"The time has come .... "

[Mervyn Hagger]

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings."

Well Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame is still promoting images of pigs with wings flying over Battersea, and shoes, cabbages and even kings are discussed in various quarters, but sealing wax seems to have fallen out of favor.

But what about ships?

Now the story of certain ships is essential to understanding the story of Robert F. Kennedy and the Special Group (Augmented), which David Von Pein originally said he had never heard of, and what is more, he didn't want to know.

But in 'Shadow Warrior' by Larry Hancock there is an important reference to Manuel Artime Buesa, who had a company called BAM, and the CIA, or rather the SGA bought a vessel called 'Olga Patricia' as his 'mother ship'.

Then .... nothing.

There  is no mention on this Forum about that vessel in conjunction with the SGA, and yet it is a key to unlocking the JFK assassination mystery.

Why the deafening silence from contributors here?

[David Boylan]

Mervyn,

There was quite a bit of information posted on this site over the years. I believe the Olga Patricia was renamed to The Joanne for use in Artime's AMWORLD project. The Joanne was docked in Baltimore harbor for exfiltration use for The Black Nine (per CIA). This was a group of anti-Castro Cubans that were black exfiltrated to Nicaragua and Costa Rica post assassination. 

The Joanne finally gets under way 12/1/63

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=40912#relPageId=2

They were kept below decks. Doc is from Richard Beal and signed by Henry Hecksher 11/27. AMJAVA-4 is Rafael Quintero. Collins radios, silenced weapons.

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=40912#relPageId=2

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=62358#relPageId=104

One of the more interesting dispatches sent on 11/22/63. This was from Jake Esterline, COS, Panama City asking about the boat. This was for Zamka true name of David Morales. You'd think that at 20:30 hours (8:30 pm), just hours after the President was assassinated, Esterline, JMWAVE and Morales would have other issues to deal with??

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=31773#relPageId=2&search=zamka

[Gerry Down]

21 minutes ago, David Boylan said:

Mervyn,

There was quite a bit of information posted on this site over the years. I believe the Olga Patricia was renamed to The Joanne for use in Artime's AMWORLD project. The Joanne was docked in Baltimore harbor for exfiltration use for The Black Nine (per CIA). This was a group of anti-Castro Cubans that were black exfiltrated to Nicaragua and Costa Rica post assassination. 

The Joanne finally gets under way 12/1/63

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=40912#relPageId=2

They were kept below decks. Doc is from Richard Beal and signed by Henry Hecksher 11/27. AMJAVA-4 is Rafael Quintero. Collins radios, silenced weapons.

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=40912#relPageId=2

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=62358#relPageId=104

One of the more interesting dispatches sent on 11/22/63. This was from Jake Esterline, COS, Panama City asking about the boat. This was for Zamka true name of David Morales. You'd think that at 20:30 hours (8:30 pm), just hours after the President was assassinated, Esterline, JMWAVE and Morales would have other issues to deal with??

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=31773#relPageId=2&search=zamka

Do you know if there was a schedule for future operations involving the Joanne? Was there like a schedule for where the ship would be in December 1963, January and February 1964 and what the ship would be doing?

[David Boylan]

Gerry,

Yes. It was to be docked in Monkey Point, Nicaragua and to be used for raids on Cuba. I believe that the MV captain was, initially to be, Ricardo Chavez.

Carl Jenkins reporting - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=16102#relPageId=2

[David Boylan]

Olga Patricia.

[Gerry Down]

3 minutes ago, David Boylan said:

Olga Patricia.

Is that the Joanne? If not, do we have a picture of the Joanne?

[Gerry Down]

17 minutes ago, David Boylan said:

Gerry,

Yes. It was to be docked in Monkey Point, Nicaragua and to be used for raids on Cuba. I believe that the MV captain was, initially to be, Ricardo Chavez.

Carl Jenkins reporting - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=16102#relPageId=2

Thanks for that. So the Joanne was to go from Baltimore to Nicaragua and stay there for AMWORLD operations. No coming back to the U.S.

[Leslie Sharp]

Of possible relevance . . . 
 

Baltimore-based Harold B. Chait, a vice president of Boston Metals Processing Corp — an investment of OSS operative Ulius Amoss* —transported money from the company and also the Baldt Anchor and Chain Company using trust accounts at The Bank of Maryland to the South Florida Soldiers of Fortune who put the funds into the hands of a ragtag army. “Both companies were CIA fronts for laundering money,” asserts researcher John Bevilaqua. 

