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  1. 23 hours ago, Jim Hargrove said:

    John: Is the family still in Connecticut?  I was born and raised in NYC and the northern ‘burbs and MIGHT be able to locate someone from the area, though it has been (gasp!) more than half a century since I was there for more than a day or two.

    Found an online article stating that she died in 2020. She was living with someone when I contacted her so there was the possibility that who ever was living with her could be contacted, but her home was sold in 2021.    

  2. 6 hours ago, Jim Hargrove said:

    Hi, John.  Good to run into you again!

    I mentioned you just yesterday in THIS POST about the anonymous phone call to the Tippit's of Connecticut.  It's been awhile, and so I hope I got most of the facts right.  If you could take a quick look at that post and tell me if you recalled anything differently, I'd appreciate it.

    Jim:

    Its good to hear from you again. Read your post and would not change anything. If you know anyone who lives near her, maybe we can arrange for someone to pay her a visit.

    Went to NARA last summer and did some research on Clay Shaw, Edwin Ekdahl and Marguerite Oswald. Was interested in ONI front companies that may have employed Ekdahl but did not find any companies that provided a front for him when he went to China.

  3. On 1/21/2024 at 6:38 PM, Lawrence Schnapf said:

    We have accounts that a ONI investigation on oswald was done in the weeks after the assassination and the investigatve materials were stored at naval bases around the world so they would not be found if a record search was done  in DC.  

    What is your source for these accounts?

  4. On 1/14/2024 at 1:27 PM, Kirk Gallaway said:

    But I don't find these advocates are overbearing and you can usually see from the titles of  their threads what their views are and choose to ignore or get involved.

    The shamers should ignore threads that they don't agree with. They are the ones making the shaming comments.

  5. On 11/11/2023 at 9:58 AM, Keyvan Shahrdar said:

    This historical obscurity raises critical questions: Did the U.S. government, in the midst of Cold War anxieties, extend its surveillance network to Russian communities in cities like Irving, as it did with Japanese communities during World War II? Could this surveillance have been a part of a larger strategy, especially during the tense period of the JFK administration, marked by high-stakes espionage and international conflict?

    A 1968 Montreal Star article reported that the CIA admitted in a Baltimore court that it had conducted counter-espionage activities in the US. The article states that a Canadian citizen, Erik Heine who is an Estonian emigre sued Juri Raus who is also an Estonian emigre for slander because Raus said that Heine was a KGB operative.

     

    https://archive.org/details/img2406_202003

  6. 1 hour ago, Paul Brancato said:

    This looks interesting. Have you read it? Reminds me of some of the research and personal recollections of Peter Levenda in Sinister Forces. 

    Read a preview copy of the book as the author had some questions regarding my research. Also provided him with some documents I had on Anglin. Have read Levenda's grimoire, Sinister Forces, while Levenda is mentioned in the book, it is about Anglin.

  7. 3 hours ago, Joseph Backes said:

    I wouldn't go this route.  I didn't see a recommended JFK assassination researcher. There are many JFK records that do not have RIFs. 

    You do not need a dedicated JFK researcher to do this research and there are no RIFs. All of the documents in his collection are documents donated by him. 

    If you ask NARA to copy it for you using the information provided by Joseph and me  ask how long it will take. if it takes too long, hire a researcher.

    If you hire a researcher give that person the information provided by Joseph and the documents location: JFK, No Entry Number, JFK Collection: Papers of Edward F. Wegmann. Boxes 1-7 Stack 650L1, Row 67, Compartment 34, Shelf 4.  This was provided by to me by NARA and this is how I ordered the documents.  The researcher can email it to NARA and request an advance pull. When they confirm that it has been pulled the researcher can go there and review the boxes. It can take up to 2 hours to retrieve archival material and you do not want to pay the researcher to wait for the boxes.

     

     

     

  8. On 8/8/2023 at 9:02 AM, Tom Gram said:

    This might be a long shot, but does anyone have any digital copies of the papers of Edward F. Wegmann, or at least a detailed finding aid/document listing?

    I reviewed the Wegmann papers last month at NARA Archives II at College Park Maryland. Reviewed all 7 boxes and found a lot of documents that looked like they came from Jim Garrison's office but did not copy those interviews. If you want to review them you can hire a researcher who can make copies of them for you. With only seven boxes to review, it should not take a long time for a researcher to find them. Here is a list of independent researchers.

    https://www.archives.gov/research/hire-help

     

  9. On 6/20/2023 at 6:43 PM, Paul Brancato said:

    I wonder if there is more to learn about Grossi, so I am responding to this thread in hopes we can take a closer look. He clearly was associated with Pete Licavoli, a Detroit mobster who moved to Tuscon where Grossi lived on his estate for a while. Bill Kelly spells Licavoli’s name wrong twice. 
    The first thing I noticed browsing the many FBI files linked in these posts about Grossi was that he worked with Oswald in the photo department. Gotta wonder how he wound up at JCS. He was a career hood, and I think, given the enormous number of redactions in his record, an FBI informant. 

