Post by John Duncan on Apr 9, 2019 15:39:57 GMT -5
Now with BY Photos, and the Ordering of differing lengths of rifle that could have been ordered from Klein's, I would assert that this particular issue could be the most crucial in deterimining not only a bogus money order, but lay a more clearer foundation of the mindset of conspiracy, deception, and intricate cover up for the whole smear-Oswald campaign. It could be the last chance for CT'ers in sheep clothing that have been following the LNTer Party Line to repent of their ignorance for falling into the Conspirator LNT trap thinking and even doing what the real conspirators want, for CT'ers in sheep's clothing to attack real CT'ers. Cowering with a "NO Interest" attitude will be viewed as a siding of approval for the killing of one JFK.
Creating The Illusion That Oswald Purchased A Rifle From Klein's
Six days after announcing that Oswald paid $12.78 for the rifle, *the FBI changed their story* and said that he paid $19.95 for the rifle with the scope already attached (plus $1.50 for postage).
NOTE: **The author does not know why the FBI changed their story. It may have been because Klein's bank records did not show a deposit that matched that amount.
In order to create the illusion that Oswald paid $21.45 for the mail.order rifle from Klein's, the FBI had to "locate" a corresponding deposit in Klein's account at the First National Bank of Chicago. The deposit had to be untraceable, which meant that it was made in cash or with a US postal money order. *The deposit could not be in the form of a personal check, or money order issued by a private company such as a bank , Cooks, or American Express.*
According to FBI reports, Bureau agents began tracking the $21.45.money order at 9:00 am on the morning of November 23, *even though they announced a few hours later that Oswald paid $12.78 for the rifle*. They ALLEGEDLY spoke with William Waldman, of Klein's Sporting Goods, then ALLEGEDLY spoke with Lester Gohr, the Assistant Cashier of the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago. *These agents may have interviewed these witnesses, but the information contained in their reports suggests that they did not.*
At 9:00 am FBI agents Gale Johnson, James Hanlon, and Phillip Wanerus ALLEGEDLY interviewd Klein's vice-president William Waldman, who ALLEDGEDLY told the agents that Klein's records showed that a money order in the amount of $21.45 was deposited to the Klein's account at the First National Bank of Chicago on March 15, 1963. *It is doubtful that Waldman gave this information to these agents, because he had not seen an order from "A. Hidell" on the Klein's microfilm. He did not know **the price paid for the rifle or the method of payment**. In addition, Waldman had already given Klein's microfilm to agents Dolan, Toedt, and Mahan earlier that morning.*
After ALLEDGELY interviewing William Waldman agents Johnson, Hanlon, and Wanerus ALLEDGELY interviewed Robert Wilmouth, Vice-President of the First National Bank of Chicago *(on Sunday morning)*. According to their FBI report, Wilmouth said that Klein's made a deposit in the amount of $13,827.98 on Friday, March 15, 1963. This deposit contained hundreds of entries on 5 pages of adding machine tape, with *two entries* in the amount of $21.45 (the FBI report was wrong; there was only *one entry for $21.45* in he $13,827 deposit). Wilmouth ALLEDGELY told the agents that one of the entries represented an American Express money order and the second deposit item represented a postal money order, both in the amount of $21.45. *But how would Wilmouth know if these deposits were made with money orders when looking at numbers on adding machine tapes? (see Vol 21, p. 706).
Wilmouth, ALLEDGELY told the agents that both deposits were made on March 15, were processed by his bank on March 16 (Saturday), and were received by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on March 18, 1963.
*But the date on the deposit slip reads "2/13/63-a month before the rifle was ordered (p. 706, Volume 21).* *And how could Wilmouth possibly know the date that a money order was deposited at the Federal Reserve Bank without looking at the cancelled money order, which he did not have??* Wilmouth ALLEDEDLY told the agents, "Postal money orders are sent to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, which in turn sends them to a central processing center located in KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.
