Re: scrambled eggs and toast
Jim Davenport
regarding the fact that the newspaper was of White Russian Fascist origins
and from one of the many possible Vonsiatsky orgs. He published, The
Fascist from Connecticut but it was distributed by people as far away as a
Major Pease from Coral Gables, Florida and others as well. Wonder if he
was related to Lisa Pease? Bet he was.
greg wrote:
> OSWALD AND THE WHITE RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER
> Mr. DELGADO - Personally; I did; because I thought it funny for him to be
> receiving a caller at such a late date time. Also, up to this time he hardly
> ever received mail; in fact he very seldom received mail from home, because
> I made it a policy, I used to pick up the mail for our hut and distribute it
> to the guys in there, and very seldom did I see one for him. But every so
> often, after he started to get in contact with these Cuban people, he
> started getting little pamphlets and newspapers, and he always got a Russian
> paper, and I asked him if it was, you know, a Commie paper--they let you get
> away with this in the Marine Corps in a site like this--and he said, "No,
> it's not Communist; it's a White Russian. To me that was Greek, you know,
> White Russian, so I guess he is not a Communist; but he was steady getting
> that periodical. It was a newspaper.
>
> Mr. LIEBELER - In the Russian language?
>
> Mr. DELGADO - Right.
>
> Mr. LIEBELER - And he received that prior to the time he contacted the Cuban
> consulate; did he not?
>
> Mr. DELGADO - Right. And he also started receiving letters, you know, and no
> books, maybe pamphlets, you know, little like church, things we get from
> church, you know, but it wasn't a church.
>
> Mr. LIEBELER - Were they written in Spanish, any of them, do you know?
>
> Mr. DELGADO - Not that I can recall; no.
>
> Mr. LIEBELER. Did you have any reason to believe that these things came to
> Oswald from the Cuban consulate?
>
> Mr. DELGADO. Well, I took it for granted that they did after I seen the
> envelope, you know.
>
> Mr. LIEBELER. What was on this envelope that made you think that?
>
> Mr. DELGADO. Something like a Mexican eagle, with a big, impressive seal,
> you know. They had different colors on it, red and white; almost looked like
> our colors, you know. But I can't recall the seal. I just knew it was in
> Latin, United, something like that. I couldn't understand. It was Latin.
>
> The problem here is twofold. Delgado and Oswald were together between
> December. 1958 and the September, 1959. Castro came to power in January
> 1959, and, as Delgado himself explained, Castro was still not widely
> regarded as a Communist during the time he knew Oswald. It is highly
> unlikely therefore that the Cuban Consulate was sending out Communist
> literature. The second problem is that the eagle is not a symbol of Cuba. On
> the other hand, the double eagle is an Imperialist Russian symbol, and was
> used on the seal of White Russian organisations.
>
> As an example: Vonskiansky's All Russian National Revolutionary Party (aka
> The Russian National Revolutionary Labor and Workers Peasant Party of
> Fascists) consisted of a red banner bearing a white swastika on a blue
> field, the banner being on a staff topped topped by the Russian Double
> Eagle. Vonskiansky published fascist newspapers up until 1965.
> www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/vonsiatsky/espionage.htm
>
> Back to the testimony:
>
> Mr. LIEBELER. You don't know for sure whether it was from the Cuban
> consulate?
>
> Mr. DELGADO. No. But he had told me prior, just before I found that envelope
> in his wall locker, that he was receiving mail from them, and one time he
> offered to show it to me, but I wasn't much interested because at the time
> we had work to do, and I never did ask to see that paper again, you know.
>
> So here we have it... none of the material Delgado got to see was in
> Spanish, and he admits that he did not actually see any mail from the Cuban
> Consulate. Delgado mistakenly believed the seal with an eagle was of Cuban
> origin. Might it not be possible that Oswald was pulling Delgado's leg about
> receiving letters from the consulate? Delgado's evidence did not stop the WC
> from pushing the Cuban line. Curiously, Oswald, after his August 9 arrest in
> NO, was asked by Lt Martello when he first heard about the FPCC. Oswald
> answered that it was whilst stationed at Santa Ana. Trouble is, the FPCC did
> not come into being until 1960. It could be though, that creating such an
> organisation was discussed at the Unitarian Church which Thornley
> frequented. As we will see, however, the head of that congregation, Steven
> Fritchman, very likely had ties to the CIA.
Wickliffe Draper and his family were such staunch Unitarians that they built
and sponsored the Hopedale, MA Unitarian church for decades.
