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In the mid-1960s the District Attorney of New Orleans, Jim Garrison, began an investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK). Some may wonder why he did this as he was in New Orleans and not Dallas. The reason for this investigation was to look into the actions of the accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) as he had spent the spring and summer in New Orleans during 1963.
The first thing that caught Garrison's attention was how the FBI interviewed New Orleans resident David Ferrie and decided in an extremely fast manner that he had nothing to do with the events of November 22, 1963. This was the beginning of a journey that would last years and take him on roads he never imagined.
One of the people he took an interest in was the Dallas socialite Baron George de Mohrenschildt. Why would a man who ran in upper echelon circles, with a membership in the Petroleum Club, be interested in a loner like LHO? On paper, they had nothing in common. LHO went around acting like he was a Marxist and de Mohrenschildt was a White Russian (anti-Communist). De Mohrenschildt was a professional engineer and LHO was an hourly worker. De Mohrenschildt was high society and LHO was anything but. They did share interest in some topics however and this would be the glue that held their acquaintanceship together.
On October 8, 1962, LHO moved to Dallas and chose a residence about 30 miles from where de Mohrenschildt lived. LHO almost immediately went to the Texas Employment Agency to find a job and Garrison felt this action indicated an association with the intelligence community.
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Oswald's visit to the employment office may well have been an obligatory gesture in accordance with the Golden Rule of the Intelligence Community that the pre-existing economic circumstances of an individual entering clandestine intelligence are rigidly maintained in appearance after he becomes an intelligence agent. For example, if a newly recruited, previously poor deep-cover agent were to abandon his long familiar threadbare wardrobe overnight and begin wearing Brooks Brothers suits and driving, perhaps, a new Chrysler LeBaron convertible, he never again would be the same fellow so long undeserving of a second glance and, consequently, so productive to clandestine operations. ("On The Trail Of The Assassins", p. 52, hardcover edition)
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Beyond the economic aspects, this action may explain how a supposed defector to the Soviet Union obtained a job at a top-secret firm like Jagger-Stovall-Chiles so fast. Based on LHO's alleged actions in Russia he should never have been hired by a firm that dealt with top-secret maps and vitally key information for the military. The ONLY way this makes any sense is if you recognize his actions in Russia as being part of an intelligence operation. Then his U-2 experience and knowledge as well as his experience with intelligence would make sense in this hire. Especially when we consider that he was hired within a week of arriving in Dallas. Why was a firm involved in top-secret information so fast to hire him?
Another thing to consider is the fact that October 1962 was the month that almost brought us to a nuclear war as the "Cuban Missile Crisis" was raging. Did de Mohrenschildt help LHO get this job? How else do we explain how LHO passed a vigorous security clearance so fast IF the official story is correct? He should not have passed at all if the it is true. Did his contacts in the intelligence world secure this job for him? Remember, he was a communist who had defected to the Soviet Union and threatened to give away top-secret U-2 information to the Russians according to the Warren Commission (WC). Then he is hired by Jagger-Stovall-Chiles to work with top-secret U-2 maps and information in a quick process. Does any of this make any sense to you IF he was not working for the intelligence community?
We can carry the same official scenario to de Mohreschildt and ask why the White Russian community of Dallas would accept a man who claimed to be a big believer in communism so wholeheartedly? They even embraced his Russian wife who had been a member of communist organization too. Why would anti-communists (some may have even been pro-Nazi) welcome LHO and Marina and provide milk and food for them?
Here is what Garrison wrote about de Mohrenschildt's background.