NOTE: **If neither the First National Bank nor the Federal Reserve Board had copies of a $21.45 money order (No. 2,202,130,462), then Wilmouth could not possibly have known the date the money order was received by the Federal Reserve.**
After ALLEDGELY interviewing Robert Wilmouth agents Johnson, Hanlon, and Wanerus ALLEDGELY interviewed Lester Gohr, the Assistant Cashier of the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago-*on Saturday morning*. According to the FBI report, Gohr said that records of postal money orders were only kept for 6 months and that *he had no records prior to May 29, 1963.*
*Also, if they had furnished information about a $21.45 money order to FBI agents on Saturday morning, then the Bureau would never have announced that Oswald paid $12.78 for the mail order rifle a few hours later!* It is far more likely that these FBI reports were fabricated in order to create the illusion that a $21.45 postal money order was received by Klein's, deposited to their bank account and then sent to the Federal Reserve.
We have already learned the $21.45 money order published in the Warren Volumes was **never deposited into a bank or financial institution.** *This means the mony order was not deposited to Klein's account at the First National Bank of Chicago, nor deposited with the Federal Reserve Bank, nor then returned to the Federal Records Center in Alexandria, VA. It also means that the information contained in the FBI reports of Johnson, Hanlon, and Wanerus was fabricated in order to create the illusion that Oswald purchased a $21.45 money order which was routinely processed through the federal banking system.
The "Official Story" of how the $21.45 money order was found.
At 1:45 pm on Saturday, November 23 Secret Service agent Edward Z. Tucker arrived at Klein's Sporting Goods and began interviewing William Waldman. At first Waldman was reluctant to speak with Agent Tucker, *because he had been told by the FBI agents not to discuss the investigation with anyone.* He alledgely told Tucker the price of Mannlicher-Carcano rifle was $21.45, including postage, and payment may have been made with a money order. Tucker spoke with Secret Service agent Griffith, who then called Chicago Postal Inspector
Glenn Knight and requested help in locating a postal money order in the amount of $21.45.
One of the FBI agents who reviewed the Klein's microfilm, John Toedt, ALLEDGELY contracted the Post Office in Chicago and also asked for their assistance in locating a postal money order. Toedt was told to contract the division headquarters in KANSAS CITY.
After receiving a call from the SS, Chicago Postal Inspector Martin J. McGee ALLEDGELY telephoned Dallas Postal Inspector Cox, who in turn contacted Harry Holmes, who stated he thought *he (Holmes) would be able to find a record of a $21.45 money order in Dallas.*
NOTE: **Most of the background information relating to the $21.45 money order that is found in the reports of the US Post Office originated with Harry Holmes and, therefore, should be considered extremely suspect.**
Holmes told the WC, "I passed the information to the men (Dallas postal employees) who were looking for this money order 'STUB' to show which would designate, which would show the number of the money order, and that is the onley way you could find one...within 10 minutes they called back and said they had a money order in that amount issued on,.I don't know that I show, but it was that money order in an amount issued at the main post office, which is the same place as this post office box was at the time, box 2915, and the money order had been issued **early on the morning of March 12th**, 1963.
NOTE: ** US post offices always kept the end "stub" of all money orders sold to customers for their records. ***But neither Holmes nor anyone else produced the "stub" or any postal records to support his claim that Dallas postal employees in Dallas located the "stub" for postal money order No. 2,202,130,462.***
**Holmes told the WC the money order was issued ***early on the morning of March 12th.***, 1963. Yet there is nothing on a postal money order that shows the time of day it was sold. The Commission should have asked Holmes how he knew the money order was issued "**early on the morning of March 12, 1963.***"
**The only indication the money order was purchased on the morning of March 12 was the postmark show on the microfilm copy of the envelop ALLEDGELY mailed to Klein's which read, "10:30 am." The Kleins' microfilm was never shown to Holmes and therefore Holmes could not have known that a postal money order was issued ***early on the morning of March 12, 1963***. The only way Holmes could have known about the postmark would be if he had previously seen, or handled, the envelope, or if had been told to say that.**
At 3:30 pm (November 23) Harry Holmes contacted Inspector Lloyd H. Stephens in Fort Worth and told him that postal money order No. 2,202,130,462, in the amount of $21.45, had been used to pay for the rifle. Stephens then contacted Inspector Duggan in Washington, DC and gave him the same information.
