Leslie Sharp

I was hoping you would know. Hank never discussed the 6 subsidiary entities while working on Coup. If you mentioned Connally in context of Falconbridge, I missed it. I trust @David Josephs is okay that I mention we discussed the potential for a multi-dimensional app. Apparently they're on the market but not yet mass produced, ergo $$$.

quick links: https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/20/archives/hornblower-and-hemphill-plan-to-merge-2-major-brokerage-concerns-to.html https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_tx/0003335506 https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/371/845/2133817/ Hemphill-Noyes was of interest because around the time of the Ling Temco mess (both entities housed in Republic National), Merrill Lynch RE had purchased a Highland Park firm; all assumed a significant profile in the DFW area. One of Paul Stringer./Merrill Lynch lead agents was tapped to orchestrate the move of American Airlines top executives as AA relocated their entire op to DFW in the same timeframe. I later learned she had been on the phone with Sylvia Odio's social mentor and confidant (O'Connell?) at the moment of the assassination. (Greg Parker disputes the timing, fwiw.) O'Connell was close with the Rogers family -Texas Industries (Murchison was a major shareholder) - and through that connection, the young Rogers hosted Odio briefly after her alleged trauma /testimony. It was a Rogers/TI operation near Bridgeport TX that Thomas Eli Davis (a prime candidate for one of the three on Odio's Magellan Circle doorstep that September) would later be electrocuted. Odio's psychiatrist later moved into the small office building in Oak Lawn, Oak Plaza 3707 Rawlins, where Previews Inc. had vacated their offices. Previews Inc. was the international real estate concern that provided Otto Skorzeny's wife Ilse cover for her global travel. Cornell alums with Jansen Noyes: Robert Purcell, IBEC and Rockefeller consigliere; Stewart, R.H. Macy; Dean, Sullivan Cromwell (and Empire Trust??)

That Richard Thomas Gibson (co-founder of NYC-based FPCC) chose Tangier as a base for the loose-knit organization is in and of itself significant in light of reports that Oswald had been in the Moroccan capital; those sources were quickly discredited with the typical "too young, unstable, heavy drinker, town gossip." Recall that Winthrop Buckingham — a friend of William Broglie (Hotel Luma) and June Cobb (both of whom knew Tom Proctor who appears in Lafitte's records related to Thomas Eli Davis who was later arrested in Tangier), was living in Tangier at the time. Gibson, who apparently had been considered by the agency for a non-specific contract role in Cuba, claimed to have at least known of Oswald although the timeframe wasn't clear. His report appears within days of that of a Moroccan living in Russia who notified authorities he had dated Marina before she met Lee Oswald. Col. William Eddy and Carleton Coon were often supported in their intelligence activities in Morocco by American Henry Winthrop Buckingham, a covert OSS agent, who ran the Hotel El Fahar, a pension hotel in Morocco. Buckingham, a Yale University graduate, would later turn up in the Warren Commission investigation of JFK’s assassination. At that time, as readers shall see, Buckingham was reported by the FBI as having possibly seen, and dealt with, Lee Harvey Oswald when Oswald was alleged by several other individuals to have been in Morocco. . . . According to one report, Paul Gill was associated with several Americans in Tangier, one of whom was Buckingham. At the time, Buckingham, who had for years been an associate of June Cobb’s friend and CIA asset, Hotel Luma manager Warren Broglie, was managing a hotel in Tangier. Buckingham was also a longtime CIA operative who had played strong supportive roles with the OSS in North Africa. Over the years, Buckingham and Broglie had developed a close friendship, often socialized at hotel business gatherings around the world. Paul Gill was also closely connected to the American soldier of fortune, Thomas Eli Davis Jr., who often roomed with Buckingham and his wife, Ellen, when in Tangier. Ellen was born in Turkey where her father served as a reverend in Smyrna. Davis, according to the CIA, often used the alias “Oswald.” This claim is supported by the interview notes of George Carter, “that he [Davis] used the name Oswald in his anti-Castro activities in the period 1959–1962 while the real Lee Harvey Oswald was in the USSR. . . . Carter’s lead to Davis came from Jack Ruby’s attorney, Tom Howard.” Lastly, the Rabat report mentions another American, Rev. Carl Ray Jackson, in relationship to Oswald as having allegedly attended a social gathering in Tangier with Schleifer. Additionally, Rev. Jackson’s daughter, described as being a little “flitty,” allegedly had seen Oswald several times in a Tangier “beatnik hangout.” The astute reader, however, might ask why the thirteen-year-old daughter of a minister would feel compelled to make up such a story? The CIA Station Chief in Rabat, Charles Cogan, was skeptical about these reports of Oswald sightings, stating somewhat humorously: “[It] would appear that the whole affair is a product of highly vivid imaginations brought to a simmer in a pot of kif, booze, beatnik poetry and stirred by the Tangier sea breeze.” However, CIA officials in Washington, D.C. remained concerned about the sightings and about Schleifer’s activities. According to one former Agency official, once extensive follow-up investigation had been conducted, some analysts eventually concluded that there “was a strong possibility” that “some of the Tangier reports had some validity,” while others may have been “mixed up with other reports that came from Mexico City regarding Oswald’s activities there with counterculture types.” A pattern emerged for any sincerely questioning Oswald’s presence in Tangier. — Hank Albarelli Jr., CiD

