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Bill, Sorry, I don't remember anything about Enrique Varona at the moment. I'm not sure why the letter to Dorothy Klein would be signed by Rodriguez as the "General Secretary of Alpha 66". He was the President of the Dallas Chapter. As far as DL 282-S goes, it could be any one of a number of individuals. If you look at this document, https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=28726#relPageId=4&tab=page On pages 5-6, Rodriguez lists the officers of the Dallas Chapter of Alpha 66/SNFE. I know the FBI interviewed several of them in 1964; most notably in my mind, Raul Castro and Juan Quintana. Juan Francisco Quintana Maya and Raul Castro Baile were jointly interviewed by FBI Wallace Heitman at their home in Garland on May 14, 1964. See here for a Heitman interview of Raul Castro Baile: http://www.maryferre....do?docId=69112 See here for an interview of Juan Quintana Maya: http://www.maryferre....do?docId=69111 On May 25, 1964, Manuel Rodriguez voluntarily appeared at the Dallas FBI offices and spoke to Wallace Heitman. He told Heitman that the members of SNFE met at bi-weekly meetings at 3126 Harlandale. (Although in his Report, Heitman spelled it Hollandale.) https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11481#relPageId=222&tab=page See p. 222. Steve Thomas

Bart, I need to pay more attention to the Dallas Council on World Affairs. https://www.dfwworld.org/President-CEO “In October of 1951, the Dallas Morning News reported on the founding of the Dallas Council on World Affairs. H. Neil Mallon, president of Dresser Industries and the Council's first president, was quoted on why he organized it: "The end purpose of the DCWA is to ask ourselves 'What can we do?" then to educate ourselves and understand." The newspaper said Mr. Mallon told the board of directors that "Dallas needed such a council because Dallas people must keep up with foreign affairs, which are becoming of greater importance daily."” https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/dod04 Handbook of Texas Online Dresser Industries by Darwin Payne “H. Neil Mallon was selected as president and chief executive officer (of Dresser Industries); he held that position until his retirement in 1962. Under Mallon, a Cincinnati native and Yale graduate whose earlier experience had been in the canning industry, Dresser took advantage of its strong cash position to launch a program of acquisitions designed to survive a new threat to its coupling business-the introduction of welding for joining pipes together. Between 1930 and the entry of the United States into World War II, Dresser acquired various companies that manufactured valves, heaters, pumps, and engines and compressors. After the war, expansion continued, as the company diversified into such products as oil derricks, blowers, drill bits, refractories, and drilling mud. Dresser was energetic in following new oil and gas markets around the world, even behind the Iron Curtain. Future United States president George Bush worked for the company in several positions after the war. His father, Prescott Bush, had been a W. A. Harriman and Company executive who had been involved in the conversion of Dresser to a public company, and he served on the board of directors for twenty-two years. In 1950 the company headquarters were transferred to Dallas to be near the nation's major oil and gas fields and also to take advantage of the central location for managing what by then had become a far-flung empire.... To comply with federal antitrust regulations, Dresser sold off its interest in M-I Drilling Fluids Company and Western Atlas International. Upon completion of the Baroid merger, Dresser became the third-largest oil-services company in the world.” Steve Thomas

Bill, It appears from this document, https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=62282&relPageId=47&search=Elkins See p. 47 that the member of the DPD "Intelligence Unit" along with a member of the Secret Service that visited Elkins, was Jack Revill. Steve Thomas

Bart, Thanks for this. Steve Thomas

Bill, In a 5/28/64 memo from FBI, Dallas to the Director, http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=10146&relPageId=28 Page 28 Informant T-1 is identified as Enrique Varona. Informant T-2 is identified as Joaquin Insua (under consideration as a PSI). Informant T-3 is identified as CIA, Miami, Florida. Steve Thomas

