As the chief patron and close associate of Lee
Harvey Oswald – the accused assassin of President Kennedy, Michael Paine was
one of history’s most obscure and important characters, whose actions
facilitated the murder of the President.
Michael Ralph Paine (June 25, 1928 – March 1,
2018) was a retired engineer. He became notable after the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy, because he was an acquaintance of the President's
purported assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. His wife, Ruth Hyde Paine, housed
Lee's estranged wife, Marina Oswald, in her home for several months before
the assassination until the day after it.
Paine was born in New York, New York. His
father was Lyman Paine, an architect and activist. His mother
was Ruth Forbes Young, financial backer of International Peace
Academy and daughter of Elise Cabot Forbes, a scion of the Cabot
family. He had one sibling: Cameron Paine.
Paine graduated from high school in New York in
1947. He attended Harvard University for two years in 1947-1949
and Swarthmore College for a year, but did not graduate.
After serving in the U.S. Army Paine worked a
few months for Griswold Manufacturing Co. After that, Paine worked at
Bartol Research Foundation in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania for about a year.
He then worked for his mother's third husband Arthur M. Young, making
helicopter models in Pennsylvania.
In 1958, Paine became employed at Bell
Helicopter, through Young, his stepfather and designer of the first commercial
helicopter, Bell 47.
In 1957, he married Ruth Avery Hyde in
Pennsylvania. They had two children: Lynn (b. 1959) and Christopher (b.
1961). In 1959, they relocated to 2525 West Fifth Street in Irving,
Texas, a suburb of Dallas, when Paine began work at a Bell
Helicopter facility in Fort Worth.
One issue is whether the Minox camera found in the Paine garage belonged to Lee Oswald or to aine. Another issue is what activities Lee Oswald and Michael Paine had in common, given Michael Paine's statement to Frontline (Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?, PBS) that he and Lee Oswald shared unspecified interests.
One issue is whether the Minox camera found in the Paine garage belonged to Lee Oswald or to aine. Another issue is what activities Lee Oswald and Michael Paine had in common, given Michael Paine's statement to Frontline (Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?, PBS) that he and Lee Oswald shared unspecified interests.
In late September 1962, Paine and his wife Ruth
separated, Ruth asked him to have his personal belongings moved out of the
house by the time she got back home from traveling around the United States that
summer. According to Michael, it was not he, but Ruth who pushed to legally end
their marriage. As their divorce made its way through the legal system until it
ended in 1970, the Paines continued to see films at the theater together, and
their Madrigal singing as a couple continued.
Michael kept his own apartment in Arlington,
Texas, while Ruth remained with Lynn and Christopher in the Irving home. In the
end, the divorce was amicable, and Michael kept a very favorable view of Ruth.
On February 22, 1963, Ruth Paine attended a party
held at the home of her fellow madrigal singer, Everett Glover, who knew Ruth
spoke Russian and thought she would be interested in meeting a couple he
knew, Marina and Lee Harvey Oswald. Lee had defected to Russia
after serving in the Marine Corps, and Marina was Russian-born. They had
recently returned to the United States with their young daughter, June.
Michael met the Oswalds for the first time on April
2, 1963. when he picked up Lee, Marina, and their baby daughter, June at their
apartment at 214 West Neely Street in Dallas so that they could join with him
in the small meet and greet dinner Mrs. Paine had cooked for them. From the
start, Michael took an immediate dislike toward Lee when he picked the couple
and June up. Oswald's demeaning words directed at his wife, Marina, whom
Michael told author Thomas Mallon, was "having to take these whiplashes
meekly and quietly and obediently," deeply offended him. Over the next
seven months, Paine was upset by the fact that he refused to let Marina learn
to read, speak, or write in English.
Lee Harvey Oswald rented a room in Dallas but stored
some of his possessions in Paine's garage, including a supposed rifle
wrapped in a blanket which Paine thought to be camping equipment. Paine's
wife helped Oswald get a job at the Texas School Book Depository, Paine's
testimony would later become a central feature of the Warren Commission's
investigation of the assassination, particularly in regard to the presence of
the purported assassination rifle in the garage of his family home.
