Ruth
Paine – Case Study -
Quaker
Samaritan or CIA Svengali?
Is she a
modest Quaker Samaritan who took in strangers, or a CIA Svengali who played a
key role in the plot to kill the President?
You make
the call.
According
to the Warren Commission, who treated her with kid gloves, she transported the
rifle from Texas to New Orleans and back again, kept it in her garage and
obtained the job at the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) for the accused
assassin.
If it
happened today and she was ISIS instead of a Quaker, she would be arrested,
waterboarded and indicted under the Pinkerton statute, as one of the House Select
Committee on Assassination (HSCA) attorneys wanted to do, but in the end, they
didn’t even bother to question her.
[ (26) The JFK Assassination: A False Mystery Concealing State Crimes - YouTube / False Mystery: The JFK Assassination: A False Mystery Concealing State Crimes, 1998 ]
"The Paines are criminal co-conspirators in the killing of President Kennedy and would and should now be prosecuted by a guiltless government." - Vince Salandria
Salandria: "Oswald’s family was brought to the Dallas area by
Ruth Paine. Ruth Paine had been instrumental in getting Oswald a job at the
Texas Book Depository. The Mannlicher-Carcano, the alleged murder rifle, had
supposedly been stored in a garage of the Paines. Following the assassination,
Ruth Paine was called by Oswald during his detention to have her obtain a
lawyer for him, a task which she failed to complete much to the benefit of the
assassins."
"Once a conspiracy was deemed to exist, and even our
government in the House Select Committee concluded that there was a probable
conspiracy, the Paines had to be viewed as having been involved in it. An
assassination Gestalt with the patsy serving as a lightning rod, cannot be
successfully completed unless the patsy is delivered to the scene of the
killing. Ruth Paine accomplished the crucial twin assassination tasks of
getting Oswald into the Dallas area and arranging to get him a job in the Texas
Book Depository Building. Therefore, the Paines, albeit on a need-to-know basis,
were involved in the plot."
"In whose service were the Paines? Michael Paine came
from families which were in the Boston Brahmin society – the Cabot and Forbes
families. He was an heir of his maternal grandmother, Elise Cabot Forbes. He
was not likely to be controlled by the Soviets, Castro or the Mafia. He had top
secret clearance in his job at Bell Helicopter despite the fact that his
father, George Lyman Paine, had been a Trotskyist. In Cold War United
States to get such clearance when your father had been a Trotskyist, a quid
pro quo had to be provided. Ruth Paine’s father was William Avery
Hyde, an official in the Agency for International Development, which frequently
provided cover for overseas intelligence operations. According to the excellent
work of Steve Jones, Barbara LaMonica and Carol Hewett, Ruth
Paine’s sister, Sylvia Hoke, had CIA affiliations. Ruth Paine was friendly
with George DeMohrenshildt, a sophisticated White Russian exile and CIA
operative who, although thirty-five years Oswald’s senior, became Oswald’s
closest friend in Dallas. According to recent research in the 1980s Ruth Paine
assisted illegal anti-socialist activity in Nicaragua."
"Michael Paine could not have been Soviet, Castro or Mafia agents. They had to be agents of the killing force, our U.S. intelligence. If they had been Soviet or Castro agents, an innocent
government would have swooped down on them and seen them as clear beacons
leading to the killers. Our government did not cause them any trouble. The
Paines are criminal co-conspirators in the killing of President Kennedy and
would and should now be prosecuted by a guiltless government."
Ruth H.
Paine and Marina Oswald became fast and very close friends from the moment they
met at a house party on February 22, 1963 until the day of the assassination,
after which they never met or spoke again.
When Marina was asked under oath by Jim Garrision in New Orleans why she broke off her friendship with Ruth Paine, she said she did it on the advice of the Secret Service, who said Paine was affiliated with the CIA.
When Marina was asked under oath by Jim Garrision in New Orleans why she broke off her friendship with Ruth Paine, she said she did it on the advice of the Secret Service, who said Paine was affiliated with the CIA.
CIA? If
so how?
Well
there’s her immediate family – her father who was a big national insurance executive
who the CIA approched about doing humanatarian work in Southeast Asia much like
John Hinckley’s dad did. Then there’s Ruth’s sister, who worked as a psychologist
for the CIA.
Other
possibilities include her attendance at Antioch College in Yellow Springs,
Ohio, and the Quakers in Philadelphia.