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...His father, Baron Sergius de Mohrenschildt, had been governor of the province of Minsk for the czar. The family had fled from the communists after the 1917 revolution. De Mohrenschildt spoke Russian, French, German, Spanish and Polish. In World War II he had worked for French Intelligence. This polished member of the polo-playing set possessed a doctorate in international commerce and a master's degree in petroleum engineering and geology. (Ibid., p. 53)
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Why would he be interested in LHO enough to spend a good bit of time with him if it wasn't tied to an intelligence operation? De Mohrenschildt was friends with Jean de Menil who was the president of the international Schlumberger Corporation which had ties to the CIA. Both had ties to the French OAS which had revolted against French President Charles de Gaulle in 1961. Does this really seem like the company LHO, the supposed loner, would be welcomed into in 1962? Garrison gives up more background on de Mohrenschildt.
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De Mohrenschildt had traveled to the far corners of the world. He had visited Ghana in the role of a stamp collector, although he was actively involved in the oil business at the time and did not collect stamps. In Yugoslavia he had spent an entire year representing the International Cooperation Administration, a well-known Central Intelligence Agency front in Washington. He had been in Guatemala when, coincidently, much of the C.I.A.'s combat training of the anti-Castro Cubans who invaded the Bay of Pigs took place. And later he moved to Haiti, where he became involved in a "government-oriented" (to borrow the Warren Commision report's phrase) business venture. (Ibid., p. 54)
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This recap of de Mohrenschildt's movements illustrates that he was either very unlucky to be in areas where things related to the CIA were going on or he was part of the CIA's structure. Another couple, Anna and Teofil Meller had seen a copy of "Das Kapital" on a table at LHO's apartment and this caused concern for them to the point that Teofil called the FBI. When he reported this to the FBI a spokesman told him that LHO was "all right." Why would the FBI say this about a man who supposedly defected to the Soviet Union and given away top-secret information? Doesn't this sound more like the FBI acknowledging that LHO was doing the work of the good guys (i.e. our intelligence)?
Garrison would come to the conclusion that de Mohrenschildt had been working for the CIA during his investigation.
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Although George de Mohrenschildt probably had been given no indication of the catastrophe waiting down the road, there is no little doubt that he had been operating under deep-cover as an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency. It is equally apparent that his assignment was to bring Oswald from Fort Worth to Dallas and thereafter to serve as one of his "baby-sitters." (Ibid., pp. 55-56)
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It has been apparent for decades now that de Mohrenschildt was a handler for LHO, but he had at some point become uncomfortable with this arrangement. Either he learned more about the impending assassination of JFK or he just grew a bond with LHO and he did not like how he was being used. Garrison said that he began to communicate with de Mohrenschildt during his investigation and that he told him continually that LHO was not capable of shooting anyone or anything. He told Garrison that it was "just not in him" to harm anything or anyone. Since de Mohrenschildt fled to Haiti it is possible that he learned of the plans to kill JFK and he left to make sure that he did not get ensnared in the trap as well.
Was his plan to pass them off to the Paines? He would bring LHO and Marina to a party in February 1963 and make sure that they met Ruth and Michael Paine. The Paines have been suspected of having ties to the CIA as well for decades. Perhaps the CIA were planning on widening their coverage of watching LHO, but perhaps de Mohrenschildt saw the opportunity to extricate himself from the situation entirely. Or, was this just a planned transition of "baby-sitters?" The same month de Mohrenschildt fled for Haiti, April 1963, LHO left for New Orleans for what Garrison called "sheep-dipping." When he got back his new handlers were set up to be Ruth and Michael Paine.
De Mohrenschildt had a lot of ties to the CIA. Here are more about that and his trip to Haiti.
