22 hours ago, Jim Hargrove said:

I mostly wanted to get the information above on this new page, but I'd also ask, Have you also tried the Mary Ferrell JFK database for the HUAC material?  I spent a few minutes yesterday looking there, without success.

Jim:

Have not checked Mary Ferrell but have located a list of people who were interviewed by these committees. Record Group 233 at NARA has the HUAC documents. I have the HUAC finding aids, which includes the Dies Committee (1938-1944). The finding aids provide a general description of what is in these files. What will be needed is a visit to NARA to review these documents or they can be copied and sent to you for a fee.

I doubt that there will be a direct reference to M. Oswald in these files but there could be other people in them that may be linked to her or knew of her activities. For example H. Keith Thompson. He was linked to Marguerite in connection with her book. He is a neo-nazi who also lived in Yorkville in the early 1950s.

21 hours ago, Jim Hargrove said:

Perhaps that is the sort of thing that should be expected in upper level financial circles, but if we have found no direct EVIDENCE in all this time for the Permindex/CMC involvement, I sincerely doubt we ever will.    

Jim:

I agree. Much of what is said about Permindex and CMC is not based on fact and people have been saying things about them that are not true, and that are rooted in the Torbitt document, EIR and Dope Inc. While I am still interested in new info about Bloomfield and these companies I am sure that they covered their tracks regarding the covert things they  did do.

On 3/21/2020 at 6:09 PM, Jim Hargrove said:

I'm going to spend some time searching NARA docs for anything on that 1953 HUAC file referencing "Mrs. M. Oswald" in a CIA Office of Security file also referencing "1941," "Nazis," and "New Jersey."

Jim:

Have been working on this as well.  Below is the response I received from NARA that may be helpful in your research.

13 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

But there is no doubt that Clay Shaw was on the board of Permindex.

Jim:

The only document I have seen about Shaw is the one that says he is on CMC's board of directors. Permindex was established in late 1958 and there is no evidence that at that time Shaw was connected to it.

I read the same documents that Phillips did and yes it mentions the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers. I do not doubt that they were connected to Permndex and CMC and that these companies were up to something covert but the documentation does not say what covert activities they were engaged in. Assassination no, but bribery and other covert activities probably.

David:

CE 2195 mentions that there was a man and wife sitting in front of Osborne, and that the man was retired from the Bermuda Police Dept. Osborne visited Bermuda many times after departing there in 1914. Have some suspicions that he may have British intelligence connections because Bermuda is a British colony. On the passenger list, there is a name, McFarland who is travelling with his wife that is next to Bowen. Do you know anything about him?

14 minutes ago, Jim Hargrove said:

Could you give us a short version of your opinion of it?

Jim:

CMC and Permindex had nothing to do with the assassination. Bloomfield had no connection to it as well.

People connected to these 2 companies are suspicious, and as individuals may have liked to see Kennedy assassinated but I see no proof that they acted as a group to have him killed.

The many leads that are found in these companies is due to the fact that they are many right-wing neo-fascists who probably have connections to right-wing activities and therefore may overlap with those who actually planned and carried out JFK's assassination.

I have uploaded Bloomfield's papers that pertain to Permindex, CMC, President Bush and other things to Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/louismbloomfield_201907

2 hours ago, Jim Hargrove said:

In any case, it would open up new vistas in the story.

This is so true, finding this document may provide information about the fake Marguerite.

AARB documents are now at NARA, so it may be buried somewhere in this collection.

1 hour ago, John Butler said:

Louis Mortimer Bloomfield, the son of Harry Bloomfield, was born in Canada, about 1910. A Zionist, Bloomfield joined the British military and served in Palestine as an Intelligence Officer under General Charles Orde Wingate. Bloomfield was involved in training the Jewish army, Haganah (1936-1939).

President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Office of Strategic Services in 1942. Bloomfield was recruited and given the rank of major. In 1947, the OSS evolved into the Central Intelligence Agency, and Bloomfield continued doing contract work for the new organization. He was a regular visitor to Israel and met the Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion on 4th May, 1949.

