by Steve Thomas
Posted on the Education Forum 07/19/20 in the Topic, “Was it really just a MOLE HUNT about "Oswald?”
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/26529-was-it-really-just-a-mole-hunt-about-oswald/page/39/
1. Sheriff Decker's file on the assassination, given to the Warren Commission list the assailant's name as "Harvey Lee Oswald"
(12H51) (CE 5323) Deposition of Sheriff Decker dark brown heavy folder with a label on the outside: Harvey Lee Oswald.
2. WC testimony of Earlene Roberts April 8, 1964. She twice said that the Detectives asked if Harvey Lee Oswald lived there.
http://jfkassassination.net/russ/testimony/robertse.htm
3. CE 2003 located in (24H259) is the list submitted to Captain Gannaway through Jack Revill of TSBD employees. It is dated November 22, 1963. Heading that list is Harvey Lee Oswald at 605 Elsbeth. The list of TSBD employees can also be found in the Portal to Texas History
4. WC
testimony of FBI Agent, John Lester Quigley, who interviewed Oswald in
New Orleans on August 10, 1963.
https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/quigley.htm
5. Peter Dale Scott
Report in Spanish of November 26, 1963; retyped and transmitted by JKB (George Munro) to Mexico… All the references to Oswald in the Durán interview pages have “Lee Harvey Oswald,” but subsequent pages dealing with her relatives have “Harvey Lee Oswald.”)
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=32291&search=104-10068-10084#relPageId=1&tab=page
6.There have been references on several threads about a cable sent on the evening of 11/22 from Fort Sam Houston to Strike Command, McDill AFB in Florida. In the cable, reference was made, to information obtained by Detective Don Stringfellow of the Dallas Police Department. I managed to locate a copy of the cable, which you can find here:
https://archive.org/details/nsia-ArmyIntelligenceJFK
In the Stringfellow cable referenced above, Harvey Lee Oswald was described as 5'10" tall, 165 lbs, with blue eyes.
7. Oswald is referred to as Harvey Lee Oswald in an FBI report coming out of Mobile, AL on 12/24/63
(23H372) https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1139#relPageId=404&tab=page
8. Oswald is referred to as Harvey Lee Oswald in an FBI report coming out of Sherman Oaks, CA on 11/29/63 (23H207) https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1139#relPageId=239&tab=page
9. MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD: SUBJECT - HARVEY LEE OSWALD
The author of this memorandum is unknown. The subject of the memo is Harvey Lee Oswald. It looks like it dates from 1972.
10. The Soviets rejected the Soviet citizenship application of Harvey Lee Oswald.
11. (16H) 721 CE 270 Secret Service Agent Howard Interview with Marguerite Oswald (CD 87)
12. (16H) 749 CE 270 Secret Service Agent Howard Interview with Robert Lee Oswald (CD 87)
13. Final Report of the Assassinations Records Review Board September 30, 1998
Chapter 6 Part 1: The Quest for Additional Information and Records in Federal Government Offices
p. 83
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=3611&relPageId=106&search=%22Harvey_Lee%20Oswald%22
“The Review Board also sought to determine whether the FBI maintained a file in Mexico City on a “Harvey Lee Oswald” under the file number 105-2137.... Some of the documents in the (Mexico Ciity Legal Attache) Legat's file contain notations for routing records to a file numbered 105-2137, and were captioned “Harvey Lee Oswald”, but it did not find such a file.”
14 . Peter Dale Scott before the ARRB: October 11, 1994.
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=145535&search=105-2137#relPageId=36&tab=page
p. 36.
“I want to suggest to you that the FBI may have been tracking all of this in a file which I am quite sure has never been seen by the Warren Commission, never been seen by the House Committee, and never certainly by me or by the Archives today. I have found a reference to it in a cover sheet which I am going to leave with you. It is Mexico City File 105-2137, which is then struck out and replaced with a different file number with a different name, Lee Harvey Oswald. I hope you will pursue that original file. I predict that it will lead to some third agency which has been protected in here...”
Letter from Petr Dale Scott to John Newman
http://jfkcountercoup2.blogspot.com/2017/10/additional-missing-jfk-assassination.html
Dear John,
“In fact, the cover sheet mentioning this file is available from the Mary Ferrell Foundation website. It is NARA RIF124-10029-10270, FBI serial MX 105-3702-254. It is from “Wesley” [SA Howard D. Wesley], has the title “Information re Allegations re Oswald case,” and (apart from still classified cross-file references) contains only this reference: “105-2137, [corrected manually in ink to “3702”] (Harvy Lee Oswald).” (It makes no reference to “Lee Harvey Oswald.”)3.