            The allegation makes a good deal of sense of the remarks made by Chait’s wife on October 18, 1962. As President of the Baltimore Women’s Committee for Cuban Freedom during a speech before the members, Phyllis Chait casually revealed that “one of the more fascinating aspects of CIA operations in Cuba is its method of supplying arms and ammunitions to Cuban liberation groups. Time and again, CIA cutters make their dash to Cuba and deliver such items as .45-caliber Thompson machines guns and .30-caliber ammunition…” explaining that there was a method in the agency’s madness of delivering unmatched weapons and ammunition. 

            Mrs. Chait would have been familiar with those Thompson machine guns because her husband and his investor, Ulius Amoss who, before passing away in November 1961, had enjoyed significant funding for his private intelligence operation ISI (focused at the time on the Dominican Republic) from financier Clendenin J. Ryan, Sr. who was invested heavily in Thompson Machine Guns corporation. His partner in the military contractor enterprise was J. Russell Maguire’.  Mrs. Chait added,  “I have heard former Castro gunrunners laughingly describe how they were sometimes given official escort when they wheeled Castro’s munitions through the streets of Miami. . . .”

 

. . . The reader will recognize Bridgeport, Connecticut as the hometown of Mrs. Thomas Eli Davis, Jr. whose family, the Hawleys, were fifth generation bankers in service to the military-industrial complex and corporate headquarters DuPont's Remington Arms. Known as “The Arsenal of Democracy,” Bridgeport was also headquarters of Russell Maguire’s Auto-Ordnance and Thompson machine guns.

            Maguire, who established offices in Wichita Falls, Texas and the First National Bank of Dallas from which he directed his oil investments, had managed to keep his political views private until 1951 when he openly provided financial support of John Beaty’s Iron Curtain Over America, once described as the most extensive piece of racist propaganda in the history of the anti-Semitic movement in America. A professor of English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas until his retirement as department chair in 1957, Beaty worked in close physical proximity at the university with Professor Ilya Mamantov and expert in petroleum law, the esteemed Robert G. Storey, both of whom feature in this investigation into the assassination. Maguire’s magazine, the American Mercury was by then headquartered outside Dallas, convenient to Maguire’s oil operations.

(*see EF thread Ulisu Amoss, leaderless resistance . . . )

Edited August 24, 2023 by Leslie Sharp

[Mervyn Hagger]

1 hour ago, Gerry Down said:

Is that the Joanne? If not, do we have a picture of the Joanne?

Gerry, a number of people have previously asked this question, and at this moment in time, I don't think that they are one and the same ships.

The first problem is timing.

The CIA involvement via BAM (Manuel Artime Buesa) is a documented (CIA Memoranda) fact, and it is available at Mary Ferrell.

I have two maritime mortgages for this ship when it was financed via the same bank that Manuel Artime used in South Miami.

According to the CIA records, they obtained it from a USAF pen in South Miami.

The reason that the USAF had custody of it is because it was equipped to carry high-altitude helium balloons over Cuba and release their contents - which included printed propaganda and objects that the ordinary Cuban citizen could retrieve.

I also have the actual blueprint when the ship was later obtained from BAM sources and it reflects the time that its keel was laid down.

The ship had a strange history since it was built as a supply vessel during WWII for the US Army.

The ship then gained a name indicating that it had been used for commercial cargos.

Lloyd's Registry is a hopeless source of information because it got its information from the owners of the ships, and in this instance it was fed with bogus information because for a time it was listed at the mv Olga Princess when no such vessel existed.

The BAM phase relates to Operation Mongoose and I have a LOT of documented information about this phase.

Then JFK was assassinated and Operation Mongoose was terminated. What the Olga Patricia (true name) did during most of 1964 into 1965 is still a mystery.

Then Don Pierson of Eastland, Texas got hold of it with help from associates connected to US Senator John Tower of Wichita Falls.

Don Pierson contracted with Continental Manufacturing of Dallas (who also have a very tangled and murky originating history going back to Kansas and the 'goat gland' doctor who broadcast from Mexico on the Texas border prior to WWII. That history ties back to Fort Worth and the birth of broadcasting with WBAP.

The Olga Patricia arrived off south-east England in 1966 just as the UK was passing a law to stop offshore commercial broadcasting. It came into effect on August 14, 1967.

Originally there were to be two fully automated 50,000 watt stations on board. One of them went 'live' as 'Swinging Radio England', a hodge-podge format with screaming Southern US 'boss jocks' backed by echo and PAMS jingles. It was a disaster. The other station was also automated as 'Britain Radio' - the 'hallmark of quality' listening. (The so-called 'Beautiful Music' format.)

In November 1966 Radio England signed off as a financial loss and it was replaced by a succession of formats and names. The same thing also happened to 'Britain Radio'. Its main sponsor was Herbert W. Armstrong twice a day, seven days a week.

That is when the ship became the Laissez Faire for a time.

