Did the INS pick up Jean-Rene Souetre in Dallas?

[Chuck Schwartz]

I agree - William King Harvey was critical to the murder of JFK.  

[Paul Brancato]

15 hours ago, Larry Hancock said:

The best I can tell is that the ZR crypt was used for "outsourcing" assets for illegal tasks, something where you would not want to use your own personnel or even operationally approved assets - given its association with Staff D  I suspect that was primarily for things like burglaries, safe cracking, thefts, strong arm stuff against couriers etc.  Certainly reason to think it could involve things like poisonings, etc on occasion.  (the CIA normally had no sense of humor with crypts but I if they did I suspect "rifle" had more to do with burglary than shooting.  It also looks like they were limited and that ZR actions did not involve things like wire taps or electronics...I've been surprised that ZR assets were not used in Cuba instead of sending in Christ and his team.

Harvey saw it as the place to hide the new executive action project and activated it to bring Roselli back into Castro assassination efforts. What else he might have hidden under it in 63 is a really good question.

As to the NSA connection, as far as I can tell the CIA carried out actions to obtain codes, code books, and related materials such as frequencies used in adversary diplomatic and military transmissions and provided them to NSA...Simpich did a great job of outlining that relationship in regard to Mexico City.  Of course CIA also gave NSA "targets" for their intercept watch lists, as did the military and other agencies like DEA.  NSA focused on the actual technical collections including the physical intercept facilities, some of which they essentially subcontracted, primarily to the Air Force.

Thanks for this informative post. So under cover ZR operatives did black jobs for NSA, and QJ, referring to Spain in some way, ran spotter operations to find the guys to do those black jobs. Again I’ll mention Dinkins, who worked at a highly sensitive US base in Germany, intercepting NSA coded wire transmissions mentioning OAS (read guys willing to do black jobs untraceable to the US, per Harvey). Larry et al - have you seen anything that links JMWAVE to Madrid? 

[Larry Hancock]

 

Paul, that is a bit off target, Staff D assets (not necessarily in the ZR program) were working for he CIA directly, if the CIA had control of their missions and their take.  If certain things collected during those missions would have helped in doing some communications intercept collections they would have shared it with NSA for NSA to do that work.  As far as my research goes I could never confirm Dinkinw having been involved in intercept work, for Europe that was done at two different locations, one in Scotland and one in England - one focused on civilian targets the other military.

The ZR program was simply a cover for money to be used to recruit deniable assets for Staff D,  for different purposes but including "spotting" potential assets for Staff D missions. Roselli used it to house the money and related paperwork for funding assassination projects but the only one of those we know he actually implemented was against Castro and used Roselli.

Nothing to link JMWAVE to Madrid - however the AMWORLD project did have links though Madrid and other European capitals for weapons purchases and Artime had some connections to Spain as it was hoped Spain would support the AMWORLD operations against Castro. Hunt came into his Madrid assignment via his close friendship with Artime as far as I can speculate.

[Steve Thomas]

4 hours ago, Larry Hancock said:

 

Paul, that is a bit off target, Staff D assets (not necessarily in the ZR program) were working for he CIA directly, if the CIA had control of their missions and their take.  If certain things collected during those missions would have helped in doing some communications intercept collections they would have shared it with NSA for NSA to do that work.  As far as my research goes I could never confirm Dinkinw having been involved in intercept work, for Europe that was done at two different locations, one in Scotland and one in England - one focused on civilian targets the other military.

The ZR program was simply a cover for money to be used to recruit deniable assets for Staff D,  for different purposes but including "spotting" potential assets for Staff D missions. Roselli used it to house the money and related paperwork for funding assassination projects but the only one of those we know he actually implemented was against Castro and used Roselli.

Nothing to link JMWAVE to Madrid - however the AMWORLD project did have links though Madrid and other European capitals for weapons purchases and Artime had some connections to Spain as it was hoped Spain would support the AMWORLD operations against Castro. Hunt came into his Madrid assignment via his close friendship with Artime as far as I can speculate.