Paine and his wife were portrayed in Oliver
Stone's JFK as characters called "Bill and Janet Williams,"
presumably to avoid legal action.
In 1964, Paine testified that he was a member of
the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported that Paine
died March 1, 2018, in Sebastopol, California.
Michael Paine was born in 1928. After university he
worked as a research engineer. In 1958 he began work for Bell Helicopter
Company in Fort Worth under Walter Dorenburger.
After his marriage to Ruth Paine he settled in Irving, Texas. The couple were both active members of the American Civil Liberties Union.
After his marriage to Ruth Paine he settled in Irving, Texas. The couple were both active members of the American Civil Liberties Union.
In 1963 Michael Paine left the family home and moved
into an apartment in Grand Prairie. According to the author Jim Bishop (The Day
Kennedy Was Shot), it was a "friendly estrangement".
Ruth Paine continued to live in Irving and at a
party in February, 1963 she was introduced to Marina
Oswald and Lee Harvey Oswald by George De Mohrenschit. On
24th April, 1963, Marina and her daughter went to live with Ruth Paine. Oswald
rented a room in Dallas, but stored some of his possessions in Ruth
Paine’s garage. Ruth also helped Oswald to get a job at the Texas School
Book Depository.
According to fellow worker, Dave Noel, Michael Paine
discussed the "character of assassins" a few hours before
President John F. Kennedy was killed. He also returned to his home in
Irving at 3.00 p.m. to find Dallas police officers searching the premises. He
told the police: "As soon as I found out about it, I hurried over to see
if I could help."
Anthony Summers reported in his book, Conspiracy that Michael Paine was overheard talking to his wife on
the phone. He said that he was sure that Lee Harvey Oswald had
killed John F. Kennedy. He added: "We both know who is
responsible."
Buddy Walthers took part in the search of the
home of Michael Paine. Walthers told Eric Tagg that they "found six or
seven metal filing cabinets full of letters, maps, records and index cards with
names of pro-Castro sympathizers." James DiEugenio has argued
that this "cinches the case that the Paines were domestic surveillance
agents in the Cold War against communism."
A work friend of Michael Paine, Frank Krystinik,
told the Warren Commission about how he reacted when he heard the
news that J. D. Tippit had been killed: "We heard that Officer
Tippit had been shot, and it wasn't very long after that that it came through that
the Oswald fellow had been captured, had had a pistol with him, and Michael
used some expression, I have forgotten exactly what the expression was, and
then he said, "The stupid," something, I have forgotten. It wasn't a
complimentary thing. He said, "He is not even supposed to have a
gun." And that I can quote, "He is not even supposed to have a
gun." Or, "Not even supposed to own a gun," I have
forgotten."
Jim Garrison later suggested that Ruth
Paine might have been involved in setting Oswald up as the
"patsy". Garrison points out that Paine's father " had been
employed by the Agency for International Development, regarded by many as a
source of cover for the C.I.A. Her brother-in-law was employed by the same
agency in the Washington, D.C. area." He also claims that he had tried to
"examine the income tax returns of Ruth and Michael Paine, but I was told
that they had been classified as secret.... What was so special about this
particular family that made the federal government so protective of it?"
In 2002 Thomas Mallon wrote a book about
Ruth Paine's involvement in the case, Mrs. Paine's Garage and the Murder
of John F. Kennedy. Unlike Jim Garrison Mallon took the view that
Paine was completely innocent of any involvement in the Kennedy assassination
conspiracy.
Assassination of John F. Kennedy Encyclopedia
By John Simkin © September 1997 (updated
August 2014).
Primary Sources
(1) Frank Krystinik, told the Warren
Commission about how Michael Paine reacted when he heard the news
that J. D. Tippit had been killed (1964).
We heard that Officer Tippit had been shot, and it
wasn't very long after that that it came through that the Oswald fellow had
been captured, had had a pistol with him, and Michael used some expression, I
have forgotten exactly what the expression was, and then he said, "The
stupid," something, I have forgotten. It wasn't a complimentary thing. He
said, "He is not even supposed to have a gun." And that I can quote,
"He is not even supposed to have a gun." Or, "Not even supposed
to own a gun," I have forgotten."