J. Walton Moore of the CIA's Domestic Contact Service in Dallas would tell the WC that he had ONLY two contacts with George de Mohrenschildt, but the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) showed this was false when they looked at the issue during their probe. The claim of only two meetings was contained in a April 13, 1977, memorandum Moore had done for the Agency. He would deny any discussion of LHO with de Mohrenschildt. However, the HSCA cited a May 1, 1964, memorandum in which Moore said he had known the de Mohrenschildts since 1957. During his March 14, 1978, testimony he had to REVISE his statement to “periodic debriefings” of de Mohrenschildt from ONLY two meetings. This showed he LIED in his 1977 memorandum. He continued to deny that he ever discussed LHO with de Mohrenschildt though and said the claim that he had told him to contact LHO was false, but who can believe him now? What would you expect him to say? For the full details go here:
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This look at de Mohrenshildt by the HSCA contained information regarding the President of Haiti too that could be construed as suspicious. In September 1964 a reporter by the name of Norman Gale of the Washington Post published an article that looked into activities of Francois Duvalier. The article would claim the following:
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1—Two T-28 fighters were sent ILLEGALLY to Duvalier from Dallas, Texas.
2—Duvalier made a down payment on the planes with a line of credit worth $210,000 drawn from the Banque Commerciale Port-au-Prince. Clemand Joseph Charles was the principle stockholder of that bank and he was a close friend of Duvalier.
3—Charles had visited the U.S. earlier in 1963 to purchase boats and weapons and he had spent time in Dallas, Texas during his trip.
4—I. Irving Davidson, a Washington lobbyist, visited Haiti in May 1963 with two Dallas arms suppliers.
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When interviewed by the HSCA on November 2, 1978, Davidson would deny all of this. Davidson would say that he was contacted in 1967 by Leonard Davidov and Hugh MacDonald because they wanted Davidson to make inquiries involving de Mohrenschildt’s background. Davidson said they were working to uncover evidence showing de Mohrenschildt was involved in JFK’s murder and that President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) had advanced knowledge that it would happen.
On page 60 of the same summary we see more interesting stuff. We will see the names Joseph Dryer and Jacqueline Lancelot. Joseph Dryer worked as a stockbroker with Loeb & Rhodes & Co. in Palm Beach, Florida, and Jacqueline Lancelot owned a well-known restaurant in Petionville, Haiti. Here is what the HSCA reported.
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(74) Dryer said in the interview that Lancelot told him shortly after the Kennedy assassination that a “substantial” amount of money, $200,000 or $250,000, had been deposited in de Mohrenschildt’s account in a bank in Port-au-Prince. According to Lancelot it was not Charles’ bank. Lancelot said her source of information was the person who handed out the funds at the bank. The money in the account was subsequently paid out, although she did not know to whom, and de Mohrenschildt left Haiti soon after.
(75) According to Dryer, Lancelot related to him that President Duvalier had once implied that the American President might not remain in office. Lancelot reportedly said that during a speech to Haitian troops in a port city, Duvalier allegedly said “that the big man in the White House wasn’t going to be there much longer.” Lancelot told Dryer she was not sure if that statement was made by Duvalier before or after President Kennedy’s assassination. (HSCA, XII, pp. 60-61)
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We again see the possibility of President Duvalier having advanced knowledge of what was to come. The U.S. had tried to exert control over Haiti for a long time, and with de Mohrenschildt’s trip there in April 1963 he could have been the conduit for such a plan. With his long list of suspicious ties to the intelligence world we can only imagine what was asked of him. The large amount of money being deposited into his account shortly after November 22, 1963, is cause for alarm too. Was it for his role in the assassination or for his help in framing LHO for the murder?
On page 49 of the same summary the HSCA noted concern about his untimely death too.
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This probe [of de Mohrenschildt’s background] seemed justified in view of the controversy that continues to surround the relationship [with LHO], and the additional speculation that was caused by the apparent suicide of de Mohrenschildt in 1977 ON THE DAY HE WAS CONTACTED BY both an investigator [Fonzi] from the committee and a writer about Oswald. (HSCA, XII, p. 49) (Emphasis added)
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He had NO problem speaking with Epstein and granted a long interview, so why would he kill himself over doing the same with the HSCA? It would seem more likely someone else did NOT want him speaking with the HSCA about what he knew. By the time of the of the request by the HSCA de Mohrenschildt was a troubled man and one who would have said way more than he should have in all likelihood. As with the WC hearings, many would die around the time of the HSCA inquiry too. Far too many for it to be just another coincidence.