 

4 hours ago, Larry Hancock said:

 

 As far as my research goes I could never confirm Dinkinw having been involved in intercept work, for Europe that was done at two different locations, one in Scotland and one in England - one focused on civilian targets the other military.

Larry,

As the Website for the Mary Ferrell Foundation explains, Dinkin was a cryptographic code operator in the U.S. Army, stationed at Metz, France:

What I'm not sure of, as I sit here, is if he was in the Army Security Agency.

Steve Thomas

[Paul Brancato]

7 minutes ago, Steve Thomas said:

 

Larry,

As the Website for the Mary Ferrell Foundation explains, Dinkin was a cryptographic code operator in the U.S. Army, stationed at Metz, France:

What I'm not sure of, as I sit here, is if he was in the Army Security Agency.

Steve Thomas

And wasn’t there another ‘crazy’ serviceman in Scotland who told similar tales? 

[Larry Hancock]

Guys, I know that has been bandied about in regard to Dinkins for years but other than has having served in the Army in France I cannot find any evidence that he was ever involved in communications intercepts nor that such things were done in France.  As to being a code operator, that essentially involved using a machine to encrypt or decypt messages send through military channels (our military).  A relatively routine job but one obviously requiring a level of classification.  Much different than being say a crypto service or repair technician (those guys trained in the building next to me when I was in the Air Force) and not at all similar to being an intercept operator monitoring foreign transmissions.

As to Paul and a crazy person in Scotland, you will find my extensive research on that including reference with an interview of said crazy person in SWHT - look for Kirknewton, others in the DPUK have done extended research on that as well.  Personally I consider Kirknewton a possible leak in the plot, for reasons I go into in the book, having to do with one of the anti-Castro folks I've written about at length, Victor Hernandez.

[Leslie Sharp]

On 6/22/2023 at 6:34 AM, Paul Brancato said:

As Steve points out the Hungarians were in prison, though it looks a bit like a country club from the pics he posted. Leslie pointed out with examples how lax and corrupted the prisons were. But let’s assume that the source of these stories had it wrong. This still doesn’t account for Souetre. A researcher friend of mine has been doing a lot of fact checking on the info in the Lafitte diaries. He thinks that they might indeed be real. Further attempts at handwriting analysis have yielded inconclusive results. It’s a gray area for sure. Albarelli had a lot of integrity and an earnest desire to solve the case. Still, he may have been deceived. I’m using all these qualifiers because there is simply no other way to view this. I think you are right to focus in on Harvey. But I wouldn’t go so far as to therefore assume that if he put together the plan for Nov 22 he would have used Cubans as shooters. His notes on QJWIN make clear his intent to use untraceable assassins. The QJWIN program is best looked at as a spotter operation, a supplier of dangerous assets for wet jobs. I’m hoping to have more to post on this issue of connections between the CIA’s JMWAVE and Madrid.

@Steve ThomasI hope you'll indulge what may appear to be a digression from the essence of your thread. Let me know if you would prefer I create separate one for the following response to @Paul Brancato

 'Further attempts at handwriting analysis have yielded inconclusive results. It’s a gray area for sure. Albarelli had a lot of integrity and an earnest desire to solve the case. Still, he may have been deceived.'

To be clear, the current handwriting analysis remains incomplete pending additional exemplars of handwriting of the author (or authors) of the 1963 Lafitte datebook. This might be construed as mere semantics, but the distinction is critical.  To date, we do not have a formal inconclusive report. 

I've been cautioned that if I insist on a final report without benefit of the additional exemplars, the report will be "inclusive", so I've opted to not go that route unless and until we exhaust our attempts to secure more handwriting samples whose provenance can be confirmed beyond doubt.  Unfortunately parties with access to at least some samples have yet to cooperate. We continue the effort.