Postal inspectors at the Federal Postal Money Order in Kansas City began searching for money order No. 2, 202,130,462, while a Postmaster General Staff meeting was held in Washington DC. A summary of the meeting prepared by the SS stated, "The initial request for the identification and location of the subject US Postal Money order had come from Postal Inspector Lloyd Stephens, Fort Worth, Texas.....as a result of a conference between Mr. Donald Duggan, Deputy Chief, Postal Inspection Service, Washington DC, and Postal Inspection Service at Fort Worth, Texas, **the original US Postal Money Order would be furnished to this service (Secret Service).**
At 7:30 pm (CST) Chicago Postal Inspector Glenn Knight advised Secrect Service Agent Griffith that Postal Inspectors were attempting to locate the postal money order in Kansas City. **Postal inspectors in
Kansas City had already spent 4 hours looking for postal money order No. 2,202,130,462, without success.**
The Federal Postal Money Order Center in Kansas City was the same facility at which 5 other postal money orders were located that had been purchased by Oswald and used to repay his $435.71 loan from the
Department of State. FBI SA Donald E. Stangel obtained the following information from the Department of State and the USPS.
He shows a chart with categories Ser # or M.O.; Amount; Issue Date; Location; and Rec'd by State Dept
The first 5 postal money orders (beginning with series 1,156,417,562) purchaed by Oswald in Fort Worth and Dallas were returned to the Federal Postal Money Order Center in Kansas City. The last 3 postal money ordrs (series 2,202,000,060) were returned to the Federal Records Center in Alexander, VA. Money order No. 2,202,130.462, ALLEDGELY purchased by Oswald from the GPO in Dallas, was ALLEDGELY located at the Federal Records Center in Alexandria, VA on the evening of November 23, 1963.
According to the serial numbers on these money orders, the GPO in Dallas sold approxiamtely 1200 money orders per week (3888 from November 14, 1962-December 6, 1962; 3475 from Jan. 5, 1963-Jan. 25,
1963). Using 1200 money orders per week as a guide, the serial number of the money order ALLEDGELY purchased by Oswald on Mar. 12, 1963, was 2,202,130,462 (***118,527 numbers higher***). This serial number indicates that this money order came from a stack of money orders that should not have been sold by the GPO in Dallas until late 1964 or early 1965, if sold in numerical order.
NOTE: **The Commission failed to ask the Postal Service when money orders beginning with 2,202,130 were sent to the Dallas GPO. They also failed to ask Holmes for the name of the postal employee who allededly found the "stub" for the $21.45 money order.** While Postal Inspectors continued to search for the $21.45 money order in Kansas City, Dallas Postal Inspector/FBI Informatn Harry Holmes advised the money ordr could be found in Washington DC. Holmes told the Commission, "This number (2,202,130,462) was transmitted to the Chief Inspector in Washington, who immediately got the money order center at Washington to begin a search, which they use IBM equipment to kick out his money order and sent it oer, ***so they said***, by special conveyance to the Secret Service, chief of the Secret Service at Washington now, and it turned out, ***so they said***, to be the correct money order. **Holmes was the first and only person in Dallas to know the number of the money order, and the first to suggest the money order could be located in Washington, DC.**
NOTE: **The WC could not understand why it took nearly ***16 hours*** to locate the money order. Harry Holmes said the delay was caused because the FBI provided him with incorrect information. Holmes said
the Bureau advised him the amount of the money order was $21.95 instead of $21.45, which caused him to look for a different money order, ***but not a single person corroborated Holmes' story.***
In Washington, DC, the Deputy Chief of the Postal Inspection Service, Donald D. Duggan, insturcted Postal Finance Officer ***J. Harold Marks*** to indicate a search for the money order in Washington, DC, at 6:30 PM (CST).
At 7:55 PM (CST), Chicago Secret Service Agent Griffith was told that postal money order No. 2,202,130,462 had been located in Washington, DC (8:55 EST). Griffith then telephoned agent Mroz, in Kansas City, and advised him the $21.45 postal money order had been recovered in Washington.