A successful lawyer he worked for years at the law firm of Phillips and Vineberg in Montreal. He was also a major stockholder of Permindex, a corporation based in Switzerland. He was also the author on several books on on international law including The British Hondurus Guatemala Dispute (1953) and Egypt, Israel and the Gulf of Aqaba (1957).

In Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal (1970) William Torbitt claims that the assassination of John F. Kennedy was organized by Bloomfield and Permindex. Also involved included Defense Industrial Security Command, organized by J. Edgar Hoover and William Sullivan. Torbitt claims that Bloomfield was in control of the operation. DISC agents included Clay Shaw, Guy Banister, David Ferrie, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Jack Ruby.

John B:

Yes that is a picture of him but again you are citing a source that can't be trusted. The information above is classic dis-information that mixes fact and fiction. Yes he was a lawyer in Montreal but he did not own any Permindex stocks. Yes, he wrote about the British Honduras Guatemala dispute but no, he did not, as Torbitt states, organized Kennedy's assassination.

I know that the accusations about him upset him. He wrote a letter to the RCMP complaining about them. If the accusations were true, would he tell the RCMP about them? His letter to the RCMP is below.

The source for him being in the OSS may have come from an article by Louis Wiznitzer in the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir on March 16, 1967. The article is in French but it clearly refers to a Montreal man named L. H. Blumfield who was a major in the Canadian army during WWII and a member of the OSS. Wiznitzer didn't even get Bloomfield's name right.

https://archive.org/details/BloomfieldRCMP/mode/1up

https://archive.org/stream/BloomfieldRCMP/Bloomfield - RCMP - 2#mode/1up

https://archive.org/details/BloomfieldLeDevoirMar1667/mode/2up

15 hours ago, David Josephs said:

"A Companion of BOWEN, MacFarland..."  While the Lee H OswalJ is listed here our man was not on this bus...

The line under BOWEN and MacFarland is supposed to ID another person, same name - a spouse. 
The 2nd doc below blows this man's cooperation intent out of the water by stating there were no other English-speaking people on that FLECHA ROJAS bus.
(MacFarlands and the Aussie's took Del Norte, AND SPOKE ENGLISH yet where put on this baggage list... along with Bowen and OSWALJ)

The Feb 23, 1964 doc is the first I found connecting the 2 men...

The 2nd to bottom doc established the man BOWEN spoke of was Mexican, older, darker and CARRIED A SMALL BROWN ZIPPERED BAG
This will be the same colored bag attributed to Oswald repeatedly in relation to Mexico...  yet if you look at his personal inventory

All we have is a BLACK/BLUE ZIPPERED POUCH - bottom image, 3rd set of stuff, 3 from the top....
The BROWN zippered bag is inserted into virtually everyone's description of this man...  his description is nothing like DURAN's or Azcue's...

What surprised me was that Bowen appeared to be travelling with someone. If the line below his name indicating this accurate, I would like to know who that person was.

20 hours ago, John Kowalski said:

Clay Shaw and Louis Bloomfield were both in the OSS. 

John B:

There is no evidence that Bloomfield was in the OSS. I have his WWII military record, and according to it, he never left Canada during the war.

5 minutes ago, David Josephs said:

Again with the 6 degrees....  You mention Osbourne in China...  Ekdahl was in China... got married there.

There is no "Ekdahl" in your wonderful essay...  Ever investigate the possibility these Americans knew each other or were there at the same time?

David:

Osborne, as far as I know, never went to China. He was posted to India when he was in the army. In my story I quoted a news story about him speaking about Indian and Chinese customs. Knowing Osborne, he probably did some reading about China and told his audience that he was there.

Eckdahl is an interesting person, and his time in China definitely needs more research.

1 hour ago, John Butler said:

I'm trying to connect Clay Shaw to Permindex early on during WW2 or in the years after WW2.  Can you tell me the earliest date you have with Clay Shaw and Permindex?

John B:

Permindex opened in Basel Switzerland in late 1958. I have no evidence that Shaw was connected to Permindex.

