Regardless, it ended up in my files around the time we opened the JFK Center in 1989. heard it, that was not the first occasion on which you had seen it or heard it? Mr. WILCOTT - In December of 1975, in the little magazine called The Pelican at the University of California, and an interview was conducted by a reporter from that magazine. 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. 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. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mr. GOLDSMITH - How many people have you spoken to that said that Oswald was an agent of the CIA, to the best of your recollection? Mr. DODD - I have no further questions. Mr. GOLDSMITH - What is that explanation? Mr. WILCOTT - That is right. And do you know for a fact that he was given Russian courses? 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. At the time of the assassination, Shelley was in his sixteenth year of employment at the TSBD. ALTERED! That is what we are attempting to accomplish, which is quite a big order. The search for a solution to these riddles leads into the murky world of intrigue involving the FBI and CIA dirty work. James Wilcott worked out of the Tokyo CIA station at the time of the assassination. [12], A suggestion of smuggling activities within the TSBD comes in the form of boxes too large to be practical containers of books. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I have nothing further, Mr. Chairman. Mr. WILCOTT - In 1968. 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. My actions were less courageous than they were the result of being nave. Mr. WILCOTT - I don't know how to answer that. I called the number of the Avalanche Journal in Lubbock, Texas and got the personnel director. Mr. WILCOTT - Not specifically, only generally. I . Mr. GOLDSMITH - Was he a CIA employee? Ruffians driving by yelled derogatory things and threw objects at the house such as half-empty beer cans. Mr. WILCOTT - That is true. Upon request, the National Archives sent me a copy of the letter. As described to me by Joe Bergin, Jr., son of the regional manager of Scott Foresman, working conditions changed dramatically after the assassination. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. of the Select Committee on His first day on the job was October 29, 1945. Enclosed is a copy of the response from G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director of the Select Committee on Assassinations. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Just give us their names. Mr. CORNWELL - Your best memory is, you wrote it on a note paid, is. Mr. WILCOTT - Very much. I was scared until the Carter Administration. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, he was. Years later, I found out that he moved to Austin, Texas, where he began working for the Austin American Statesman in 1979. Mr. WILCOTT - Approximately two years, sir. Like Frazier, who was eating lunch in the basement, Oswald went to the first-floor lunchroom to eat his lunch. He was not questioned by the Warren Commission. Mr. WILCOTT - Generally so, I would say, at that time. His father died on November 2, 1990. I believe it was more in a speculative realm. Mr. CORNWELL - And would that -- at least in part --. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you remember which of these individuals if any, made the specific allegation or reference that Oswald was an agent? Since the CIA has the capability of engineering car crashes to look like accidents, Harriss name should be added to the list of mysterious deaths, along with Warren Commission witness Lee Bowers, who died when his car ran off the road and ran into a freeway abutment. Mr. DODD - And it includes the information that Oswald was an agent? 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. [13] Henry Hurt, Reasonable Doubt (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1985), pp. He is about to publish his book and, as you can understand, friendship and loyalty make me reluctant to discuss this matter with anyone else. 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. My efforts to follow up on the leads suggested by Harris were initially unsuccessful. I can't remember what it was. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I am not sure I am following, then, what specifically you did check. Mr. PREYER - Thank you. Their whereabouts are completely unknown. There was XXXXXXXXXXXX Branch, who had XXXXXXXXXXX cover. James and Elsie Wilcott: CIA Profile in Courage From: . Mr. GOLDSMITH - How did you know, in 1963, what type of security precautions the Warren Commission had for conducting its investigation? Mr. CORNWELL - What type of people were they? 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. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. If you have something -- 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? Mr. GOLDSMITH - With whom? 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? 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. I discussed it with my friends and the people that I was associating with socially. Mr. DODD - And this was a view shared by you and your, wife -- Mr. CORNWELL - In other words, that is, the first two letters or the last ones would have been the same as this? Mr. GOLDSMITH - How do you spell XXXXXXXXXX last name? Considering the noise of gun blasts and the uproar going on outside, it is odd that Oswald continued to be unconcerned. All that I knowand the attending dead endswere passed along to a researcher and author in Dallas a few years ago. December 30, 2005 in JFK Assassination Debate Share Followers 0 Posted December 30, 2005 I started to read through the HSCA testimony of James Wilcott on the History Matters website, and ran across this line on page 1: "Approximately April-June, 1963, Cryptonym for Oswald Project approx. In April of 1966, I resigned from the CIA. 