Mr. GOLDSMITH - Was he a CIA employee? Mr. DODD - And you and your wife both went to work for the CIA about the same time? . Mr. WILCOTT - It is based on the principle that only those persons who are involved in a project or involved in operation -- and even things that would not seem to be at all in any way secret -- only those people should know about, it and nobody else should know about it, and that was a "need-to-know" basis Mr. GOLDSMITH - How long were these records maintained? Not long after Oswald departed from the scene, Shelley told Truly that Oswald was missing. Mr. WILCOTT - It has been 15 years, and I can't remember specifically who said what, but certainly I am sure that Jerry Fox, for instance, had at least made some mention of it. Also Present: Elizabeth Berning, Chief Clerk, and Charles Berk, Betsy Wolf and James Wolf. (3) if there is/was an Alternative Information Network in Austin, or if Kellner and Morrow are real persons and remember receiving the letter. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, actually even prior to the Kennedy, assassination, my wife and I both became disturbed about the stories that we kept hearing about things, control of newspapers and so on. Mr. DODD - And your dissatisfaction with the Agency and with the course of American government preceded the actual assassination of President Kennedy? Mr. CORNWELL - In other words, that is, the first two letters or the last ones would have been the same as this? His information was that he had been unwittingly involved with paying Oswald through a high security clearance, since he worked in the finance office. But in the light of the information in this essay, it seems interesting that it was Shelly and Truly who took the name of Oswald to the police. The memo said that Oswalds FBI informant number was S172 and that his CIA number was 110669. Mr. CORNWELL - What type of people were they? There were, as I recall, three men there, all I think in shirt sleeves. Mr. WILCOTT - The principal reason. Please try again. He kept his pocket calendars from his years of employment, and he noted when the grocery company moved out of the building to a new facility in another part of Dallas. [26], Pierce Allman, a local newsman, later said that after he approached the TSBD, a man he recalled as Oswald near the front of the building, directed him to a phone inside.[27]. The significance of Glazes 1989 letter is that it provides a tantalizing piece of information which may indicate a covert side to the depository itself. Mine was a happenstance meeting and short, casual friendship with a man who appeared to have fallen through the cracks. My address is 2761 Atlantic Street, in Concord, and my occupation is electronic technician. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir, they did not. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir; I believe that happened. He was still there when Garner retired in 1986. Mrs. Bergin paid a great deal of money for that dress. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And finally, as I said at the beginning is it fair to say that you are here voluntarily today? Yet judging by the disgust in his voice when he said at the police station Im just a patsy, he probably did not know that he would be the one accused of killing the president. [16] At the same time, the president of the company, Jack Cason, spent five days a week, Monday through Friday, in uniform at Fort Wolters at Mineral Wells (80 miles west of Dallas). Mr. GOLDSMITH - excuse me, just answer the question very generally, without referring to anything right now, and please describe generally what your responsibilities were as a finance officer. Mr. WILCOTT - No, I didn't. Mr. WILCOTT - To the best of my recollection, yes. Roy Truly, who started working for the book depository in 1934, took a part-time job at the North American Aviation plant in Arlington, Texas during the war years. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mr. SAWYER - How long were you associated with that? On many occasions he had conversations with CIA personnel concerning Lee Harvey Oswald's employment as a CIA agent. If you have something -- ", and things like that. Mr. WILCOTT - I cannot remember. I think we ought to state that the record shows that Mr. Sawyer is a member of the Kennedy Subcommitte Preyer. Mr. GOLDSMITH - What is the name of the book? I don't recall its origins with clarity, but I think it was given to me by a professor at Southern Methodist University here in Dallas. [10] Larry Ray Harris at the age of 44 died in an automobile accident on October 5, 1996. Conditions at home and at work put a severe strain on Joes parents. We should not jump to conclusions, since we do not know the entity that was actually paying him. Below is Mr. Glazes letter: House of Re. Confirming these observations were two more spectators, Ronald Fischer and Robert Edwards, who saw a man with light-colored hair and a light-colored open-neck shirt at a window on the fifth floor. In late 1977, while working as a reporter for the Avalanche-Journal newspaper in Lubbock, Texas, I submitted written testimony to the United States House of Representatives newly-formed Select Committee on Assassinations. Towards the end of my tour of duty, I heard certain things about Oswald somehow being connected with the agency, and I didn't really believe this when I heard it, and I thought it was absurd. ", and they might look it over and retype the accounting for funds for their project and, you know, make changes that they might think were in their interest to do. The building is a large, one-story, concrete tilt-up, ideal for storing and moving huge quantities of material goods with forklifts and palettes. For in Barry Ernests book, The Girl on the Stairs, the reader will read that both Vickie Adams and Sandy Styles told Barry that they did not see either Shelly or Lovelady when they descended from the fourth floor to the first. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir, I did. Mr. GOLDSMITH - How did this information concerning Oswald first come to your attention? According to former CIA finance officer James B. Wilcotts testimony before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), Lee Harvey Oswald was a regular employee, receiving a full-time salary for agent work, for doing CIA operational work.[1] A memorandum by Warren Commission general counsel J. Lee Rankin said that Oswalds CIA payroll number was 110669. Mr. CORNWELL - What, if any, investigation did the Agency do with respect to that? For example, Joes father had to clear visitors with Roy Truly, the building manager, even though they were top executives from the company headquarters in Chicago. Feel free to use any part of it as you please. Mr. WILCOTT - June of 1964. Mr. CORNWELL - Did any event cause any disagreement between you and the Agency? Mr. WILCOTT - I believe they would at one time. Copyright 2016-2022 by kennedysandking.com All Rights Reserved. Mr. CORNWELL - In the conversations which you have described occurring within a period of one, two or three months after the assassination with other CIA employees and officers, did they suggest in those conversations to you that their employment, the CIA's employment, of Oswald had any relation to the assassination or only that it related to the, events you have already described -- namely, the training of him in Atsugi in the Russian language and the sending of him to Russia and using of him as a double agent and that sort of thing? In 1970, the TSBD and the schoolbook publishers moved out of the old 411 Elm Street building. Apart from the one officer who said to you that you had paid monies with respect to Oswald's cryptonym, what were the other six or seven persons' purported connection with Oswald and the Agency's relation to him. Their whereabouts are completely unknown. Prior to this time, the building was occupied by a wholesale grocery company engaged in supplying restaurants and institutions.[4] The wholesale grocery company was the John Sexton Company. "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - enshrined on the lobby floor of the entrance to CIA headquarters. Mr. DODD - And the information given you occurred sometime three months after the actual assassination. Mr. WILCOTT - Approximately two years, sir. It has every one that I can remember. Through another researcher, I obtained Glazes mailing address. Mr. WILCOTT - They were maintained on a thirty-day basis, and then they were closed off at the end of the month. (Whereupon, a recess was taken while the members of the Committee went to the floor of the House for a vote.). Mr. WILCOTT - I can't remember the exact persons. [20] Before going up the stairs, Truly paused to tell Shelley to guard the stairs and elevators to make sure no one uses them.[21]. Mr. WILCOTT - I doubt it, sir. Mr. WILCOTT - My current one that I had on my counter. Since a cubic foot of books is about 25 to 30 pounds, a box such as this, when loaded with books, would have weighed around 375 to 450 poundstoo heavy to manage with a handcart. It would be easy to verify: (1) if a reporter named Glaze has ever worked for the Lubbock newspaper, (2) if a journalist named Glaze was living in Dallas in 1974/1975. Learn more. Please publish modules in offcanvas position. Currently he has been studying the Zodiac Killer case and writes for a website called zodiackilleridentified.com. He was not questioned by the Warren Commission. On November 22, 1963, there were sixty-nine people working in the building at 411 Elm Streetthirty-three for the TSBD and forty-six for the publishers. At the time he visited the place, Scott Foresman was gone, and a carpet company was occupying the building. Mr. WILCOTT - I was recruited from the school in Syracuse New York, where I was taking a course in accounting and busi- ness administration. [8] Jim Marrs, Crossfire (Carroll & Graf. Although he left in December 1973, he was certain that the musician who disappeared in Dallas was not among the core members of the band. However, please contact me before mentioning my name to anyone. If they do agree to be interviewed, they are truthful in what they say, except on one particular point: the year when they moved into the building. In 1947, the year when the CIA was formed, the Dallas city directory lists William Shelley as a clerk for the Hugh Perry Book Depository (the old name for the Texas School Book Depository), and that he had a room at 515 Martinique Avenue. It achieved commercial success in 1970 with a hit song called "Mr. Bojangles. In 1992, the band was still active, touring the country and recording albums. Out of curiosity, he opened this door and saw a large storage area that took over half of the square footage of the fourth floor. As Rose points out, this is a bit odd also, since most of the building witnesses were taken to the sheriffs office, which was much closer to the TSBD than police headquarters. Mr. SAWYER - Who is the public safety commissioner? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Could you give an example of that? No doubt the police asked Shelley a lot of questions, and it is possible that they kept him in custody until he gave satisfactory answers. Mr. WILCOTT - I don't understand. 359-360, 386-387. [4] FBI report of Roy Truly interview by Nat Pinkston, November 23, 1963, File No. If Shelleys claim to Glaze about his association with the CIA is true, it indicates that he was leading a double life as a schoolbook man as well as an intelligence operative. Two weeks later when I made a follow-up call, Kellner said that his partner Frank Morrow vaguely remembered the letter, but could not provide any additional information. Since the floors were not strong enough to accommodate forklifts, he wondered how the warehouse men could have moved such enormous boxes. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. DODD - After the assassination actually occurred? Mr. WILCOTT - Generally so, I would say, at that time. [8] Carolyn Arnold, a secretary for Vice-president Ochus Campbell, told a friend in 1994 that she had been, and still was, terrified. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I did. He was not questioned by the Warren Commission. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mr. DODD - And it is your clear recollection that he was described as an agent? Truly notified Police Captain Will Fritz, who immediately thought that it was "important to hold that man.[29] What makes this even more interesting is the following new information. Other people who worked at the book depository suffered as well. When, exactly, was the very first time that you heard or came across information that Oswald was an agent? Mr. WILCOTT - No. ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY . Mr. WILCOTT - Not until after I left the agency. New York, 1989) p. 319. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, with the Agency, yes, sir. As a CIA employee, Wilcott stated under oath that many people told him that Lee Harvey Oswald was an agent of the CIA after the assassination had occurred. In 1992, Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act that placed all remaining government documents pertaining to the assassination in a special category and . You mentioned the day after the assassination you talked to someone at the station about it. Which he was allegedly working for. Mr. DODD - Am I to believe by that that you were not aware at the time you made the disbursement that it was, in fact, an Oswald project? New security officers appeared. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I did not intend to get into that area. Mr. WILCOTT - I really don't know. This is more than just an investigative report. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. TESTIMONY OF JAMES B. WILCOTT, A FORMER EMPLOYEE OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY: Mr. GOLDSMITH - For the record, would you please state your name and address and occupation? Charles Givens, like Oswald, had left the building after the assassination. Mr. DODD - Just one second, then. There are photos of him getting into a police car along with Bonnie Ray Williams and Daniel Arce. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And who is Jerry Fox? His information was that he had been unwitt. Mr. CORNWELL - It is your testimony, as I understand it, the first time that you spoke about the Oswald agency matter outside of the CIA was after you left the CIA; is that correct? The home of Joe Bergin, Sr. and his wife seemed to have been a target for persecution, perhaps because Mrs. Bergin was strongly pro-Kennedy and actively worked for his election in 1960. Mr. Shelly claims to have been an intelligence officer during World War II and thereafter joined the CIA. Walther was sure they were not as high as the sixth floor. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And, Mr. Wilcott, is it true that you are a former employee with the CIA and that you are here today testifying voluntarily without a subpoena? Mr. GOLDSMITH - What is that explanation? Mr. DODD - When you decided to release that information? After standing on the front steps to see the shooting of the president, Frazier did something odd, about which he seemed to contradict himself about in an interview with the Sixth Floor Museum in 2013. Apparently, work at the book depository was not so demanding as to preclude these forays into military, law enforcement, or intelligence organizations. Mr. GOLDSMITH - How did you become employed with the CIA? It was an infantry replacement center as well as a German POW camp. 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