Thomas Arthur Vallee
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Thomas Arthur Vallee was arrested on suspicion of planning the
assassination of President Kennedy on the day Kennedy was due to
participate in a motorcade through Chicago. Briefly, Vallee shared the
following similarities with Oswald: he was an ex-Marine with an
unstable history and he had been assigned to a U-2 base in Japan, Camp
Otsu.
Page 205: "In August 1963, as Oswald was preparing to move from New
Orleans back to Dallas, Vallee moved from New York back to Chicago.
Just as Oswald got a job in a warehouse right over Kennedy's future
motorcade route in Dallas, so, too, did Vallee get a job in a
warehouse right over Kennedy's future motorcade route in Chicago. Like
Oswald in Dallas (before his summer in New Orleans), Vallee found
employment as a printer. He was hired by IPP Litho-Plate, located at
625 West Jackson Boulevard in Chicago. "
Douglass goes on to say, after personally visiting the site, Vallee's
location at IPP Litho-Plate gave him a "nearer, clearer" view of the
November 2 Chicago Motorcade, as it was on the third floor.
Lieutenant Moyland, a member of the Chicago PD, was responsible for
Vallee being put under Secret Service surveillance, and therefore his
arrest. Moyland ate in a cafeteria on Wilson Avenue, Chicago,
regularly. The manager informed him one day in late October, 1963 that
a regular customer had been making threatening remarks against Kennedy
for some time. Moyland waited for the customer at the appropriate time
and went over to his table to engage him in conversation. "He told the
man firmly that nothing good could come from the remarks he was making
about President Kennedy. His behaviour could in fact lead to serious
consequences." Lieutenant Moyland then left the cafetaria and phoned
the Secret Service.
Berkely Moyland was then phone back by an official in the Treasury
Dept (with jurisdiction over the Secret Service) who committed him to
absolute silence on the matter. He was given stringent orders not to
write anything about it, talk with anyone about it, and just to forget
all about it. Netherless in his final years Moyland shared the story
with his son, who shared it with Douglass in an interview.
Thomas Arthur Vallee was arrested on a pretext 2 and a half hours
before Kennedy was due to touch down in Dallas.
Evidence of an intelligence connection with Vallee? from page 203 -
"Vallee drove a 1962 Ford Falcon with the New York licence plate
31-10RF. After JFK's assassination, NBC news learned of Vallee's
arrest on Nov 2nd in Chicago. Luke Christopher Hester, an NBC Chicago
employee, asked his father in law, Hugh Larkin, a retired New York
City police officer, to check on Vallee's licence plate. Larkin asked
his old friends in the New York PD to do a check on the plate. They
came back to Larkin saying the licence plate was "frozen" and "only
the FBI could obtain the information." The registration for the
licence plate on the car Thomas Arthur Vallee was driving at the time
of his arrest was classified - restricted to US intelligence
agencies."
So we have another "Lone Nut" with a Marine background, who had been
stationed at a U-2 airbase in Japan (the U-2 was commandered by the
CIA), links to the intelligence services and who just happened to find
a job in a warehouse conveniently overlooking the proposed motorcade
route of Kennedy through downtown Chicago.
Just another coincidence I suppose, in a long, long line of
'coincidences" regarding this case.
PS Regarding the curious four-man sniper team in Chicago, of which two
were arrested, Douglass has this to say - "However, it was not Moyland
but an FBI informant named "Lee" whose alert disrupted the more
critical four-man rifle team that represented the real threat to
Kennedy, and thus to potential patsy Vallee as well."
"Lee" was the name of the informant!! First I had heard of this!! Very
interesting.