On 3/19/2020 at 11:55 AM, John Butler said:

John Kowalski reviews Michele Metta's book about Permindex, CMC and the role of Italian fascists and freemasons in the JFK assassination, and also looks at the Louis Bloomfield papers and the recent lawsuits over their release.

And, I wondered if that was you.  And, if so could you help with information on Clay Shaw and the OSS.  The founding of Permindex.

I'm particularly interested in the Clay Shaw OSS years.  Most things on the net just say he was in the OSS.  I want to know what years were that and where did he serve.

Clay Shaw and Louis Bloomfield were both in the OSS.  Permindex was formed in Switzerland.  Did these two have anything to do with that.  Were both in Switzerland at the same time as Allen Dulles and another fellow Noah Field.

John B:

Yes that was me. I have done extensive research on Bloomfield. He donated his personal papers to Library and Archives Canada. I began reviewing them many years ago. In 2018 the archives refused to grant me further access to them so I took them to court. I won my case and most of the documents are now available for review. As part of the court settlement the archives are digitizing Bloomfield's papers and uploading them to their website where anyone can review them.

There is a lot of misinformation about Bloomfield and  the source of most of it is Dope Inc., and Executive intelligence Review. Both publications are the produced by Lyndon Larouche, former presidential candidate and notorious anti-Semite. I must stress, anything published by Larocuhe is not worth reading. He claims that Bloomfield employed Albert Osborne to manage a group of assassins. It's not true. I have researched and wrote a story about Osborne and found no connection between him and Bloomfield and no evidence that Osborne was managing a group of assassins.

Clay Shaw was connected to Centro Mondiale Commerciale (CMC) in Rome but I found no evidence connecting him to Permindex in Switzerland.

Yes, Permindex/CMC was a CIA front. There is a letter from Nagy offering to the CIA the services of his company.

Bloomfield was not the founder of Permindex or CMC. He was acting as a representative of shareholders in these companies. I have not been able to determine who these shareholders were. Michele Metta has a website where he uploaded some documents pertaining to his book. In one of them it mentions Bloomfield having possession of shares and that he was acting as a proxy. In business terms a proxy is someone who acts on someone else behalf.  In the Bloomfield papers he also writes a letter to CMC staff saying that he is acting on someone else's behalf. It would not make sense for him, if he was company founder, to write letters to other company staff and say that he is acting on someone else behalf and not the founder.

Metta in his book attempted to link CMC to JFK's assassination. He failed to do this. But he did make a good case for some of the company staff being Neo-fascists. This company had a purpose other than providing a place to sell things. CMC is the same as the Trade-Mart in New Orleans, and this is probably one of the reasons why Shaw was picked for its board of directors. There is a strong probability, given Shaw's CIA ties, that he may have had clandestine duties connected to CMC but Metta's book does not tell the reader what they were.

Below are links to what I wrote about Bloomfield and Osborne. First link is my review of Metta's book. There are 2 appendices. The first one describes my lawsuit and the prior lawsuits by Maurice Philipps who has posted on this forum. The second one describes Bloomfield's role with Permindex and CMC. The second link is to my story about Albert Osborne.

https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-reviews/the-canadian-archives-michele-metta-and-the-latest-on-permindex

https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/the-dual-life-of-albert-osborne

On 3/18/2020 at 5:36 PM, John Butler said:

n Hungary, the Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest was founded in 1941 and was involved in various efforts to save Polish, Slovak, and Hungarian Jews. In 1943, the group became a recognized arm of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. In May 1944, following the German occupation of Hungary, they approached SS officers Adolf Eichmann (one of the central figures in the "Final Solution") and Kurt Becher. It is believed that Eichmann offered to "exchange" one million Jews for certain unspecified goods. While the deal was never finalized, due to Allied objections, the Committee's negotiators eventually persuaded the Nazis to allow a transport of 1,684 Hungarian Jews to leave Budapest on June 30, 1944. After a short stay in Bergen-Belsen, these Jews reached Switzerland.

