Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you ever bring your allegation to the attention of anyone in the CIA? This was making payments and keeping pay records. Ruffians driving by yelled derogatory things and threw objects at the house such as half-empty beer cans. RX-ZIM. If they do agree to be interviewed, they are truthful in what they say, except on one particular point: the year when they moved into the building. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. [15] Shelley testimony, Volume 6 of the Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits on page 327, hereafter to be cited as 6H327. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And who is Jerry Fox? [19] Immediately after Adams and Styles went out the back door, Officer Marion Baker came in through the front door and met Roy Truly. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I was on security duty, and on security duty, agents were coming in and out of the station, and I pulled a lot of security duty, three and four nights right in a row, and pulled as much as 24 hours on weekends, and an agent would come back from meeting with somebody and he would be waiting for his wife to pick him up or would be waiting for a call from one of the indigenous agents that he was running and a lot of times conversations would be talked. Admittedly, there is no record of Shelleys arrest, but that does not necessarily mean Glaze was wrong. She said that no one by the name of Glaze was currently working for the newspaper, nor was that name among the files of past employees. [7] The Bergins house appeared to be under surveillance and their telephone line seemed to have been tapped. EXECUTIVE SESSION Mr. GOLDSMITH - How do you spell XXXXXXXXXX last name? In the work that Oliver Stone has done for his upcoming four-part documentary series on the JFK case, he uncovered information that Truly was not being paid directly through the Texas School Book Depository in 1963. Mr. WILCOTT - It was my Request for Advance Book. Wilcott also claimed that while at his station assignment in Japan, it was common knowledge that Lee Harvey Oswald worked for the CIA. Earlier that year, he graduated from Crozier Technical School in Dallas. The owner of the establishment, rightwing oil man, D. H. Byrd would have had little problem approving that kind of clearance. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, does that mean you were able to check back only thirty days from the time that you were given this information? Mrs. Bergin paid a great deal of money for that dress. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. Mr. SAWYER - He was in Utica also? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir, I did. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you prepare such a list? There was a lot of excitement going on at the station after the Kennedy assassination. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Poison Patriarch : How the Betrayals of Joseph P. Kennedy Caused the. Wilcott was a private pilot and landed his plane at noon, 11-23-63, Tokyo time. It was dated December 12, 1977,[11] and, at the bottom, it had the authors full name. Mr. CORNWELL - Why did you leave the CIA? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Would those summaries be destroyed as a matter of routine, to your knowledge? In 1970, the TSBD and the schoolbook publishers moved out of the old 411 Elm Street building. ", That was the kind of things that people said. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And are you saying then that you attempted to investigate this allegation? Mr. PREYER - I believe you have written an article about this, an unpublished article. Finally, under threats and intense harassment from Dallas Police, I was forced to flee Dallas in early 1975. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir. Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon, includes free international wireless delivery via. Dave -- I can't remember his last name, Deputy Chief of the China Branch; and then a person whose last name was XXXXXXXXX in the XXXXXXXXX Branch. Mr. CORNWELL - What, if any, investigation did the Agency do with respect to that? Behind the building are five loading docks and an asphalt lot extensive enough to accommodate a number of trucks of any given size. His information was that he had been unwitt. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir; that was a smaller station. * JFK Facts editorJefferson Morley will personally answer your JFK questions. He followed environmental concerns and space exploration, and he enjoyed playing and watching sports. In 1947, the year when the CIA was formed, the Dallas city directory lists William Shelley as a clerk for the Hugh Perry Book Depository (the old name for the Texas School Book Depository), and that he had a room at 515 Martinique Avenue. I went immediately into the clear space on the ground floor and asked where there was a phone. Glazes meetings with Shelley were therefore not at the Ambassador Row facility, as I originally believed, but rather they occurred at the building on Gemini Lane. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I am not sure I am following, then, what specifically you did check. The fact that he went and got his gun afterwards and then walked to the Texas Theater, perhaps to meet with someone, this suggests that he had some kind of agenda to fulfill. Mr. WILCOTT - No, I don't. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. I apologize." Mr. WILCOTT - I can't remember the exact persons. He learned this after the fact through various sources within the Agency, who all recognized what had happened after the assassination and the association of Oswalds name with the crime. (2009), James W. Douglass explains this in detail, including the James Wilcott story. On many occasions he had conversations with CIA personnel concerning Lee Harvey Oswald's employment as a CIA agent. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And have you just described one of those instances to us? This we concluded from putting various pieces of information together. My testimony included numerous meetings with a man named Bill Shelly (I am no longer certain of the correct spelling of his last name.) Jack Cason, the TSBD president, was a stocky, robust man before the assassination. 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 So, when the Case Officer made reference to a cryptonym, you didn't know whether the cryptonym referred to Oswald specifically or to a project in which Oswald had been involved is that correct? After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Mr. DODD - In. The White House has announced that a trove of remaining records concerning the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy will not be released as planned, due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. DODD - After the assassination actually occurred? Wilcott worked in the accounting department and was in charge of disbursement of cash funds. Since the CIA has the capability of engineering car crashes to look like accidents, Harriss name should be added to the list of mysterious deaths, along with Warren Commission witness Lee Bowers, who died when his car ran off the road and ran into a freeway abutment. files -- my internal files, prior to the end of the month. 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 - Dozens, literally dozens. Mr. CORNWELL - Did they tell you whether or not you passed the polygraphs? Namely the mention that Shelley was a CIA operative, while at the same time he was an employee in the schoolbook business. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And finally, as I said at the beginning is it fair to say that you are here voluntarily today? It must have been puzzling to Glaze, as it is to us reading his letters, why a government agency would be providing security for a privately-owned company. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, for a limited period. In the decades following that fateful day, former employees of these companies have been reluctant to answer questions. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Why did you go back to look at the book? Mr. WILCOTT - From the time I left I talked at various times, especially at parties and things like that, on social occasions, with people at headquarters and with people at my station, and we would converse about it and I used to say things like, "What do you think about Oswald being connected with the CIA? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Mr. CORNWELL - Is that the only reason? 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. 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. Mr. WILCOTT - I am sorry, sir; I lost the thread of your question. Write to Editor@jfkfacts.org. [6] They held a big meeting during which they warned everyone not to discuss the assassination with outsiders. [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]. Mr. WILCOTT - It has been 15 years, and I can't remember specifically who said what, but certainly I am sure that Jerry Fox, for instance, had at least made some mention of it. One label read Texas School Book Depository, 500 Red Pony books by John Steinbeck, from Bobbs-Merrill. William Weston examines the curious letters of Elzie Glaze and considers potential connections between the CIA and the Texas School Book Depository. This was just prior to moving to Langley, in finance, and my duties there were policing accounts, and included auditing of special accounts. Also Present: Michael Goldsmith, Counsel, and Gary Cornwell, Counsel. And perhaps even having people inside the TSBD as assets. From about January of 1960 to about June of 1960, I was transferred to Finance Field Payroll, also, in this same building, on the Potomac. He could not remember when this occurred, but it was before the assassination, but after extensive remodeling had been done on the third and fourth floors to add office suites for the publishing companies. Mr. CORNWELL - Had you ever run into any similar cryptonym? Mr. DODD - You may have covered this as well, Mr. Chairman, and, if you have, I will drop the question. this allegation? I think you are making some important allegations here, and you have been very helpful in giving some witnesses' names through which we might be able to corroborate it, but I think it is very important that we know clearly how much of this was cocktail party talk and how much was shop talk and how much was speculation and rumor and how much was hard fact. I am afraid we are going to have to leave to make this vote right now. Additional gift options are available when buying one eBook at a time. Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. * 2017 JFK has a detailed guide to the massive JFK disclosures scheduled for October 2017. The incident interested me enough to question the F.B.I. Thank you for your kind words and interest. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Upon your memory and the list that your brought with you today, will you tell the Committee the names of the CIA Case Officers who you remember working XXXXXXXXXX in 1963? Mr. PREYER - That was shop talk, speculation, I gather; people were saying that the CIA is somehow connected with it. 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. Mr. GOLDSMITH - If the agency, in fact, was run on the "need-to-know" basis, how would you account for so many people supposedly knowing that Oswald was an agent? Near the two freight elevators were Shelley and co-worker Billy Lovelady. Mr. GOLDSMITH - How many people have you spoken to that said that Oswald was an agent of the CIA, to the best of your recollection? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Is that list complete and does it have. Mr. SCHAAP - For the record, I have made a list of all of these spellings of the names which have been mentioned, which I will give to the stenographer so that he will have, them correctly. I apologize. The 1960 directory lists him as a department manager for the Texas School Book Depository, living in a house at 126 Tatum Avenue. Considering the noise of gun blasts and the uproar going on outside, it is odd that Oswald continued to be unconcerned. There were, as I recall, three men there, all I think in shirt sleeves. Mr. WILCOTT - In 1968. Shelley told Glaze that he himself was arrested for the assassination. The November 14, 1961 date came from Leon, Sexton branch manager in Dallas from 1961 to 1964. It was a total loss. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir, early 1964. that correct? Please try again. Mr. WILCOTT - The details approximately two years. Mr. PREYER - The committee will resume. Mr. WILCOTT - I was able to but I never did. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, it was "We all know all about you" and signed "The Minutemen" or some very vulgar remarks and "We know all about you and signed "Minutemen." Mr. CORNWELL - And would that -- at least in part --. I was really scared to go to the Government and talk about any of these things. Mr. DODD - As a point of information, are people who work within the Agency fairly careful in their language in describing what the category of certain people are who work for the Agency? Mr. PREYER - It had no relation to your performance? In April of 1966, I resigned from the CIA. at the best online prices at eBay! Mr. GOLDSMITH - How many people in the CIA? Mr. WILCOTT - I am sorry? anyone? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you have any explanation for why none of these people have come forward with this story? Copyright 2016-2022 by kennedysandking.com All Rights Reserved. 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? WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1978 . Mr. PREYER - So that in XXXX, you indicated, six or seven people talked to you and were, as I understood it, rather definite about the Oswald connection? Mr. WILCOTT - We thought every year, my wife and I and the friends that we had -- we said, "Well, this is one thing that they aren't going to keep a lid on." 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." Mr. WILCOTT - I can't remember, sir. 359-360, 386-387. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, sir, the day after the assassination I don't think that there was any of that kind of talk. Mr. GOLDSMITH - With whom? During a follow up call, he told me that the two musicians were not in contact with former members of the band and knew nothing of their whereabouts nor of their current activities. Mr. Wilcott, maybe we can expedite this somewhat by asking you this: Do you have any first-hand knowledge or information as to a link between the failed Bay of Pigs operation and the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy? Elzie Dean Glaze passed away on November 15, 2019. Mr. SAWYER - What were they? I discussed it with my friends and the people that I was associating with socially. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Mr. Wilcott, did I ask you to prepare a list indicating the dates that you were employed with the CIA and where you were stationed? (National Archives, RG 272) No other event of the last 75 . No doubt the police asked Shelley a lot of questions, and it is possible that they kept him in custody until he gave satisfactory answers. About a minute or two later, NBC news reporter Robert MacNeil came in through the front door, amazed to see three calm men. Mr. SAWYER - What did he do -- anything? At the time he visited the place, Scott Foresman was gone, and a carpet company was occupying the building. To his left was a door that led into the office of Scott Foresman. He was sickly looking, and, like his father, had lost weight. I talked to reporters from various papers, and I talked to people in other forms of meetings, and to me it is not surprising at all. GLAZE, Elzie Dean Age 66, is celebrated by his family for his compassion, humor and willingness to help family, friends and the world at large. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. suspicious that many of the other things that happened may have had as its source the CIA. All that I knowand the attending dead endswere passed along to a researcher and author in Dallas a few years ago. In 1974, I met a person who says she was at that time working for Bill Schelly, who says he was Lee Harvey Oswalds superior at the time of the assassination. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, it was my understanding that Lee Harvey Oswald was an employee of the agency and was an agent, of the agency. men asked the employees point blank if they were members of the C.I.A. As far as that they actually said, they said they were having trouble with Oswald and that there was dissatisfaction with Oswald after he came back from the Soviet Union, and the would say things like "Well, you know this was the way to get rid of him -- to get him involved in this assassination thing and put the blame on Cuba as a pretext for another invasion or another attack against Cuba. [26] FBI report of Oswald at the police station, Warren Report, p. 619. Mr. WILCOTT - The first time I heard about Oswald being connected in any way with CIA was the day after the Kennedy assassination. This was preparing and reconciling payrolls. There are photos of him getting into a police car along with Bonnie Ray Williams and Daniel Arce. House of Representatives, Mr. WILCOTT - I have no idea, sir. Here, by your own testimony, you were supportive of the President, and certainly the most significant tragedy, I think, probably in the last 15 years or 20 years was the assassination of President Kennedy, and you are told by some who worked for the Agency that Oswald was a CIA agent and you already were dissatisfied with the actions of the Agency and you are told this in 1964 and yet it takes four, years, or two years, after you had left the Agency, recognizing the tremendous import and significance of that, and I am terribly confused as to why you decided to keep that information to yourself and to your wife. Mr. CORNWELL - Did they request that you leave? This would put his visit in a period sometime during the summer or fall of 1963. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. He said there were two musicians who had been with the band since the beginning and he would speak to them. Mr. PREYER - I would like before we begin to read a written statement concerning the subject of the investigation. Mr. WILCOTT - No; I know for a fact, or I know from hearsay, and I believe it to be true from the circumstances how this conversation came up and so on. Mr. CORNWELL - What group was it? Mr. CORNWELL - Is there any chance that that record stil exists? Mr. WILCOTT - When I first started speaking, both my wife and I discussed it and we felt that we should be speaking out about not only Oswald but some other things. ", 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. Please try again. Mr. GOLDSMITH - But as a matter of routine, would the CIA cash disbursement files refer to the cryptonym of either the person or the project that is receiving funds? I spoke to groups in their homes and I spoke to groups in the Peace and Freedom Party and I was with the Peace and Freedom Party for several years. He enjoyed giving to others, and loved the companionship of his four dogs. Mr. WILCOTT - Approximately two years, sir. While working as a journalist in Dallas, Tx. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Were any of these people on your list possible subjects who made references to Oswald being a CIA agent? Butler took over as branch manager after Leon transferred to Los Angeles. Mr. SAWYER - Now, did the XXXXXXX station have any jurisdiction over the Russian operation or within the Soviet Union? It was only my personal Mr. DODD - And she was aware of it from 1964 up until 1968 -- Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. In November 1963, on the Friday before Thanksgiving, President Kennedy was riding in a Lincoln convertible rolling through the streets of Dallas. 49, No. 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. Can you recall whether the tone of it was rumor or shop talk or was the tone of it that "this is true"? Mr. SCHAAP - Do you mean, how many people who were in the CIA or how many people in the general population? He also sent a copy of the letter from Blakey as well as a 1978 article from the Dallas Morning News concerning the aforementioned Carolyn Arnold, who states she definitely saw Oswald in the second-floor lunchroom at 12:25 pm. She told a reporter that the FBI falsified her statement to read that she thought she caught a fleeting glimpse of Oswald on the first floor at 12:15.. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So basically, you checked only one of the advance books, is that correct? Mr. GOLDSMITH - How long were these records maintained? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Only of Case Officers. Mr. GOLDSMITH - To your personal knowledge, CIA records XXXXXXXXXX were destroyed? Mr. CORNWELL - What year was that? Assassinations, The subcommittee met at 10:20 a.m., pursuant to notice, in room 2344 of the Rayburn Office Building, the Honorable Richard Preyer (Chairman of the subcommittee), presiding. 2 AM, Nov. 23. His information was that he had been unwittingly involved with paying Oswald through a high security clearance, since he worked in the finance office. Mr. WILCOTT - I worked from the years, May, of 1957 to, April, of 1966. I asked Mr. Peets if he knew of any member of the band who disappeared in Dallas in the mid-1970s. ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY . Mr. CORNWELL - When was that? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Two weeks later, he wrote back: Received your letter of July 7, 1999. 