They were co-hosts of a program called Alternative Views featuring news, interviews, and opinion pieces from a progressive point of view. Mr. WILCOTT - My name is James B. Wilcott. Enclosed is a copy of the response from G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director of the Select Committee on Assassinations. He was the mayor at that time. [8] Jim Marrs, Crossfire (Carroll & Graf. James Wilcott worked out of the Tokyo CIA station at the time of the assassination. The fact that he went and got his gun afterwards and then walked to the Texas Theater, perhaps to meet with someone, this suggests that he had some kind of agenda to fulfill. There was a person, Dave, who was a Deputy Chief. He closed his 1989 letter with a lurid metaphor: I will help any wayI just want to be forewarned. Support JFK Facts Here's how you can help: Afterwards, Joe visited him in his office and could hardly believe the change that came over him. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you have any knowledge of any record of the CIA at the XXXXXXXX Station ever being destroyed out of the ordinary course of business, not as a matter of routine? 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." Mr. WILCOTT - XXXXXXXXXXXXX (spelling). Mr. WILCOTT - None initially. Mr. WILCOTT - I am sorry? Mr. CORNWELL - And would that -- at least in part --. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, with the Agency, yes, sir. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir, they did not. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I realize this is testimony 15 years after the fact. I asked the first man I sawa man who was telephoning from a pillar in the middle of the roomwhere I could call from. Mr. SCHAAP - Excuse me. 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. RX-ZIM. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I did not intend to get into that area. House of Representatives, 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? Free shipping for many products! Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you prepare such a list? Mr. PREYER - The Committee will resume. In 1938, he became a salesman for Scott Foresman. I am afraid we are going to have to leave to make this vote right now. Joe Molina, credit manager for the book depository since 1947, worked with FBI informer William Lowery in infiltrating leftist organizations. Mr. WILCOTT - So it was sometime between February and June of 1964? Mr. DODD - When did you leave to go back? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. phone, and hang up, and I would get notes written in snow or my windshield and I had slips of paper left under my, windshield and this sort of thing. Mr. WILCOTT - I really didn't think that the Warren Commission was out to really get at the facts, and I am not, saying that they purposely did anything, because I don't know, and maybe they did or maybe they didn't, but certainly, they didn't impress me as really trying to scrutinize the evidence that there was. Mr. SAWYER - Who is the public safety commissioner? 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. (National Archives, RG 272) No other event of the last 75 . Mr. GOLDSMITH - I am sorry, I didn't hear. She said that she had been in the personnel department since 1982, and she never knew anyone by that name. 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. Needless to say, she never did wear that dress. Write to Editor@jfkfacts.org. Occupation of the building during the summer of 1963 could be a first step in a planning stage. . 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 - Yes. Mr. WILCOTT - It was at least a matter of weeks and perhaps as much as three months after. Mr. Shelly was Lee Harvey Oswalds supervisor at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy. Mr. WILCOTT - Generally so, I would say, at that time. "I was standing on the triple underpass at the time and was wounded by a fragment that bounced off the pavement," Tague, now 77, told ABC News. Jerry Fox, SR Branch, Soviet Russia Branch -- Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. 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. Obviously, if Shelly had been arrested, someone with the police had that record expunged. 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. Please try again. Mr. WILCOTT - Oh, yes. Mr. GOLDSMITH - With whom? 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. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I have opinions. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I have. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Were you ever able to find any indication in any of the XXXXXXX Station's records that Oswald was, in fact, a CIA agent? 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. Please try again. There was a fourth calm man, perhaps unnoticed by MacNeil, who was getting a coke on the second floor. Instead, he might have been one of the temporary musicians. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir; that was a smaller station. Redemption links and eBooks cannot be resold. Mr. SCHAAP - Do you mean, how many people who were in the CIA or how many people in the general population? Mr. PREYER - And Miami, was that comparable in size? Mr. WILCOTT - That is right. We think our readers would be interested in reading his evidence./p>, (Click here to open the document in another page.). Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you bring your allegation to the attention of the Warren Commission? Mr. WILCOTT - Well, the payments that were made especially to substations like Oswald's was operated -- it was a substation of the XXXXXXXX station, and they had one in XXXXXX and they had one in XXXXXXXXX-- and it may be six months or even a year after the intial allocation that the final accounting for those funds were submitted, and they would operate out of revolving funds or out of their own personal funds in many cases. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, I believed it to be a little more than speculation, that the source at least of this kind of talk was, I believe, to be something more serious than speculation. He was still living on Tatum Avenue at the time of the assassination. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir. [2] Midnight/Globe, February 14, 1978. Considering the far-reaching extent of control over so many occupations in American society, the CIA could very well have infiltrated the schoolbook depositories and their associated publishers. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Mr. Wilcott, when did you leave the agency? We appreciate that, and if at, any time you think of any further way in which your testimony can be corroborated or the name of any other CIA man or any record or anything of that sort that might be available we hope you will get in touch with us and let us know about it. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. What, on recollection, strikes me as possibly significant is that all three seemed to be exceedingly calm and relaxed, compared to the pandemonium which existed right outside their front door. I apologize. 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? I will help any wayI just want to be forewarned. Mr. WILCOTT - No, 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. 