Larry, Yes. That's what the cable actually is. It's coming out of Washington summarizing an earlier phone call between a Captain Saxton at US Srikom and a Lt. Col Fons at DCSINTEL. For those interested, it's in: https://ia601309.us.archive.org/22/items/nsia-ArmyIntelligenceJFK/nsia-ArmyIntelligenceJFK/AI%20JFK%2001.pdf It's in the Weisberg Collection. https://archive.org/details/nsia-ArmyIntelligenceJFK If I remember correctly, the local 112th in Dallas didn't know anything about it, and the suggestion is that Stringfellow communicated his info about Oswald directly to San Antonio. Stringfellow was manning the radio at the Fairrounds, and I think he talked directly to Fort Sam Houston. But how it got from Fort Sam Houston to McDill in FL. is a mystery - to me anyway. Jones told the HSCA, "I take no pride of ownership of it." Steve Thomas

Larry, On pp 55 and 56 of Jones' HSCA testimony, Mr. Genzman is asking Jones about the cable sent to McDill AFB the night of the 22nd. https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/unpub_testimony/Jones_4-20-78/html/jones_0055a.htm Jones said it didn't come from the 112th, and speculated it might have been prepared by a Mr. Arthur Nagel on the staff of the Chief of Staff's office at Fort Sam Houston. Do you have any thoughts on where that cable came from? Steve Thomas

Bill, Lately, I have been looking at the 4150th US Army Reserve Training School in Dallas. Here are some of the names I have run across: B. David Hinds https://www.linkedin.com/in/b-david-hinds-83b25a20 Captain, Infantry United States Army Reserve 1969 – 1981 12 years 4150th USAR School, Dallas, Texas Commandant of the Noncommissioned Officer Academy. Director of Enlisted Training. Instructor in the NCO Academy. Honor Graduate from the NCO Academy. Received a direct commission from Sergeant First Class to Captain. Adam W. Wenclewicz https://www.alumniclass.com/neshaminy-high-school-redskins-langhorne-pa/military-alumni-view/ Neshaminy High School Redskins Honored Military Alumni Honored Military Alumni. Adam W. Wenclewicz Class of 1967 ... duty in tachikawa ab, japan & kunsan ab, korea. vietnam vet.us army reserves 4150th usar school dallas ... https://www.alumniclass.com/neshaminy-high-school-redskins-langhorne-pa/military-alumni-v Col Robert Parker Andrews USAR https://airandspace.si.edu/support/wall-of-honor/col-robert-parker-andrews-usar '68, 4150th Dallas USAR School; Col. B.B. Smith B.B. Smith. Dallas Police Department, Deputy Chief of Police.Director, Civil Defense and Disaster Commission. Reported directly to Chief Curry. Daily Palmer Rustler October 14, 1954 page 2 https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth782328/m1/2/ George Lumpkin was the Commandant of the 4150th ARSU Army Reserve School. 1966 Richardson (Texas) Daily News article that describes George Lumpkin as “Commandant of the 4150th ARSU Dallas United States Army Reserve School”. https://newspaperarchive.com/tags/george-lumpkin/?pc=24581&psi=94&pci=7&pt=23960&ob=1/ Lt. Col. Oscar Long Grand Prairie Daily News from Grand Prairie, Texas · Augusy 21, 1958 Page 6 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/15220372/ Colonel Denzil E. Hutson Military Order of World Wars page 109 https://books.google.com/books?id=ibtADE8gMeoC&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=%224150th%22&source=bl&ots=UtR68IAUl1&sig=ACfU3U1kAl5tdkPkjmuA2M95hEVYoqaF4w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHkJONvLPgAhVZJDQIHXTiAGU4HhDoATAEegQIBhAB#v=onepage&q=%224150th%22&f=false This is a very good site in explaining CONARCS, FORSCOM, CAPSTONE and other things: https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a236572.pdf Training and Organization of the US Army Reserve Components: A Reference Text for Total Force Trainers and a Guide to Other US Military Services 1988-1989. published 1991 Page 73 Fifth U.S. Army (19 USARF Schools) 4150TH USARF SCHOOL 10031 East Northwest Hwy (214) 346-6678Air Defense Artillery Dallas, TX 75238-4399 (Lumpkin and Hutson were both Commandants at this training school). Steve Thomas

