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Dallas Petroleum Club:
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George de Mohrenschildt:
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Jim Braden, a.k.a. Eugene Hale Brading:
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In the mid-1960s New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison began an investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK). He had questioned a few members of New Orleans society about this event (David Ferrie and Clay Shaw) and became suspicious of a plot being involved based out of New Orleans. This would lead to the arrest and indictment of Clay Shaw and eventually he would stand trial for his alleged part in the assassination.
One place had ties to several key people in this case and this drew the attention of Garrison -- it was the Dallas Petroleum Club (DPC). The most obvious tie was Baron George de Mohrenschildt as he was a member of the club, and this makes sense since De Mohrenschildt was a geologist and a petroleum engineer. De Mohrenschildt would be asked about this when he testified before the Warren Commission (WC) and the interesting part is the WC brought it up as de Mohrenschildt was not going to mention it.
Mr. JENNER. Of what groups have you been a member? And of what groups are you a member?
Mr. De MOHRENSCHILDT. I am not a member of any group. Maybe that is something against me, because I am not a member of any group. I am not a member--I am not interested. I am too busy.
Mr. JENNER. You are a member of the Petroleum Club in Dallas?
Mr. De MOHRENSCHILDT. If you call that a group; yes.
Mr. JENNER. It is a group.
Mr. De MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; a member of the Dallas Petroleum Club.
You will notice that the WC even said that it was a "group", so why was De Mohrenschildt afraid to mention his membership there? Let's have Garrison explain why this is relevant.
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De Mohrenschildt had become a consulting geologist and had become a member of the exclusive Dallas Petroleum Club with extremely affluent contacts in the business world. Among his close friends, one of the more interesting was Jean de Menil, the president of the mammoth international Schlumberger Corporation, which had close ties to the Central Intelligence Agency.*
*The C.I.A. and Schlumberger had a mutual interest in the O.A.S, an organization led by former French generals who had revolted against President Charles DeGaulle in 1961 when Algeria was in the process of winning its independence. The Agency had been a staunch, although secret, supporter of the French anti-Gaullist movement. ("On The Trail Of The Assassins", Jim Garrison, p. 53 [hardcover edition])
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This shows the affluent "elbows" de Mohrenschildt would be rubbing at this exclusive club. Why was he shy to mention his membership before the WC? Shouldn't he have been proud of this? Furthermore, why would a pillar in the White Russian community (rabid anti-Communists) want to hang around with a loner Communist like Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO)? Doesn't this seem odd to you? What did LHO have to do with the petroleum industry or anything de Mohrenschildt would have been interested in?
Notice his friendship with de Menil who was president of the Schlumberger Corporation which had ties to the CIA. This corporation was covered earlier in this series when we were looking at Gordon Novel. Here is some information about them.
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‘To polygraph operators and to friends and associates,’ the paper [New Orleans States-Item] wrote, ‘Novel has said the munition burglary was no burglary at all—but a war material pickup made at the direction of his CIA contact.’ Novel indicated that the Schlumberger bunker at the blimp base was in actuality ‘a CIA staging point for munitions destined to be used as part of abortive Bay of Pigs attack on Castro’s Cuba.’ (Ibid., p. 180)
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This shows us that Schlumberger was using at least one of their ammunition bunkers to store ammunition and explosives for the CIA for their operations with anti-Castro Cubans. How many other bunkers were being used by the CIA in different locations for these types of operations and others? Did the CIA also have ties with the DPC too?
Another name in this case had ties to a petroleum club and visited the DPC also. His name is Jim Braden, a.k.a. Eugene Hale Brading, and he was asked about this in a session before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA).
Mr. Purdy. Mr. Braden, in connection with your oil business, did you ever know a man named George de Moreschild [sic]?
Mr. Braden. No, sir.
Mr. Purdy. Would it refresh your recollection to know he was a geologist?
Mr. Braden. No, sir. It would not refresh my recollection. I do not know a man by that name.
Mr. Purdy. The record indicates that you had some dealings with the Petroleum Club, I believe, of Los Angeles, is that correct?
Mr. Braden. I was a member of the Petroleum Club in Los Angeles until this book came out and I resigned. I was a member of the Petroleum Club in New Orleans and I resigned.
Mr. Purdy. Were you a member of the Petroleum Club in Dallas?
