David Boylan

April 5, 2007

Originally from Anne Marie Kuhns-Walko:

The following is an excerpt of a 15 Page document available from the National Archives under RIF #180-10078-10023.

It is a letter from a private citizen named Grace B. Vale to the HSCA dated July 10, 1978.

BEGIN DOCUMENT EXCERT:

PERSONS WHO MAY HAVE INFORMATION

AND BEEN OVERLOOKED

II. ROY FRANKHOUSER worked as an undercover agent and said he was scheduled to

testify before the Warren Commission in 1964 until someone in the Executive

Branch quashed his subpoena for "National Security" reasons.

Frankhouser said in a 1975 interview he has information about teams organized

for the Kennedy assassination by agents who infiltrated groups ranging from

right to left, including the Minutemen, the American Nazi Party, and the Socialist Workers

Party.

Frankhouser said Michael and Ruth Paine were fellow undercover agents whom he

met in 1960 when he infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party. The Paines became

involved with Lee Harvey Oswald in early 1963. According to Frankhouser, Ruth Paine was Oswald's

intelligence "baby sitter" ad helped him set up a radical left-wing cover including his one

man Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans.

Frankhouser also said the Paines took Oswald to New York and attended an

International Scientific meeting where Frankhouser met Oswald. [1]

The following independent support gives Frankhouser's story an edge of credibility:

a. Many researchers believe George De Mohrenschildt was Oswald's intelligence

"baby sitter." George De Mohrenschildt introduced Ruth Paine to Oswald, and

after De Mohrenschildt left for Haiti in April, 1963, Ruth Paine was in constant touch

with Oswald or his wife until November 22.

b. Ruth Paine did go to the northeast in September, 1963, and a Secret

Serviceman asked Marina Oswald if she had any knowledge about Oswald's trip to

Washington, D. C., one of the cities Ruth Paine visited. [2] Furthermore, in a letter to the

manager of The Worker in New York City dated August 31, 1963, Oswald applied for a job as a

photographer and said he would be in New York "in a few weeks." [3]

c. An International Scientific Organization did meet in New York in September,

1963, when Ruth Paine was in the northeast. Its name was the Comite

International de l'Organisation Scientifique, and its chief host was David Rockefeller. It met

from September 16 through 20, 1963. Ruth Paine returned to New Orleans on September 20.

[1] New Solidarity, November 2O, 1975. Norman Kempster also reported Roy

Frankhouser's revelations In the Washington Star.

[2] Hearings before the President's Commission on the Assassination of

President Kennedy, US Government Printing Office, 1964, XXIII, 387.

[3] Hearings, XXII, 169-170.

FRANKHOUSER - 2 -

The United States affiliate of the Comite International de l'Organisation

Scientifique, the host to the International Management Congress, as it was

called, was the Council for International Progress in Management. They did not refer to business, they

were talking about managing the world.

In a welcoming speech the host David Rockefeller said the program had been

"carefully planned over a two year period." The official program which was

printed in the Don Bell Report of September 13, 1963, said, "Leaders from business, education and

government from approximately 100 countries will participate... Special grants from the U. S.

State Department, several foundations and corporations will bring approximately 250

of 'tomorrow's leaders' to the Congress, and to unique four week management development

courses... The Comite International de l'Organisation Scientifique, sponsor of the Congress, has

played a major role in the last 4O years in influencing managerial thinking, methods and practices..."

In addition to David Rockefeller, some other members of the Advisory Board

were:

Henry R. Luce, Editor-in-Chief, Time, Life, Fortune

Malcolm Muir, Honorary Chairman, Newsweek, Inc.

Frank Stanton, President, Columbia Broadcasting System

Harold S. Geneen, President, International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation

W. W. Overton, Jr., Trustee, former Chairman, National Industrial Conference

Board; Chairman of the Board and President, Texas Bank and Trust Company of Dallas

James W. Aston, President, Republic National Bank of Texas [4]

(Warren Leslie wrote, "[in Dallas] there are a few men ,whose support in any

civic project is an absolute necessity. Among them [are]...James Aston, head

of the Republic National Bank...

