His mother was a strong, confident woman before the assassination, but afterwards she suffered a complete breakdown in her health and had to be hospitalized. 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. There was talk about it going on at the station, and several months following at the station. Mr. WILCOTT - It has been 15 years, and I can't remember specifically who said what, but certainly I am sure that Jerry Fox, for instance, had at least made some mention of it. His father lost weight and developed a stoop in the way he stood and walked; his hair and facial features aged prematurely. Mr. WILCOTT - They were maintained on a thirty-day basis, and then they were closed off at the end of the month. It was first broadcast in 1978 on a public access television channel in Austin, Texas. would that interview have contained your resume of the Oswald agency matter, your statements about that matter? Mr. SAWYER - Well, what were your antiwar activities that you refer to? She confided this information to Mrs. Bergin and told her that she had a copy of the First Ladys dress, pink in color with the black velvet collar. Perhaps that is why I was so unprepared during that brief step into the looking glass.. In 1947, the year when the CIA was formed, the Dallas city directory lists William Shelley as a clerk for the Hugh Perry Book Depository (the old name for the Texas School Book Depository), and that he had a room at 515 Martinique Avenue. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. * Assassination Archives and Research Center leads the fight in federal court for full JFK disclosure. [3] Telephone interviews of Campbell March 19, 1994; Jones, March 19, 1994; Williams, April 4, 1994; Garner, August 14, 1999. [12] Wilcotts 3/22/78 HSCA deposition, pp. The mayor, Mr. Sawyer, was Dominic Casaro. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. PREYER - I would like before we begin to read a written statement concerning the subject of the investigation. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And in what general capacity did you work with the CIA? Mr. WILCOTT - Not publicly. Mr. GOLDSMITH - If the agency, in fact, was run on the "need-to-know" basis, how would you account for so many people supposedly knowing that Oswald was an agent? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you remember where this conversation took place? Mr. GOLDSMITH - How did you know, in 1963, what type of security precautions the Warren Commission had for conducting its investigation? It must have been puzzling to Glaze, as it is to us reading his letters, why a government agency would be providing security for a privately-owned company. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Years later, I found out that he moved to Austin, Texas, where he began working for the Austin American Statesman in 1979. Two weeks later, he wrote back: Received your letter of July 7, 1999. Mr. WILCOTT - They were extremely vulgar and I don't think that I should give the full context of them. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I take it, from your testimony, that in November of 1963, you were stationed in XXXXXXXXXXXXX Station, is that correct? His tires were slashed and sugar was poured into his gas tank. 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. After completing the questionnaire, the two F.B.I. Write to Editor@jfkfacts.org. On November 22, 1963, there were sixty-nine people working in the building at 411 Elm Streetthirty-three for the TSBD and forty-six for the publishers. It doesn't have every one. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you know whether CIA Headquarters would have had either copies or originals of the cash disbursement files? For example, Joes father had to clear visitors with Roy Truly, the building manager, even though they were top executives from the company headquarters in Chicago. about it & possibly do a story on it. [22] And this likely included coaxing Shelly and Lovelady into making an ersatz trip across the street to the railroad yards before their return to the TSBD, which is now when they said they saw Styles and Adams. Mr. WILCOTT - No, I didn't. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, for a limited period. 3 By James Mathis and Martha Wagner Murphy Enlarge A photograph from Warren Commission exhibits shows the open limousine that carried President and Mrs. Kennedy through downtown Dallas. Wilcotts affidavit and deposition were declassified by the ARRB. Mr. GOLDSMITH - As a matter of routine, there would be that reference? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes sir. [27] Gerald McKnight, Breach of Trust p. 115. Thank you for your kind words and interest. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you prepare such a list? Mr. GOLDSMITH - And who is Jerry Fox? As many JFK researchers know, James Wilcott was a CIA accountant from May 1957 through April 1966. It seems to me that I recall jotting it on a little pad. It has every one that I can remember. Mr. WILCOTT - They would have summaries of some sort. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I did. Also puzzling is the manner by which they asked new employees point-blank if they were members of the CIA. Their whereabouts are completely unknown. Mr. WILCOTT - Especially after Kennedy's assassination, there was a great deal of very, very serious discontent with CIA, and the morale at the station had dropped considerably, and we heard some very, very bitter denunciations of CIA and the projects that they were undertaking. Mr. WILCOTT - With any degree of certainty, other than just speculation, I would say, six or seven with some degree of certainty. Mr. DODD - Would you care to tell us any of the names of people whom you communicated with? Mr. PREYER - And Miami, was that comparable in size? Shelleys second claim was that he joined the CIA. At the end of the hallway to his right was another door. Then, as time Went on, I began to hear more things in that line. During this same time, I also met and spoke with relevant employees who later worked for Lee Harvey Oswalds supervisor after the assassination of President Kennedy. phone, and hang up, and I would get notes written in snow or my windshield and I had slips of paper left under my, windshield and this sort of thing. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you remember the name of this Case Officer? Mr. WILCOTT - Oh, yes. Unable to add item to List. Joe was unable to determine if the arson was assassination-related. Conditions at home and at work put a severe strain on Joes parents. Learn more. Mr. CORNWELL - Last November? I think you are making some important allegations here, and you have been very helpful in giving some witnesses' names through which we might be able to corroborate it, but I think it is very important that we know clearly how much of this was cocktail party talk and how much was shop talk and how much was speculation and rumor and how much was hard fact. Admittedly, there is no record of Shelleys arrest, but that does not necessarily mean Glaze was wrong. All seven boxes had the names of schoolbook publishers stamped on them. I asked the first man I sawa man who was telephoning from a pillar in the middle of the roomwhere I could call from. Enclosed is a copy of the response from G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director of the Select Committee on Assassinations. James T. Tague was an unintended victim in the Kennedy assassination, hit by a stray bullet while stuck in traffic on the way to pick up a luncheon date. Mr. DODD - In. It could be a hoax, but sounds sincere. (National Archives, RG 272) No other event of the last 75 . Mr. DODD - at that time? According to this person, shortly after going to work for Bill Schelly, she & another new employee were subjected to some rather odd questioning when considering they were hired as clerks. files -- my internal files, prior to the end of the month. Mr. DODD - Talking about hours afterwards or a day afterwards? We had accountings, or we had audits about every two years, and then then files that I kept the requests for advances, the details of the accountings that were done usually on a monthly basis by the XXXXX Station Branches, would be destroyed and then they would be -- and, in fact, I helped destroy them. Mr. WILCOTT - The details approximately two years. This is more than just an investigative report. He also claimed he had disbursed cash funds for Oswald or The Oswald Project. After his interview and testimony he was claims he was harassed by the federal government and put under surveillance. Mr. WILCOTT - No; I think that I looked through my advance book -- and I had a book where the advances on projects were run, and I leafed through them, and I must have at least leafed through them to see if what he said was true. Mr. GOLDSMITH - At the time that this allegation first came to your attention, did you learn the name of Oswald's Case Offficer at the CIA? Afterwards, she, her husband, and their child quickly disappeared. Mr. WILCOTT - That is true, sir. [13], (As an aside, CIA officer William Harvey worked for Bobbs-Merrill in the last years of his life as a law editor.[14]). In 1938, he became a salesman for Scott Foresman. Which he was allegedly working for. The November 14, 1961 date came from Leon, Sexton branch manager in Dallas from 1961 to 1964. Mr. PREYER - Thank you. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir; that was a smaller station. Please try again. Mr. WILCOTT - I really don't know. Mr. WILCOTT - I cannot remember. This was about, believe -- about October of 1975. every CIA Case Officer who worked XXXXXXXXXX in 1963? Find all the books, read about the author, and more. We appreciate that, and if at, any time you think of any further way in which your testimony can be corroborated or the name of any other CIA man or any record or anything of that sort that might be available we hope you will get in touch with us and let us know about it. Mr. WILCOTT - That is correct, sir. or C.I.A. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I am sorry, I didn't hear. He said he never saw it and said it was strange that I should possess a letter that was addressed to him. Here, by your own testimony, you were supportive of the President, and certainly the most significant tragedy, I think, probably in the last 15 years or 20 years was the assassination of President Kennedy, and you are told by some who worked for the Agency that Oswald was a CIA agent and you already were dissatisfied with the actions of the Agency and you are told this in 1964 and yet it takes four, years, or two years, after you had left the Agency, recognizing the tremendous import and significance of that, and I am terribly confused as to why you decided to keep that information to yourself and to your wife. She said that there is a whole lot more to tell about the TSBD than what has been publishedthat the whole building should be suspected as more or less of a safe base to operate from that day in November 1963.