ONI Records Revisited
By William Kelly
ONI
RECORDS REVISITED
The Blind Men &
the Elephant - Oliver Stone’s Harlem Mercedes
Dallas Police detective Paul Bentley escorts Lee Harvey Oswald out of the Texas Theater
When we first began the lobby effort seeking the release of
the government’s records on the JFK assassination, my uncle Stephen “Skip”
Haynes, a Catholic priest, gave a sermon on the subject, comparing the secret
files to the story of the blind men who tried to describe an elephant, each
feeling and describing a different part of the beast. I sometimes get the
feeling that's what we are doing with the JFK assassination records.
Oliver Stone, after he became the champion of the JFK Free
the Files movement, was asked to testify at a Congressional hearing, where he
was asked what he thought he would find in the files, which it was pointed out
to him, most certainly had been cleaned out, vetted, some destroyed, others
hidden?
Stone replied that he didn’t expect there to be any “smoking
guns” among the government’s records on the assassination, and they certainly
will be cleaned out of any compromising documents, comparing the government's
JFK assassination files with a Mercedes-Benz left in Harlem for years - decades
– now going on fifty years. Stone said it will be stripped of its radio,
chrome, tires and engine parts, but its frame would still be there and you
would be able to recognize it as a Mercedes. And besides, it’s not necessarily
what’s in the files, but the principal of the thing – these records are the
history of our country, the death of our president, they were paid for by taxpayers
and they belong to the people and not to some
secret agency. [1]
The ONI
Letter Authenticated
Shortly after the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the chief
suspect in the murder of President Kennedy, U.S. Navy Commander Robert Steel
wrote a letter to Dallas Police Detective Paul Bentley, one of the officers who
arrested Oswald at the Texas Theater.
Commander, USNR-R
Paul,
Perhaps you are aware that ONI has quite a file on
Oswald, which no doubt has been made available on the Washington level. If not, I am certain
that this information can be obtained for you through our resident special
agent in charge of the Dallas office,
A. C. Sullivan, who is a wonderful agent, and whom I hope you know. As a
personal friend, I congratulate you, wish you continued success, and pray that
your guardian angel will remain close at hand and vigilant, always.
(Signed
Robert D. Steel
[2] ONI Letter Steel, Robert D.
The legitimacy of this document was at one time questioned
because it was not among the official Warren Commission or Dallas city records,
but was instead located among the private papers of a former Dallas policeman.
The letter’s authenticity has now been confirmed by its author Robert D. Steel.
[3] Steel, Robert D. Oral History interview transcript
w/Steel. (Attached)
Steel recently confirmed the contents of the letter - that he personally knew both Arthur C. Sullivan, whom he identified as the head of the Dallas ONI office, as well as Dallas detective Paul Bentley, and that his agency, the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), did indeed have “quite a file on Oswald.”
Paul Bentley, the person the letter is addressed to, was the
chief operator of the Dallas police
department's polygraph unit and was head of the Texas Association of Polygraph
Examiners. Bentley was one of Oswald's arresting officers, was photographed
escorting Oswald out of the theater, sat next to him in the back seat of the
police car, searched Oswald's wallet and in his report stated, "On the way
to City Hall, I removed the subject's wallet and obtained his name."
Retired Dallas Police Detective Paul Bentley passed away
after a lengthy illness on July 21, 2008.
[4] Bentley Background.
A.C.
Sullivan - Arthur Carroll Sullivan, Jr. was a 27 year veteran of ONI, had
previously worked for the FBI and as an investigator for the Dallas District
Attorney and lived in Denton, Texas, where Lee Oswald’s brother Robert Oswald,
former USMC, also resided.
[5] Sullivan, A.C. Background.
The Mary Ferrell Files Data Base includes the note: SULLIVAN, ARTHUR C.
Sources: CD 7, p. 150 Mary's Comments: Research Analyst in
Charge, Naval Intelligence, 1114 Commerce, Rm. 204, Dallas , TX
[6] Mary Ferrell Archives http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=10408&relPageId=157
Note: This document (copied in full below) makes no
reference to 1114 Commerce, but instead is an FBI report on Sullivan’s
knowledge about the enlistment of Oswald’s
half-brother John Pic in the US Marine Corps. Lee followed his older brother
Robert into the USMC, but his half-brother Edward John Pic served in the Coast
Guard. Like Sullivan, Robert Oswald lived in Denton, Texas, where the
company he worked for (ACME Brick)
was also located. The Warren Commission reported that John Pic served in the US
Coast Guard when Oswald and his mother visited him in New York and
relocated there for a year. Pic then joined the US Air Force and was stationed
at Lackland, AFB in Texas at
the time of the assassination. If this document
is accurate, then Pic had previously enlisted
in the USMC Reserve after serving in the Coast
Guard.
FBI
Date 11/26/63
Special Agent A. C. SULLIVAN, Office of Naval Intelligence,
advised EDWARD JOHN PIC ,
half-brother of LEE HARVEY
OSWALD, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, however, he did not actually
serve on active duty. He subsequently served two tours in the U.S. Coast Guard,
dates not available. PIC enlisted
in the U.S. Air Force in 1956, and gave his address c/o
M. OSWALD, 3006 Bristol Road…, Ft. Worth, Texas .
He listed his wife as MARGARET DOROTHY FUHRMAN, 104 Ave. C., East Meadow , New
York , New York (apparently
her current address). Captain ROBERT JACKSON, Deputy Director, Naval
Intelligence, Washington, D.C., advised Mr. SULLIVAN that this
information was furnished FBI, Washington D.C. on November 23, 1963
by Special Agent ROBERT P. GEMBERLING
[7] Commission Document 7, p 150 – FBI Gemberling Report
of 10 Dec 1963 re: Oswald. Current Section: D. Background –
Relatives.
This note takes on added significance when it is learned
that a reported post-assassination investigation by the US Marine Corps was
said to have been confused with an actual investigation of Oswald’s
half-brother John Pic, who had served in the US Coast Guard and was in the Air
Force at the time of the assassination, but according to this memo, had also
enlisted in the US Marine Corp.
It is also significant that it appears that the ONI had two
official offices in Dallas, one at 1114 Commerce Street (Rm. 204) and the other
at the Post Office Annex on the South Side of Dealey Plaza, one possibly a
regular ONI office while the other for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service
(CIS). It’s possible a third Dallas
office is referred to in records as the “Dallas Field Office.” (See: Lankford)
Oswald’s ONI File
The Warren Report mentioned that
“….the Commission has reviewed the complete files on Oswald, as they existed at
the time of the assassination, of the Department of State, the Office of Naval
Intelligence, the FBI and the CIA .”
