JFK
ASSASSINATION RECORDS MISSING FROM THE JFK COLLECTION AT THE NARA
1)
The
original unedited White House Communications Agency (WHCA) tape recordings of
Air Force One radio transmissions from Nov. 22, 1963. We have two versions of
edited tapes, and edited transcripts, but the original has been kept out of the
public record, and for good reasons. Three journalists (T.H. White, William
Manchester and Pierre Salinger) were given a transcript of the unedited tapes
and they quote portions that are not on the edited tapes. And now the JFK
Library, where Salinger sent the transcript provided to him, says that
transcript is missing.
2)
House
Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) Records of Richard Sprague, Esq. – the first chief counsel to HSCA. There are
thousands of HSCA records in the file of the second chief counsel to HSCA G.
Robert Blakey – but none for Richard Sprague. There is a file on Richard
Sprague, but that is another Richard Sprague, a photo-computer expert who
advised the HSCA. I took a copy of Jim Braden’s 1948 Camden arrest report to
Sprague’s Philadelphia law office when he was first appointed chief counsel.
After the HSCA was disbanded, I received a call from G. Robert Blakey, the
second chief counsel, who requested a copy of Braden’s arrest report as he was
writing a book about the mob involvement in the assassination. I told Blakey
that I had given a copy to Sprague, and Blakey said that Sprague took all of
his files with him. Sprague’s assistant Bob Tannenbaum, wrote in his book about
the HSCA, that Sprague’s secretary took many of the records, and she has since
passed away. Sprague is now in his 90s and his son, who runs the law office,
says they have no HSCA files, but they must.
3)
JFK’s
secretary Evelyn Lincoln cleared out the contents of the Oval Office and took everything
with her, including the Oval Office dictabelt tapes that JFK used to tape
record telephone and office conversations and dictate memos for his memoirs.
With the death of Mrs. Lincoln those tapes were inherited by Robert White, who
made six cassette copies of them, which he gave/sold to Christopher Fulton, who
says he still has them, and quotes from them in his book “The Inheritance.” The
ARRB obtained some dictabelts from White before he died, but they stop at
November 8, 1963. What became of the tapes made after then?
4)
With
Mrs. Lincoln’s passing, in her will she had two trunks delivered to her
attorney cousin in Nebraska. When he was named municipal judge, he gave the
unopened trunks to the Polk County Sheriff Cherry, who today, says he knows
what became of them but will not say unless subpoenaed by Congress or a court
of law. Mrs. Lincoln’s cousin notified
the ARRB of the whereabouts of the two trunks at the Polk County Sheriff’s
office but they failed to get them.
5)
In
1964 Robert F. Kennedy notified the secretary of the National Photo
Interpretation Center (NPIC) that he wanted her to pack all of the NPIC
assassination records in boxes and have them delivered to the Smithsonian,
rather than the National Archives where they belonged. The NPIC secretary
informed the ARRB of the NPIC records at the Smithsonian but they failed to
inquire or locate them.
6)
The
investigators for the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) in San Diego said they
investigated Oswald twice, after his defection and after the assassination, and
filed what they called 119 Reports of the results of their investigation, but
those records were not provided to the ARRB by ONI. What became of them?
8)
Professor
John Newman, who is writing a series of books on the assassination, recently requested
to read George deMohrenschildt’s address book, that he found was missing from
its folder. A researcher who had earlier photo copied the entire book, gave
Newman a copy and Newman has posted it on line. But what became of the original
from the NARA?
9)
ARRB
staff member Kim Hurd compiled five boxes of records during his work for the
Review Board, but box number four is missing. Now a researcher could have
slipped out with deMohrenschildt’s note book, but someone with access to the
back shelves of the Archives II must
have lifted this entire box .
10) The Higgins Memo of the Sept. 25,
1963 meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff mentions that CIA officer Desmond
FitzGerald briefed them on the CIA’s “detailed study” of the July 20, 1944
Valkyrie plot to kill Hitler, that they were adapting for use against Castro.
The CIA now says that they have no record of that “detailed study.” Nor do they
have any record of the CIA’s Pathfinder plot to kill Castro, that the NPIC
employees described as the Pathfinder file was kept in their section of the
JMWAVE station instead of the Operational Files, where it belonged.
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