(2) Anthony Summers, The Kennedy
Conspiracy (1980)
In 1977, the FBI went through the motions of
releasing 100,000 pages from its Kennedy assassination files. The press uttered
an uncritical cheer and seemed either uninterested or ill-equipped to ask
probing questions at the press conference to celebrate the event. For the
European visitor, indeed, tat occasion was a troubling spectacle of the
American media at work. I found myself virtually alone in pressing the FBI
spokesman into the admission that "up to ten percent of the (Kennedy) file
will not be released." One reason for keeping the records secret, he said,
was to protect individuals' privacy. The other reason seemed less justifiable.
It was the perennial one - "national security."
Some of the documents that are pried out of the
records themselves present new mysteries or simply affront the intelligence of
the public. Take page 66 of Warren Commission document 206, finally
declassified in 1976. This is a page from an FBI report, showing that on the
day after the assassination a telephone call was intercepted in Dallas in which
a "male voice was heard to say that he felt sure Lee Harvey Oswald had
killed the President but did not feel Oswald was responsible, and further
stated, 'We both know who is responsible.' " Page 66 did not reveal that
the tapped telephone numbers were those of Michael Paine and his wife, Ruth
Paine, the woman who was playing host to Marina Oswald at the time of the
assassination. On the page as originally released, there was no record of the
full telephone conversation, nor of what happened to the original recording.
Whether it was significant or not, it was typical of official gestures to the
public's right to know.
(3) Ruth Paine, Oswald (appeared in
the Warren Commission in 1964.
Michael (Paine) feels that Oswald became the President's
assassin because he suddenly found himself with the opportunity to affect the
course of history. He got his job at the Texas School Book Depository quite by
chance. On Monday morning, October 15, Marina and I were having coffee with a
neighbor. We mentioned that Lee had been unable to find work. He had just
received his last unemployment check, smaller than usual because it covered the
last fraction of his eligibility. The baby was due any day, and they were
pretty desperate. My neighbor said that her younger brother was working in the
Teas School Book Depository and thought there might be an opening. We told Lee
about it when he phoned that night. He applied, and was accepted. He seemed
very happy indeed. He came out the next Friday and we celebrated both the job
and his twenty-fourth birthday.
(4) John Kelin, Pictures of the
Paines (May, 1995)
The Paines have been readily available to the media
since their Warren Commission testimony more than thirty years ago, and for the
most part they have been consistent: Oswald dunnit. As recently as the
thirtieth anniversary of the assassination, both Ruth and Michael appeared on
national television - Ruth on a Frontline episode, and Michael on CBS
News. Ruth Paine stuck to the story she's told for thirty years. Michael,
however, seemed to deviate.
First, consider what Michael Paine told the Warren
Commission on March 18, 1964, when he was asked about seeing Oswald on the
night of November 22.
Mr. Dulles. The only question I have in mind is as
to what took place as far as Mr. Paine is concerned on the night of the
assassination. Were you in the police station?
Mr. Paine. We went down to the police and stayed
there until about 8 or 9 o'clock. Then Marguerite came home with us and spent
the night.
Mr. Dulles. You didn't see Lee Harvey at that time,
did you?
Mr. Paine. They asked me and I declined to see him
at that time. I changed my mind. When they immediately asked me, I declined. I
did not know what he would ask me, so I did not see him.
Mr. Dulles. You did not see him?
Mr. Paine. No.
No uncertain terms: Michael Paine, under oath,
testified he did not see Lee Oswald on the night of November 22, 1963.
But that isn't what he said in 1993. On the occasion
of the thirtieth anniversary of the JFK assassination, Michael Paine told CBS
that he had seen Oswald that night.
At the police station when I saw him later on that
night, he was proud of what he'd done. He felt that he'd be recognized now as
somebody who did something.