Using that reference, Paul Hoch requested and acquired a 300
page ONI file in 1967, which he says is definitely not one of the USMC files that the Warren Commission published (two USMC
files, personnel and medical, as the Folsom and Donabedian Exhibits). The files obtained
by Hoch include a reference to Oswald’s Soviet Embassy visit in Mexico
and: “Information presently available to the Office of Naval Intelligence does
not indicate what significance, if any, this contact may have represented, and
no other information on OSWALD was received until 22 November 1963.”
The file also included
the (Adml. Rufus) Taylor memo to McDonald about Patterson, which
establishes the fact that Admiral Taylor, the director of ONI, took a keen
personal interest in the ONI affairs in Dallas immediately after the
assassination. He suspected an association between
Oswald and Ruby, as indicated in the following memo
dated November 27, 1963.
[8] Oswald’s ONI File
– WR., 433 https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=73857;
http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/chapter-8.html)
Hoch, Paul. 1988 EOC .
THE TAYLOR MEMO
To: Admiral McDonald 27 Nov. 1963
From: Rear Admiral Taylor
Oswald Killing
1.Information from our Dallas office provides names of several persons connected with Ruby and Oswald. Robert Kermit Patterson, admitted 6J (homosexual), contacted resident agent Dallas about 1330 CST yesterday and said he had information in regard assassination of President Kennedy. Patterson said he and one Donald C. Stuart operated Contract Electronics,2533 Elm Street , Dallas . About two weeks ago, Jack
Ruby/aka/Rubenstein and subject Oswald visited Contract Electronics and wanted
work done on a microphones at Ruby Carousel Night Club, Dallas. On this
occasion Ruby told Oswald to write names of
Patterson and Stuart in Carousel guest book. Contract Electronics did the
requested mike work at the Carousel and were paid by Negro employee. The Senior
Resident Agent at Dallas has
taken Patterson to the FBI Dallas for further interrogation. Neither Stuart nor
Patterson has discussed above information with anyone else, according to
Patterson. The files at DIO 8ND are negative
on Stuart.
2. In this office we have a file on Patterson and another person not mentioned in the above message by the name of Tracy Thurio Pope. Pope is the one that first pointed out Patterson. Patterson was in the Navy and is now out. Pope was in the Navy and is out, Service No. 599 29 44, AA, USN. There is no Navy record on Stuart. This morning we had a meeting here to make sure that everybody is informed and that the FBI is getting everything it needs.
3. The above information certainly raises questions as to Ruby’s real motives in killing Oswald. We have all been interested in what seemed to us to be a look of recognition on Oswald’s fact when he spotted Ruby.
4. BuPers is being kept currently informed of information of the sort contained in paragraph 1 and 2 above.
Very respectfully, Rufus L. Taylor
Copy to: REVIWED BY NCIS (ONI) JFK TASK FORCE
On12-17-93
From: Rear Admiral Taylor
Oswald Killing
1.Information from our Dallas office provides names of several persons connected with Ruby and Oswald. Robert Kermit Patterson, admitted 6J (homosexual), contacted resident agent Dallas about 1330 CST yesterday and said he had information in regard assassination of President Kennedy. Patterson said he and one Donald C. Stuart operated Contract Electronics,
2. In this office we have a file on Patterson and another person not mentioned in the above message by the name of Tracy Thurio Pope. Pope is the one that first pointed out Patterson. Patterson was in the Navy and is now out. Pope was in the Navy and is out, Service No. 599 29 44, AA, USN. There is no Navy record on Stuart. This morning we had a meeting here to make sure that everybody is informed and that the FBI is getting everything it needs.
3. The above information certainly raises questions as to Ruby’s real motives in killing Oswald. We have all been interested in what seemed to us to be a look of recognition on Oswald’s fact when he spotted Ruby.
4. BuPers is being kept currently informed of information of the sort contained in paragraph 1 and 2 above.
Very respectfully, Rufus L. Taylor
Copy to: REVIWED BY NCIS (ONI) JFK TASK FORCE
On
RELEASE IN FULL
[9] Taylor Memo Nov. 27, 1963
PATTERSON – UNDERCOVER HOMOSEXUAL ONI INFORMANT
It is interesting that Admiral Taylor thought it worth
mentioning that the ONI’s Dallas informant Robert K. Patterson was a homosexual,
especially in light of what we know from Donald P. Norton – that the military
targeted homosexuals and got them to inform on other homosexuals in the
service, especially officers and those with access to special information.
The case of defectors Martin and Mitchell also comes to
mind, as it was suspected that the former Navy officers and National Security
Agency (NSA) defectors to the Soviet Union were homosexuals (even though it
later was determined that they were not.) Most interesting is the way Martin
and Mitchell made their escape - from the United
States to Mexico City to Havana and by ship to
the Soviet Union, the same odd route that Oswald reportedly
spoke about and apparently tried to replicate in Mexico in late
September 1963.
[10] Norton, Don: http://jfkcountercoup2.blogspot.com/2012/10/mae-judge-and-don-norton.html;
Patterson – Homosexual – Martin & Mitchell:
A subsequent FBI investigation of the Patterson allegation – that Oswald and Ruby were pre-assassination associates, positively determined that it was not Oswald who visited the electronics shop with Ruby, but one Lavern “Larry” Crafard, an ex-serviceman and Texas State Fair carnival roustabout who is certainly a person of interest (and is still a living witness/suspect). There are at least three incidents in which Crafard was mistaken for Oswald, one may have been intentional.
[11] Oswald-Crafard; Case of mistaken identity.
The ARRB notes that this Taylor memo was not found among the records of ONI but came from another agency, though it was furnished to the Warren Commission and released as an FOIA request as early as 1967, so it must have been removed after it was furnished to WC and Hoch.
This Taylor document
strongly indicates that Admiral Rufus Taylor, the Director of ONI, took a keen
and active interest in the information coming from the Dallas ONI office, where
A. C. Sullivan worked closely with J. Mason Lankford.
J. MASON LANKFORD
In another FBI report it is noted that it was J.M. Lankford
who ran Robert K. Patterson:
At approximately 1:00 PM , on November 26, 1963 , J. M. LANKFORD,
Special Agent, Office of Naval Intelligence, Dallas , Texas ,
personally appeared at the Dallas Field Division. Mr. LANKFORD advised SA John
J. FLANAGAN that approximately fifteen minutes previously an informant of his
had contacted him concerning JACK RUBY and LEE HARVEY
OSWALD.