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. (Whereupon, at 12:55 p.m. the subcommittee recessed. But you apparently indicated that you feel there was a direct connection between the Bay of Pigs operation and the assassination of the President. These ebooks can only be redeemed by recipients in the US. This is an indication that the covert side of the schoolbook business had shifted to the Scott Foresman and Southwestern building, perhaps because the notoriety of the TSBD had hampered its ability to conduct smuggling operations and thus had to be discontinued. Something went wrong. Out of curiosity, he opened this door and saw a large storage area that took over half of the square footage of the fourth floor. When Joe entered the building, he took a recently installed passenger elevator to the fourth floor. Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Mr. WILCOTT - Gordon Finch. James Wilcott worked out of the Tokyo CIA station at the time of the assassination. 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. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir; I think I had good performance reviews right up to the time that I left. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Were you ever able to find any indication in any of the XXXXXXX Station's records that Oswald was, in fact, a CIA agent? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mr. WILCOTT - My. ", and things like that. [11] Glaze misdated his letter as 12/12/74.. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And you testified without any reservation? Adams said, I believe the President has been shot. Neither Shelley nor Lovelady said anything in reply. 66-67. Mr. DODD - You liked him? Mr. Shelly claims to have been an intelligence officer during World War II and thereafter joined the CIA. Mr. WILCOTT - That is true. 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? The two new employees were administered a written questionnaire asking about their opinions of current topics of the day, especially social issues. The day after, perhaps, two or three weeks after, the kind of talk was that CIA was somehow connected. Perhaps that is why I was so unprepared during that brief step into the looking glass.. Dean was the son of Elzie L. Glaze and Geneva I. Glaze and was born in Lubbock, Texas. This fear casting a shadow over the lives of former employees was also directed against journalists seeking to lift the veil of secrecy. Mr. WILCOTT - No. He was still living on Tatum Avenue at the time of the assassination. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you remember which of these individuals if any, made the specific allegation or reference that Oswald was an agent? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. WILCOTT - Not at this time. For many years he assisted organizations that helped veterans, monitored the nuclear power industry, and worked to ensure basic human rights. Dedicated to the political vision and legacy of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X,and to the investigation of their murders. Was there something more to this move than meets the eye? Hurt initially doubted that such a large container could be moved into the building inconspicuously. Please publish modules in offcanvas position. Of all times to break down, my typewriter chose tonight to do it. [12], A suggestion of smuggling activities within the TSBD comes in the form of boxes too large to be practical containers of books. Mr. DODD - Would you care to tell us any of the names of people whom you communicated with? Did you write it down or do anything? Since the floors were not strong enough to accommodate forklifts, he wondered how the warehouse men could have moved such enormous boxes. 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. Mr. PREYER - I will ask a few questions. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you discuss this information with Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. 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. According to Wilcott, Tokyo time of killing was approx. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Mr. Wilcott, did I ask you to prepare a list of CIA Case Officers working at XXXXXXXXX Station in 1963? His desire to tell what he knew overcame his fear at least twice in his life. Mr. WILCOTT - That is correct, sir. Wilcotts affidavit and deposition were declassified by the ARRB. 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. My address is 2761 Atlantic Street, in Concord, and my occupation is electronic technician. Mr. CORNWELL - However, I take it from the fact that, as you describe it, it wasn't always applied, that occasionally you did learn something about the identities of the persons or projects that the cryptonyms referred to; is that correct? He was not questioned by the Warren Commission. Why would anyone share the information that Oswald was an agent with you, Mr. Wilcott? Mr. WILCOTT - Did you vote for President Kennedy? His mother was a strong, confident woman before the assassination, but afterwards she suffered a complete breakdown in her health and had to be hospitalized. Mr. WILCOTT - No. Mr. WILCOTT - Oh, yes. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Mr. CORNWELL - You had signed a secrecy oath while you were employed with the Agency? The CIA then told him a story of how someone could be thrown out of a plane without a parachute and the CIA would protect them. 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