Mr. PREYER - The committee will resume. Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, there were several other incidents that I believe could possibly be somehow connected with CIA. 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. Please publish modules in offcanvas position. House of Representatives, John F. Kennedy Subcommittee of the Select Committee on Assassinations, Washington, D. C. Mr. SCHAAP - Mr. Chairman, I would like to interpose, I guess, an objection, although I would like to make it more in the nature of a request, that I have some problems in terms of advising my client with respect to possibly self incrimination, that I would not advise him to go into questions of his specific knowledge of the oath and the application to what he did other than the fact that he has told you, which is a fact, that he did sign the oath; but to, go into his mental processes as to whether he felt what he was then doing related to the oath in a particular way, I would request that those questions not be asked on the grounds that they may violate either his First Amendment rights or his Fifth Amendment rights, if that would be all right. Joe was unable to determine if the arson was assassination-related. Mr. WILCOTT - That he was a regular employee, receiving a full-time salary for agent work for doing CIA operational work. Not long after Oswald departed from the scene, Shelley told Truly that Oswald was missing. Mr. GOLDSMITH - To your knowledge, would any records at CIA Headquarters document that Oswald was a CIA agent? To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. Mr. WILCOTT - I was able to but I never did. In the closing paragraphs of his 1977 letter, he wrote, "I must admit that my own fear of getting involved in the investigation has prevented me from writing you earlier. XXXXXXXXXXXXX. Mr. WILCOTT - I worked from the years, May, of 1957 to, April, of 1966. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. The CIA then told him a story of how someone could be thrown out of a plane without a parachute and the CIA would protect them. And do you know for a fact that he was given Russian courses? Below is an excerpt from Harriss letter dated December 15, 1992: Enclosed is the Bill Shelley document I read to you over the phone. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Mr. WILCOTT - I can't remember, sir. Mr. CORNWELL - All you can recall is that, when you. It was more of a casual kind of thing, to my way of thinking. She and three co-workersVictoria Adams, Sandra Styles, and Elsie Dormanviewed the shooting of the president from their fourth-floor office window. I was scared until the Carter Administration. The stark contrast in the quality of scholarship between the two books was one factor convincing him that there was a huge conspiracy behind the assassination. Missing evidence could be attributed to the systematic destruction of anything contrary to the official version. Mr. GOLDSMITH - During what years did you work for the CIA? 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. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, that was just those that were assigned to XXXXXX and those projects that were assigned to XXXXXXXX. Mr. PREYER - I would like before we begin to read a written statement concerning the subject of the investigation. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. Mr. WILCOTT - It was right at my window, my disbursing cage window. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And will you tell the Committee what that relationship was? Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, then, really, no purpose would have been served by checking those records? I was on the executive committee along with doctors and lawyers and some of the most respected people in the community. This was all cash payments and record keeping for the station. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Were there any other times during your stay with the CIA at XXXXXXXXXX Station that you came across information that Oswald had been a CIA agent? He said there were two musicians who had been with the band since the beginning and he would speak to them. I next called John Peets, the manager of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Mr. WILCOTT - Dozens, literally dozens. "[24] Lovelady must have been one of the other calm men, since, as previously noted, he made no response when Adams said that the president had been shot. 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. GOLDSMITH - What do you mean by the term "agent"? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Mr. Wilcott after leaving the XXXXXXXXX Station, was there any other time when you came across any information that indicated that Oswald was a CIA agent? She said that she had been in the personnel department since 1982, and she never knew anyone by that name. Finally, under threats and intense harassment from Dallas Police, I was forced to flee Dallas in early 1975. Mr. WILCOTT - XXXXXXXXXXXX George Breen, Ed Luck, and. Mr. WILCOTT - XXXXXXXXXXXXX (spelling). The book depository was in a seven-story, red brick building located at 411 Elm Street. Below is an obituary from the Austin American-Statesman published on Dec. 15, 2019. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you have any personal knowledge that any records at CIA Headquarters were ever destroyed? Mr. WILCOTT - I don't really have anything and maybe I would just like to say I think it is time we got this thing cleared up; and I think for the good of the country and for good of the people I think it is really time that all of the facts were brought out and the people really get the facts. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Could you give an example of that? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir, I did. 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? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, it is. 