3. At the time I did not know who Wesley was. But other FBI “Harvey Lee Oswald” records identify him as SA Howard D. Wesley, then at the FBI Mexican branch office in Monterrey.”
15. OSWALD CASE-REFERENCE IS MADE TO THE ATTACHED C
COPY OF AN INCOMING STATE DEPARTMENT TELEGRAM DATED 19 DECEMBER 1963, IN CONNECTION WITH THE HARVEY LEE OSWALD CASE
16. DRAFT OF MEMO TO WARREN COMMISSION TRANSMITTING INFO PREVIO
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=95799&relPageId=5&search=%22Harvey_Lee%20Oswald%22
page 5
“The CIA Mexico City Station had discovered that the following individuals departing Mexico by air during early November might be identical with Harvey Lee Oswald”
(early November?)
17. Commission Document 498 - SS Rowley Memorandum of 13 Mar 1964 Forwarding Reports
pp. 37-38. The Report is titled, Harvey Lee Oswald.
18. SS Protective Research Report by Kenneth J. Weisman of an interview with Billy Joe Lord, who traveled to Europe with Oswald aboard the SS Marion Lykes. Lord constantly refers to “Harvey Lee Oswald” whom he found to be “unfriendly, standoffish, and that the two of them “didn't hit off”. (p. 38.)
The Report was written by Weisman on February 28, 1964 and approved by a Jose (?)(Benavides?)(sic?) on March 2, 1964.
The name, Harvey Lee Oswald is used seven times in the same document.
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10898#relPageId=37&search=Billy_Joe%20Lord
19. F.M.Turner
from the DPD showed a picture of Harvey Lee
Oswald to assassination witness Ronald
Fischer.. DPD
Archives Box1, Folder# 3, Item# 11
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth338054/m1/1/?q=%22Ronald%20Fischer%22
FBI 62-109060 JFK HQ File, Section 145
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=62431&relPageId=155&search=%22Harvey_Lee
20. Memorandum
From: S.F. Latona
To: Mr. Trotter
Date 11/13/67
“A box containing memoranda, work sheets, reports, copies of incoming letters and negatives of finger and palm prints in connection with captioned case and the case entitled “Harvey Lee Oswald”, aka; IS-R-Cuba, “Bufile# 105-82555”, is being filed in a bulky file bin in the ___ Records Division.”
(105-82555 is the FBI Headquarters File)
21 Commission Document 320 - Secret Service Rowley Memorandum of 24 Jan 1964
Secret Service Memo from James J. Rowley to J. Lee Rankin dated January 24, 1964.
Subject: Harvey Lee Oswald
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10721&relPageId=1&search=%22Harvey_Lee%20Oswald%22
“There are forwarded herewith copies of additional reports from the Secret Service files bearing the following Secret Service control numbers: and lists 29 documents.
Document# 650 in that list is a Protective Research Field Report by Special Agent William H. McClarin, Jr. of an interview with a chauffeur named Bernard Thompson who said he encountered Harvey Lee Oswald on September 27, 1963 in front of the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. “On December 3, 1963 a photograph of Harvey Lee Oswald was obtained from the Protective Research Section. The following known aliases of Harvey Lee Oswald were also obtained at that time: O.H. Lee, A.J. Hidell, Alek J. Hidell, Alex James Hidell, A. Haidell.”
(The Haidell alias is a new one on me)
22. Letter Letter from G. Robert Blakey, House Select Committee on Assassinations January 5, 1977
LETTER:IN CONNECTION WITH ITS INVESTIGATION/REQUEST FOR FILES ON 37 NAMES
The person to whom this letter was addresses is whited out.
“...the Select Committee on Assassinations requests that you make available to our staff all files and index references pertaining to individuals listed below:
-
1)Lee Harvey Oswald: Check also under Lee Henry Oswald, Henry Lee Oswald, Harvey Lee Oswald.
