Mr. DODD - In 1957? Dorothy Ann Garner, former staff supervisor of Scott Foresman, thought the move occurred around 1960 or maybe a little later. Mr. CORNWELL - Do you recall whether or not you used that in the process of looking through the 30-day book you described? of the Select Committee on Mr. WILCOTT - At least -- there was at least six or seven people, specifically, who said that they either knew or believed Oswald to be an agent of the CIA. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir. Mr. WILCOTT - We had -- in Utica there was a group called the Vietnam Educational Council, which was informed people, formed to inform people as to what was going on in Vietnam, and we didn't feel that there was coverage enough in the media as to what was going on, and the purpose of the Vietnam Educational Council was to inform people as to what was going on. Mr. WILCOTT - In conversation. (Their previous address was 501 Elm Street on the first floor of the Dal-Tex building.). Was there something more to this move than meets the eye? [23] William Weston, Robert MacNeil and the Three Calm Men, in the November 1994 issue of The Fourth Decade. Mr. CORNWELL - That is, that subject matter, your statement on the Oswald agency matter, be printed or otherwise publicized in a news publication, radio or TV or anything like that on any other occasion? Mr. GOLDSMITH - And a copy of the relevant House Resolutions? Other people who worked at the book depository suffered as well. James B. Wilcott worked for the CIA from May of 1957 to April of 1966. Give as a gift or purchase for a team or group. Yet their new location was seven miles south of the intersection of Royal Lane and Interstate 35 at 8301 Ambassador Row. 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. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And you have had access to the cash disbursement files at XXXXXXXXXXXXX Station? Mr. GOLDSMITH - When was that? Mr. DODD - And the information given you occurred sometime three months after the actual assassination. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. 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. And perhaps even having people inside the TSBD as assets. Mr. DODD - I am just a little confused, I guess, over your reaction. Enclosed is a copy of the response from G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director of the Select Committee on Assassinations. She confided this information to Mrs. Bergin and told her that she had a copy of the First Ladys dress, pink in color with the black velvet collar. It was a guard-type function at the station, which I worked for overtime. Mr. DODD - I have just a couple of questions. This was preparing and reconciling payrolls. Apart from the one officer who said to you that you had paid monies with respect to Oswald's cryptonym, what were the other six or seven persons' purported connection with Oswald and the Agency's relation to him. Mary Lea Williams, a receptionist for Allyn & Bacon, said the move occurred two or three years before the assassination. Mr. DODD - As a point of information, are people who work within the Agency fairly careful in their language in describing what the category of certain people are who work for the Agency? 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? About a minute or two later, NBC news reporter Robert MacNeil came in through the front door, amazed to see three calm men. Mr. DODD - at that time? They appear to be members of the security staff described by Joe Bergin, Jr. Glazes letters add a further detail that they were members of the FBI. New security officers appeared. The was that we did this was to contact as many people all at once and we figured this would be our best protection, that the more people that knew about it, the more protection it would, be for us. Mr. WILCOTT - I think the most significant thing that can be actually substantiated is the circumstances surrounding my employment with the community renewal program in Utica, and I was the finance analyst for the community renewal program in Utica. Mr. WILCOTT - I can't remember, sir. 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. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And how did that come to your attention: Mr. GOLDSMITH - I take it, from your testimony, that in November of 1963, you were stationed in XXXXXXXXXXXXX Station, is that correct? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mr. WILCOTT - I flipped through it. Mr. SAWYER - What was the name of the FBI agent who you think infiltrated this antiwar group? The largest typical box for books measured 12 x 14 x 18 inches, was made out of cardboard, and when filled with books weighed 55 pounds. 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. Please excuse this messy letter. Additional gift options are available when buying one eBook at a time. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I think we had better go over that one more time. Oversized boxes were also seen by Joe Bergin, Jr. when he visited his father at the 411 Elm Street building. 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. It was a total loss. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, they did. He followed environmental concerns and space exploration, and he enjoyed playing and watching sports. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And have you just described one of those instances to us? (sic) Joe died on August 29, 2001 at the age of 55. In addition, all of my interview notes and tapes inexplicably disappeared. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Where is Concord located? His mother was a strong, confident woman before the assassination, but afterwards she suffered a complete breakdown in her health and had to be hospitalized. Mr. WILCOTT - My boss, Frank O'Connor said that this was told him by the public safety commissioner and that the FBI had told the public safety commissioner. 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. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Also Present: Elizabeth Berning, Chief Clerk, and Charles Berk, Betsy Wolf and James Wolf. New York, 1989) p. 319. Mr. WILCOTT - No. [1] Testimony of James B. Wilcott, RIF 180-10116-10096, pp.25-26. Mr. WILCOTT - That is right. Please try your request again later. I will give my card to the Committee. At the time of the assassination, Shelley was in his sixteenth year of employment at the TSBD. Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. She died in 1969. 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. Did you have further questions? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. [14] William Harvey obituary in The New York Times, June 14, 1976. 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. PREYER - Thank you. Mr. WILCOTT - I don't confirm any of them except with the community renewal program as coming from there and I am. Mr. WILCOTT - No. Why this information would.come out to a CIA station XXXXXXX rather than some other part of the world is, I assume, because Oswald was trained in Japan, according to your belief. Mr. WILCOTT - George Breen was a person in Registry, who was my closest friend while I was in XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. Mr. PREYER - Thank you for being here today, and I will call the subcommittee to order at this time. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir. [13], (As an aside, CIA officer William Harvey worked for Bobbs-Merrill in the last years of his life as a law editor.[14]). James Earl Ray fired one shot at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Do you believe that there was such a reference to Oswald? Mr. CORNWELL - Why did you leave the CIA? As we shall see, this might have been designed to conceal the fact that some people working there were being harassed and bullied. After leaving high school he might have continued as an intelligence operative working undercover in local defense plants (plural) during the last months of the war. Mr. PREYER - It had no relation to your performance? 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. 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? Obviously, the distance to Ambassador Row was too great to serve as a useful guide to anyone seeking to verify Glazes account. First of all I apologize for having to run in and out during your testimony and some of this you may have already covered; and, if you have, then I will not proceed with it. Mr. SAWYER - What did he do -- anything? EXECUTIVE SESSION There was a problem loading your book clubs. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. And their security that there is in the Government didn't strike me as the kind of security that would keep me from getting attacked in some way, if someone wanted to do it. Mr. WILCOTT - Oh, no. This would include things like: (1) determining lines of fire from upper story windows, (2) planning the access and escape routes for the sniper team, (3) positioning and controlling the designated patsy as a workman inside the building, (4) fabricating evidence such as rifle, cartridges, and paper bag to implicate the patsy, (5) selecting the so-called snipers nest where the ersatz evidence would be planted. And during that period, I had been promoted, GS-7 and also gained a career status. Mr. DODD - Just one second, then. There is a very large spider guarding this web of secrecy. 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. From April of 1965 to April of 1966, I was at Miami Station in finance, and I was handling the staff payroll. She enjoyed keeping up on the Kennedy family during their years in the White House. For many years he assisted organizations that helped veterans, monitored the nuclear power industry, and worked to ensure basic human rights. Upon request, the National Archives sent me a copy of the letter. I think we ought to state that the record shows that Mr. Sawyer is a member of the Kennedy Subcommitte Preyer. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions. Through another researcher, I obtained Glazes mailing address. Mr. WILCOTT - 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 for the Oswald project or for Oswald. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, it is. 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 - And did you check any other records? Bill Shelly claims he was arrested by the Dallas Police and formally charged with the assassination of President Kennedy. Wilcott lost a good job after leaving the CIA after his employer was told he would soon be under incitement when he wasnt and never was. Mr. PREYER - And dozens of others talked to you in a general, speculative manner? After failing to get anywhere, I let the matter sit for six years. 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. Would you tell the Committee what the "need-to-know" principle is? Investigations of the CIA in the 1960s and 1970s shows that the agency had embedded agents in a wide variety of organizations and institutions, including labor unions, airlines, college student associations, foundations, law firms, banks, savings and loans, investment firms, travel agencies, police departments, post offices, publishing companies, newspapers, call girl services, and mental health institutions. * Assassination Archives and Research Center leads the fight in federal court for full JFK disclosure. 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. However, information on the Prayer-man.com website shows that Shelley was indeed an officer during the war, albeit as a lieutenant in the Reserve Officer Training Corps at Crozier Tech. Mr. WILCOTT - Jerry Fox was a Case Officer for his branch the Soviet Russia Branch, XXXXXXXXXX Station, who purchased information from the Soviets. I have no further questions. Jack Cason, the TSBD president, was a stocky, robust man before the assassination. Mr. WILCOTT - In 1968. The building is a large, one-story, concrete tilt-up, ideal for storing and moving huge quantities of material goods with forklifts and palettes. 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