Mr. Braden. No, sir.
Mr. Purdy. Because of your membership in the other Petroleum Club, did you ever have occasion to visit the Dallas Petroleum Club?
Mr. Braden. I think I was there with my wife, Jean Dicentis, at that time. We had dinner there, yes.
Mr. Purdy. Did one of the members have to sponsor your visit there?
Mr. Braden. I was there with a former President of the Republic Bank and his wife.
Mr. Purdy. What was his name?
Mr. Breaden. I cannot recall it. I would like to, but I can't. Mrs. Jean Burker in Rancho Santa Fe, California, would remember the name.
Mr. Purdy. Approximately when was that?
Mr. Braden. About 1966 or 1967, along those years. (HSCA Jim Braden Testimony, 5/16/1979, pp. 116-117)
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This tells us that Braden had been a member of the Petroleum Club in two cities -- Los Angeles and New Orleans. He claimed that he visited the DPC, but not until years after the assassination. How do we know that this is true given Braden is an ex-con with 35 arrests on his very long record? Of course he would lie about being there before the assassination given his past. We know that he was in Dallas, and Dealey Plaza (DP) in particular, at the time of the assassination as he was detained by the Dallas Police Department (DPD) when he exited the Dal-Tex Building. Braden also was known to have mob-ties in Southern California and it is quite obvious that elements of the mob were involved in the assassination.
Another strange event occurred on the evening before the assassination as Braden was at the Cabana Hotel. We know he was there because he used his credit card at the Bon Vivant Room. Did he meet up with Jack Ruby and Lawrence Myers while there? That is a big question that we will never get an answer to because NO investigation was ever performed by the WC to check this out and as time goes by information is much harder to come by. It would answer a lot of questions if he had met with them. He would tell the HSCA in his deposition (separate from his testimony) that he stayed at the Cabana Hotel when he arrived in Dallas. (Jim Braden HSCA Deposition 7/26/78, p. 5)
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The HSCA sure suspected something otherwise they would have never brought this up. Perhaps they suspected meetings taking place at the DPC to discuss the assassination as a number of top oil men have been suspected of being involved so it would make sense as a good place to meet since it was very exclusive. Braden would claim that he flew to Dallas on a private airplane, but the HSCA had produced a witness to say that he flew with Braden on a commercial flight. (Ibid., p. 5) Why would Braden state such an easy thing to check out incorrectly? Why did he want people to think that he was flying on a private plane?
Another interesting thing is that one of the men Braden was travelling with, Morgan Brown, was familiar with "at least one member of the Hunt" family. (Ibid., p. 9) Jack Ruby would visit the Hunt offices on November 21,1963, as well, so IF they did meet up that evening/night at the Cabana Hotel, could it have been to discuss what was learned that day? It is a possibility as we can't trust anything Braden told us. If he said he couldn't recall once to the HSCA, he invoked it a hundred times. He either had one of the worst memories in history or he was lying by claiming he didn't recall.
Another name tied to the DPC was Gerry Patrick Hemming. On July 5, 1963, Hemming claimed to be at the Petroleum Club in Dallas, Texas, where he said he was offered a contract to assassinate JFK. He says that Nelson Bunker Hunt was present in the room when the offer is made. Hemming says he declined the offer saying: “You shouldn’t be talking to me directly about this.” Hemming will have lunch on July 5 at the Texas Club with George de Mohrenschildt, Lester Logue, and others. Was this the Hunt that Morgan Brown knew and that Braden and Ruby met with on November 21, 1963? If this isn't true, why was Hemming invited to an exclusive club meant for oil people?
Finally, we have a statement by Felipe Vidal Santiago to consider. Santiago would be executed in Cuba sometime in March or April 1964, but before he was he told interrogators that in early November 1963 Colonel William Bishop picked him up in a car in Miami and drove him to Dallas where he gave him a room in a second-class hotel. While in Dallas, he said he attended a meeting with a few wealthy people in the Dallas Petroleum Club. One of the men present at this meeting, according to Bishop, was General Edwin Walker. The assassination of JFK was a topic of conversation during this meeting. Santiago said he returned to Miami four days later.
This seems plausible to me. What do you think? Was the DPC used for secret meetings to plan the assassination of JFK?
