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Interesting these Notes can be read that Oswald claimed he had a coke on the 2nd floor when Baker confronted him. Or reading another way Oswald stated that he got a coke earlier on the 2nd floor, then states that he met Officer as he came into 1st floor. Had lunch with Bill Shelley in front of TSBD.

There were no suspects for the Walker shooting until Marina's testimony to WC + photographs of Walker's house on Oswald's supposed camera & the note that supposedly fell out of a book at the Paine house.

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Tommy, from Hosty's 'Assignment Oswald' :- "Since I was in the intelligence unit of the Bureau, Revill and I frequently worked together." Regarding the get off our patch stuff :- "Still climbing the stairs, Revill snorted, "Well, if you know that Oswald killed Kennedy, why the hell didn't you tell us? Why didn't you tell us Oswald was in town and was a known Communist?" "Jack I couldn't tell you. You know Bureau policy, the need-to-know rule," I said. I was referring to the Bureau's long-standing policy on espionage cases, that only those who "need to know" particular information are told. For better or worse, the Bureau did not consider local police part of the need-to-know group.

OK Callaway & Guinyard got to see the jacket, but I don't recall Oswald being shown & asked about it in the scrappy notes of the interrogations written by Fritz, Bookhout or Hosty. Surely someone must have!

Enjoying Tommy's thread here. I too have questions that the experts could clear for me, in relation to the zipper jacket. Beckley housekeeper Roberts stated that Oswald left the rooming house with jacket. If I recall correctly she did not i.d. the same colour jacket to the Warren Commission. If the Tippit killer was seen by witnesses down Patton stuffing said gun in jacket pocket, was any forensics done? Was this possible in '63? & did DPD present this jacket during any interrogation? Also, am I correct in thinking it was dear Marina who testified to Lee owning that item? On the 50th anniversary of the assassination they had a press photography exhibition on JFK along the Mall in D.C. & in a display case was the purported light grey Eisenhower jacket.

On November 4, 1963, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) sent a cable to the Embassy in Moscow requesting to learn more about Oswald?

I think I read somewhere that Tosh stated that he smelled gunpowder when he was on the south knoll. A bullet through the windshield to JFK's neck + the head shot causing the occipital blow out from the south knoll still doesn't rule out a simultaneous frangible shot from the north knoll, causing the tiny particles seen by Humes, Boswell & Fink + Kellerman on the head x-rays at Bethesda. The witness testimonies of Zapruder, Newman & Arnold seem convincing of one shot from behind the picket fence area.

Long believed in the windshield hole & throat shot coming from the south knoll. That also provides for me the strongest evidence of S.S. complicity. It has always struck me as weird the number of missed shots which has never fitted in to the scenario of such a military style ambush. Very logical video Chris, thanks.

Yes, but I think you can request & make up your own sections cheaper than the full conference.

Micah, I met with Dennis David at the Lancer conference in 2003. I do recall he was quite emotional. At the time I hadn't read 'Best Evidence'. I sat with David by the hotel swimming pool as he was interviewed on camera with a sound recording guy, going through the same recollections. If nobody has files on the interviews the 1998 & 2003 presentations at Lancer can be put together on request on Lancer's website.

Larry's blog on Jean Rene Soutre seems to demolish any French Connection assassin. Steve, are you in agreement with that? The Christian David interviews pointing to Sarti seemed pretty interesting to me.

Since previous posts on the French Connection on this tread, I've found & caught up with Myra Bronstein's thread titled 'Jean Souetre' from back in 2017. All interesting stuff but I think I'm up to speed on this with Kross' book. Cheers for the heads up on 'somesecretsforyou'. I haven't come across the diplomatic immunity for Mertz before. That would figure. As for the Maurice Phillips book $185 I think I'll pass......but worth checking up on other French titles on this subject.....if there are English translations.

Cheers Steve. There is a chapter on Mertz in Kross' book. OAS, Heroin smuggler, SDECE agent, links to Lucien Rivard, Paul Mondolini, Christian David, Trafficante, Marcello & maybe Lucien Sarti. Mertz seems to be a shoe in for Harvey's ZR/RIFLE too.