>
> Mr. LIEBELER. Did he tell you what his correspondence with the Cuban
> consulate was about?
>
> Mr. DELGADO. No; he didn't.
>
> Mr. LIEBELER. Did he ever indicate to you that it had to do with the
> conversation that you had about going over to Cuba?
>
> Mr. DELGADO. No. The only thing he told me was that right after he had this
> conversation with the Cuban people was that he was going to---once he got
> out of the service he was going to Switzerland, he was going to a school,
> and this school in Switzerland was supposed to teach him in 2 years--in 6
> months what it had taken him to learn in psychology over here in 2 years,
> something like that.
>
> Mr. LIEBELER. Did he tell you the name of the school?
>
> Mr. DELGADO. No; but he applied for it while in the service, and as far as I
> knew, that's where he was going once he got discharged.
>
> THORNLEY AND THE FREEDOM SCHOOL
> At this point we must look to Thornley's testimony: "I don't recall what the
> question was- oh, yes, he had asked me something about, I believe it was the
> First Unitarian Church in Los Angeles. I had mentioned earlier at the time I
> was talking to Oswald, and knew Oswald, I had been going to the First
> Unitarian Church in Los Angeles. This is a group of quite far to the left
> people politically for the most part, and mentioned in order to explain my
> political relationship with Oswald, at that moment, and he [FBI agent] began
> to ask me questions about the First Unitarian Church and I answered, and
> then he realized or understood or asked what Oswald's connection with the
> First Unitarian Church was and I explained to him that there was none."
>
> Was Thornley being truthful here? A connection between Lee and the Unitarian
> Church makes perfect sense once you factor in his application to attend the
> Albert Schweitzer College during this period. The college was founded by the
> International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) - itself started by
> Unitarians along with noted members of the "Free Thinkers" movement - one
> being Jack London, who Oswald named as one of his favourite authors on his
> college application. London is frequently quoted for inspiration by
> Unitarian Ministers. The other two authors named were Charles Darwin - a
> Unitarian, and the Catholic-hating author of the Power of Positive Thinking,
> Norman Vincent Peale. On a side note, Peale was in Swizerland plotting JFKs
> election downfall at the time Oswald was supposed to be there. The Los
> Angeles Unitarian Church was run by Stephen (also found as "Steven")
> Fritchman. Fritchman's name later turned up in the notebook of Richard Case
> Nagell. The pamphlets Oswald received, that Delgado described as "things we
> get from church, you know, but it wasn't a church", could in fact, have been
> information brochures about the Albert Schweizter College from the Unitarian
> Church.
>
> So what was the alleged Marxist Lee doing reading White Russian (Fascist)
> newspapers while planning a trip to attend a liberal (in the European sense)
> college in Switzerland? For that matter, what was the right-leaning
> libertarian Thornley doing attending a "Leftist" Church?
>
> Whoever coined the phrase "nothing is as it seems" was one step ahead of all
> of us.
>
> There has to be an answer, and that answer may be found in people like
> Fritchman, the Unitarian Church, Richard Case Nagell, and in The White
> Russian Church (aka the Russian Orthodox Church)... which was also a member
> of the IARF, among other groups and individuals we'll come to in this
> attempt to untangle the web.
>
> First we need to jump forward to 1964. Thornley tells us in his book,
> Zenarchy, that he spent part of 1964 at the Freedom School in Larkspur,
> Colarado. This was operated by Robert LeFevre, but the money behind it came
> from publisher, RC Hoile - founder of a movement he called "Voluntaryism".
LeFevre, from Miami originally, was involved with The Congress of Freedom,
which held Assassination Plot meetings for years, and the Colorado Kenneth
Goff Soldiers of the Cross crowds who were the forerunners of the TImothy
McVeigh types.
> According to voluntaryists, the state (ie government) is "coercive" in all
> of its actions, and though the state can take "credit" for all or most of
> the harm and evil in the world, it can take absolutely no credit for any
> advances in society. At the core of the matter, is tax and free
> market enterprise. In late 1958 and early 1959, Hoile had given lectures on
> voluntaryism to the Uniatrian Fellowship of Orange County, and the Exchange
> Club of Santa Ana. No doubt, Hoile first came to Thornley's attention during
> on of those lectures. Orange County, in which Santa Ana is located, was a
> noted right wing haven. The Unitarian Fellowship of Orange County was not of
> place - yet Thornley preferred attending a left wing church in Los Angeles!
>
> Hoile and LeFevre abandoned their usual shyness about publicly supporting
> political candidtates once and once only to throw their collective weight
> behind Goldwater's 1964 run for office.