LANKFORD stated that his informant, ROBERT KERMIT PATTERSON, an admitted homosexual, has been furnishing information to ONI for some time. He has, in the past, furnished signed statements to the Office of Naval Intelligence setting forth his homosexual activities with young servicemen….
Patterson, a former Navy man, lived at the YMCA, was an associate Donald C. Stuart and operated a TV and radio repair shop with Charles Arndt, who also lived at the YMCA. Two weeks previous Ruby and a man who appeared to be Oswald visited Contract Electronics 2533 Elm St Stuart also worked at KLIF. [12]
LANKFORD stated that his informant, ROBERT KERMIT PATTERSON, an admitted homosexual, has been furnishing information to ONI for some time. He has, in the past, furnished signed statements to the Office of Naval Intelligence setting forth his homosexual activities with young servicemen….
Patterson, a former Navy man, lived at the YMCA, was an associate Donald C. Stuart and operated a TV and radio repair shop with Charles Arndt, who also lived at the YMCA. Two weeks previous Ruby and a man who appeared to be Oswald visited Contract Electronics 2533 Elm St Stuart also worked at KLIF. [12]
From this report we learn that Lankford’s ONI informant
Robert K. Patterson was living at the Dallas YMCA, where Oswald also lived on
occasion, and where Ruby worked out, and that Patterson was affiliated with
Stuart, who also worked at KLIF, the Dallas radio stationed owned by
Gordon McLendon, who also had ties to both Ruby and ONI. [13]
John Mason Lankford Jr. (1921-1997), better known as Mason
Lankford, besides being a special agent of the Dallas ONI, was also the Fire
Marshal of Tarrant County (Fort Worth), Texas,
and worked for General Dynamics/Convair Division as Director of Security (from
1948 to 1972), where Robert Oswald was employed at Convair in 1956.
Two other General Dynamics Security officers were I. B. Hale
and Max Clark. Hale was ex-FBI agent whose
wife got Oswald jobs though her position at the employment office. Their sons
broke into the Las Vegas apartment of Judith Campbell Exner
under the watchful eyes of an FBI stakeout team, but were never investigated
because their father was such a respected ex-FBI agent.
Max Clark knew Oswald from his association with the George
deMohrenschildt crowd and was personally acquainted with the FBI agent assigned
to investigate him.
In addition to being special agent of the ONI, chief
firefighter of Denton, Texas and director of security at Convair, Lankford was the chairman of the Texas Board of Private
Investigators and Private Security Agencies, and through that association was
probably acquainted with DPD Detective Paul Bentley, who was head of
the Texas association of polygraph operators.
Detective Bentley was the close personal friend of San Diego
ONI Commander Robert Steel, and recipient of the letter that informed Bentley
of the large file ONI had on Oswald.
Lankford was also an old acquaintance of Texas-based Secret
Service agent Mike Howard. Lankford assisted Howard in making Fort Worth
secure for JFK’s visit and on Sunday morning, November 24th, Howard called
him to request that he accompany him as part of the security team protecting
Marina and Marguerite Oswald at the Inn of the Six Flags, a site said to have
been chosen by Lankford. Also present was Robert Oswald, who refers to Lankford
as “Mason,” suggesting the two had known each other, possibly from being
neighbors in Denton or their work together at Convair.
Mason Lankford’s father, John Mason Lankford Sr. worked at
Temco in the early 1950s and could have known David Harold Byrd, owner of the
TSBD building.
[14] Lankford, Mason. Background.
Harold Weisberg specialized in
reviewing FBI records, John Newman and Jeff Morley have focused on CIA records related to the assassination, while the
relevant ONI records have been reviewed closely by Paul Hoch and P.D. Scott,
both interested in the military and intelligence records.
Hoch concluded his early analysis with the hope that the
outstanding questions could be cleared up by the Assassinations Records Review
Board (ARRB), when he wrote, “One can hope that the ARRB did a (John)
Newman-like analysis to pin down the identity of additional files. Not actually
that likely, though.”
[15] Hoch, Paul.; EOC
Echos of Conspiracy 2 (1988), pp. 1-10:]
Peter Dale Scott addressed the
subject of the ONI Records in a 1990 conference
presentation in which he spoke, and later
wrote in part:
P.D. Scott:
“The special handling of Lee Harvey Oswald by the State Department….swiftly aroused…suspicions of FBI, ONI and Marine Intelligence personnel, and Hoover’s allies (notably Otto Otepka) We know this chiefly from Oswald’s ONI records, where we also learn that there were considerable ONI messages on Oswald (alias Harvey Lee Oswald), stored in Marine G-2 (intelligence) files that were never seen by the Warren Commission….The charade of Oswald’s discharge from the Marine Reserve in 1960 was an operation coordinated by Marine G-2 and ONI Counterintelligence…”
“The special handling of Lee Harvey Oswald by the State Department….swiftly aroused…suspicions of FBI, ONI and Marine Intelligence personnel, and Hoover’s allies (notably Otto Otepka) We know this chiefly from Oswald’s ONI records, where we also learn that there were considerable ONI messages on Oswald (alias Harvey Lee Oswald), stored in Marine G-2 (intelligence) files that were never seen by the Warren Commission….The charade of Oswald’s discharge from the Marine Reserve in 1960 was an operation coordinated by Marine G-2 and ONI Counterintelligence…”
Oswald’s Suppressed ONI
and Marine G-2 Records
“Lee Harvey Oswald’s defection to
the Soviet Union in 1959 was
immediately described as an “intelligence matter’ by the Navy’s Office of Naval
Intelligence….In the ensuring years the military intelligence agencies
continued to collect information about him. Since the publication of the Warren
Report we have seen the belated release of documents on Oswald from ONI (the
Office of Naval Intelligence), from Army G-2 (Intelligence) and even OSI (Air Force Intelligence), the first of the
military agencies to consult Oswald’s security file in the State Department.”
“Oswald however, did not serve in the
Navy, Army or Air Force; like his brother Robert he was a Marine. In October
1959, at the time of this defection, he was no longer on active duty, but had
transferred six weeks earlier to the Class III Ready
Marine Corps Reserve. We shall see that over three years Marine G-2 (Intelligence) both received and
disseminated records concerning Oswald, regionally and at Marine HQ.
Nevertheless, despite Marine G-2, all unclassified, and presumably a tiny
fraction of the whole. (These
large gaps in what is available suggests the existence of a second system of
classified records.)”