    I interviewed Grossi's son, John William Bowen in 2017. Asked him how he got the job at JCS and he replied "The job at Jaggars was - I believe - through someone who had previously tried to mentor him during his teens. I don't recall the name, but he was generally regarded as someone who tried - unsuccessfully - to point him in the right direction."

    Grossi's Leavenworth inmate record dated 1959 stated that he sent money to F. Ryder. Her brother, Dial Ryder, worked at the Irving gun shop where work was allegedly done on the Manlicher Carcano.

     

  10. Library and Archives Canada, which has the Louis M Bloomfield papers, refused to give me access to them in 2018. They claimed that as Bloomfield was a lawyer, documents in his papers were subject to solicitor-client privilege and therefore should not be disclosed to the public. My theory is that the archives closed access to his papers because of the 2017 JFK Act document release. JFK's assassination was in the news and I suspect that, because of this Bloomfield's wife may have been concerned that her former husband's name would again be associated with JFK's murder. Can't prove this but she is a likely suspect.

    This was not the first lawsuit. Maurice Philipps had sued them because they refused to give him access to his papers many years earlier. I asked the Federal Court of Canada to conduct a judicial review of their decision and I won. They released almost all of his documents, with the exception of approximately 65 of them. The archives provided me with the names of the people whose documents were not released to me, and they did not match anyone I knew to be connected to Centro Mondiale Commerciale. As part of the settlement the archives agreed to digitize his papers. The most important aspect of his papers, are his letter books which contain letters he wrote regarding CMC. Bloomfield's role with this company was to represent some investors.

    Attached is a link to copies of Bloomfield's documents that I copied from his papers.

    https://archive.org/details/bloomfield_201907/Bloomfield - Alk/

    Link below is for his letter books which have been digitized by the archives.

    https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Home/Search?q=mg31-E25&num=25&start=0&OnlineCode=1

     

     

     

  11. On 4/25/2023 at 7:18 AM, Pete Mellor said:

    After answering a request from Canadian researcher (& Forum member) John Kowalski asking for a D.P.U.K. member to assist in his work on Albert Osborne, I located a living member of Osborne's family in Grimsby, England.  Another Forum member, Ron Ecker, had also done much research on Osborne. (Ron has been missing from this Forum over recent years and I miss his humour, which seems lacking at times in posts today!)  In 2020, during Covid restrictions, I presented to JFK Lancer's virtual N.I.D., with kind permission from J.K.  Certainly not unique, but I presented a copy of Osborne's 13th April '64 typed letter to his family refuting his bus travel to M.C. with L.H.O.  Also refuting the nonsense written in books such as 'Appointment in Dallas' & Torbitt's 'Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal', Sprague's 'The Taking of America' & Ramsey's 'Who Shot JFK'.  I also presented evidence from former staff of the 'Cambridge News' who were employed at the paper in '63, who considered the claim of the famous anonymous phone call to "contact the American Embassy in London for some big news" as completely fictitious.  It was John Kowalski who first uncovered the fact of the real John Howard Bowen's death in January of 1962 from injuries sustained in a car accident.  John's work has also been published on K's & K website.

    Pete:

    Thank you for your kind comments.

  12. On 2/17/2023 at 8:38 PM, Pat Speer said:

    The name Conrad Black rang a bell, so I looked it up real quick and found he was someone I'd written about before in connection with John McAdams.

    Conrad Black is a Canadian who owned a newspaper chain. He gave up his Canadian citizenship to join the house of lords in Britain. He was convicted in 2007 in the US for fraud and obstruction of justice though some of those charges were later overturned. He spent 42 months in jail and was pardoned by Trump in 2019. Found a reference to him praising Litwin's book Conservative Confidential.

    https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/conrad-moffat-black 

  13. On 2/1/2023 at 5:57 PM, Lance Payette said:

    Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" = except in Conspiracy World. That's right, all the Conspiratorially Good Stuff was purged from Shaw's file. The very fact it was absent proves it - in Conspiracy World anyway. The possibility Conspiratorially Good Stuff never existed is not a possibility in Conspiracy World, where absence of evidence is indeed evidence of absence.

    I have a copy Louis Bloomfield's WW2 military record. It does not mention that he was involved in intelligence work yet Bloomfield admitted in an interview for a magazine that he did intelligence work during the war. Records do not have to be purged if the information was never added to the record.

  14. 3 hours ago, Anthony Thorne said:

    I was joking. The hair-raising intro to his book suggests he browses the forum here with an aggrieved look of hostile rage on his face, searching through posts and profiles for new things to set him off.

    I have spoken to Fred a few times and he will never be convinced that JFK was murdered by anyone other than Lee Harvey Oswald.

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