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The Warren Commission (WC) claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) assassinated President John F. Kennedy (JFK) all by himself on November 22, 1963. They further claimed that LHO displayed a violent tendency when he allegedly took a shot at retired General Edwin A. Walker (EAW) on the night of April 10, 1963, and when he allegedly shot to death Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit (JDT) on November 22, 1963.
Of course, none of the evidence that they presented in the twenty-six volumes and Commission Documents (CD) support any of these claims. One further incident, if true and accurate, based on the eyewitnesses would support the contention that LHO was prone to violence, but for some odd reason the WC never looked into this matter. We will in this post, however.
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Allegedly about ten days before JFK’s assassination LHO visited the Dallas FBI office to speak with Special Agent (SA) James Hosty regarding his recent visits to LHO’s wife, Marina Oswald, on November 1 and 5, 1963. LHO was allegedly not pleased with Hosty speaking with his wife without him being present. Supposedly, Hosty was not available, thus, LHO allegedly left a note for him.
This alleged note was not mentioned to the WC as Hosty said he was told not to volunteer information to them, and they never bothered to ask about it. (Dallas Morning News (DMN), 12/17/75) One has to wonder if the WC knew about the alleged visit to the FBI by LHO and avoided asking Hosty about it in order to sidestep a potentially difficult situation. Or, did they simply not know about it?
This testimony by Ruth Paine shows that according to her LHO had told her that he had gone to the FBI office.
Mr. JENNER - Did he say anything when you gave him Agent Hosty's name on the telephone?
Mrs. PAINE - No.
Mr. JENNER - Nothing at all?
Mrs. PAINE - I don't recall anything Lee said. I will go on as to the recollections that came later. He told me that he had stopped at the downtown office of the FBI and tried to see the agents and left a note. And my impression of it is that this notice irritated.
Mr. JENNER - Irritating?
Mrs. PAINE. Irritated, that he left the note saying what he thought. This is reconstructing my impression of the fellows bothering him and his family, and this is my impression then. I couldn't say this was specifically said to him later.
Mr. JENNER - You mean he was irritated?
Mrs. PAINE - He was irritated and he said, "They are trying to inhibit my activities," and I said, "You passed your pamphlets," and could well have gone on to say what I thought, but I don't believe I did go on to say, that he could and should expect the FBI to be interested in him.
Mr. JENNER - Have you given all of what he said and what you said, however, on that occasion?
Mrs. PAINE - Yes. I will just go on to say that I learned only a few weeks ago that he never did go into the FBI office. Of course knowing, thinking that he had gone in, I thought that was sensible on his part. But it appears to have been another lie.
Where Ruth Paine got her information that LHO never did go to the FBI is NOT stated or asked, but one can assume it may have been from Hosty himself. IF so, how reliable is this information? Not very reliable since it was confirmed in 1975 that either LHO or someone impersonating him did in fact visit the FBI office and left a note that was destroyed after the assassination by Hosty allegedly on orders.
Hosty would later claim that his superior, J. Gordon Shanklin – head of the Dallas office, ordered the destruction of the note along with a three-page memorandum just two hours after Jack Ruby shot LHO on November 24, 1963. Hosty quoted Shanklin as saying, "Oswald is dead now, there can be no trial. Here, get rid of this...I don't even want it in here.” Hosty said that he flushed it down the toilet. (DMN, 12/17/75)
Shanklin would deny that he gave any such order and continued to deny that note ever existed until 1975. (Ibid.)
But another agent, Kenneth Howe, testified before a House Committee in 1975 that he personally showed the note to Shanklin that weekend. Hosty would claim that Howe was present when Shanklin ordered him to destroy the note, but Howe wouldn’t confirm this. (Ibid.)
Further confirmation of the note’s existence comes from William C. Sullivan, head of the FBI domestic-intelligence division in 1963, as he told Time that at least ten top officials at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. knew about the note. (Time , 11/3/75)
The New York Times further reported that top FBI officials, “probably including former Director J. Edgar Hoover," ordered the destruction of the note; the Times attributed the report to a source it described as familiar with the meeting at which the decision to destroy the letter was made in order to avoid embarrassment to the Bureau. (New York Times, 9/17/75; Cover-up, p. 180)
This quote from the N.Y. Times would seem to show that even J. Edgar Hoover (JEH) knew about the note. So this begs the question, why was the FBI so desperate to keep this alleged visit by LHO that resulted in a note being left from the WC and the media?