The bankers are present not only because of the personal influence of the men

but because in any civic project the bank 'clearing house,' an organization of

all Dallas banks, must approve ... Without the banks... the project is dead."[5] Jack

Ruby's closest friend, Ralph Paul, who had a financial interest in the Carousel, was alleged to have

been a banker associated with the Republic National Bank. [6]

[4] Don Bell Reports, September 13, 1963. Cited and reprinted

in Wickliffe B. Vennard, Sr., What's wrong in Washington?

Forum Publishing Company, 324 Newberry Street, Boston, pp. 84-94.

[5] Warren Leslie. Dallas Public and Private, Grossman Publishers,

New York, 1964, p. 75.

[6] Hearings, XXIII, 3

FRANKHOUSER - 3 -

(Patrolman Joe Murphy said the pickup truck stalled near the Book Depository

Building on the morning of November 22,1963, was the property of a company

doing construction on a bank building. [7] Julie Mercer reported a man carried a

rifle case from this stalled truck to the grassy knoll, and said the driver of the truck was Jack Ruby. [8]

the next day, November 23, Ruby called Breck Wall In Galveston at the home of Tom McKenna

whose son was working on a construction job at the Republic National Bank.)[9]

d. Further support for Frankhouser's story is provided by Larry Schmidt who

lead a group who infiltrated right wing organizations in Dallas in the year before

President Kennedy's assassination. Schmidt wrote the black bordered ad that "welcomed"

President Kennedy to Dallas in an insulting manner, and was also the leader of the group

that attacked Adlai Stevenson on October 24, 1963. [10]

In a letter marked "DESTROY" on every page to SP Larry Jones stationed in

Munich where Schmidt had been in charge of public relations for Armed Forces

Recreations Centers before his discharge, [11] Schmidt revealed that he and his colleagues

lacked the ideological convictions of the groups they were planning to infiltrate. This

letter, which as Schmidt boasted to Jones his first letter would be, is on National Indignation

Committee stationary. In it Schmidt tells of deal he has made with the National

Indignation Committee (NIC) to merge his group called Conservatism, USA (CUSA)with NIC. You must understand

I am making this offer with tongue in cheek - we'll get rid of our new 'partners.' ... NIC

is ripe for take over exactly as we planned... NIC leaders are not demagogues - are 'guy next

door' - nice American guy, sincere' dedicated - not too bright... everything is going our

way! I'm calling the shots - and I have painted a lovely picture - best con job yet.

"All plans must be in final form by 1 July 63... It is all up to you... You

people must learn conservatism immediately. Everyone will read 'Conscience of a

Conservative' now... you must know Conservative philosophy..." [12]

[7] Commission Document 205, printed in Josiah Thompson, Six Seconds in Dallas,

Bernard Geis Associates, New York, 1967, p. 219

[8] Jim Garrison, A heritage of Stone, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1970, pp. 43-4

[9] Hearings, XIV, 613.

[10] Hearings, XXIII, 471-472

[l1] Hearings, V, 495.

[l2] Hearings, XVIII, 878.

FRANKHOUSER - 4 -

Schmidt was apparently an able and Intelligent man. He had worked as editor of

the Culver City Citizen, Culver City, California, before serving in the

Army.[13]

Another person associated with the National Indignation Committee In the

pre-assassination period was Morris Tannehill [14], described as appearing

highly educated, very well read, with an excellent personality.

After the Kennedy assassination he told T. V. Stephens Jack Ruby was "dead

either way he goes unless he gets a life sentence because somebody will rub him

out," and that it was well known that Ruby had been mixed up with the Communists and had

a plane chartered to go to Mexico the day of Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination, but did not

go..."

On February 18, 1964, Tannehill displayed a business card to Stephens which

said he was a sales representative of the Noel R. Chapin Company, 4136 Commerce,

Dallas , Texas.

[15]

In a report dated April 17, 1964, Tannehill advised he was employed at

Christian Memorial Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri. [16] A credit bureau report listed

him as a former employee of Acme Electric, no address shown. [14]

In Dallas Tannehill had lived at 5715 Beckley (the Holiday Lodge Hotel), [14]

where two strange deaths took place shortly after the assassination. One of

them a 23 year old ex-marine named Jack Eugene Ramsey was found hanging in a room in the Holiday

Lodge Motel at 5715 Beckley, on May 8, 1964, and the other was the manager of the motel who

died shortly thereafter. [17]

(Jack Ruby reportedly made dates for girls who worked in his club in the

holiday motel in Irvington, where Ruby had an associate. [18] And Willard DeLacy stated

he last saw Ruby on November 19, 1963, at the Holiday Inn Motel. [19] I don't know if

these Holiday Motels are the one where Tannehill lived and the murder and other death

occurred, however.)

e. Michael Paine said he also attended meetings of the National Indignation

Committee [20] and of the other right wing and left wing causes, and indicated

Oswald did the same.