And for any who might speculate Hank was deceived, those who knew him personally or followed his previous investigative work — especially the Frank Olson case — argue it is virtually inconceivable that Rene and other Lafitte family members could have pulled off a hoax using "gullible" Hank Albarelli. Further, the suggestion is illogical:  to what end might they have concocted such a scheme thirty-plus years after the fact? Or, how did they seduce Hank to the small New England village to knock on their door? Why haven't they asked for Royalties from his books?  Why have they ignored my offer to return the datebook? Couldn't they sell it, for instance to Harlan Crow?  (see attached screenshot of the inside front cover of Lafitte's datebook with Crow's now notorious stamp collection in mind.)

We also know the provenance of the datebook which is laid out in Hank's introduction to Coup. He confirmed, and I later secured a written statement from an executive of the company that they printed the blank datebook for 1962 Christmas gifts to favored chefs. The instrument was not printed post the assassination. Hank had witness testimony that Pierre maintained the datebook; we have Dick Russell's analysis of eight entries that he insists could not have been known prior to (at the earliest) mid-1970s; Hank had a preliminary verbal declaration that the ink conforms with that available in 1963 (with exception of several entries that could have been made in obscure locations and therefore would not be in his exclusive database).

Hank and I also discussed the likelihood that skeptics would pull out all stops when compelled to consider the exclusive detail found in the datebook because certain entries upend certain sacred cows, i.e. Jean Souetre was not in the U.S. in 1963.

However, neither of us anticipated the lack of fundamental curiosity of some seasoned authors and researchers — a basic, "maybe it's a hoax but what if  this datebook contains vital information?"  

 

Why have entries that coalesce with well-established circumstantial evidence, including certain new discoveries, been dismissed out of hand? For example, and relevant to Steve's thread,  SW Region Commissioner of INS in 1963, Harlon B. Carter was a close friend of fellow border patrolman and psychotic sharpshooter Charles B. Askins who appears in Lafitte's 1963 records, as does — and further relevant to this thread — Jean Souetre. 

I'll close with the admonition the document examiner offered several months ago: (paraphrasing) If the datebook is the subject of a civil or criminal lawsuit and he is called as an expert witness, the judge and jury can anticipate that his determination of authenticity or lack thereof will be challenged by opposition's expert witness(es). This is not an exact science, so provenance assumes an even greater weight in final deliberation.  We've established provenance of the Lafitte datebook.  He added that in general and based on decades of experience (again paraphrasing), the burden of proof that a document is fake rests with the skeptic.

 

Edited June 26, 2023 by Leslie Sharp

[Paul Brancato]

Leslie - I’m happy that you are back, and that you chose my post to comment on. I don’t think it at all likely that Albarelli was deceived. I’m simply trying to leave space for skeptics that might want to comment or debate this point, or any other point - Souetre in the US in 1963, handwriting analysis. I’m very disturbed at the lack of participation here in discussing Albarelli’s research. 

[Leslie Sharp]

On 6/22/2023 at 6:34 AM, Paul Brancato said:

As Steve points out the Hungarians were in prison, though it looks a bit like a country club from the pics he posted. Leslie pointed out with examples how lax and corrupted the prisons were. But let’s assume that the source of these stories had it wrong. This still doesn’t account for Souetre. A researcher friend of mine has been doing a lot of fact checking on the info in the Lafitte diaries. He thinks that they might indeed be real. Further attempts at handwriting analysis have yielded inconclusive results. It’s a gray area for sure. Albarelli had a lot of integrity and an earnest desire to solve the case. Still, he may have been deceived. I’m using all these qualifiers because there is simply no other way to view this. I think you are right to focus in on Harvey. But I wouldn’t go so far as to therefore assume that if he put together the plan for Nov 22 he would have used Cubans as shooters. His notes on QJWIN make clear his intent to use untraceable assassins. The QJWIN program is best looked at as a spotter operation, a supplier of dangerous assets for wet jobs. I’m hoping to have more to post on this issue of connections between the CIA’s JMWAVE and Madrid.

@Paul Brancato "Leslie pointed out with examples of how lax and corrupted the prisons were."

