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Sandy, Thank you. Steve Thomas

Joe, Some would say that the ever increasingly complex crop circles are just that. Steve Thomas

Ty, "Oswald killed Dallas Police Patrolman, J.D. Tippit approximately 45 minutes after the assassination. This conclusion upholds the finding that Oswald fired the shots which killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor Connally..." Warren Report. p. 20. What's good for the goose.... Ummmm..... I think I'll turn this one over to Cory. Steve Thomas

David, At 2:40 PM, W.E. Potts, B.L. Senkel and Lt. E.L. Cunningham were dispatched to 1026 N. Beckley. Potts wrote in his after-action report (Box 2, Folder# 9, Item# 32) http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/box2.htm Potts' after-action report is undated. The Supplementary Offense Report cited earlier is dated 11/25/63. Mrs. ROBERTS. Well, they asked him if there was a Harvey Lee Oswald there. WC testimony of Arthur Clark Johnson (owner of 1026 N. Beckley) http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/johnso_a.htm Mr. BELIN. Did they say how they happened to come there? Mr. JOHNSON. "Well, uh--after he was--uh--apprehended out there, they searched him and found my address in his pocket Mr. BELIN. Your address of 1026 North Beckley? Mr. JOHNSON. That's right I have never seen this piece of paper in any Dallas Police Department evidence sheets. Mr. BELIN. Now, what did Mrs. Roberts say about this man having been at the home earlier that day--this O. H. Lee, which they had identified as Harvey Oswald? I personally believe, but cannot prove, that this ties into that unknown police officer giving Will Fritz the 1026 N. Beckley St. address out in the hall before Fritz ever started questioning Oswald. Steve Thomas

This Supplementary Offense Report is signed by W.E. Potts. At 2:40 PM, W.E. Potts, B.L. Senkel and Lt. E.L. Cunningham were dispatched to 1026 N. Beckley. Potts wrote in his after-action report (Box 2, Folder# 9, Item# 32) http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/box2.htm that after he finished taking some affidavits, Fritz dispatched them to the Beckely St address at 2:40 and they arrived at Beckley at 3:00PM. Mrs. ROBERTS. Well, it was Will Fritz' men---it was plainclothesmen and I was at the back doing something and Mr. Johnson answered the door and they identified themselves and then he called me. Mr. BALL. What did they say? Mrs. ROBERTS. Well, they asked him if there was a Harvey Lee Oswald there. Mrs. ROBERTS. No---he registered as O. H. Lee and they were asking for Harvey Lee Oswald. Steve Thomas

DPD Archives Box 1 Folder# 3, Item# 11 http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/box1.htm Steve Thomas

Tom, I spoke to a former Colonel of a real live Military Intelligence Detachment. When I floated this idea of Crichton's "100 man" 488th, he snorted. He told me that what I was describing was a social club, not an MID. Real Military Intelligence Detachments consisted of no more than 9 men. This idea of a 100 man Intelligence Unit, of which 40-50 were members of the Dallas Police Force grew out out of an oral interview that Crichton gave to the Sixth Floor Museum. That oral interview is no longer available. There were members of the Dallas Police Force who were active in the Army Reserves who were Intelligence officers (like Lumpkin), and who knew each other, but whether they were part of "Crichton's group" is seriously open to question in my mind. You can read through the Forum thread entitled, Revolt of the Colonels?, if you're interested. http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/23478-revolt-of-the-colonels/ Steve Thomas

You can read a copy of The Secret War, by Fabian Escalante online here: https://ia600401.us.archive.org/20/items/FabianEscalanteSecretWarCubaCIA/Fabian%20Escalante%20Secret%20War%20Cuba%20CIA_text.pdf Steve Thomas

George Bouhe was Lewis McNaughton's personal accountant for nine years. See his WC testimony. http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/bouhe.htm Mr. BOUHE - "For 9 1/2 years I was employed as a personal accountant of a very prominent Dallas geologist, and probably capitalist if you want to say it, Lewis W, MacNaughton, senior chairman of the board of the well-known geological and engineering firm of DeGolyer & MacNaughton, but I was MacNaughton's personal employee." Steve Thomas

Mike, I think Jason might have answered this in his post: Ross Crozier. Steve Thomas

JFK's 'secret' doomsday map revealed https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/06/us/jfk-cuban-missile-crisis-map-auction/index.html “Based on photos from US spy planes, President Kennedy's map -- which was classified as "secret" -- shows locations of nine weapons installations in Cuba that US forces likely would have targeted if he had ordered an attack. A key to the map summarizes locations of Soviet weapons on Cuba, including MiG fighter jets and sites housing nuclear-armed medium range ballistic missiles, which experts said threatened Miami, Washington and New Orleans.” Cuban Missile Crisis map -- estimated to be worth about $20,000 is up for auction. Steve Thomas

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=9836&relPageId=3 “Max Edward Clark was employed by Convair, a division of General Dynamics Corporation, Fort Worth, Texas, as a “Supervisor of Industrial Security and Investigation”, requiring access to classified matter up to and including, Top Secret”. Guess who Lee Oswald looked up when he got back from Russia? Steve Thomas