[13] Hearings, XXIII, 471.

[14] Hearings, XXVI, 317.

[15] Hearings, XXVI, 115.

[16] Hearings, XXVI, 318.

[17] Penn Jones, The Midlothian Mirror, Midlothian, Texas 76065,

January 20, 1972.

[18] Hearings, XXIII, 373.

[19] Hearings, XXV, 713

[20] Hearings, XI, 400.

FRANKHOUSER - 5 -

Paine remarked while testifying to the Warren Commission, "I remember stepping

over him [Oswald] as he sat in front of the TV,...and thinking to myself for a

person who has a business to do he certainly can waste the time. By business 1 mean some

kind of activity and keeping track of right-wing causes and left-wing causes or something." [21]

Even if Roy Frankhouser is an agent of disinformation, independent sources show

there is some truth to his story, and I hope you will thoroughly pursue the above leads.

[21] Hearings, II, 412.

March 23, 2007

Bradley E. Ayers on David Morales:
"….I was directed to go to Rip's Marathon safe-house on the west shore of Florida Bay and run the V20 back to the Pirate's Lair safe-house complex, where I'd turn it over to Cabeza. Logistics gave me a car to deliver to Rip in return. On the way down U.S. 1, I stopped at the Green Turtle Inn in Isamorada for a bowl of soup. It was early afternoon and most of the lunch crowd had left. But near the back of the restaurant, seated at a large circular table, were Dave Morales, Mr. Harvey, Gordon Campbell, Mr. Phillips and another man, possibly Rosselli, whose back was turned to me. They apparently had stopped for lunch and drinks. I don't know if they recognized me or not. As was the practice in such situations within the agency, there was no acknowledgement, either way.

Discretely, I got my soup to go and quickly left. It was the first time I had ever seen the station hierarchy in the Keys and out of their air-conditioned offices. It was encouraging, maybe something big was in the offing. I thought. Rip was in the Marathon safe-house when I arrive…."

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Bill is this David Cabeza? If it is, he was an associate of John Martino and later worked with him in his Import/Export business. If my memory is working ok today, he was also associated with Rolando Masferrer. I'm sure James has a picture of Cabeza. :-)

Dave

September 21, 2006

"Be sure to read about the US Army Air Defense Command document on Beckham on page 372 of Mellen's book!.....reading in part:

"intelligence service from Oct. 27, 1963 under Gov Control Fact Finding Missions....." - Peter Lemkin

Interesting...there was also a report that Clint Wheat called his wife from an Army base after he disappeared when he found out Garrison was going to supoena him. Wheat is a very under-researched subject.

Here's some Beckham HSCA testimony:

Beckham: Right. Okay. I guess the best place to start is a meeting I had in Algiers, Louisiana...that's as soon as you get off the ferry boat. It's in Orlean Parish. This meeting was attended by myself, Sergio Arcacha, G. Wray Gill, a gentleman by the name of Marcello. If I'm not mistaken a picture I've seen of him was Vincent Marcello. Along with me was a gentleman, a little bitty guy, his name was O Lord, let's see, Morello, Charlie Morello, and Sergio Arcacha was there. Roswell Thompson and a lady by the name of Berglass, she was Anna. At this meeting there were Cubans present, other ones. We talked about, I say "we", they talked about the assassination of the President....We also had a meeting at a place called the Town and Country. That's a motel, vaguely as I can remember on the right hand side of the highway going out towards the airport. This meeting was attended by a Marcello, there was G. Wray Gill, and us there at the time. At that particular meeting, the Cuban issue was discussed, the President, his involvement and how, oh, different things, that, how the President refused to give air support, things like this was discussed. Also I delivered a package approximately, I'd say, two weeks to Dallas prior to the assassination of the President, to a Mr. Howard. I went into Mr. G. Wray Gill's office, I was told to go there by Mr. Ferrie, which I knew real well, and in his office shuffled up some documents which were drawings, that of a map, or plots and stuff. There were some pictures, pictures of buildings and cars and was regular pictures but they wasn't glossy. They were put inside of an envelope at which time G. Wray Gill handed me...it was either one hundred or two hundred dollars, and told me that I was to be, I was going to be taken to the airport. I was to deliver this package to a Mr. Howard at the Executive Inn. At this meeting was Roswell, was Jack Martin, David Ferris[sic] and a bunch of...Sergio Arcacha. Also at the meeting was your Mr. Marcello was at the meeting, setting at, they were setting on a couch. I remember the couch....My good friend Clay Shaw was also there.