NOTE: **Apparently the Dallas FBI office was not aware the money order had been located. At 9:30 PM (CST) the Dallas office sent an airtel to the Director and SAC's in Chicago and New York. The message said, "Advised inst. money order could not be located today, but would be located *Nov. twenty four next."*
Postal money order No. 2,202,190,462 was ALLEDGELY found at the Federal Records Center in Alexandria, VA by Robert Jackson, *an employee of the National Archives.*
NOTE: **This $21.45 money order was never deposited into a financial institution and therefore could not have been routed through the banking system and returned to the Federal Records Center in Alexandria, VA. This money order was probably obtained from the GPO in Dallas in the early afternoon of November 23, hand-delivered to Washington, DC, and "planted" at the Federal Records Center in the early evening.**
**It remains unknown whether Robert Jackson "found" the money order at the Federal Records Center or it was given to him. There were no witnesses present and neither Jackson, Marks, Parker, nor anyone from the National Archives and Records Service were interviewed by the FBI, Secret Service, or Warren Commission.**
Robert Jackson hand-delivered the $21.45 money order to the home of **J. Harold Marks** in Washington, DC, who had been told to locate the money order by Deputy Chief Donald D. Duggan. A summary report prepared by Secret Service Agent Donald E. Burke on November 26, 1963 provided the details of how the money order was given to the Secret Service:
"At 10:10 PM (EST-9:10 CST) November 23 1963 SA Parker obtained the original US Postal Money Order from Mr. Harold Marks at Mr. Marks's home. At that time Jackson was identified as Robert H. Jackson, 2121 Lee Wood Drive, Alexandria, Virginia, telephone, SO 5-7501, and employee of the National Archives and Records Service....He informed SA Parker that he obtained subject original postal money order and surrendered it to Mr. Marks. Both Jackson and Marks initialed and dated the original money order, after which it was surrendered to SA Parker, who in turn initialed and dated the money order.
On the evening of November 23, 1963 the $21.45 postal money order was initialed and dated by Robert H. Jackson (RHJ), J. Harold Marks (JHM), and John E. Parker (JEP). A summary report by the SS explained how
copies of the money order were sent to the Dallas office:
"SA Phillips (Secret Service, Dallas) advised, after consultation.with Inspector Kelley of this service, that two photstats be made of subject postal money order and that these photostates be placed on Flight #107, Braniff Airlines, departing Washington, DC, at (9:00 am on November 24, 1963, and arriving at Dallas, Texas at 11:50 A.M.
The secret service provided the Dallas Police with a copy of the money order, which was published among their exhibits in the Warren Volumes, CE 2003 (DPD file). The Secret Service summary report explained what happened to the ***original*** $21.45 money order:
"SA (Max D.) Phillips also requested that a chain of custody be maintained, and that ***original postal money order be retained by the Washington Field Office safe.***
SA Parker then surrendered the original US Postal Money Order to SAIC Gaiglein, which he had previously placed in a sealed white envelope.after which SA Parker placed the ***original US Postal Money Order sealed in this envelope in the WFO (Washington Field Office) safe.***
On the morning of November 24, 1963, Deputy Chief Paterni (Secret Service, Washington), when informed by SA John H. Grimes, Jr., of this ecret Service that the Postal Inspection Service, through Postal Inspector Joseph A. Verant advised that the original US Postal Money Order was being sought by the FBI, authorized SA Grimes to surrender the original Postal Money Order to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Immediately thereafter, while SA Grimes was attempting to make telephone contact with SAIC Glenn Gillies, Washington Field Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation, SA Leslie B. Chisholm, FBI, telephonicall contacted the reporting agent concerning this original US Postal Money Order. SA Chisholm was advised that the postal money order was available and he stated he or an agent of the FBI would.pick up this money order at the Washington Field Ofice of this Secret Service).
SA Grimes of this service removed the sealed envelope containing the original US Postal Money ORder from the WFO safe; removed the original money order from this envelope; initialed and dated the money order; made four photostats of it, and surrendered it to SA Chisholm of the FBI who executed a receipt."
On November 24, SA Chisholm delivered the original money order to James T. Freeman at the FBI laboratory in Washington, DC. The summary report continued:
"This paid order was located at the Records Center in Alexandria, Virginia on the early evening of November 23. It was turned over to a Secret Service agent in Washington, DC who flew it to Dallas."
NOTE: **The information that a secret service agent hand carried the.original money order to Dallas came from Harry Holmes. As we have seen, this did not happen and was yet another of Holmes' fabrications. ***Copies** of the money order were sent to Dallas,.but the original uncashed and undepostited money order was turned over to the FBI laborator.**
What is the origin of the unused $21.45 money order?