Gannaway, Lumpkin, B.B. Smith... The Dallas Police Department was just riddled with Army Reserve Intelligence wasn't it? Steve Thomas

Gotta Love it. B.B. Smith. Dallas Police Department, Deputy Chief of Police.Director, Civil Defense and Disaster Commission. Reported directly to Chief Curry. Batchelor Exhibit 5002 https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh19/pdf/WH19_Batchelor_Ex_5002.pdf Colonel. B.B. Smith Daily Palmer Rustler October 14, 1954 page 2 https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth782328/m1/2/ Lumpkin was the Commandant of the 4150th ARSU Army Reserve School. Steve Thomas

Jeff, That's a shame. I'd like to know what file Marrs is talking about. Steve Thomas

Bill, Here's the time on that cable: 23 hundred hours Zulu time would be 17 hunderd hours (or 5:00 PM) Central time. I don't know what time Stringfellow was supposed to have transmitted his info, but 3:15 PM sounds about right. By the way, Stringfellow and Biggio were working the DPD radio equipment at the Fairgrounds that afternoon. Stringfellow and Biggio were working the police radio at the Fairgrounds on 11/22/63 “Army Apparently didn't tell Commission of Oswald's Alias” Dallas Morning News March 19, 1978 in the Weisberg Collection http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/F%20Disk/FBI/FBI%20Records%20Release%2012-7-77%20News%20Accounts/Item%20069.pdf Steve Thomas

Bill, Did you happen to read the page (p. 216), just before the one you referenced in that CD 329? Marina told FBI Agents Wallace Heitman and Anatole Boguslav that Wilmeth had spent 20 months in Russia. It doesn't say which 20 months, but conceivably, if he retired from the Army in 1960, and started teaching Russian in 1962, it could have been about the same time that Oswald was in Russia too. Steve Thomas

Bill, Thanks. I wondered if you were referencing Peter Dale Scott's address to the Fredonia Conference in 1996. http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/S%20Disk/Scott%20Peter%20Dale/Item%2002.pdf Steve Thomas

Bill, Can you elaborate on this a little? Provide a citation of some kind? As far as Gannaway and Lumpkin go, I think (and this is just my personal opinion) that Gannaway reported to Lumpkin in his Army Intelligence work. In his day job; while Gannaway reported to Curry as Head of the Special Service Bureau, Lumpkin was still a Deputy Chief. http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/25039-george-lumpkin/?page=2&_fromLogin=1ow “I don't know if this has been discussed, but the link below is to a 1966 Richardson (Texas) Daily News article that describes George Lumpkin as “Commandant of the 4150th ARSU Dallas United States Army Reserve School”. https://newspaperarchive.com/tags/george-lumpkin/?pc=24581&psi=94&pci=7&pt=23960&ob=1/ Department and Agency Codes http://trac.syr.edu/data/fedstaf/agencode.html ARSU U.S. Army Southern Command With respect to George Whitmeyer, Winston Lawson told the HSCA that Whitmeyer "taught army intelligence." So, Lumpkin and Whitmeyer, who both rode in the pilot car, were both Army Intelliegence teachers. Steve Thomas

Jeff, You can find a more thorough discussion of this 12:35 Saturday Interrogation here: Fritz ADDED the part about the photos afterward... http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/18440-fritz-added-the-part-about-the-photos-afterward/ By cross-referencing the reports and testimony of the various people involved, I've come to believe that a deliberate attempt was made to go back into the Dallas Police Department's records and alter them in an attempt to hide this 12:35 Interview. What's weird is that I believe that this attempt was made after the Warren Report and it's 26 vols of Exhibits were published. I don't understand what good it would have done at that point. Steve Thomas

