A huge cast of suspects. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you remember the name of this Case Officer? Mr. WILCOTT - Oh, yes. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, he was. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you know whether CIA Headquarters would have had either copies or originals of the cash disbursement files? Mr. GOLDSMITH - I think we had better go over that one more time. Wilcott was a private pilot and landed his plane at noon, 11-23-63, Tokyo time. He kept his pocket calendars from his years of employment, and he noted when the grocery company moved out of the building to a new facility in another part of Dallas. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir. Mr. CORNWELL - In the conversations you had with other CIA employees, the six or seven persons who purported to have good information about the use of Oswald as an agent, did any of those people say anything to you which suggested that the CIA had some role in the assassination of President Kennedy? All visits to the building must be strictly business-related. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. These ebooks can only be redeemed by recipients in the US. You mentioned the day after the assassination you talked to someone at the station about it. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. [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. [8] Carolyn Arnold, a secretary for Vice-president Ochus Campbell, told a friend in 1994 that she had been, and still was, terrified. As mentioned, this woman, her husband, and young child disappeared within hours after my interview. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. They were co-hosts of a program called Alternative Views featuring news, interviews, and opinion pieces from a progressive point of view. Did you write it down or do anything? Mr. PREYER - How many people were at the station in XXXXXXXXXXX approximately? Mr. DODD - When you decided to release that information? DL 100-10461. I then proceeded to write an article called The Glaze Letters for the May 1999 issue of Jerry Roses JFK assassination research journal called The Fourth Decade. 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. ALTERED! Mr. GOLDSMITH - Well, if I understand your correctly, then, you answer now was somewhat different from what you testified earlier. The other one was the Lone Star School Book Depository, also located in the city of Dallas. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, it never really came forward for you to go to the Warren Commission, did it? Mr. GOLDSMITH - And who is Jerry Fox? Below is an obituary from the Austin American-Statesman published on Dec. 15, 2019. The largest typical box for books measured 12 x 14 x 18 inches, was made out of cardboard, and when filled with books weighed 55 pounds. Mr. CORNWELL - Perhaps I can rephrase the question and get more pointedly what I need without running into the problem that you see. Did you contact any CIA officer or employee with respect to the secrecy oath and discuss with them whether or not you should be permitted to discuss these matters outside of the Agency? And we thought every year it was going to be coming out, and especially I didn't think that -- since what I had heard was all hearsay that I would never have seen Oswald or anything like that -- this is not the kind of thing that would be used for even something like the Warren Commission, and they would have to have something more substantial than that to go on, aside from the fact that I never would have done it in the CIA, being a very risky thing to do with the CIA. I asked her if the new building was near the intersection of Royal Lane and Interstate 35, and she said yes, on Gemini Lane. Mr. WILCOTT - George Breen was a person in Registry, who was my closest friend while I was in XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. Mr. DODD - And your dissatisfaction with the Agency and with the course of American government preceded the actual assassination of President Kennedy? We think our readers would be interested in reading his evidence./p>, (Click here to open the document in another page.). We appreciate that, and if at, any time you think of any further way in which your testimony can be corroborated or the name of any other CIA man or any record or anything of that sort that might be available we hope you will get in touch with us and let us know about it. Their whereabouts are completely unknown. In addition, all of my interview notes and tapes inexplicably disappeared. He was an accomplished journalist and author and had worked as a radio engineer in his early career. I have no further questions. Mrs. Bergin paid a great deal of money for that dress. And do you know for a fact that he was given Russian courses? Mr. CORNWELL - I have no further questions. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, it has been difficult because people don't want to get involved, and people were scared. In the decade following his HSCA testimony, Jim Wilcott joined Vietnam veteran Brian Willson and the Nuremberg Actions community outside the Concord Naval Weapons Station in nonviolent resistance to weapons shipments to the CIA-sponsored Contra war in Nicaragua. Mr. GOLDSMITH - What do you mean by the term "agent"? Mr. GOLDSMITH - And when you testified earlier that you learned Oswald's cryptonym, by that do you mean that you learned both Oswald's personal cryptonym and his project cryptonym, or was it one of the two? Mr. WILCOTT - Not that I know of. Mr. GOLDSMITH - At the time that this allegation first came to your attention, did you learn the name of Oswald's Case Offficer at the CIA? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Like Frazier, who was eating lunch in the basement, Oswald went to the first-floor lunchroom to eat his lunch. We are operating under House Resolution 222, which mandates the Committee to conduct a full and complete investigation and study of the circumstances surrounding the assassination and death of President John F. Kennedy, including determining whether the existing laws of the United States concerning the protection of the President and the investigatory jurisdiction and capability of agencies and departments are adequate in their provisions and enforcement; and whether there was full disclosure of evidence and information among agencies and department of the United States Government and whether any evidence or information not in the possession of an agency of department would have been of assistance in investigating the assassination and why such information was not provided or collected by that agency or department, and to make recommendations to the House if the Select Committee deems it appropriate for the amendment of existing legislation or the enactment of new legislation. Mr. WILCOTT - My wife and I both left the CIA because we became convinced that what CIA was doing couldn't be reconciled to basic principles of democracy or basic principles of humanism. Mr. WILCOTT - Not that I can recall. Mr. WILCOTT - I believe they would at one time. My testimony included numerous meetings with a man named Bill Shelly (I am no longer certain of the correct spelling of his last name.) What it was is hard to guess. Mr. WILCOTT - I don't confirm any of them except with the community renewal program as coming from there and I am. Obviously, my handwriting has long been broken down. Mr. Wilcott. The significance of Glazes 1989 letter is that it provides a tantalizing piece of information which may indicate a covert side to the depository itself. She planned to wear it that Friday evening at a social gathering. 