“We know further that the Marine G-2 HQ
did receive classified intelligence on Oswald. The CIA on October
10, 1963, sent a secret cable to the Navy, reporting that someone identifying
himself as Lee Oswald had been in contact with the Soviet Embassy
in Mexico City. Like the first Navy cable about Oswald’s defection, the
action copy of this cable was referred to ‘92’ (the Office of Naval
Intelligence). Handwritten on this copy are the words, “Passed to G-2 –
USMC 10/11/63 .”
ONI and the Deception of the So-Called ONI
“File on Oswald”
“In response to the Warren Commission
request of February 18, 1964, John McNaughton’s office supplied what it
referred to as ‘the complete file of the Office of Naval Intelligence on Lee
Harvey Oswald.’ In fact this file was not
complete. More importantly, it was only created on November 22, 1963 , from Oswald records
which apparently were stored earlier in two or three files, some of which
possibly had a different subject or subjects.”
“In the Archives version of this ONI
file, we find clues to its own creation on November 22, 1963 . A memo to file of that date
by the duty officer in the ONI Support Center refers to
both an ‘ONI investigative file’ ….and a ‘supplemental file,’... Later the duty officer
learned ‘of a request being prepared from General Carroll of DIA [the Defense Intelligence Agency, a
McNamara creation] to see the file on Oswald.’ Advised of this request, ONI
Chief Admiral Rufus Taylor gave instructions ‘to prepare a file for him to be
passed to General Carroll.”
“Something analogous may have happened
at Marine HQ G-2 as well. A House Committee staff report says that the HSCA
“contacted Lt. Col. Bill Brewer of the Intelligence Division of Marine Corps
Headquarters on August
1, 1977 . Brewer had been in charge of compiling the Oswald military
file for the use of the Warren Commission” This report adds ambiguously that
according to Brewer, “his records check
had only individual local records within the individual commands where Oswald
had served and did not include records that were classified secret or top
secret.”
“The
details of this file-preparation suggests conscious deception by ONI on
November 22, both of General Carroll (The Kennedy-McNamara appointee as
head of DIA ), and
subsequently of DOD General Counsel John McNaughton. It was reviewing the ONI
“file on Oswald” that McNaughton requested three documents, referred to in the
file, which he never got to see.]…Some of the post-November 22 alteration of
this “file on Oswald” appears to be the work of the Archives itself, when the
curator of these records was Marion Johnson. This alteration, which even if innocently
inspired could be construed as tampering with evidence, should be investigated
by the Review Board, and the November 22 file as far as possible.
“As we look more closely at this ONI-G-2 collaboration, we shall see
that it has the marks of a counterintelligence
operation, indeed of an official
‘deception’ (to use an intelligence term of art) with respect to Oswald.
There is of course nothing in this fact per se to link either ONI or Marine G-2
to the assassination.”
“What is more alarming is the refusal
by ONI on November 22, to share their actual records with even Joseph Carroll,
the Air Force General and former FBI agent who in 1961 was appointed by Kennedy
to be the first head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Particularly alarming
is the deceitful withholding at the time of three records which (unlike most of
the others) constituted strong clues to the existence of the
counterintelligence collaboration.”
“In suggesting to their superiors that
the three withheld records added no information, senior naval officers were
deceptive. Admiral Taylor’s decision to have a file prepared, rather than share
raw data, is further evidence that the original files with Oswald records
contained truths quite different than those eventually given to the public.”
“In 1963 Oswald’s personnel file was
stored at the Federal
Records Center , St. Louis ; and forwarded
to Washington by
November 23…”
[BK – Emphasis added]
Like Hoch, Scott also had high hopes that the ARRB would
review the matter closely, utilized their subpoena power and determine what was
really going on when he wrote:
“The Review Board should also question, and if necessary
depose, those in ONI who on November 22 ‘prepared a file’ for DIA and their civilian overseers in the
Pentagon. It is unlikely that whatever case existed for secrecy about Oswald on
the day of the assassination would still prevail against the standards for
release established I 1994 by passage of the JFK Records Act.”
[16] Scott, P.D. OSWALD, MARINE CORPS INTELLIGENCE AND THE ASSAULT ON THE STATE DEPARTMENT - Peter Dale Scott Fredonia Conference July
1990
THE ARRB AND THE
ONI FILES
While the CIA has
taken most of the heat for refusing to make public their records on the
assassination of President Kennedy, the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) has
been just as just as obstinate, not only for refusing to turn over relevant
records, but for denying the very existence of certain records that are or were
known to exist and skirting the law - the JFK Assassination Records Act of 1992
– technically known as 44 United States Code 2107. [17]
With the passage of the act by Congress, the temporary
Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) was created, with five
non-governmental citizen-academics recommended by national historic and
archival associations, and led by Federal Judge John Tunheim. They hired a
staff whose job was not to reinvestigate the assassination but to identify and
assemble all of the government records related to the assassination in one
place – the JFK Collection at the National Archives and Records Administration,
which is located at Archives II on the beltway in College Park , Maryland .
Since it was just a temporary organization without any
future many veteran government and military officials refused to cooperate,
especially since any association with the subject of the assassination was
considered toxic to anyone’s governmental career, there was a high turnover of
Review Board personnel, including two staff directors and two chief counsels.
At least one of these resignations was due to a scandal and differences between
the Board and Staff which has yet to be revealed.
The HSCA and ARRB
Although the task of the ARRB was not to investigate the
assassination but only locate records, before the ARRB (1996-98) there was the
House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA 1977-78), which was authorized
to investigate the assassination, but was also compromised by those who wanted
certain information to remain secret, including two reports of official
military investigations of Oswald, one before and one after the assassination. [18]
THE HUFF REPORT ON USMC ASSASSINATION
INVESTIGATION
When USAF navigator Lawrence Huff told the HSCA that he flew to San Diego and
Japan with a US Marine Corps team that was investigating Oswald’s military records
after the assassination, the USMC claimed that no such investigation occurred
and that Huff was confusing it with an actual investigation of Oswald’s half-brother
John Pic.
Huff didn’t get the hint, and denied this and it is very
clear from the HSCA reports that there was a post assassination USMC
investigation of Oswald, as there should have been.
[19] Huff Report. HSCA, USMC post-assassination investigation
of Oswald.
