Steve Thomas

Larry, Thanks. At the end of the day yesterday, I read up on Plan Omega. The cuban-exile web site covers it pretty thoroughly. "Plan Omega calls for a renewal of guerrilla warfare and sabotage on a wide scale." - as opposed to a frontal assault as in the Bay of Pigs. http://cuban-exile.com/doc_351-375/doc0358.html see paragraph II Steve Thomas

In Rowley’s letter to Rankin dated 4/24/64, he says, “The basic document in this investigation is a memorandum from the CIA to the Federal Bureau of Investigation – Special Agent in Charge (Miami Office) dated November 25, 1963…Rodriguez is also mentioned in FBI Report of SA William Mayo Drew of the Miami Office. FBI file number 105-112098.” Go to the NARA Archives and do a standard search for 105-112098. Click on the entries of William Mayo Drew. Here is what you'll get: Mayo 10/24/63 RESTRICTIONS : 1A; DONOR RESTRICTION; REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED WITH DELETIONS Moses Aleman 10/16/63 RESTRICTIONS : 4 CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED WITH DELETIONS DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 09/14/1998 OPENING CRITERIA : INDEFINITE Mayo 2/11/64 RESTRICTIONS : 4 CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED WITH DELETIONS DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 09/25/1998 OPENING CRITERIA : INDEFINITE Mayo 10/24/63 CLASSIFICATION : SECRET RESTRICTIONS : 1B; 4 CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED WITH DELETIONS DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 09/25/1998 OPENING CRITERIA : INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF CIA Grrrrrrrrr... It looks like this file had something to do with Alpha 66 and the SNFE. Several times something called Plan Omega is mentioned. Steve Thomas

On page 4 of Rowleys letter (page 3 of Warners Report), it says, "Reproductions of photographs of subject obtained from the Immigration and Naturalization Service." So we know photographs of Rodriguez existed at one time. Steve Thomas

Thomas, _______________________________________________ OK, so I clicked on the link, Steve, and read the report and now I'm wondering which (earlier) report said that Rodriguez was "violently anti-Kennedy". _______________________________________________ The closest I've been able to come is a 1/14-17/64 Report from Dallas Secret Service Field Agent, Roger Warner. He says in his report on Rodriguez, "This investigation originated on a memo from PRS in reaction to a memorandum marked "Secret", subject, "Reaction by Cuban Exile Community to President Kennedy's Death." In this memo it is reported that one Manuel Rodriguez, who is currently living in Dallas, Texas, is known to be violently anti-President Kennedy." http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=3 Notice the date of Warner's Report. I would encourage you to read paragraph number 2. on page 3 of his Report. ATTU Agent Frank Ellsworth was questioned about Rodriguez on 1/16/64. Warner's Report is included in a 4/24/64 letter from SS Chief Rowley to J.Lee Rankin. I have not yet found the original memo from PRS or the memo marked, "Reaction by Cuban Exile Community to President Kennedy's Death." Steve Thomas

Would you say that this man is 5'11", 158 lbs, has brown hair, wears dark glasses, and has a dark complexion? Maybe. The physical description provided above is not that of the Dark Complected Man, but of Manuel Rodriguez Orcarberro. See 5/26/64 FBI Report of SA Wallace Heitman, page 5 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...p;relPageId=223 Steve Thomas

Would anyone have a photograph of Manuel Rodriguez Orcarberro? James? Steve Thomas

An anonymous letter was received by the Dallas Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on November 22, 1963, enclosing a mimeographed sheet... . This mimeographed sheet contained the following: IS KENNEDY AGAINST THE WHITE PEOPLE OF AMERICA? IS IT THE FACT THAT WE HAVE ALL KINDS OF TROUBLE SINCE KENNEDY WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT? IS IT SO KENNEDY HAS CAUSED PROTESTANTS CHURCES TO BE ANGRY AT CATHOLICS? IS IT A FACT KENNEDY WANTS THE WHITE AND NEGROS TO MIX BLOOD? IS IT A FACT KENNEDY IS TREATING THE WHITE PEOPLE WORSE THAN DOGS? DEAR DEMOCRATS AND ALL, STUDY ABOUT THESE MATTERS, SHOULD WE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS SITUATION? IS IT SO KENNEDY WOULD LIKE TO SEE EVERY HOLY BIBLE DESTROYED? IS IT SO KENNEDY HAS TURNED AGAINST U.S. DEMOCRATS? HAS KENNEDY GOT AS MUCH SYMPATHY FOR WHITE PEOPLE AS HE HAS FOR A DOG? HAS KENNEDY DAMNED HIS OWN RACE? THINK OF IT. COULD WE EVER DREAMED OF SUCH A MAN ON EARTH? I HAVE TRAVELED OVER 10,000 MILES IN THE PAST 60 DAYS, LOTS OF STATES, AND DIFFERENT MEN TOLD ME THAT KENNEDY HAS THINGS IN A TERRIBLE SHAPE. ANY DONATIONS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED TO FURTHER THIS MOVEMENT. G.B. Bellah 615 N. Charles Lewisville, Texas When questioned by the FBI, Bellah said that while these mimeographed sheets were not mialed out, he had handed some out to a few people in Grand Prairie, Texas. (home of the Joiner family) He said that the only person with ideas similar to those expressed in the mimeographed sheet was Bob Joiner. He also said he had discussed the ideas contained in the mimeographed sheet with Joiner. 10,000 miles in 60 days? Sounds like our globetrotting Milteer. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...mp;relPageId=55 Steve Thomas

Lee, I liked this one... From the WC testimony of Bernard Weissman: Mr. WEISSMAN. We left out one man, one of the original men. His name was James Moseley. Mr. JENNER. Was he a GI with you? Mr. WEISSMAN. No; he was an American civilian. His father was a major--is a major in the Army. I met him when I went into the organization. Mr. JENNER. How did he come to be in Munich? Was his father stationed there? Mr. WEISSMAN. His father was stationed there. But he was also employed by Rambler--he was selling Ramblers. I have been looking for some connection between the Miller/Whitter gunrunning case, the right wing activities of Larry Schmidt and the Joiner family, Lawrence Howard and Loren Hall running guns through Dallas, and the anti-Castro Cubans. So far I have not found any, but I keep looking. One interesting thing, Warren Commission Document #320 is a memo from SS Agent Rowley. On page 162 of that Report there is a newspaper article from October 27, 1963 - I can't make out which paper - concerning the Stevenson incident. In the article, Bobbie Joiner said there was no preplanning for Stevenson incident, but that, “some of the signs used were stored at former Major General Edwin A. Walker’s headquarters on Turtle Creek Blvd.” http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...p;relPageId=162 This was the same incident that Larry Schmidt took credit for in one of his letters to Bernard Weissman. On page 6 of Wallace Heitman’s April 29 Report, right in the middle of a discussion about the Cubans in Garland, he says that his source said that (blank) and (blank) had told him that they had attended the meeting at the Dallas Municipal Auditorium in October, 1963 where Adlai Stevenson had given a speech and that they had worn placards outside the Auditorium which were anti-Stevenson in context. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...p;relPageId=215 I'm not sure what this proves, other than these people were at the same place at the same time. Did they know each other? I don't know. Steve Thomas

In his Sheriff's Report filed on November 23, 1963, Deputy Sheriff, Roger Craig wrote about a man seen running down the hill in front of the TSBD and getting into a light colored Rambler. "The man driving this station wagon was a dark complected white male." http://jfkassassination.net/russ/testimony/craig1.htm On April 1, 1964 he testified before the WC, and tld them, "Mr. BELIN - What about the man who was driving the car? Mr. CRAIG - Now, he struck me, at first, as being a colored male. He was very dark complected, had real dark short hair, and was wearing a thin white-looking Jacket..." http://jfkassassination.net/russ/testimony/craig.htm Warrren Commission Document# 1085 is a June 11, 1964 letter from J. Edgar Hoover with attached memoranda and reports. Included in that letter is a heavily redacted April 29, 1964 report from Dallas SA Wallace Heitman. It speaks about an automobile parked in front of a residence in Garland, Texas that displayed a bumper sticker that read, "Kill the Kennedy Klan." The names of the families who resided at the house together have been whited out. His report also says that after the assassination, efforts were made to remove this bumper sticker and that after the assassination, residents of this address began to receive a lot of mail from Miami, New York, and Mexico. His report redacts the names of people who have been receiving mail at that address. On page 5 of this Report, it says, "On April 9, 1964, SA Wallace R. Heitman observed parked on the street in front of the residence at ..... Garland, Texas a late-model, four door Rambler automobile, bearing license PD-4976." A source told Heitman that this automobile was owned by ...... http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...p;relPageId=214 (If anyone has an unredacted version of this Report, I'd sure like to see it) Okay, here's the kicker. CD 913 is a March 30, 1964 Report of Robert Gemberling. Included in this Report is information relative to the "Kill the Kennedy Klan" bumper sticker and persons receiving mail at an address in Garland. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...p;relPageId=174 However, Gemberling's report INCLUDES the names of the people. The mail being reported on dates from late December and early January, 1964. Heitman's Report of April 29th is a copy of Gemberling's March 30th. Among the people receiving mail at 806 E. Monica Dr. were Raul Castro and Juan Quintana. Among the Miscellaneous CIA Series, there is an unauthored FBI Report of the various anti-Castro groups in Dallas: JURE, 30th of November, Alpha 66-SNFE, etc. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=4 On pages 4 and 5 of that Report, Manuel Rodriguez Orcarberro furnished the following list of the present officers of SNFE. Among that list of people were Raul Castro and Juan Quintana. 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.) http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...p;relPageId=222 In his 11/26/63 follow up Report, Deputy Sheriff, Buddy Walthers wrote that the Cubans who had been at the Harlandle house had moved out between seven days before the President was shot and one day after he was shot. Did they move to Garland, and was this the Rambler Roger Craid saw? Steve Thomas

John, It has been my belief that the Marine Corps ring and the ID bracelet were a signal to someone; as in "look for the guy wearing a Marine Corps ring", like, "I'll be wearing a red rose in my lapel." Marina told the WC that LHO didn't like to wear his wedding ring at work, because it got in his way. Steve Thomas

David, The Bringuer, Garner and Pizzo Exhibits do not show enough of his hand to determine if he is wearing a ring or not. BTW, do you know if this ring was inscribed with anything or not? Steve Thomas

John, Who were the people who ran the false defector operations? Were they the same SAS people? I would think that whoever ran the false defector operations would want to keep a close eye on any who came back for a long, long time. Steve Thomas

Greg, Yeah, it's in the DPD Archives. I don't remember where right now, you'd have to go through the index. Steve Thomas

Chuck, That's interesting. It could be him, although he speaks of running up the slope and not the steps. Even more interesting is the encounter with the policeman. If it happened directly after the shots, no policeman was supposedly stationed up there. Steve Thomas

Robert, I don't have the particulars in front of me, but he was supposed to have been overheard making anti-Kennedy statements, or saying Kennedy ought to be shot or something, and after the assassination, one of his neighbors or friends called the cops or the FBI or something and told them they ought to check this Martin out. He lived in rural Louisiana north of New Orleans. Steve Thomas

Maarten, I believe that is Larry Florer. Steve Thomas

Okay, so it's a blob. But it's a blob that has a different color than the surrounding foliage or the tree. And it "appears" to cast a shadow that seems consistent with the position of the sun at around 12:30 in the afternoon. So, what is it? Steve Thomas

Craid, I think I see something sticking out over the edge of the concrete wall. To me, it doesn't appear to be part of the foliage. I wondered how you interprted it. Steve Thomas

Craig, For those interested a downsampled and levels corrected copy of the drum scan 1967 Thompson copy negative of the moorman is available here for a limited time. The file is 16"x13" at 300dpi. It is saved in lossless PNG format and is 17mb uncompressed. The file image can be found here: http://www.pbase.com/infocusinc/image/66990161/original What is this? Steve Thomas

I was watching a google video put together by William Reymond. It lasts an hour and has footage I had never seen before. Be forwarned though, it's in French, so you might not understand everything that is said. http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=284...58772&q=jfk Steve Thomas

Wim, That makes a lot of sense. Steve Thomas

Dave, I'm going to say no. In Mary Ferrell's database, she identifies them as two different people, and in A Farewell to Justice, Joan Mellen says that Nico Crespi was a Ford Motor salesman. Antonio Crespi was an employee of the Republic Transcom Co. Steve Thomas

Jorge Rodriguez Alvareda, an employee of Curtis-Mathes advised on July 3, 1963, he had been authorized in a letter from Osorio Davila Santana, Secretary General of this organization at Miami, Florida to proceed with the organization of a Dallas unit." The organization ? JURE FBI Memo 5/28/64 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=2 In his FBI interview, Antonio Navarro told Heitman that he was well acquainted with Father McChann. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...p;relPageId=186 So, we've got JURE people, 30th of November people, Alpha 66 and SNFE people all working at that Curtis Mathes plant. Steve Thomas

Fabian Escalante: Posted by Wim Dankbaar in the Education Forum 9/11/06 "and in our organization the index is always made by the first surname not by the second one. But when we found out that Oscar Berot was Manuel Rodriguez, then we found another interesting information. Manuel Rodriguez, Oscar Berot told one of our agents, first of all that he was in Dallas because he was the officer 66 [Alpha-66] delegate in Dallas. And he was the delegate for office 66 in Dallas and if anyone came to know that he and Bercian took part in the plot to kill Kennedy. They were going to be killed. He was already living in Puerto Rico or a little after that he went to live in Puerto Rico. And another information comes from a very close person of Bercian, I think... some of you have already interviewed. This person told us that Phillips threatened Bercian in order for him to not reveal his true identity. I'm not going to reveal his name, but I will only tell you that some of you have had interviews with this person (don't talk about it) ?__________________ I cannot reveal this on account of an ethics principle for the same cause, because some of you will not make such revelations." Does anyone know who Bercian was? Steve Thomas

Dave, On 2/15/63, Dr. Carlos Taboada Millas, an employee of the VA Hospital, was interviewed by the FBI vis a vis Antonio Navarra and Navarro's attempt to bring two of his nephews to the United States. Taboada said the father of these two nephews was known by the name "Nico". "Nico" was known to be violently anti-Castro. "Nico" was supposed to have been a former policeman at the University of Havana. Navarro told Taboada that he was "an aquaintance and personal friend" of "Nico." http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...p;relPageId=183 In one breath, Navarro says that "Nico" is the father of his two nephews. In the next breath, he says that he is a "personal friend" of Nico. Were Crespi and Navarro brother-in-laws? Was Crespi a former policeman? Steve Thomas