The Hale family was involved with blackmailing the Kennedy Administration in the TFX scandal
During this time, the Hale family was involved in a brazen campaign of extortion designed to force the Kennedy Administration into approving General Dynamics as the prime contractor to build the TFX bomber at their Fort Worth plant. This plane is now better known as the F-111. At the time, this 7 billion dollar contract was the largest military contract in history.
Two weeks after I.B.'s wife Virginia got Oswald a job, their sons led a break-in at Judith Campbell's house. Campbell was the girlfriend of not only John F. Kennedy, but also Mafia chieftains Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli.
On August 5, Marilyn Monroe died in Brentwood, an affluent LA suburb, with a Kennedy phone number near her bed. There are many well-known stories tying her with close relationships with both JFK and RFK. The next day, August 6, JFK mistress Judith Campbell twice called the White House. A note in the White House log shows that Kennedy was in conference, with the scrawled addition "no."Knowing of these
relationships, the Hoover FBI had created a stake-out across the street
from Campbell's home. While Special Agent William Carter was on
duty, he saw two young men in their 20s come to Campbell's apartment.
Campbell
was not home, and the FBI later verified that she was elsewhere. One
of the perpetrators went inside the
apartment, while the other one stood as lookout on the balcony. Agent
Carter obtained the license plate
numbers for the car, which matched Hale's car.
The FBI agent concluded that the perpetrators were Hale's sons based on their age (early 20s) and their physical description. The perpetrators left after about 15 minutes without taking anything. It is reasonable to assume that they had planted a listening bug.
The reason for the
stakeout is right in the FBI report: The FBI had heard the stories that Judith Campbell was the girlfriend of Sam Giancana, Johnny Roselli, and JFK. The FBI wanted no part of this case and
declined to take any further action after running out a few leads.
Attempted
blackmail around the TFX contract would appear to be the motive. Two
months later, in October 1962, General Dynamics won the 7 billion dollar
contract over the heavily favored Boeing. This controversial decision dogged the Kennedy Administration from that day.
Endnotes:
NTS was founded in 1930 by "second generation" White Russian emigres. At that time, most of them were living in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria: Kevin Coogan, Dreamer of the Day, (Autonomedia: Brooklyn, 1999), p. 572. Yugoslavia
is where Mr. and Mrs. Igor Voshinin met and married in early 1940 - Dallas emigres, active
in NTS, and knew Oswald: Testimony of Mrs. Igor Voshinin, 3/26/64. Warren Commission Hearings, Volume 8, p. 427.
After World War II, the CIA included NTS and its journal Possev (Seed) within the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty organization: Coogan, Dreamer of the Day, p. 573.
A report by the House Select Committee on Assassinations described Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Liberty as "the best known CIA proprietaries": Narration by G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel, HSCA Appendix Volumes/ HSCA Report, Volume IV, p. 3.
Cord Meyer was the division chief in charge of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty from 1954 until 1971: Puddington, p. 24.
After meeting with Meyer, Radio Liberty
decreed that anyone adhering to NTS' "organizational discipline" would not be
allowed to work at RL, because of NTS' history of infiltrating organizations
and dominating them: Puddington, p. 162.
NTS had its headquarters near Berlin in Frankfurt: Memorandum by Thomas A. Parrott to the Special Group, 4/26/63, p. 3, Miscellaneous CIA Series / NARA Record Number: 104-10306-10024.
Meyer saw it as part of his responsibility to "try to provide the radio with the counter-intelligence protection against this continuing intimidation"...: Cord Meyer, Facing Reality, pp. 120-121.
Coffin looked back on the experience: "It was a fundamentally bad idea...we were quite na????ve about the use of American power.": Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes (New York, Doubleday: 2007), p. 47.Soviet consul Golub confides that it was "a great step in his career" when he was successful in halting NTS...: Memo from CIA's Helsinki Chief of Station to Chief, Western Europe, 1/24/58.
The CIA network confronted Soviet seamen, tourists, officials, athletes, even Soviet soldiers in East Germany...to induce them to defect, or to recruit them as spies: William Blum, Killing Hope, p. 116-118.
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