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Dallas Petroleum Club:
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George de Mohrenschildt:
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Jim Braden, a.k.a. Eugene Hale Brading:
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In the mid-1960s New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison began an investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK). He had questioned a few members of New Orleans society about this event (David Ferrie and Clay Shaw) and became suspicious of a plot being involved based out of New Orleans. This would lead to the arrest and indictment of Clay Shaw and eventually he would stand trial for his alleged part in the assassination.
One place had ties to several key people in this case and this drew the attention of Garrison -- it was the Dallas Petroleum Club (DPC). The most obvious tie was Baron George de Mohrenschildt as he was a member of the club, and this makes sense since De Mohrenschildt was a geologist and a petroleum engineer. De Mohrenschildt would be asked about this when he testified before the Warren Commission (WC) and the interesting part is the WC brought it up as de Mohrenschildt was not going to mention it.
Mr. JENNER. Of what groups have you been a member? And of what groups are you a member?
Mr. De MOHRENSCHILDT. I am not a member of any group. Maybe that is something against me, because I am not a member of any group. I am not a member--I am not interested. I am too busy.
Mr. JENNER. You are a member of the Petroleum Club in Dallas?
Mr. De MOHRENSCHILDT. If you call that a group; yes.
Mr. JENNER. It is a group.
Mr. De MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; a member of the Dallas Petroleum Club.
You will notice that the WC even said that it was a "group", so why was De Mohrenschildt afraid to mention his membership there? Let's have Garrison explain why this is relevant.
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De Mohrenschildt had become a consulting geologist and had become a member of the exclusive Dallas Petroleum Club with extremely affluent contacts in the business world. Among his close friends, one of the more interesting was Jean de Menil, the president of the mammoth international Schlumberger Corporation, which had close ties to the Central Intelligence Agency.*
*The C.I.A. and Schlumberger had a mutual interest in the O.A.S, an organization led by former French generals who had revolted against President Charles DeGaulle in 1961 when Algeria was in the process of winning its independence. The Agency had been a staunch, although secret, supporter of the French anti-Gaullist movement. ("On The Trail Of The Assassins", Jim Garrison, p. 53 [hardcover edition])
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This shows the affluent "elbows" de Mohrenschildt would be rubbing at this exclusive club. Why was he shy to mention his membership before the WC? Shouldn't he have been proud of this? Furthermore, why would a pillar in the White Russian community (rabid anti-Communists) want to hang around with a loner Communist like Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO)? Doesn't this seem odd to you? What did LHO have to do with the petroleum industry or anything de Mohrenschildt would have been interested in?
Notice his friendship with de Menil who was president of the Schlumberger Corporation which had ties to the CIA. This corporation was covered earlier in this series when we were looking at Gordon Novel. Here is some information about them.
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‘To polygraph operators and to friends and associates,’ the paper [New Orleans States-Item] wrote, ‘Novel has said the munition burglary was no burglary at all—but a war material pickup made at the direction of his CIA contact.’ Novel indicated that the Schlumberger bunker at the blimp base was in actuality ‘a CIA staging point for munitions destined to be used as part of abortive Bay of Pigs attack on Castro’s Cuba.’ (Ibid., p. 180)
jfkconspiracyforum.freeforums.net/thread/1126/garrison-chronicles-gordon-novel
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This shows us that Schlumberger was using at least one of their ammunition bunkers to store ammunition and explosives for the CIA for their operations with anti-Castro Cubans. How many other bunkers were being used by the CIA in different locations for these types of operations and others? Did the CIA also have ties with the DPC too?
Another name in this case had ties to a petroleum club and visited the DPC also. His name is Jim Braden, a.k.a. Eugene Hale Brading, and he was asked about this in a session before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA).
Mr. Purdy. Mr. Braden, in connection with your oil business, did you ever know a man named George de Moreschild [sic]?
Mr. Braden. No, sir.
Mr. Purdy. Would it refresh your recollection to know he was a geologist?
Mr. Braden. No, sir. It would not refresh my recollection. I do not know a man by that name.
Mr. Purdy. The record indicates that you had some dealings with the Petroleum Club, I believe, of Los Angeles, is that correct?
Mr. Braden. I was a member of the Petroleum Club in Los Angeles until this book came out and I resigned. I was a member of the Petroleum Club in New Orleans and I resigned.
Mr. Purdy. Were you a member of the Petroleum Club in Dallas?