[…]

I was sitting at my desk at my home and Jack Martin I had got hold of and asked him, I found out that Martin was a, I knew that Martin was in the Organization and I thought that Martin was to sell me out, using me as the escapegoat [sic]. And I got mad at Martin and hung up with Martin and that’s when I received my telephone call from Crisman …telling me don’t worry about the [Garrison] investigation, that I was to go to someplace in Iowa that they couldn’t serve me there, and not to worry about it. I said “well, Jack is selling me out.” He said, “Don’t worry about Jack. Jack is himself leading the investigation in another direction, and he’s a, it’s going in the opposite direction…

That Jack was the plant inside of it and would feeding information [sic], only the information he wanted Garrison to know.

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And an anonymous letter to Garrison. Some believe that Crisman himself sent it.

Mr. G;

Out on the coast is a man you should talk with. Trace this

information out. His name is Fred Lee Crisman, of Tacaoma, Wash.

He flys to New Orleans steadily. 1964 eleven times. 1965, 17

times. 1966 32 times, 1967 24 times. He is the first man Clay

called after being told he was in trouble and he is the first

man that Beckham called also. He was questioned by both the CIA

and FBI in 1966 but he is able to call Wash. and they laid off of

him in a hurry. He is very good friends with Cubans and specially

SA [sergio Arcacha] in Dallas (he goes there too) and J.R. [Jorge

Rodriguez] in N.O.

Mr. Crisman is a very odd man. He supplied money for certain

political campaigns and in return is very much protected by both

Lou. politicos and Wash. state people. He has a diplomatic

passport issued on the word of a senate chairman of a committee.

He seems to have no income and certainly spends a large sum of

money on air travel. He is friends with F. Gremillion of your

state. His private office has an unlisted number (206 Ma 7-4790)

and is the meeting place for many odd characters from Cubans

to political figures. Ask him to take a lie detector test and

then ask him where he put the $200,000 dollars delivered to him

by Beckham in August of '67. (Cuban Money) Money that is used to

recruit killers to be sent to Cuba to try for Castro ask him if

it is not true that he has sent 5 different men to S.A. in Dallas

for final briefing. Make Crisman talk and you will have the

answer to why there has been fighting among certain Cuban factions

over the money in certain buried places. You know this is true

because some special Cubans have dropped out of sight. (Dropped

in Torpedo Junction) Crisman is also a pilot. He is the man that

through Beckham and S.A. (Arcacha] paid off certain people is

it not odd that he was a friend of Clay's as well as Beckham.

Is it not strange that he knew Tippet! Just ask Crisman certain

questions under a lie detector and see what the answers are. He

is the one that advised Mark Evans [beckham's alias] to hide

out in Iowa and NOT to go to N.O. to make any statement about

money or anything. Have an investigator check out the amount of

long distance calls that Beckham (Evans) has made to Crisman in

the past year and the wild places Crisman calls. He is leaving

for Europe in Jan. Keep digging Jim, you have some odd fish

on the run.

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There was also a report that Crisman was hiding Wheat.

September 14, 2006

Steve/James,

Good thread and good info.

Dave

September 14, 2006

teve,

Great find!

I think I've posted this before but it deserves a second look:

HSCA Testimony of Loran Hall. Pg. 60

Mr. Triplett. Just give us a very brief description of the purpose of the meeting and those people there.

