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As described to me by Joe Bergin, Jr., son of the regional manager of Scott Foresman, working conditions changed dramatically after the assassination. I am sorry. Yet their new location was seven miles south of the intersection of Royal Lane and Interstate 35 at 8301 Ambassador Row. 1964, of course, the Vietnam war was going on and Lyndon Johnson was now president. Mr. WILCOTT - Jerry Fox, SR Branch, Reid Dennis, Chief of Soviet Satellite Branch; and XXXXXXXXXX, China Branch, and he also had a cover. The third calm man was probably Wesley Fraizer, who stuck close to Shelley and Lovelady. Mr. WILCOTT - Oh, yes. He also sent a copy of the letter from Blakey as well as a 1978 article from the Dallas Morning News concerning the aforementioned Carolyn Arnold, who states she definitely saw Oswald in the second-floor lunchroom at 12:25 pm. She told a reporter that the FBI falsified her statement to read that she thought she caught a fleeting glimpse of Oswald on the first floor at 12:15.. TESTIMONY OF JAMES B. WILCOTT, A FORMER EMPLOYEE OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY: Mr. GOLDSMITH - For the record, would you please state your name and address and occupation? Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir, not that I can recall. She confided this information to Mrs. Bergin and told her that she had a copy of the First Ladys dress, pink in color with the black velvet collar. Mr. WILCOTT - Or perhaps January. During a follow up call, he told me that the two musicians were not in contact with former members of the band and knew nothing of their whereabouts nor of their current activities. He said he went back inside and went into the basement for ten minutes, supposedly eating his lunch.[25]. Mr. WILCOTT - I believe they would at one time. (Whereupon, a recess was taken while the members of the Committee went to the floor of the House for a vote.). Mr. WILCOTT - Destroyed or changed. Mr. CORNWELL - In other words, that is, the first two letters or the last ones would have been the same as this? Mr. WILCOTT - XXXXXXXXXXXXX (spelling). I made my call and left. Last modified on Sunday, 10 November 2019 23:45, The JFK Assassination Decoded: Two Reviews, Malcolm X's Family to File $100 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit, Alleging Cover-up of His Murder, A Personal Encounter with the Warren Commission, JFK Medical Betrayal: Where The Evidence Lies by Russell Kent, Whitney, the Ambassador, and Batista's Tax Break for Freeport Sulphur , The Wilcott Affidavit and Interrogation by the HSCA. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. or C.I.A. as members of the F.B.I., approached the two new employees at work & took them to an empty room inside the building. In 1992, Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act that placed all remaining government documents pertaining to the assassination in a special category and . Mr. CORNWELL - What year was that? [8] Jim Marrs, Crossfire (Carroll & Graf. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And who made these references to Oswald being an agent of the CIA? (Whereupon, at 12:55 p.m. the subcommittee recessed. Mr. CORNWELL - What, if any, investigation did the Agency do with respect to that? She said that there is a whole lot more to tell about the TSBD than what has been publishedthat the whole building should be suspected as more or less of a safe base to operate from that day in November 1963.[9]. It seems to me that I recall jotting it on a little pad. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Confirming these observations were two more spectators, Ronald Fischer and Robert Edwards, who saw a man with light-colored hair and a light-colored open-neck shirt at a window on the fifth floor. One of the aforementioned employees (whose name I cannot recall) stated that when she went to work for Bill Shelly at the school book depository in the early 1970s she was interviewed for the job by some type of government agents who asked if she had been recruited by the F.B.I. Mr. WILCOTT - Not at this time. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. [4] FBI report of Roy Truly interview by Nat Pinkston, November 23, 1963, File No. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, I never really looked. Mr. CORNWELL - Did you -- at the time you made the decision to discuss outside of the Agency this matter, did you focus on the secrecy oath problem? Mr. PREYER - It was your conclusion from that talk that some of these people might have knowledge that he was a CIA agent rather than that they were speculating about it? Common to both the 1977 and 1989 letters are the strange men asking strange questions. Mr. WILCOTT - None initially. Mr. CORNWELL - What group was it? Two men, who identified themselves (with I.D.) Mr. WILCOTT - In 1968. [23] William Weston, Robert MacNeil and the Three Calm Men, in the November 1994 issue of The Fourth Decade. Mr. GOLDSMITH - How many people from the CIA did you speak to who speculated that Oswald was an agent? Why this information would.come out to a CIA station XXXXXXX rather than some other part of the world is, I assume, because Oswald was trained in Japan, according to your belief. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Upon your memory and the list that your brought with you today, will you tell the Committee the names of the CIA Case Officers who you remember working XXXXXXXXXX in 1963? [3], Actually, the move took place a few months before the assassination. And I will ask the question again, okay. In 1984, they began sending tapes of their programs to public access channels in Dallas and San Antonio and then to other cities around the country, hence the name of the umbrella organization, the Alternative Information Network. The specific incident was soon after the Kennedy assassination, where an agent, a Case Officer -- I am sure it was a Case Officer -- came up to my window to draw money, and he specifically said in the conversation that ensued, he specifically said, "Well, Jim, the money that I drew the last couple of weeks ago or so was money," either Mr. SAWYER - Were there any other instances of harassment? About a minute or two later, NBC news reporter Robert MacNeil came in through the front door, amazed to see three calm men. Mr. CORNWELL - Do you remember anything about it? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. GOLDSMITH - How many people made this reference to Oswald being an agent of the CIA? Mr. WILCOTT - I think the most significant thing that can be actually substantiated is the circumstances surrounding my employment with the community renewal program in Utica, and I was the finance analyst for the community renewal program in Utica. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And you have had access to the cash disbursement files at XXXXXXXXXXXXX Station? Mr. GOLDSMITH - So that they would be routinely destroyed at the time of auditing? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. From June of 1964 to about December of 1964, I was at Roseland. I talked to reporters from various papers, and I talked to people in other forms of meetings, and to me it is not surprising at all. The band started out in 1966 in Long Beach, California, and became known for its unique blend of country western and rock and roll. These companies were part of a complex system involving: (a) the state legislature, which purchased textbooks through a process called adoption, (b) the publishers, who were responsible for maintaining sufficient reserves, (c) the book depositories, which received the books, stored them, and shipped them out as needed to schools around the state. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And how did that come to your attention: Mr. WILCOTT - I really don't know. Upon exiting the elevator, he saw a short hallway. I asked the first man I sawa man who was telephoning from a pillar in the middle of the roomwhere I could call from. Was there any dispute between you and the Agency? Larry Watanabi, XXXXXX Branch, Senior Case Officer; and XXXXXXXXXXX, deep commercial cover agent. Mr. PREYER - I understand this might be a good place for us to break and go and vote, so that we will take another recess for about ten minutes. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, with the Agency, yes, sir. Mr. WILCOTT - Particularly George Breen and XXXXXXXXX to a lesser extent. Out of curiosity, he opened this door and saw a large storage area that took over half of the square footage of the fourth floor. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you bring that list with you today? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. [22] And this likely included coaxing Shelly and Lovelady into making an ersatz trip across the street to the railroad yards before their return to the TSBD, which is now when they said they saw Styles and Adams. Anyone e1se? Many notes and gifts, often created by him, are left for us as a tribute to his kindness and love. Mr. CORNWELL - When this cryptonym was given to you by the officer, did any part of it ring any familiar note with you? Mr. CORNWELL - Is there any chance that that record stil exists? * Assassination Archives and Research Center leads the fight in federal court for full JFK disclosure. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Would your Counsel identify himself for the recorder? It was an infantry replacement center as well as a German POW camp. Mr. WILCOTT - June of 1964. (Its address, I later learned, was 11310 Gemini Lane.) Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I have. Roy Truly was, up to the time of his death in 1985, continuously frightened by "federal authorities." Copies of my written testimony have disappeared from my personal files. Reminder warnings were given on an individual or a small group basis. [9] Carolyn Arnold statement in Byrd/TSBD Concerns posted by Martin Barkley on May 24, 2000 on the JFK Today website. Mr. GOLDSMITH - What is the name of the book? Mr. WILCOTT - I left the agency in April of 1966 for the Miami Station. Of all times to break down, my typewriter chose tonight to do it. Mr. CORNWELL - Why did you leave the CIA? It was about XXX I think, was our actual roster was. Mr. DODD - You liked him? They received threats over the telephone, even death threats. My address is 2761 Atlantic Street, in Concord, and my occupation is electronic technician. [3] Telephone interviews of Campbell March 19, 1994; Jones, March 19, 1994; Williams, April 4, 1994; Garner, August 14, 1999. When Joe entered the building, he took a recently installed passenger elevator to the fourth floor. He could not remember when this occurred, but it was before the assassination, but after extensive remodeling had been done on the third and fourth floors to add office suites for the publishing companies. Mr. CORNWELL - What type of people were they? She enjoyed keeping up on the Kennedy family during their years in the White House. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, is your testimony then that even though. Mr. GOLDSMITH - At the time that this allegation first came to your attention, did you discuss it with anyone? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Garner went on to say that at the same time, around 1969, William Shelley quit the book depository and began working for Scott Foresman. His wife Mildred refused to talk about the assassination even with members of her own family. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you ever actually Xerox records being destroyed or changed? Mr. WILCOTT - Surely, sir. [6] They held a big meeting during which they warned everyone not to discuss the assassination with outsiders. James B. Wilcott worked for the CIA from May of 1957 to April of 1966. Yet the mere existence of oversized boxes on the premises does not constitute proof of ongoing illegal activities. The other one was the Lone Star School Book Depository, also located in the city of Dallas. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, I would get calls and they would say "We know all about you," shooting a machine gun into the Considering what William Harvey wrote about creating phony 201 files for ZR/RIFLE scapegoats, an obvious first question is: How genuine is Oswald's file (or what little we have . Mr. SAWYER - What were they? As mentioned, this woman, her husband, and young child disappeared within hours after my interview. He was an accomplished journalist and author and had worked as a radio engineer in his early career. Mr. CORNWELL - At several points in your testimony you have stated there were six or seven persons, and on each occasion you raised the extent of their knowledge as "knew" or "believed." Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Try again. Mr. WILCOTT - In conversation. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, then, really, no purpose would have been served by checking those records? Write to [email protected]. Joe Molina, credit manager for the book depository since 1947, worked with FBI informer William Lowery in infiltrating leftist organizations. The John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Espaol Fall 2017, Vol. I have some information concerning the assassination of President John Kennedy that I wish to submit for your scrutiny. Mr. WILCOTT - That is true. I was on the executive committee along with doctors and lawyers and some of the most respected people in the community. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. WILCOTT - With any degree of certainty, other than just speculation, I would say, six or seven with some degree of certainty. Since then, he has written numerous articles on the subject for various periodicals, including The Fourth Decade, Dealey Plaza Echo, and Probe. Apparently, security measures to keep people from talking continued even after they went into retirement or found other occupations. The CIA then told him a story of how someone could be thrown out of a plane without a parachute and the CIA would protect them. suspicious that many of the other things that happened may have had as its source the CIA. And when did you begin to develop attitudes of dissatisfaction with the Agency and its reaction and attitudes toward what you described as undemocratic principles and a lack of humanism? Mr. WILCOTT - I doubt it, sir. She died in 1969. What it was is hard to guess. He closed his 1989 letter with a lurid metaphor: I will help any wayI just want to be forewarned. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you ever bring your allegation to the attention of anyone in the CIA? Mr. WILCOTT - Well, I believed it to be a little more than speculation, that the source at least of this kind of talk was, I believe, to be something more serious than speculation. Mr. GOLDSMITH - However, your testimony is that you spoke to only six people as an estimate who indicated that Oswald was a CIA agent -- and when I say six people, I mean six CIA people, is that correct? Adams said, I believe the President has been shot. Neither Shelley nor Lovelady said anything in reply. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And you testified without any reservation? Wilcotts affidavit and deposition were declassified by the ARRB. The search for a solution to these riddles leads into the murky world of intrigue involving the FBI and CIA dirty work. Mr. WILCOTT - I believe that Oswald was a double agent, was sent over to the Soviet Union to do intelligence work, that the defection was phoney and it was set up and that I believe that Marina Oswald was an agent that had been recruited sometime before and was waiting their in Tokyo for Lee Harvey Oswald. All I remember is that her husband was previously a member of the musical group The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. She didnt show up for work the next day and didnt pick up her final paycheck. phone, and hang up, and I would get notes written in snow or my windshield and I had slips of paper left under my, windshield and this sort of thing. ). Mr. DODD - In 1957? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Were any of these people on your list possible subjects who made references to Oswald being a CIA agent? In the closing paragraphs of his 1977 letter, he wrote, "I must admit that my own fear of getting involved in the investigation has prevented me from writing you earlier. I think, or I am certain, in my own mind, that, if these people were approached that some of these people -- Let us say, for instance, that there was a certain project going on, and the project was one that became known that this project was being carried out -- and we call it "flaps," -- and the Case Officer in charge might get word that somebody from headquarters was coming to review the files to investigate the flap. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir; it was a cryptonym that I was familiar with, that it must have been at least two or three occasions that I had remembered it and it did ring a bell, yes. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir. Also in this investigative report is information and connections on prime suspects : CIA Agent William King Harvey, CIA Agent George Joannides , CIA Agent David Altee Phillips and the confessions of CIA agent David Sanchez Morals and E Howard Hunt. Mr. WILCOTT - Especially after Kennedy's assassination, there was a great deal of very, very serious discontent with CIA, and the morale at the station had dropped considerably, and we heard some very, very bitter denunciations of CIA and the projects that they were undertaking. She planned to wear it that Friday evening at a social gathering. Mr. DODD - And this would have been, now, shortly after the assassination? He is about to publish his book and, as you can understand, friendship and loyalty make me reluctant to discuss this matter with anyone else. [17] Gladys Cason, One Life, self-published book, 2004, pp. 359-360, 386-387. [28] A roll call of warehouse employees seemed to indicate that Oswald was indeed absent. His father died on November 2, 1990. However, if you received this information two or three months after the assassination, at a time that Oswald was already dead and had been dead for two or three months, what purpose would have been served by checking records that were only 30 days old? There was a problem loading your book clubs. Mr. WILCOTT - Certainly with George Breen, XXXXXXXXXXX the circle of social friends that we had. Mr. WILCOTT - They were retained for approximately one year by the finance office, approximately one to two years, and were destroyed at the time of audit. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And will you tell the Committee what that relationship was? 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