23. Letter from G. Robert Blakey, House Select Committee on Assassinations to Mr. Patrick Carpentier, Office of Legislative Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency, January 6, 1978.
https:/www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=50943&relPageId=2&search=%22Harvey_Lee%20Oswald%22
“...the Select Committee on Assassinations requests that you make available to our staff all files and index references pertaining to individuals listed below:
1) Lee Harvey Oswald: Check also under Lee Henry Oswald, Henry Lee Oswald, Harvey Lee Oswald.
24. Letter from G. Robert Blakey, House Select Committee on Assassinations to Mr. Patrick Carpentier, Office of Legislative Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency, March 9, 1978.
180-10141-10107
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=50929&relPageId=3&search=%22Harvey_Lee%20Oswald%22
25. Log Sheets
NARA Record Number: 1993.08.03.18:55:08:960027
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=105798&relPageId=135&search=%22Harvey_Lee%20Oswald%22
26. Status of Request: Ltr. From Blakey dtd 9 Mar 1978 (Kennedy)
“A list of documents in the possession of CIA concerning Lee Harvey Oswald (Lee Henry Oswald, Harvey Lee Oswald) prior to the opening of a 201 file as well as the office in which each of those documents was located prior to opening of file.” This item in the list is marked “No Record” in the Office of the Inspector General
* (This proves that Harvey Lee Oswald was not just a simple matter of inverting the name).
27. Report to Chief Curry by Sgt. Dean on his assignment to the basement of DPD Headquarters on 11/24
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1140#relPageId=105&tab=page
28. During the trial of Clay Shaw, Mr. Shaw was asked why he referred to Lee Harvey Oswald as Harvey Lee Oswald in a press conference he held the day after his arrest. He was asked, “Is there any particular reason you put the name, Harvey first?”
Mr. Shaw said, “No. purely a mistake.”
Clay Shaw Trial Transcript, 27 Feb 1969 (Testimony of Mr. Shaw)
29. MEMORANDUM:HTLINGUAL/ALIASES USED BY OSWALD
Letter and attached memo refer to requests by Bella Abzug and Bernard Fensterwald relating to information and possible intercepted mail to or from Lee Harvey Oswald and any of five other aliases.
Harvey Lee Oswald was one of those names.
30. FBI Report of Nat Pinkston and J. Doyle Williams dated 11/23/63 of interview of William Shelley. On November 22, 1963 Harvey Lee Oswald, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository appeared for work as usual.
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=95616&relPageId=123&search=%22Harvey_Lee%20Oswald%22
31. “Oswald, Marine Corps Intelligence and the Assault on the State Department.” by Peter Dale Scott
Fredonia Conference, July, 1996.
As published as Folsom Exhibit No. 1 (19 WH 656-768), this personnel file (Marine Corps) contains only unclassified documents and information. There are no overt references to Marine G-2, and only one passing reference to the existence of confidential intelligence records on Oswald in the Department of the Navy. This reference is in a letter of 29 July 1960, recommending Oswald's discharge from the Marines. The letter mentions two confidential reports from the Eighth (New Orleans) and Ninth (Chicago) Naval District Intelligence Offices, which it cites as follows:
DIO, 9th ND confidential report serial 02049-E of 8 Jun 60
DIO, 9th ND confidential report serial 02296-E of 27 Jun 60.6.
Years later, replying affirmatively to a request for these DIO reports from researcher Paul Hoch, the
Naval Investigative Service (successor to ONI) supplied two records. These established a fact not
available from the rest of the personnel file: that Marine G-2 (in regional offices as well as at Marine
HQ) received documentary information from this ONI District Office concerning Oswald.7.
In addition at least one of these G-2 records listed Oswald by a slightly different name. This
alternative name, which eventually was used by at least four different military intelligence sources,
was "Harvey Lee Oswald."8
This "Harvey Lee Oswald" reference is no accidental anomaly, but part of an organized pattern, widely dispersed, that suggests an official intelligence deception (and possible dual filing system). Serial 02296-E of 27 Jun 60 is the earliest Harvey Lee Oswald reference we now possess of over two dozen, from the files of ONI, FBI, CIA, Army Intelligence, the Secret Service, the Mexican Secret Police (DFS), and the Dallas Police.9
A consistent pattern of behavior in these agencies since the assassination has been the tendency to suppress references to "Harvey Lee Oswald," and replace them by the more standard "Lee Harvey Oswald."10
6. Letter of 20 July 1960 to Commander, Marine Air Reserve Training, 19 Will 703.
7 .In this paper I am deeply indebted to the archival research and analysis of Paul Hoch, as well as to additional research by Larry Haapanen and Mark Allen.