Continuity of the Coup @2023 (draft)

JEAN NEPOTE

For our interests, it is the shared history between Harlon B. Carter, SW Region Commissioner of the INS in 1963 and expert marksman Charles Askins who is named in the Lafitte datebook as having been directly involved in Lancelot Project, that demands attention.  It should be noted that Askins had served as military attaché in Madrid in 1952 and provided his superiors with details of Otto Skorzeny's alleged weapons trafficking. Skorzeny plays a dominant role in Lancelot Project, the plot to assassinate Kennedy in Dallas.

Both Col. Askins and Texas native Col. Jack Canon —  best known for having headed General Charles Willoughby's Z. Org during the Korean War — are identified by Lafitte as having direct involvement in the plans for Dallas.

. . . And speaking of General Charles Willoughby, The Maltese Cross also lists the associate editors for [Gen. Willoughby's] Foreign Intelligence Digest. They included Prince Michael Sturdy (Costa Rica), Dr. Emilo Nunez-Portuondo (Cuba), Marques de Prat de Nantoulliet (Spain), M. Saint Paulien (France), Dr. Walter Becher (Germany) Hilaire du Berrier (France) [du Berrier is named in the 1963 Lafitte datebook and was a guest in the home of Gen. Edwin Walker on November 22. Walker is named in the Lafitte datebook on April 7 & 30; June 12; Sept. 4; Oct. 9 & 25], Dr. Gerald Shelly (Italy), Dr. E. Gehlen (Germany), Freiherr von Braun (Germany), George Bard (Czechoslovakia), Leo M. Petit (Belgium), Admiral E. Heifferich (Holland), Dr. Lazarus Choumanides (Greece), Dr. Sten Forshufvud (Sweden), Vicomte Amaury d'Harcourt (France), Com. Div. Jean Népote (France), Abbe Pierre Delecambre (France) and many others . . . Various associated national and international publications also appear on the Maltese Cross list. They include ABN Correspondence (Munich, editor Jaroslav Stetzko), . . . The Christian Crusade (Tulsa, editor E. L. White), . . . The Weekly Crusader (Tulsa, Rev. Billy James Hargis whose 1963 cross-country crusade featured Gen. Edwin Walker, . . . Interpol Review (Paris, editor Jean Népote). . . '
— from, The Spy Who Would Be Tsar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground by Kevin Coogan.

For our purposes, of special interest within this milieu is Jean Népote — named here as contributor to Gen. Charles Willoughby's Foreign Intelligence Digest — who has been identified as a National Socialist collaborator with the Vichy regime. Népote rose through the ranks of INTERPOL which had been infiltrated by leading "former" N-azis to assume the post of Secretary General in August 1963.  

At the risk of referring to historian Gerald Posner with this audience, he reports accurately,

“In 1939 Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Gestapo, was voted president of Interpol. In December 1941, Interpol moved its headquarters to the fashionable Berlin suburb of Wannsee, where it shared a villa with the Gestapo.”

It was in this villa where the infamous Wannsee Conference was held and where the Final Solution was organized.

. . . Heydrich even made Interpol a division within the SD, the Security Police. When Heydrich was assassinated in Prague in June 1942, Himmler chose Heydrich’s successor at the Gestapo, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, to replace him as Interpol’s president. After Kaltenbrunner was hanged at Nuremberg in October 1946, a Belgian member of Interpol’s executive committee, Florent E. Louwage, became president. He was succeeded in 1956 by Jean Népote, who had collaborated with the wartime Vichy government in France.

 

In the following government document, item 9, we see Jean Népote as the source for a training film described as providing "excellent detail on planning and execution of safecracking." The significance of the document is that it relates to other characters identified as having been in the spotter program / the QJ/WIN operation. Considering his history, his access, and the power of his role at INTERPOL, we argue that this single record strongly suggests Jean Népote was in fact among the QJ/WIN spotters. (hat tip to the leading star of the next generation of document bloodhounds, Robert Ward Montenegro, for catching this!)

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10185-10010.pdf 

As head of INTERPOL since August of 1963, responsible for cross-border policing on a global scale (including international drug trafficking), Népote was also in a position to lift travel restrictions at any given time. It is also plausible he exercised significant control over the status of (useful and perhaps familiar to him personally) convicted criminals who fell under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Justice in France where INTERPOL was headquartered.

