Amos E. Heacock

[Wade Rhodes]

AGENCY : HSCA

RECORD NUMBER : 180-10082-10255

RECORDS SERIES : NUMBERED FILES.

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 000273

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR : CITIZEN

FROM : HEACOCK, AMOS E.

TO : SCHWEIKER, RICHARD S.

TITLE : "IDENTIFICATON OF TRIGGERMEN AND SPONSORS OF THE

ASSASSINATION OF JFK"

DATE : 09/23/1975

PAGES : 64

DOCUMENT TYPE : REPORT.

SUBJECTS : KENNEDY, JOHN; ASSASSINATION.; DALLAS POLICE

DEPARTMENT.; EVIDENCE.

CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED

RESTRICTIONS : OPEN IN FULL

CURRENT STATUS : OPEN

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 04/09/1993

COMMENTS : Includes duplicate. Box 11.

[Greg Parker]

Wade, he apparently had some connection to Watergate - or at least is mentioned in the Watergate papers of Charles Colson held at the Billy Graham Center.

greg

AGENCY : HSCA

      RECORD NUMBER : 180-10082-10255

    RECORDS SERIES : NUMBERED FILES.

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 000273

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

        ORIGINATOR : CITIZEN

              FROM : HEACOCK, AMOS E.

                TO : SCHWEIKER, RICHARD S.

              TITLE : "IDENTIFICATON OF TRIGGERMEN AND SPONSORS OF THE

                      ASSASSINATION OF JFK"

              DATE : 09/23/1975

              PAGES : 64

      DOCUMENT TYPE : REPORT.

          SUBJECTS : KENNEDY, JOHN; ASSASSINATION.; DALLAS POLICE

                      DEPARTMENT.; EVIDENCE.

    CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED

      RESTRICTIONS : OPEN IN FULL

    CURRENT STATUS : OPEN

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 04/09/1993

          COMMENTS : Includes duplicate.  Box 11.

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[William Kelly]

Heacock was the owner of an independent Military Air Transport MAT airline that the CIA airlines put out of business. Heacock and Ralph Cox, the owner of another independent airline that the CIA put out of business, sued the CIA years later and testified before a Congressional hearing on the matter.

JFKcountercoup: CIAir

On February 5, 1963 the CIA airlines were formally organized under the umbrella of EXCOMAIR – the Executive Committee for Air Proprietary Operations. EXCOMAIR was, "to provide general policy guidance for the management of air propriety projects and review recommendations for approval of air proprietary project actions." Lawrence Houston was appointed chairman of the committee.

In the fall of 1963 Coats Lear was killed by a shotgun blast to the head. Although some suggested it was suicide, others believe he was murdered.

Lear was a law partner in Eugene Zucker’s firm, and Zuckert, as Secretary of the Air Force, was involved in the awarding of contracts.

Ed Driscol, the man who handled the administration of many of the MATS contracts at the Pentagon, became Executive Director of the Civil Aeronautics Board after the death of Lear. Later, Driscol became VP at World Airways, one of the companies he funneled MATS contracts to from the Pentagon and CAB.

Driscol was the Director of Transportation under Joseph Imire, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force and John H. Rubel, the Asst. Secretary of Defense. With CAB chairman Alan S. Boyd, they effectively ended the competitive bidding for MATS contracts and arbitrarily awarded them to their favorite airlines connected to the CIA and/or Lear & Zuckert.

Ruble, Imire and Driscol all resigned shortly before the death of Lear. While Driscol went on to the CAB and World Airways, Ruble and Imire became Vice President of Litton Industries, a major defense contractor.

Another explanation for Lear’s death is provided by Amos Heacock, another independent airline owner put out of business by the CIA, who believes that is a connection between Lear’s demise and the assassination of President Kennedy shortly thereafter.

Heacock believes Lear’s law partner, Eugene Zuckert, as Secretary of the Air Force, had something to do with the scheduling of the President’s visit to Texas. He may have been responsible for the upkeep of Air Force One and Two, the planes provided for Executive office use by the President, Vice President and the cabinet.

According to this theory, Zuckert, as Secretary of the Air Force, obtained foreknowledge of the assassination, information that was also picked up by Lear. This either drove Lear crazy enough to kill himself, or made him unstable and a threat tothose planning to kill the President, so Lear also had to die.....

For more see:

JFKcountercoup: CIAir