John B:

The United Nations Archives has the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) fond. This collection includes displaced persons from WWII. Could be a good place to look for documents pertaining to displaced children.

https://search.archives.un.org/united-nations-relief-and-rehabilitation-administration-unrra-1943-1946

On 3/17/2020 at 12:41 PM, Jim Hargrove said:

I’ve seen the photo on the right before described as an image of “Lee Harvey Oswald,” but know nothing about it.  Do you know about the source and anything at all about the chain of possession of either of these images?  The kids look at least similar to me, but I wouldn’t bet on anything with what I know so far.

I did a google search of the images and found this one. It is signed by Robert Oswald but I somehow doubt his credibility.

On 3/18/2020 at 12:03 PM, David Josephs said:

You make a good point about mothers/caretakers and sons which highly suggests to us that both mothers had to be aware...  Robert MUST have known and John Edward (Mr. Fuhrman) seems to have been coerced into playing along.  (Any pressure put on the PIC family in regards to deporting the Fuhrman family ..??? ( just a thought)

One ought to also question the story Ozzie told about "finding Communism" at such a young age and via a pamphlet... given that comes from HARVEY I'd be very wary about its authenticity.  So I believe we must conclude that little Harvey was pre-disposed to the Communist way of life....  is this because he was, or was "trained" to be more accepting thereby making it easier down the line to get a man into Russia.  (The defection programs of the late 50's early 60's just screams Dulles/Angleton et al as they too knew they were losing the Intel wars.)

David:

Ozzie finding communism from a pamphlet is lame, just like so many stories about Harvey that were created by the WC, CIA or FBI.

Who is the Fuhrman family and did they live in a home that Marguerite and Harvey lived in?

Found Gerald Patrick Hemming's military record on internet Archive. In the Ernie Lazar collection search "Gerald Patrick Hemming FOIA docs."

Jim:

Did John A. ever find evidence that there were more than one Marguerite and Harvey? When the Oswald project began they knew that this would a long-term project. They would have to wait years before Harvey was old enough to be used in a clandestine operation. In the intervening years they could have left the project, became incapacitated or passed away. Perhaps the CIA created a number of mother and son duos who could be used in future operations.

18 hours ago, Jim Hargrove said:

Do you think there is any chance she will make her notes available to researchers?  Depending on how thorough they were, this could be a real opportunity not only to get more information about the calls, but also to cut though any possible FBI disinfo.

Jim:

There is a possibility that she will make these notes available to us but not now. She is settling her husband's estate and does not want to look through all of her boxes to look for them. Will contact her in a few months and see if she has time to look for them.

On 3/13/2020 at 11:07 AM, David Josephs said:

In the summer and fall of 1958, Donald Edward Browder, the ex-Canadian pilot who was reported to be involved with Ruby since the late 1940s, was arrested for smuggling guns to Castro. Browder was later sentenced to three years in prison for this (Scott Malone's memorandum, dated September 19, 1977 in Ruby file, Assassination Archives, Washington DC):

“Browder [was] in a US prison serving three years for a conviction of receiving, transporting, and possessing stolen Canadian securities. The securities were stolen from the Brockville Savings and Trust company and two other Canadian financial institutions. While the FBI supplied several reports to the Warren Commission concerning Browder, including his denial about knowing Ruby, they withheld hundreds of reports from Browder's file which illuminated his extensive involvement in gun smuggling to Cuba and the stolen Canadian securities. Both the gun smuggling to Cuba and the stolen Canadian securities were activities controlled by Norman Rothman. Rothman admits to knowing Browder.

On July 7, 1961, Browder gave a sworn deposition to the American Surety Company in which he stated that he had obtained the stolen securities he was arrested for ($136,000) from the 26th of July Movement, Fidel Castro's revolutionary group, in exchange for arms during the summer and fall of 1958. Browder stated that he had obtained the weapons from the International Armament Corporation (InterArmco) in Alexandria, Virginia, starting in late May and early June of 1958. Browder was apparently the purchasing agent for the Rothman gun-running operation to Castro's forces.