The Texas investors cut their losses before the August law came into effect, and they gave Don Pierson power of attorney to sell the radio ship. Pierson wrote and received letters from many governments including the US 'Voice of America' who had operated a radio ship off Rhodes from 1952 to 1964. There were no positive takers except for one: Papa Doc of Haiti where George De Mohrenschildt and Clint Murchison had also ventured with other ventures.

Don Pierson offered to set up a Haitian broadcasting school on one of the stations and a kind of 'Voice of Haiti' (like Radio Havana) on the other station. The ship itself was now to known again as Olga Patricia and it would anchored off the island of Tortuga where Pierson hoped to establish a freeport like the Bahamas. All that went "pear shaped."

Instead, while the freeport venture went ahead (for a time), the ship was impounded by US Marshals in Miami. A sale took place and the transmitters were returned to Continental Electronics who resold them to two different radio stations bordering South Africa.

Then the Olga Patricia gained a 'flip chart' of many names (depending upon who was asking), and another expat Cuban group tied to Collins Radio ('Rex' of Bay of Pigs infamy), got involved.

The ship started shooting up coastal areas of Cuba and killed a schoolteacher.

Fidel Castro then started seizing cargo ship tied to the US, while denouncing (by name and owner), the Olga Patricia and CIA.

This strange history is tied to Pierson's first venture called 'Radio London' which was put together by a CIA-Mafia lawyer in Chicago with ties to the Bahamas.

Pierson had based the 'Big L' (with PAMS jingles) on McLendon's KLIF. McLendon participated.

The background to that was McLendon and his 'Radio Nord' in the Baltic on a ship which also had name changes and eventually became mv Mi Amigo. McLendon also bought half of the prototype Radio Mercur broadcasting to both Denmark and southern Sweden with help from General Samosa of Nicaragua who provided the flags of convenience.

In a very brief outline that is the story of the Olga Patricia.

I do not believe that it was part of the Bay of Pigs invasion since its purchase and use by the CIA via Artime is well documented.

[Mervyn Hagger]

15 minutes ago, Leslie Sharp said:

Of possible relevance . . . 
 

Baltimore-based Harold B. Chait, a vice president of Boston Metals Processing Corp — an investment of OSS operative Ulius Amoss* —transported money from the company and also the Baldt Anchor and Chain Company using trust accounts at The Bank of Maryland to the South Florida Soldiers of Fortune who put the funds into the hands of a ragtag army. “Both companies were CIA fronts for laundering money,” asserts researcher John Bevilaqua. 

            The allegation makes a good deal of sense of the remarks made by Chait’s wife on October 18, 1962. As President of the Baltimore Women’s Committee for Cuban Freedom during a speech before the members, Phyllis Chait casually revealed that “one of the more fascinating aspects of CIA operations in Cuba is its method of supplying arms and ammunitions to Cuban liberation groups. Time and again, CIA cutters make their dash to Cuba and deliver such items as .45-caliber Thompson machines guns and .30-caliber ammunition…” explaining that there was a method in the agency’s madness of delivering unmatched weapons and ammunition. 

            Mrs. Chait would have been familiar with those Thompson machine guns because her husband and his investor, Ulius Amoss who, before passing away in November 1961, had enjoyed significant funding for his private intelligence operation ISI (focused at the time on the Dominican Republic) from financier Clendenin J. Ryan, Sr. who was invested heavily in Thompson Machine Guns corporation. His partner in the military contractor enterprise was J. Russell Maguire’.  Mrs. Chait added,  “I have heard former Castro gunrunners laughingly describe how they were sometimes given official escort when they wheeled Castro’s munitions through the streets of Miami. . . .”

 

. . . The reader will recognize Bridgeport, Connecticut as the hometown of Mrs. Thomas Eli Davis, Jr. whose family, the Hawleys, were fifth generation bankers in service to the military-industrial complex and corporate headquarters DuPont's Remington Arms. Known as “The Arsenal of Democracy,” Bridgeport was also headquarters of Russell Maguire’s Auto-Ordnance and Thompson machine guns.

            Maguire, who established offices in Wichita Falls, Texas and the First National Bank of Dallas from which he directed his oil investments, had managed to keep his political views private until 1951 when he openly provided financial support of John Beaty’s Iron Curtain Over America, once described as the most extensive piece of racist propaganda in the history of the anti-Semitic movement in America. A professor of English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas until his retirement as department chair in 1957, Beaty worked in close physical proximity at the university with Professor Ilya Mamantov and expert in petroleum law, the esteemed Robert G. Storey, both of whom feature in this investigation into the assassination. Maguire’s magazine, the American Mercury was by then headquartered outside Dallas, convenient to Maguire’s oil operations.

(*see EF thread Ulisu Amoss, leaderless resistance . . . )

Leslie this is more 'kitchen sink' stuff.