8. The four sources using "Harvey Lee Oswald" are: DIO, 9th Naval District, DIO, 8th Naval District, ONI (NAVCINTSUPPCEN.3) and Army 112th Military Intelligence Group (see Peter Dale Scott,
Deep Politics Two. 144). In response to the request for serial 02049-E. the NIS supplied a record with a serial that was contiguous but slightly different: "DIO. 9th ND confidential report serial 02048-E of 8 Jun 60." The second document, accurately supplied, carried a title different from the first: "Subj: OSWALD, Harvey Lee." We are left to wonder whether serial 02049-E of 8 Jun 60 concerned Harvey
Lee Oswald as well.
9 . For a discussion and incomplete list, see Peter Dale Scott, Deep Politics Two, 80, 85-89, 118-19, 142-49.
10. Ibid.. especially pp. 118-19.
32. A letter from Anatoly Dobrynin to the U.S. State Department concerning Harvey Lee Oswald's request for Soviet citizenship is dated December 11, 1963.
LETTER FORWARDING DOCUMENTS TO CIA WHICH WERE AGREED UPON AT CONFERENCE HELD MARCH 12TH
In this letter, it says that Harvey Lee Oswald's request for USSR Citizenship was denied. It doesn't say when he applied for that citizenship, but
p. 111.
In this letter, it says that Harvey Lee Oswald's request for USSR Citizenship was denied. It doesn't say when he applied for that citizenship, but the character reference memo from the Minsk Radio factory in CE 985, p. 433 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1135&relPageId=447&search=%22Harvey_Lee%20Oswald%22 is dated December 11, 1961 and refers to “Citizen” Harvey Lee Oswald, who was hired as a regulator at the Minsk Radio Plant on January 13, 1960.
34. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2018/104-10418-10332.pdf
CIA cable dated November 27, 1963 replying to Directive# 85133 (traces of Harvey Lee Oswald), It says, “Dissemination applicable to RYBAT GPFLOOR Cables”. Cable says, “No station or liaison traces Oswald. Checked all available sources including landing card and hotel registers without result.”
35. Transcript of ARRB Interview of Donald Monier conducted August 12, 1996 by Dave Montague and Christopher Barger
http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/jfk/NARA-Oct2017/ARRB/CBARGER/WP-DOCS/MONIER.WPD.pdf
(see p. 6)
Monier:I was with the 112th CIC Group in Dallas-- “I can remember doing some things relative to that, but none of that had to do with Harvey Os-- Lee Harvey Oswald.”
36. From Karl Hilliard in the Education Forum 09/09/2019
I had run across this document which had made it's way into the archives...
Notice that the letter was addressed to 'Esteemed citizen Harvey Oswald'
That the letter addresses Harvey and not Lee just might be a fluke.
https://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh16/html/WH_Vol16_0129b.htm
Karl wrote, “Notice that the letter was addressed to 'Esteemed citizen Harvey Oswald'.
37. Parent’s Dependency Affidavit from July 31, 1959
From Jim Hargrove in the Education Forum 08/18/19”
“Steve,
There is a U.S. Harvey Lee Oswald reference dating back to 1959. It is on the Dependency Affidavit the Russian-speaking Oswald submitted at MACS-9 in Santa Ana, CA. Near the top of the form is “OSWALD, Lee Harvey,” but at bottom left is “Oswald, Harvey Lee.” It may be just an error, of course, but the two names are clearly typed on two different devices.”
38. Posted by Jim Hargrove in the Education Forum 04/12/19
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/24392-harvey-lee-oswald/page/4/
“Donald P. Norton, the CIA agent who received $150,000
from David Ferrie in
1958 and delivered the cash to Havana, was given another assignment
involving Cuba
in the fall of 1962. On this occasion he was given a case full of money
and told to travel
to Monterrey, Mexico and meet "Harvey Lee.”
39. Posted by David Boylan in the Education Forum 04/12/19
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/24392-harvey-lee-oswald/page/4/
ARRB-CIA ISSUES: OSWALD DEBRIEFING ISSUE (NEWMAN REQUEST)
home/archive/documents/jfk assassination documents/documents released in 2017 and 2018/documents released on november 9, 2017/cia documents released on november 9, 2017/
NARA Record Number:104-10332-10018
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=189698&relPageId=8&search=AEOCEAN “...we showed operational interest in the Harvey story.”
