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(Part 6: White Russians Keep An Eye On Oswald In Dallas)
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| Author, Bill Simpich |
By Bill Simpich
(a civil rights attorney and an antiwar activist in the San Francisco Bay Area)
After Oswald returned home from the USSR, George de Mohrenschildt
became Legend Maker #9.
The Dallas-Fort Worth community of Soviet and Eastern European
emigres - referred to as "White Russians" - took Oswald and
his
family under their wing upon their arrival from the USSR in May 1962. Consider the importance of White Russian defectors as spies. A
re-defector like Lee Harvey Oswald was even more exotic. The ability of
a defector to
report what is happening behind enemy lines is the ultimate
counterintelligence prize.
The White Russian community settled on using George de
Mohrenschildt as Oswald's mentor, one of the few liberals in the
community who enjoyed spending time with the man. This chapter will
focus on de Mohrenschildt's intelligence connections with Radio Free Europe, key RFE officials
Allen Dulles and Cord Meyer, and CI chief James Angleton.
Max Clark, an attorney and former industrial security supervisor at General
Dynamics, was a mentor for de Mohrenschildt and this community. Clark was part of a network
of security personnel that put the squeeze on the Kennedy Administration that year to get
General Dynamics' TFX project in Fort
Worth approved over their Boeing competitors. At the time, this deal to churn out the F-111 fighters was one of the largest
military contracts in history.
The White Russian community harbored an underground anti-Soviet movement known as the NTS.
The Dallas White
Russian community was tightly aligned with an anti-Soviet movement known by its Russian initials of "NTS"
(National Alliance of Russian Solidarists).
NTS was founded in 1930 by "second
generation" White Russian emigres. At
that time, most of them were living in Yugoslavia
and Bulgaria. Yugoslavia
is where Mr. and Mrs.
Igor Voshinin met and married in early 1940 - they moved
to Dallas, were active
in NTS, and knew Oswald. During this era, "Solidarism" was a quasi-fascist
ideology that saw corporations as an ideal and Benito Mussolini as a model of leadership.
In the 1940s, NTS was thoroughly enmeshed with Hitler's war effort. After Germany attacked the USSR
during World War II, NTS was allowed to set up a Berlin headquarters and encouraged to proselytize in
Soviet territories under German control among both POWs and civilians. When the tides of war shifted, NTS swung back
into alliance with the Americans.
After World War II, the CIA included NTS within the Radio Free
Europe/Radio Liberty organization. Radio Free Europe focused on the
East
European Soviet satellites, while Radio Liberty focused on the USSR
itself. A House report described
Radio
Free Europe and Radio Free Liberty as "the best known CIA proprietaries".
These were pet projects of International Organizations chief Cord Meyer, who headed these radios from 1954 to 1971.
Meyer consulted directly and frequently to
CIA director Allen Dulles before making any controversial decisions.
As described earlier in this series, CI chief Jim
Angleton and Cord Meyer were the best of friends. Meyer described Angleton as his hero. They were also
Legend Makers #1 and #2 for
Lee Harvey Oswald, as they had very special relationships with the people who either
befriended or studied Oswald.
After meeting with
Meyer, Radio Liberty decreed that anyone adhering to NTS'
"organizational
discipline" would not be allowed to work at RL. NTS infiltrated and
dominated groups that challenged its supremacy. NTS members tried to
sabotage the installations and intimidate
the exile staffs. Meyer saw it as part
of his responsibility to "try to provide the radio with the
counter-intelligence
protection against this continuing intimidation...it was a never ending
task".
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| Chaplain William Sloan Coffin |
During the 1950s,
the famed anti-war Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin (the inspiration for the
Rev. Scott Sloan in Doonesbury) joined the CIA.
Coffin worked with the NTS to smuggle their spies into
the USSR
by parachute in a program known as REDSOX. Most of them were
killed. Coffin looked back on the
experience: "It was a fundamentally bad
idea...we were quite naive about the use of American power."
William Blum, the
author of
Killing Hope, says that CIA decided that the NTS provided the best analysis about the Soviet Union, and became their
main financial backer: "From North Africa to Scandinavia, the CIA
network confronted Soviet seamen, tourists, officials, athletes, even
Soviet
soldiers in East Germany, to present them with the Truth as seen by the
"Free World," as well as to pry information from them, to induce them
to defect, or to recruit them as spies." By 1963, the State Department
was helping NTS send broadcasts to
Soviet troops in far-flung places such as the Dominican Republic.
Although the NTS' power waned over time, the Soviet Communist Party
admitted its fear of the NTS
and other groups working with Western security agencies as late as 1990.