To be considered later.
Taken from Harvey and Lee pgs 461-67
Creating The Illusion That Oswald Purchased A Rifle From Klein's
Six days after announcing that Oswald paid $12.78 for the rifle, *the FBI changed their story* and said that he paid $19.95 for the rifle with the scope already attached (plus $1.50 for postage).
NOTE: **The author does not know why the FBI changed their story. It may have been because Klein's bank records did not show a deposit that matched that amount.
In order to create the illusion that Oswald paid $21.45 for the mail.order rifle from Klein's, the FBI had to "locate" a corresponding deposit in Klein's account at the First National Bank of Chicago. The deposit had to be untraceable, which meant that it was made in cash or with a US postal money order. *The deposit could not be in the form of a personal check, or money order issued by a private company such as a bank , Cooks, or American Express.*
According to FBI reports, Bureau agents began tracking the $21.45.money order at 9:00 am on the morning of November 23, *even though they announced a few hours later that Oswald paid $12.78 for the rifle*. They ALLEGEDLY spoke with William Waldman, of Klein's Sporting Goods, then ALLEGEDLY spoke with Lester Gohr, the Assistant Cashier of the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago. *These agents may have interviewed these witnesses, but the information contained in their reports suggests that they did not.*
At 9:00 am FBI agents Gale Johnson, James Hanlon, and Phillip Wanerus ALLEGEDLY interviewd Klein's vice-president William Waldman, who ALLEDGEDLY told the agents that Klein's records showed that a money order in the amount of $21.45 was deposited to the Klein's account at the First National Bank of Chicago on March 15, 1963. *It is doubtful that Waldman gave this information to these agents, because he had not seen an order from "A. Hidell" on the Klein's microfilm. He did not know **the price paid for the rifle or the method of payment**. In addition, Waldman had already given Klein's microfilm to agents Dolan, Toedt, and Mahan earlier that morning.*
After ALLEDGELY interviewing William Waldman agents Johnson, Hanlon, and Wanerus ALLEDGELY interviewed Robert Wilmouth, Vice-President of the First National Bank of Chicago *(on Sunday morning)*. According to their FBI report, Wilmouth said that Klein's made a deposit in the amount of $13,827.98 on Friday, March 15, 1963. This deposit contained hundreds of entries on 5 pages of adding machine tape, with *two entries* in the amount of $21.45 (the FBI report was wrong; there was only *one entry for $21.45* in he $13,827 deposit). Wilmouth ALLEDGELY told the agents that one of the entries represented an American Express money order and the second deposit item represented a postal money order, both in the amount of $21.45. *But how would Wilmouth know if these deposits were made with money orders when looking at numbers on adding machine tapes? (see Vol 21, p. 706).
Wilmouth, ALLEDGELY told the agents that both deposits were made on March 15, were processed by his bank on March 16 (Saturday), and were received by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on March 18, 1963.
*But the date on the deposit slip reads "2/13/63-a month before the rifle was ordered (p. 706, Volume 21).* *And how could Wilmouth possibly know the date that a money order was deposited at the Federal Reserve Bank without looking at the cancelled money order, which he did not have??* Wilmouth ALLEDEDLY told the agents, "Postal money orders are sent to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, which in turn sends them to a central processing center located in KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.
NOTE: **If neither the First National Bank nor the Federal Reserve Board had copies of a $21.45 money order (No. 2,202,130,462), then Wilmouth could not possibly have known the date the money order was received by the Federal Reserve.**
After ALLEDGELY interviewing Robert Wilmouth agents Johnson, Hanlon, and Wanerus ALLEDGELY interviewed Lester Gohr, the Assistant Cashier of the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago-*on Saturday morning*. According to the FBI report, Gohr said that records of postal money orders were only kept for 6 months and that *he had no records prior to May 29, 1963.*
From the information ALLEDGELY obtained from these bankers, we realize that if they were interviewd on Saturday morning it is highly unlikely they furnished the information that appears in the FBI reports.