Antioch
was founded by Horrace Mann in the 19th century as a radical college
that entwined school classes with work in the real world. They did away with
grades and had co-ed classes decades before it became popular. Among those who
attended Antioch you have Coretta Scott King, Rod Serling of the Twilight Zone,
who did a show on Fidel Castro seeing assassins in a mirror, and was himself
impersonated in letters to major media outlets during the aftermath of the
assassination.
Oh, yea,
Max Holland attended Antioch and so did I, as an occassional transfer student
from the nearby University of Dayton. I took a class in 1970 on the history of
Vietnam, which was taught by a former CIA Chief of Station Siagon, who said Ho
Chi Min was the George Washington of Vietnam, and we were backing the wrong
side. That was my first indication that Antioch was somehow wired and spooky.
Ruth
Paine’s brother, a physican, lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and she must have
visited him there.
And
Oswald is said to have been there too, applying as a student just before he
enlisted in the Marines. And Antioch is the only college I know that wouldn’t
require a high school diploma. There were Oswald sightings there too, as
reported by the Dayton Police Intelligence Squad who investigated after the
assassination.
I also
attended the Antioch graduate school – the Center for Social Research and
Action in Baltimore, where the chief professor was then involved in the Polish
Solidarity Union uprising, and one of the students returned from the USSR with
early reel to reel video tapes of his Russian wanderings. Another professor got
me into the Bethesda Naval hospital, where the autopsy was performed, late at
night when it was closed, to attend a board room radio conference call with
teachers on South Pacific islands.
The
Philadelphia based Society of Friends – aka Quakers – also run a hostel for
travelers in Mexico City where Oswald is said to have visited. And when Ruth
Paine lived in Philadelphia she occasionally called the Quaker Peace Center
where John Judge worked, and they had pleasant conversations over the phone.
Antioch
is not your normal college, and when Ruth Paine went to a Quaker center in
Nicaragua, keeping tabs on the Sandinistas at the same time the JMWAVE trainers
– including John “I.F.” Harper were training the Contras like they had trained
the Cuban Pathfinders, she did so with a guy from Antioch. So Ruth Paine was
called out of retirement to work with the same team again twenty years later.
[For more on Ruth Paine in Nicaragaua:JFKCountercoup2: Steve Jones - The Confessions of Ruth Paine]
[For more on Ruth Paine in Nicaragaua:JFKCountercoup2: Steve Jones - The Confessions of Ruth Paine]
But I don’t
think Antioch or the Quakers make the CIA connection, which is much more tight.
As Allen
Dulles told one of his biographers, his association with Mary Bancroft and the
patrons of the accused assassin would give conspiracy theorists a field day.
Well now, fifty years later, we are having that field day.
As
detailed in Mary Bancroft’s book “Autobiography of a Spy,” she was a close
personal friend of Michael Paine’s mother Ruth Forbes Paine Young. They spent
time together at the Forbes family island off Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and
traveled together to Europe by steamship before Bancroft moved to Switzerland and
began to work with Dulles as his secretary and principal agent in the July 20,
1944 Valkyrie attempt to kill Hitler.
Besides
Bancroft’s book, we have other sources for information on the Paine-Bancroft
connection, that is mentioned in the Paine Project – that a number of
researchers undertook in the 1990s, and should be referenced in a new movie
project – a documentary film about Ruth Paine.
In any
case Ruth H. Paine visited the Forbes island and Michael’s mother at her farm
outside of Philadelphia before driving to New Orleans to pick up Marina, the
daughter and the Oswald’s belongings and taking them to Texas while Oswald
ostensibly went to Mexico.
While
Michael’s mother – Ruth Forbes Paine Young was certainly in the loop, and knew what was going on –
was Mary Bancroft and Allen Dulles also “in the loop”?
When I
was working at the Archives II in College Park one day, I sat next to former
White House lawyer and Watergate celebrity John Dean, who said he was working
on a biography of President Warren G. Harding. I asked Dean if he thought
Harding’s death of food poisoning on a train was suspicious, and surprisingly
he didn’t.
Mary
Bancroft’s primary mentor was not Allen Dulles but “C.W.” Barron, who started
the Wall Street Jouranl and Barrons magazine, who was certainly suspicious of
Harding’s sudden death, as Bancroft relates.
For more
from Bancroft and “Autobiography of a Spy” see:
As
Bancroft wrote: “As I come to the end of
this story about the first fifty years of my life, I can’t help wondering
what….CW…would have to say about it all. CW…would advise, ‘Write it up, Mary!
Write it all up!. Then he would add his usual admonition, ‘But remember that facts
are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie!’”
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