Mr. Braden. No, sir.
Mr. Purdy. Because of your membership in the other Petroleum Club, did you ever have occasion to visit the Dallas Petroleum Club?
Mr. Braden. I think I was there with my wife, Jean Dicentis, at that time. We had dinner there, yes.
Mr. Purdy. Did one of the members have to sponsor your visit there?
Mr. Braden. I was there with a former President of the Republic Bank and his wife.
Mr. Purdy. What was his name?
Mr. Breaden. I cannot recall it. I would like to, but I can't. Mrs. Jean Burker in Rancho Santa Fe, California, would remember the name.
Mr. Purdy. Approximately when was that?
Mr. Braden. About 1966 or 1967, along those years. (HSCA Jim Braden Testimony, 5/16/1979, pp. 116-117)
www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=19906#relPageId=116
This tells us that Braden had been a member of the Petroleum Club in two cities -- Los Angeles and New Orleans. He claimed that he visited the DPC, but not until years after the assassination. How do we know that this is true given Braden is an ex-con with 35 arrests on his very long record? Of course he would lie about being there before the assassination given his past. We know that he was in Dallas, and Dealey Plaza (DP) in particular, at the time of the assassination as he was detained by the Dallas Police Department (DPD) when he exited the Dal-Tex Building. Braden also was known to have mob-ties in Southern California and it is quite obvious that elements of the mob were involved in the assassination.
Another strange event occurred on the evening before the assassination as Braden was at the Cabana Hotel. We know he was there because he used his credit card at the Bon Vivant Room. Did he meet up with Jack Ruby and Lawrence Myers while there? That is a big question that we will never get an answer to because NO investigation was ever performed by the WC to check this out and as time goes by information is much harder to come by. It would answer a lot of questions if he had met with them. He would tell the HSCA in his deposition (separate from his testimony) that he stayed at the Cabana Hotel when he arrived in Dallas. (Jim Braden HSCA Deposition 7/26/78, p. 5)
www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=19907#relPageId=6
The HSCA sure suspected something otherwise they would have never brought this up. Perhaps they suspected meetings taking place at the DPC to discuss the assassination as a number of top oil men have been suspected of being involved so it would make sense as a good place to meet since it was very exclusive. Braden would claim that he flew to Dallas on a private airplane, but the HSCA had produced a witness to say that he flew with Braden on a commercial flight. (Ibid., p. 5) Why would Braden state such an easy thing to check out incorrectly? Why did he want people to think that he was flying on a private plane?
Another interesting thing is that one of the men Braden was travelling with, Morgan Brown, was familiar with "at least one member of the Hunt" family. (Ibid., p. 9) Jack Ruby would visit the Hunt offices on November 21,1963, as well, so IF they did meet up that evening/night at the Cabana Hotel, could it have been to discuss what was learned that day? It is a possibility as we can't trust anything Braden told us. If he said he couldn't recall once to the HSCA, he invoked it a hundred times. He either had one of the worst memories in history or he was lying by claiming he didn't recall.
Another name tied to the DPC was Gerry Patrick Hemming. On July 5, 1963, Hemming claimed to be at the Petroleum Club in Dallas, Texas, where he said he was offered a contract to assassinate JFK. He says that Nelson Bunker Hunt was present in the room when the offer is made. Hemming says he declined the offer saying: “You shouldn’t be talking to me directly about this.” Hemming will have lunch on July 5 at the Texas Club with George de Mohrenschildt, Lester Logue, and others. Was this the Hunt that Morgan Brown knew and that Braden and Ruby met with on November 21, 1963? If this isn't true, why was Hemming invited to an exclusive club meant for oil people?
Finally, we have a statement by Felipe Vidal Santiago to consider. Santiago would be executed in Cuba sometime in March or April 1964, but before he was he told interrogators that in early November 1963 Colonel William Bishop picked him up in a car in Miami and drove him to Dallas where he gave him a room in a second-class hotel. While in Dallas, he said he attended a meeting with a few wealthy people in the Dallas Petroleum Club. One of the men present at this meeting, according to Bishop, was General Edwin Walker. The assassination of JFK was a topic of conversation during this meeting. Santiago said he returned to Miami four days later.
This seems plausible to me. What do you think? Was the DPC used for secret meetings to plan the assassination of JFK?