Huff Report: POSSIBLE MILITARY INVESTIGATION OF THE
ASSASSINATION
Staff Repot HSCA March 1979 Volume XI, p. 539 (MF
p. 549) http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=83&relPageId=545
The ARRB Final Report notes: “The question of whether the
Marine Corps conducted a post-assassination investigation and produced a
written report on former Marine Private Lee Harvey Oswald, circa late 1963 and
early 1964, has never been resolved to the satisfaction of the public…. During
its investigation the HSCA learned from a former officer (Huff) that the USMC
sent a special investigations team to San Diego and Japan .
According to an officer who flew on the same plane, they wrote a report on
Oswald’s activities when he was there.”
According to Huff the “for USMC eyes only” report concluded
that “Oswald was incapable of committing the assassination alone.” But that
report has never been acknowledged let alone released, even though the HSCA
investigators were supplied with the name of the plane’s pilot, the plane’s
tail numbers, precise flight data and the names of others aboard.
Nearly twenty years later the ARRB Final Report concluded: “The
Review Board asked the Marine Corps to search for any records relating to
post-assassination investigations that the U.S. Marine Corps might have
completed, as some researchers believe.”
[Note: It is not some researchers who believe that such an
investigation took place, it is the USAF officer, a navigator who held a Top
Secret clearance and read the report that concluded that Oswald “was not
capable of committing the assassination alone.” It was not in response to
researchers, but to the testimony of the USAF officer.]
“The U.S. Marine Corps searched files at both U.S. Marine
Corps HQ in Quantico ,
and at the Federal
Records Center in Suitland , Maryland ,
but the Marine Corps did not locate evidence of any internal investigations of
Lee Harvey Oswald, other than correspondence already published in the Warren
Report.”
[20] ARRB Final Report on USMC post-assassination
investigation of Oswald.
REEVES REPORT ON ONI
DEFECTION INVESTIGATION
The Final Report of the ARRB also notes that: “….many have wondered whether the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) conducted a post-defection "net damage assessment" investigation of Lee Harvey Oswald circa 1959 or 1960…”
The Final Report of the ARRB also notes that: “….many have wondered whether the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) conducted a post-defection "net damage assessment" investigation of Lee Harvey Oswald circa 1959 or 1960…”
[Note here too the Final Report of the ARRB uses the wording
“many have wondered,” which makes it appear the Review Board staff was
responding to the questioning of “many wondering” researchers, when in fact the
one person “who wondered” whether the ONI conducted a post-defection net-damage
assessment was the Navy officer - Fred Reeves, who oversaw the investigation
and read the reports. Commander Steel also confirmed that he worked closely
with Reeves and may have been the officer who conducted the investigation and
wrote the reports.]
ARRB Final Report: “Various former Oswald associates and
military investigators have recalled separate investigations…The Review Board
became aware of an individual named Fred Reeves of California, who was reputed
to have been in charge of a post-defection "net damage assessment" of
Oswald by the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) shortly after Oswald's
defection to the U.S.S.R. The Review Board contacted Reeves, interviewed him
twice by telephone, then flew him to Washington , D.C. , where the Review Board staff
interviewed him in person. In 1959, Reeves was a civilian Naval Intelligence
Operations Specialist. (Reeves served in the District Intelligence Office of
the San Diego , California 11th Naval District.)”
“Reeves told the Review Board that a week or so after Oswald
defected to the U.S.S.R., two officers from ONI in Washington , D.C. called
him and asked him to conduct a background investigation at the Marine Corps Air
Station in El Toro , California Oswald's last duty station
before his discharge from the Marine Corps. (6 One of the officers who called
Mr. Reeves was Rufus Taylor, who was Director of Naval Intelligence in
1964.)…Reeves said that he went to El Toro ,
copied Oswald's enlisted personnel file, obtained the names of many of his
associates, and mailed this information to ONI in Washington , D.C. ”
“He said that ONI in Washington ran the post-defection investigation
of Oswald, and that the Washington officers
then directed various agents in the field. Although Reeves did not interview
anyone himself, he said that later (circa late 1959 or early 1960),
approximately 12 to 15 "119" reports concerning Oswald (OPNAV Forms
5520119 are ONI's equivalent of an FBI FD302 investigative report), crossed his
desk. Reeves said he was aware of "119" reports from Japan and Texas,
and that the primary concern of the reports he read on Oswald was to ascertain
what damage had been done to national security by Oswald's defection. Reeves
reported that he also saw eight
to ten "119" reports on Oswald after the
assassination, and that he was confident he was not confusing the two events in
his mind.”
“In the spring of 1998, Review Board staff members met with
two Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) records management officials,
one of whom personally verified that he had searched for District Intelligence
Office records (with negative results) from the San Diego, Dallas, and New
Orleans District Intelligence Offices in 1996 with negative results. This
search included "119" reports from the time period 1959-1964, during
an extensive search of NCIS record group 181. The search included any records
that would have been related to Oswald's defection. Thus, the Review Board
ultimately located no documentary evidence to substantiate Reeves' claims.”
[21] Reeves, Fred Report. ARRB. http://jfkcountercoup2.blogspot.com/2013/02/fred-reeves-usnr-on-oni-119-reports.html
THE ONI FILES & THE RAILROADING OF LCDR TERRI PIKE USNR
Those few paragraphs from the Final Report of the ARRB –
that they searched ONI files but failed to locate the relevant records, -
belies what actually occurred – the ONI stonewalled the Review Board and
blackballed one of its own officers who attempted to cooperate with the ARRB
staff and actually tried to conduct a complete search of the ONI files for the relevant
records.
[22] See: Railroading of Terri Pike. http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2011/10/railroading-of-lcdr-terri-pike-over.html
The problem, as seen from the perspective of the HSCA and
the ARRB, was the ONI claimed they could find no documents from these official
investigations in their files, even though both described in detail by officers
who read official reports that should be in the files. These are official
investigations that should have taken place and did take place according to the
military officers involved, but for which we now have no official reports or
records, other than the recollections and testimony of the officers.
When the Assassinations Records Review Board staff first
informed the Office of Naval Intelligence of the JFK Act and its requirements,
the director of ONI simply responded by saying they didn’t have a thing.
On Nov 14 1995 the Assassinations Records Review Board
(ARRB) sent the Navy Office of General Counsel a letter outlining the JFK Act
law requirements and on Nov. 27 1995 the Director ONI responded by letter,
stating that “the Office of Naval Intelligence holds no records responsive to
the tasking of 14 Nov 1995…..”
[23] ONI response to ARRB Request.
Two years later, Christopher Barger of the ARRB staff “met
with the ONI team responsible for heading the search for records under the JFK
Act,” and noted in his report that, “This team is directed by Lieut. Cmdr.