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. How much exact knowledge they had it is impossible for me to say. Mr. DODD - And you and your wife both went to work for the CIA about the same time? He refused to let me quote him or use his name in print. Mr. SAWYER - Are there any others that you can specifially identify as coming from the CIA or FBI? The building is a large, one-story, concrete tilt-up, ideal for storing and moving huge quantities of material goods with forklifts and palettes. We appreciate your being here today, Mr. Wilcott. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Mr. WILCOTT - No; I think that I looked through my advance book -- and I had a book where the advances on projects were run, and I leafed through them, and I must have at least leafed through them to see if what he said was true. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you remember which of these individuals if any, made the specific allegation or reference that Oswald was an agent? Reminder warnings were given on an individual or a small group basis. Also puzzling is the manner by which they asked new employees point-blank if they were members of the CIA. Yes, I do, and I believe there was such a reference. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Mr. Wilcott, did I ask you to prepare a list of CIA Case Officers working at XXXXXXXXX Station in 1963? Which seems to be an odd premise, especially since, as Jerry Rose pointed out in his article, Important to Hold that Man there were at least 14 people missing from the building at the time; and they would not return until 1:30 PM. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you know whether CIA Headquarters would have had either copies or originals of the cash disbursement files? From January of 1965 to about March of 1965, I was at Langley in the same area, in finance, policing accounts and auditing of special accounts, and I was promoted up to GS-9. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Assuming that Oswald was an agent for the CIA, would the agency's cash disbursement files have referred to either Oswald or to his cryptonym? 2 AM, Nov. 23. Oversized boxes were also seen by Joe Bergin, Jr. when he visited his father at the 411 Elm Street building. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir, not that I can recall. Mr. SAWYER - I noticed in somne of the information we are provided you say that following your leaving the CIA in 1967 or thereabouts, for a period of some three years or so, you were harassed by the CIA and the FBI and sabotaged, as I recollect it. John P. Horton, XXXXXXXXX Section; XXXXXXXXXXXXX Branch; and Chester Ito, XXXXXXXXX Branch; and Kan Takai, XXXXX Branch; and Jim Delaney, China Branch; and Bob Rentner, SR Branch -- and there is some question about that, the branch he was with. 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. You may have noticed that at the end of my letter to Alternative Views I carbon-copied to my will. It was intended as a jab at myself lest I get too full of myself rereading it 50 years from now. Mr. WILCOTT - Oh, yes. Mr. WILCOTT - Oh, yes. ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY Mr. GOLDSMITH - When was the first time that you alleged in public that Oswald was a CIA agent. One of the aforementioned employees (whose name I cannot recall) stated that when she went to work for Bill Shelly at the school book depository in the early 1970s she was interviewed for the job by some type of government agents who asked if she had been recruited by the F.B.I. Currently he has been studying the Zodiac Killer case and writes for a website called zodiackilleridentified.com. There is a vast literature on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, . Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir; he was described to me as an, agent and I was led to believe, from the conversations that he was an agent. Two weeks later, he wrote back: Received your letter of July 7, 1999. [13], (As an aside, CIA officer William Harvey worked for Bobbs-Merrill in the last years of his life as a law editor.[14]). Last modified on Sunday, 10 November 2019 23:45, The JFK Assassination Decoded: Two Reviews, Malcolm X's Family to File $100 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit, Alleging Cover-up of His Murder, A Personal Encounter with the Warren Commission, JFK Medical Betrayal: Where The Evidence Lies by Russell Kent, Whitney, the Ambassador, and Batista's Tax Break for Freeport Sulphur , The Wilcott Affidavit and Interrogation by the HSCA. Mr. GOLDSMITH - If the agency, in fact, was run on the "need-to-know" basis, how would you account for so many people supposedly knowing that Oswald was an agent? Mr. WILCOTT - Oh, no. Admittedly, there is no record of Shelleys arrest, but that does not necessarily mean Glaze was wrong. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes; it is my belief that he was a regular agent and this was a regular project of the Agency to send Oswald to the Soviet Union. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Just give us their names. I talked to reporters from various papers, and I talked to people in other forms of meetings, and to me it is not surprising at all. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And what is the reason for that? Mr. DODD - And it is your clear recollection that he was described as an agent? Mr. WILCOTT - I cannot remember. A fellow researcher named Eric Lee Jordan visited the site and took pictures of it. This employee said that fellow employees were subjected to similar job interviews by government agents. 3 By James Mathis and Martha Wagner Murphy Enlarge A photograph from Warren Commission exhibits shows the open limousine that carried President and Mrs. Kennedy through downtown Dallas. Mr. WILCOTT - That is correct, sir. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, in a speculative manner. Enclosing the back area is a high, chain-link fence with coils of barbed wire on top. 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