Hr. Hall. We were wasting our time with the hit and run raids in Cuba. It was a waste of effort. We were losing too much equipment, too many boats to the Coast Guard, CIA, FBI, the whole stick. Not only did we have to worry about fighting the Cubans but we had to fight the American Government also. So rather than go through all that Logue and myself decided what we would try to do was form a government-in-exile, Cuban government-in-exile, try to get all the groups to come together under one group. In order to do that we had to have someone, some Cuban who would be accepted by all of the groups. That was my job in Dallas, I mean Miami. We tried to do that. We couldn’t get that accomplished. The groups wouldn’t agree to one president. So we decided what we would try to do was get $50,000 between Logue and his group, get enough equipment and enough boats so we could make our raid into Cuba, get boats from Cuba so we could have a line of logistics between the United States and Cuba, and in that way possibly we could have ---at a later date get someone who would be accepted by all the different groups, and if we could have gotten enough equipment and enough people involved was [sic] and could have formed a government-in-exile.

Mr. Triplett. So essentially are you saying this meeting was for the purpose of raising money to accomplish this task?

Mr. Hall. Yes.

Mr. Triplett. And your role in the meeting, you, Loran Hall, were there sort of as a promoter or the person to explain it. Is this what your purpose was for being there?

Mr. Hall. I think it was. I was there mostly because I was you might say the military part of the operation.

Mr. Triplett. At that meeting was a comment made regarding the killing of President Kennedy?

Mr. Hall. Yes, there was.

Mr. Triplett. Which one of these persons that you have described made the comment?

Mr. Hall. The man by the name of Jack that owned the trucking company.

Mr. Triplett. What exactly did Jack say and do?

Mr. Hall. What we were saying, was between the five of them, they could come up with $10,000 apiece, come up with $50,000, that would be enough money to get us started. And Jack jumped up, or whatever his name was, jumped up and threw either his billfold or checkbook or something on the table and said, xxxx, I will put $50,000 in right now if the rest of you will match it, and we will have Kennedy’s head blowed off because with Johnson in as President, he is a Texan and Texans take care of Texans.

[…..]

pg 83.

Mr. Triplett. What was your purpose for being in Dallas at that time? [March, 1963]

Mr. Hall. That is when I went to, I think that was the time that I went to Dallas, Texas to see Lester Logue concerning forming a government-in-exile, a Cuban government-in-exile, at which time he agreed that it would be a avenue that would be worth looking into, at which time he got me a ticket and I flew back to Miami and I started pursuing that avenue.

[…]

Mr. Triplett. What were you doing during the daytime?

Mr. Hall. Contacting various people, trying to make contact for equipment. Lester Logue, I went and seen Niko [Crespi] several times and I think on one occasion Dan Smoot, and I seen Robert Morris, and I went to the newspaper place and talked to “Poor Richard” or whatever his pen name was.

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Weisberg interview of Hall Feb 1968.

Hall. [describing his two Cuban friends in Dallas. ] I remember one of them was kind of stout, real stout built and about, oh, I would say he was about 5’10” or 5’11”. – and the other one was short, he was probably 5’6”, small in stature and I know his dad owned a

Sugar plantation in Mexicalli.

[…]

Weisberg. Yeah.

Hall. And I went to see Keating [senator Keating], because I had sent Keating, that never did show – never came through because he never said a word about it.

Weisberg. Incidentally, and you may not want to talk about this it’s just curiosity, nothing directly to do with this- do you have any idea who was feeding Keating the stuff on the Cuban missile crisis?

Hall. Oh I have , I have a good idea who it was, I ah, I ah, don’t know for sure but I have a good idea – it was the CIA.

Pg 46.

Hall. Well, wait just a minute, it does in a way because we had talked, to uh, Duncan [Tom Duncan] and some of the other guys about going in and pulling a raid in Georgia out at Fort Benning where they carry all the , uh…

Weisberg. You mean to get some equipment.

Hall. Yeah, you know, you know, this is standard procedure, steal Army equipment. Hell, they’ve got it and we want it.

Weisberg. Well, there is reason to believe that it happened down in Texas.

Hall. Oh, we know it did.

Weisberg. Really?

Hall. Oh –haha.

Weisberg. Really know it happened, or is all you have is rumor.

Hall. We know..(laughter)

Weisberg. Care to tell me about it?

Hall. No, I don’t want to..

Weisberg. You know there were people involved…

Hall. I know quite a few people involved.