What de Mohrenschildt’s actual role was in all of this will probably never be known fully, but we have the comment he made in his manuscript he was working on for some evidence that sinks the WC’s conclusion about the murder of Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit. The working title of the book was I Am A Patsy! I Am A Patsy! and this alone sheds doubt on him killing himself to me as he had this book to finish. In the very first paragraph he calls LHO the “supposed assassin” instead of THE assassin. He says this later on about his and his wife’s depositions before the WC’s lawyer.
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Although our depositions were supposed to remain confidential, all three hundred pages of irrelevant conversation were printed and promiscuously distributed. Actually our depositions were longer than Marina’s and Ms. Marguerite Oswald’s put together. Why?
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We assume two reasons—to waste taxpayer’s money and to distract attention of the American people from the people involved in the assassination of President Kennedy…And all of this because my wife and I liked Lee Harvey Oswald, tried to defend him, and because Lee said, before he died: “I liked and admired George de Mohrenschildt.”
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He summed up quickly what the purpose of the WC was—to DISTRACT the American people from the people who assassinated JFK. De Mohrenschildt wrote this much later in his book about the type of pistol he saw LHO with.
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The BERETTA we saw in his apartment was well oiled and immaculately clean.[/font] Another bow to the United States Marine Corps. But whatever later testimony tried to prove, I knew he was NOT particularly a good shot. (George de Mohrenschildt, I Am A Patsy! I Am A Patsy!, p. 269) (Emphasis added)
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It would seem according to de Mohreschildt, LHO owned a Beretta pistol, thus we have to ask, why would he buy a much cheaper and less reliable revolver? Also, note how he said LHO cleaned and maintained his pistol while the WC could NOT produce any evidence he had any cleaning equipment in his possession. How do we balance these two different situations?
It is clear that de Mohrenschildt was involved in some way in keeping tabs on LHO, but to his credit he never spoke ill of him after his death.
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In the mid-1960s the District Attorney of New Orleans, Jim Garrison, began an investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK). Some may wonder why he did this as he was in New Orleans and not Dallas. The reason for this investigation was to look into the actions of the accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) as he had spent the spring and summer in New Orleans during 1963.
The first thing that caught Garrison's attention was how the FBI interviewed New Orleans resident David Ferrie and decided in an extremely fast manner that he had nothing to do with the events of November 22, 1963. This was the beginning of a journey that would last years and take him on roads he never imagined.
One of the people he took an interest in was the Dallas socialite Baron George de Mohrenschildt. Why would a man who ran in upper echelon circles, with a membership in the Petroleum Club, be interested in a loner like LHO? On paper, they had nothing in common. LHO went around acting like he was a Marxist and de Mohrenschildt was a White Russian (anti-Communist). De Mohrenschildt was a professional engineer and LHO was an hourly worker. De Mohrenschildt was high society and LHO was anything but. They did share interest in some topics however and this would be the glue that held their acquaintanceship together.
On October 8, 1962, LHO moved to Dallas and chose a residence about 30 miles from where de Mohrenschildt lived. LHO almost immediately went to the Texas Employment Agency to find a job and Garrison felt this action indicated an association with the intelligence community.
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Oswald's visit to the employment office may well have been an obligatory gesture in accordance with the Golden Rule of the Intelligence Community that the pre-existing economic circumstances of an individual entering clandestine intelligence are rigidly maintained in appearance after he becomes an intelligence agent. For example, if a newly recruited, previously poor deep-cover agent were to abandon his long familiar threadbare wardrobe overnight and begin wearing Brooks Brothers suits and driving, perhaps, a new Chrysler LeBaron convertible, he never again would be the same fellow so long undeserving of a second glance and, consequently, so productive to clandestine operations. ("On The Trail Of The Assassins", p. 52, hardcover edition)
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Beyond the economic aspects, this action may explain how a supposed defector to the Soviet Union obtained a job at a top-secret firm like Jagger-Stovall-Chiles so fast. Based on LHO's alleged actions in Russia he should never have been hired by a firm that dealt with top-secret maps and vitally key information for the military. The ONLY way this makes any sense is if you recognize his actions in Russia as being part of an intelligence operation. Then his U-2 experience and knowledge as well as his experience with intelligence would make sense in this hire. Especially when we consider that he was hired within a week of arriving in Dallas. Why was a firm involved in top-secret information so fast to hire him?