Once it was admitted that a note had existed in 1975 it also became assumed that LHO was the one that left it, but did he? According to Mrs. Nancy Lee Fenner, who had worked for the FBI since 1942, and was the person who spoke with the man who left the note we can't be sure. She recounted the incident for Curt Gentry’s book on JEH.
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…She noticed the man when he got off the elevator. “From my desk I could see him clearly”, she recalled. “My desk was right in the aisleway. He came to my desk and he said, “S.A. Hosty, please. And he had a wild look in his eye, and he was awful fidgety, and he had a 3 x 5 envelope in his hands.” There was a piece of paper, folded like a letter, and “during this time he kept taking the letter in and out of the envelope.”
Mrs. Fenner called downstairs and learned that Hosty was out. When she informed the man of this, he took the paper out of the envelope “and threw it like that (indicating) on my desk and he said, well, get this to him, and turned and walked back to the elevator.”
Mrs . Fenner read the note. It wasn’t long, just two paragraphs, handwritten, in a rather childish scrawl. Later, she was unable to recall exactly how it stated, but it was to the effect that if Hosty didn’t stop bothering his wife the writer would “either blow up the Dallas Police Department or the FBI office.”
…She knew a threat when she saw one, and took the note to ASAC Kyle Clark. Scanning its contents, Clark said, “Forget it, give it to Hosty.” After Mrs. Fenner returned to her desk, one of the girls from the steno pool, Helen May, walked by and “wanted to know who the creep was in the hall.” Mrs. Fenner said, “Well according to this, it is Lee Harvey Oswald, because his name was signed on the letter. The name meant nothing to me.” She handed the letter to May, who also read it. “Shortly thereafter”, she remembered, “Mr. Hosty came to my desk and got the letter, and I have not seen it since. ”
Hosty read the letter, deciding “it didn’t appear to be of any serious import.” He later elaborated, “It appeared to be an innocuous type of complaint…I looked at it. It didn’t seem to have any need for action at that time, so I put it into my workbox.” (In a footnote, Hosty recalled the note suggested that he should not interview Mrs. Oswald without Lee’s permission, and if Hosty did not leave her alone, “he would take action against the FBI.”) (Curt Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover: the Man and the Secrets, 1991)
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There is so much to discuss here. If this was the real LHO, why would he again leave a trail right to his door by putting his NAME on the letter? Why are we to believe that he constantly left a paper trail on nearly every bad thing that he did?
Fenner’s description calls into question that this person was actually LHO as she said that the man had “a wild look in his eye” and “was awful fidgety”. Neither of these things match what we know about LHO. Almost every person asked said that LHO was a “calm, cool person”, and not a fidgety person with a wild look in his eye. It is a shame that this issue was not dealt with at the time of the WC as we are given no physical description to determine if this was LHO or not. Perhaps that was the goal.
LHO was also not in the habit of actually using his middle name of “Harvey” when he signed his name. Examples of his signature show that he was prone to use just the initial “H” instead. This time the full middle name was used.
If the note said what Fenner said, why did the FBI hide this note from the WC? Like the license number and telephone number issues we again see the FBI withholding information from the WC. How many times can this happen and NOT make one think the FBI was covering for themselves here?
According to receptionist Mrs. Nancy Lee Fenner the note said something like if Hosty didn’t stop bothering the writer’s wife he would, “...either blow up the Dallas Police Department or the FBI office.” This is highly doubtful for several reasons. Firstly, if it said something like this why would the FBI have destroyed the note? Wouldn’t this show LHO was a type of person to handle things in a violent way? And wouldn’t this match the exact way that the WC was trying to portray LHO as being?
Secondly, isn’t it against the law to threaten the police department and FBI like this? I would think so, but we are asked to believe that after he threatened to “blow them up” nobody had an issue with this threat. In fact, despite this threat we are asked to believe that Hosty thought LHO was “not a violent person”. So threatening to blow up an office or whole police department is NOT violent?
Hosty, years later, said that he read the note, and it was kind of “innocuous” and not to be of any “serious import.” The problem with this explanation is that it is in direct opposition to what Fenner said. Somebody has to be telling a lie. Hosty has a history of telling lies. Fenner may too, but we don’t know that she does.
