I found it very, very difficult to talk about these things that I think ought to be talked about, very difficult. At the end of. Dr. King was killed by one rifle shot fired from in front of him. Mr. SAWYER - When you refer to Oswald as an agent, you are referring to the extent you have -- as an agent as opposed to a paid informer, in effect? What it was is hard to guess. [27] Gerald McKnight, Breach of Trust p. 115. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Why did you go back to look at the book? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Well, if I understand your correctly, then, you answer now was somewhat different from what you testified earlier. Mr. PREYER - That was shop talk, speculation, I gather; people were saying that the CIA is somehow connected with it. Mr. CORNWELL - Did they request that you leave? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mrs. Bergin paid a great deal of money for that dress. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir, I did. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, you never checked the cash disbursement files to see if any reference was made there to Oswald's cryptonym, is that correct? There were more people than that that believed it, and six people with any degree of certainty that, you know, I felt from what they were saying that they either had some kind of substantial knowledge, or they had talked to somebody who had some knowledge. There is a very large spider guarding this web of secrecy. JFK Assassination : The James B. Wilcott Files And The CIA Oswald Project: An Investigative Report. 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. 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 - I cannot remember. And perhaps even having people inside the TSBD as assets. Mr. SAWYER - What were they? Mr. GOLDSMITH - What is the name of the book? Mr. GOLDSMITH - How many people in the CIA? But you apparently indicated that you feel there was a direct connection between the Bay of Pigs operation and the assassination of the President. The shot killed Dr. King. His desire to tell what he knew overcame his fear at least twice in his life. Mr. WILCOTT - That is correct, sir. I then proceeded to write an article called The Glaze Letters for the May 1999 issue of Jerry Roses JFK assassination research journal called The Fourth Decade. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for JFK Assassination : The James B. Wilcott Files And The CIA Oswald Project: An Investigative Report at Amazon.com. I went immediately into the clear space on the ground floor and asked where there was a phone. Mr. PREYER - It was your conclusion from that talk that some of these people might have knowledge that he was a CIA agent rather than that they were speculating about it? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Were you ever able to check those particular files? Dedicated to the political vision and legacy of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X,and to the investigation of their murders. And I will ask the question again, okay. For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions. 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. CORNWELL - However, I take it from the fact that, as you describe it, it wasn't always applied, that occasionally you did learn something about the identities of the persons or projects that the cryptonyms referred to; is that correct? Mr. WILCOTT - George Breen was a person in Registry, who was my closest friend while I was in XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And the first time you alleged in public this allegation was in 1968? As many JFK researchers know, James Wilcott was a CIA accountant from May 1957 through April 1966. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And for purposes of clarification, now, if Oswald was already dead at the time that you went to this book, why did you go back to examine the book? The November 14, 1961 date came from Leon, Sexton branch manager in Dallas from 1961 to 1964. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And in what general capacity did you work with the CIA? Mr. WILCOTT - My wife and I came to believe that what CIA was doing couldn't be reconciled to basic principles of democracy or basic principles of humanism. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Apparently, security measures to keep people from talking continued even after they went into retirement or found other occupations. responsibilities were primarily record keeping and disbursing of funds. [8] Jim Marrs, Crossfire (Carroll & Graf. Did you want to do this or intend to proceed with that line of questioning? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. I apologize. It was a guard-type function at the station, which I worked for overtime. Mr. DODD - And the information given you occurred sometime three months after the actual assassination. Ms. Berning. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Your book. Yet the mere existence of oversized boxes on the premises does not constitute proof of ongoing illegal activities. This was preparing and reconciling payrolls. Glazes meetings with Shelley were therefore not at the Ambassador Row facility, as I originally believed, but rather they occurred at the building on Gemini Lane. Mr. WILCOTT - No, I didn't. Mr. GOLDSMITH - At the time that this allegation first came to your attention, did you learn the name of Oswald's Case Offficer at the CIA? Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Three of the seven boxes appear in a photograph in his book. Mr. WILCOTT - All of the people that we mentioned in the case. Mr. GOLDSMITH - At the time you went to look at the book, Oswald was already dead is that correct? The specific incident was soon after the Kennedy assassination, where an agent, a Case Officer -- I am sure it was a Case Officer -- came up to my window to draw money, and he specifically said in the conversation that ensued, he specifically said, "Well, Jim, the money that I drew the last couple of weeks ago or so was money," either That is what we are attempting to accomplish, which is quite a big order. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Excuse me, please proceed very slowly. Mr. GOLDSMITH - What do you mean by the term "agent"? To his left was a door that led into the office of Scott Foresman. Mr. GOLDSMITH - How do you spell XXXXXXXXXX last name? Mr. WILCOTT - I was recruited from the school in Syracuse New York, where I was taking a course in accounting and busi- ness administration. Instead, he might have been one of the temporary musicians. Also puzzling is the manner by which they asked new employees point-blank if they were members of the CIA. We publish here the Wilcott affidavit and interrogation by the HSCA, declassified by the Assassination Records Review Board. Mr. PREYER - And dozens of others talked to you in a general, speculative manner? Mr. CORNWELL - Did you -- at the time you made the decision to discuss outside of the Agency this matter, did you focus on the secrecy oath problem? ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY . Enclosing the back area is a high, chain-link fence with coils of barbed wire on top. According to former CIA finance officer James B. Wilcott's 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." Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, they did. 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. WILCOTT - With any degree of certainty, other than just speculation, I would say, six or seven with some degree of certainty. [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 sir; at Oakland Technical High School, at the invitation of -- the social department asked me if I wanted to speak and I said yes, and so I spoke to two classes at Oakland Technical High School. I do. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir. Mr. WILCOTT - Very much. This fear casting a shadow over the lives of former employees was also directed against journalists seeking to lift the veil of secrecy. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, in a speculative manner. In my letter to him, I praised him for his courage and expressed the hope that someday he might fill in the gaps of his story for the sake of history. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. They constructed a new building in the northwest part of Dallas, which both companies shared. Thank you for your kind words and interest. Mr. SAWYER - Well, what were your antiwar activities that you refer to? When Doug Kellner answered the phone, I described to him the contents of the letter. Needless to say, she never did wear that dress. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, they were such incidents as the FBI agent that was working with a group -- and this was an established fact that this person was an FBI agent and that he wa working with the group that I was working with an antiwar group and, to my mind, there is a very great likelihood that this person was there to neutralize me, as the CIA term went. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And were you dismissed by the agency or did you resign? Two men, who identified themselves (with I.D.) Mr. WILCOTT - Especially after Kennedy's assassination, there was a great deal of very, very serious discontent with CIA, and the morale at the station had dropped considerably, and we heard some very, very bitter denunciations of CIA and the projects that they were undertaking. I will ask if you will stand and be sworn. Mr. WILCOTT - They would have summaries of some sort. At my request, he sent me a copy. 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? Why would men who had just shown their FBI identification badges suspect that new employees were concealing the fact that they too were connected to an intelligence agency? Mr. GOLDSMITH - And a copy of the relevant House Resolutions? Mary Lea Williams, a receptionist for Allyn & Bacon, said the move occurred two or three years before the assassination. Mr. WILCOTT - Oh, no. 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. These companies were part of a complex system involving: (a) the state legislature, which purchased textbooks through a process called adoption, (b) the publishers, who were responsible for maintaining sufficient reserves, (c) the book depositories, which received the books, stored them, and shipped them out as needed to schools around the state. And do you know for a fact that he was given Russian courses? Mr. WILCOTT - Not directly, no, sir. Then, as time Went on, I began to hear more things in that line. Mr. WILCOTT - The principal reason. Earlier that year, he graduated from Crozier Technical School in Dallas. He passed away on November 15, 2019, after a fall causing brain injury. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir; it was a cryptonym that I was familiar with, that it must have been at least two or three occasions that I had remembered it and it did ring a bell, yes. Shelleys claim that he was an intelligence officer would make sense if, as an ROTC lieutenant, he received intelligence training and perhaps even given some assignments in counterespionage. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Mr. WILCOTT - That is true. Mr. GOLDSMITH - But as a matter of routine, would the CIA cash disbursement files refer to the cryptonym of either the person or the project that is receiving funds? G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director. 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. According to an FBI report dated November 22, 1963, warehouse manager Roy Truly said, The Texas School Book Depository has occupied the building at 411 Elm Street for only a few months. Walther was sure they were not as high as the sixth floor. (SIG) in CIA Counterintelligence held a 201 file on Oswald in the three years prior to JFK's assassination. James B. Wilcott was a CIA accountant who disbursed CIA station funds in Tokyo, Japan. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, is your testimony then that even though. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. DODD - It would have been a cryptonym and he was telling you, you had, in fact, made a disbursement? Mr. GOLDSMITH - And what did he tell you the cryptonym was? SILENCED! James Wilcott worked out of the Tokyo CIA station at the time of the assassination. Mr. WILCOTT - When I first started speaking, both my wife and I discussed it and we felt that we should be speaking out about not only Oswald but some other things. Mr. CORNWELL - At what point in time did your discussions outside of the Agency first become a matter of publication in a newspaper or magazine or on television? I remember hearing about some CIA people who had somehow helped the right-wing Minute Men in Texas to get arms, originally intended for the invasion. Among the Dallas individuals and companies engaged in supplying arms to Cuban exiles and the Minute Men might have been the ones occupying the building at 411 Elm Street. Whether they are there now or not is hard to say. You mentioned the day after the assassination you talked to someone at the station about it. Two weeks later, he wrote back: Received your letter of July 7, 1999. Mr. SAWYER - What did he do -- anything? She said that she had been in the personnel department since 1982, and she never knew anyone by that name. Their whereabouts are completely unknown. Spaulding Jones, former branch manager of MacMillan, said they moved in around 1957 or 1958. Mr. WILCOTT - That is right. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. 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. Mr. SAWYER - What was the name of the FBI agent who you think infiltrated this antiwar group? Butler took over as branch manager after Leon transferred to Los Angeles. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. PREYER - Thank you for being here today, and I will call the subcommittee to order at this time. It has been directed to the Deputy Chief Counsel in charge of the investigation for his review. Mr. DODD - And she was aware of it from 1964 up until 1968 --
Mr. WILCOTT - That is true. Did you write it down or do anything? He was still living on Tatum Avenue at the time of the assassination. Considering what William Harvey wrote about creating phony 201 files for ZR/RIFLE scapegoats, an obvious first question is: How genuine is Oswald's file (or what little we have . Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. 359-360, 386-387. Retired TSBD vice president Ochus Campbell said the move took place about five years prior to the assassination. CIA finance officer James Wilcott said, Several different individuals or firms in Dallas had been involved in one way or another with acting as cut-outs for arms shipments to Cuban exiles for the invasion. Which he was allegedly working for. Mr. SAWYER - What were some other instances? 66-67. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And will you tell the Committee what that relationship was? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. CORNWELL - And would that -- at least in part --. Mr. WILCOTT - I have been trying to talk about this thing and other things for the last ten years. that correct? [14] William Harvey obituary in The New York Times, June 14, 1976. ). 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. Mr. WILCOTT - Certainly, from May of 1957 to January of 1960, I was in the pre-fab building on the Potomac in finance. Occupation of the building during the summer of 1963 could be a first step in a planning stage. Mr. SAWYER - It went through the XXXXXXX station? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Drawing your attention to the period immediately after the assassination of President Kennedy, at that time, did you come across any information concerning Lee Harvey Oswald's relationship with the CIA? men asked the employees point blank if they were members of the C.I.A. ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
After failing to get anywhere, I let the matter sit for six years. The other one was the Lone Star School Book Depository, also located in the city of Dallas. Currently he has been studying the Zodiac Killer case and writes for a website called zodiackilleridentified.com. James and Elsie Wilcott: CIA Profile in Courage From: . Mr. CORNWELL - What routinely was done with such note pads? We appreciate your being here today, Mr. Wilcott. 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. 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. Something went wrong. Mr. PREYER - Thank you. Well, they would go through the files and take out anything that they thought was, say, indicative of how this flap occurred and change the files. JAMES WILCOTT'S TESTIMONYJames B. Wilcott, a former CIA accountant, swore in a secret session of the House Select Committee on Assassinations that he was told by other CIA employees that Lee Harvey Oswald was paid by the CIA, and that money he himself had disbursed was for "Oswald or the Oswald project." Write to Editor@jfkfacts.org. Two retired Sexton officials told me that they moved out of the building on November 14, 1961, and that it remained vacant for at least a year. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, he was. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, sir, I think of an agent as an actual employee of the Agency; we called them indigenous agents XX XXXXXX who were agents that were on a regular salary by the case officer who was running an agent, and then there were a lot of one-time informers or maybe one- or two- or three-time informers that were paid like maybe $50 or so to attend a meeting of a political party or something of that nature. Mr. WILCOTT - I think it must have been two or three omths (sic) after the assassination. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you have any personal knowledge that any records at CIA Headquarters were ever destroyed? Copyright 2016-2022 by kennedysandking.com All Rights Reserved. How much exact knowledge they had it is impossible for me to say. Mr. Wilcott. Below is Mr. Glazes letter: House of Re. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Would those summaries be destroyed as a matter of routine, to your knowledge? The incident interested me enough to question the F.B.I. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you have anything to add in response to that question? Mr. WILCOTT - Not specifically, only generally. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mr. DODD - And it includes the information that Oswald was an agent? Mr. WILCOTT - So it was sometime between February and June of 1964? So, when the Case Officer made reference to a cryptonym, you didn't know whether the cryptonym referred to Oswald specifically or to a project in which Oswald had been involved is that correct? [19] Immediately after Adams and Styles went out the back door, Officer Marion Baker came in through the front door and met Roy Truly. The Three Barons proves that it is possible (with enough research), to reconstruct the organizational chart of the JFK plot. This book provides the first useful, in-depth analysis of the 120 phone calls by LBJ in the week following the assassination regarding such items as the Civil Rights Act, demands made by the military and similar political power plays. Mr. WILCOTT - That he was a regular employee, receiving a full-time salary for agent work for doing CIA operational work. Mr. PREYER - The Committee will resume. In the decade following his HSCA testimony, Jim Wilcott joined Vietnam veteran Brian Willson and the Nuremberg Actions community outside the Concord Naval Weapons Station in nonviolent resistance to weapons shipments to the CIA-sponsored Contra war in Nicaragua. [11] Glaze misdated his letter as 12/12/74.. One of said employees, her husband, and child, disappeared without a trace a few hours after granting me an interview. Mr. WILCOTT - That is true, sir. Mr. CORNWELL - What group was it? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you have an opinion as to how the
As you can well imagine, she was quite confused because the job was low-paying and involved minor duties. Mr. GOLDSMITH - However, your testimony is that you spoke to only six people as an estimate who indicated that Oswald was a CIA agent -- and when I say six people, I mean six CIA people, is that correct? Mr. WILCOTT - Certainly with George Breen, XXXXXXXXXXX the circle of social friends that we had. Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. In 1999, a friend and fellow researcher named Steve Gaal discovered among the listings of the JFK assassination section of the National Archives website a notice of a letter written by a Mr. Glaze to the HSCA. files -- my internal files, prior to the end of the month. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you remember the name of this Case Officer? Mr. WILCOTT - Not at this time. I have no further questions. For instance, in accounting, when we had our audits, for instance, in most of the audits, he would call up somebody -- let's say in China Branch -- and say "I know you were having problems with this, would you like to look it over before the auditors come? Mr. WILCOTT - I do. His wife Mildred refused to talk about the assassination even with members of her own family. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I was on security duty, and on security duty, agents were coming in and out of the station, and I pulled a lot of security duty, three and four nights right in a row, and pulled as much as 24 hours on weekends, and an agent would come back from meeting with somebody and he would be waiting for his wife to pick him up or would be waiting for a call from one of the indigenous agents that he was running and a lot of times conversations would be talked. Mr. DODD - I have just a couple of questions. 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. Mr. WILCOTT - The response was, among quote a few people "Oh, well, I am sure he was." Mr. WILCOTT - It is a little bit east of Oakland, California. The letters themselves came to me from Larry Ray Harris, a prominent researcher of the Kennedy assassination, who knew a lot about the shooting of Officer Tippit and was featured in the British television documentary The Men Who Killed Kennedy. There is a vast literature on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, . But their manner was very relaxed. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. WILCOTT - Usually I threw them away at the end of the day or once in a while I would put it in -- I had a little folder where I kept personal things and it is possible I could have out it in there, but certainly it would have bee destroyed when I left. Many notes and gifts, often created by him, are left for us as a tribute to his kindness and love. However, the woman became terrified at the mention of it & said she would deny she ever said it if I tried to publicize the incident. Mr. CORNWELL - But your testimony or your statements on the subject hadn't been made a matter of publicity on any other occasion? Thank you for your letter. Mr. CORNWELL - It was not normally part of your duties or the scope of the knowledge that you routinely acquired on your job, as I understand it, for you to know what the cryptonyms meant; is that correct? 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. She & her husband left Dallas shortly afterward. As far as that they actually said, they said they were having trouble with Oswald and that there was dissatisfaction with Oswald after he came back from the Soviet Union, and the would say things like "Well, you know this was the way to get rid of him -- to get him involved in this assassination thing and put the blame on Cuba as a pretext for another invasion or another attack against Cuba. He followed environmental concerns and space exploration, and he enjoyed playing and watching sports. Mr. WILCOTT - In 1968. This man said that a large wooden box, 36 x 48 x 60 inches, was used to import arms into the building, one with a false bottom. Governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie, sat in front of them. Joe was unable to determine if the arson was assassination-related. Mr. WILCOTT - My name is James B. Wilcott. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Mr. Wilcott, did I ask you to prepare a list of CIA Case Officers working at XXXXXXXXX Station in 1963? 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