george demorendschildt
nagel
Subject: Oswald a spy -- Minox Spy Camera
From: "Richard Booth"
Date: 3 Sep 1997 23:13:48 GMT
Message-id:
"Lee Harvey Oswald was smart as hell. They make a moron out of him.
Lee was the most honest man I knew. He was ahead of his time really, a
kind of hippie of those days. He would have gone to a black school like
this one if he could. And I will tell you this--I am sure he did not
shoot the
president." --Baron George De Mohrenshildt
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Former Field Operations Intelligence, CIA, and DIA operative Richard
Case Nagell was arrested in September 1963 for shooting up a bank.
Amoung items confiscated when he was arrested were Lee Harvey
Oswald's Department of Defense Uniformed Persons ID and a Fair Play
for Cuba Comittee leaflet.
Lee Oswald was not the only intelligence operative using the alias Alek
Hidell. In a 1976 sworn affidavit to the CIA, Richard Case Nagell listed
all aliases he had used in connection with his intelligence activities.
Listed amoung the names is Alek Hidell and Aleksei Hidell.
On March 29, 1977, shortly after an investigator for the HSCA tried to
contact him, George DeMohrenshildt was found dead from a shotgun
blast to the head. His death was ruled a suicide. DeMohrenshildt
revealed several facts pertaining to the assassination the very day of
his death. According to DeM, Dallas CIA official J. Walton Moore first
mentioned Oswald to him in late 1961--when Oswald was still in Minsk.
According to Richard Case Nagell and DeM himself, Demohrenshildt
"debriefed" Oswald for the CIA.
From August 1962 to October 1963, Richard Nagell was intermittently
employed as an informant and/or investigator for the CIA. In April of 1963,
Nagell conducted an inquiry concerning the marital status of Marina
Oswald and her reported desire to return to the USSR. During July, August
and September Nagell conducted an inquiry into the activities of Lee Harvey
Oswald, and the allegation that he had established a Fair Play for Cuba
Committee in New Orleans.
Former CIA finance officer James Wilcott testified to the House Select
Comittee on Assassinations in 1977 that "he learned that Oswald was
paid by the CIA while still stationed at Atsugi."
It was revealed in 1977 that the CIA had a "201 file"--a personnel file--on
Oswald. The CIA handed over a "virtually empty folder" on Oswald to the
HSCA, but an internal CIA document described Oswald's 201 file as filling
"two four-drawer safes."
Although Oswald was a high school dropout, his Russian was so good that
when he first met Marina, she thought he was a native-born Russian "with a
Baltic area accent." That kind of fluency suggests that Oswald got
extensive language training while in the Marines.
At the time of Oswald's trip to Russia in the autumn of 1959 he had $200 in
his bank account. The trip cost at least $1,500.
Oswald arrived in Helsinki Finland on October 11th 1959. He checked into
an expensive hotel and went to the Soviet consulate. There, Soviet consul
Gregory Golub issued Oswald a visa in only two days. The Warren
Commission would later determine that it normally took at least a week to
obtain a Soviet visa.
Antonio Veciana, one of the founder's of the violent Cuban exile group
called
Alpha 66 met repeatedly with his CIA contact named Maurice Bishop. It was
in late summer 1963 that Veciana met with Bishop and Lee Harvey Oswald
in Dallas, Texas.
On October 12, 1962 Oswald got hired to work at the Jaggers-Chiles-Stovall
photo lithography firm in Dallas. JCS was an interesting place for a
"redefector" from the USSR to find a job. One of the company's contracts
was
doing classified work for the U.S. Army Map Service. Just two days after
Oswald arrived at JCS, pictures taken by an American U-2 spy plane would
confirm the existence of Soviet missle launching pads. Technically, only
JCS workers with a special security clearance were allowed access to this
sensative material. In fact, office space was so small that Oswald could
readily
have seen it.
In Oswald's address book confiscated after the Kennedy assassination,
authorities found the notation "micro dots" written next to Oswald's entry
for
the JCS firm. Microdots, developed by German intelligence during WW2, are
a data-sending method wherein documents are photographically reduced to a
size that could be hidden under a postage stamp.
A tiny Minox "spy camera," originally manufactured in Nazi Germany and
used by both sides during WW2, was found amoung Oswald's effects when
Dallas police took possession of them after the assassination. Loaded with
film,
the camera was turned over to the FBI. According to detective Gus Rose, the
FBI later pressured the police to change their inventory records to make it
appear that only a light meter had been found. Oswald's camera simply
disappeared from FBI records.