The intelligence background of George de Mohrenschildt and his role in the
Dallas-Fort Worth White Russian community
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| The Oswald family in Dallas |
The CIA-funded NTS network greeted
the Oswald family upon their arrival to
Fort Worth. Lee
Oswald, however, was a little bit too weird for this community to
embrace. It took another outsider -- the eccentric baron George de
Mohrenschildt -- to
bring Lee towards the fold as
Legend Maker #9.
De Mohrenschildt's father was
Russian, of German and Swedish descent, and was a marshal of nobility of
the Minsk province. Similarly, his Russian mother was of Polish
and Hungarian descent. The
Bolsheviks ran the family off their Russian home, and they were forced to move
to Poland
and consolidate their land holdings.
One story is that de Mohrenschildt's father
was killed by the Bolsheviks; another story is that his father was arrested but
escaped.
De Mohrenschildt observed that "most of the
colony in Dallas
is more emotionally involved in Russian affairs then we are, because they are
closer to them. All of them have been
relatively recently in Soviet Russia -- while my wife has never been in Soviet
Russia in her whole life, and I was 5 or 6 when I left it. So to me it does not mean very much."
The Radio Free
Europe connection is an important link between Cord Meyer and George de Mohrenschildt. George couldn't
get OSS credentials during World War II because of security disapproval. He was subjected to five separate
investigations by intelligence during the 1940s and 50s. Officers
like Meyer and Schreyer, however, understood the nature of his
relationship with people such as the Jacqueline Bouvier family and the White Russian community. A CIA memo notes that George knew the families of the
Kennedys and the Oswalds better than anyone else.
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| Harbin China's Russian Orthodox Church |
One of George's contacts exposes his hidden CIA connections. In 1954, a young oil lawyer named Herbert
Itkin wrangled a meeting in Philadelphia with Allen Dulles, the first chief of Radio Free Europe and future CIA chief. Dulles
set him up with a meeting with de Mohrenschildt, who told Itkin he was
"from that man in Philadelphia" and that his name was Philip Harbin.
William Gaudet verified at an HSCA deposition that he knew George under
his alias as Philip Harbin. De Mohrenschildt's beloved and
soon-to-be new
wife, Jeanne, was from Harbin, China. Angleton testified that Dulles was a very
close friend of his own family. Angleton had both an Itkin
file and a "Mike/Portio/Haiti" file (Itkin's code name was Portio).
Itkin claimed he met "Harbin" in 1954, while CIA general counsel Larry
Houston claimed that he could not find any Itkin files prior
to 1964 after thousands of hours of search. This was probably because Angleton's
personal Itkin and Portio files were kept apart from the CIA records
system, and were only discovered after Angleton was fired in 1974. All indications are that de Mohrenschildt was provided to Dulles by Angleton.
Working under the Harbin alias, de
Mohrenschildt worked with Itkin in oil matters as a nonpaid, voluntary agent
between 1954 to 1960, before Itkin moved on to work with another agent. Itkin's skills enabled US Attorney Bob Morgenthau to win
convictions against New York political boss Carmine DeSapio and city
commissioner James Marcus. Morgenthau's
office described Itkin as "probably the most important informer the FBI ever
had outside the espionage field. He
never lied to us. His information was
always accurate."
By May 1963, Itkin became the
attorney for the Haitian government-in-exile.
CIA documents show that Itkin's handler in 1963 was Mario Brod, who
was recruited in Italy by James Angleton during World War II and had operational
involvements in Haiti.
Before his brother was killed, Bobby Kennedy himself was relying on mob tips from Itkin. In 1966, Itkin was reportedly researching under his code name "Portio," while
Angleton held onto his private "Mike/Portio/Haiti" file.
In 1968, CIRA (CI research and analysis chief) Ray Rocca swore that the "CI Staff definitely never was in contact" with Itkin. By 1971, CIRA's bird-dog investigator Paul Hartman was asking to review Itkin's CIA file, no doubt to educate
himself on some fine points.
De Mohrenschildt's relationship with the NTS in Dallas
De
Mohrenschildt
knew all about NTS, telling the Warren Commission about:
"This group of
Russian refugees (who) called themselves Solidarists. And Mr. and Mrs.
Voshinin in Dallas
belonged to that group and tried to make me join it. Not being
interested,
I refused, but I read some of their publications. And it is a
pro-American group of Russian refugees who have an economic doctrine of
their
own. And they seem to have some people working in the Soviet Union for them, and all that sort of thing.
It is a pretty well-known political party that - their headquarters is in Germany."
The NTS was very active in Dallas. When the group's leader was
interviewed in New York in 1957 by the FBI,
the two Dallas
people he knew were oil man
Paul Raigorodsky and NTS activist Igor Voshinin.
Raigorodsky, known as the "Czar" of the White Russian community, was the head of the Office of Petroleum
Coordination for War for two years during the forties.