*Also, if they had furnished information about a $21.45 money order to FBI agents on Saturday morning, then the Bureau would never have announced that Oswald paid $12.78 for the mail order rifle a few hours later!* It is far more likely that these FBI reports were fabricated in order to create the illusion that a $21.45 postal money order was received by Klein's, deposited to their bank account and then sent to the Federal Reserve.
We have already learned the $21.45 money order published in the Warren Volumes was **never deposited into a bank or financial institution.** *This means the mony order was not deposited to Klein's account at the First National Bank of Chicago, nor deposited with the Federal Reserve Bank, nor then returned to the Federal Records Center in Alexandria, VA. It also means that the information contained in the FBI reports of Johnson, Hanlon, and Wanerus was fabricated in order to create the illusion that Oswald purchased a $21.45 money order which was routinely processed through the federal banking system.
The "Official Story" of how the $21.45 money order was found.
At 1:45 pm on Saturday, November 23 Secret Service agent Edward Z. Tucker arrived at Klein's Sporting Goods and began interviewing William Waldman. At first Waldman was reluctant to speak with Agent Tucker, *because he had been told by the FBI agents not to discuss the investigation with anyone.* He alledgely told Tucker the price of Mannlicher-Carcano rifle was $21.45, including postage, and payment may have been made with a money order. Tucker spoke with Secret Service agent Griffith, who then called Chicago Postal Inspector
Glenn Knight and requested help in locating a postal money order in the amount of $21.45.
One of the FBI agents who reviewed the Klein's microfilm, John Toedt, ALLEDGELY contracted the Post Office in Chicago and also asked for their assistance in locating a postal money order. Toedt was told to contract the division headquarters in KANSAS CITY.
After receiving a call from the SS, Chicago Postal Inspector Martin J. McGee ALLEDGELY telephoned Dallas Postal Inspector Cox, who in turn contacted Harry Holmes, who stated he thought *he (Holmes) would be able to find a record of a $21.45 money order in Dallas.*
NOTE: **Most of the background information relating to the $21.45 money order that is found in the reports of the US Post Office originated with Harry Holmes and, therefore, should be considered extremely suspect.**
Holmes told the WC, "I passed the information to the men (Dallas postal employees) who were looking for this money order 'STUB' to show which would designate, which would show the number of the money order, and that is the onley way you could find one...within 10 minutes they called back and said they had a money order in that amount issued on,.I don't know that I show, but it was that money order in an amount issued at the main post office, which is the same place as this post office box was at the time, box 2915, and the money order had been issued **early on the morning of March 12th**, 1963.
NOTE: ** US post offices always kept the end "stub" of all money orders sold to customers for their records. ***But neither Holmes nor anyone else produced the "stub" or any postal records to support his claim that Dallas postal employees in Dallas located the "stub" for postal money order No. 2,202,130,462.***
**Holmes told the WC the money order was issued ***early on the morning of March 12th.***, 1963. Yet there is nothing on a postal money order that shows the time of day it was sold. The Commission should have asked Holmes how he knew the money order was issued "**early on the morning of March 12, 1963.***"
**The only indication the money order was purchased on the morning of March 12 was the postmark show on the microfilm copy of the envelop ALLEDGELY mailed to Klein's which read, "10:30 am." The Kleins' microfilm was never shown to Holmes and therefore Holmes could not have known that a postal money order was issued ***early on the morning of March 12, 1963***. The only way Holmes could have known about the postmark would be if he had previously seen, or handled, the envelope, or if had been told to say that.**
At 3:30 pm (November 23) Harry Holmes contacted Inspector Lloyd H. Stephens in Fort Worth and told him that postal money order No. 2,202,130,462, in the amount of $21.45, had been used to pay for the rifle. Stephens then contacted Inspector Duggan in Washington, DC and gave him the same information.
