LHO's Absurd Inventory Aberrations
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to Dallas was probably the result of a conversation between FBI
Director Hoover and President Lyndon Johnson. Johnson was planning to
announce that the FBI was taking over the invesigation, *and physical
evidence needed to be in Dallas so the police could "officially" turn
the evidence over to the FBI.* Prior to the announcement hundreds of
items of evidence at the FBI laboratory were collected in haste before
lab technicians had time to complete the desilvering process on all
the items. One of the items that was not "desilvered" by lab
technicians was Oswald's FPCC card. Warren Commission attorney
Melvin
Eisenberg asked Cadigan, "Do you know why 820 was not reprocessed or
desilvered?"
Neither the WC nor the FBI wanted the public to find out the Bureau
had secretly taken evidence to the Dallas Police a few days later,
***so testimony and photographs had to be altered.*** The transcript
of James Cadigan's ***original*** deposition (pp. 49-50) reads,
"***Time was of the essence and this material, I believe was returned
to the Dallas Police within two or three days...**" *But someone drew
lines through the ***original*** typewritten transcript and wrote
***"delete"***. This portion of Cadigan's testimony was deleted and
does not appear in his testimony as published on page 434 of Volume
VII of the Warren Volumes.
Thanks to James Cadigan, and his original WC testimony which is
preserved in the National Archives (released 1992), we now know the
FBI secretly obrained ***the items of evidence listed on the Dallas
Police inventories*** for November 22/23, kept them in Washington, DC
for three days, and then quietly ***returned them to the Dallas
Police.***
*While Oswald's possessions were in FBI custody many key pieces of
evidence were altered (W-2 forms), manipulated (Minox camera/light
meter), and suppressed (Lee Oswald's wallet found by Captain
Westbrook). Without a written inventory either to or from the Dallas
Police, the FBI was not concerned that theirtampering with would be
discovered.
Oswald's Possessions Are Returned To Dallas Police
Department
On November 26, the "hundreds of items" were returned to the DPD
headquarters *so that an inventory could be created to show a "chain
of possession" from the DPD to the FBI.* All items were photographed
at DPD headquarters with a desk mounted Recordak camera, which was
known for taking precise, crystal-clear photographs. The police used
4 rolls of 35mm film, 25 feet in length, and 1 roll of 35 mm film that
was 100 feet in length. As each item was photographed it was listed
on one of 25 typewritten pages of inventory, which were jointly
initialed by FBI agents and Dallas Police officers.
President Johnson announced the FBI was taking over the investigation
and shortly thereafter the Dallas Police gave hundreds of items of
evidence to the FBI in front of TV cameras and reporters. The Dallas
Police, who did not have time to develop the film, also gave the five
rolls of film to the FBI. They requested that the FBI develop the
film and provide them with two photographs of each item of evidence.
***BUT THERE WERE PROBLEMS***
If the FBI developed the 5 rolls of film and returned the
photographs of all items to the Dallas Police, *then many of the
photgraphs would show items that had been treated with the brown
fingerprint ink-applied at the FBI laboratory from
November 23-25. These photographs were "proof" that the FBI secretly
had these items of evidence in their possession *before they took over
the case on November 26th.*
Another problem was the volume of evidence, *which grew considerably
while in FBI custody*. The items confiscated by the Dallas Police on
November 22-23 were listed on 5 typewritten pages, *but it took ***21
typewritten pages*** to list all of the items that were returned to
the Dallas Police and listed on the joint DPD/FBI inventory of
November 26. If both lists are placed side by side, *it is apparent
that the FBI returned far more items to the Dallas Police than they
received.*
**In 1999 the author visited the National Archives in order to examine
and compare each item of evidence listed on the 5 pages of DPD
inventory (November 23) with the joint FBI/DPDinventory (November
26). He began by examining the items listed on the DPD inventory of
November 22/23 and found that each item was properly initialed by
Dallas Police officers.
He then located those items on the joint FBI/DPD inventory of November
26 (CE 2003 pp. 263-283). He soon realized there were many more items
listed on the joint FBI/DPD inventory of 11/26/63 than were listed on
the original DPD inventory of 11/22-23/63. It was clear that items of
evidence were added while in FBI custody and also clear that none of
these items ***contained the initials of Dallas Police officers.***
This means that either DPD officers forgot to initial over a hundred
items of evidence, forgot to list those items in inventory, and forgot
to photograph them on the floor of DPD headquarters, ***or the FBI
added items of evidence to the inventory between the 23rd and 26th of
November.***
*The FBI not only added items to the inventory, they also discarded
and/or switched items of evidence.* Dallas Police Officers Gus Rose
and Richard Stoval found a Minox camera at Ruth Paine's. Rose said,
"Among the property we found a little Minox minature camea and on
checking it, it did have a litle roll of film in it ***(along with 9
additional rolls of Minox film)***....All of the property we recovered
from the residence, I initialed it, Stovall and I initialed it and
dated it for evidence."
Rose and Stovall also listed the miniature camera on their handwritten
inventory and on the typewritten inventory which was identified by the
WC as Stovall Exhibit A and published on pages 596-597 in Volume 21.
