“I think this record ought to be destroyed.”
— Warren Commissioner Allen Dulles, during a January 22, 1964, executive session at which the allegation that Lee Harvey Oswald was a paid informant for the FBI was discussed. The transcript was indeed destroyed, but an original court reporter’s tape was later recovered and the transcript re-made from it after a long legal battle brought by Harold Weisberg.
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Man, that is mind blowing! How it is that this type of thing can be right out there in the public domain, and it not be knowledge as common as the rifle LHO allegedly used is absolutely beyond me!
TX A.G. Waggoner Carr reporting to the WC that Oswald was an “FBI Undercover Agent.” Badge # 179, and earning $200.00 a month!
Rankin says even the press, at the time, had that information. Was that ever actually published at the time?
OK, so I’ve read all 13 pages of the report from that particular session. The hairs on the back of my neck will be standing on end all day now! I’m dumbstruck! Unbelievable!
how do you access this report?
Click the link in the main post. The link is highlighted in blue and underlined.
So, compare what is revealed in the above mentioned session of the Warren Commission and this story:
By Paul Mulshine/The Star Ledger (New Jersey)
“On the JFK assassination, the truth hurts – but it doesn’t pay”
http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2013/02/on_the_jfk_assassination_the_t.html
Shane I would very strongly recommend the book Breach of Trust by Gerald D. McKnight. It confines itself to the WC . It is essential.
“On January 1, [1964] Lonnies Hudkins of the Houston Post, published a story under the headline: “Oswald Rumored as Informant for U.S.” Hudkins found that Oswald did know agent Hosty.”
Remember in New Orleans, Oswald after he was arrested for passing out fliers or “disturbing the peace” – he requested that a New Orleans Special Agent come visit him in jail. And the FBI man did.
Read this article by Harold Feldman from January, 1964:
http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/history/wc_period/pre-wcr_reactions_to_assassination/pre-wcr_reactions_by_the_left/Oswald_and_FBI/Oswald_and_FBI.html
Incredible! See, this is why I am still a neophyte. I had not read, or even been aware of such an article. But, this sort of article is what I consider near primary source material because it was developed so close to the time of the actual event. The information is stil fairly raw and had not been contaminated by years of disinformation and misinformation that followed over the years.
Good stuff, Robert!
On page 5 of the 13-page document, Allen Dulles refers to conversation(s) he had with “Story” which would be Robert G. Storey, Chairman of the board of Lakewood State Bank in Dallas, former assistant AG of Texas, founder of Southwest Legal Foundation, dean of the law school at Southern Methodist University 1947-1959 and executive trial counsel to Justice Robert H. Jackson in the Nuremberg trials 1945-1946. It is odd that Dulles says that Storey was “not in the hierarchy.” As a matter of fact, it appears that Storey was playing a significant role in this particular episode.
Another source which expands on this: “Dallas and the Jack Ruby Trial: Memoir of Judge Joe B. Brown Sr.” (Google “Holloway (the editor) Dallas Ruby Trial Judge Joe Brown Storey” for page 63)
According to this, the Warren Commission immediately summoned Wade, Alexander, Carr, Jaworski and Storey to D.C. where an informal meeting with Warren and Rankin took place on January 23, 1964.
By then, apparently Wade was diminishing the credibility of the claim based on his belief that the source, Assistant D.A. William Alexander held animosity toward the FBI and the Attorney General.
For the record, Houston attorney Leon Jaworski was counsel for Schlumberger Ltd. which has been linked by some researchers to Guy Bannister.
Guy Bannister, who was one of Hoover’s favorite FBI agents and who was previously the FBI’s Special Agent in Charge of Chicago, had this to say to Delphine Roberts (a secretary and Bannister mistress) when she expressed concern about Oswald passing out pro-Cuba fliers on the streets of New Orleans:
“HE’S WITH US. HE’S ASSOCIATED WITH THE OFFICE.”
[Anthony Summers, Conspiracy, 1991 ed., p. 295]
I had recently wondered about the Bannister, Hoover connection. Is there some documentation out there ?
When one is the Special Agent in Charge of Chicago for the FBI, that is all you need to know about the Bannister-Hoover connection.
Do you know the dates that Banister served as agent in charge of the Chicago office?
James Hosty joined the FBI in Chicago in 1952. He had worked as security officer for the First National Bank of Chicago.