We also know that Népote's fellow N-azi collaborator during the Vichy regime, Maurice Papon had led the police in major French prefectures for decades and had also dealt closely with Corsicans.  (As secretary general for police in Bordeaux during the war, he participated in the deportation of more than 1,600 Jews, a crime against humanity he was charged with eventually). Papon's activity during the Algerian War from 1954-1962 included torture of insurgent prisoners. As prefect of the Paris police, he was responsible for the deadly repression of the FLN, overseeing the "Paris massacres" of both 1961 and 1962 in response to anti-OAS demonstrations. . . 

Although there is no evidence that either Jean Népote or Maurice Papon knew OAS Captain Jean Rene Souetre, or experienced assassins Alice Lamy, Gerard Litt or Jean Filliol [all identified in the Lafitte datebook, 1963], or Hungarians [loosely referred to in the Lafitte datebook, 1963], or Lajos Marton or Laszlo Varga who were members of Souetre's deadly 'Will Kill' — it can be reasonably argued that both Népote and Papon, not unlike counterparts in Mexico and the US including INS Harlon B. Carter who had served with Charles "Boots" Askins named in the Lafitte datebook, 1963, were in prime positions to order, conceal, and/or confuse details of the movement of known assassins.

 

Edited June 27, 2023 by Leslie Sharp

[Ron Bulman]

The details certainly are confusing.  On purpose it seems likely.  Varga and Marton arriving in Mexico City on 11/22, with Souetre (?), while they are supposedly in prison.  I thought they were the Hungarians.  Then Ernesto Puibet arriving at the Stoneleigh hotel in Dallas on 11/19, and Jean Paul Robert Filliol with Alice Renee Lamy on 11/21.  A murder's row, all of these. 

The Roux's flying out of Houston for Mexico City on 11/22 followed by the Mertz's on 11/23.

It seems likely that aliases and falsified passports would have been used.  So, somebody was blowing smoke from the start to cause confusion.

I have to say, I've come to believe if Souetre was in Dealy Plaza I don't think he was a shooter (as I have wondered about in the past).  As one of Skorzeny's top trainers, and, given some of his possible travels in the summer of 1963 he more likely would have been directing operations.  jmo

 

[Matt Allison]

Glad to see you here as well, Leslie

5 minutes ago, Ron Bulman said:

I have to say, I've come to believe if Souetre was in Dealy Plaza I don't think he was a shooter (as I have wondered about in the past).  As one of Skorzeny's top trainers, and, given some of his possible travels in the summer of 1963 he more likely would have been directing operations.  jmo

Just out of curiosity, what makes you believe that?

For myriad reasons I believe a hired sniper would have been born and/or resided outside of the U.S.

[Leslie Sharp]

5 hours ago, Leslie Sharp said:

@Paul Brancato "Leslie pointed out with examples of how lax and corrupted the prisons were."

Continuity of the Coup @2023 (draft)

JEAN NEPOTE

For our interests, it is the shared history between Harlon B. Carter, SW Region Commissioner of the INS in 1963 and expert marksman Charles Askins who is named in the Lafitte datebook as having been directly involved in Lancelot Project, that demands attention.  It should be noted that Askins had served as military attaché in Madrid in 1952 and provided his superiors with details of Otto Skorzeny's alleged weapons trafficking. Skorzeny plays a dominant role in Lancelot Project, the plot to assassinate Kennedy in Dallas.

Both Col. Askins and Texas native Col. Jack Canon —  best known for having headed General Charles Willoughby's Z. Org during the Korean War — are identified by Lafitte as having direct involvement in the plans for Dallas.

