Mr. WILCOTT - Jerry Fox, SR Branch, Reid Dennis, Chief of Soviet Satellite Branch; and XXXXXXXXXX, China Branch, and he also had a cover. (Its address, I later learned, was 11310 Gemini Lane.) Mr. GOLDSMITH - Who were your friends that you discussed this with? In addition, all of my interview notes and tapes inexplicably disappeared. Please excuse this messy letter. If they do agree to be interviewed, they are truthful in what they say, except on one particular point: the year when they moved into the building. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you bring that list with you today? Mrs. Bergin paid a great deal of money for that dress. Consider the following letter: Re: THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, While working as a journalist in Dallas late in 1974 and early 1975, I met and spoke with Lee Harvey Oswalds supervisor at the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas. It was more of a casual kind of thing, to my way of thinking. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I realize this is testimony 15 years after the fact. Considering the far-reaching extent of control over so many occupations in American society, the CIA could very well have infiltrated the schoolbook depositories and their associated publishers. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I am sure somewhere. The specific incident was soon after the Kennedy assassination, where an agent, a Case Officer -- I am sure it was a Case Officer -- came up to my window to draw money, and he specifically said in the conversation that ensued, he specifically said, "Well, Jim, the money that I drew the last couple of weeks ago or so was money," either I had been involved at one point with a group civil rights group, and they had investigated it and said that there was no wrongdoing on my part as far a this association with the civil rights group. For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions. December 30, 2005 in JFK Assassination Debate Share Followers 0 Posted December 30, 2005 I started to read through the HSCA testimony of James Wilcott on the History Matters website, and ran across this line on page 1: "Approximately April-June, 1963, Cryptonym for Oswald Project approx. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. GOLDSMITH - excuse me, just answer the question very generally, without referring to anything right now, and please describe generally what your responsibilities were as a finance officer. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, that was just those that were assigned to XXXXXX and those projects that were assigned to XXXXXXXX. Mr. WILCOTT - No, I didn't, as far as the Oswald cryptonym was concerned; no, I didn't. In the decade following his HSCA testimony, Jim Wilcott joined Vietnam veteran Brian Willson and the Nuremberg Actions community outside the Concord Naval Weapons Station in nonviolent resistance to weapons shipments to the CIA-sponsored Contra war in Nicaragua. Mr. PREYER - That was shop talk, speculation, I gather; people were saying that the CIA is somehow connected with it. Mr. WILCOTT - My name is James B. Wilcott. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes sir. One day Frank O'Connor, the director of the program, called me into his office and he said that he had had a discussion with the public safety commissioner and that the public safety commissioner told him that my phone was bugged, that my house was under surveillance and that a Federal indictment was coming down on me at any time, that he had talked to the mayor and the mayor decided not to fire me but asked me to sign a resignation form which he would date the day previous to the date that the Federal indictment came down. All I remember is that her husband was previously a member of the musical group The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. She didnt show up for work the next day and didnt pick up her final paycheck. After leaving high school he might have continued as an intelligence operative working undercover in local defense plants (plural) during the last months of the war. Mr. DODD - And this was a view shared by you and your, wife -- [23] William Weston, Robert MacNeil and the Three Calm Men, in the November 1994 issue of The Fourth Decade. My testimony included numerous meetings with a man named Bill Shelly (I am no longer certain of the correct spelling of his last name.) Thank you for your letter. Mary Lea Williams, a receptionist for Allyn & Bacon, said the move occurred two or three years before the assassination. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And when you testified earlier that you learned Oswald's cryptonym, by that do you mean that you learned both Oswald's personal cryptonym and his project cryptonym, or was it one of the two? Mr. WILCOTT - I think the most significant thing that can be actually substantiated is the circumstances surrounding my employment with the community renewal program in Utica, and I was the finance analyst for the community renewal program in Utica. Did you want to do this or intend to proceed with that line of questioning? Was there any dispute between you and the Agency? I next called John Peets, the manager of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. His information was that he had been unwittingly involved with paying Oswald through a high security clearance, since he worked in the finance office. As far as that they actually said, they said they were having trouble with Oswald and that there