Terri Pike; LCDR Doolittle works in the ONI FOIA office; Pike reports to Capt.
Peiaec; LCRD Bastein is the JAG.” As he noted, “For reason not entirely
clear to either the ONI team or ARRB, the tasking for this project only
trickled down to them on Friday, March 7, 1997. They were a little confused as
to why they were only being tasked with this now, but expressed a willingness
to do everything they possibly could to achieve the objectives of the Act.”
[24] ARRB Staff Meeting Report, March 11, 1997
For awhile it was “Gung Ho!” and they went all out to find
the relevant records. Intended searches would begin at Suitland at
the Federal Records Center ,
but would later include district offices within CONUS (Continental United
States) and that, “Pike then presented us a small written briefing package
detailing what they had identified that they are required to do and the process
they will use to go about the review. She noted that their first priority was
to identify the records collections they need to search, then determining the
physical location of the records. Most of these will be at Suitland, she
said, but there will be others located in district offices round the country in
locations like Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, New
Orleans, St. Louis and Boston .
They have also identified a need to determine standard subject identification
codes which should cause a document to be searched, and she concluded by
detailing the records disposition procedures within ONI.”
“Despite the fact that they had only learned of this tasking on Friday, they had located and designated approximately 125 cubic feet of documents that directly relate to subjects we mentioned in our letter to the Navy. These will be reviewed page by page. She anticipated being able to complete the review by the stated deadline set by the Navy and ARRB of
“In addition, she said that ONI had identified about 950 cubic feet, or approximately 2.4 million pages of records which might be related to the topics we were interested in, but that we had not specifically mentioned…LCDR Pike stressed that she, and ONI, understood that all information, even negative result, is important to our process, and that they will be providing reports on everything they search, whether relevant documents are found within or not. Pike provided us with a ‘flow chart’ documenting the normal records disposition process within ONI, explaining what each step of the process is and where documents go during each phase of the process. The final page of her briefing package was a sample of the ‘clue sheets’ being provided to each reviewer for the April 30 documents. Approximately two dozen subject headings are listed along with ‘clues’ or keywords for each subject, and a time window for each subject….In closing, it should be reported that this team, and LCDR Pike in particular, are very impressive, they appear very much to have their act together on this project. They provided details and planning we have rarely seen from other agencies, yet they have had this project assigned to them for less than a week. They were extremely helpful, and have taken an aggressive and proactive approach to complying with the JFK Act. We can expect more impressive work from this team.”
Another ARRB memo says that, “LCDR Pike is our main point of contact in the ONI records review. She works for the Information Management Department…She said that they have completed their review of about 40 cu. ft. of the 127 cu. ft. ONI has committed to having reviewed for us by the April 30 deadline. She also said that they have found one box based on our SF 135 requests. This box has to do with defections, both Cuban and Soviet; they plan on turning this box over to us “in toto.” She said that most of the records in that box are
On April, 21 1997 ARRB staffers met with LCDR Pike and LCDR Doolittle of ONI and reported that, “LCDR Pike stated that review of the first 123 cubic feet of ONI records had been completed, and that as a result .8 cubic feet of records (18 district files) on defectors had been identified as responsive to the
In August, 1997, after learning that Fred Reeves had prepared “119 Reports” on Oswald, ARRB staffer Doug Horne called Terri Pike and requested that she look for “119 Reports” covering an alleged ONI investigation of Lee Harvey Oswald’s October, 1959 defection to the
In a “Description of the Call: Summary” Doug Horne wrote –
“I left a voice mail telling Terri Pike about Fred Reeves and his claim to have
conducted a post-defection investigation of Oswald at MCAS El Toro in late 1959
or early 1960 at the request of ONI in Washington (Rufus Taylor); I specifically
mentioned ‘119 Reports,’ which Fred Reeves said were filed. I asked her to
search for those files or a copy of that investigative report, and also asked
her to pass to us the name and phone number of the person at ONI most
knowledgeable today about such matters/such records.”
In a Memo to the ARRB Pike eventually reported back that, “…I was relieved from the leadership position on this project in late August (1997) by the ONI Reserve Directorate Head….As you know, it was my responsibility to identify all records required under 44 U.S.C. 2107 (The JFK Act). I felt a personal commitment to ensure this effort was conducted ‘with vigor’ and as thoroughly as possible…”
For her efforts she was charged with “fraudulent” official travel as her “tasking did not say to search regional record centers.”
In a Memo to the ARRB Pike eventually reported back that, “…I was relieved from the leadership position on this project in late August (1997) by the ONI Reserve Directorate Head….As you know, it was my responsibility to identify all records required under 44 U.S.C. 2107 (The JFK Act). I felt a personal commitment to ensure this effort was conducted ‘with vigor’ and as thoroughly as possible…”
For her efforts she was charged with “fraudulent” official travel as her “tasking did not say to search regional record centers.”
T. Jeremy Gunn, the ARRB senior counsel who became Executive
Director, took a personal interest in the Pike case, and his notes indicates
that he believed she discovered certain special information and wanted to know,
“When was she transferred? Who were her superiors? How long after she
discovered this info was (she) terminated? What were the reasons given for her
termination?” On Dec. 3, 1997, Gunn sent a fax to Pike’s attorney David
Sheldon, asking to speak to Pike to learn of, “any discussions she had with ONI
officials regarding the content and disposition of records for which she was
searching and…any information she might have regarding the location of ONI
records and of ONI record-keeping policies.”
In aJan. 7 1998 Fax
and US Mail letter Ex. Dir. ARRB T. Jeremy Gunn wrote to Pike’s attorney. Dear
Mr. Sheldon, I would like to thank you for returning my call and for your
willingness to consider our request. As I mentioned, we would like to speak, on
an informal basis, with your client, LCDR Terri Pike. We anticipate that the
discussion would likely take no more than one to one and one half hours. There
are two principle issues that we would like to discuss: first, any records she
located or pursued that were relevant to the assassination or to requests made
by the ARRB; second, any discussions she had with ONI officials regarding the
content and disposition of the records for which she was searching; and third,
any information she might have regarding the location of ONI records and of ONI
record-keeping policies. We do not anticipate any need to discuss issues other
than these with LCDR Pike, although you or she may know of other issues that
might be of interest to us. The two people from our office who would meet with
her are Doug Horne, Chief Analyst for Military Records (who Ms. Pike knows) and
Kim Heard, a Senior Attorney…..