The people that Oswald "became acquainted with" were people who were interested in developing the oil fields in the Middle East, Southern Russia, and Central Asia. Peter Dale Scott COPA Conference 11/24/2010 http://archive.politicalassassinations.net/2010/11/peter-dale-scott-the-jfk-assassination-as-an-engineered-provocation-deception-plot/ (Jack) Crichton, an oil engineer and corporation executive, also doubled as a member of the Dallas overworld. Although his 488th intelligence unit consisted almost 50 percent of Dallas policemen, Crichton also used it as a venue in the late 1950s to conduct “a study of Soviet oil fields;” and in the 1990s Crichton would himself explore the oil and gas reserves in the former Soviet Union. Also interested in Soviet oil reserves at this time were Ilya Mamantov’s employers and personal friends, the wealthy Pew family in Dallas who were owners of Sunoco. By 2009 the second largest source of crude for Sunoco (after Western Africa) was Central Asia, supplying 86,000 barrels of crude a day. http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/degolyer-everette.pdf Everette DeGolyer: "The opinion of his firm, DeGolyer and MacNaughton, on an appraisal of the worth of a property or a company was accepted as final in financial and government circles the world around. This firm was at one time or another consultant to ten or more foreign governments on subjects ranging from organizing exploration pro-grams to the proper price for oil F.O.B. tankers in the Persian Gulf. Starting in 1918 with a special report for the United States Treasury, he became in 1941 Director of Conservation in the Office of the Coordinator for National Defense and Assistant Deputy Coordinator in 1942. The following year he was first made Assistant Deputy Administrator for War, and then head of the Petroleum Reserves Corporation mission to the Middle East." Steve Thomas

Gene, Someday, I'd like to read this book: The Republican-Democrat political campaigns in Texas in 1964 Author: Jack Crichton Publisher: [Texas] : J. Crichton, 2003. Edition/Format: Print book : English 1. Texas State Library & Archives Commission Austin, TX 78701 United States Steve Thomas

Mike, What do you make of the "man in charge in Miami" suggesting on October 23rd or 24th that the DRE send its five top leaders into Cuba to "direct artillery fire"? (see pp. 9-10 of that memo) 1) Who was this "man in charge in Miami? 2) Was he that naive? 3) Was he deliberately trying to get them killed? 4) Was the coordination between the CIA and the U.S. military that bad that he would be suggesting sending in civilians rather than U.S. Special Forces? Steve Thomas

Jim, Petroleum connections equal financing. Who paid, and who benefitted? Follow the money. I think the people who had the most to gain were the people who were trying to control the natural resources of undeveloped countries. (land, oil, uranium, heavy metals, etc.) Military intel? Do you think Oswald's insertion into Russia was CIA, or ONI? Also, Colonels in the U.S. Army Reserves seem to crop up in almost every aspect of this case. Obvious connections? Rather than a straight line, the JFK makes me think of more like a spiderweb of interconnecting threads and overlapping interests. Steve Thomas

David, Commission Document 205 - FBI Report of 23 Dec 1963 re: Oswald https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10672&relPageId=650&search="Sarah_Castillo" page 647 Sarah Castillo interviewed by the FBI. The meeting was held on Sunday, October 13, 1963 at 8:00 PM. I've read, and I could probably track it down for you if you need it; that there were two meetings that day - one in the afternoon for Spanish speaking persons, and one in the evening for English speaking persons. Steve Thomas

David, Thank you. Your info is very interesting. The only thing I might ask a question about, is the house Harlandale. The docs you provided talk about a man "in the first row". The meetings at the house on Harlandale were pretty small. I'm not sure the attendees would be arranged in "rows". Take a look at this interview that Harold Weisberg had with Colonel and Mrs. Castorr. Look at p. 1 and then again on pp 21 - about 23 or so. http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg Subject Index Files/C Disk/Castorr L Robert Colonel/Item 23.pdf Could this be the meeting in question? Or is it the meeting that Edwin Walker was questioned about in his WC testimony. General WALKER. Well, there is a student directorate group, which I remember they call themselves, and that is the way they identified themselves. I attended a meeting sometime and listened to some speakers. Mr. LIEBELER. They came from Miami? General WALKER. I believe they came from Miami. Mr. LIEBELER. And you contributed $5 to the organization that night? General WALKER. I believe I did. Mr. LIEBELER. Did you see Lee Harvey Oswald at that meeting? General WALKER. No; I did not. Steve Thomas