40. Posted by Jim Hargrove in the Education Forum 09/12/19
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/25901-two-oswalds-in-the-texas-theater/page/23/#comments
FROM: SAC (New York)
TO: Director FBI
Enclosed for each recipient is one copy of a self-explanatory Army communication dated 12.30.63 captioned Harvey Oswald.
Enclosed Army communication alleges that Oswald was in Cuba in the company of Robert Taber, former head of Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC), approximately three weeks after the April 1961, Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
Jim is probably referencing this document:
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=62297&search=luaces#relPageId=89&tab=page
41. Cox, Dwayne. “Roomers Shed New Light on “Oswald’s Activities”. Lubbuck Avalanche-Journal, July 7, 1977.
https://servimg.com/view/17602890/1349#
https://servimg.com/view/17602890/1347
Posted in the Education Forum by Ed LeDoux 01/18/2020
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/26290-the-beckley-bunch/page/2/#comments
“Adams told the AJ (Avalanche Journal) that Oswald, the man he was introduced to as Harvey Lee:,,,”
42. Naval Criminal Investigative Service Administration
page 2
OSWALD, Lee H Reported sighting of Oswald in Cuba in 1961 dtd Nov 30,1963
Tabot introduced his companion as Lieutenant Harvey Oswald
43. From David Joseph in The Education Forum 05/18/2018
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/24392-harvey-lee-oswald/page/3/
Got another for you Steve...
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2018/104-10418-10332.pdf
“Requested traces Harvey Lee Oswald”
44. From James Norwood in the Education Forum 07/18/2020
“This is a separate document from the official Marine enlistment certificate published in the Hearings and Exhibits of the Warren Report. Below is a scan of the original document, which I do not believe has been published anywhere prior to this date:”
“You will notice on the line of the entry of the recruit's name that it was first typed as HARVEY LEE, then typed over as LEE HARVEY." The images of the card can also be found on the Harvey and Lee website https://harveyandlee.net/Marines/Marines.html
This Enlistment Card is not
found in the Marine Corps Records Warren Hearings and Exhibits, Folsom
Exhibit Current Section: Folsom Ex 1 - Copy of U.S. Marine Corps record
on Lee Harvey Oswald Volume XIX beginning on Page 656, https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1136#relPageId=674
Fort Worth Star-Telegram updated November 23, 2013
https://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/article3837441.html
"Attorney John T. Chidgey's father, Marine 1st Sgt. John G. Chidgey, was head of recruiting for the Marines in the Fort Worth office at the Federal Courthouse. Shortly after the president was killed, he heard that Oswald had been a Marine and had signed up in Fort Worth. The elder Chidgey went to the basement of the building, found Oswald's original 'APPLICATION FOR ENLISTMENT AND INDIVIDUAL DATA CARD,' retrieved it and kept it."
45. From James Norwood.
“There is a Harvey reference #45 when, in her Warren Commission testimony, Ruth Hyde Paine refers to Oswald as "Harvey." Here is the essential quote: “He [Oswald] went out to buy groceries, came in with a cheery call to his two girls, saying ‘Yabutchski,’ which means girls, the Russian word for girls, as he came in the door. It was more like Harvey than I had seen him before.” [1]
[1] Warren Commission Hearings, Vol. III, 8. “
46. From Mark Stevems in the Education Forum 07/20/2020.
AP Wire Service photos. Clippings from The Bulletin, November 25, 1963.
47. ONI cable of November 27, 1963
Post-11/22/63 ONI Files on Lee Harvey Oswald Received by Paul Hoch from NARA in 1967
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=217731&search="carousel_guest"#relPageId=28&tab=page
see p. 28
Subject: Oswald, Harvey Lee
Please discreetly ascertain subscriber to El Paso phone number 532 2555 ASAP
48. November 25, 1963 CIA Memorandum from Thomas B. Casasin to Walter P. Haltigan. RIF# 104-10067-10212 entitled Mr. Lee Harvey Oswald
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=190904&search=104-10067-10212#relPageId=1&tab=page
“...we showed operational intelligence interest in the Harvey story”.
49. Gus Russo Mexican files:
https://www.jfkfiles.com/jfk/download/Mexico-City-Archives-Oswald-File.pdf
pages 35, 36 and 37: Harvey Lee Oswald