Leslie Sharp Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 (edited) 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 Edited August 7, 2023 by Leslie Sharp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted August 7, 2023 Author Share Posted August 7, 2023 (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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Cohen Posted August 7, 2023 Share Posted August 7, 2023 1 hour ago, Leslie Sharp said: (The following memo regarding Edwin A. Walker has been buried in FBI files related to the John Birch Society until recently. BOLD emphasis added.) And the significance of this is ... what, exactly? Are you implying none of this information had heretofore been known about Walker's activities? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted August 7, 2023 Author Share Posted August 7, 2023 3 hours ago, Jonathan Cohen said: And the significance of this is ... what, exactly? Are you implying none of this information had heretofore been known about Walker's activities? 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 On 8/6/2023 at 5:28 PM, Leslie Sharp said: 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 It's interesting there are no entries in July or August. June 18, then September 4th. Are there more just not mentioned here? Given those before and after is seems there would have been some activity during this period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted August 8, 2023 Author Share Posted August 8, 2023 1 hour ago, Ron Bulman said: It's interesting there are no entries in July or August. June 18, then September 4th. Are there more just not mentioned here? Given those before and after is seems there would have been some activity during this period. The July and August entries don't mention Walker and Willoughby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Cohen Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 15 hours ago, Leslie Sharp said: 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. So what? Walker communicated with many people who shared his beliefs during this time. 15 hours ago, Leslie Sharp said: Jean Rene Souetre is identified along with Walker in an April 30 entry of the datebook maintained by Jean Pierre Lafitte. Utterly meaningless until authenticated by proper authorities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted August 8, 2023 Author Share Posted August 8, 2023 50 minutes ago, Jonathan Cohen said: So what? Walker communicated with many people who shared his beliefs during this time. Utterly meaningless until authenticated by proper authorities. "proper authorities"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Brancato Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 (edited) On 8/7/2023 at 12:05 PM, Leslie Sharp said: (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 What is redacted? A name, something else? Both? Any guesses? I find it strange that Jewry and masonry are mentioned. There were lots of Freemasons who were prominent fascists, and definite links between right wing Israelis and OAS. Jesuits, Bolshevism, the Negro, the Vatican, everything lumped together that don’t fit in any conspiracy theory. Was Walker that nuts? Edited August 8, 2023 by Paul Brancato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted August 8, 2023 Author Share Posted August 8, 2023 . . . 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted August 9, 2023 Author Share Posted August 9, 2023 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Montenegro Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, Leslie Sharp said: 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. William Frank Buckley Jr.'s "Young Americans for Freedom", specifically it’s incarnation in 1963, which had as it's Dallas, Texas president United States Army Maj. Gen. Edwin Anderson Walker (which in 1963, was being used as some sort of intelligence front for domestic fascists like Fulton Lewis Jr., Hans F. Sennholz, Ronald Wilson Reagan, James Strom Thurmond Sr., Larrie Henry Schmidt and Joe Grinnan), astounds me to no end how many overt, thru and thru fascists occupy the highest levels of its organizational structure. I consider the fact that Y.A.F. was behind the "Welcome To Dallas, Mr. Kennedy" ads a manifestation of psychological warfare meant to terrorize and intimidate. Very similar to the stay-behind operations conducted by Yves Guillou's "Ordem Central e Tradição"... And in continuing with the purpose of this post, expounding on the international "Stay-behind" army connections to the elements marching against President Kennedy in 1963, let us examine the Mr. William F. Buckley’s connection’s to those elements. The following quotes are from Professor Jeffery M. Bale’s mind-bending book “The Darkest Sides Of Politics I: Postwar Fascism, Covert Operations And Terrorism” The following quote can be found on page 207, in the notes section of Chapter 3 titled “Postwar “Neo-Fascist” Internationals, Part II: Aginter Presse and the “strategy of tension” in Italy”: QUOTE — "...Parvulesco’s involvement in international anti-communist networks is also revealed in his own correspondence. For example, in a 10 May 1962 letter to James Burnham, the former American Trotskyist turned anti-communist