A significant layer of a 3-D map! Brilliant research. off the top of my head: I had forgotten Binns. Noyes had a presence in Dallas. I think Semenenko was TWA as well? Doesn't R. W. Dowling play a significant role in City Investing, Material Services, etc.? The Hilton Flag must have been "code" for 'you can do your business here unimpeded.' DEVCO, Grand Bahamas: Do Murchison and Corrigan appear in company records? And does the milieu overlap with Sir Stafford Sands, Hjalmar Schacht, and/or John Doyle? (I believe he got into a flap with Hilton over his hotel.) Murchison was heavily invested in FL real estate with an attorney, "Ulmer." I could never nail down whether it was the Al and Dan Ulmer family.

Correction: Oswald L. Johnston, not Johnson; could there be a familial tie to Percy? His brother owned the Long Island Pepsi Co., and appears at the Cabana Motel with Lawrence V. Meyers and Jack Ruby. Agree, Boyd Hatch was what I considered a conduit for a number of overlapping cos.

Yes, I believe he was. However, the source seems to have been considered credible enough by Hoover's guy in Bonn to send his boss the memo.

The role of Hilaire du Berrier in General Edwin Walker's life has been eclipsed on this forum by focus on Robert Surrey, most recently in a thread launched by Greg Doudna, December 2022. The following, from CiD, may perhaps explain the deflections from du Berrier, who unlike Surrey was not called to testify before the WC either. “Walker – Lee and pictures— planned soon- can he do it? Won’t.” April 7, 1963 Hal du Berrier (Salan R.). April 8, 1963 Souetre, still based in Spain, began traveling back and forth to Algeria where he boldly picked right back up on his OAS violent activities. Little is known about these activities as they blended in with a massive blur of such actions, but it is known that he worked closely with Jacques Achard, known to many as “the most dangerous OAS leader” and “the eyes and ears of General Salan,” and Pierre Sergent, both of whom were very much part of Otto Skorzeny’s ever expanding network. Achard headed an OAS group called the “A-Commandos” which was notorious for its murderous brutality towards Muslims. Achard, also, was a very close friend of Skorzeny’s business partner, Clifford Forster. Before advancing the investigation into Souetre. . . . . . . Underscoring the likely motivation for Otto’s selection of Jean Souetre and his historic accomplices, is their shared conviction that Charles de Gaulle’s liberation policies were anathema to their pro-fascist agenda. After the failed 1961 French generals’ putsch, the OAS was determined to halt de Gaulle’s move toward Algerian independence at all costs. The price was not simply removal of the president, but deadly removal. The war between de Gaulle and the OAS had ramped up when de Gaulle’s political changes continued to move forward in Algeria. In May1961, the French government had started negotiations with the FLN. These talks did not have immediate success, and over the course of the next year the level of extreme violence had escalated. Finally, in March 1962, a cease-fire was reached, setting the stage for the Evian negotiations that would eventually lead to independence for Algeria. Taking command of the “secret army” was General Raoul Salan who, by the time Pierre Lafitte made note of him in his 1963 diary, was still in prison on orders of President de Gaulle on November 22. However, Hilaire du Berrier, the North Dakota native described as an ambitious soldier of fortune, pilot and spy, identified by Lafitte on the same day as Salan, was not. Regardless, it appears that the former leader of the OAS and his sympathizers including du Berrier and Jacques Soustelle, preferred as the next leader of France and Algeria by powerful Texas oilmen, were at the very least a rallying point for events in play in the spring of 1963. . . . Gen. Edwin Walker always maintained that the German newspaper was the first to alert him about Oswald having taken a shot at him, but jottings in Pierre Lafitte’s datebook made a few days before the attempt on Walker occurred make this seem unlikely. As noted in a previous chapter, Lafitte wrote on April 7, 1963: “Walker – Lee and pictures— planned soon- can he do it? Won’t.”[it is possible the last word is Wait.] The following day, Lafitte made a note: Hal du Berrier (Salan R.). Lesser known than the German newspaper’s scoop positioning “the patsy” a hundred yards from the window of Walker’s house on the night of April 10, are the remarks made in the aftermath of the assassination by “Hal” du Berrier, the correspondent who wrote primarily for the American Mercury which was owned by J. Russell McGuire with General Edwin Walker as the magazine’s military advisor. Du Berrier revealed that he was staying in Walker’s home in Dallas on November 22. It should also be noted that du Berrier’s history included a role in the Spanish Civil War, service in Bill Donovan’s OSS perhaps providing him introduction to Frank Ryan and Otto Skorzeny, and spying for Italian fascists. By the late 1950s, he had begun publishing H du B Reports, A Foreign Affairs Letter, with particular focus on Saigon, Vietnam, a concern he shared with his close friend, French rightist General Raoul Salan. . . . It was du Berrier, close confidant of General Salan of the OAS—both of whom are mentioned by Lafitte in April just forty-eight hours before a bullet lodged in the wall of Walker’s study the night of April 10—who reinforced, if not helped initiate, the legend that Oswald was a communist responsible for both April 10 and November 22.