Another thing to consider is the fact that October 1962 was the month that almost brought us to a nuclear war as the "Cuban Missile Crisis" was raging. Did de Mohrenschildt help LHO get this job? How else do we explain how LHO passed a vigorous security clearance so fast IF the official story is correct? He should not have passed at all if the it is true. Did his contacts in the intelligence world secure this job for him? Remember, he was a communist who had defected to the Soviet Union and threatened to give away top-secret U-2 information to the Russians according to the Warren Commission (WC). Then he is hired by Jagger-Stovall-Chiles to work with top-secret U-2 maps and information in a quick process. Does any of this make any sense to you IF he was not working for the intelligence community?
We can carry the same official scenario to de Mohreschildt and ask why the White Russian community of Dallas would accept a man who claimed to be a big believer in communism so wholeheartedly? They even embraced his Russian wife who had been a member of communist organization too. Why would anti-communists (some may have even been pro-Nazi) welcome LHO and Marina and provide milk and food for them?
Here is what Garrison wrote about de Mohrenschildt's background.
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...His father, Baron Sergius de Mohrenschildt, had been governor of the province of Minsk for the czar. The family had fled from the communists after the 1917 revolution. De Mohrenschildt spoke Russian, French, German, Spanish and Polish. In World War II he had worked for French Intelligence. This polished member of the polo-playing set possessed a doctorate in international commerce and a master's degree in petroleum engineering and geology. (Ibid., p. 53)
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Why would he be interested in LHO enough to spend a good bit of time with him if it wasn't tied to an intelligence operation? De Mohrenschildt was friends with Jean de Menil who was the president of the international Schlumberger Corporation which had ties to the CIA. Both had ties to the French OAS which had revolted against French President Charles de Gaulle in 1961. Does this really seem like the company LHO, the supposed loner, would be welcomed into in 1962? Garrison gives up more background on de Mohrenschildt.
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De Mohrenschildt had traveled to the far corners of the world. He had visited Ghana in the role of a stamp collector, although he was actively involved in the oil business at the time and did not collect stamps. In Yugoslavia he had spent an entire year representing the International Cooperation Administration, a well-known Central Intelligence Agency front in Washington. He had been in Guatemala when, coincidently, much of the C.I.A.'s combat training of the anti-Castro Cubans who invaded the Bay of Pigs took place. And later he moved to Haiti, where he became involved in a "government-oriented" (to borrow the Warren Commision report's phrase) business venture. (Ibid., p. 54)
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This recap of de Mohrenschildt's movements illustrates that he was either very unlucky to be in areas where things related to the CIA were going on or he was part of the CIA's structure. Another couple, Anna and Teofil Meller had seen a copy of "Das Kapital" on a table at LHO's apartment and this caused concern for them to the point that Teofil called the FBI. When he reported this to the FBI a spokesman told him that LHO was "all right." Why would the FBI say this about a man who supposedly defected to the Soviet Union and given away top-secret information? Doesn't this sound more like the FBI acknowledging that LHO was doing the work of the good guys (i.e. our intelligence)?
Garrison would come to the conclusion that de Mohrenschildt had been working for the CIA during his investigation.