Remember, we have seen earlier in other posts, that Hosty was censured and put on probation for not adding LHO to the Security Index before the assassination. If the note said what Fenner said, was this just another example of Hosty taking no action when he should have? Or was LHO really working for the FBI, and Hosty, and he knew that this was not a real threat? Was this note supposed to build LHO’s “street cred” with the radical groups that he may have been working with?
If Fenner was the incorrect one or the one lying about what the note said, what would be her reason for doing so? Yes, it would make LHO appear to be violent, but the fact that the WC did not take advantage of this is a problem for this line of thinking. Here is a slightly different version of what she said the note had written on it.
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Let this be a warning, I will blow up the FBI and Dallas Police Department if you don't stop bothering my wife. (Time, 11/3/75)
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There is no doubt that LHO would have been arrested or at least detained and then put under surveillance had he left a note like this at the Dallas FBI office. The fact he wasn’t can only be explained by these possibilities:
1) LHO did not leave a threatening note at the Dallas FBI office,
2) LHO did leave a threatening note, but it was all part of a charade (much like Hosty’s visits to Marina may have been designed to increase his “street cred” to any person or group watching LHO),
3) It was determined that the person who left the note was not really LHO, therefore, no action was taken against him,
4) Fenner was either incorrect or lying about what the note said (both her reason for doing this and why the WC did not take advantage of it would be unknown), and,
5) Hosty was lying and covering for the fact that he once again took no action against LHO before the assassination that could have prevented the assassination if you believe the official narrative.
What do you think? Something else to consider if you believe the official narrative is, why would LHO risk arrest and stronger surveillance by the FBI just ten days before his plan to assassinate JFK? Wouldn’t this be ridiculous when he could have either let it go to make sure his bigger plan, killing JFK, would be successful or threaten Hosty in a way that left no trace? I would think so.
If Fenner is correct in what the note said, and it was authentically left by LHO, then we see what the FBI thought of the Dallas Police Department (DPD) as I am not aware of any attempt or actual communication to them from the FBI warning of this possible attack. Furthermore, another question needs to be asked if Fenner was correct. Why would LHO threaten the DPD with an attack if his sole issue was with Hosty of the FBI?
As you can clearly see this one issue has so many questions that need answers, and we see this throughout the JFK assassination case. If the WC actually ran an honest “fact finding” investigation to find the truth regarding JFK’s assassination then we wouldn’t have so many unanswered questions as we do today nearly 60 years later.
With the benefit of hindsight, we see it was ludicrous of the WC to take Ruth Paine’s word for LHO not actually visiting the FBI office based on some “UNKNOWN” source. It was equally ludicrous for the WC not to follow-up on this issue on their own since the exchange with Ruth Paine confirms that they at least knew of the possible visit to the FBI office by LHO.
This shows the reader that the claims of Marina Oswald, Ruth Paine and the WC have to be weighed claim by claim as they were willing to believe that LHO lied about visiting the FBI office when there was no real investigation to confirm for sure if he did or didn’t. If he didn’t, then who was impersonating him? The why is obvious – it was another act in the framing process. Why it wasn’t used for this purpose is another question unanswered.
The bottom line is that the WC never learned the true relationship between LHO and the FBI (or CIA) so their claims of NO connection to that agency are not supported with evidence. In fact, we see from their OWN Executive Sessions that they expected NOT to find any connections since the FBI and CIA would hide it in all likelihood.
The simple denial by the two directors are worthless and do not tell us much. The WC, and of course the FBI, did their utmost to cloud and hide the possible relationship instead. Remember, the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, felt there was a connection as he said LHO was a FBI informant. Whatever his true role, LHO had to have some ties to a federal agency (perhaps more than one) as his story is just too hard to believe without support from a federal institution. As we saw recently in another post, Assistant Director James H. Gale thought that LHO was involved in intelligence activities.
This would explain why LHO could leave a threatening note and not have suffered any bad repercussions, because it was all part of an intelligence activity.
We again see evidence that the WC ignored and did not investigate independently, but rather relied on the very group, FBI, that had something to hide. The FBI was not truthful or forthcoming about this event as they denied the existence of the note until they were forced to finally admit that it had existed in 1975.
If they could suppress this issue for nearly twelve years, how many other issues did they suppress and or cover-up? What could have been learned if this issue had been investigated in 1963/1964?