Gunn then heard from ONI, who wrote: “The Department of the Navy strongly objects to LCDR Pike’s cooperation in the investigation being conducted by Mr. Jeremy Gunn of the JFK Assassinations Records Review Board. ONI is unaware of any unauthorized investigation regarding this issue. If Mr. Gunn wishes to conduct an investigation or inquiry, such an effort should be coordinated through the Office of Naval Intelligence.”
In a
Gunn then heard from ONI, who wrote: “The Department of the Navy strongly objects to LCDR Pike’s cooperation in the investigation being conducted by Mr. Jeremy Gunn of the JFK Assassinations Records Review Board. ONI is unaware of any unauthorized investigation regarding this issue. If Mr. Gunn wishes to conduct an investigation or inquiry, such an effort should be coordinated through the Office of Naval Intelligence.”
LCDR Pike was brought up before an Article 32 hearing to
determine if she should be court-martialed. [Article 32
a): No charge or specification may be referred to a general
court-martial for trial until a through and impartial investigation of all the
matters set forth therein has been made. This investigation shall include
inquiry as to the truth of the matter set forth in the charges, consideration
of the form of charges, and recommendation as to the disposition which should
be made of the case in the interest of justice and discipline. (b) The accused
shall be advised of the charges against him and of his right to be represented
at that investigation as provided in section 838 of this title (article 38) and
in regulations prescribed under that section...]
Just like in film “A Few Good Men” (“You can’t handle the truth!”) and the TV show JAG, an Article 32 hearing was held in a courtroom in Building 200, Washington Navy Yard, 2nd floor, and commenced at 0900 on Monday, 16, March, 1998, but the results are unknown. It is known however, that Pike’s attorney (Shelton ) “wanted to get
the Government privilege lifted in order to discuss SCI and Top Secret Materials. Sheldon stated
that the prosecutors needed to make this stuff go away because he was planning
on dragging it all out and it would hit the newspapers, etc. Sheldon stated
that there was some feeling that ONI was trying to shuffle some of the JFK
stuff to the side.”
Just like in film “A Few Good Men” (“You can’t handle the truth!”) and the TV show JAG, an Article 32 hearing was held in a courtroom in Building 200, Washington Navy Yard, 2nd floor, and commenced at 0900 on Monday, 16, March, 1998, but the results are unknown. It is known however, that Pike’s attorney (
The case was being made that Pike was being reprimanded, not
for fraudulent travel, but because she had found some important records that
the ONI wanted to keep from being made pubic.
The JAG officer who was responsible for signing off on the
ONI records responsive to the JFK Act was Lt. Commander (LCDR) D. Bastien. In a
letter from Doug Horne to LCDR R. D. Bastien, Horne makes note of some of the
fires Pike started that Bastien was trying to stamp out: “The purpose of this
letter is to memorialize for the record our meeting….You suggested a correction
in my summation of information provided by LCDR Pike…in which I quoted her as
saying that ONI searches would include district offices within CONUS. You
advised that although ONI had district offices in the past, there are no longer
any district offices within CONUS, subsequently to the Naval Criminal
Investigative Service (NCIS) splitting away from ONI as a separate entity. You
further clarified that the only locations where you would expect to find ONI
records today would be at the Federal Records Center in Suitland, at the Naval
Historical Center, or at Archives II in College park….you were confident that
ONI had searched for and had not located any files for the Director of
ONI,…Although LCDR Pike had promised delivery of the originals of those
documents, ….the Review Board was still not in receipt of these documents….LCDR
Pike had recently mentioned to our staff that she had located Naval Attache
Records responsive to the JFK Act during her searches of RG 289, and had placed
them in a box that she had labeled ‘44 USC 2107.’
It was unclear from our conversation with her whether this box was left at
the FRC in Suitland , or whether it was located at ONI
headquarters…Please confirm for me, in writing, whether….ONI conducted search
of records centers in San Francisco ,
Atlanta , and San Diego , and if
documentation exists of the dates and results of those searches….”
An ARRB staffer who dealt with Bastien described him as, “...a real bastard, the nastiest individual I encountered within the military structure. He seemed actively opposed to what we were doing at the ARRB...He was a Navy legal officer, a military attorney, acting as the pit bull guard dog protecting the ONI family jewels.”
LCDR Bastien, R.D. Jagg Officer who replaced Pike, signed off on ONI compliance with JFK Act, under penalty of perjury, days before the “defector file” was to be turned over to the ARRB. [25]
An ARRB staffer who dealt with Bastien described him as, “...a real bastard, the nastiest individual I encountered within the military structure. He seemed actively opposed to what we were doing at the ARRB...He was a Navy legal officer, a military attorney, acting as the pit bull guard dog protecting the ONI family jewels.”
LCDR Bastien, R.D. Jagg Officer who replaced Pike, signed off on ONI compliance with JFK Act, under penalty of perjury, days before the “defector file” was to be turned over to the ARRB. [25]
After leaving the ARRB under a cloud two months before it
was finished with its work, its chief counsel and Executive Director T. J. Gunn
began working for the ACLU and then at a University in Morocco. [26]
In the Final Report of the ARRB, Chapter 8 Compliance with
the JFK Act by Government Offices - a. Office of Naval Intelligence: “6. The
Review Board pursued the matter of ONI records separately. Accordingly, the
Board requested that ONI submit its own certification of its compliance with
the JFK Act. In its Final Declaration of Compliance, ONI stated that it
conducted an extensive review of ONI records held at Federal Records Centers
throughout the country. ONI did not identify any additional assassination
records. ONI was unable to find any relevant files for the Director of ONI from
1959 to 1964. ONI also acknowledged that there were additional ONI records
that were not reviewed for assassination records, but that these records would
be reviewed under Executive Order 12958 requiring declassification of
government records.”
So in the end, ONI could not find any relevant assassination
records on the assassination from its Dallas Office(s), no “119 Reports” on
Oswald or any pre-assassination, post-defection or post-assassination
investigation reports, and no relevant records whatsoever from the office of
the Director of ONI. And there’s some confusion as to whether turned over the
Defector records Pike discovered and whether ONI turned over all of its records
or kept some back so they can be reviewed under Ex Or. 12958.
The Office of Naval Intelligence submitted its Final Declaration of Compliance datedMay 18, 1998 ,
signed by LCDR R. D. Bastien.
The Navy confirmed that it did not locate any relevant 1959-1964 files for the Director of ONI.
The Office of Naval Intelligence submitted its Final Declaration of Compliance dated
The Navy confirmed that it did not locate any relevant 1959-1964 files for the Director of ONI.
[27] ARRB Final Report, Chapter 8, 14. Dept. of Navy 5. ONI.