>
> The Freedom School, meanwhile, was a recruiting ground for the Minutemen
> (source: "A Generation Divided: The New Left, The New Right, and the 1960's"
> by Rebecca E Klatch.)
>
> PERCIVAL FLACK BRUNDAGE AND THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER COLLEGE
> His activities in government, civic, and community services were numerous.
> He was director (1940-54) and chairman (1951-54) of Federal Union, Inc.,
> which advocates federation of the Atlantic democracies. He was also
> treasurer of the International Movement for Atlantic Union, which was
> affiliated with Federal Union, Inc. He was director, American Christian
> Committee for Refugees (1938); director, American Relief for Austria;
> chairman of the board, Refugee Relief Trustees, and president, Society of
> Business Advisory Professions. He was active in the National Bureau of
> Economic Research, serving as president (1954), vice president (1952; 1953),
> director (1943-66), and director emeritus from 1967 until his death. He was
> also chairman of the Executive Committee of the New York Chamber of
> Commerce (1952-54) and director, Montclair Community Chest (1950-54).
> He was an honorary president of the American Youth Hostels. An active
> member in church and charitable organizations, he was director of the
> American Unitarian Association (1942-48) and in 1949 began the first of
> five years as a director of the Unitarian Service Commfttee (1949-54). He
> was also chairman, Unitarian Development Fund Campaign (1959-62). He
> served as treasurer and director of the Atlantic Council of the United
> States and Project HOPE. But of most interest here, he was president,
> International Association for Religious Freedom (1952-55), and from 1953
> to 1958, he President of the Friends of Albert Schweitzer College (source:
> Fisher Business College).
>
> Although Brundage resigned as Director of Budgets during the early part of
> 1958, he actually did stay on for a couple of more years in an "advisory"
> capacity.
>
> Brundage was linked to Robert R Mullen, Double-Chek. Southern Air Transport,
> and Zenith Technical Enterprises in the May 19, 1975 issue of Newsweek.
>
> FRITCHMAN AND THE WESTERN BEHAVIOURAL INSTITUTE
> "For 25 years the Fellowship was lay led. John Shannon, 'the ministerial
> presence,' was an excellent speaker and filled the pulpit himself on many
> Sunday mornings. With his many contacts in the University system, in the
> Unitarian Association, and in the community, he recruited many speakers over
> the years. Andy Kay also brought speakers from the Western Behavioral
> Institute including Earnest Mandeville, Steven Fritchman, Carl Rogers, and
> Abraham Maslow, as well as many visiting Unitarian ministers."
>
Maslow was the Psychologist, right?
> I obtained the above quote from the website of the San Dieguito Unitarian
> Fellowship history page. It was rewritten minus the above information
> (coincidentally, I'm sure) after I had posted it some time ago on a jfk
> newsgroup.
>
> Carl Rogers had been funded by the CIA at the Society for the Investigation
> of Human Ecology with the idea that his research would aid in finding a way
> to control human behaviour - and this, no doubt, was the purpose of the
> mysterious Western Behavioural Institute.
Human Ecology was just a front for Draper styled Human Eugenics...
... a deliberately palliative misnomer.
>
> From the CIA on campus website: In an interview, Rogers told how he became
> involved with Human Ecology: "James Monroe came to me and told me that Dr.
> Harold Wolff, a neuropsychiatrist whom I had a lot of respect for, was
> heading up an organization to do research on personality and so on. Then he
> told me more and I realized that it had secret aspects to it."
Hmmmmm.... sounds like Dr. Hans J. Eysenck, The Pioneer Fund and Draper again.
>
> "We did get, I think, a couple of grants from them, actually among the first
> money we got to do research on psychotherapy. It was the research work we'd
> been trying to do for a long time but couldn't get money enough to do it.
> The fact that we got these grants, I think, helped us get the track record
> so that we began to get some other support. "Then he (Monroe) did ask me to
> go on the Board." As a board member, Rogers thought the money "was coming
> from intelligence funds as a cover for secret work that was going on." He
> said he was asked not to tell people where the money was coming from and saw
> helping to maintain the cover as part of his duty.
>
> "It was an organization which, as far as I knew at the time, was doing
> legitimate things.... It's impossible in the present-day climate of attitude
> toward intelligence activities to realize what it was like in the 1950s. It
> seemed as though Russia was a very potential enemy and as though the United
> States was very wise to get whatever information it could about things that
> the Russians might try to do, such as brainwashing or influencing people. So
> that it didn't seem at all dishonorable to me to be connected with an
> intelligence outfit at that time. I look at it quite differently now."