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! Spaulding Jones, former branch manager of MacMillan, said they moved in around 1957 or 1958. Dean was the son of Elzie L. Glaze and Geneva I. Glaze and was born in Lubbock, Texas. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mr. GOLDSMITH - How did this information concerning Oswald first come to your attention? Mr. WILCOTT - I can't remember the exact persons. Mr. WILCOTT - That is correct, sir. As described to me by Joe Bergin, Jr., son of the regional manager of Scott Foresman, working conditions changed dramatically after the assassination. [18], Less than a minute after the assassination, two Scott Foresman employees, Victoria Adams and Sandra Styles, who were on the fourth floor, ran down the stairs to the first floor. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I am not sure I am following, then, what specifically you did check. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. PREYER - Thank you. (At this time the school book depository had been relocated to a warehouse near the intersection of Royal Lane and Interstate 35.). Do you follow the question? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you have any explanation for why none of these people have come forward with this story? The incident occurred in about 1969. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir. Mr. GOLDSMITH - At the time that this allegation first came to your attention, did you discuss it with anyone? 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? During this same time, I also met and spoke with relevant employees who later worked for Lee Harvey Oswalds supervisor after the assassination of President Kennedy. Mr. SAWYER - What was the name of the FBI agent who you think infiltrated this antiwar group? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Mr. Wilcott, when did you leave the agency? Mr. WILCOTT - That is right. Mr. GOLDSMITH - At the time you went to look at the book, Oswald was already dead is that correct? My address is 2761 Atlantic Street, in Concord, and my occupation is electronic technician. Mr. WILCOTT - Very much. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you prepare such a list? Mr. GOLDSMITH - I am not sure that that is responsive. 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. The letters themselves came to me from Larry Ray Harris, a prominent researcher of the Kennedy assassination, who knew a lot about the shooting of Officer Tippit and was featured in the British television documentary The Men Who Killed Kennedy. 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. 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. As Rose points out, this is a bit odd also, since most of the building witnesses were taken to the sheriffs office, which was much closer to the TSBD than police headquarters. If you should need to contact me, you may do so in care of the Lubbock Avalanche Journal newspaper in Lubbock, Tx. To his left was a door that led into the office of Scott Foresman. I went immediately into the clear space on the ground floor and asked where there was a phone. I discussed it with my friends and the people that I was associating with socially. There was XXXXXXXXXXXX Branch, who had XXXXXXXXXXX cover. The mayor, Mr. Sawyer, was Dominic Casaro. Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. Did you want to do this or intend to proceed with that line of questioning? The day after their disappearance, an estimated 20 Dallas policemen pulled up on front of my apartment. What, on recollection, strikes me as possibly significant is that all three seemed to be exceedingly calm and relaxed, compared to the pandemonium which existed right outside their front door. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, my tires were slashed and damage done to my car and I believe sugar poured in the gas tank, and whether this was actually CIA or not I have no way of knowing, and it could also have been just for harassment as a result of antiwar activities but I think there is also a possibility that it could have been attempts to intimidate me into talking about the CIA. Oversized boxes were also seen by Joe Bergin, Jr. when he visited his father at the 411 Elm Street building. In the new 2017 November release of JFK documents, he was interviewed in executive session under oath by the House Select Committee On Assassinations on March 22,1978. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. 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. WILCOTT - On two other occasions, I was on KPOO Radio in San Francisco and I discussed in detail, in quite a bit of detail, the speculations and also the incident of the case officer contacting me at the window. RX-ZIM. Mr. SAWYER - Thank you. 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. "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - enshrined on the lobby floor of the entrance to CIA headquarters. Mr. DODD - When you were told all of this? This was making payments and keeping pay records. Just as in the case of Carolyn Arnold and Roy Truly, the strange menace that Glaze encountered in early 1975 continued to follow him through the course of his life. James Wilcott worked out of the Tokyo CIA station at the time of the assassination. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I did not intend to get into that area. After completing the questionnaire, the two F.B.I. I am a reporter there. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And what did he tell you the cryptonym was? Which he was allegedly working for. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Have you received a copy of the Committee's rules? But in the light of the information in this essay, it seems interesting that it was Shelly and Truly who took the name of Oswald to the police. Mr. WILCOTT - I really don't know. JAMES WILCOTT'S TESTIMONYJames B. Wilcott, a former CIA accountant, swore in a secret session of the House Select Committee on Assassinations that he was told by other CIA employees that Lee Harvey Oswald was paid by the CIA, and that money he himself had disbursed was for "Oswald or the Oswald project." Obviously, if Shelly had been arrested, someone with the police had that record expunged. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you bring your allegation to the attention of the Warren Commission? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I have opinions. [23] William Weston, Robert MacNeil and the Three Calm Men, in the November 1994 issue of The Fourth Decade. Mr. Shelly claims to have been an intelligence officer during World War II and thereafter joined the CIA. After standing on the front steps to see the shooting of the president, Frazier did something odd, about which he seemed to contradict himself about in an interview with the Sixth Floor Museum in 2013. Mr. WILCOTT - All of the people that we mentioned in the case. 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