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. However, please contact me before mentioning my name to anyone. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Just give us their names. 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. He also claimed he had disbursed cash funds for Oswald or The Oswald Project. After his interview and testimony he was claims he was harassed by the federal government and put under surveillance. Mr. CORNWELL - When was that? Wilcott's Full HSCA Testimony EXECUTIVE SESSION ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1978 House of Representatives, John F. Kennedy Subcommittee of the Select Committee on Assassinations, James B. Wilcott was a CIA accountant who disbursed CIA station funds in Tokyo, Japan. Mr. DODD - Did anyone else at the Agency know of your views at the Agency and did you communicate with other people about your dissatisfaction? Mr. GOLDSMITH - What was their response? Mr. WILCOTT - Not that I can recall. Mr. SAWYER - What was the gist of them? 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. He followed environmental concerns and space exploration, and he enjoyed playing and watching sports. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, when the officer told you -- strike that. He was not questioned by the Warren Commission. Yet their new location was seven miles south of the intersection of Royal Lane and Interstate 35 at 8301 Ambassador Row. Mr. PREYER - I understand this might be a good place for us to break and go and vote, so that we will take another recess for about ten minutes. Mr. WILCOTT - They were extremely vulgar and I don't think that I should give the full context of them. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, then, really, no purpose would have been served by checking those records? Since then, he has written numerous articles on the subject for various periodicals, including The Fourth Decade, Dealey Plaza Echo, and Probe. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Mr. Wilcott, did I ask you to prepare a list of CIA Case Officers working at XXXXXXXXX Station in 1963? Mr. WILCOTT - I left the agency in April of 1966 for the Miami Station. [3], Actually, the move took place a few months before the assassination. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you have a personal opinion as to how or for what purpose the CIA might have handled any projects that involved Lee Harvey Oswald? or C.I.A. DL 100-10461. Ruffians driving by yelled derogatory things and threw objects at the house such as half-empty beer cans. He could not remember when this occurred, but it was before the assassination, but after extensive remodeling had been done on the third and fourth floors to add office suites for the publishing companies. Mr. PREYER - And you did mention the case officer who came in and told you that the money he had drawn out a few weeks earlier was drawn out for Oswald? Garner went on to say that at the same time, around 1969, William Shelley quit the book depository and began working for Scott Foresman. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. [6] They held a big meeting during which they warned everyone not to discuss the assassination with outsiders. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Why has it been difficult? Mr. GOLDSMITH - When was the first time that you alleged in public that Oswald was a CIA agent. that I had at my gate, and I did that with cryptonyms from time to time for something -- we would want to check back into their accounting for something. [2] As we shall see, there is evidence that Oswald worked with another CIA agent in Dallas. The 1960 directory lists him as a department manager for the Texas School Book Depository, living in a house at 126 Tatum Avenue. Present: Representatives Preyer (presiding), Dodd and Sawyer. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And finally, as I said at the beginning is it fair to say that you are here voluntarily today? Jack Cason, the TSBD president, was a stocky, robust man before the assassination. 25-26. [1] Testimony of James B. Wilcott, RIF 180-10116-10096, pp.25-26. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, sir, the day after the assassination I don't think that there was any of that kind of talk. Like Frazier, who was eating lunch in the basement, Oswald went to the first-floor lunchroom to eat his lunch. Enclosing the back area is a high, chain-link fence with coils of barbed wire on top. The shot killed Dr. King. this allegation? At the time of the assassination, Shelley was in his sixteenth year of employment at the TSBD. This was preparing and reconciling payrolls. All that I knowand the attending dead endswere passed along to a researcher and author in Dallas a few years ago. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And what is the reason for that? (SIG) in CIA Counterintelligence held a 201 file on Oswald in the three years prior to JFK's assassination. Apparently, work at the book depository was not so demanding as to preclude these forays into military, law enforcement, or intelligence organizations. The band started out in 1966 in Long Beach, California, and became known for its unique blend of country western and rock and roll. Mr. SAWYER - He was in Utica also? Mr. CORNWELL - What did they say along those lines? Butler said that the 411 Elm Street building was vacant for at least a year after his company moved out. He also sent a copy of the letter from Blakey as well as a 1978 article from the Dallas Morning News concerning the aforementioned Carolyn Arnold, who states she definitely saw Oswald in the second-floor lunchroom at 12:25 pm. She told a reporter that the FBI falsified her statement to read that she thought she caught a fleeting glimpse of Oswald on the first floor at 12:15.. There are photos of him getting into a police car along with Bonnie Ray Williams and Daniel Arce. I was really scared to go to the Government and talk about any of these things. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And what did he tell you the cryptonym was? She and three co-workersVictoria Adams, Sandra Styles, and Elsie Dormanviewed the shooting of the president from their fourth-floor office window. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Is the answer to that "yes"? This was about, believe -- about October of 1975. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Dorothy Ann Garner was a former office supervisor of Scott Foresman. Mr. WILCOTT - That is true, sir. That he continued to serve in a military, or semi-military, capacity at the same time he was working for a schoolbook company is indicated by his obituary, which said he was a veteran of World War II. Mr. SAWYER - Thank you. If you should need to contact me, you may do so in care of the Lubbock Avalanche Journal newspaper in Lubbock, Tx. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Who was George Breen? There is a vast literature on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, . 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. William Weston examines the curious letters of Elzie Glaze and considers potential connections between the CIA and the Texas School Book Depository. 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