> Rogers states that now he would not touch covert funding "with a ten-foot
> pole. Undoubtedly the government has to carry on intelligence activities,
> but I don't like fooling our people."
>
> The last meeting Rogers remembers did have an overt intelligence angle. He
> and other people in the field of personality and psychotherapy were given a
> lot of information about Khrushchev. "We were asked to figure out what we
> thought of him and what would be the best way of dealing with him. And that
> seemed to be an entirely principled and legitimate aspect. I don't think we
> contributed very much, but, anyway, we tried."
>
> Rogers furnished reports of his work to Human Ecology, but had no knowledge
> of its application by the CIA. While Rogers saw himself as being funded to
> study techniques and outcomes of nondirective therapy, the CIA seems to have
> had other ideas. A CIA memo from January 1960 says of Rogers' research that
> it could provide a mechanism for evaluating certain techniques of
> influencing human behavior. Rogers never saw the memo.
> http://www.cia-on-campus.org/social/behavior.html
>
> Of interest here is that the Freedom School Thornley attended had
> "praxeology" as one of the subjects students could study. It is defined as
> the study of human behaviour. This sounds like the kind of study you would
> expect to find within the CIA funded Society for Human Ecology and the
> Western Behavioral Institute.
>
> Frichtman, who was investigated by the HUAC in 1961, was, it seems, on the
> CIA payrole through his connection to the Western Behavioral Institute.
>
> RUTH PAINE AND THE US-USSR STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM
> Ruth Paine had worked for a number of years as part of a subcommittee within
> the AFSC to bring students over from the USSR. According to the history page
> of the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), "the
> possibility of such exchanges had been studied for several years by the
> sponsoring agencies [note: one mentioned elsewhere in the history is the
> AFSC]. Interest was renewed both with the easing of visa requirements by the
> U.S. Congress in September 1957 and the relaxation of travel policies by the
> U.S.S.R.The Cultural Agreement between the Soviet and U.S. governments in
> January 1958 facilitated securing Soviet agreement on the exchange. That
> agreement, signed by Ambassador William S.B. Lacey for the United States and
> Ambassador Georgi N.Zaroubin for the Soviet Union, pledged the two
> governments to encourage this type of student exchange as well as many other
> cultural programs. On February 21, 1958, the Council on Student Travel and
> the Soviet Youth Committee announced in New York and Moscow that the
> exchange would take place."
>
> The FBI supplemental report on their investigation of the assassination,
> noted:"The April 26, 1958, issue of the 'Friends Journal,' a Quaker weekly
> published by the Friends Publishing Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
> reported that 'Young Friends' had made final plans for a six-week summer
> visit of four Russians to the United States. The article stated that six
> Americans were to accompany the Russians by automobile, and their plans
> included contact with Friends, visits to industry, farms, and schools, as
> well as visits to areas of public interest to Soviet young people. The
> article identified the members of the planning group, among them being the
> name Ruth Hyde Paine."
>
> Both Michael and Ruth Paine confirmed to the WC that Ruth was the committee
> member who liaised with the State Department, but Ruth, when asked, was
> unable to recall the name of the person she dealt with.
>
> The CIEE website however, reveals that the buck stopped with the Director of
> the East-West Contacts within the State Department, Frederick T Merrill
> ("The entire project had the official encouragement of the U.S. Department
> of State and received approbation from Frederick T. Merrill, director of the
> East-West Contacts Staff...").
>
> OSWALD AND THE STUDENT EXCHANGE STUDENT
> From Marina and Lee (p 68): "The exchange lasted less than an hour, but it
> had so nasty a tone that it was remembered long afterward by three Americans
> besides Snyder and Oswald, who were present during parts of it - John
> McVickar, the vice-consul, Marie Cheatham, the receptionist, and Edward L
> Keenan, a graduate exchange student down for the weekend from Leningrad."
>
> What McMillan failed to mention was that, like her, he had come to the USSR
> from Harvard, and like her, worked at the Harvard Russian Research Center
> upon his return. Keenan, in fact, is now a Professor of Russian Studies at
> Harvard. According to The Compromised Campus: The Collaboration of
> Universities with the Intelligence Community, 1945-1955 by Sigmund Diamond,
> The Russian Research Center was sponsored by the CIA via funding laundered
> through the Carnegie, Rockefeller and Ford Foundations. Academia was being
> funded to give rationale to the Cold War, while, according to Richard
> Bissell, as quoted in Marchetti's book, The Cult of Intelligence, the CIA
> also had an interest in exchange programs, adding that such programs...