David:

On November 10, 1959, Anthony Tucci, who was associated with Bartone and Al Ferris aka Frank Morino, went to a Montreal with a check drawn on a Montreal Swiss bank for $187,000 to allegedly do an arms deal. There is a financial institution called Credit Suisse (Canada ) that existed in Montreal at this time and one of its directors was Louis M. Bloomfield.

Bartone - Montreal Swiss Bank.pdf

12 minutes ago, Jim Hargrove said:

John,

I'm still trying to catch up here after my vacation, so forgive me if I missed a later post about this, but I was wondering if you have received a reply from Tina Tippit Brown or have any other new information about her or or daughter.  Thanks so much for doing this! 

Jim:

I received a telephone call from Tina and an email from her granddaughter. Had a nice chat with her and she told me something about accents. She is from Texas and the only accent she is familiar with is Mexican accents. So her comments about what type of accent the caller had were probably not accurate.

She said that she did not know the woman caller. The woman called a number of times and every time she called she was in a rush, fearing being overheard.

She does not know the Tippit family because they are distant relatives, if they are relatives at all. She said there are different ways to spell Tippit and because of this they may not be relatives and the only thing they have in common is that they are from the same part of Texas.

She made notes on the call but does not want to access them right now because she is cleaning up her late-husband's estate and the notes are packed away in boxes.

Her comments about the woman fearing being overheard are interesting. If Tina's impression is correct, that she feared being overheard, this would suggest that she was not calling from a telephone booth but from a home or office where she could be overheard. If she did not call from a telephone booth then there is the possibility that the number could be traced and having this number would lead to the identity of the caller.

23 hours ago, John Butler said:

I'm not done with Elizabeth Bentley.  John K. brought up a book about Elizabeth which suggested several nice clues.  I'm waiting for that to come in a week or so. 

John B:

The book I mentioned is available for free on Internet Archive. If you ordered your book from Amazon they will probably give you your moeny back.

If you do not already have an Internet Archive account, create one and then borrow the book. They will let you have it for 14 days. When I am looking for books, I always go there first.

22 hours ago, John Butler said:

Could be.  However, persecution of informers and those who betrayed the communists would be a good way to bona fide those folks. 

John B:

You may be correct about this, they could have been falsely persecuted to improve their standing within the communist party and yes we will probably never know for sure whose side they were on.

Dallas Action Podcast # 92: Counterintelligence Expert And Documents Archivist Michael Best.

The interview with Michael Best described the huge counter intelligence database, which includes JFK documents, that he has uploaded to Internet Archive. His goal is to publish 13 million documents. Search terms "Michael Best" resulted in over 1 million items. If you are looking for new research material, you should have a look at his collection.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/2016/03/01/my-crowdfunding-campaign-a-bid-to-publish-13-million-pages-of-cia-documents/

18 hours ago, John Butler said:

Fred doesn't sound like a happy camper or happy communist.  Was he secretly a Christian rather than a good communist atheist?  Why end a letter with Amen?

Something is being said here that might be in accord with Fred Blair as a founding member of the Oswald Project. 

If John Gardos, Janos Gardos, the son of Emil Gardos is not Harvey Oswald then what are we left with?  Louis Weinstock and a young European immigrant, maybe an orphan, and perhaps a Hungarian posed as the son of Emil Gardos sometime during the period 1945-1947?  Maybe.  This idea will be developed further later. 

You make a good point about his communist sympathies, if he was a lifelong communist why all of the criticism of the socialist state and and I missed '"Amen." An odd word to by used by a communist. He may have started out as a communist but he may have become disillusioned with it as time went on. If he really did give up on it, then the question is when. In 1965 Hoover labeled his store a communist bookstore. This would imply that in the 60s that he is still loyal to the cause. For this reason I do not believe that he was not a good candidate for the Oswald project.

The fact that the Gardos returned to Hungary in 1948 also suggests that they were still loyal to the cause.

They are not good candidates for the Oswald project. The call was most likely another attempt to paint Oswald red.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/life/green-sheet/2017/01/17/milwaukee-bookstore-made-fbi-chief-see-red/96611154/