Igor Voshinin and his wife Natalie lived in
the New York City area between 1947-1955, and
then moved to Dallas.
When
Mrs. Voshinin was interviewed by the FBI on Dec. 10, 1963, less than three
weeks after the Kennedy assassination, she made it clear just how serious the
Solidarist movement was in the Dallas
area:
"She and her husband are members
of NTS - Russian Solidarists, which she stated is known as the National Union
of Working People, which organization has a representative in Washington D.C.
She stated this organization exists in the form of an underground movement in Russia
and also has groups in the rest of the world; that its objectives include the
abolishing of Communism and the establishment of private enterprise."
Jenner was careful not to ask her
any questions about the NTS at the Warren Commission hearing. But the irrepressible Natalie Voshinin still
managed to flip the script. When Jenner was probing for communistic
connections by de Mohrenschildt, she exclaimed that "George
repeatedly hinted that he was performing some services for the State Department, you know, of
the United States,
yes. And under those circumstances, you just don't feel
like asking any questions." Jenner quickly changed the subject.
De Mohrenschildt once made a presentation
at a lecture hall about General Vlasov's Russian POWs that fought on the side
of the Germans at the end of World War II, discussed at the beginning of this chapter. Just to shock his Jewish friends
at the club, de Mohrenschildt quipped "I came to the conclusion that Himmler
wasn't a bad boy at all."
Raigorodsky agreed that de Mohrenschildt was
a "prankster."
De Mohrenschildt settled down as a member of a political grouping that
is virtually extinct - a liberal Republican. He said that Kennedy was the first Democrat he would ever vote for. Both
De Mohrenschildt and Oswald were
attracted by the union of opposites.
Look at de Mohrenschildt's musings about Soviet premier Nikita
Khrushchev:
"He is gone now, God bless
his Bible-quoting soul and his earthy personality."
On the plight of the poor, George brought up his bond with Lee Oswald:
"I am from New Orleans, as a kid I
met refugees from all these banana republics. No better source of
information. In this way, Lee and I were non-conformist, even
revolutionaries...A younger man, I was career and money mad, a hustler...But Lee was the same since his
childhood, which made him such a beautiful and worthwhile person to me."
As an aristocratic
liberal from a mixed ethnic background, de Mohrenschildt was an outsider in the
White Russian community. De
Mohrenschildt turned to George Bouhe for guidance in how to get things
done. Bouhe was an old-school
kind of guy -- born in in Leningrad when it
was still St. Petersburg
and a bit of an aristocrat himself. Bouhe was an accountant for one of the local oil barons and served as a
patriarch in the community. Bouhe
testified that Paul Raigorodsky was the 'godfather' of the group, while he
himself did the organization work.
Bouhe formed the
St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Parish, one of the two Russian Orthodox parishes
in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in 1963.
Also known as the "Bouhe group," they met in
individual homes with a priest from Houston
visiting every five or six weeks and had services in Church Slavonic, an old
Slavic language that is different from modern Russian language.
De Mohrenschildt was part of St. Nicholas'
choir when married to his Philadelphia
wife. The other church,
St. Seraphim's, was located
at 4203 Newton Street
in Dallas,
where Igor Voshinin attended and services were in English.
Voshinin didn't like Bouhe because he was
very publicly in everyone's business, saying things like "Well, you know, I
forget things - so I keep a file on everybody."
De Mohrenschildt's attorney Max
Clark had an intelligence background, doubling as an industrial security supervisor at General Dynamics.
When the White
Russian community heard about Oswald, they sought out Max Clark's opinion as
how they should respond to Oswald. De
Mohrenschildt considered Clark to be his
lawyer. De Mohrenschildt
testified that he thought Clark was connected
with the FBI in some way. Clark referred to his interviewing agent Earle Haley as
"Earl," and told the Warren Commission that he was familiar with Haley and the
FBI from working with them when he worked security at General Dynamics.
"Everyone was
discussing that as to whether or not they should (associate with Oswald)
especially when he first came back and all of them asked me and I said, "In my
mind he is a defector and you know what
he is..."
Clark
was an industrial security supervisor at the Convair wing of General Dynamics
and well-versed in the ways of intelligence. In 1951, Convair had landed the Air Force contract for the first funded
ICBM study contract. Max's wife, Gali Clark, was an excellent Russian speaker sought out by Oswald to help his family get situated after their return from
the USSR. Her name was in Oswald's address book.
Max Clark had a close relationship to General Dynamics supervisor I. B. Hale.
Three years earlier in 1959, Max Clark had received a CIA "covert
security approval" in "Project ROCK" during the same time period that
then-foreign intelligence chief Bill Harvey of Staff D worked
on the U-2 related Project ROCK.