On the evening of November 22 the Minox camera was photographed on the
floor of the Dallas Police station along with other items confiscated
by the Dallas Police.
On November 26, 1963 the Minox camera was listed as item #375 on the
joint FBI/DPD inventory. But after the Minox camera arrived at FBI
headquarters in Washington, DC, SA Vincent Drain and SA Warren
DeBrueys created a second inventory, ***and changed the Minox camera
to a Minox light meter (Item#375).*** The FBI then, "re- photographed"
a Minox light meter, identified it as item #375, and sent the
photograph to the Dallas Police *in an attempt to convince the police
they had received a light meter and not a miniature spy camera.*
Finally, FBI agents met with Gus Rose (DPD officer who found the
Minos) and H.W. Hill (property clerk) on three separate occasions and
tried to convince them they found a light Minox light meter and not a
Minox camera. The FBI agents insisted the Dallas Police change their
inventory from a camera to a light meter, *probably so they wouldn't
have to explain to the press why Oswald owned an expensive Minox spy
camera (often seen in James Bond films). Gus Rose discused the
problem with Captain Fritz and, after getting his approval, told the
FBI agents he would not change the inventory.
** Both Drain and DeBrueys should have been asked who instructed them
to create a new inventory at FBI headquarters.
In an attempt to keep the public from learning that HARVEY Oswald
owned a miniature spy camera, which would suggest he had intelligence
connections, the Bureau sought and received helf from Ruth and Michael
Paine. On January, 31, 1964 FBI agent Bardwell Odum ***allegedly***
obtained a Minox II camera, serial number 27259, from Michael Paine.
The Bureau the announced that the Minox camera in their custody
belonged to Michael Paine, and not to Oswald (nothing further was
said
about the Minox camera found by Dallas Police.)
On June 23, 1964 FBI agent Warren Debrueys ***allegedly*** returned
the Minox camera to Ruth Paine in Irving, Texas. Michael Paine, on
the nationally broadcast television program Frontline (1994),
confirmed the Minox camera had been returned to him by the FBI and
said the camera was subsequently lost. ***But there was still a
problem.***
The National Archives currently has a Minox III camera, found by the
Dallas Police ini Ruth Paine's garage. This camera is currently
inoperable, is unable to be opened, and therefore the serial number
remains unknown. The Minox Corporation (and thier web site) advises
that Minox III cameras were manufactured with serial numbers 31275
thru 58499. Therefore, the Minox which the FBI obtained from Michael
Paine on January 31, 1964 (serial number 27259) was not the camera
found by Dallas Police which is now in the National Archives. The
serial number of Michael Paine's camera, listed on an FBI Airtel of
2/2/64, shows that it was a ***Minox II***(Minox II cameras were
manufactured with serial numbers up to 31500. The FBI's attempt to
hide the fact that HARVEY Oswald owned a Minox camera is one of the
best known and documented examples of their attempts to alter and
fabricate evidence.**
In an attempt to hide these problems the FBI developed the 5 rolls of
DPD film and then *destroyed the negatives that showed those items of
evidence that were discovered by the brown fingerprint ink.* They
also, *destroyed negatives which showed items of evidence that had
been switched, altered, or destroyed while in their custody.* The
remainder of the original 5 rolls of film was spliced together into
***two rolls,*** which were then copied and sent to the Dallas Police
Department. *The Dallas City Archives has copies of the 2 rolls
available for inspection, and the splicings can be seen easily.*
After the Dallas Police received the film Chief Curry noticed that
many of the negatives were missing and notified the Special Agent in
Charge of the Dallas Office, Gordon Shanklin, by letter. On December
3rd Curry wrote, "On developing the microfilm it has been found that
items #164 thru 360 inclusive did not record." *(Curry's letter shows
that ***over half of the negatives, 196 in total, were missing!!)***
**The 1st roll of film in the Dallas City Archives contains negatives
#1 through #163. The 2nd roll contains negatives #361 through #451 (3
rolls of original film were destroyed by the FBI).**
J. Edgar Hoover responded to Chief Curry's letter by claiming,
*incredibly*, that the missing negatives were the result of "faulty
technique" by the Dallas Police photographer who photographed Oswald's
possessions. *If there was any faulty technique it could have easily
have been seen, frame by frame, on the original 35mm film, but 196
continuous frames were cut (physically removed) from the original 5
rolls of film.*
To placate Chief Curry the FBI re-photographed the "missing" items and
sent copies of the photographs to Dallas. But the new photographs did
not match the description of the items listed on the joint DPD/FBI
inventory of November 26, 1963. To deal with this problem the FBI
simply created a new inventory to match their new photographs which
Hoover sent along with a memo to Gordon Shanklin, SAC Dallas:
"The inventory list submitted by your office (joint FBI/DPD inventory
of November 26, 63) has been superseded by the list furnished to your
office by the FBI laboratory dated 2/1/64. The 11/26/63 list is
***incomplete and is not completely accurate."***
This memo is incredible!! Hoover told Gordon Shaklin that the joint
FBI/DPD inventory of November 26, 1963 was ***incomplete and not
accurate,*** *but there was nothing Shanklin could do.* He dared not
argue with Hoover and simply followed instructions by providing a copy
of the new FBI inventory to the Dallas Police.
