haven't resolved yet, is if the anti-Castro Cubans knew Lowery was a prominent Texas communist, why would they have allowed him in a Cuban exile meeting? Steve Thomas

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Bill and Bart, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s5EpZGW5uQKs5xtRoUO4yXfWuPnnuidV/view (Butler's HSCA interview) Now I understand why this tape was so explosive. Any thoughts on who this FBI guy was? http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg Subject Index Files/C Disk/Castorr L Robert Colonel/Item 23.pdf pages 22 amd 23 of the pdf file (Weisberg interview with Mr. and Mrs. L. Robert Castorr) Steve Thomas

I think you need to go back and read your von Clausewitz. Carl von Clausewitz https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/clausewitz-war-as-politics-by-other-means 24. WAR IS A MERE CONTINUATION OF POLICY BY OTHER MEANS. We see, therefore, that War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means. All beyond this which is strictly peculiar to War relates merely to the peculiar nature of the means which it uses. That the tendencies and views of policy shall not be incompatible with these means, the Art of War in general and the Commander in each particular case may demand, and this claim is truly not a trifling one. But however powerfully this may react on political views in particular cases, still it must always be regarded as only a modification of them; for the political view is the object, War is the means, and the means must always include the object in our conception. The actual assassination of JFK was an act of war. That was the military's role. The political end was the CIA's role. Steve Thomas

Ron, The one guy who voted against the impeachment of Andrew Johnson seems quite relevant today, don't you think? Steve Thomas

Ron, I love it! I think I'll use that a lot :-) :-) I'll have some of what Timbuk 3 is having please. Steve

Joe, Even more than the pain is knowing that you'll never be able to do some of the things that you enjoyed so much in the past. I gave my cedar/fiberglass canoe to a friend who has four boys. Skiing? horseback riding? fugedabout it. Steve

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Paul, You jogged my memory about something. I had a conversation with Ron Ecker about this in 2016. http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/23210-rio-grande-building/?tab=comments#comment-337553 At the time, I suggested it might be a matter of interpretation of what Geneva Hine actually said. In her WC testimony, she testified, "Miss HINE. Yes, sir: I was alone until the lights all went out and the phones became dead because the motorcade was coming near us and no one was calling..." At the time, I asked if the phones actually went out, or did they just become silent because no one was calling because they were all outside watching the parade? Of course, that wouldn't explain any long distance calls. Steve Thomas

Ron, Don't forget James Worrell. And, if the shooters had escaped, who was doing the elevator sending? Steve Thomas

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Vince, Interest will dwindle and fade into the dim recesses of time. Look what happened to interest in Lincoln's assassination. How many people never get past John Wilkes Booth? It's inevitable and part of human nature. *shrug* Steve Thomas

Colleen, I started reading through John's essay, and a couple of things jumped out at me too. I haven't gotten to your question of the "signaling" yet. http://www.harveyandlee.net/TSBD_Elevator/TSBD_elevator.html Mr. Ball. Did you stay at your desk? Mrs. Hines. Yes, sir. I was alone until the lights all went out and the phones became dead Mrs. Hines wanted to see what had happened so she hurried down the hall to the office of Lyons and Carnahan (see #2-photo below), a publishing company with an office facing Elm Street (follow the green line On 2nd floor diagram below). She knocked on the door but nobody answered. She then hurried to the office of Southwest Publishing, another office that faced Elm Street (see #3-photo below). A young lady was in the office talking on the telephone, but would not answer the door. One floor below, on the 4th floor, was the office of the Scott Forseman Company. Office workers Sandra Styles, Victoria Adams, Elsie Dorman, and supervisor Dorothy Garner were watching the parade thru their office window. If the phones became dead, how could another worker be talking on the telephone? If Geneva Hines was on the 2nd floor, how could the 4th floor be one floor below? Geneva Hines heard the shots and wanted to find out what happened, but in her travels, she walked right passed the elevator and the stairs leading down to the first floor. The "lights were out". Why didn't she just go outside? Steve Thomas