Perhaps, with the passage of thirty years, Michael
Paine was simply incorrect in his recollection of that night, in spite of its
historical significance. Perhaps he saw Oswald in jail on Saturday.
The chance for Mr. Paine to tell the Commission he
had seen a "proud" Oswald came up several times. There is this
exchange with Wesley Liebeler:
Mr. Liebeler. Can you recall any conversations that
you had with Oswald that you think would be helpful for us to know other than
the ones you have already mentioned?
Mr. Paine. I don't recall one now.
(5) James Hosty was interviewed by Samuel
Stern on behalf of the Warren Commission on 8th April, 1964.
James Hosty: On the 31st of October, I did a credit
check on Michael and Ruth Paine for the purpose of developing further
background. This credit check showed that Michael Paine was employed at Bell
Helicopter as an engineer, showed no employment for Mrs. Paine, just showed her
as a housewife, showed they had resided in Irving area for a number of years,
and showed a good reputation.
I then checked the criminal records of the Irving
Police Department, Dallas County Sheriff's Office. They had no record for
either Ruth or Michael Paine. Contacted the Bell Helicopter Co. and the
security officer at Bell Helicopter, Mr. Ted Schurman, advised me that Michael
Paine was employed by them as a research engineer and he held a security
clearance.
(6) Jim Garrison, On the Trail of the
Assassins (1988)
Lee and Marina Oswald had met Ruth Paine in February
1963 at a party in Dallas to which George de Mohrenschildt and his wife had
brought them. I found that Ruth Paine was the wife of Michael Paine, an
engineering designer who did highly classified work for Bell Helicopter, a
major Defense Department contractor.
Ruth Paine was a rangy, intelligent woman with
widespread interests, among them the Russian language, which she had learned to
speak quite well. Her father had been employed by the Agency for International
Development, regarded by many as a source of cover for the CIA Her brother-in-law
was employed by the same agency in the Washington, DC area.
It was on Ruth Paine's way back from a long
vacation, during which she had visited her in-laws in Washington, DC, that she
made the stop in New Orleans to pick up Marina Oswald and her daughter for
their return to Dallas. I wondered vaguely whether Mrs. Paine herself had been
manipulated in the course of this move.
As a routine matter, I wanted to examine the income
tax returns of Ruth and Michael Paine, but I was told that they had been
classified as secret. In addition to the Paines' income tax reports, Commission
documents 212, relating to Ruth Paine, and 218, relating to Michael Paine, also
had been classified as secret on grounds of national security.
Classified for the same reason were Commission
documents 258, relating to Michael, and 508, relating to Michael Paines sister,
as well as Commission documents 600 through 629, regarding relatives of Michael
Paine. What was so special about this particular family that made the federal
government so protective of it?
(7) Michael Kurtz, Crime of the Century:
The Kennedy Assassination From a Historians Perspective (1982)
Marina Oswald told the Warren Commission that the
rifle found on the sixth floor was "the fateful rifle of Lee Oswald."
This statement is meaningless, since Marina Oswald's expertise in firearms
identification included her inability even to distinguish between a rifle and a
shotgun. She also testified that she heard Oswald practice operating the bolt
action of his rifle. The commission produced no evidence to verify that Marina
Oswald was able to distinguish the sound of this particular rifle, to the
exclusion of all other weapons.
She also told the commission that the rifle was
wrapped up inside a blanket in the garage of the home in Irving, Texas, where
she lived between 24 September and 22 November 1963. The owners of the Irving
home, Ruth and Michael Paine, both testified they had actually picked up the
blanket and moved it around in the garage and were completely unaware that it
contained a rifle. In a memorandum that the Warren Commission suppressed from
its Report and from its twenty-six volumes of published evidence, J. Wesley
Liebler, the commission counsel responsible for this section of the Warren Report,
stated that "the fact is that not one person alive today (including
Marina) ever saw that rifle in the Paine garage in such a way it could be
identified as being that (Oswald's) rifle."