> ""are more effective if carried out by private auspices than if officially
> supported by the United States Government."
Even Gordon Hall was a McMillan fan. He tried to set me up with her
to let her pick my brain on the JFK hit I think. Gordon was highlighted
in The Age of Surveillance as an FBI stooge and secret agent.
>
> PERCIVAL FLACK BRUNDAGE AND THE SPACE RACE
> The apparent sudden urgency in an exchange program with the USSR, after
> years of dithering, according to the CIEE, was because "the Soviet Sputnik
> launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, changed history. Sputnik
> changed the attitudes of thousands of Americans by revealing the necessity
> to study other cultures and initiating a new wave in the development of
> international education." It also was the impetus for the International
> Geophysical Year (IGY) which spawned Project Vanguard. The IGY was
> ostensibly designed to be a hybrid scientific/political response to Cold War
> tensions involving the sharing of scientific data on a global scale, and it
> was no coincidence that the US eased visa restrictions to the USSR the month
> before the launch of Sputnik.
>
> The "space race" issue was dominated at government committee levels by the
> likes of Lyndon Johnson, James Killian of MIT, Nelson Rockefeller, and
> Percival Brundage.
>
> According to NASA, Project Vanguard was "the result of NSC 5520 and was
> intended to establish 'Freedom of Space'--the right to overfly foreign
> territory for future intelligence satellites." The U2s tracked by Oswald at
> Atsugi were fast becoming obsolete.
>
> FREDERICK T MERRILL AND THE FREE EUROPE COMMITTEE
> Free Europe Committee (FEC) was covertly funded by the CIA in order to
> further the U.S. government's Cold War attempts to fight communism through
> the use of exiled nationals. Among its projects, FEC funded Radio Free
> Europe, and the Assembly of Captive European Nations (ACEN). Merrill's role
> with the FEC was in ensuring the flow of cash to the exile groups. Members
> of ACEN for instance, had mostly been government and cultural leaders from
> Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
> Poland, and Romania. Founded on September 20, 1954, some had come from a
> group calling itself Intermarium which had formed in the early 1930s.
> According to The Secret History of the Jesuits by Edmund Paris, "in an
> attempt to regain power in the Balkans and destroy the Orthodox Church, in
> the 1920s the Vatican cooperated with a group of White Russians who fled
> Soviet Russia and planned to return and defeat the Bolsheviks. This group
> became known as the Intermarium - an international underground committee to
> liberate and unite the peoples of the 'Intermare' region bounded by the
> Baltic, Black, Aegean, and Adriatic Seas..."
>
> Roaming around Europe during this period was Alexander Orlov (real name Leon
> Feldbin), a Jewish White Russian (as was Joseph Rubenstein - father of Jack)
> who had taken part in the Russian revolution, and then the Civil War against
> his own people. Orlov's role was to establish Soviet spy networks in Western
> Europe. The possibility is however, that he himself was recruited by the US
> during this period. His flight from the Soviet Union to the US via Canada
> was from fear of being named as a Nazi collaborator and summarily executed -
> the same fate as a handful of colleagues.
>
> GEORGE DE MOHRENSCHILDT AND "COL. LAWRENCE ORLOV"
> De Mohrenschildt's first visit to the Oswald's abode was in the company of a
> person he named before the WC as Colonel Lawrence Orlov, and an American of
> Russian descent. He appears to be one of the very few persons known to have
> come into contact with the Oswalds - especially of Russian background - who
> was never interviewed by the FBI, the WC or HSCA staff. That raises a very
> big red flag as to just who this Orlov really was. But when you add that the
> above-mentioned Alexander Orlov was working at the University of Michigan at
> the same time Marina took an eight week course at that English Language
> Institute at UM, the flag pole needs to be extended.
>
> But this Alexander Orlov is only one of no two potential players for the
> role of "Lawrence".
>
> There is also a Colonel Igor Orlov who "defected" from the Russian army to
> join the Ghelen spy network. By 1944, Gehlen realised that Germany would
> lose the war, and by early 1945, both Ghelen and Orlov were recruited by the
> US. Operation Paperclip was under way. Orlov was said to be a ruthless
> individual whose true allegiances are yet to be fully understood. Like
> Alexander, Igor was in the US at the time George Mohrenschildt and "Lawrence
> Orlov's" visit to the Oswalds.
>
> MISCELLANY
> Like the administration that followed, Eisenhower's employed overt and
> covert operations, as well as back channels to achieve objectives. Private
> organisations were often used for these purposes.
