In the decades following that fateful day, former employees of these companies have been reluctant to answer questions. To his left was a door that led into the office of Scott Foresman. Mr. WILCOTT - Oh, yes. Perhaps that is why I was so unprepared during that brief step into the looking glass.. Mr. CORNWELL - You had signed a secrecy oath while you were employed with the Agency? 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. On many occasions he had conversations with CIA personnel concerning Lee Harvey Oswald's employment as a CIA agent. Mr. WILCOTT - They called me up to chief of security, the agent security, and they interviewed me on the association that I had had with the group, and then they gave me a polygraph -- in fact, two polygraphs -- concerning my association with the group of people that I met with the group. Dr. King was killed by one rifle shot fired from in front of him. 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 - Yes, sir. Mr. DODD - And this would have been, now, shortly after the assassination? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Wilcott worked in the accounting department and was in charge of disbursement of cash funds. It was about XXX I think, was our actual roster was. I am a reporter there. "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 . Joe was unable to determine if the arson was assassination-related. This book provides the first useful, in-depth analysis of the 120 phone calls by LBJ in the week following the assassination regarding such items as the Civil Rights Act, demands made by the military and similar political power plays. Mr. SAWYER - Was he in Utica? He said there were two musicians who had been with the band since the beginning and he would speak to them. Mr. PREYER - Well, that is the other question that I want to be very sure on. [26], Pierce Allman, a local newsman, later said that after he approached the TSBD, a man he recalled as Oswald near the front of the building, directed him to a phone inside.[27]. He thereafter went outside and stood around for five or ten minutes with foreman BILL SHELLEY, and thereafter went home. [13], (As an aside, CIA officer William Harvey worked for Bobbs-Merrill in the last years of his life as a law editor.[14]). Mr. PREYER - Thank you. Those generations who were there in 1963 are grateful that people like you are continuing the pursuit and taking another look at events which may have been too shocking for the rest of us to ever fully comprehend. Mr. PREYER - And Miami, was that comparable in size? Upon request, the National Archives sent me a copy of the letter. He also claimed he had disbursed cash funds for Oswald or The Oswald Project. After his interview and testimony he was claims he was harassed by the federal government and put under surveillance. According to his testimony to the Warren Commission, after graduating from high school, he worked in defense plants a little bit during the war and started working at the Texas School Book Depository.[15] The short amount of time between his graduation in late May 1945 and the end of World War II on September 2 plus his employment in defense plants seems to conflict with his claim that he joined an intelligence service and became an officer. 66-67. He said he went back inside and went into the basement for ten minutes, supposedly eating his lunch.[25]. 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. CORNWELL - That is, that subject matter, your statement on the Oswald agency matter, be printed or otherwise publicized in a news publication, radio or TV or anything like that on any other occasion? [11] Glaze misdated his letter as 12/12/74.. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Is that list complete and does it have. Mr. DODD - Just one second, then. Also Present: Michael Goldsmith, Counsel, and Gary Cornwell, Counsel. Namely the mention that Shelley was a CIA operative, while at the same time he was an employee in the schoolbook business. He closed his 1989 letter with a lurid metaphor: I will help any wayI just want to be forewarned. The CIA and the JFK Assassination. Mr. GOLDSMITH - What is that opinion? And I will ask the question again, okay. I can't remember what it was. Mr. WILCOTT - Along those lines they said things like, well, that Oswald couldn't have pulled the trigger, that only CIA could have set up such an elaborate project and there was nobody with the kind of knowledge or information that could have done this, and this was more in the speculative realm. [5] Interviews of Ted Leon and Thomas H. Butler. 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. He was sickly looking, and, like his father, had lost weight. Mr. WILCOTT - No. Below is an excerpt from Harriss letter dated December 15, 1992: Enclosed is the Bill Shelley document I read to you over the phone. 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. GOLDSMITH - Do you have anything to add in response to that question? Its also includes links to many hours of online videos you can watch on the evidence covered. He is loved and will always be remembered by his wife Sylvia Glaze, daughter Hailey Glaze, and sister, brothers, nieces, nephews and friends. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I did. Did you have further questions? Mr. WILCOTT - Well, sir, the day after the assassination I don't think that there was any of that kind of talk. In November 1963, on the Friday before Thanksgiving, President Kennedy was riding in a Lincoln convertible rolling through the streets of Dallas. His desire to tell what he knew overcame his fear at least twice in his life. Mr. WILCOTT - I resigned. Mr. WILCOTT - It is a little bit east of Oakland, California. Mr. CORNWELL - And would that -- at least in part --. There was talk about it going on at the station, and several months following at the station. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Excuse me, please proceed very slowly. 49, No. 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? Write to Editor@jfkfacts.org. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, actually even prior to the Kennedy, assassination, my wife and I both became disturbed about the stories that we kept hearing about things, control of newspapers and so on. 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. GOLDSMITH - How did this information concerning Oswald first come to your attention? The search for a solution to these riddles leads into the murky world of intrigue involving the FBI and CIA dirty work. The 1960 directory lists him as a department manager for the Texas School Book Depository, living in a house at 126 Tatum Avenue. 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. 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. 