John, It would be interesting to learn which one of the three photographs (A, B, or C) were shown to Oswald four hours before they were officially found and brought back to police headquarters. This is from the DPD Archives, Box 1, Folder# 15, Item# 1, paes 8 and 9: http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/box1.htm You can also read a copy of Fritz's notes of his interrogation of Oswald that Saturday afternoon in CD 81b, page 460, although these are hard to make out. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10483#relPageId=460&tab=page Michael Paine said he talked to the Dallas Police about Neely St. on Friday evening. See also Thomas Kelley's Report of this 12:35 Interview here: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=946#relPageId=652&tab=page Now, Kelley says that the 12:35 Interview mainly consisted of questioning Oswald about where the bulk of his belongings were stored, and he says that immediately after the Interview was terminated at 1:10 PM, officers were dispatched to the Irving residence to conduct a further search. My problem here is that Rose, Stovall and Adamcik say that they were dispatched to Irving at 12:00, and got a search warrant from a judge in Oak Cliff at 12:30. This is even before Oswald was brought back down from jail at 12:35. They arrived at Irving at about 1:00, just about the time Oswald's interview was ending. My hunch is that it was 133-C that was shown to Oswald - the one that stayed hidden for so many years. Steve Thomas

Captain, William Paul “Pat” Gannaway. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158496812/william-paul-gannaway Birth 3 Feb 1916 Dearh 4 June 2000 (Age 84) Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA Burial Cook-Walden Capital Parks Cemetary and Mausoleum Pflugerville, Travis County, Texas, USA Full text of "Hoch Paul Correspondence" _ ECHOES OF CONSPIRACY " Vol . 10, #2 July 22, 1988 Paul L. Hoch https://archive.org/stream/nsia-HochPaulCorrespondence/nsia-HochPaulCorrespondence/Hoch%20Paul%200952_djvu.txt An article on "Spies in Dallas?" in a Dallas paper in summer 1963 lends support to speculation about active ONI interest, as it does to many ideas about a nexus of DPD, federal, and private intelligence outfits in Oswald's Dallas milieu. Capt. Pat Gannaway of the DPD (and Army Intelligence Reserve) described the work against subversion and espionage of his Special Services Bureau, requiring "the closest cooperation" with other agencies, including the FBI, "military intelligence teams 'from the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and other federal agencies .... Dallas police have been highly successful in recent years in penetrating so-called subversive or radical groups...." Posted Tuesday, February 5, 2013 http://jfkcountercoup2.blogspot.com/2013/02/spies-in-dallas-police-alert.html Spies in Dallas? Police Alert By JERRY RICHMOND Staff Writer “A man would be a fool to say any city in the United States is secure from subversion and espionage.” This statement was made by the man in charge with keeping an eye on activities in Dallas involving espionage, subversion and sabotage for the Dallas Police Department. ‘Sensitive’ Police Captain Pat Gannaway, head of the department’s special services bureau, and a dozen of hand-picked offices under Lieutenant J. R. Revill in the criminal intelligence section of his bureau have been assigned to work with federal and state intelligence officials to guard the Dallas area from penetration by subversives seeking to harm the nation’s security. Within this bureau fall all the things of a sensitive nature, and they…expionage and subversive activities….must be watched at all times,” the veteran police officer and reserve lieutenant colonel in the Army Intelligence corps said. In addition to other country and state agents, the bureau’s work involves close support of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, military intelligence teams from the Army, Navy and Air Force, and other federal agencies with investigators operating from headquarters here. This combined federal, state and local team has men laced throughout the industrial and strategic points in the city’s life line. The job of the intelligence action in Capt. Ganaway’s bureau, besides keeping check on organized crime, requires the closets cooperation with these other government agencies gathering intelligence on subversive groups and individuals suspected of espionage. Dallas police have been highly successful in recent years in penetrating so-called subversive groups or radical groups which appear likely some day to cause danger to the public. Penetration In many cases undercover agents actually joined these groups to get names, addresses, past activities and future plans or have established networks of informants to acompolish the same result. Private business,, retail credit bureaus, utility companies and even employers often provide invaluable information on suspicious perons who are kept under surveillance for months without their knowledge. With membership in a national police intelligence organization known as LEIU (Law Enforcement Intelligence Unites) the local officers are able to get information almost immediately on suspected subversives when they move into Dallas. This information is exchanged by police units as these persons move from city to city. Captain Gannaway’s men daily face the problem of changing membership in organization under question. He noted the most difficult part of the job is the freedom of movement of known subversives, but added: “That freedom is the dearest thing we have and I would not restrict it even for those who would destroy it.” PLANT SECURTIY Other civilians involved as a group in national security work at the local level are corporation security officers. Floyd Purvis, manger of corporation security for Texas Instruments, pointed out that all plants in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with defense contracts operate under strict Department of Defense security regulations similar to those on military bases. Employees in the plants are carefully screened by security conscious personnel ofificers, and the key jobs are given strict government security clearances. UPGRADING Industry is taking great strides to upgrade security practices. One such group in this aera is the American Society for Industrial Security, an organization in which Mr. Purvis is a local chairman. Such governmental and civilian counter-intelligence activities are selcom publicized until a spy is caught, but local activity by these agencies has placed Dallas and other American cities in the fight against intrigues in a web of espionage. Every citizen has a role in the nation’s security, Capt. Gannaway concluded. Often one small tip from an individual has meant bringing the pieces together for some intelligence agency. August 5, 1963 Posted by Bill Kelly at 6:50 AM Steve Thomas