>
> The Old Roman Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church have the same
> roots, and became "unified" during
> WWII.www.rmbowman.com/catholic/Hist15h.htm .
> Both churches gave aid to Cuban exile groups.
>
> CD Jackson, of Life Magazine, was President of the Free Europe Committee,
> and later became embroiled in Cuban affairs. His magazine bought the
> Zapruder film.
Wickliffe Draper was a childhood chum of CD Jackson when CD was in Wick's
sisters wedding party in the 1920's when she married a Taft nephew. THAT
is how close both Jackson and Draper were as well as to the tobacco and
Eugenics crowds around Wake Forest and in North Carolina. The Bowman Grey
Medical School crowd and the like that ended up in mind control research
as part of the H Smith Richardson Vicks Vapo-Rub Klan along with Jim
Angleton at MK/Ultra. One of the Greys worked with CD Jackson with
Ike in a special Intel Group. What a tangled web they weaved.
>
> Oswald received a stipend while living in Minsk. It is unclear from reading
> the Defector Study, whether this was from the International Red Cross, or
> the Russian equivalent, the Red Crescent. The confusion arises because,.in
> the case of Libero Ricciardelli for example, the organisation is named as
> the "Red Crescent", whereas with Oswald, it states "Red Cross". The authors
> were clearly aware of the difference (as Oswald himself seemed to be, noting
> in his Historic Diary that the money came from the MVD). The study shows
> that the Red Crescent not only provided money to defectors such as
> Ricciardelli, but interviewed them, and provided other types of support. It
> is in fact, a little odd that this organisation is notably absent in
> Oswald's life in Russia. Where were they, for instance during his
> recuperation from his alleged suicide attempt? Riciardelli, when
> hospitilised with rheumatic fever, was visited by the Red Crescent. They
> also provided him with assistance with various paper work. The Red Crescent
> came into existence in 1940 when the Soviets annexed part of Latvia. At that
> time, the Latvian Red Cross and the Russian red Cross were incorporated into
> the Red Crescent. The management of the former organisations were dismissed,
> and humanitarian objectives were replaced by the new objective of aiding in
> the implementation of the Communist Party's political resolutions. In short,
> they "helped" people toe the party line and to be model citizens, aware of
> their "voluntary" obligations. Oswald, stubbornly independant, seems to
> nevertheless have had little difficulty in bringing himself to seek help
> from the Red Cross. It was the Red Cross who assisted him in obtaining his
> fraudulent dependancy discharge. It was the Red Cross he asked his mother
> to seek fare assistance from for his return to the US (though it was
> eventually the State Dept which did so). And it was the Red Cross he advised
> Marina to turn to should anything happen to him in the so-called "Walker"
> letter ("We have friends in the Red Cross. They will help you.").
>
> Oswald also sought help in returning from the International Rescue
> Committee - another committee with intelligence links from OSS/CIA to the
> Gehlan network.
>
> Spas T Raikin, who was sent by the State Department to pick up the Oswalds
> on their arrival from the Soviet Union, was a member of the American Friends
> of Anti-Bolshevic Nations. Like other such groups discussed earlier, this
> group existed to destroy Communism, and was mainly made up of fascists and
> their sympathisers.
>
> Ferenc Nagy, former Hungarian leader, and leader to emigres, was the founder
> of Permindex and was also on the board of the Centro Mondiale Commerciale
> (CMC). Board members included State Secretary of agriculture under
> Mussolini, Prince Gutierez di Spadafora, another Italian fascist named
> Giuseppe Zigiotti, Swiss banker Hans Seligman and Georgio Mantello, whose
> later claims that he helped Jews escape the holocaust were false according
> to 1950s dept of State documents which indicate all he helped was himself to
> their money. Clay Shaw referred to this rats nest of Nazi sympathisers
> during his interview with Penthouse as mostly "Italian senators,
> journalists, lawyers, and other responsible people." Shaw was a spin doctor
> ahead of his time.