(8) Barbara Lamonica, Coalition on Political
Assassination's Conference (21st October, 1995)
I find the Paines the most interesting, yet least
studied, of the people surrounding the assassination. After all, they were the
people who were closest to Lee Harvey Oswald - just prior, and leading up to,
November 22. And wittingly or unwittingly, they contributed to the subsequent
condemnation of Oswald, and therefore to the success of the conspiracy and
coverup.
Furthermore, there are two timeframes, being the
spring and fall of 1963, when the lives of the Paines and Oswalds are
especially intertwined, that coincide with some very significant events.
Ruth Paine first makes contact after she first met
(Marina Oswald) on February 22 at a party arranged by Everett Glover, who was a
friend of Michael Paine's and George DeMohrenschildt's. But she doesn't try to
make contact with Marina until March 8, when she sends her a note. On March 20,
she visits Marina.
In between these two dates, on March 13, Oswald purchases, or orders, the rifle. On April 2 Ruth invites the Oswalds to dinner. On April 7, Ruth writes a note, asking Marina to come and live with her. She never sends this note, but she keeps it. On April 11 she visits Marina again. On April 20 there's a picnic with the Oswalds and Ruth Paine. And by the end of the month, Marina is staying with Ruth temporarily, while Lee goes to New Orleans to seek employment and try to find an apartment.
In between these two dates, on March 13, Oswald purchases, or orders, the rifle. On April 2 Ruth invites the Oswalds to dinner. On April 7, Ruth writes a note, asking Marina to come and live with her. She never sends this note, but she keeps it. On April 11 she visits Marina again. On April 20 there's a picnic with the Oswalds and Ruth Paine. And by the end of the month, Marina is staying with Ruth temporarily, while Lee goes to New Orleans to seek employment and try to find an apartment.
In the middle of this cluster of activity the Walker
incident occurs on April 10. During the summer the Paines and Oswalds part
company. They are reunited in the fall. Marina is again living with Ruth Paine.
Now, Ruth and Michael have been separated. Michael has agreed to continue to
support Ruth, naturally, and his children. But interestingly enough he has also
agreed to contribute to the upkeep of Marina financially.
The Paines are significant in several ways. First
they insured the continued separation of Lee and Marina, allowing Lee to live
unencumbered, and with no witnesses to his activities or associates during the
principal time leading up to the assassination. Secondly, they provided a
storage space for evidence that would be used against Oswald. Almost everything
that would convict him in the public mind, including the alleged murder weapon,
came out of the Paine's garage. Also found in the garage, among other things,
was the Walker photograph, the backyard photograph, the Klein's Sporting Goods
tear-out order for the rifle, among other things... there was also some radical
magazines.
One wonders why someone intending to commit a crime
would allow such items to be stored in another's garage, instead of destroying
the incriminating evidence. Michael Paine's testimony is used to confirm that
Lee had a rifle, and indeed it had been stored in their garage - in retrospect,
of course, because Michael Paine said he never realized it was a rifle... It's
hard to believe that a man like Michael Paine, who had been in combat artillery
in Korea, and then in the Army Reserves for six years, could not recognize the
feel of a rifle. Especially since it belonged to someone who he considered a
person who advocated violence.
I think maybe Michael Paine is lying here. He either
knew it was a rifle, and is choosing to hide that fact, or maybe it wasn't a
rifle at all... in either case he distances himself from the situation by
saying he just didn't realize what was going on. And this is characteristic of
the Paines all along - they try to distance themselves from Oswald.
Ruth's testimony pinpoints the time for placing the
weapon in Lee's hands. She testified that on the Thursday night before the
assassination Lee showed up unexpectedly at her house to visit her family. Now
Lee Oswald's habit, if you will, was to visit his family on weekends, so he
would usually be there on Friday nights... So during the course of the evening,
Ruth comes in around o'clock, after dinner, she goes into the garage and finds
that the light had been left on. Well she tells the Warren Commission that she
would never, ever leave the light on. So therefore Lee Oswald must have been in
the garage to retrieve some of his belongings. This allows the Warren
Commission to infer that this was the moment that Oswald got his gun, in
preparation for the assassination. But the only thing that this testimony
really tells us for sure is that Ruth was in the garage.