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Although George de Mohrenschildt probably had been given no indication of the catastrophe waiting down the road, there is no little doubt that he had been operating under deep-cover as an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency. It is equally apparent that his assignment was to bring Oswald from Fort Worth to Dallas and thereafter to serve as one of his "baby-sitters." (Ibid., pp. 55-56)
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It has been apparent for decades now that de Mohrenschildt was a handler for LHO, but he had at some point become uncomfortable with this arrangement. Either he learned more about the impending assassination of JFK or he just grew a bond with LHO and he did not like how he was being used. Garrison said that he began to communicate with de Mohrenschildt during his investigation and that he told him continually that LHO was not capable of shooting anyone or anything. He told Garrison that it was "just not in him" to harm anything or anyone. Since de Mohrenschildt fled to Haiti it is possible that he learned of the plans to kill JFK and he left to make sure that he did not get ensnared in the trap as well.
Was his plan to pass them off to the Paines? He would bring LHO and Marina to a party in February 1963 and make sure that they met Ruth and Michael Paine. The Paines have been suspected of having ties to the CIA as well for decades. Perhaps the CIA were planning on widening their coverage of watching LHO, but perhaps de Mohrenschildt saw the opportunity to extricate himself from the situation entirely. Or, was this just a planned transition of "baby-sitters?" The same month de Mohrenschildt fled for Haiti, April 1963, LHO left for New Orleans for what Garrison called "sheep-dipping." When he got back his new handlers were set up to be Ruth and Michael Paine.
De Mohrenschildt had a lot of ties to the CIA. Here are more about that and his trip to Haiti.
J. Walton Moore of the CIA's Domestic Contact Service in Dallas would tell the WC that he had ONLY two contacts with George de Mohrenschildt, but the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) showed this was false when they looked at the issue during their probe. The claim of only two meetings was contained in a April 13, 1977, memorandum Moore had done for the Agency. He would deny any discussion of LHO with de Mohrenschildt. However, the HSCA cited a May 1, 1964, memorandum in which Moore said he had known the de Mohrenschildts since 1957. During his March 14, 1978, testimony he had to REVISE his statement to “periodic debriefings” of de Mohrenschildt from ONLY two meetings. This showed he LIED in his 1977 memorandum. He continued to deny that he ever discussed LHO with de Mohrenschildt though and said the claim that he had told him to contact LHO was false, but who can believe him now? What would you expect him to say? For the full details go here:
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This look at de Mohrenshildt by the HSCA contained information regarding the President of Haiti too that could be construed as suspicious. In September 1964 a reporter by the name of Norman Gale of the Washington Post published an article that looked into activities of Francois Duvalier. The article would claim the following:
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1—Two T-28 fighters were sent ILLEGALLY to Duvalier from Dallas, Texas.
2—Duvalier made a down payment on the planes with a line of credit worth $210,000 drawn from the Banque Commerciale Port-au-Prince. Clemand Joseph Charles was the principle stockholder of that bank and he was a close friend of Duvalier.
3—Charles had visited the U.S. earlier in 1963 to purchase boats and weapons and he had spent time in Dallas, Texas during his trip.
4—I. Irving Davidson, a Washington lobbyist, visited Haiti in May 1963 with two Dallas arms suppliers.
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When interviewed by the HSCA on November 2, 1978, Davidson would deny all of this. Davidson would say that he was contacted in 1967 by Leonard Davidov and Hugh MacDonald because they wanted Davidson to make inquiries involving de Mohrenschildt’s background. Davidson said they were working to uncover evidence showing de Mohrenschildt was involved in JFK’s murder and that President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) had advanced knowledge that it would happen.
On page 60 of the same summary we see more interesting stuff. We will see the names Joseph Dryer and Jacqueline Lancelot. Joseph Dryer worked as a stockbroker with Loeb & Rhodes & Co. in Palm Beach, Florida, and Jacqueline Lancelot owned a well-known restaurant in Petionville, Haiti. Here is what the HSCA reported.