It has no connectivity whatsoever.

I have the documentation to support everything I have written and a little bit of which I have reported here.

By chucking so much irrelevant stuff on to this thread at every turn, you are not helping but confusing the issue.

The ONLY people who added to this story at the very beginning are Gary Murr and Larry Hancock - especially with reference to his book called 'Shadow Warriors'.

My associates are currently working on the publication of three interconnected volumes in which this story and a lot more will be documented.  However, there are very specific gaps in our knowledge, some of which I have outlined, and that is why I welcome additional details, but please, no more of this "A" knows "B" and "B" knows "C", therefore "A" knows "C" - it's guilt by association and it is rubbish!

[Mervyn Hagger]

Incidentally, Arkurius II is one of a series of bogus names for the Olga Patricia, and after the ship was grabbed by the US Marshals and resold after the transmitters had been removed, it was bought by a fishing fleet who reconfigured the vessel by shortening its length. It was eventually scrapped completely.

[Mervyn Hagger]

3 hours ago, David Boylan said:

Mervyn,

There was quite a bit of information posted on this site over the years. I believe the Olga Patricia was renamed to The Joanne for use in Artime's AMWORLD project. The Joanne was docked in Baltimore harbor for exfiltration use for The Black Nine (per CIA). This was a group of anti-Castro Cubans that were black exfiltrated to Nicaragua and Costa Rica post assassination. 

The Joanne finally gets under way 12/1/63

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=40912#relPageId=2

They were kept below decks. Doc is from Richard Beal and signed by Henry Hecksher 11/27. AMJAVA-4 is Rafael Quintero. Collins radios, silenced weapons.

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=40912#relPageId=2

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=62358#relPageId=104

One of the more interesting dispatches sent on 11/22/63. This was from Jake Esterline, COS, Panama City asking about the boat. This was for Zamka true name of David Morales. You'd think that at 20:30 hours (8:30 pm), just hours after the President was assassinated, Esterline, JMWAVE and Morales would have other issues to deal with??

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=31773#relPageId=2&search=zamka

David, there is nothing that I have seen having validity, which supports the idea that the Olga Patricia changed its name to Joanne.

By assuming that these vessels are one and the same you are laying down a false trail for others to follow.

[Mervyn Hagger]

2 hours ago, David Boylan said:

Gerry,

Yes. It was to be docked in Monkey Point, Nicaragua and to be used for raids on Cuba. I believe that the MV captain was, initially to be, Ricardo Chavez.

Carl Jenkins reporting - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=16102#relPageId=2

Unfortunately you have switched topics by turning one ship into another ship.

[Leslie Sharp]

23 minutes ago, Mervyn Hagger said:

Leslie this is more 'kitchen sink' stuff.

It has no connectivity whatsoever.

I have the documentation to support everything I have written and a little bit of which I have reported here.

By chucking so much irrelevant stuff on to this thread at every turn, you are not helping but confusing the issue.

The ONLY people who added to this story at the very beginning are Gary Murr and Larry Hancock - especially with reference to his book called 'Shadow Warriors'.

My associates are currently working on the publication of three interconnected volumes in which this story and a lot more will be documented.  However, there are very specific gaps in our knowledge, some of which I have outlined, and that is why I welcome additional details, but please, no more of this "A" knows "B" and "B" knows "C", therefore "A" knows "C" - it's guilt by association and it is rubbish!

This is a public forum, and I'm assuming in good faith that you were earnest when you said recently (paraphrasing) "we are all here to learn."

There is every reason to contribute to this particular thread when I recognize possible clues, including funding of the operation you reference. I'm not suggesting Murchison couldn't do so out of the wallet in his back pocket, but if the agency was wanting to maintain a level of control over Morales — identified in the documents David Boylan has linked to — then the Baltimore / Chait vignette might prove to be relevant.

Please don't think I'm attempting to derail your contributions; but also, I'm asking you to be open to additional and/or new revelations relevant to your own efforts that go far beyond "A knows B" I assure you. 

I would begin with Murchison's development along with Leo Corrigan in the Bahamas at the same time Hjalmar Schact (significant to the operation to assassinate Kennedy in Dallas) and Sir Stafford Stands were also entrenched. 
 

Edited August 24, 2023 by Leslie Sharp

[Mervyn Hagger]

2 hours ago, David Boylan said:

Olga Patricia.

Note the crude lettering imposed on the picture. This is not a true representation. Also note the objects on the deck (sans main mast which seems to have been edited out). This picture appears to belong to the era of Operation Mongoose before Don Pierson got hold of it, and the the objects on the deck may be the helium tanks used for inflating high altitude balloons used to drop propaganda on the island of Cuba, while the ship was operating from the safe waters of the Gulf of Mexico.