[For more information on this topic see this article]:
www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=48764&relPageId=63
Church Committee's Look Into This Note:
jfkconspiracyforum.freeforums.net/thread/1536/church-committee-nuggets-fbi
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The Warren Commission (WC) claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) assassinated President John F. Kennedy (JFK) all by himself on November 22, 1963. They further claimed that LHO displayed a violent tendency when he allegedly took a shot at retired General Edwin A. Walker (EAW) on the night of April 10, 1963, and when he allegedly shot to death Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit (JDT) on November 22, 1963.
Of course, none of the evidence that they presented in the twenty-six volumes and Commission Documents (CD) support any of these claims. One further incident, if true and accurate, based on the eyewitnesses would support the contention that LHO was prone to violence, but for some odd reason the WC never looked into this matter. We will in this post, however.
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Allegedly about ten days before JFK’s assassination LHO visited the Dallas FBI office to speak with Special Agent (SA) James Hosty regarding his recent visits to LHO’s wife, Marina Oswald, on November 1 and 5, 1963. LHO was allegedly not pleased with Hosty speaking with his wife without him being present. Supposedly, Hosty was not available, thus, LHO allegedly left a note for him.
This alleged note was not mentioned to the WC as Hosty said he was told not to volunteer information to them, and they never bothered to ask about it. (Dallas Morning News (DMN), 12/17/75) One has to wonder if the WC knew about the alleged visit to the FBI by LHO and avoided asking Hosty about it in order to sidestep a potentially difficult situation. Or, did they simply not know about it?
This testimony by Ruth Paine shows that according to her LHO had told her that he had gone to the FBI office.
Mr. JENNER - Did he say anything when you gave him Agent Hosty's name on the telephone?
Mrs. PAINE - No.
Mr. JENNER - Nothing at all?
Mrs. PAINE - I don't recall anything Lee said. I will go on as to the recollections that came later. He told me that he had stopped at the downtown office of the FBI and tried to see the agents and left a note. And my impression of it is that this notice irritated.
Mr. JENNER - Irritating?
Mrs. PAINE. Irritated, that he left the note saying what he thought. This is reconstructing my impression of the fellows bothering him and his family, and this is my impression then. I couldn't say this was specifically said to him later.
Mr. JENNER - You mean he was irritated?
Mrs. PAINE - He was irritated and he said, "They are trying to inhibit my activities," and I said, "You passed your pamphlets," and could well have gone on to say what I thought, but I don't believe I did go on to say, that he could and should expect the FBI to be interested in him.
Mr. JENNER - Have you given all of what he said and what you said, however, on that occasion?
Mrs. PAINE - Yes. I will just go on to say that I learned only a few weeks ago that he never did go into the FBI office. Of course knowing, thinking that he had gone in, I thought that was sensible on his part. But it appears to have been another lie.
Where Ruth Paine got her information that LHO never did go to the FBI is NOT stated or asked, but one can assume it may have been from Hosty himself. IF so, how reliable is this information? Not very reliable since it was confirmed in 1975 that either LHO or someone impersonating him did in fact visit the FBI office and left a note that was destroyed after the assassination by Hosty allegedly on orders.
Hosty would later claim that his superior, J. Gordon Shanklin – head of the Dallas office, ordered the destruction of the note along with a three-page memorandum just two hours after Jack Ruby shot LHO on November 24, 1963. Hosty quoted Shanklin as saying, "Oswald is dead now, there can be no trial. Here, get rid of this...I don't even want it in here.” Hosty said that he flushed it down the toilet. (DMN, 12/17/75)
Shanklin would deny that he gave any such order and continued to deny that note ever existed until 1975. (Ibid.)
But another agent, Kenneth Howe, testified before a House Committee in 1975 that he personally showed the note to Shanklin that weekend. Hosty would claim that Howe was present when Shanklin ordered him to destroy the note, but Howe wouldn’t confirm this. (Ibid.)
Further confirmation of the note’s existence comes from William C. Sullivan, head of the FBI domestic-intelligence division in 1963, as he told Time that at least ten top officials at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. knew about the note. (Time , 11/3/75)
The New York Times further reported that top FBI officials, “probably including former Director J. Edgar Hoover," ordered the destruction of the note; the Times attributed the report to a source it described as familiar with the meeting at which the decision to destroy the letter was made in order to avoid embarrassment to the Bureau. (New York Times, 9/17/75; Cover-up, p. 180)
This quote from the N.Y. Times would seem to show that even J. Edgar Hoover (JEH) knew about the note. So this begs the question, why was the FBI so desperate to keep this alleged visit by LHO that resulted in a note being left from the WC and the media?