. . . And speaking of General Charles Willoughby, The Maltese Cross also lists the associate editors for [Gen. Willoughby's] Foreign Intelligence Digest. They included Prince Michael Sturdy (Costa Rica), Dr. Emilo Nunez-Portuondo (Cuba), Marques de Prat de Nantoulliet (Spain), M. Saint Paulien (France), Dr. Walter Becher (Germany) Hilaire du Berrier (France) [du Berrier is named in the 1963 Lafitte datebook and was a guest in the home of Gen. Edwin Walker on November 22. Walker is named in the Lafitte datebook on April 7 & 30; June 12; Sept. 4; Oct. 9 & 25], Dr. Gerald Shelly (Italy), Dr. E. Gehlen (Germany), Freiherr von Braun (Germany), George Bard (Czechoslovakia), Leo M. Petit (Belgium), Admiral E. Heifferich (Holland), Dr. Lazarus Choumanides (Greece), Dr. Sten Forshufvud (Sweden), Vicomte Amaury d'Harcourt (France), Com. Div. Jean Népote (France), Abbe Pierre Delecambre (France) and many others . . . Various associated national and international publications also appear on the Maltese Cross list. They include ABN Correspondence (Munich, editor Jaroslav Stetzko), . . . The Christian Crusade (Tulsa, editor E. L. White), . . . The Weekly Crusader (Tulsa, Rev. Billy James Hargis whose 1963 cross-country crusade featured Gen. Edwin Walker, . . . Interpol Review (Paris, editor Jean Népote). . . '
— from, The Spy Who Would Be Tsar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground by Kevin Coogan.

For our purposes, of special interest within this milieu is Jean Népote — named here as contributor to Gen. Charles Willoughby's Foreign Intelligence Digest — who has been identified as a National Socialist collaborator with the Vichy regime. Népote rose through the ranks of INTERPOL which had been infiltrated by leading "former" N-azis to assume the post of Secretary General in August 1963.  

At the risk of referring to historian Gerald Posner with this audience, he reports accurately,

“In 1939 Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Gestapo, was voted president of Interpol. In December 1941, Interpol moved its headquarters to the fashionable Berlin suburb of Wannsee, where it shared a villa with the Gestapo.”

It was in this villa where the infamous Wannsee Conference was held and where the Final Solution was organized.

. . . Heydrich even made Interpol a division within the SD, the Security Police. When Heydrich was assassinated in Prague in June 1942, Himmler chose Heydrich’s successor at the Gestapo, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, to replace him as Interpol’s president. After Kaltenbrunner was hanged at Nuremberg in October 1946, a Belgian member of Interpol’s executive committee, Florent E. Louwage, became president. He was succeeded in 1956 by Jean Népote, who had collaborated with the wartime Vichy government in France.

 

In the following government document, item 9, we see Jean Népote as the source for a training film described as providing "excellent detail on planning and execution of safecracking." The significance of the document is that it relates to other characters identified as having been in the spotter program / the QJ/WIN operation. Considering his history, his access, and the power of his role at INTERPOL, we argue that this single record strongly suggests Jean Népote was in fact among the QJ/WIN spotters. (hat tip to the leading star of the next generation of document bloodhounds, Robert Montenegro, for catching this!)

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10185-10010.pdf 

As head of INTERPOL since August of 1963, responsible for cross-border policing on a global scale (including international drug trafficking), Népote was also in a position to lift travel restrictions at any given time. It is also plausible he exercised significant control over the status of (useful and perhaps familiar to him personally) convicted criminals who fell under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Justice in France where INTERPOL was headquartered.

We also know that Népote's fellow N-azi collaborator during the Vichy regime, Maurice Papon had led the police in major French prefectures for decades and had also dealt closely with Corsicans.  (As secretary general for police in Bordeaux during the war, he participated in the deportation of more than 1,600 Jews, a crime against humanity he was charged with eventually). Papon's activity during the Algerian War from 1954-1962 included torture of insurgent prisoners. As prefect of the Paris police, he was responsible for the deadly repression of the FLN, overseeing the "Paris massacres" of both 1961 and 1962 in response to anti-OAS demonstrations. . . 