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. The Warren Commission did all they could to delay the arrival time on the first floor by Adams and Styles in order to remove the two girls from the stairs when Oswald would have likely been on them. His father lost weight and developed a stoop in the way he stood and walked; his hair and facial features aged prematurely. Admittedly, there is no record of Shelleys arrest, but that does not necessarily mean Glaze was wrong. It could be a hoax, but sounds sincere. Joe Molina, credit manager for the book depository since 1947, worked with FBI informer William Lowery in infiltrating leftist organizations. Mr. DODD - You may have covered this as well, Mr. Chairman, and, if you have, I will drop the question. 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. GOLDSMITH - And your testimony has been truthful and candid? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Mr. Wilcott, assuming that Oswald had been employed as an agent by the CIA, would there have been a reference to that fact in the CIA's cash disbursement file? Mr. PREYER - The Committee will resume. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Those generations who were there in 1963 are grateful that people like you are continuing the pursuit and taking another look at events which may have been too shocking for the rest of us to ever fully comprehend. Also Present: Michael Goldsmith, Counsel, and Gary Cornwell, Counsel. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. The owner of the establishment, rightwing oil man, D. H. Byrd would have had little problem approving that kind of clearance. Mr. DODD - Talking about hours afterwards or a day afterwards? Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, does that mean you were able to check back only thirty days from the time that you were given this information? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you have that list with you? Retired TSBD vice president Ochus Campbell said the move took place about five years prior to the assassination. In 1984, they began sending tapes of their programs to public access channels in Dallas and San Antonio and then to other cities around the country, hence the name of the umbrella organization, the Alternative Information Network. Mr. WILCOTT - They were extremely vulgar and I don't think that I should give the full context of them. Bill Shelly claims he was arrested by the Dallas Police and formally charged with the assassination of President Kennedy. This was preparing and reconciling payrolls. By comparing the window next to them, which measured 14 inches off the floor, one box was about 15 x 30 x 60 inches, and thus had an estimated capacity of 15 cubic feet. Mr. DODD - at that time? Please try your request again later. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you prepare such a list? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. [17] Joe Bergin, Sr. became a Texas Ranger in 1934, while serving concurrently as a school superintendent in Greenville, Texas. Mr. WILCOTT - The "need-to-know" principle was not all that we followed, and just about every one of the big projects that the agency was involved in, information leaked out, and we especially within the CIA knew about it, and someone would go to a party and have a little bit too much to drink and start saying things that they really shouldn't be saying to keep in mind what the "need-to-know" principle was. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Why has it been difficult? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you remember when specifically this conversation took place? Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Below is Mr. Glazes letter: House of Re. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. "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. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Mr. GOLDSMITH - You have indicated that you were not inclined to go to the Warren Commission because you were concerned about their security? James B. Wilcott was a CIA accountant who disbursed CIA station funds in Tokyo, Japan. Mr. SCHAAP - Do you mean, how many people who were in the CIA or how many people in the general population? 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? Mr. WILCOTT - Not directly, no, sir. He followed environmental concerns and space exploration, and he enjoyed playing and watching sports. On October 5, 1986, Elsie Wilcott died of cancer. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And a copy of the relevant House Resolutions? Mr. WILCOTT - That is right. Mr. SCHAAP - Excuse me. about it & possibly do a story on it. 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. 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. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. WILCOTT - In 1963, I wasn't think that much about it. Strange Deaths Of People Who Knew Too Much About The JFK Assassination: 92 Witnesses, Researchers, CIA Agents, Police Officers, Reporters, Girlfriends Who Just Knew Way Too Much! This was just prior to moving to Langley, in finance, and my duties there were policing accounts, and included auditing of special accounts. Mr. WILCOTT - I left the agency in April of 1966 for the Miami Station. Mr. CORNWELL - In the conversations you had with other CIA employees, the six or seven persons who purported to have good information about the use of Oswald as an agent, did any of those people say anything to you which suggested that the CIA had some role in the assassination of President Kennedy? Assassinations, The subcommittee met at 10:20 a.m., pursuant to notice, in room 2344 of the Rayburn Office Building, the Honorable Richard Preyer (Chairman of the subcommittee), presiding. Mr. CORNWELL - What group was it? Obviously, the distance to Ambassador Row was too great to serve as a useful guide to anyone seeking to verify Glazes account. Free shipping for many products! At the end of the hallway to his right was another door. From June of 1960 to June of 1964, I was stationed at XXXXXXX Station, and my primary duty was finance and cash disbursements. To his left was a door that led into the office of Scott Foresman. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you prepare such a list? Mr. WILCOTT - XXXXXXXXXXXX George Breen, Ed Luck, and. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. I am a reporter there. (Whereupon, a brief recess was taken.) Mr. WILCOTT - Well, from May of 1957 to January of 1960 - men asked the employees point blank if they were members of the C.I.A. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir. Did you recognize any part of it, the first two letters or the last portions of it, as referring to any geographic area or any type of activity or anything like that? Dean was the son of Elzie L. Glaze and Geneva I. Glaze and was born in Lubbock, Texas. Mr. WILCOTT - No. as members of the F.B.I., approached the two new employees at work & took them to an empty room inside the building. There is an interesting paradox about this issue. Did you write it down or do anything? The first contact I had with any reporter or any newspaper people or any media people was with Glad Day Press. Mr. WILCOTT - I have been trying to talk about this thing and other things for the last ten years. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1978 . Mr. PREYER - So that in XXXX, you indicated, six or seven people talked to you and were, as I understood it, rather definite about the Oswald connection? A puzzling aspect of Glazes 1989 letter was his reference to the book depository having moved to a location near the intersection of Royal Lane and Interstate 35. There is a vast literature on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, . Currently he has been studying the Zodiac Killer case and writes for a website called zodiackilleridentified.com. Mr. CORNWELL - Had you ever run into any similar cryptonym? Upon exiting the elevator, he saw a short hallway. Yes, I do, and I believe there was such a reference. Mr. WILCOTT - I cannot remember. A fellow researcher named Eric Lee Jordan visited the site and took pictures of it. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, you did. Mr. WILCOTT - That is correct. Mr. WILCOTT - They were retained for approximately one year by the finance office, approximately one to two years, and were destroyed at the time of audit. It has every one that I can remember. Mr. WILCOTT - It is a little bit east of Oakland, California. Mr. CORNWELL - Has any representative of the Agency or anyone who you believed might be a representative of the Agency ever come to you and discussed these matters? Also at this location were the office suites of eight schoolbook publishing companies, including Scott Foresman, Southwestern, Macmillan, and McGraw-Hill. It was only my personal The book depository was in a seven-story, red brick building located at 411 Elm Street. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And did you check any other records? would that interview have contained your resume of the Oswald agency matter, your statements about that matter? [26] FBI report of Oswald at the police station, Warren Report, p. 619. His duties routinely brought him in contact with all station people, and in particular with operational agents. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Mr. Wilcott, did I ask you to prepare a list indicating the dates that you were employed with the CIA and where you were stationed? The other one was the Lone Star School Book Depository, also located in the city of Dallas. 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. He saw two white men sitting by the stairs. Hurt initially doubted that such a large container could be moved into the building inconspicuously. [1] Testimony of James B. Wilcott, RIF 180-10116-10096, pp.25-26. Mr. WILCOTT - I can't remember the exact persons. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I think we had better go over that one more time. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Joe was unable to determine if the arson was assassination-related. [3] Telephone interviews of Campbell March 19, 1994; Jones, March 19, 1994; Williams, April 4, 1994; Garner, August 14, 1999. He was sickly looking, and, like his father, had lost weight. There was talk about it going on at the station, and several months following at the station. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. She died in 1969. Mr. PREYER - Under our committee rules, Mr. Wilcott, a witness is entitled, at the conclusion of the questioning, to make a five-minute statement if he wishes or to give a fuller explanation of any of his answers; so that at this time we make that five minutes available to you if you care to elaborate or say anything further. 2 AM, Nov. 23. Mr. GOLDSMITH - What was their response? This we concluded from putting various pieces of information together. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir, I did. Insofar as I know, this information has never been made public. [7] Through some insider intrigue, a saleslady at Neiman Marcus found out what Jacqueline Kennedy was going to wear the day of her arrival in Dallas. Mr. WILCOTT - Not that I know of. Unknown adversaries tormented Cason so much at his home on Druid Lane, that he was forced to relocate to another part of the city. 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