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? Insofar as I know, this information has never been made public. Mr. CORNWELL - To your knowledge, when was the first point in time at which your extra-agency discussions on this subject matter came to the attention of the Agency, if ever? I next called John Peets, the manager of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. (2009), James W. Douglass explains this in detail, including the James Wilcott story. 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. CIA might handled any projects involving Oswald and for what purpose they might have used Oswald? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. 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. CORNWELL - All you can recall is that, when you. At my request, he sent me a copy. 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 - I have been trying to talk about this thing and other things for the last ten years. He was traveling from his mothers house in Ohio to Georgia. By comparing the window next to them, which measured 14 inches off the floor, one box was about 15 x 30 x 60 inches, and thus had an estimated capacity of 15 cubic feet. Mr. SAWYER - I noticed in somne of the information we are provided you say that following your leaving the CIA in 1967 or thereabouts, for a period of some three years or so, you were harassed by the CIA and the FBI and sabotaged, as I recollect it. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And have you just described one of those instances to us? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I did. 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. Did you write it down or do anything? They told me that I had passed both of those. She planned to wear it that Friday evening at a social gathering. Instead, he might have been one of the temporary musicians. (Whereupon, at 12:55 p.m. the subcommittee recessed. 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. Well, they would go through the files and take out anything that they thought was, say, indicative of how this flap occurred and change the files. Mr. GOLDSMITH - When was the first time that you alleged in public that Oswald was a CIA agent. 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 - Not that I know of. ", and they might look it over and retype the accounting for funds for their project and, you know, make changes that they might think were in their interest to do. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I am sorry, I didn't hear. Mr. WILCOTT - That is correct. Yet the mere existence of oversized boxes on the premises does not constitute proof of ongoing illegal activities. It was an infantry replacement center as well as a German POW camp. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. And do you know for a fact that he was given Russian courses? 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. It seems to me that I recall jotting it on a little pad. Charles Givens, like Oswald, had left the building after the assassination. And during that period, I had been promoted, GS-7 and also gained a career status. Mr. WILCOTT - They would have summaries of some sort. James T. Tague was an unintended victim in the Kennedy assassination, hit by a stray bullet while stuck in traffic on the way to pick up a luncheon date. My efforts to follow up on the leads suggested by Harris were initially unsuccessful. Mr. WILCOTT - I don't know. Mr. WILCOTT - That is correct, sir. Mr. GOLDSMITH - excuse me, just answer the question very generally, without referring to anything right now, and please describe generally what your responsibilities were as a finance officer. The owner of the establishment, rightwing oil man, D. H. Byrd would have had little problem approving that kind of clearance. Mr. PREYER - Let me interrupt. 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. His father died on November 2, 1990. I was on the executive committee along with doctors and lawyers and some of the most respected people in the community. He saw two white men sitting by the stairs. How much exact knowledge they had it is impossible for me to say. this allegation? By the way, I am a Mr.not a Ms.as the letter from Mr. Blakey indicates. Please try again. If you have something -- Mr. PREYER - I believe you have written an article about this, an unpublished article. Mr. SAWYER - It went through the XXXXXXX station? William Weston began researching the assassination of President Kennedy in 1992, after making a comparison of Anthony Summers excellent book Conspiracy to a book defending the official version called Final Disclosure by David Belin. When I interviewed him, he was living alone with his three cats, depending for his income on the charity of his father and disability checks. Mr. PREYER - He stated that as a fact and not that he believed it was drawn out for Oswald or it could have been or something like that? [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. He was not questioned by the Warren Commission. * Assassination Archives and Research Center leads the fight in federal court for full JFK disclosure. Mr. WILCOTT - Not until after I left the agency. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir, I did. 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. Henry Hurt, author of Reasonable Doubt, discovered such boxes while investigating the claims of an alleged conspirator. The mayor, Mr. Sawyer, was Dominic Casaro. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, it is your testimony that, once you left the XXXXXXXX station, people, both at headquarters, in Langley, and at the Miami Station, made references to Oswald being an agent, is that correct? Told to report to base by the tower. It has every one that I can remember. the day we would list all of the advances that were made in an advance book. Additional gift options are available when buying one eBook at a time. He was an accomplished journalist and author and had worked as a radio engineer in his early career. Consider the following letter: Re: THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, While working as a journalist in Dallas late in 1974 and early 1975, I met and spoke with Lee Harvey Oswalds supervisor at the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas. Two retired Sexton officials told me that they moved out of the building on November 14, 1961, and that it remained vacant for at least a year. that correct? This was making payments and keeping pay records. Mr. WILCOTT - Not really files; it was my book. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. However, information on the Prayer-man.com website shows that Shelley was indeed an officer during the war, albeit as a lieutenant in the Reserve Officer Training Corps at Crozier Tech. Copyright 2016-2022 by kennedysandking.com All Rights Reserved. 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