Vince, I don't think the patrolman Tague talked to was Foster; at least he didn't speak of talking to Tague in his WC testimony, but I won't quibble about that. He could have talked to Tague and just didn't mention it. I was interested in this little passage in Foster's testimony. The sergeant in question was D.V. Harkness: https://www.jfk-assassination.eu/warren/wch/vol6/page251.php Mr. Ball. Where did you go from there? Mr. Foster. Went on around the back side of the bookstore. Mr. Ball. Immediately? Mr. Foster. Yes, sir. Mr. Ball. . Back side? What do you mean by that? Mr. Foster. Well, I guess you would say the northwest side of it. Mr. BALL. When you got over to the School Book Depository Building, what did you do? Mr. Foster. I was standing around in back there to see that no one came out, and the sergeant came and got me and we were going to check the---all the railroad cars down there. Mr. Ball. Who was that sergeant? Mr. Foster. Sergeant came up there. Mr. Ball. Did you search the railroad cars? Mr. Foster. No; he sent me back down to the inspector. Told me to report back to Inspector Sawyer. Mr. Ball. Where? Mr. Foster. At the front of the Book Depository. Mr. Ball. Did you talk to Sawyer there? Mr. Foster. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. Did you tell your sergeant or Sawyer, either one where you thought the shots came from? Mr. Foster. Yes, sir. Mr. Ball. What did you then tell them? Mr. Foster. Told them it came from that vicinity up around Elm and Houston. Mr. Ball. Did you tell the sergeant that first, or did you tell that to Sawyer? Mr. Foster. Told that to Inspector Sawyer. Mr. Ball. You told that to Sawyer? Mr. Foster. Yes, sir. Mr. Ball. Did you tell that to the sergeant? Mr. Foster. I don't know whether I told the sergeant that or not. If Foster thought that the shots came from the vicinity of Elm and Houston", why wouldn't he have immediately told Harkness? And, if he and Harkness were all set to search the railroad cars, why did Harkness instead tell Fotster to go see Sawyer in the front of the TSBD? Why did Harkness change his mind? Foster must have told Harkness where he thought the shots came from. Why else would he have sent Foster to go see Sawyer? Steve Thomas

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Vince, I don't think so, at least as far as what he told the WC: https://www.jfk-assassination.eu/warren/wch/vol6/page255.php Mr. Ball. What did you do after that? Mr. WHITE. As soon as the train passed I went over and on the northwest side of the Depository Building. On the northwest side of the book store up there with the rest of the officers and after about 30 minutes they told me to go out and work traffic at Main and Houston, and I stood out there and worked traffic. Steve Thomas

I don't know if others have been experiencing this, but I have not been able to access the McAdams witness statement site for several weeks now. I ran across another site that provides witness statements in word processing format - at least as far as the Warren Commission is concerned - here: https://www.jfk-assassination.eu/warren/wch/index.php Copyright by www.jfk-assassination.com https://www.jfk-assassination.eu/about.php For me, word processing format makes it a whole lot easier to cut and paste than pdf format. Does anyone know if HSCA and/or other Committee reports like the Church Committee are available in Word format? Steve Thomas

I did just run across a reference that this Manual is four volumes big. Steve Thomas

John, While I can't help you with your specific request, I have done a little bit of research in how to find out about specific classes of informants. In several cases, I have run across references to the the FBI's, "Manual of Instructions". Needless to say, this "Manual" is very big. I'm pretty sure that an SI is a Security Informant. Here's one instance: https://archive.org/stream/SecurityInformantProgram/Security%20Informant%20Program/ 1201915-0%20-%2066-HQ-2542-3%20-%20Section%2025%20Serial%20%201%20COVER%20SHEETMediaPag_djvu.txt Memoramum to: Mr. Jenkin from: T. J. Brownfield^ SUGGESTION: When converting an informant from one classification to another^ suggests the FD form (pink sheet) be block stamped and made serial 1 of the new informant file. For instance, if a 170 (Extremist Informant) was being converted to a 137 (Criminal Informant) and had ten serials, the pink sheet would be serial 1 of the new 137 file and all prior serials would not be changed. These would retain the original file and serial numbers. The new 137 file number would be added to the 170 index, card in indices. A charge out would be placed in the 170 file indicating the transfer had been made.; There's a reference to this "Manual of Instructions" in the Warren Hearings themselves CE 836 page 819 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1134#relPageId=845&tab=page I'll keep looking to see if I can find this Manual online. Steve Thomas