Alleged plans of Secret Army Organization in Portugal for post deGaulle takeover in France. Report #DB-3/655,207. 25th June 1963. This document ends with comment on Souetre. "Information from both press and official French sources indicate that the Souetre is the name of a former French army captain who escaped from a detention camp in 1961. Subsequently to his escape he was alleged to have been involved in an assassination attempt against deGaulle. Souetre was born 15 October 1930 in the Gironde Department of France. But....it's a tangled web of course. Souetre aka Michael Mertz aka Michael Roux. Possible candidate for QJ/WIN or WI/ROGUE/1? Who knows? As you say Steve, solid evidence is absent. Michael Collins Piper claims that SDECE Colonel DeLannurien was with Angleton in Langley on 22nd Nov. '63. Is that really true? An article written by Louis Assemat-Tessandier, published in the paper Cote-Basque Soir of Bayonne. In the article Louis states that he was in Montreal in January 1964 and met another Frenchman who had recently been to Texas, gone to Mexico, and then came to Montreal. The Frenchman according to Louis was a young officer from Algeria who wandered back and forth between the three OAS centres in the Western Hemisphere, i.e. Montreal, Mexico City and Rio. Louis would not reveal the Frenchman's name, but he introduced himself as a former paratroop officer in Algeria and said that he had arrived that morning by plane from Mexico City. He said that he had been in Dallas at the time of Kennedy's murder but had been expelled by the American Police 18 hours later. How credible is an assassin arriving in Montreal and spilling beans to a news hound? Lots of smoke though, just need to touch the flames!

Paul, I learned of this book from the Bibliography of another book......that's the way it goes often. Everything I read I review on Goodreads. Here is my review of this one. Ok the text is a mess, but nothing made the info unintelligible. I have to say that I was very pleasantly surprised at the level of quality research that has been documented in Peter Kross' 'JFK: The French Connection', published in 2012. Any long term reader of Kennedy's assassination in Dallas will be aware of the mysterious French assassin Soutre/Mertz/Sarti figure reportedly deported to either Mexico or Canada from Texas in the immediate aftermath of 22nd November '63, from Fort Worth-Dallas. Yet, I have never come across such in-depth work in a comprehensive and chronological format as is available in this book. Kross has latched onto the past research of a 'French Connection' achieved in the 1980's by Steve Rivele with the assistance of such notables in this field of inquiry as Bud Fensterwald and Jim Lesar from the Assassination Archives and Research Centre in Washington D.C. Though I was also relatively conversant with the Patrice Lumumba killing in the Congo in '61, I found the coverage of CIA's assassination agents QJ/WIN and WI/ROUGUE/1 to be original and fascinating. There was no mention of Michael Collins Piper's assertion in his book 'Final Judgment' (2005)....."We do know that James Jesus Angleton had an interesting guest in his office at Langley on the day of the assassination. That was the Mossad's French ally SDECE Colonel Georges deLannurien." Mention has to be made of this publications lack of a text editor. There is hardly a page in the book that does not contain spelling errors and assorted typos. It also lacks an Index, which I like to find in any book of this nature. Adventures Unlimited Press who published this, have spoiled an otherwise intriguing collection of information. The publishers also advertise other publications in their catalogue which include such topics as fake moon landings, UFO's, The Giza Death Star and more. I did get a sinking feeling when I first encountered the book, but Kross' work certainly does not stand with the others.

Cheers Ron! Just finished Peterr Kross' 'JFK: The French Connection'. Willis & Demaris are next up.

No problem Ron, I will pass that message on...and I'm sure you will not be the only person interested in Ian Griggs' manuscript. Just yesterday I received a pile of Ian's JFK books, among them the Jack Ruby book by Wills & Demaris that you read recently, also a signed copy of Bill Sloan's 'Breaking the Silence' and other little gems to add to my collection.

Yeah, we were all there together at Lancer in 2013. I'll e-mail Steve today & pass on your details. Many thanks for your help on this. I don't like to think of Ian's final research work being lost.

Sounds cool to me Larry! Can Steve contact you through LarryJoe?

Larry, as per above I have had e-mail communication with Steve Griggs regarding his father's unfinished work on the D.P.D.:- Thanks for your email about Dad's DPD book, I was only thinking about that the other day. I would estimate that his work in detailing all police officers on duty on 22 Nov 1963 was about 90% complete. It was such as shame that his illness caused him to become confused, which led him to be unorganised in the crucial final stages of his work. I did have an idea last year that I could somehow tidy up the last 10% and then maybe publish it on the net rather than get it printed. Unfortunately, the usual things in normal life, work, family, football, etc ... have prevented me from doing this. My thoughts were that if the incomplete version were to be published, people with missing details could submit contributions, so that it may one day be complete. I have retained everything I considered would be needed to finish this work. This includes the computer that he was using, plus a printed version of it as well as some useful books about the DPD. Saying that, I will switch on the computer to make sure I can actually access it. Please by all means make contact with Larry and let him know this and see what he thinks.

D.J. Looking forward to the Zoom meet on Saturday. Part way through your K.& K. article, so any questions will be on Saturday.

Agree. + I think the line up from South knoll is more accurate than any position on the North side.

🛸🤣 I hear Dylan's 'Black Cross' with the line 'Can't believe in nothin' you don't see'.