Above is page 2 of the original evidence inventory submitted by FBI agents James W. Siebert, Francis O'Neill, and Vincent E. Drain on November 23, 1963, which lists two cartridge cases and one (unfired) Cartridge. There is additional corroborating evidence of a different photograph in Noel Twyman's 1991 book Bloody Treason (and included in the website , showing two spent shell casings and one live round recovered from the sniper's nest in the TSBD, sitting on the desk of an FBI office in Baltimore, Maryland. I will quote once again from " A Festering Wound :"
"This means whoever was up on the sixth floor of the TSBD may have pulled the trigger three times, but that sniper only sent two [6.5 mm] bullets hurtling downrange towards President Kennedy that murderous Texas afternoon. If the 6.5 mm Mannlicher-Carcano carbine (not rifle) found "hidden" among the boxes of books at TSBD only fired twice that afternoon, there has to be--by the Warren Commission's own logic--more than one assassin. (This also explains why the FBI tried so hard to get James Tague to say he was not grazed by concrete from a bullet that hit the curb when he reported it after the assassination.) "
The shell casing which was later added to the evidence given the Warren Commission, supposedly pocketed by a Dallas Deputy Sheriff at the time of the initial investigation, could not be admitted as evidence in a court of law because the "chain of custody" had been broken. This pocketed piece of evidence was absolutely required to explain: the first round that missed the Presidential limousine completely, striking a curb down range causing Mr. Tague's wounds; the second round, the infamous "magic bullet" (CE 399) which supposedly went through both President Kennedy and Governor Connally, striking masses of bone, ending up lodged in the flesh of Governor Connally's thigh, only slightly deformed, and having lost approximately one percent of its original mass; and finally, the "kill shot," a round which--if we are to accept the Zapruder film's photographic tale--struck like a high-velocity rifle round, not the medium-velocity of which the Mannlicher-Carcano carbine was actually capable, literally blowing apart the right-side of JFK's head. You had to have three empty shell casings, or else it was impossible for Lee Harvey Oswald to have committed the assassination on his own, and the "official" story, so carefully constructed by J. Edgar Hoover, among others, falls apart. And America's underlying "lynch mob" mentality, so often used by its oligarchs to keep the underclass in its place over the years, turns on the oligarchs, and we have yet another crop of "Strange Fruit" as blues singer Billie Holliday once called it; but this time, it is hanging from $500 designer Italian silk neckties on lamp posts in places like Wall Street in New York, and Constitution Avenue in Washington D.C., not hemp ropes and trees in Georgia and Mississippi.
Pictures at an Exhibition
One of most important (and controversial) pieces of information withheld from the Warren Commission was the March 3, 1964 memorandum (see below) from Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) John McCone to Secret Service Chief James Rowley revealing that Lee Harvey Oswald was a trained CIA operative. There is a very large segment of the JFK Assassination Research community who do not believe that the memo is authentic. Allow me to print their objections, and why I believe that they are wrong.
The first objections are along the lines of, " I cannot imagine DCI McCone, or anyone else in a position of power at the CIA, ever committing the training and use of Oswald as a CIA operative to writing, especially if it were addressed to someone outside the CIA." A document such as this, appearing in the last twenty years, seemingly "out of nowhere," is just "too good to be true."
Most people believe the circumstantial evidence of Oswald's CIA involvement, beginning at Atsugi Air Base in Japan in 1958 is nearly overwhelming. A Marine studying Russian in the midst of the McCarthy era Cold War, who was allowed to study and express Marxist-Leninist doctrine without reprisal, on a Top Secret, CIA controlled, Marine Air Base can have only one explanation: he was being prepared for some sort of mission behind the Iron Curtain. Oswald's Russian was purported to be almost flawless: good enough to fool his Russian-born wife Marina into believing he was a native speaker when they first met. I think his failure on his mission during his "defection," arose from his failure to understand and appreciate the deeper concepts of Marxist-Leninist doctrine, especially those of Karl Marx. If his indoctrination into Marxist-Leninist ideology was done primarily using Russian language sources, he would find it difficult to understand the subtle nuances of any philosopher translated from the philosopher's original language (in Marx's case, German), to a second language that was not his mother tongue. Thomas Jefferson or John Stuart Mill could have done it, but Lee Harvey Oswald was not Jefferson or Mill.
The other piece of positive proof that Oswald was CIA, was that when Oswald returned to the United States, with a Russian wife, he was not immediately arrested, tried for treason, and thrown into a very dark prison cell somewhere, for a very long time.
So we can be certain, through the large amounts of circumstantial evidence, that Oswald was a CIA operative. Now, would McCone have written Rowley the memorandum (the first page of which is below) stating this fact or not?
I believe the answer is yes.
When JFK fired Allen Dulles, Richard Bissell, and Air Force Lt. General Charles Cabell (brother of Dallas's Mayor) after the Bay of Pigs disaster, and appointed John McCone as DCI, McCone--who was an outsider and figurehead--knew that JFK had not been able to chase all of the snakes out of the CIA. He knew that the most dangerous snake in that nest of CIA vipers, paranoid-reactionary counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton, still held power, but only because Angleton had had nothing to do--at least directly--with the Bay of Pigs.
McCone knew that Angleton (using his position as head of CIA counterintelligence) would, to protect the Agency, as well as the interests of men like Dulles and McCloy, offer McCone up as a sacrificial lamb to the Warren Commission--or any future Federal government investigation--concerning the assassination of President Kennedy, if so-called "rogue factions" of the CIA were implicated. It would be easier to make the world believe that the current DCI at the time was responsible for rogue elements of the CIA's involvement in the act from his desk in Virginia, than former Directors were from their offices in New York.
On the surface, the March 3, 1964 memorandum to Secret Service Chief Rowley demonstrated to one and all that McCone was a "patriot," who was willing to admit his Agency's connection to the accused assassin of President Kennedy, in spite of the "black eye" that it might give the CIA. It would protect him from accusations of complicity in the assassination, because he was dealing with other agencies in an open and above-board manner. Below the surface, it made an attack by Angleton against McCone if not impossible, far more improbable.
The source of the document is what we must consider next. If this document is real, did this particular copy originate from the files of the CIA or those of the Secret Service. If it originated from the Secret Service's files, it would explain why all of the routing abbreviations and other minutiae common to CIA files are not on this page.
Even if it is from CIA, DCI McCone may have kept this copy for his private files, not routing it through the CIA bureaucracy in order to protect himself from Angleton. McCone, upon his retirement, then took it with a folder or even a box of other "personal" papers to the National Archives--stating, reasonably, that these were papers he'd forgotten about taking home, and had found while going through his home office. The National Archives accepts them, sorts them by subject, and puts them on microfilm.
However, I believe that the document source is the Secret Service, not the CIA.
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