Jim, Thank you. That's interesting. We're told that Oswald "became acquainted" with the White Russian Community. It's more specific than that. He established contact with White Russians involved in the petroleum engineering community, and even more specifically with Russian petroleum engineering interests. WC testimony of Peter Paul Gregory: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/gregoryp.htm Mr. LIEBELER - You are presently self-employed in Fort Worth, is that correct? Mr. GREGORY - I am presently chairman of the Yates Pool Engineering Committee which is a group of engineers supervising activities in the Yates oilfield in Pecos County, Tex., and I am also a consulting petroleum engineer. WC testimony of George Bouhe: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/bouhe.htm Mr. BOUHE - For 9 1/2 years I was employed as a personal accountant of a very prominent Dallas geologist, and probably capitalist if you want to say it, Lewis W, MacNaughton, senior chairman of the board of the well-known geological and engineering firm of DeGolyer & MacNaughton, but I was MacNaughton's personal employee. Take a look at who DeGolyer was. Bouhe, Gregory, DeMohrenschildt, Jack Crichton, Jake Hamon... the list goes on. I'm seeing this nexus of military intelligence, the TEC, Russian petroleum interests, and when you couple that with the question I asked in the Forum about whether Oswald was promised a job when he came back from Russia, and to learn that the early records of his employment with Leslie Welding through the TEC had been destroyed, it becomes pretty suspicious. Steve Thomas

Oswald's passport lists his occupation as a "Shipping Export Agent". I don't find any reference in the Soviet documents (CE 985) https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1135#relPageId=417&tab=page that he was ever asked by the Soviets, "Exactly what are you going to be importing and exporting Mr. Oswald?" Why? Steve Thomas

WC testimony of Max Clark http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/clark_m.htm Mr. LIEBELER - I want to ask some detailed questions about that but before we get into that, so I don't forget, I want to go back. You said Oswald had told you he had gotten your name from somebody in the Texas Employment Commission - Mr. CLARK - Yes. Mr. LIEBELER - is that your recollection or in fact, did Oswald tell you that be had gotten your name from a man by the name of Peter Gregory at the Fort Worth Public Library? Mr. CLARK - Of course, I had no communication with Oswald at this time. When he talked with my wife over the phone he indicated to her that he had gotten my wife's name and Peter Gregory's name from the employment commission. Now, I could be mistaken but apparently Mr. Gregory and my wife's name were given to him as people that spoke Russian. Of course, we know Mr. Gregory and then after, immediately after this came about, why, my wife - we talked with the Gregorys. Which came first, I do not know. I don't know who saw Oswald first. I believe Mr. Gregory saw them before we did. Mr. LIEBELER - Do you know who it was in the Texas Employment Commission that gave Oswald the name of Peter Gregory and your wife? Mr. CLARK - No. I don't but I can understand fairly well, why. My aunt had been employed by the Texas Employment Commission for 20, 25 years up until her death a few years ago and then my sister still works there. I know it wasn't my aunt because she was dead at the time but my sister, and I have talked with her since, and it was not her and she said it could have been any one of several. I was under the impression she said my wife said that he had said someone by the name of Smith at the employment commission but we don't know anybody by the name of Smith. Mr. LIEBELER - This is the Texas Employment Commission office in Fort Worth, is that correct? Mr. CLARK - Yes. Mr. LIEBELER - is there just one office of the Texas Employment Commission in Fort Worth? Mr. CLARK - There may be some branches but I don't think so. I think this came out of the main office. Whether he called us or he called the Gregorys first, I don't know. According to Clark, Oswald called Clark via the TEC. WC testimony of George Bouhe: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/bouhe.htm Mr. LIEBELER - Did Mr. Gregory tell you how he came to meet Lee Oswald? Mr. BOUHE - Of course. Mr. LIEBELER - Has he told you, in effect, that Oswald came to him at the Fort Worth Public Library and asked him for a letter attesting to his competence as a translator or interpreter of the Russian language? Mr. BOUHE - Mr. Gregory did tell me, and maybe I am not a hundred percent accurate, that he met him at the Fort Worth Public Library where, if my information is correct, Mr. Gregory teaches, I think, a free class of the Russian language. Steve Thomas

Greg, I don't think it's coincidental at all. Dealey Plaza was executed with military precision. There was none of that poisoned cigar, or exploding seashell while scuba diving foolishness. I would be very interesting I think, to learn which of the Brigade 2506 guys got sniper training by the Green Berets at Fort Benning, GA. Steve Thomas

Craig, Thank you. Now what Hosty said, " I could have told them I was forbidden to interview Oswald because he was a contact case." makes more sense. One of the most informative things I've read in a while is CD 852 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11249 DOD Bartimo Letter of 24 Apr 1964 with Attachments Starting on about the third page or so of this document is a copy of Army Regulation 195-10 which spells out how the Army was supposed to liaison with other agencies. It talks about the Army, Navy, Air Force and FBI, but interestingly enough, leaves out the Secret Service. Basically Army Regulation 195-10 is a How to Manual for conducting investigations of armed forces personnel: Who's got responsibility, who's got control, how the information flows, etc. Look at Paragraph (9)(c)(1)(a) on the bottom of Page 5 of this CD. It says how Army Commanders are supposed to establish policies to establish "effective liaison" with other agencies and specifically mentions the ATTU. The idea was not to step on each other's toes, and establish contact with an individual that some other agency was working, e.g. informants. I think in CIA jargon, it was called the “third party” rule. As I sit here, I don't know if the FBI or the ATTU has such a Regulation they were supposed to be operating under. Steve Thomas