>
> Gutierez di Spadafora's son married the daughter of Hitler's financial
> wizard, Hjalmar Schacht. Schacht's parents had given him the full name of
> Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht. As explained by Antony Sutton in Wall Street
> and the Rise of Hitler, "The early history of Hjalmar Schacht, and in
> particular his role in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of
> 1917, was described in my earlier book, Wall Street and the Bolshevik
> Revolution. The elder Schacht had worked at the Berlin office of the
> Equitable
> Trust Company of New York in the early twentieth century. Hjalmar was
> born in Germany rather than New York only by the accident of his mother's
> illness, which required the family to return to Germany. Brother William
> Schacht was an American-born citizen. To record his American origins,
> Hjalmar's middle names were designated "Horace Greeley" after the well-know
> Democrat politician. Consequently, Hjalmar spoke fluent English and the
> post-war interrogation of Schacht in Project Dustbin was conducted in both
> German and English. The point to be made is that the Schacht family had its
> origins in New York, worked for the prominent Wall Street financial house of
> Equitable Trust (which was controlled by the Morgan firm)..." Horace Greeley
> was originally involved with the Whigs - a liberal (in the US sense) party,
> though decidedly anti-Catholic. He also became involved in experiments in
> Utopian societies before eventually being nominated for president first by
> the Republicans, then later. by the Democrats. Greeley belonged to the
> Universalist Church which had close ties to the Unitarians - eventually
> combining with them in the 1960s under the presidency of Dana McLean Greeley
> [note: Charles Dana was an editor in the employ of Greeley before
> establishing his own publishing company]. In the papers of Dana Greeley
> held at Harvard, you will find letters, reports and memos between Dana
> Greeley, Percival Brundage (who, as shown earlier, was the President of the
> Friends of Albert Schweitzer College) and Robert Schacht, among others.
> These papers are filed under "Albert Schweitzer College". Robert Schacht, a
> Unitarian minister, was the US contact for the college, and the person to
> whom Oswald sent his college application. Although I have not yet been able
> to prove any blood relationship between Robert Schacht and Hjalmar, I
> believe the strong possibility exists that they were related in some way
> through Hjlamar's brother William [note: Robert Schacht's son was contacted
> on my behalf and has denied any knowledge of a family relationship to
> Hjalmar - lack of knowledge of such a relationship however, is not proof
> that it did not exist].
I agree, he was quite defensive and overly protective when I broached that
topic. And seemed to engage in deliberate over-kill. But I would have to
search Providence obits to prove otherwise. Do you know when his father
died and if he died in Providence?
>
> John Pic's in-laws were Hungarian refugees. The apartment the Pic's lived in
> in New York was that of Mary Fuhrman - Pic's mother-in-law. Mary and her
> husband were Hungarian refugees who had separated some time after the birth
> of Pic's wife, Marge. Mary Fuhrman, for reasons never explained, left her
> home and stayed with her sister, Doris Ebel, thus making room for Marguerite
> and Lee.
>
> Among those, along with Norman Vincent Peale, plotting JFK's election defeat
> in Switzerland on religious grounds were Southern pro-segregationists, a
> retired general, two former Klansman, and Paul Blanshard. Blanchard was a
> prominent Unitarian who had been an aid to Norman Thomas. His involvement
> with the League for Industrial Democracy (co-founded by Jack London), and
> that organisation working hand in glove with the CIA during the height of
> Anti-Communism - and the subsequent control of the labour movement - may
> have been the cause of his own shift to the right, and his alignment with a
> secretive conservative faction wihin the Unitarian church, and with Peale.
> Recall that Oswald had named Peale, Jack London, and another Unitarian -
> Charles Darwin.
>
> Oswald's cousin, Marilyn Murret testimony regarding her overseas travels:
>
> Mr. LIEBELER. Did you work during the time you were gone on this trip?
>
> Miss MURRET. I worked in Australia and New Zealand and Japan.
>
> Mr. LIEBELER. As a teacher?
>
> Miss MURRET. As a teacher; yes.
>
> Mr. LIEBELER. Did you teach in Australian schools or----
> Miss MURRET. Yes.
>
> Mr. LIEBELER. Did you have any trouble with the teacher certification
> problems, or don't they have that problem in those places?
>
> Miss MURRET. Well, it depends what your field is. I was teaching science,
> which is the same--they have a teacher's college which is 2 years, and, if
> anything, you would have more than they have.
>
> Mr. LIEBELER. You are a science teacher?
>
> Miss MURRET. Yes.
>
> Clearly, Liebeler knew enough about the subject to query Murret regarding
> her claim to have taught in Australia. He did have cause for doubt. As far
> as I am aware, teaching qualifications in Australia take 4 years, and it's
> been that way for a very, very long time. But the more important issue is
> the one on certification. You do indeed, need teacher certification to be
> employed in that profession in Australia. And even today - it can be very
> difficult to obtain. Exceptions are during times of teachers shortages - in
> which case, specific overseas recruitment occurs. I am only aware of this
> happening once - in the 1970s. The other exception would be teacher exchange
> programs. One such program - which has been running for over 50 years - is
> funded by the Cordell Hull Foundation (CHF) through designation of the State
> Department. All 3 countries named by Murret are part of the program. The
> foundation, long known for it's ties to the CIA, had its New Orleans office
> in the Trade Mart building. Alton Ochsner the CHF President at the time
> Murret left the US. Murret however, is usually linked to MIT's Center for
> International Studies, Prof. Harold Isaacs by virtue of at least two FBI
> documents (Isaacs was one of many former Trotskyites turned Cold Warrior).