In 1978, a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit forced the FBI to release
twenty-five pictures. The FBI indicated that two rolls it developed were
not
inside the Minox camera but found seperatly, in tin containers. Three
photos
showed some kind of military enviorment, either in the Far East of Central
America, inside a barbed-wire encampment where civilians walked outside.
Another picture had been taken from a boat, showing a tanker anchored
offshore from some mountainous terrain.
The FBI did not release, but made references to in files declassified in
1976,
photographs Oswald had also taken while in Minsk--of an airport, an Army
office building, a polytechnical institute, and a radio-TV factory assembly
line. Hundreds of dollars worth of photographic equipment were also
discovered by
the Dallas police in Oswald's apartment--three more cameras, a 15-power
telescope, two pairs of field glasses, a compass, even a pedometer.
On January 22, 1964, Warren Commission general counsel J. Lee Rankin
received a call from Waggoner Carr, the Texas attourney general. Carr
reported
that Dallas district attourney Henry Wade, a former FBI agent, had told him
that Oswald was recruited as an FBI informant in September 1962. Carr added
that
the FBI had paid Oswald $200 a month and had given him "Informant
Number S-179."
A 1974 Freedom of Information lawsuit by assassination researcher Harold
Weisberg revealed a top-secret transcript of a Warren Commission executive
session of January 27, 1964. A primary focus of discussion was information
received by Texas attorney general Waggoner Carr, indicating Oswald had
been getting two hundred dollars a month since September 1962 as informant
No. 179 on the FBI payroll. According to Warren Commission counsel Rankin,
the rumors were that Oswald's number had been "assigned to him in
connection with the CIA." The commission chose to dismiss rather than
pursue
this issue.
Rankin had received the same information from the Secret Service, who
"named
a Dallas deputy sheriff, Allan Sweatt, as it's source."
The name Lee Harvey Oswald in assosciation with the Fair Play for Cuba
Committee never appeared on the FBI "subversive list" despite the apparant
communist nature of the organization.
GEORGE AND THE CIA
Subject: Oswald a spy -- Minox Spy Camera
From: "Richard Booth"
Date: 3 Sep 1997 23:13:48 GMT
Message-id:
"Lee Harvey Oswald was smart as hell. They make a moron out of him.
Lee was the most honest man I knew. He was ahead of his time really, a
kind of hippie of those days. He would have gone to a black school like
this one if he could. And I will tell you this--I am sure he did not
shoot the
president." --Baron George De Mohrenshildt
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Former Field Operations Intelligence, CIA, and DIA operative Richard
Case Nagell was arrested in September 1963 for shooting up a bank.
Amoung items confiscated when he was arrested were Lee Harvey
Oswald's Department of Defense Uniformed Persons ID and a Fair Play
for Cuba Comittee leaflet.
Lee Oswald was not the only intelligence operative using the alias Alek
Hidell. In a 1976 sworn affidavit to the CIA, Richard Case Nagell listed
all aliases he had used in connection with his intelligence activities.
Listed amoung the names is Alek Hidell and Aleksei Hidell.
On March 29, 1977, shortly after an investigator for the HSCA tried to
contact him, George DeMohrenshildt was found dead from a shotgun
blast to the head. His death was ruled a suicide. DeMohrenshildt
revealed several facts pertaining to the assassination the very day of
his death. According to DeM, Dallas CIA official J. Walton Moore first
mentioned Oswald to him in late 1961--when Oswald was still in Minsk.
According to Richard Case Nagell and DeM himself, Demohrenshildt
"debriefed" Oswald for the CIA.
From August 1962 to October 1963, Richard Nagell was intermittently
employed as an informant and/or investigator for the CIA. In April of 1963,
Nagell conducted an inquiry concerning the marital status of Marina
Oswald and her reported desire to return to the USSR. During July, August
and September Nagell conducted an inquiry into the activities of Lee Harvey
Oswald, and the allegation that he had established a Fair Play for Cuba
Committee in New Orleans.
Former CIA finance officer James Wilcott testified to the House Select
Comittee on Assassinations in 1977 that "he learned that Oswald was
paid by the CIA while still stationed at Atsugi."
