[23], The man using the pay phone was Shelley, for in an affidavit made out that same afternoon, he said, "I went back into the building [from outside where he viewed the shooting of the president] and went inside and called my wife and told her what happened. 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. WILCOTT - Usually I threw them away at the end of the day or once in a while I would put it in -- I had a little folder where I kept personal things and it is possible I could have out it in there, but certainly it would have bee destroyed when I left. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, he was. [11] Glaze misdated his letter as 12/12/74.. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I have nothing further, Mr. Chairman. Mr. GOLDSMITH - What is that explanation? Mr. SAWYER - What would they say? Not long after Oswald departed from the scene, Shelley told Truly that Oswald was missing. Wilcott was a private pilot and landed his plane at noon, 11-23-63, Tokyo time. It was first broadcast in 1978 on a public access television channel in Austin, Texas. Mr. DODD - Am I to believe by that that you were not aware at the time you made the disbursement that it was, in fact, an Oswald project? Mr. WILCOTT - No. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir; that was a smaller station. Mr. WILCOTT - No. Unable to add item to List. I am a reporter there. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I was on security duty, and on security duty, agents were coming in and out of the station, and I pulled a lot of security duty, three and four nights right in a row, and pulled as much as 24 hours on weekends, and an agent would come back from meeting with somebody and he would be waiting for his wife to pick him up or would be waiting for a call from one of the indigenous agents that he was running and a lot of times conversations would be talked. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. the day we would list all of the advances that were made in an advance book. Mr. DODD - In 1957? The owner of the establishment, rightwing oil man, D. H. Byrd would have had little problem approving that kind of clearance. In late 1977, while working as a reporter for the Avalanche-Journal newspaper in Lubbock, Texas, I submitted written testimony to the United States House of Representatives newly-formed Select Committee on Assassinations. 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? Copies of my written testimony have disappeared from my personal files. I called the number of the Avalanche Journal in Lubbock, Texas and got the personnel director. Mr. DODD - Am I to presume that you told your wife of the conversation you had with this case officer at the time it occurred? Mr. DODD - You liked him? Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for JFK Assassination : The James B. Wilcott Files And The CIA Oswald Project: An Investigative Report at Amazon.com. In my letter to him, I praised him for his courage and expressed the hope that someday he might fill in the gaps of his story for the sake of history. I can't remember what it was. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Drawing your attention to the period immediately after the assassination of President Kennedy, at that time, did you come across any information concerning Lee Harvey Oswald's relationship with the CIA? 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. Redemption links and eBooks cannot be resold. He was fortunate to have many travels, including celebration of his 60th birthday in Antarctica. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Mr. Wilcott, did I ask you to prepare a list indicating the dates that you were employed with the CIA and where you were stationed? Mr. PREYER - Under our committee rules, Mr. Wilcott, a witness is entitled, at the conclusion of the questioning, to make a five-minute statement if he wishes or to give a fuller explanation of any of his answers; so that at this time we make that five minutes available to you if you care to elaborate or say anything further. EXECUTIVE SESSION 2 AM, Nov. 23. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, the payments that were made especially to substations like Oswald's was operated -- it was a substation of the XXXXXXXX station, and they had one in XXXXXX and they had one in XXXXXXXXX-- and it may be six months or even a year after the intial allocation that the final accounting for those funds were submitted, and they would operate out of revolving funds or out of their own personal funds in many cases. Walther was sure they were not as high as the sixth floor. William Weston examines the curious letters of Elzie Glaze and considers potential connections between the CIA and the Texas School Book Depository. Mr. WILCOTT - I can't remember, sir. There was a lot of excitement going on at the station after the Kennedy assassination. Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app. New York, 1989) p. 319. Enclosing the back area is a high, chain-link fence with coils of barbed wire on top. Instead, he might have been one of the temporary musicians. This was about, believe -- about October of 1975. My testimony included numerous meetings with a man named Bill Shelly (I am no longer certain of the correct spelling of his last name.) Strange Deaths Of People Who Knew Too Much About The JFK Assassination: 92 Witnesses, Researchers, CIA Agents, Police Officers, Reporters, Girlfriends Who Just Knew Way Too Much! [15] Shelley testimony, Volume 6 of the Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits on page 327, hereafter to be cited as 6H327. (Whereupon, a recess was taken while the members of the Committee went to the floor of the House for a vote.). For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions. [6] They held a big meeting during which they warned everyone not to discuss the assassination with outsiders. He was not questioned by the Warren Commission. Mr. WILCOTT - At least -- there was at least six or seven people, specifically, who said that they either knew or believed Oswald to be an agent of the CIA. 