I believe the Paines are significant persons in the
lives of the Oswalds, and warrant further research. Although they probably did
not participate in a plot to kill the president, and they might have downplayed
their relationship with Oswald merely in an attempt to distance themselves from
a tragic event, they are, I believe, nevertheless withholding evidence about
Oswald. Robert Oswald himself claimed, right after the assassination, that he
felt Michael Paine knew more about that event than he was revealing. I think we
should take Robert Oswald's claim seriously, and look into the Paines further.
(9) James DiEugenio, review of Larry
Hancock's Someone Would Have Talked (March, 2008)
Another interesting part of the book is how it deals
with the experiences of the late Dallas detective Buddy Walthers. This is based
on a rare manuscript about the man by author Eric Tagg. Walthers was part of at
least three major evidentiary finds in Dallas. Through his wife, he discovered
the meetings at the house on Harlendale Avenue by Alpha 66 in the fall of 1963.
Second, he was with FBI agent Robert Barrett when he picked up what appears to
be a bullet slug in the grass at Dealey Plaza. And third, something I was
unaware of until the work of John Armstrong and is also in this book, Walthers
was at the house of Ruth and Michael Paine when the Dallas Police searched it
on Friday afternoon. Walthers told Tagg that they "found six or seven
metal filing cabinets full of letters, maps, records and index cards with names
of pro-Castro sympathizers." (Hancock places this statement in his
footnotes on p. 552.) This is absolutely startling of course since, combined
with the work of Carol Hewett, Steve Jones, and Barbara La Monica, it
essentially cinches the case that the Paines were domestic surveillance agents
in the Cold War against communism. (Hancock notes how the Warren Commission and
Wesley Liebeler forced Walthers to backtrack on this point and then made it
disappear in the "Speculation and Rumors" part of the report.)
(10) James DiEugenio, review of James W.
Douglass', JFK and the Unspeakable (April, 2008)
Michael Paine did not just work at Bell Helicopter.
He did not just have a security clearance there. His stepfather, Arthur Young,
invented the Bell helicopter. His mother, Ruth Forbes Paine Young, was
descended from the Boston Brahmin Forbes family -- one of the oldest in
America. She was a close friend of Mary Bancroft. Mary Bancroft worked with
Allen Dulles as a spy during World War II in Switzerland. This is where Dulles
got many of his ideas on espionage, which he would incorporate as CIA Director
under Eisenhower. Bancroft also became Dulles' friend and lover. She herself
called Ruth Forbes, "a very good friend of mine." (p. 169) This may
explain why, according to Walt Brown, the Paines were the most oft-questioned
witnesses to appear before the Commission.
Ruth Paine's father was William Avery Hyde. Ruth
described him before the Warren Commission as an insurance underwriter. (p.
170) But there was more to it than that. Just one month after the Warren Report
was issued, Mr. Hyde received a three-year government contract from the Agency
for International Development (AID). He became their regional adviser for all
of Latin America. As was revealed in the seventies, AID was riddled with CIA
operatives. To the point that some called it an extension of the Agency. Hyde's
reports were forwarded both to the State Department and the CIA. (Ibid)'
Ruth Paine's older sister was Sylvia Hyde Hoke.
Sylvia was living in Falls Church, Virginia in 1963. Ruth stayed with Sylvia in
September of 1963 while traveling across country. (p. 170) Falls Church adjoins
Langley, which was then the new headquarters of the Central Intelligence
Agency, a prized project of Allen Dulles. It was from Falls Church that Ruth
Paine journeyed to New Orleans to pick up Marina Oswald, who she had been introduced
to by George DeMohrenschildt. After she picked Marina up, she deposited her in
her home in Irving, Texas. Thereby separating Marina from Lee at the time of
the assassination.
Some later discoveries made Ruth's itinerary in
September quite interesting. It turned out that John Hoke, Sylvia's husband,
also worked for AID. And her sister Sylvia worked directly for the CIA itself.