Postal inspectors at the Federal Postal Money Order in Kansas City began searching for money order No. 2, 202,130,462, while a Postmaster General Staff meeting was held in Washington DC. A summary of the meeting prepared by the SS stated, "The initial request for the identification and location of the subject US Postal Money order had come from Postal Inspector Lloyd Stephens, Fort Worth, Texas.....as a result of a conference between Mr. Donald Duggan, Deputy Chief, Postal Inspection Service, Washington DC, and Postal Inspection Service at Fort Worth, Texas, **the original US Postal Money Order would be furnished to this service (Secret Service).**
At 7:30 pm (CST) Chicago Postal Inspector Glenn Knight advised Secrect Service Agent Griffith that Postal Inspectors were attempting to locate the postal money order in Kansas City. **Postal inspectors in
Kansas City had already spent 4 hours looking for postal money order No. 2,202,130,462, without success.**
The Federal Postal Money Order Center in Kansas City was the same facility at which 5 other postal money orders were located that had been purchased by Oswald and used to repay his $435.71 loan from the
Department of State. FBI SA Donald E. Stangel obtained the following information from the Department of State and the USPS.
He shows a chart with categories Ser # or M.O.; Amount; Issue Date; Location; and Rec'd by State Dept
The first 5 postal money orders (beginning with series 1,156,417,562) purchaed by Oswald in Fort Worth and Dallas were returned to the Federal Postal Money Order Center in Kansas City. The last 3 postal money ordrs (series 2,202,000,060) were returned to the Federal Records Center in Alexander, VA. Money order No. 2,202,130.462, ALLEDGELY purchased by Oswald from the GPO in Dallas, was ALLEDGELY located at the Federal Records Center in Alexandria, VA on the evening of November 23, 1963.
According to the serial numbers on these money orders, the GPO in Dallas sold approxiamtely 1200 money orders per week (3888 from November 14, 1962-December 6, 1962; 3475 from Jan. 5, 1963-Jan. 25,
1963). Using 1200 money orders per week as a guide, the serial number of the money order ALLEDGELY purchased by Oswald on Mar. 12, 1963, was 2,202,130,462 (***118,527 numbers higher***). This serial number indicates that this money order came from a stack of money orders that should not have been sold by the GPO in Dallas until late 1964 or early 1965, if sold in numerical order.
NOTE: **The Commission failed to ask the Postal Service when money orders beginning with 2,202,130 were sent to the Dallas GPO. They also failed to ask Holmes for the name of the postal employee who allededly found the "stub" for the $21.45 money order.** While Postal Inspectors continued to search for the $21.45 money order in Kansas City, Dallas Postal Inspector/FBI Informatn Harry Holmes advised the money ordr could be found in Washington DC. Holmes told the Commission, "This number (2,202,130,462) was transmitted to the Chief Inspector in Washington, who immediately got the money order center at Washington to begin a search, which they use IBM equipment to kick out his money order and sent it oer, ***so they said***, by special conveyance to the Secret Service, chief of the Secret Service at Washington now, and it turned out, ***so they said***, to be the correct money order. **Holmes was the first and only person in Dallas to know the number of the money order, and the first to suggest the money order could be located in Washington, DC.**
NOTE: **The WC could not understand why it took nearly ***16 hours*** to locate the money order. Harry Holmes said the delay was caused because the FBI provided him with incorrect information. Holmes said
the Bureau advised him the amount of the money order was $21.95 instead of $21.45, which caused him to look for a different money order, ***but not a single person corroborated Holmes' story.***
In Washington, DC, the Deputy Chief of the Postal Inspection Service, Donald D. Duggan, insturcted Postal Finance Officer ***J. Harold Marks*** to indicate a search for the money order in Washington, DC, at 6:30 PM (CST).
At 7:55 PM (CST), Chicago Secret Service Agent Griffith was told that postal money order No. 2,202,130,462 had been located in Washington, DC (8:55 EST). Griffith then telephoned agent Mroz, in Kansas City, and advised him the $21.45 postal money order had been recovered in Washington.