ANTI-BOLSHEVIK BLOC OF NATIONS (A.B.N.) CENTRAL COMMITTEE Munich . . . March 7, 1964 PRESIDIUM OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE President: JAROSLAV STETZKO, Former Prime Minister (Ukraine) M.E. General C.A. Willoughby 3502 Massachusetts Ave. Washington D.C. USA Dear General Willoughby, During my stay in Madrid, I met the Hon. Dr. Moise Tshombe, the former president of Katanga. He is an arch anti-communist and the only politician in Katanga who has the people on his side. He would like to visit the United States officially to present his ideas on how Communism can be fought in Africa. I would like to ask you to send him an invitation, those that he can obtain a visa to visitt the United States. Naturally he would come at his own expense. I think it will be valuable for you, General Willoughby, to meet him personally to hear his ideas on the Kongo [sic] and on the danger which is threatening it from Red China and Soviet Russia. I would be very grateful to you if you would send Dr. Tshombe the necessary invitation. His address is the following: Hon. Dr. Moise Tshombe PO Pintor Rosales, 20, Madrid-8, Spain. Yours Sincerely, Jaroslav Stetzco

The action taken regarding Major General Edwin Walker is amazing. Is it a crime nowadays to be a patriot? Is it a crime to teach Americanism to our troops? Must a general be “relieved of command” when he is giving his troops something to fight for? Who is relieving of command those in government who are responsible for the Communist foothold in this hemisphere? Who is being “relieved of command” for other Communists favoring actions in our State Department? —Frank T. Ryan, President World Commerce Corporation June 25, 1961 This somewhat rousing endorsement by the president of the World Commerce may have gone unnoticed by the average American, but as reported in Chapter 2, the global power structure would recognize the WCC created by the director of the OSS, Bill Donovan and his counterpart in Britain, William Stephenson. As reported, the WCC had over the previous decade acted as an umbrella front for several hundred companies whose primary aim was self-serving information gathering and espionage, sprinkled heavily with sometimes deadly counterintelligence operations, while extracting profits from global markets. Frank Ryan, a former OSS officer under Donovan, had worked closely with Otto Skorzeny for years. For that reason alone, his remarks in support of Gen. Walker are revelatory. Several months after Ryan’s vociferous support, a telling piece written by syndicated newspaper columnist Drew Pearson, and published in the November 24, 1961 edition of The Washington Post, tackled the cluster of extremists General Walker had attracted. Referring to the “increasing turn to the far right by high-ranking US military men,” Pearson singled out Walker, still head of the Army’s 24th Infantry Division in Germany, for politicizing his troops with right-wing propaganda. Pearson highlighted a letter to one of Walker’s military supporters, Arch Roberts, from the American born French rightist sympathizer Hilaire “Hal” du Berrier, who compared the Kennedy administration’s crackdown on Walker to de Gaulle’s attack on the rebel French generals who led the OAS. Du Berrier’s history germane to the assassination is pursued momentarily. Pearson’s article had also cited del Valle as having come close “to urging armed insurrection” when he made statements calling for the “organization of a powerful armed resistance force to defeat the aims of the Usurpers and bring about a return to constitutional government.” — Albarelli / Sharp, CiD