By the time of Ruth's visit, Sylvia had been employed by the Agency for eight
years. In regards to this interestingly timed visit to her sister, Jim Garrison
asked Ruth some pointed questions when she appeared before a grand jury in
1968. He first asked her if she knew her sister had a file that was classified
at that time in the National Archives. Ruth replied she did not. In fact, she
was not aware of any classification matter at all. When the DA asked her if she
had any idea why it was being kept secret, Ruth replied that she didn't. Then
Garrison asked Ruth if she knew which government agency Sylvia worked for. The
uninquiring Ruth said she did not know. (p. 171) This is the same woman who was
seen at the National Archives pouring through her files in 1976, when the House
Select Committee was gearing up.
When Marina Oswald was called before the same grand
jury, a citizen asked her if she still associated with Ruth Paine. Marina
replied that she didn't. When asked why not, Marina stated that it was upon the
advice of the Secret Service. She then elaborated on this by explaining that
they had told her it would look bad if the public found out the
"connection between me and Ruth and CIA." An assistant DA then asked,
"In other words, you were left with the distinct impression that she was
in some way connected with the CIA?" Marina replied simply,
"Yes." (p. 173)
Douglass interpolates the above with the why and how
of Oswald ending up on the motorcade route on 11/22/63. Robert Adams of the
Texas Employment Commission testified to having called the Paine household at
about the time Oswald was referred by Ruth -- via a neighbor-- to the Texas
School Book Depository (TSBD) for a position. He called and was told Oswald was
not there. He left a message for Oswald to come down and see him since he had a
position available as a cargo handler at a regional cargo airline.
Interestingly, this job paid about 1/3 more than the job Oswald ended up with
at the TSBD. He called again the next day to inquire about Oswald and the
position again. He was now told that Lee had already taken a job. Ruth was
questioned about the Adams call by the Warren Commission's Albert Jenner. At
first she denied ever hearing of such a job offer. She said, "I do not
recall that." (p. 172) She then backtracked, in a tactical way. She now
said that she may have heard of the offer from Lee. This, of course, would seem
to contradict both the Adams testimony and common sense. If Oswald was
cognizant of the better offer, why would he take the lower paying job?
Mrs. Paine's station wagon and garage
There are a few basic fats about Michael Paine that are not being reported upon his death.
There are a few basic fats about Michael Paine that are not being reported upon his death.
The first is that without him and his actions the
assassination of President Kennedy could not and would not have happened.
The significant facts are:
1) Michael Paine was
kicked out of Harvard and attended Swarthmore College in Philadelphia where he
lived on a farm with his mother Ruth Forbes Paine Young and her third husband,
the eccentric inventor of the Bell Helicopter Arthur Young.
2) It was while living
in Philadelphia when he met Ruth Hyde at a folk dance and they became engaged
and married in a Quaker ceremony at Media, Pennsylvania.
3) It was the Media,
Pa. FBI office that was broken into and records stolen that revealed the
existence of COINTELPRO and CHAOS documents, operations that were designed to
penetrate and disrupt anti-Vietnam war and civil rights protest groups.
4) While the CIA is
legally unable to conduct such domestic operations, the FBI worked closely with
US Army Reserves Intelligence, who were.
5) Michael Paine joined
the US Army before beginning work at Bartol Research Foundation in Swarthmore
and as an assistant to his step-father Arthur Young, whose Bell Helicotper 47B
– the MASH helicopter, was the first commercially approved helicopter.[BK Notes: I just learned that Michael Paine served in the U.S. Army Reserves for six years.]
6) Arthur Young
arranged for Michael to work in research at Bell Helicopter, that opened a new
plant in Texas, where Michael and Ruth Paine moved to work there. Young told me
that Bell relocated their helicopter plant to Texas “for security reasons.”
7) In 1959 they moved
to 2525 West Fifth Street in Irving, Texas, were the rifle said to be
used to kill the president was stored in a blanket in the garage.