NOTE: **Apparently the Dallas FBI office was not aware the money order had been located. At 9:30 PM (CST) the Dallas office sent an airtel to the Director and SAC's in Chicago and New York. The message said, "Advised inst. money order could not be located today, but would be located *Nov. twenty four next."*
Postal money order No. 2,202,190,462 was ALLEDGELY found at the Federal Records Center in Alexandria, VA by Robert Jackson, *an employee of the National Archives.*
NOTE: **This $21.45 money order was never deposited into a financial institution and therefore could not have been routed through the banking system and returned to the Federal Records Center in Alexandria, VA. This money order was probably obtained from the GPO in Dallas in the early afternoon of November 23, hand-delivered to Washington, DC, and "planted" at the Federal Records Center in the early evening.**
**It remains unknown whether Robert Jackson "found" the money order at the Federal Records Center or it was given to him. There were no witnesses present and neither Jackson, Marks, Parker, nor anyone from the National Archives and Records Service were interviewed by the FBI, Secret Service, or Warren Commission.**
Robert Jackson hand-delivered the $21.45 money order to the home of **J. Harold Marks** in Washington, DC, who had been told to locate the money order by Deputy Chief Donald D. Duggan. A summary report prepared by Secret Service Agent Donald E. Burke on November 26, 1963 provided the details of how the money order was given to the Secret Service:
"At 10:10 PM (EST-9:10 CST) November 23 1963 SA Parker obtained the original US Postal Money Order from Mr. Harold Marks at Mr. Marks's home. At that time Jackson was identified as Robert H. Jackson, 2121 Lee Wood Drive, Alexandria, Virginia, telephone, SO 5-7501, and employee of the National Archives and Records Service....He informed SA Parker that he obtained subject original postal money order and surrendered it to Mr. Marks. Both Jackson and Marks initialed and dated the original money order, after which it was surrendered to SA Parker, who in turn initialed and dated the money order.
On the evening of November 23, 1963 the $21.45 postal money order was initialed and dated by Robert H. Jackson (RHJ), J. Harold Marks (JHM), and John E. Parker (JEP). A summary report by the SS explained how
copies of the money order were sent to the Dallas office:
"SA Phillips (Secret Service, Dallas) advised, after consultation.with Inspector Kelley of this service, that two photstats be made of subject postal money order and that these photostates be placed on Flight #107, Braniff Airlines, departing Washington, DC, at (9:00 am on November 24, 1963, and arriving at Dallas, Texas at 11:50 A.M.
SA Parker made five photostats of subject US Postal Money Order and placed them in an envelope. SA Parker surrendered the envelop to Captain Davis of Flight #107, Braniff Airlines, departing National Airport, Washington, DC, at 9 AM on November 24, 1963, for delivery to Special Agent in Charge, US Secret Service at Dallas.
"SA (Max D.) Phillips also requested that a chain of custody be maintained, and that ***original postal money order be retained by the Washington Field Office safe.***
SA Parker then surrendered the original US Postal Money Order to SAIC Gaiglein, which he had previously placed in a sealed white envelope.after which SA Parker placed the ***original US Postal Money Order sealed in this envelope in the WFO (Washington Field Office) safe.***
On the morning of November 24, 1963, Deputy Chief Paterni (Secret Service, Washington), when informed by SA John H. Grimes, Jr., of this ecret Service that the Postal Inspection Service, through Postal Inspector Joseph A. Verant advised that the original US Postal Money Order was being sought by the FBI, authorized SA Grimes to surrender the original Postal Money Order to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Immediately thereafter, while SA Grimes was attempting to make telephone contact with SAIC Glenn Gillies, Washington Field Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation, SA Leslie B. Chisholm, FBI, telephonicall contacted the reporting agent concerning this original US Postal Money Order. SA Chisholm was advised that the postal money order was available and he stated he or an agent of the FBI would.pick up this money order at the Washington Field Ofice of this Secret Service).
SA Grimes of this service removed the sealed envelope containing the original US Postal Money ORder from the WFO safe; removed the original money order from this envelope; initialed and dated the money order; made four photostats of it, and surrendered it to SA Chisholm of the FBI who executed a receipt."
On November 24, SA Chisholm delivered the original money order to James T. Freeman at the FBI laboratory in Washington, DC. The summary report continued:
"This paid order was located at the Records Center in Alexandria, Virginia on the early evening of November 23. It was turned over to a Secret Service agent in Washington, DC who flew it to Dallas."
NOTE: **The information that a secret service agent hand carried the.original money order to Dallas came from Harry Holmes. As we have seen, this did not happen and was yet another of Holmes' fabrications. ***Copies** of the money order were sent to Dallas,.but the original uncashed and undepostited money order was turned over to the FBI laborator.**
What is the origin of the unused $21.45 money order?
To be considered later.
Taken from Harvey and Lee pgs 461-67