Jim, Umm... Steve Thomas

David, Just for general info... Hart got her name wrong. Her stage name was Pixie Lynn, not Dixie Lynn. Her real name was Helen K. Smith. Candy Barr was holding for Helen K. Smith when she got busted for marijuana in 1957. Steve Thomas

Tony, I always thought that the Oswald figure was superimposed on a background shot, and whoever did the superimposing (is that a real word?), did a sloppy job. In your reproduction, the slots in the fence and the support posts for the stairs and the shed run pretty much straight up and down at 0 or 360 degree compass heading. In the Oswald picture, the fence slats and support posts have a roughly 50 degree NE compass heading. (Either that, or the contractor who built the shed and fencing needs to get another job.) Steve Thomas

Adrian, I guess your questions would be, Who, What, When, Where, Why and How. I think the only questions that can be definitely answered and What, When, and Where Who did it? Open for Debate. What happened? JFK was shot with a gun. When did it happen? 12:30 on a Friday afternoon in November, 1963. Where did it happen? Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Why did it happen? Open for Debate. How did it happen? Open for Debate. I guess a person would just need to take their pick as to what they wanted to tackle first. Steve Thomas

Ron, I believe that this was through the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) Office of Public Safety Program. From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Public_Safety "The Office of Public Safety (OPS) was a U.S. government agency, established in August 1962 by president John F. Kennedy to train police forces of America's allies.[1] It was officially part of USAID (US Agency for International Development), and was close to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[2] Police-training teams were sent to South Vietnam, Iran, Taiwan, Brazil, Uruguay and Greece.[3] Courses were held in French, Spanish and English.[3] According to a 1973 document revealed in the Family jewels CIA documents, around 700 police officers were trained a year, including in handling of explosives.[4] It was dissolved in 1974." Steve Thomas

Jim, Take heart. We may be on the cusp of a similar historical shift. I was following the election returns on the night of the 2018 mid-term elections, and they were talking about the greatest turnover in American politics since the election of 1974 following Nixon's resignation. As Phillip Agee wrote in his introduction to the Pike Committee Report, If nothing else, in the Committee's Recommendations in Part III, there is this: I mean, that's a good thing, right? *smile* Thanks to everyone for making this available. Steve Thomas

See "OSWALD IN NEW ORLEANS" Church Committee Boxed Files NARA Record Number: 157-10014-10120 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1462&search="Tom_Kane"#relPageId=92&tab=page Pages 92 and 94 Steve Thomas