. . . In early 1962, when Guerin-Serac first moved to establish Aginter Press, he acted in concert with Robert Leroy, a French SS officer during the war and WWII Nazi SS officer Otto Skorzeny, both of whom served as the strategic leadership for Aginter. Leroy was a prewar member of Charles Maurras’ Action Française, a Far-Right political group, and then as an active member of La Cagoule’s terrorist underground. He took part in the Requête Carlist militia forces during the Spanish Civil War and then served as a Vichy intelligence operative. He was also a member of the Waffen SS Charlemagne division and was a key member of Otto Skorzeny’s commando forces, where he served as an instructor. Along with Skorzeny, following the end of the war, Leroy served as a lead instructor with Skorzeny’s efforts to train Egyptian leader Abd al-Nasir’s intelligence and security services, after recruiting a hundred German advisers from Nazi soldiers serving during WWII, the SS underground, and from among technical experts with military industries. The purpose was to train Arab guerrillas in commando tactics and in protecting the former Nazi technicians working for Nasir from Israeli “hit” teams. The job was carried out at the CIA’s bequest.” Professor [Ola] Tunander* writes revealingly of Aginter: [The] international fascist intelligence network, Aginter Press, was established to implement the Strategy of Tension, with support from the Portuguese security service PIDE and the CIA. This network included a unit specializing in the infiltration of anarchist and pro-Chinese groups, and its “correspondents” would use such organizations as a cover for carrying out bombings and other violent attacks. Aginter Press also included a strategic centre for subversion and intoxication [drugging and poisonings] operations, along with an executive action organization that carried out assassinations (most likely the same “pool of assassins” that William Harvey, CIA station Chief in Italy, had recruited in Europe for the CIA’s “Executive Action Capability”). All of these divisions of Aginter Press were under the leadership of French OAS officer and former US liaison officer Captain Yves Guillou (alias Yves Guerin Serac), in collaboration with Robert Leroy, a former French SS officer, and Otto Skorzeny, a senior German SS officer. [Italics added] A portentous January 1968 affidavit sworn by Aginter Press assassin and Jean Rene Souetre associate Jacques Godard reveals the group’s relationship with certain American persons and organizations: “In the course of our services we had relations with certain persons and organizations like, for example, President Tschombe and with Biafra. We likewise were in charge of relations with the John Birch Society, which was an American political group financed especially by Texas oil producers whose activity is absolutely anti-communist. Everywhere where there is a struggle, either open or covert, with communists, the John Birch Society [JBS] lends its financial aid to the people who are struggling against international communism.” *Tunander, Ola, “Democratic State vs. Deep State: Approaching the Dual State of the West” from Government of the Shadows, Parapolitics and criminal Sovereignty.