Although there is no evidence that either Jean Népote or Maurice Papon knew OAS Captain Jean Rene Souetre, or experienced assassins Alice Lamy, Gerard Litt or Jean Filliol [all identified in the Lafitte datebook, 1963], or Hungarians [loosely referred to in the Lafitte datebook, 1963], or Lajos Marton or Laszlo Varga who were members of Souetre's deadly 'Will Kill' — it can be reasonably argued that both Népote and Papon, not unlike counterparts in Mexico and the US including INS Harlon B. Carter who had served with Charles "Boots" Askins named in the Lafitte datebook, 1963, were in prime positions to order, conceal, and/or confuse details of the movement of known assassins.

 

Thanks @Matt Allison!

My next few comments (8 in total) will link to screenshots of entries from the 1963 datebook maintained by Pierre Lafitte naming [Col. Charles "Boots"] Askins and [Jean Rene Marie] Souetre in the lead up to the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas.  

Thursday, April 30, 1963

Walker + Souetre in

New Orleans / arms

(Davis?) — where?

Cable to O.

Edited June 27, 2023 by Leslie Sharp

[Ron Bulman]

13 minutes ago, Matt Allison said:

Glad to see you here as well, Leslie

Just out of curiosity, what makes you believe that?

For myriad reasons I believe a hired sniper would have been born and/or resided outside of the U.S.

I agree.  Like Harvey's notes said, use foreign assassins.  Be they Cubans, Corsicans, Frenchmen, Hungarians or whatever.  Not US Mob, CIA or Military guys. 

Souetre gets deep.  A couple of sources on some of his (possible) actions in the summer of 63' are questionable, by people I respect, for good reason.  Why is he still suspicious?  Skorzeny.  Otto it seems to me was likely known to Dulles from WWII and his German work in Switzerland and afterwards.  Known to Harvey as COS Berlin in the early 50's.  Known to Angleton from Italy, Mussolini (all of them admired his rescue mission I'd think), Rat Lines.  Settling in Spain under the protection of Franco, establishing terroristic and assassination camps outside Madrid.  

Jean Rene, escaped convict for plotting against Algerian independence, attempted De Gaulle assassin.  Skorzeny's top or one of his top trainers of terrorists and assassins.  

If even a few parts of his "reported" travels in the summer of 63' might be true, it is suspicious.  New Orleans, Dallas?  As a real WAG, what if, if, Souetre went to Plantation Key in maybe April 63' and met Harvey there, why?  Might they have already met in Rhome, Spain, Portugal, elsewhere, maybe years before?  If Morales was in Plantation Key would a private boat ride have served to introduce him to Souetre as a private contact in an upcoming operation?

I know, Larry and Steve want facts, as I do too.  Just throwing spaghetti at the wall to see if anything sticks tomorrow after a couple of bourbon and waters tonight.

[Ron Bulman]

18 minutes ago, Leslie Sharp said:

Thanks @Matt Allison!

My next few comments (8 in total) will link to screenshots of entries from the 1963 datebook maintained by Pierre Lafitte naming [Col. Charles "Boots"] Askins and [Jean Rene Marie] Souetre in the lead up to the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas.  

Thursday, April 30, 1963

Walker + Souetre in

New Orleans / arms

(Davis?) — where?

Cable to O.

Much clearer than in the book!  With a magnifying glass I can read most of this!  Thanks, glad to see you back as well.

[Leslie Sharp]

4 minutes ago, Ron Bulman said:

Much clearer than in the book!  With a magnifying glass I can read most of this!  Thanks, glad to see you back as well.

Thanks, Ron!

It was unconscionable that those responsible for publishing legible images didn't contact our editor before hitting "print".   

I'm having difficulty attaching more screenshots; the alert indicates some of the files are too large.  Bear with me.

Also, I hope when revisiting the dispute related to Souetre's whereabouts on November 22, members will keep in mind the broader implications that Col. Askins — who knew Otto Skorzeny personally in Madrid and who had served with Harlon B. Carter in the US Border Patrol before Carter became the Regional Commissioner of the INS in charge of Laredo, El Paso, Houston, Dallas etc. — appears in Lafitte's record within days of significant references to Souetre as well as Willoughby, Walker, Davis, Silverthorne and Otto & Ilse Skorzeny, Angleton, and William King Harvey.

Edited June 27, 2023 by Leslie Sharp