> This centre was, according to its own website, established for the express
> purpose of performing "research that would help the United States in its
> Cold War Struggle against the Soviet Union." This is a virtual admission of
> CIA backing. No doubt, overseas junkets were a perk of the job. The FBI's
> information on a Murret/Isaac link came from Paul Scot, a reporter with
> extreme right wing views, who in turn had obtained the information from
> subversion committees. Who their sources were, is unknown. The only certain
> fact here is that Murret did not work in Australia without some form of
> government cooperation - whether arranged through the Cordell Hull
> Foundation or the through MITs Center for International Studies.
>
> From the CIEE online history: "During the summers of 1947, 1948, and 1949,
> the Council handled transportation and orientation programs on former C-4
> troop ships and several Dutch vessels for approximately 10,000 U.S. and
> foreign students, teachers, professors, research workers, youth members, and
> others in educational and religious fields.The American ships were
> Marine-type transports made available by the U.S. Maritime Commission with
> the approval of the White House and the Departments of State and Commerce.
> These were the Marine Jumper, Marine Flasher, and others operated by the
> Maritime Administration and the United States Lines and put at the
> disposal of education exchange groups by the Department of State. The Dutch
> ships were placed in service through the cooperation of the Dutch government
> and the Holland-America Line." Holland-America line was the line of choice
> for Marxist Marines returning from the Cold.
>
> Oswald wrote to the Albert Schweitzer College from Moscow advising of a date
> of arrival - something he had no need to do if he already had plans to
> "defect".
>
> An ex-student of the Albert Schweitzer College was contacted. I was advised
> by him that it was an ordinary "liberal" college. Enrolments were always
> low. Nothing there during his time gave any cause for concern, though he'd
> heard after leaving that the college did later have some problems with the
> authorities.
>
> The Old Roman Catholic Church (and all variations thereof) was often used
> for intelligence purposes. Two examples: (1) Thomas Edward Beckham became
> ordained in the Old Catholic Church through Jack Martin in order to run a
> Cuban Mission as a front for exiles.(2) Tom Dowling, an "aid worker",
> appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Western
> Hemisphere Affairs in april 1985 to counter claims of Contra massascres by
> saying it was the Sandinistas doing all the nasty stuff. He was dressed as a
> catholic priest - thus lending credibility to his testimony. The committee
> however, later learned that he worked for Ollie North and belonged to the
> Celtic Catholic Church - one of many the various strands of the Old Catholic
> Church.
>
> Sometime after his return from the Soviet Union, Oswald applied for a job
> with DeVilbiss who were based in Toledo Ohio - not far from the home of
> Robert Webster (see CE 2444) . DeVilbiss manufactured atomisers and spray
> guns similar to those made by Rand Corp. Webster had represented Rand Corp
> at the US Exhibition in Moscow by demonstrating spay guns. These guns were
> used for coating air and space craft with heat shielding material. Webster
> had told the Soviets he would show them how to make the spray guns.
>
> INTERIM CONCLUSIONS
> Oswald was not part of a fake defector program. His mission in Moscow -
> whatever it may have been - did not need a lot of time.
>
> The decision to stay was through a last minute "window of opportunity" which
> probably had the assistance of at least one person within the Soviert
> bureaucracy. His goals may have been to gain entry to Patrice Lumamba
> Univserity and/or to touch base with White Russians and the somewhat
> mysterious Ziger family.
He attended the same school as Bogdhan Stashinsky, the programmed
assassin in fact according to Murder to Order by Karl Anders and
Devin-Adair Press.
>
> Up until the above "window of opportunity" to stay, Oswald fully intended
> going to the Albert Schweitzer College. The college did have a Cold War
> purpose, however benign it may have been.
>
> Exchange student, Edward Keenan, was in Snyder's office as a
> witness/observer role at the time Oswald denounced his US citizenship.
>
> greg
Thanks, greg for the supportive posts at a.a.jfk
>
Peter R. Whitmey
>> real name - John Bevilaqua. - prw