who thereafter became involved in many covert projects during the Cold War, Parvulesco identified himself as the chief of the “external apparatus” of a Europe- and Latin American-based organization called the Organization de l’Armée Secrète “Charlemagne,” which (according to that same organization’s 23 April 1962 intelligence report, also sent to Burnham by Parvulesco) claimed to represent the “European, Catholic, and social revolutionary current” within the OAS, the current opposed to the Salan/Gardy faction. In his letter, Parvulesco suggested that Burnham collaborate with the OAS Charlemagne group and urged the American to meet him in Madrid – where Parvulesco then lived – the next time he was in Europe. After meeting with an American recommended by Burnham in Spain, Robert Minelli, Parvulesco (using the pseudonym “Pierre-André Manda”) wrote Burnham another letter on 2 June 1962, in which he revealed that the OAS Charlemagne group was only the “visible tip” of another secret organization whose highest echelon was known as AMSAR, the very group later identified by Giannettini. AMSAR itself comprised an external apparatus, an internal apparatus, and an intelligence apparatus called the Direction Générale de la Conjoncture Atlantique (DGCA: Directorate General of the Atlantic Conjuncture), a name which clearly reveals its Atlanticist geopolitical orientation. Indeed, Parvulesco argued in this second letter that a united Atlantic Community was alone capable of saving the West at this moment of crisis. AMSAR therefore hoped to undertake intelligence and other types operations in cooperation with NATO, including operations beyond the Iron Curtain. Finally, in a 3 June 1962 letter written to William F. Buckley Jr., editor of The National Review, “Manda” indicated that Giannettini was his organization’s chief in Italy and that the Italian would henceforth be contacting Buckley using the pseudonym “Marjorie Levin.” All of these French-language documents can be found in the Hoover Institution Archives, James Burnham collection, Box 10, folder (Subject File) 5: OAS “Charlemagne...” — END QUOTE. This is proof positive that William F. Buckley Jr. was in the 1962-1963 time period, in direct contact with Jean Parvulesco, the chief of all covert operations for an anti-Salan/Gardy, pro-Catholic faction of the French terrorist group “Organization de l’Armée Secrète”, code-named “Charlemagne”, operating in Italy and its primary commander of all operations was Guido Giannettini, working under the umbrella of an even more covert organization called “Directorate General of the Atlantic Conjuncture”, which was the intelligence gathering arm of AMSAR! I should note that William F. Buckley Jr. was an operational CIA agent in Mexico City in the 1950’s, his immediate supervisor was Everette “Eduardo” Howard Hunt Jr., the CIA’s Domestic Operations Chief, Reports & Publications, Domestic Operations Division Support, Directorate of Plans, (C/R&P/DODS/DD/P) in 1963! Not to mention the connections of James Burnham, himself a founder of far-right "National Review" magazine and apparently a central player when it comes to the creation of "stay-behind" forces in Western Eurasia, which he did while he was the commander of the "Political and Psychological Warfare" division of the Office of Policy Coordination in 1948. Mr. Burnham also co-founded the audacious CIA controlled money-laundering front organization, called the "Congress for Cultural Freedom" with CIA Covert Action Chief Thomas Wardell Braden! Of course James Burnham's counterpart on the Psychological Strategy Board and Operations Coordinating Board, United States Army General Charles Douglas Jackson, is the very man who acquirers the infamous "Zapruder Film" for another CIA Commercial Cover Property, "Time-Life" magazine. C.D. Jackson was a founding member of the infamous "Bilderberg Group," an organization, that was co-created by "Axis Powers" WWII war criminal Jean-Eugène Violet, co-creator of "Comité Secret pour l’Action Révolutionnaire," better known as "La Cagoule"—a French fascist terrorist organization whose chief of operations was Jean Paul Robert Filiol... Edited August 9, 2023 by Robert Montenegro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted August 9, 2023 Author Share Posted August 9, 2023 (edited) 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 Edited August 9, 2023 by Leslie Sharp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted August 9, 2023 Author Share Posted August 9, 2023 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, 1963Hal 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted August 9, 2023 Author Share Posted August 9, 2023 (edited) 6 hours ago, Paul Brancato said: What is redacted? A name, something else? Both? Any guesses? I find it strange that Jewry and masonry are mentioned. There were lots of Freemasons who were prominent fascists, and definite links between right wing Israelis and OAS. Jesuits, Bolshevism, the Negro, the Vatican, everything lumped together that don’t fit in any conspiracy theory. Was Walker that nuts? 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. Edited August 9, 2023 by Leslie Sharp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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