was dissatisfaction with Oswald after he came back from the Soviet Union, and the would say things like "Well, you know this was the way to get rid of him -- to get him involved in this assassination thing and put the blame on Cuba as a pretext for another invasion or another attack against Cuba. [2] As we shall see, there is evidence that Oswald worked with another CIA agent in Dallas. We are operating under House Resolution 222, which mandates the Committee to conduct a full and complete investigation and study of the circumstances surrounding the assassination and death of President John F. Kennedy, including determining whether the existing laws of the United States concerning the protection of the President and the investigatory jurisdiction and capability of agencies and departments are adequate in their provisions and enforcement; and whether there was full disclosure of evidence and information among agencies and department of the United States Government and whether any evidence or information not in the possession of an agency of department would have been of assistance in investigating the assassination and why such information was not provided or collected by that agency or department, and to make recommendations to the House if the Select Committee deems it appropriate for the amendment of existing legislation or the enactment of new legislation. at the best online prices at eBay! Mr. WILCOTT - My. Roy Truly was, up to the time of his death in 1985, continuously frightened by "federal authorities." Mr. Shelly claims to have been an intelligence officer during World War II and thereafter joined the CIA. Supposedly, he fell asleep at the wheel, or committed suicide, when he rammed into the back of a semi-truck. The incident involving two government agents asking new employees strange questions also occurred at this location. (Whereupon, a recess was taken while the members of I the Committee went to the floor of the House for a vote.) Upon exiting the elevator, he saw a short hallway. [3] Telephone interviews of Campbell March 19, 1994; Jones, March 19, 1994; Williams, April 4, 1994; Garner, August 14, 1999. It seems to me that I recall jotting it on a little pad. (The witness conferred with his Counsel.). Mr. GOLDSMITH - What do you mean by the term "agent"? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir, I did. Since then, he has written numerous articles on the subject for various periodicals, including The Fourth Decade, Dealey Plaza Echo, and Probe. Mr. WILCOTT - No. Mr. SAWYER - What were they? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir; I think I had good performance reviews right up to the time that I left. The first contact I had with any reporter or any newspaper people or any media people was with Glad Day Press. Mr. WILCOTT - Very briefly it did, yes, in what was finally published. This would put his visit in a period sometime during the summer or fall of 1963. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, you did. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I did. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir. Please try again. Common to both the 1977 and 1989 letters are the strange men asking strange questions. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And for purposes of clarification, now, if Oswald was already dead at the time that you went to this book, why did you go back to examine the book? He claims the charges were dropped, but he stated that he turned away several newspapers and magazines offering huge amounts of money for his personal account of the assassination. Mr. WILCOTT - That is correct. Mr. DODD - It would have been a cryptonym and he was telling you, you had, in fact, made a disbursement? Strange Deaths Of People Who Knew Too Much About The JFK Assassination: 92 Witnesses, Researchers, CIA Agents, Police Officers, Reporters, Girlfriends Who Just Knew Way Too Much! According to Wilcott, Tokyo time of killing was approx. These companies were part of a complex system involving: (a) the state legislature, which purchased textbooks through a process called adoption, (b) the publishers, who were responsible for maintaining sufficient reserves, (c) the book depositories, which received the books, stored them, and shipped them out as needed to schools around the state. Mr. CORNWELL - But your testimony or your statements on the subject hadn't been made a matter of publicity on any other occasion? Mr. WILCOTT - From the time I left I talked at various times, especially at parties and things like that, on social occasions, with people at headquarters and with people at my station, and we would converse about it and I used to say things like, "What do you think about Oswald being connected with the CIA? Mr. WILCOTT - I left the agency in April of 1966 for the Miami Station. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. anyone? Mr. CORNWELL - Why did you leave the CIA? files -- my internal files, prior to the end of the month. Also Present: Elizabeth Berning, Chief Clerk, and Charles Berk, Betsy Wolf and James Wolf. Mr. GOLDSMITH - When was that? After standing on the front steps to see the shooting of the president, Frazier did something odd, about which he seemed to contradict himself about in an interview with the Sixth Floor Museum in 2013. Mr. PREYER - I would like before we begin to read a written statement concerning the subject of the investigation. There was a problem loading your book clubs. 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