It was revealed in 1977 that the CIA had a "201 file"--a personnel file--on
Oswald. The CIA handed over a "virtually empty folder" on Oswald to the
HSCA, but an internal CIA document described Oswald's 201 file as filling
"two four-drawer safes."
Although Oswald was a high school dropout, his Russian was so good that
when he first met Marina, she thought he was a native-born Russian "with a
Baltic area accent." That kind of fluency suggests that Oswald got
extensive language training while in the Marines.
At the time of Oswald's trip to Russia in the autumn of 1959 he had $200 in
his bank account. The trip cost at least $1,500.
Oswald arrived in Helsinki Finland on October 11th 1959. He checked into
an expensive hotel and went to the Soviet consulate. There, Soviet consul
Gregory Golub issued Oswald a visa in only two days. The Warren
Commission would later determine that it normally took at least a week to
obtain a Soviet visa.
Antonio Veciana, one of the founder's of the violent Cuban exile group
called
Alpha 66 met repeatedly with his CIA contact named Maurice Bishop. It was
in late summer 1963 that Veciana met with Bishop and Lee Harvey Oswald
in Dallas, Texas.
On October 12, 1962 Oswald got hired to work at the Jaggers-Chiles-Stovall
photo lithography firm in Dallas. JCS was an interesting place for a
"redefector" from the USSR to find a job. One of the company's contracts
was
doing classified work for the U.S. Army Map Service. Just two days after
Oswald arrived at JCS, pictures taken by an American U-2 spy plane would
confirm the existence of Soviet missle launching pads. Technically, only
JCS workers with a special security clearance were allowed access to this
sensative material. In fact, office space was so small that Oswald could
readily
have seen it.
In Oswald's address book confiscated after the Kennedy assassination,
authorities found the notation "micro dots" written next to Oswald's entry
for
the JCS firm. Microdots, developed by German intelligence during WW2, are
a data-sending method wherein documents are photographically reduced to a
size that could be hidden under a postage stamp.
A tiny Minox "spy camera," originally manufactured in Nazi Germany and
used by both sides during WW2, was found amoung Oswald's effects when
Dallas police took possession of them after the assassination. Loaded with
film,
the camera was turned over to the FBI. According to detective Gus Rose, the
FBI later pressured the police to change their inventory records to make it
appear that only a light meter had been found. Oswald's camera simply
disappeared from FBI records.
In 1978, a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit forced the FBI to release
twenty-five pictures. The FBI indicated that two rolls it developed were
not
inside the Minox camera but found seperatly, in tin containers. Three
photos
showed some kind of military enviorment, either in the Far East of Central
America, inside a barbed-wire encampment where civilians walked outside.
Another picture had been taken from a boat, showing a tanker anchored
offshore from some mountainous terrain.
The FBI did not release, but made references to in files declassified in
1976,
photographs Oswald had also taken while in Minsk--of an airport, an Army
office building, a polytechnical institute, and a radio-TV factory assembly
line. Hundreds of dollars worth of photographic equipment were also
discovered by
the Dallas police in Oswald's apartment--three more cameras, a 15-power
telescope, two pairs of field glasses, a compass, even a pedometer.
On January 22, 1964, Warren Commission general counsel J. Lee Rankin
received a call from Waggoner Carr, the Texas attourney general. Carr
reported
that Dallas district attourney Henry Wade, a former FBI agent, had told him
that Oswald was recruited as an FBI informant in September 1962. Carr added
that
the FBI had paid Oswald $200 a month and had given him "Informant
Number S-179."
A 1974 Freedom of Information lawsuit by assassination researcher Harold
Weisberg revealed a top-secret transcript of a Warren Commission executive
session of January 27, 1964. A primary focus of discussion was information
received by Texas attorney general Waggoner Carr, indicating Oswald had
been getting two hundred dollars a month since September 1962 as informant
No. 179 on the FBI payroll. According to Warren Commission counsel Rankin,
the rumors were that Oswald's number had been "assigned to him in
connection with the CIA." The commission chose to dismiss rather than
pursue
this issue.
Rankin had received the same information from the Secret Service, who
"named
a Dallas deputy sheriff, Allan Sweatt, as it's source."
The name Lee Harvey Oswald in assosciation with the Fair Play for Cuba
Committee never appeared on the FBI "subversive list" despite the apparant
communist nature of the organization.
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