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(74) Dryer said in the interview that Lancelot told him shortly after the Kennedy assassination that a “substantial” amount of money, $200,000 or $250,000, had been deposited in de Mohrenschildt’s account in a bank in Port-au-Prince. According to Lancelot it was not Charles’ bank. Lancelot said her source of information was the person who handed out the funds at the bank. The money in the account was subsequently paid out, although she did not know to whom, and de Mohrenschildt left Haiti soon after.
(75) According to Dryer, Lancelot related to him that President Duvalier had once implied that the American President might not remain in office. Lancelot reportedly said that during a speech to Haitian troops in a port city, Duvalier allegedly said “that the big man in the White House wasn’t going to be there much longer.” Lancelot told Dryer she was not sure if that statement was made by Duvalier before or after President Kennedy’s assassination. (HSCA, XII, pp. 60-61)
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We again see the possibility of President Duvalier having advanced knowledge of what was to come. The U.S. had tried to exert control over Haiti for a long time, and with de Mohrenschildt’s trip there in April 1963 he could have been the conduit for such a plan. With his long list of suspicious ties to the intelligence world we can only imagine what was asked of him. The large amount of money being deposited into his account shortly after November 22, 1963, is cause for alarm too. Was it for his role in the assassination or for his help in framing LHO for the murder?
On page 49 of the same summary the HSCA noted concern about his untimely death too.
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This probe [of de Mohrenschildt’s background] seemed justified in view of the controversy that continues to surround the relationship [with LHO], and the additional speculation that was caused by the apparent suicide of de Mohrenschildt in 1977 ON THE DAY HE WAS CONTACTED BY both an investigator [Fonzi] from the committee and a writer about Oswald. (HSCA, XII, p. 49) (Emphasis added)
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He had NO problem speaking with Epstein and granted a long interview, so why would he kill himself over doing the same with the HSCA? It would seem more likely someone else did NOT want him speaking with the HSCA about what he knew. By the time of the of the request by the HSCA de Mohrenschildt was a troubled man and one who would have said way more than he should have in all likelihood. As with the WC hearings, many would die around the time of the HSCA inquiry too. Far too many for it to be just another coincidence.
What de Mohrenschildt’s actual role was in all of this will probably never be known fully, but we have the comment he made in his manuscript he was working on for some evidence that sinks the WC’s conclusion about the murder of Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit. The working title of the book was I Am A Patsy! I Am A Patsy! and this alone sheds doubt on him killing himself to me as he had this book to finish. In the very first paragraph he calls LHO the “supposed assassin” instead of THE assassin. He says this later on about his and his wife’s depositions before the WC’s lawyer.
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Although our depositions were supposed to remain confidential, all three hundred pages of irrelevant conversation were printed and promiscuously distributed. Actually our depositions were longer than Marina’s and Ms. Marguerite Oswald’s put together. Why?
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We assume two reasons—to waste taxpayer’s money and to distract attention of the American people from the people involved in the assassination of President Kennedy…And all of this because my wife and I liked Lee Harvey Oswald, tried to defend him, and because Lee said, before he died: “I liked and admired George de Mohrenschildt.”
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He summed up quickly what the purpose of the WC was—to DISTRACT the American people from the people who assassinated JFK. De Mohrenschildt wrote this much later in his book about the type of pistol he saw LHO with.
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The BERETTA we saw in his apartment was well oiled and immaculately clean.[/font] Another bow to the United States Marine Corps. But whatever later testimony tried to prove, I knew he was NOT particularly a good shot. (George de Mohrenschildt, I Am A Patsy! I Am A Patsy!, p. 269) (Emphasis added)
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It would seem according to de Mohreschildt, LHO owned a Beretta pistol, thus we have to ask, why would he buy a much cheaper and less reliable revolver? Also, note how he said LHO cleaned and maintained his pistol while the WC could NOT produce any evidence he had any cleaning equipment in his possession. How do we balance these two different situations?
It is clear that de Mohrenschildt was involved in some way in keeping tabs on LHO, but to his credit he never spoke ill of him after his death.