Also see: Railroading of LCDR Terri Pike and related ONI-ARRB Records;
Chronology prepared by ARRB Staff.
ADMIRAL
RUFUS TAYLOR – DIRECTOR OFFICE NAVAL INTELLIGENCE
The footnote of the Final Report of the ARRB in he reports
on Fred Reeves notes that, “One of the officers who called Mr. Reeves (to
initiate the post-defection inquiry into Oswald) was Rufus Taylor, who was
Director of Naval Intelligence in 1964…”
In a
It not such a wild idea that the pre-assassination
investigation into Oswald the defector and post assassination investigation of
Oswald the assassin were ordered and “handled outside normal investigative
channels” by those at the very top - the Commandant of the Marine Corp and
Director of Office of Naval Intelligence. We know these files were there at one
time, and it is inconceivable that ONI has lost the most significant records of
its director, and that they have not undertaken the routine CI investigation to
determine what became of them and to make sure they didn't fall into the hands
of the enemy or opposition - the Russians, Chinese, Wikileaks or the American
public.
During 1967 through 1969, Rufus Taylor was the Deputy Director of the
As director of ONI, Taylor established Task Force 117 – a
world wide intelligence network ostensibly responsible for keeping track of
international shipping, and included Ed Wilson of the CIA. When Wilson told
Bobby Inman, a successor to Taylor, of the existence of Task Force 117, Inman
ordered it disbanded.
[28] Taylor, Adml. Rufus – Director ONI. Background. http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2011/10/rear-admiral-rufus-taylor-records-gone.html
Reconstructing the
Oswald ONI File
[29] Reconstructing the ONI
Assassination Files. Kelly Essay.
So it now can be said for certain that the Director of the
Office of Naval Intelligence Rufus Taylor took a personal interest in Oswald
both before the assassination by personally ordering the investigation of his
defection to the Soviet Union in 1959, and after the assassination by
suggesting an alleged association between Oswald and Ruby, citing local Dallas
ONI undercover agents.
San Diego ONI investigator Commander Robert Steel confirmed
that Fred Reeves was in charge of the San Diego Navy CIS office and he (Steel)
had probably carried out the actual Oswald investigation for Reeves, as ordered
by Taylor, and wrote the “119 Reports” that are now among the missing ONI
records.
The missing ONI records may have been destroyed, but more
than likely are either misfiled or being intentionally and illegally withheld,
in which case it might be possible to persuade ONI to acknowledge them and
release them to NARA .
The appropriate oversight committee of Congress should hold hearings on the enforcement of the JFK Act, twenty years after, obtain the appropriate testimony that establishes the existence of certain records, get LTDR Pike and others who had identified requested records to go back through the files and find them, and ensure that all of the relevant records are located and turned over to theNARA for inclusion in
the JFK Records Collection.
The appropriate oversight committee of Congress should hold hearings on the enforcement of the JFK Act, twenty years after, obtain the appropriate testimony that establishes the existence of certain records, get LTDR Pike and others who had identified requested records to go back through the files and find them, and ensure that all of the relevant records are located and turned over to the
Oswald’s non-classified military file was kept at the
military records center in St.
Louis , where there was a major fire and many of the
military records of those who served in World War II were destroyed. Because
these records were necessary for the veterans to receive the GI Bill and
medical and insurance service, the destroyed records were “reconstructed” from
other files.
Oswald’s ONI file can be reconstructed in much the same way,
and while it may have been stripped clean of all incriminating and embarrassing
information, like Oliver Stone’s Mercedes left in Harlem for fifty years, we
still have the basic skeleton frame and the testimony of those officers who
have seen the entire file, or most of it, and can reconstruct the ONI file from
those recollections and the records of other agencies.
[1] Stone, Oliver. Testimony before Congressional Oversight
Committee.
[2] ONI Letter Steel, Robert D.
[3] Steel, Robert D. Oral History interview transcript
w/Steel. (Attached)
[4] Bentley Background.
[5] Sullivan, A.C. Background.
[6] Mary Ferrell Archives http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=10408&relPageId=157
[7] Commission Document 7, p 150 – FBI Gemberling Report
of 10 Dec 1963 re: Oswald. Current Section: D. Background –
Relatives.
[8] Oswald’s ONI File
– WR., 433 https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=73857;
http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/chapter-8.html)
Hoch, Paul. 1988 EOC .
[9] Taylor Memo Nov. 27, 1963
[10] Norton, Don: http://jfkcountercoup2.blogspot.com/2012/10/mae-judge-and-don-norton.html;
Patterson – Homosexual – Martin & Mitchell:
[11] Oswald-Crafard; Case of mistaken identity.
[12] LANKFORD
[13] YMCA
[14] Lankford, Mason. Background. http://jfkcountercoup2.blogspot.com/2013/02/j-mason-lnnkford.html
[15] Hoch, Paul.; EOC Echos of Conspiracy 2 (1988), pp. 1-10:]
[16] Scott, P.D. OSWALD, MARINE CORPS INTELLIGENCE AND THE ASSAULT ON THE STATE DEPARTMENT - Peter Dale Scott Fredonia Conference July
1990
[17] THE
ARRB AND THE ONI FILES
[18] The HSCA and
ARRB
[19] Huff Report. HSCA, USMC post-assassination
investigation of Oswald.
Huff Report: POSSIBLE MILITARY INVESTIGATION OF THE
ASSASSINATION
Staff Repot HSCA March 1979 Volume XI, p. 539 (MF
p. 549) http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=83&relPageId=545
[20] ARRB Final Report on USMC post-assassination
investigation of Oswald.
[21] Reeves, Fred Report. ARRB. http://jfkcountercoup2.blogspot.com/2013/02/fred-reeves-usnr-on-oni-119-reports.html
[22] See: Railroading of Terri Pike. http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2011/10/railroading-of-lcdr-terri-pike-over.html
[23] ONI response to ARRB Request.
[24] ARRB Staff Meeting Report, March 11, 1997
[25] LCDR Bastien, R.D.
[26] Executive Director T. J. Gunn
[27] ARRB Final Report, Chapter 8, 14. Dept. of Navy 5. ONI.
Also see: Railroading of LCDR Terri Pike and related ONI-ARRB Records;
Chronology prepared by ARRB Staff.
[28] Taylor, Adml. Rufus – Director ONI. Background. http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2011/10/rear-admiral-rufus-taylor-records-gone.html
[29] Reconstructing the ONI Assassination Files. Kelly
Essay.
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Well done Bill,You gave us 3 more month of home work
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