Once it was admitted that a note had existed in 1975 it also became assumed that LHO was the one that left it, but did he? According to Mrs. Nancy Lee Fenner, who had worked for the FBI since 1942, and was the person who spoke with the man who left the note we can't be sure. She recounted the incident for Curt Gentry’s book on JEH.
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…She noticed the man when he got off the elevator. “From my desk I could see him clearly”, she recalled. “My desk was right in the aisleway. He came to my desk and he said, “S.A. Hosty, please. And he had a wild look in his eye, and he was awful fidgety, and he had a 3 x 5 envelope in his hands.” There was a piece of paper, folded like a letter, and “during this time he kept taking the letter in and out of the envelope.”
Mrs. Fenner called downstairs and learned that Hosty was out. When she informed the man of this, he took the paper out of the envelope “and threw it like that (indicating) on my desk and he said, well, get this to him, and turned and walked back to the elevator.”
Mrs . Fenner read the note. It wasn’t long, just two paragraphs, handwritten, in a rather childish scrawl. Later, she was unable to recall exactly how it stated, but it was to the effect that if Hosty didn’t stop bothering his wife the writer would “either blow up the Dallas Police Department or the FBI office.”
…She knew a threat when she saw one, and took the note to ASAC Kyle Clark. Scanning its contents, Clark said, “Forget it, give it to Hosty.” After Mrs. Fenner returned to her desk, one of the girls from the steno pool, Helen May, walked by and “wanted to know who the creep was in the hall.” Mrs. Fenner said, “Well according to this, it is Lee Harvey Oswald, because his name was signed on the letter. The name meant nothing to me.” She handed the letter to May, who also read it. “Shortly thereafter”, she remembered, “Mr. Hosty came to my desk and got the letter, and I have not seen it since. ”
Hosty read the letter, deciding “it didn’t appear to be of any serious import.” He later elaborated, “It appeared to be an innocuous type of complaint…I looked at it. It didn’t seem to have any need for action at that time, so I put it into my workbox.” (In a footnote, Hosty recalled the note suggested that he should not interview Mrs. Oswald without Lee’s permission, and if Hosty did not leave her alone, “he would take action against the FBI.”) (Curt Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover: the Man and the Secrets, 1991)
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There is so much to discuss here. If this was the real LHO, why would he again leave a trail right to his door by putting his NAME on the letter? Why are we to believe that he constantly left a paper trail on nearly every bad thing that he did?
Fenner’s description calls into question that this person was actually LHO as she said that the man had “a wild look in his eye” and “was awful fidgety”. Neither of these things match what we know about LHO. Almost every person asked said that LHO was a “calm, cool person”, and not a fidgety person with a wild look in his eye. It is a shame that this issue was not dealt with at the time of the WC as we are given no physical description to determine if this was LHO or not. Perhaps that was the goal.
LHO was also not in the habit of actually using his middle name of “Harvey” when he signed his name. Examples of his signature show that he was prone to use just the initial “H” instead. This time the full middle name was used.
If the note said what Fenner said, why did the FBI hide this note from the WC? Like the license number and telephone number issues we again see the FBI withholding information from the WC. How many times can this happen and NOT make one think the FBI was covering for themselves here?
According to receptionist Mrs. Nancy Lee Fenner the note said something like if Hosty didn’t stop bothering the writer’s wife he would, “...either blow up the Dallas Police Department or the FBI office.” This is highly doubtful for several reasons. Firstly, if it said something like this why would the FBI have destroyed the note? Wouldn’t this show LHO was a type of person to handle things in a violent way? And wouldn’t this match the exact way that the WC was trying to portray LHO as being?
Secondly, isn’t it against the law to threaten the police department and FBI like this? I would think so, but we are asked to believe that after he threatened to “blow them up” nobody had an issue with this threat. In fact, despite this threat we are asked to believe that Hosty thought LHO was “not a violent person”. So threatening to blow up an office or whole police department is NOT violent?
Hosty, years later, said that he read the note, and it was kind of “innocuous” and not to be of any “serious import.” The problem with this explanation is that it is in direct opposition to what Fenner said. Somebody has to be telling a lie. Hosty has a history of telling lies. Fenner may too, but we don’t know that she does.