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. The rationale for these restrictions was to prevent unscrupulous people cajoling them for information or committing hostile acts against them, because of the notoriety Dallas was suffering. Mr. GOLDSMITH - How did you know, in 1963, what type of security precautions the Warren Commission had for conducting its investigation? This was just prior to moving to Langley, in finance, and my duties there were policing accounts, and included auditing of special accounts. Mr. CORNWELL - What year was that? Mr. DODD - And your dissatisfaction with the Agency and with the course of American government preceded the actual assassination of President Kennedy? Mr. WILCOTT - The "need-to-know" principle was not all that we followed, and just about every one of the big projects that the agency was involved in, information leaked out, and we especially within the CIA knew about it, and someone would go to a party and have a little bit too much to drink and start saying things that they really shouldn't be saying to keep in mind what the "need-to-know" principle was. Did you want to do this or intend to proceed with that line of questioning? So, when the Case Officer made reference to a cryptonym, you didn't know whether the cryptonym referred to Oswald specifically or to a project in which Oswald had been involved is that correct? Wilcotts affidavit and deposition were declassified by the ARRB. It was more of a casual kind of thing, to my way of thinking. Yet the mere existence of oversized boxes on the premises does not constitute proof of ongoing illegal activities. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you have any basis for thinking that their security was poor? . While working as a journalist in Dallas, Tx. This is an indication that the covert side of the schoolbook business had shifted to the Scott Foresman and Southwestern building, perhaps because the notoriety of the TSBD had hampered its ability to conduct smuggling operations and thus had to be discontinued. Insofar as I know, this information has never been made public. The fact that he went and got his gun afterwards and then walked to the Texas Theater, perhaps to meet with someone, this suggests that he had some kind of agenda to fulfill. In the work that Oliver Stone has done for his upcoming four-part documentary series on the JFK case, he uncovered information that Truly was not being paid directly through the Texas School Book Depository in 1963. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, it was my understanding that Lee Harvey Oswald was an employee of the agency and was an agent, of the agency. Mr. WILCOTT - I can't remember the exact persons. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. He was still living on Tatum Avenue at the time of the assassination. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Would your Counsel identify himself for the recorder? Mr. WILCOTT - Jerry Fox, SR Branch, Reid Dennis, Chief of Soviet Satellite Branch; and XXXXXXXXXX, China Branch, and he also had a cover. There are photos of him getting into a police car along with Bonnie Ray Williams and Daniel Arce. 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 - The response was, among quote a few people "Oh, well, I am sure he was." Last modified on Tuesday, 21 April 2020 03:08, 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, The CIA and the Texas School Book Depository. Jack Cason, the TSBD president, was a stocky, robust man before the assassination. Years later, I found out that he moved to Austin, Texas, where he began working for the Austin American Statesman in 1979. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you have an opinion as to how the Since the CIA has the capability of engineering car crashes to look like accidents, Harriss name should be added to the list of mysterious deaths, along with Warren Commission witness Lee Bowers, who died when his car ran off the road and ran into a freeway abutment. or C.I.A. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, does that mean you were able to check back only thirty days from the time that you were given this information? Mr. GOLDSMITH - I am not sure that that is responsive. Mr. WILCOTT - My wife and I came to believe that what CIA was doing couldn't be reconciled to basic principles of democracy or basic principles of humanism. Mr. GOLDSMITH - What is that opinion? "It is inconceivable that a secret intelligence arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government." - CIA CounterIntelligence head James Angleton . Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. GOLDSMITH - How many months after the assassination was this? Mr. WILCOTT - None initially. In April of 1966, I resigned from the CIA. There is a very large spider guarding this web of secrecy. Mr. CORNWELL - However, I take it from the fact that, as you describe it, it wasn't always applied, that occasionally you did learn something about the identities of the persons or projects that the cryptonyms referred to; is that correct? Mr. WILCOTT - I was afraid quite frankly. Mr. CORNWELL - But your testimony or your statements on the subject hadn't been made a matter of publicity on any other occasion? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I have opinions. This fear casting a shadow over the lives of former employees was also directed against journalists seeking to lift the veil of secrecy. This employee said that fellow employees were subjected to similar job interviews by government agents. [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. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, you first came across this, information in November of 1963, is that correct? The building is a large, one-story, concrete tilt-up, ideal for storing and moving huge quantities of material goods with forklifts and palettes. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Only of Case Officers. Towards the end of my tour of duty, I heard certain things about Oswald somehow being connected with the agency, and I didn't really believe this when I heard it, and I thought it was absurd. [3] Telephone interviews of Campbell March 19, 1994; Jones, March 19, 1994; Williams, April 4, 1994; Garner, August 14, 1999. This would include things like: (1) determining lines of fire from upper story windows, (2) planning the access and escape routes for the sniper team, (3) positioning and controlling the designated patsy as a workman inside the building, (4) fabricating evidence such as rifle, cartridges, and paper bag to implicate the patsy, (5) selecting the so-called snipers nest where the ersatz evidence would be planted. Every station was divided up -- at least every class station was divided up into areas, where we would have a China, branch, Korea branch and XXXXXXXX branch and SR branch and SR satellite. James Wilcott worked out of the Tokyo CIA station at the time of the assassination. ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir. There were, as I recall, three men there, all I think in shirt sleeves. Mr. WILCOTT - That is correct, sir. That he continued to serve in a military, or semi-military, capacity at the same time he was working for a schoolbook company is indicated by his obituary, which said he was a veteran of World War II. Common to both the 1977 and 1989 letters are the strange men asking strange questions. From January of 1965 to about March of 1965, I was at Langley in the same area, in finance, policing accounts and auditing of special accounts, and I was promoted up to GS-9. 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