** Even though the Dallas Police refused to change their inventory
from a Minox camera to a Minox light meter, the FBI chnged their
inventory. The "re-photographed" item #375 (originally a Minox
camera) and sent a photograph to Dallas. The someone at FBI
headquarers forgot to rid of the Minox camera found by the Dallas
Police in Ruth Paine's garage, and it was turned over to the National
Archives where it can be examined today.
The FBI's alteration of the DPD inventory and film is irrefutable
proof that the Bureau destroyed evidence in order to help fram Oswald
and keep the public from learning the truth about his connection to US
Intelligence and his background.
CJ
Walt
> TIME WAS OF THE ESSENCE. The urgency to return the items of evidence
> to Dallas was probably the result of a conversation between FBI
> Director Hoover and President Lyndon Johnson.
The PRIMARY reason that the evidence was returned to Dallas was to
create confusion, and falsify evidence.
The FBI had found NO identifiable prints on the rifle .....They could
not prove if Oswald had handled the rifle that day. ( and he
hadn't) The chief conspirators, Hoover and Johnson, were desperate
to pin the killing on Oswald, but they had NOTHING that would prove
that he had even fired a gun that day. Since the FBI lab technicians
were working under the assumption that they were merely doing their
job of examining the evidence for clues they looked for any
identifiable prints on the rifle and could not find any. Hoover had
been assured that Oswald had been tricked into depositing his prints
on the rifle when he handled it in Mr Truly's office just 48 hours
before the murder. But Oswald had NOT left any identifiable finger
prints on the rifle and that's exactly what FBI agent, Sabastian
Latona, wrote in his report. Quote....." The latent prints whicdh
were there were of no value" unquote....
Since Johnson was shocked and alarmed that Latona said that there were
no identifiable prints found on the rifle after he'd been assured that
Oswald had handled the gun in Truly's office he ordered the evidence
returned to the DPD so they could create false evidence. It didn't
take them long and they hastily cooked up a story about Lt Day finding
Oswald's palm print on the metal barrel of the rifle after he had
disassembled the rifle. But he had neglected to tell the FBI about
finding a palm print on the metal barrel of the rifle.
It's very obvious that this was a hastily concocted, and poorly
planned lie. Here are the reasons the Lt Day could NOT have found
ANY palm print on the metal barrel of the gun where he claimed he had
found it.
A) Day said that he saw part of the print sticking out from under
the wooden foregrip of the rifle a couple of inches back from the
muzzle of the rifle.
a) There is a bayonet lug around the barrel of the rifle at the
point where Day said he'd "seen a print sticking out
from under the wooden foregrip". That bayonet lug sticks out
from the surface of the barrel about 1/2 inch, and
that bayonet lug would have made it impossible for anybody to
grab the barrel at that point and deposit a palm
print on the barrel.
b) The barrel of the rifle is only 5/8 inch in diameter at the
muzzle which gives it a circumference of less than two
inches. Obviously a man's palm could only make contact with
only a fraction of that surface, possibly 3/8 of an
inch. There would not have been enough area to accept an
identifiable palm print on that 5/8 inch barrel.
When the evidence is carefully examined it is very clear that the so
called "palm print" was nothing but an unidentifable smudge that Day
had found on the foregrip of the rifle when he examined it in the TSBD
immediately after he lifted it out of the cavern where it had been
COMPLETELY COVERED by heavy boxes of books.
The logical areas to look for finger prints and palmprints on a rifle
or shotgun is the triger area and the foregrip. And that's exactly
where Day concentrated his initial examination. He found a couple of
partial fingerprints on the magazine housing and a smudge that he
thought could have been a palm print on the WOODEN foregrip of the
rifle.
He knew that the oily wood would soon absorb any palmprint on that
wooden foregrip, so he quickly placed a piece of cellophane tape on
that smudge and lifted it from the WOODEN foregrip. He then placed
that piece of cellophane tape on a clean white 3 X 5 card. He then
dated the card and wrote on that card...."off underside gun barrell
(sic) near end of foregrip C2766 " .... And signed his name in the
upper left hand corner of that card.
The card was turned over to the FBI that night and the next Day Latona
examined the smudge under that tape and pronounced it to be useless
for identifcation purposes. The card was returned wit all of the
evidence and the DPD then concocted the story about Day finding that
"palm print" on the metal gunbarrel.
Walt
This is utter nonsense......There definitely were evidence lists typed
up to acount for the evidence that was being turned over to the FBI at
Midnight 11 /22 63....It's utterly ridiculous to believe that either
the DPD or the FBI would tranfer evidence without a record of the
evidence....How would a chain of evidence ever be established in court
if there was no record of the evidence being transferred???
This just the type of NON thinking that some screwball CT's engage
in...... They are totally unconcerned about the problems they may
create for future researchers with their nutty ideas.