Remember, we have seen earlier in other posts, that Hosty was censured and put on probation for not adding LHO to the Security Index before the assassination. If the note said what Fenner said, was this just another example of Hosty taking no action when he should have? Or was LHO really working for the FBI, and Hosty, and he knew that this was not a real threat? Was this note supposed to build LHO’s “street cred” with the radical groups that he may have been working with?
If Fenner was the incorrect one or the one lying about what the note said, what would be her reason for doing so? Yes, it would make LHO appear to be violent, but the fact that the WC did not take advantage of this is a problem for this line of thinking. Here is a slightly different version of what she said the note had written on it.
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Let this be a warning, I will blow up the FBI and Dallas Police Department if you don't stop bothering my wife. (Time, 11/3/75)
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There is no doubt that LHO would have been arrested or at least detained and then put under surveillance had he left a note like this at the Dallas FBI office. The fact he wasn’t can only be explained by these possibilities:
1) LHO did not leave a threatening note at the Dallas FBI office,
2) LHO did leave a threatening note, but it was all part of a charade (much like Hosty’s visits to Marina may have been designed to increase his “street cred” to any person or group watching LHO),
3) It was determined that the person who left the note was not really LHO, therefore, no action was taken against him,
4) Fenner was either incorrect or lying about what the note said (both her reason for doing this and why the WC did not take advantage of it would be unknown), and,
5) Hosty was lying and covering for the fact that he once again took no action against LHO before the assassination that could have prevented the assassination if you believe the official narrative.
What do you think? Something else to consider if you believe the official narrative is, why would LHO risk arrest and stronger surveillance by the FBI just ten days before his plan to assassinate JFK? Wouldn’t this be ridiculous when he could have either let it go to make sure his bigger plan, killing JFK, would be successful or threaten Hosty in a way that left no trace? I would think so.
If Fenner is correct in what the note said, and it was authentically left by LHO, then we see what the FBI thought of the Dallas Police Department (DPD) as I am not aware of any attempt or actual communication to them from the FBI warning of this possible attack. Furthermore, another question needs to be asked if Fenner was correct. Why would LHO threaten the DPD with an attack if his sole issue was with Hosty of the FBI?
As you can clearly see this one issue has so many questions that need answers, and we see this throughout the JFK assassination case. If the WC actually ran an honest “fact finding” investigation to find the truth regarding JFK’s assassination then we wouldn’t have so many unanswered questions as we do today nearly 60 years later.
With the benefit of hindsight, we see it was ludicrous of the WC to take Ruth Paine’s word for LHO not actually visiting the FBI office based on some “UNKNOWN” source. It was equally ludicrous for the WC not to follow-up on this issue on their own since the exchange with Ruth Paine confirms that they at least knew of the possible visit to the FBI office by LHO.
This shows the reader that the claims of Marina Oswald, Ruth Paine and the WC have to be weighed claim by claim as they were willing to believe that LHO lied about visiting the FBI office when there was no real investigation to confirm for sure if he did or didn’t. If he didn’t, then who was impersonating him? The why is obvious – it was another act in the framing process. Why it wasn’t used for this purpose is another question unanswered.
The bottom line is that the WC never learned the true relationship between LHO and the FBI (or CIA) so their claims of NO connection to that agency are not supported with evidence. In fact, we see from their OWN Executive Sessions that they expected NOT to find any connections since the FBI and CIA would hide it in all likelihood.
The simple denial by the two directors are worthless and do not tell us much. The WC, and of course the FBI, did their utmost to cloud and hide the possible relationship instead. Remember, the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, felt there was a connection as he said LHO was a FBI informant. Whatever his true role, LHO had to have some ties to a federal agency (perhaps more than one) as his story is just too hard to believe without support from a federal institution. As we saw recently in another post, Assistant Director James H. Gale thought that LHO was involved in intelligence activities.
This would explain why LHO could leave a threatening note and not have suffered any bad repercussions, because it was all part of an intelligence activity.
We again see evidence that the WC ignored and did not investigate independently, but rather relied on the very group, FBI, that had something to hide. The FBI was not truthful or forthcoming about this event as they denied the existence of the note until they were forced to finally admit that it had existed in 1975.
If they could suppress this issue for nearly twelve years, how many other issues did they suppress and or cover-up? What could have been learned if this issue had been investigated in 1963/1964?
[For more information on this topic see this article]:
www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=48764&relPageId=63
Church Committee's Look Into This Note:
jfkconspiracyforum.freeforums.net/thread/1536/church-committee-nuggets-fbi