Bob Ness

I'm not certain whether anyone is aware of this at the Harold Weisberg archive but I figured I'd post it just for drill.

Written for Gung Ho magazine  by William Seymour (ha! yeah most likely THAT William Seymour) a former mercenary who was in Cuba in 1961 about former Nazi and CIA operator Helmut Streicher. Not particularly revealing details but the article features Streicher's comments on Lumumba/Congo, the JFKA and other interesting odds and ends. Running him to ground could generate some interesting information.

Streicher worked with Schellenberger, Skorzeny and Canaris during WWII and was in Spain with Franco setting up spy networks prior to that. Naturally he dodged the Russians at the end of the war and US Army intel brought him on board (no doubt after Helen Keller checked him for war crimes etc).

He seems to be an under-the-radar type that was mixed up in a lot of major ops. I wonder what his crypto(s) is and whether he may have been a QJ at some point. He certainly had the background for it if indeed QJ is a Spanish crypto.

If anyone has more information on him please post.

http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg Subject Index Files/C Disk/CIA Cuba Policy/Item 03.pdf

First post.

Was there a CIA doppleganger project that could explain the Harvey/Lee and Landesberg stories? Just curious as they certainly tried a lot of weird stuff (Northwoods, MK/Ultra, etc).