8 hours ago, Gerry Down said:

Oswald took 3 photos inside the Minsk  

Though when you combine these photos with the bizarrely detailed manuscript Oswald typed up on the Minsk factory (LINK: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1133#relPageId=311 ) then Oswald seems to have exhibited a bizarre fascination with the factory. 

 

Gerry,

I always thought that Oswald's description of the Minsk plant was an extremely thorough and detailed intelligence report.

If you were going to invade Russia, Oswald gave you the name of the plant supervisor, how many people were employed there, how many soldiers there were in the vicinity, etc.

Perhaps the photos were intended to be used in conjunction with that report.

Steve Thomas

1 hour ago, Mark Ulrik said:

It's just an extremely poor quality photograph.

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1135#relPageId=176

Mark,

Thanks. It is pretty poor quality, isn't it.

Steve Thomas

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I got to talking with another researcher about the Hidell Selective Service card, and the fact that it had a photo on it.

I started wondering if it matched any other photos we had of Oswald.

One of the places I looked was Oswald's Russian passport photo, and I saw this from the Portal to Texas History:

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth346608/m1/1/

And I asked myself, who in the world is that? His nose and mouth and chin are completely different.

Who the H*** went to Russia?

Steve Thomas

New electric cars won’t have AM radio. Rightwingers claim political sabotage

By Katie Thornton 21 Jun 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jun/21/am-radio-evs-electric-vehicles-conservative-talk

“Charlie Kirk, radio host and founder of the rightwing youth group Turning Point USA, believes that a conspiracy may be afoot.”

“Sean Hannity gave his viewers a similar warning: “This would be a direct hit politically on conservative talk radio in particular, which is what most people go to AM radio to listen to.” Mark Levin, another longtime radio host, agreed: “They finally figured out how to attack conservative talk radio,” he told his listeners in April.”

“What are they all so worried about? It turns out, a minor manufacturing change announced by car companies including Volkswagen and Mazda: they will be removing AM radios from their forthcoming fleets of electric vehicles, citing technical issues. Tesla, BMW, Audi, and Volvo have already dispensed with AM in their electric cars, because AM’s already unpolished reception is subject to even more buzz, crackling, and interference when installed near an electric motor. While some manufacturers have found workarounds for the interference, others appear to have decided that it’s not worth the engineering expense.”

Ah. Now I understand.

Steve Thomas

3 hours ago, Gene Kelly said:

Further, Harold Weisberg wrote the following:

As we would wearily expect, Oswald's Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall tenure is an enigma. Sometimes he would literally disappear at the end of each workday until he showed up at work the next morning. No official investigation has discovered what he was up to, or even where he was living, for most of the period between October 8 and November 3.' While at Jaggars he became acquainted with sophisticated camera techniques and equipment.'" He asked the firm if he could use their facilities to do his own photo developing." Oswald probably used Jaggar's equipment to forge the "Hider draft card found in his wallet when he was arrested on the afternoon of the assassination. 

Gene

Gene,

I forgot to mention...

When Oswald was arrested, he either denied, or refused to admit that the signature on the Hidell Selective Service card was his. He also refused to say why he had the card, or the the purpose for which it was used.

The card itself was so fake that it couldn't possibly be used for identification, and I have never found any time when he showed to anyone for the purpose of identification.

To my dying day, I will believe that the clue lies in the signature on the card, rather than the card itself.

If, as I believe, Oswald was undergoing some kind of intelligence briefing in the October 19 - November 3, 1962 time period, at the same time he was manufacturing the fake Hidell card, I wonder if they are connected.

Steve Thomas

2 hours ago, Gene Kelly said:

Further, Harold Weisberg wrote the following:

As we would wearily expect, Oswald's Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall tenure is an enigma. Sometimes he would literally disappear at the end of each workday until he showed up at work the next morning. No official investigation has discovered what he was up to, or even where he was living, for most of the period between October 8 and November 3.' While at Jaggars he became acquainted with sophisticated camera techniques and equipment.'" He asked the firm if he could use their facilities to do his own photo developing." Oswald probably used Jaggar's equipment to forge the "Hider draft card found in his wallet when he was arrested on the afternoon of the assassination. 

Gene

Gene,

CD 735 FBI Gemberling Report of 10 Mar 1964 pp. 329-337.

page 329: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11133#relPageId=338&tab=page

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=57768&search=YMCA#relPageId=57&tab=page

Letter from J.Edgar Hoover to Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security, Department of State dated February 12, 1964:

“We are endeavoring to identify Lee Harvey Oswald's place of residence during the period from October 19, 1962 when he moved out of the YMCA in Dallas to November 2-3, 1962, when, with his wife, he moved into a furnished apartment at 604 Elsbeth Street, Dallas, Texas.”

The letter is asking that George de Mohrenschildt be re-interviewed concerning what he might know.

Reading through Mary Ferrell’s Chronologies for the month of October, beginning from around October 8 – October 14^th. she asks “where does Oswald spend the night?”

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=40390#relPageId=77&tab=page

pp. 77-80.
 

I personally believe that Oswald was being briefed for an intelligence mission, but that's just my suspicious mind.

Steve Thomas

"Honey, I thought I'd go play a round of golf today. Do you know where my golf shirts are?"

"Yeah. Go look in the box that has the nuclear codes"

Steve Thomas

"This was his campaign plan": Trump has flipped the stolen documents case into "a farce"
Experts reflect one week after Donald Trump's historic indictment
By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA J7ne 20, 2023
https://www.salon.com/2023/06/20/this-was-his-campaign-plan-has-flipped-the-stolen-documents-case-into-a-farce/
"If it weren't so dangerous, it would be laughable to hear House Speaker Kevin McCarthy defend Trump's placement of classified documents in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom by saying, "A bathroom door locks." Sure, Kevin, it locks from the inside. Did the documents lock the door themselves?"

Steve Thomas

9 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

 

About mid-1963, according to a former member of the SAC (de Gaulle's special anti-OAS police), who knew Souetre very well, Souetre did the following in April-May 1963:

((b) went to the Caribbean with Varga, Matron and Buscia; 

Ron,

You could also say that the member of SAC, who knew Souetre well, and lied about him a lot...

FYI: Lazlo Varga was arrested in September of 1962 and was put on trial in January of 1963. 

He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and confined to the Saint Martin de Re prison on the Ile de Re.

He was released in 1967 in a general amnesty.

Steve Thomas 

Can Donald Trump host State Dinners while he is in a jail cell?

Steve Thomas

1 hour ago, Gene Kelly said:

 Larry Hancock's "Tipping Point (Part 2: Enter Lee Oswald)" outlines Oswald's last year very well:

... Something seminal occurred with regard to Lee Oswald early in 1963; it would lead to a far different image for Oswald than we find in his memoire, prepared only months earlier. 

Gene

 

Gene,

I wonder if it had anything to do with the missing two weeks from October 19 - November 3, 1962 when nobody knew where Oswald was living.

Not his friends, not his co-workers, not his bosses, not his wife.

Those two weeks were also when he was working at Jaggers-Chiles-Stovall.

Steve Thomas

1 hour ago, Paul Cummings said:

Steve, I believe it's the Altgens photo has Roger Craig on the southside of Elm with the TSBD sign showing 12:40 PM with the Rambler in front of the TSBD. How many minutes has elasped after the JFKA did they sealed off the TSBD? 

Paul,

That's kind of vexing. I once tried (to no avail), to determine who was the "first" person to order that the building be sealed off.

Sawyer said he ordered it. Fritz said he did. Lumpkin also said he did. Who was first?

I don't know.

Steve Thomas

On 6/19/2023 at 5:22 AM, Paul Cummings said:

My question isn't why LHO worked at TSBD but why he was allowed to leave at 12:40 PM on 11/22/63?

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Steve Thomas

- GOP Rep. Mike Turner, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee -

““There must be something higher on the national security level for him to do this. Remember, President Trump has more classified material in his head than he’s going to have in his desk. But yet they raided his home to see what he had in his desk. I think the American public wants answers,” Turner explained to CNN’s Pamela Brown in August 2022.”

Is Representative Turner suggesting that we raid Donald Trump’s head?

Shudder

Steve Thomas

1 hour ago, Roger Odisio said:

 asking the French for their file on Souetre, which should include a lot more information than whether he was expelled from Dallas, seems like a good idea

Roger,

That might prove frustrating. With the help of Denis Morissette, I once wrote the French National Archives and asked them for the names of the people who had been tried with Jean-Rene Souetre in December, 1961.

The answered me back and said no. It was classified.

(Even though accounts of the trial had been published in newspapers at the time).

Steve Thomas

- Donald Trump -

Twice-indicted former President Donald Trump spent Saturday morning raging against United States Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, President Joe Biden, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

10 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

  Norwood was very surprised to find this person was already in the hands of INS Dallas, he had been picked up on November 22nd or 23rd as the result of a call from the Dallas police, who had apprehended him."  Pages 447-448.  

Ron,

I wouldn't doubt that the Dallas Police picked up somebody, but I've wondered where the local Dallas Police Department's arrest records are. I can see the CIA stepping in and asking a fellow federal agency to bury its records, but the idea of the CIA stepping in and quashing a local police department's records is kind of immense to me.

My point was, if the DPD or INS did pick up somebody, and the guy they picked up had been sentenced to death in absentia for being a National Socialist collaborator in WWII, it couldn't have been Jean-Rene Souetre. He was only a child in the 1940's.

PS: Earlier, you wrote, "(Dick) Russell continues . . . Soutre was in Dallas that day..."

As I understand it, Dick Russell was relying on information obtained from Bernard Fensterwald. Fensterwald got his information from Gilbert Lecavelier, a known SAC agent.

Gary Shaw/Bernard Fensterwald Litigation Against the Department of State

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=6060&search=Torjmann#relPageId=1&tab=page

Fensterwald Sunnary of Paris Trip, 1982

http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/S%20Disk/Souetre%20Jean%20with%20aka%27s/Item%2011.pdf

Page 3

Both ____ and Le Cavelier suggested that a current visit to see Souetre
in Divonne Les Bains would be (1) dangerous; (2) unproductive (he won't talk);
and (3) probably counterproductive. We did not visit Souetre

Pages 4-5

Attached as Appendix C is Dr. Farrell's summary of our conversation with Perez.

We had a number of long private conversations with Le Cavelier, and the investigation in France will continue full steam.

Appendix C Dr. Farrell's summary of our conversation with Perez.

Page 22

Q: Did you know of any O.A.S. members training Anticastro guerrillas
there?
A: No.
Gilbert Lecalevier breaks in, tells him that, yes there were some.

Lecavalier was SAC. SAC and the OAS hated each other. He wrote in his book that whereas the main effort of SAC between 1958 and 1960 was against the FLN (the pro-independence Algerian rebels), between 1961 and 1967, it was against the OAS

Steve Thomas

The Huffington Post is announcing that Daniel Ellsburg has died.

Steve Thomas

51 minutes ago, W. Niederhut said:

- Donald Trump -

 'What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening' 25 July 2018

Steve Thomas

The "Beautiful Mind" material.

Aides have revealed that Trump kept certain boxes of documents with him at all times. They called it the Beautiful Mind material.

Now that Trump has been indicted, aides and staffers are starting to come out of the woodwork and telling investigators and journalists what they saw and heard and observed.

It's going to get real ugly, real fast.

Steve Thomas

The RNC has refused to amend its loyalty pledge for candidates who wish to appear on the RNC sponsored debates.

A candidate must swear a pledge to support the eventual nominee, even if he is a convicted felon.

To me, that sounds like quickest path to political oblivion I ever heard of.

Steve Thomas

After his arraignment in Miami, Donald Trump went to a diner where he glad-handed people and slapped a lot of backs.

While he was there, he loudly shouted, "Food for everyone."

Then he left without paying.

https://boingboing.net/2023/06/15/trump-promises-food-for-everyone-leaves-without-paying.html

Steve Thomas

Donald Trump Targets the X-Men

Steve Thomas

I would say no.

from:

Legacy of Secrecy by Lamar Waldron pp. 231-232

https://epdf.tips/legacy-of-secrecy-the-long-shadow-of-the-jfk-assassination.html

“Virgil Bailey, an INS investigator in Dallas in 1963, told researcher

Gary Shaw years later about “picking up a Frenchman in Dallas shortly

after the assassination of President Kennedy.” The man’s description

was very close to Mertz’s, and he looked just a few years older than

a cover identity Mertz often used. Based on age and description, the

man Investigator Bailey remembered could not have been either

the real Souetre or the young French chef. Bailey also recalled that “the

Frenchman . . . had been tried in absentia in France and was under a

death sentence for collaboration with the National Socialists during World War II.”

Germany invaded France on May 10, 1940 and France surrendered on June 25, 1940.

In May and June, 1940, Jean-Rene Souetre was nine years old.

Paris was liberated on August 25, 1944.

In August of 1944, Souetre was thirteen years old and living in a military boarding school, where had had been since the age of eleven.

Steve Thomas