Weisberg. Did that stuff really get out?

Hall. Damn right it did.

Weisberg. Didn’t have anything to do with getting your boats in Dallas did it?

Hall. I’m not saying a word. (laughter) No, I can tell you that there was 250 VARS [sic] that got out.

[…]

Hall. They went to Majaris, from Majaris right, right into Cuba and they went to Oriente.

[…]

Hall. Yeah, do you know where Majaris Island is at?…Well it’s off Yucatan…there is an island called Majaris.

[..] pg 73

Hall. …We had a hell of a deal set up – we were going to take all the, uh, we were going to take Prio Socarres to Guatemala and we were going to invade Cuba from Guatemala into Oriente, set up a 24 hour holding period and ask the United Nations to come in and help us and we were going to do this and Prio Soccares got…Yeah, and do you know what. The dirty lousy son of a bitch wouldn’t do it. Prio Soccares flat turned me down and I had the money, I had the ground and I had everything set up.

Weisberg. Did you have an army?

Hall. You bet.

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The Jack that owns the trucking company was most likely J.E Rose of the Rose Truck Line.

September 14, 2006

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September 14, 2006

Steve,

Thanks much for the info.

I believe it was Crespi that Hall was with when they went to hassle Oswald when he was passing out leaflets.

I'm also working under the theory that Hall (Howard and Celio Castro-Alba) left the weapons (and medical supplies they picked from Guy Gabaldon's garage(?)) at Lester Logue's father's or father-in-law's house (I've seen both) to have John Masen convert them to full auto. They originally picked up the weapons from Clint Wheat in LA.

Maybe someone could tie this altogether - Hall's arrest in Dallas when he came back to pick up the weapons, snitching on Masen to either Hosty (FBI) or Coyle, the FBI and ATF investigation of Masen and the "Cubans", Masen's knowledge of a new invasion, Masen contacting Nonte to get the conversion kits, Ruby's mechanic (Darnell Whitaker?) getting in the car accident with a car full of weapons....

September 14, 2006

Steve,
In late 1962 and early 1963, three recruiting offices were set up in Dallas so that fit exiled Cubans could be trained for action against Castro.

The offices were at 3221 Hudnall and run by Bruno Martinez, 4619 Cole Manor and run by Antonio Crespi and at 2212 Kirby run by Francisco Leyva. Leyva was a qualified veterinarian.

There is no doubt that Orcarberrio knew Leyva as the more militant and motivated exiles who signed on were of much interest to him. Orcarberrio was also concerned about possible Castro agents trying to infiltrate the ranks.

Father McChann also knew Leyva as both men were part of a committee to assist in relocating refugees and to council those doing it tough. Along with McChann and Leyva, others on the committee were Francisco Guitierrez and Fernando Robaina.

Francisco Leyva below.

James

Hi James,

Is Antonio Crespi aka Nico Crespi? Nico was a Dallas friend and contact of Loran Hall. Maybe Gerry will know.

Dave

August 30, 2006

The following is an excerpt of a 15 Page document available from the National

Archives under RIF #180-10078-10023.

It is a letter from a private citizen named Grace B. Vale to the HSCA dated

July

10, 1978.

BEGIN DOCUMENT EXCERT:

PERSONS WHO MAY HAVE INFORMATION

AND BEEN OVERLOOKED

II. ROY FRANKHOUSER worked as an undercover agent and said he was scheduled to

testify before the Warren Commission in 1964 until someone in the Executive

Branch quashed his subpoena for "National Security" reasons.

Frankhouser said in a 1975 interview he has information about teams organized

for the Kennedy assassination by agents who infiltrated groups ranging from

right to left, including the Minutemen, the American Nazi Party, and the Socialist Workers

Party.

Frankhouser said Michael and Ruth Paine were fellow undercover agents whom he

met in 1960 when he infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party. The Paines became

involved with Lee Harvey Oswald in early 1963. According to Frankhouser, Ruth Paine was Oswald's

intelligence "baby sitter" and helped him set up a radical left-wing cover including his one

man Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans.

Frankhouser also said the Paines took Oswald to New York and attended an

International Scientific meeting where Frankhouser met Oswald. [1]

The following independent support gives Frankhouser's story an edge of

credibility: