Post by Gil Jesus on Dec 16, 2021 15:50:17 GMT -5
The Sins of the Dallas Postal Inspector
by Gil Jesus (2021)
In 1975, it was revealed that agents of the Federal Bureau of investigation opened and photographed foreign and domestic mail at several sites in the United States beginning in 1958 and continuing until 1970.
The openings were centered in New York and Washington, where they involved chiefly mail addressed to Soviet‐bloc embassies and missions to the United Nations, but occurred also in other cities, including San Francisco.
The openings, known within the F.B.I. as “Zcovers,” were accomplished without the authority of judicial search warrants and were thus a violation of Federal statutes prohibiting obstruction of the mails. They had been made with the assistance of “certain officials of the Post Office [who] knew what the F.B.I. was doing.”
An F.B.I. spokesman issued the following statement:
“In connection with its foreign counterintelligence responsibilities, the F.B.I. did engage in opening of mail until 1966, when former Director J. Edgar Hoover ordered the activity to be discontinued. The motive behind it was solely to carry out F.B.I. counterintelligence responsibilities in order to thwart espionage efforts directed against the United States by foreign powers. No activities of this nature were undertaken by the F.B.I. after 1966.”
A spokesman for the Postal Service said that his agency would have no comment on the report “at this time.” (1975)
The bureau's unusual confirmation represents the first disclosure that the F.B.I. participated in the opening and photographing of parcels and letters it believed to be of some intelligence value.
www.nytimes.com/1975/08/06/archives/opening-of-mail-is-traced-to-fbi-agency-concedes-operation-declares.html
Under these conditions, there is no way that the Dallas FBI and Post Office were not aware of Lee Harvey Oswald.
As an FBI informant, Dallas Postal Inspector Harry Holmes held the distinction of having not one but TWO informant codes, T-2 and T-10.
Holmes was a major player in the conspiracy to frame Oswald by supplying the FBI with the fake postal documents they needed in order to "link" Oswald to the rifle.
Among his several contributions were:
1. The destruction of part 3 of the post office box application that showed "A. Hidell" could not receive a rifle at box 2915.
2. A postal money order that was taken from a bundle not yet opened and after Oswald's arrest, pre-dated with a stamp dated 3/12/63.
3. An envelope also postmarked 3/12/63 at 10:30 am.
From the destruction of part 3 of the post office box application being "procedure", to his not knowing when he learned Oswald had box 2915, to his handling of mail and packages to persons not authorized, Holmes repeatedly violated postal regulations and lied about it to the Commission.
Let me lay out for you a scenario of how I believe this framing took place. Keep in mind this is just my opinion based on the evidence.
In the early morning of Saturday, November 23rd, the FBI contacted the Dallas Post Office to inquire how they could obtain an "original" post office money order. (7 H 293) The postal inspector on duty at the time, being an honest man, misunderstood their request as being for a fully processed money order. He told the agent who called that they'd have to contact Washington, but they'd need the number of the money order to track it down. When Holmes showed up for work, the postal inspector told him of the call, whereas Holmes proceeded to his office. (ibid.)
He called the FBI to find out what they wanted (7 H 294) and found out that they wanted a blank money order. He was told that payment was received on 3/13/63 for the amount of $21.45 and the rifle was shipped on 3/20/63.
In order to tie Oswald to the money order, it would have to be stamped in Dallas. I seriously doubt Holmes would have left this secretive a task to a subordinate. He would have handled this himself. Holmes then went to an unopen stack of blank money orders and took one out.
He stamped the money order with the date of 3/12/63, added the amount of $ 21.45 and postmarked the envelope with the same date and a time of 10:30am and marked it "airmail" to ensure that it "made it" to Chicago on the 13th.
Having the date of mid March, he added a blank order form that he cut out of a February 1963 issue of American Rifleman that was in the "nixie" section of the Dallas Post Office.
He then used the number off the money order stub to notify Washington of the number so when they received it, they knew it was the right one.
The money order, envelope and order blank were flown by special courier to the FBI in Chicago, where Klein's endorsement stamp could be put on the back of the money order. From there, it was flown directly to Washington, where the "Oswald handwriting" could be copied from documents the FBI already had in their possession. It was officially "found" at 8pm Saturday night, some 7 hours after postal officials had been notified of the number.
Plenty of time for a private flight to Washington with a stopover in Chicago for a quick stamp.
This explains why the money order does not have the stamp of any financial institution on it nor the stamp of the Federal Reserve Bank.
It never went through the system.
As icing on the cake, all original documents were microfilmed by the FBI before they were destroyed. This would make identification of the handwriting more difficult and would hide any hint that the documents were forgeries.
Like the Walker bullet, none of the people who allegedly handled this money order and whose initials were on the back were called to testify about its authenticity.
Also, none of the Dallas postal employees were ever called to establish that Oswald purchased the money order. Neither the postal employee who "found the stub" nor the postal inspector who took the call from the FBI on Saturday morning were ever identified.
There is no supporting evidence that anything Harry Holmes said about the money order was the truth. Contacts he claimed to have made in Chicago and Washington were never called to testify in support of his claims.
And under those conditions, we must be very suspicious of Mr. Harry Holmes and his role in the framing of Lee Harvey Oswald.
At least, that's what the evidence tells me.