@Ed Berger of possible interest: Following is an excerpt from a book proposal developed by Hank Albarelli and an artist living in CA. Unfortunately, we didn't have time to follow through with the map before deadline to publish Coup. Overview: Many matters have become quite apparent through the process of writing the forthcoming volume on who-killed-JFK-and-why. Not the least of these matters is the byzantine, or excessively complicated, nature of the numerous networks, individuals, business entities, and organizations involved in various aspects of Kennedy’s assassination. The complexity and multi-dimensional nature of these actors in the assassination are difficult for one to get their head around, but any effort quickly brings frightening results, especially the realization that there are a good many entities out there in the world that exert tremendous power over events, and that these entities are still at play today. An example: What would I see and learn if I were to consider and study a visual map of the World Commerce Corporation? The World Commerce Corporation [WCC] was founded after World War II by members of the British and American intelligence communities. By all appearances it was a huge corporation with many worldwide business operations. In reality, however, WCC was an elaborate covert network for intelligence gathering and the provision of operational support to chosen covert projects located around the globe. WCC exerted a tremendous, but concealed influence over the post-war world, accomplished through a network of over 450 private business-corporate subsidiary entities located in 45 countries across the globe. Indeed, without strong and detailed visual maps, which currently do not exist, any attempt to conceptualize WCC and its 450 interlocking subsidiary entities boggles the mind. Of course, further compounding any attempts to do so is the fact that each WCC subsidiary entity maintains a board of directors of at least 3 individuals, many having upwards of 20 individuals. At present, we can only imagine the possible extent and implications of the myriad interlocks within the overall WCC network. A cursory examination of a mere 6 WCC subsidiary entities done for this proposal reveals that 5 of the 6 had board members who were closely identified with the CIA and the Pentagon, and that 4 of the 5 had two or more interlocking board of director members. Additionally, two of the 6 subsidiary entities had John Connolly, wounded on November 22, 1963 during the JFK assassination in Dallas, as a board of director member, and that one of the 6 entities, a Texas bank, had been founded by one of the very few people who were privy to JFK’s assassination before it occurred. Further, the president of that bank was a former military intelligence officer who worked in Dallas alongside the Dallas Police Department at the time of the assassination. And further still we see that 4 of the 6 subsidiaries maintained offices in a CIA-owned building in New York City. Offering a written narrative of all of the details concerning these 6 subsidiary interlocks would take thousands of words, not to consider how many words a narrative covering all 450 subsidiaries would consume. Obviously, the ideal and most beneficial way to actually consider all of these WCC interlocks is to see them, to see them as a visual presentation, or a visual map. A sole written narrative, without any visual display, would be near impossible to comprehend and would consume thousands of words and hundreds of printed pages. A visual display of all these WCC interlocks would be extremely illuminating knowledge wise, possibly opening up numerous additional paths to understanding and knowledge. What I am able to see from just a cursory examination of one of WCC formed in 1945 and its major subsidiary business, many most likely operational to the present: -WCC was formed in May 1945, just after the war in Europe had been over but a few days. -It was initially formed by a small group headed by William Stephenson (“Intrepid”) and called the British American Canadian Corporation S.A. -BACC changed its name in April 1947 to the World Commerce Corporation, which like BACC was headquartered in New York City and registered as a corporation in Panama. -All of WCC directors had either British or American intelligence connections. -Initial directors included: David Mackenzie Ogilvy, who went on to found Ogilvey-Mather public relations company. -William Donovan, former director of the OSS, precursor to CIA, became a director of WCC in October 1947, as did Edward R. Stettinius, Secretary of State from November 1944 to July 1945. -In due course many other former and current intelligence people became WCC board members; many of these men were now prominent bankers in the U.S. and U.K. {There were no women on the WCC board.} -Several prominent Americans took a strong interest in WCC and provided the company with financial assistance. These men included: Nelson Rockefeller, eventual U.S. vice president; J.J. McCloy, former undersecretary at the Pentagon and an eventual member in 1964 of the presidentially-appointed Warren Commission to investigate JFK’s death; Richard Mellon, of the ultra-rich Mellon banking family. -Serving as advisors to WCC were virtually every prominent business-person in the U.K. -In the United Sates WCC operated through various subsidiaries, buying and selling such merchandise as cement, automobile parts, barbed wire, rice, shoes, and stockings. Through a subsidiary it traded in fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, botanical drugs, waxes, gums and essential oils. It also held a number of subsidiaries that dealt in surgical instrument, chemical companies, medicinal soaps, cosmetics, food essences and other food lines. -By 1947 WCC claimed to have opened trading outlets in Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, and Mexico, while through a subsidiary it had outlets in North Africa, Indian, China, Thailand, Ceylon, India, Tunis, Morocco, Algiers, Spain, France, Holland, Belgium, Portugal, Italy and Switzerland. What would the proposed book contain? *Approximately 20 visual maps of significant or major networks and individuals, inclusive of all interlocks, involved in the JFK assassination. *An adjunct and detailed historical timeline. *Detailed legends and descriptions of all networks and individuals along with their interlocks. *Photographs of all primary/major characters. HPA/ 10.2016

"proper authorities"?

The July and August entries don't mention Walker and Willoughby.

Gen. Walker, identified as a significant force within the John Birch Society, was in direct communication with OAS officials in early 1963 — post Algerian Independence; OAS Capt. Jean Rene Souetre is identified along with Walker in an April 30 entry of the datebook maintained by Jean Pierre Lafitte.

I checked in with the mods. Awaiting a response. Meanwhile, what say you about the memo?