[9]. He was not questioned by the Warren Commission. I will ask if you will stand and be sworn. Mr. WILCOTT - Not really files; it was my book. 359-360, 386-387. Mr. WILCOTT - My. They lingered in front of my apartment for nearly an hour, pointing their pistols at my window and shouting in a very threatening manner. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir. that I had at my gate, and I did that with cryptonyms from time to time for something -- we would want to check back into their accounting for something. Fritz was on the sixth floor examining the scene when Truly told him of this. Mr. WILCOTT - Very briefly it did, yes, in what was finally published. that correct? Redemption links and eBooks cannot be resold. Mr. DODD - It would have been a cryptonym and he was telling you, you had, in fact, made a disbursement? Please try your request again later. Mr. WILCOTT - Anything they had there would have -- sometimes they used as many as two or three different cryptonyms and they would have -- it all depended on how far they wanted to isolate it from the original source, from the original source as to where the project was run. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I have nothing further, Mr. Chairman. He was not questioned by the Warren Commission. Mr. WILCOTT - No; I know for a fact, or I know from hearsay, and I believe it to be true from the circumstances how this conversation came up and so on. Mr. WILCOTT - We had -- in Utica there was a group called the Vietnam Educational Council, which was informed people, formed to inform people as to what was going on in Vietnam, and we didn't feel that there was coverage enough in the media as to what was going on, and the purpose of the Vietnam Educational Council was to inform people as to what was going on. As we shall see, this might have been designed to conceal the fact that some people working there were being harassed and bullied. However, if you received this information two or three months after the assassination, at a time that Oswald was already dead and had been dead for two or three months, what purpose would have been served by checking records that were only 30 days old? Mr. SCHAAP - Mr. Chairman, I would like to interpose, I guess, an objection, although I would like to make it more in the nature of a request, that I have some problems in terms of advising my client with respect to possibly self incrimination, that I would not advise him to go into questions of his specific knowledge of the oath and the application to what he did other than the fact that he has told you, which is a fact, that he did sign the oath; but to, go into his mental processes as to whether he felt what he was then doing related to the oath in a particular way, I would request that those questions not be asked on the grounds that they may violate either his First Amendment rights or his Fifth Amendment rights, if that would be all right. Additional gift options are available when buying one eBook at a time. [26], Pierce Allman, a local newsman, later said that after he approached the TSBD, a man he recalled as Oswald near the front of the building, directed him to a phone inside.[27]. Mr. WILCOTT - My name is James B. Wilcott. ", and they might look it over and retype the accounting for funds for their project and, you know, make changes that they might think were in their interest to do. Earlier that year, he graduated from Crozier Technical School in Dallas. He was fortunate to have many travels, including celebration of his 60th birthday in Antarctica. Mr. GOLDSMITH - What is that opinion? Since then, he has written numerous articles on the subject for various periodicals, including The Fourth Decade, Dealey Plaza Echo, and Probe. When Doug Kellner answered the phone, I described to him the contents of the letter. Mr. SCHAAP - My name is William Schaap, S - c - h - a -, a - p (spelling), and I am an Attorney here in Washington. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And, Mr. Wilcott, is it true that you are a former employee with the CIA and that you are here today testifying voluntarily without a subpoena? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. WILCOTT - No. Can you recall whether the tone of it was rumor or shop talk or was the tone of it that "this is true"? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Dorothy Ann Garner was a former office supervisor of Scott Foresman. Mr. CORNWELL - Do you remember anything about it? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. GOLDSMITH - How did this information concerning Oswald first come to your attention? Mr. GOLDSMITH - And will you tell the Committee what that relationship was? The shot killed Dr. King. Mr. CORNWELL - What type of people were they? Mr. GOLDSMITH - And would he corroborate your observation that Oswald was an agent? Mr. WILCOTT - I may have, sir, and I can't remember. Mr. WILCOTT - So it was sometime between February and June of 1964? There is a very large spider guarding this web of secrecy. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir. 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