Next week: Part IV --- The Sins of the Commission's Lawyers
by Gil Jesus (2021)
In 1975, it was revealed that agents of the Federal Bureau of investigation opened and photographed foreign and domestic mail at several sites in the United States beginning in 1958 and continuing until 1970.
The openings were centered in New York and Washington, where they involved chiefly mail addressed to Soviet‐bloc embassies and missions to the United Nations, but occurred also in other cities, including San Francisco.
The openings, known within the F.B.I. as “Zcovers,” were accomplished without the authority of judicial search warrants and were thus a violation of Federal statutes prohibiting obstruction of the mails. They had been made with the assistance of “certain officials of the Post Office [who] knew what the F.B.I. was doing.”
An F.B.I. spokesman issued the following statement:
“In connection with its foreign counterintelligence responsibilities, the F.B.I. did engage in opening of mail until 1966, when former Director J. Edgar Hoover ordered the activity to be discontinued. The motive behind it was solely to carry out F.B.I. counterintelligence responsibilities in order to thwart espionage efforts directed against the United States by foreign powers. No activities of this nature were undertaken by the F.B.I. after 1966.”
A spokesman for the Postal Service said that his agency would have no comment on the report “at this time.” (1975)
The bureau's unusual confirmation represents the first disclosure that the F.B.I. participated in the opening and photographing of parcels and letters it believed to be of some intelligence value.
www.nytimes.com/1975/08/06/archives/opening-of-mail-is-traced-to-fbi-agency-concedes-operation-declares.html
Under these conditions, there is no way that the Dallas FBI and Post Office were not aware of Lee Harvey Oswald.
As an FBI informant, Dallas Postal Inspector Harry Holmes held the distinction of having not one but TWO informant codes, T-2 and T-10.
Holmes was a major player in the conspiracy to frame Oswald by supplying the FBI with the fake postal documents they needed in order to "link" Oswald to the rifle.
Among his several contributions were:
1. The destruction of part 3 of the post office box application that showed "A. Hidell" could not receive a rifle at box 2915.
2. A postal money order that was taken from a bundle not yet opened and after Oswald's arrest, pre-dated with a stamp dated 3/12/63.
3. An envelope also postmarked 3/12/63 at 10:30 am.
From the destruction of part 3 of the post office box application being "procedure", to his not knowing when he learned Oswald had box 2915, to his handling of mail and packages to persons not authorized, Holmes repeatedly violated postal regulations and lied about it to the Commission.
Let me lay out for you a scenario of how I believe this framing took place. Keep in mind this is just my opinion based on the evidence.
In the early morning of Saturday, November 23rd, the FBI contacted the Dallas Post Office to inquire how they could obtain an "original" post office money order. (7 H 293) The postal inspector on duty at the time, being an honest man, misunderstood their request as being for a fully processed money order. He told the agent who called that they'd have to contact Washington, but they'd need the number of the money order to track it down. When Holmes showed up for work, the postal inspector told him of the call, whereas Holmes proceeded to his office. (ibid.)
He called the FBI to find out what they wanted (7 H 294) and found out that they wanted a blank money order. He was told that payment was received on 3/13/63 for the amount of $21.45 and the rifle was shipped on 3/20/63.
In order to tie Oswald to the money order, it would have to be stamped in Dallas. I seriously doubt Holmes would have left this secretive a task to a subordinate. He would have handled this himself. Holmes then went to an unopen stack of blank money orders and took one out.
He stamped the money order with the date of 3/12/63, added the amount of $ 21.45 and postmarked the envelope with the same date and a time of 10:30am and marked it "airmail" to ensure that it "made it" to Chicago on the 13th.
Having the date of mid March, he added a blank order form that he cut out of a February 1963 issue of American Rifleman that was in the "nixie" section of the Dallas Post Office.
He then used the number off the money order stub to notify Washington of the number so when they received it, they knew it was the right one.
The money order, envelope and order blank were flown by special courier to the FBI in Chicago, where Klein's endorsement stamp could be put on the back of the money order. From there, it was flown directly to Washington, where the "Oswald handwriting" could be copied from documents the FBI already had in their possession. It was officially "found" at 8pm Saturday night, some 7 hours after postal officials had been notified of the number.
Plenty of time for a private flight to Washington with a stopover in Chicago for a quick stamp.
This explains why the money order does not have the stamp of any financial institution on it nor the stamp of the Federal Reserve Bank.
It never went through the system.
As icing on the cake, all original documents were microfilmed by the FBI before they were destroyed. This would make identification of the handwriting more difficult and would hide any hint that the documents were forgeries.
Like the Walker bullet, none of the people who allegedly handled this money order and whose initials were on the back were called to testify about its authenticity.
Also, none of the Dallas postal employees were ever called to establish that Oswald purchased the money order. Neither the postal employee who "found the stub" nor the postal inspector who took the call from the FBI on Saturday morning were ever identified.
There is no supporting evidence that anything Harry Holmes said about the money order was the truth. Contacts he claimed to have made in Chicago and Washington were never called to testify in support of his claims.
And under those conditions, we must be very suspicious of Mr. Harry Holmes and his role in the framing of Lee Harvey Oswald.
At least, that's what the evidence tells me.
Next week: Part IV --- The Sins of the Commission's Lawyers