(The following memo regarding Edwin A. Walker has been buried in FBI files related to the John Birch Society until recently. BOLD emphasis added.) To: DIRECTOR, FBI From: LEGAT, BONN. (105-4174) Subject: EDWIN A. WALKER IS - X Date: 1/14/63 REDACTED U.S. Army Europe Intelligence Division Representative in the Embassy furnished the following information which his office had received from the REDACTED information was received under confidential classification on January 8, 1963. REDACTED. A source of the REDACTED described as general reliable, has reported that former U.S. General EDWIN A. WALKER has sent circulars to various European fascists calling for a world wide action against Jewry. In this material WALKER allegedly has named as enemies of national strength Zionism, Freemasonry, the Vatican, the Jesuits, Bolshevism and the Negro. In addition, according to the source, WALKER allegedly has written personal letters to leading members of the OAS in France, REDACTED of Madrid Spain and REDACTED of Lausanne, Switzerland, in which he summoned these individuals to take part in common action against the common enemy REDACTED. In addition, the REDACTED information which was furnished under the caption "International Neo-Fascism" stated the same generally reliable source had reported that a conference of international fascists is to take place in Malmoe, Sweden, during 1963. This conference reportedly will serve to bring together the views on the Jewish question of REDACTED of Coventry, England, and REDACTED of London. REDACTED asked for any available information on the propaganda activities of WALKER and individuals of West Germany. [It is requested that the bureau furnish any information which it may have on the activities of WALKER which it feels might be appropriately furnished. REDACTED and also advise whether it has any information on contacts between WALKER and individuals in Germany.] REDACTED also stated that it would appreciate any information known regarding contacts between the "John Birch Society" and individuals in West Germany. It is noted that by its letter of June 27, 1961, to this office regarding the John Birch Society (Bufile 62-104401), the Bureau furnished information on that society for referral REDACTED and advised that it had not information to show any ties existed between the John Birch Society and any international fascist organization. If the Bureau has received any such information since the date of that letter, it is requested it be provided for referral REDACTED if appropriate.

(The following memo regarding Edwin A. Walker has been buried in FBI files related to the John Birch Society until recently. BOLD emphasis added.) To: DIRECTOR, FBI From: LEGAT, BONN. (105-4174) Subject: EDWIN A. WALKER IS - X Date: 1/14/63 REDACTED U.S. Army Europe Intelligence Division Representative in the Embassy furnished the following information which his office had received from the REDACTED information was received under confidential classification on January 8, 1963. REDACTED. A source of the REDACTED described as general reliable, has reported that former U.S. General EDWIN A. WALKER has sent circulars to various European fascists calling for a world wide action against Jewry. In this material WALKER allegedly has named as enemies of national strength Zionism, Freemasonry, the Vatican, the Jesuits, Bolshevism and the Negro. In addition, according to the source, WALKER allegedly has written personal letters to leading members of the OAS in France, REDACTED of Madrid Spain and REDACTED of Lausanne, Switzerland, in which he summoned these individuals to take part in common action against the common enemy REDACTED. In addition, the REDACTED information which was furnished under the caption "International Neo-Fascism" stated the same generally reliable source had reported that a conference of international fascists is to take place in Malmoe, Sweden, during 1963. This conference reportedly will serve to bring together the views on the Jewish question of REDACTED of Coventry, England, and REDACTED of London. REDACTED asked for any available information on the propaganda activities of WALKER and individuals of West Germany. [It is requested that the bureau furnish any information which it may have on the activities of WALKER which it feels might be appropriately furnished. REDACTED and also advise whether it has any information on contacts between WALKER and individuals in Germany.] REDACTED also stated that it would appreciate any information known regarding contacts between the "John Birch Society" and individuals in West Germany. It is noted that by its letter of June 27, 1961, to this office regarding the John Birch Society (Bufile 62-104401), the Bureau furnished information on that society for referral REDACTED and advised that it had not information to show any ties existed between the John Birch Society and any international fascist organization. If the Bureau has received any such information since the date of that letter, it is requested it be provided for referral REDACTED if appropriate. @David Josephs

@Mervyn Hagger, your name came up recently in context of Radio Caroline. Nice to see you here.

Jeremy, Can you decipher Greg's meaning here? Prima facie, it appears Lafitte is not the author of the multiple Skorzeny written references in Lafitte's datebook, since the allusions to Skorzeny appear to postdate Lafitte's death.

Right, Ron. But I'm wondering if RFK maintained his own files and if so, where are they?