8) When Lee Harvey
Oswald returned home from the USSR with his Russian wife and young daughter,
they were patronized by a group of Russians who associated with the Russian
Orthodox Church Outside Russia, a parish funded in part by the CIA’s Catherwood
Foundation of Philadelphia, and assisted primarily by oil geologist George
deMohrenschildt, who has been described as their intelligence handler. DeMohrenschildt's CIA case officer was J. Walton Moore of the Dallas CIA Domestic Contacts Division.
9) Before
deMohrenschildt relocated to Haiti for work, he hosted a February 1963 party at
the home of Magnolia Oil engineers for the expressed purpose of
introducing Oswald to Michael Paine. While Paine did not attend the party, his
wife Marina met Michael’s wife Ruth Hyde Paine and they became fast friends
until the day of the assassination, after which they never spoke to each other
again.
10) At the same party Oswald met one of
the Magnolia Oil company hosts Volkmar Schmidt, a German who said he used
“reverse psychology techniques” on Oswald that were taught to him by his
surrogate father Professor Keutmeyer of Heidelberg, Germany, suggesting that
right wing retired General Walker be assassinated, as Hitler should have been.
11) Schmidt specifically mentioned the
July 20, 1944 bomb plot to kill Hitler that Keutmeyer was involved in via two
direct participants.
12) Michael Paine’s mother Ruth Forbes
Paine Young was best friends with Mary Bancroft, the OSS paramour of Allen
Dulles in Switzerland and principle agent involved in the July 20th plot
to kill Hitler. They knew of the plot before it failed and afterwards assisted
one of the principle plotters Hans Bernd Gisivious to escape, one of the few
participants who was not executed.
13) Shortly after someone took a shot at
Walker and missed, a crime attributed to Oswald, he relocated to his hometown
of New Orleans, and Michael’s wife drove Marina and the rifle to New Orleans,
and then returned with them a few months later while Oswald went to Mexico.
Michael Paine packed and unpacked the station wagon on both occasions, and
placed the rifle in a blanket in his garage in Irving. Paine later said he
thought the rifle in the blanket was camping equipment.
14) The rifle remained in Paine’s garage
until the morning of the assassination, and Oswald’s brother Robert, a former
Marine sharpshooter, wrote in his book that “If Lee did not practice with that
rifle in the days and weeks prior to the assassination, he did not take the
shots that killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor Connally.”
15) A few weeks prior to the
assassination Michael Paine and another employee of Bell took Oswald to a
meeting of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and afterwards, the other
employee went to Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club and Oswald joined the ACLU.
16) At the very moment of the
assassination Paine was in the Bell Hell cafeteria eating lunch with Frank
Krystinik who said Paine was discussing “the character of assassins.”
17) At Bell Paine worked under former
Nazi General Walter Dornberger, who was brought into the USA by the CIA under
Project Paperclip. The phone at Bell were tapped and a report leaked that
shortly after the assassination Michael Paine and Ruth Paine talked on the
phone saying, Oswald killed the president but was not responsible, and that “We
both know who is responsible.”
18) While Michael Paine claimed he didn’t
know Oswald had a rifle, even though he moved it around on three or four
occasions, he later acknowledge that he saw the backyard photo of Oswald
holding the rifle, pistol and two Communist publications that he subscribed to,
including the Trotskyite paper that included articles on anti-Castro Cuban CIA
JMWAVE attacks on Cuba.
19) Michael Paine’s father was one of the
founders of the Trotskyite Party in the USA, an offshoot of the official
Kremlin backed Communist Party.
20) When Leon Trotsky broke away from the
official Communist Party in Russia, he sought aslym in Mexico City, where he
was assassinated by Ramon Mercader, a KGB trained assassin, as documented in a
book by Issac Don Levine.
21) After the assassination Issac Don
Levine obtained the rights to Marina Oswald’s story, later written by Priscilla
Johnson McMillan, who knew Oswald in Moscow when she worked for the North
American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), a news organized owned by former OSS
officer Ivor Bryce and included Ian Fleming, of 007 fame.
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22) While Ruth and Michael Paine were
extensively questioned by the Warren Commission, they were not questioned by
the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) or the Assassination
Records Review Board (ARRB), despite repeated requests to do so.
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