I believe his father's investigation is well-known. Maybe @James DiEugenio is more familiar with the details? Someone claiming to have been involved in RFK's 1968 campaign assured me that the files exist.

That's the point. I don't know that anyone knows what precisely he uncovered. Which begs a number of questions: Is Robert Kennedy Jr. speaking as an authority on the campaign trail based on what his father uncovered? Did his father not get a chance to complete his private investigation but Jr. knows where it was headed so he feels confident enough to state unequivocally that THE C.I.A. assassinated his uncle? When did he first study his father's files? Why hasn't he referred to them in the specifics? Where are the files?

I think you're right. Thanks. What about notes from the Paine house?

Pierre Lafitte datebook, 1963 Walker: 8 references Willoughby: 11 references April 7 Walker — Lee and pictures — planned soon — Can he do it? Won’t. April 12 Congress meet. — Willby [sic] soldier kill squads— April 30 Walker + Souetre in New Orleans / arms (Davis) — where? cable to O. June 5 Willoughby + d. Valle NO. re Madrid church group meet. check with Hunt + Vickers June 12 *Paris murder *Willoughby —— Walker * June 18 Willoughby meet 8:00 pm September 4 Hotshot — Walker (caretaker — T.) September 12 Askins? September 13 vu je Rudel September 14 Canon — S + V? [possibly Souetre and Varga] September 17 Spray – gun- 2 Willoughby — Shaw? NY rest. guide ad. talk of Ella reg. photographs X6 Rene will meet with b…. in NY at Previews? October 2 Askins — Willoughby- ok. October 9 OSARN-OSARN-OSARN OSARN — get Willoughby – Litt plus Souetre, others (Hungarians) Lancelot proj — kill teams Dallas. New York. Tampa. (Labadie_ — T says called Oswald to purpose — weapons— Walker. Davis in N.O. with swamp groups Florida (Decker Bender. Vickers. KofM) — — October 15 Meet with Willoughby at (Ella R) others — at 49 East 53rd st. NYC October 25 Call JA Wash. D.C. — O says — done— Oswald set in place Call Walker + others. October 26 —W team = E. Johnson(s) (Itkins) November 5 (Meet with Crichton at Tech building} (Walker) O says Lancelot = go phone booth November 15 /Nov 22/ Willoughby back-up Team squad — Tech building — booth/bridge O. says turn them [or turn at Elm] Silverthorne Ft. Worth —Airport —Mexico. November 21 Willoughby team — Canon (Z org.) D. s/o

The active roles of Ret. Gen. Edwin A. Walker and Ret. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby in the plot to assassinate President Kennedy in Dallas: Pierre Lafitte datebook, 1963 Walker: 8 references Willoughby: 11 references April 7 Walker — Lee and pictures — planned soon — Can he do it? Won’t. April 12 Congress meet. — Willby [sic] soldier kill squads— April 30 Walker + Souetre in New Orleans / arms (Davis) — where? cable to O. June 5 Willoughby + d. Valle NO. re Madrid church group meet. check with Hunt + Vickers June 12 *Paris murder *Willoughby —— Walker * June 18 Willoughby meet 8:00 pm September 4 Hotshot — Walker (caretaker — T.) September 12 Askins? September 13 vu je Rudel September 14 Canon — S + V? [possibly Souetre and Varga] September 17 Spray – gun- 2 Willoughby — Shaw? NY rest. guide ad. talk of Ella reg. photographs X6 Rene will meet with b…. in NY at Previews? October 2 Askins — Willoughby- ok. October 9 OSARN-OSARN-OSARN OSARN — get Willoughby – Litt plus Souetre, others (Hungarians) Lancelot proj — kill teams Dallas. New York. Tampa. (Labadie_ — T says called Oswald to purpose — weapons— Walker. Davis in N.O. with swamp groups Florida (Decker Bender. Vickers. KofM) — — October 15 Meet with Willoughby at (Ella R) others — at 49 East 53rd st. NYC October 25 Call JA Wash. D.C. — O says — done— Oswald set in place Call Walker + others. October 26 —W team = E. Johnson(s) (Itkins) November 5 (Meet with Crichton at Tech building} (Walker) O says Lancelot = go phone booth November 15 /Nov 22/ Willoughby back-up Team squad — Tech building — booth/bridge O. says turn them [or turn at Elm] Silverthorne Ft. Worth —Airport —Mexico. November 21 Willoughby team — Canon (Z org.) D. s/o