A covert security clearance with
the CIA gives the CIA officer the right to share classified information with
a
civilian. A CSC is
telling evidence of strong interactions between the subject and the CIA,
whether the subject is witting or unwitting.
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.
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 Germany attacked the USSR during World War II,
NTS was allowed to set up a Berlin headquarters: Arch
Puddington,
Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and
Radio Liberty, (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2000), p.
160.
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 naïve 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.
By 1963, the NTS was broadcasting to Soviet troops in far-flung places such as the Dominican Republic: Memo by Thomas Parrott to the 303 Committee Group, 4/26/63,
Miscellaneous CIA Series / NARA Record Number: 104-10306-10024.J
In
1990, the Communist Party within the Soviet Union admitted its fear of
the NTS and other groups working with Western security agencies in
preparation for the collapse of the Soviet government: JPRS
Report -- Soviet Union Political Affairs, 1/9/90, pp. 16-17.
De Mohrenschildt's father was Russian, of German and
Swedish descent, and was a marshal of nobility of the Minsk province...: Warren Commission testimony of George de
Mohrenschildt, Volume 9, pages 168-169.
The
Bolsheviks ran the family off their Russian home, and they were forced
to move to Poland and consolidate their land holdings: Nancy Wertz,
"George de Mohrenschildt, Who Are You?",
The
Fourth Decade, Volume 5, Issue 5, July 1998.
One story is that de Mohrenschildt's father was killed by the Bolsheviks: Statement of Igor Pantoroff, an NYC
portrait artist, who knew de Mohrenschildt since the early 40s. See report of SA James Morrissey, 2/28/64, p.
18, Reel 5, Folder M -- George de Mohrenschildt, NARA Record Number:
1994.04.25.14:02:25:940005.
Another story is that his father was arrested, but escaped: Statement of Igor
Voshinin. See memo of SA James K.
Fresney, 3/12/64, Reel 5, Folder M -- George de Mohrenschildt, NARA Record Number: 1994.04.25.14:02:25:940005.
De
Mohrenschildt observed that "most of the colony in Dallas is more
emotionally involved in Russian affairs then we are...So to me it does not mean very
much." Warren Commission Hearings, Testimony of George de Mohrenschildt, Volume 9, p. 266.
De Mohrenschildt had an extremely deep background with the intelligence community, going back for more than twenty years: A good source on his
background is Nancy Wertz, "George de Mohrenschildt, Who Are You?",
Fourth Decade, Volume
5, No. 5, p. 8, July 1998.
His
brother Dimitri von Mohrenschildt, described by the CIA as being
"employed in a confidential capacity by the U.S.government": Memo, "#775 Subject was Investigated by Federal Agencies",
p. 2,
HSCA
Segregated CIA Collection, Box 41 / NARA Record Number: 104-10112-10454.
He is said to have been one of the founders of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty: AllExperts website:
http://en.allexperts.com/e/g/ge/george_de_mohrenschildt.htm . Also see Joseph Trento,
The Secret History of the CIA.
This CIA bio of George states that "Dimitri is stated to be employed in a confidential capacity by the U.S.Government." Memo, "#775 Subject was Investigated by Federal Agencies", p. 2,
HSCA
Segregated CIA Collection, Box 41 / NARA Record Number: 104-10112-10454.
Records indicate
that Dimitri was approved to work with the OSS and that he provided
intelligence services for the CIA in the 1950s: Biographic information on George De
Mohrenschildt, 12/21/67,
HSCA
Segregated CIA Collection, Box 41 / NARA Record Number: 104-10112-10442.
Here's a 1968 CIA document looking at using Dimitri at that late date as a source: 11/1/68,
Interoffice Memorandum,
HSCA
Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 5: Conte - De Mohrenschildt) / NARA Record
Number: 104-10244-10132.
A
lengthy CIA-created list entitled "Companies and People Known to be
Associated with De Mohrenschildt" includes only one political group: "Dallas Committee Radio Free Europe.": See title page and p. 5, Reel 5, Folder M,
HSCA
Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 5: Conte - De Mohrenschildt) / NARA Record
Number: 1994.04.25.14:02:25:940005.
De Mohrenschildt's beloved and soon-to-be new wife, Jeanne, was from Harbin, China:
FBI memo, 2/28/64, p. 69, Reel 5, Folder M -- George de
Mohrenschildt, NARA Record
Number:
1994.04.25.14:02:25:940005.
Angleton testified that Dulles was a very close friend of his family: Deposition of James Angleton, p. 31,
Church
Committee Boxed Files / NARA Record Number:
157-10014-10003.
Lawrence
Houston said in a 3/20/70 Memorandum for the Record that "everything we
could determine after thousands of hours of research was that the first
contact with Mr. Itkin was in 1962": HSCA
Segregated CIA Collection, Box 38 /NARA Record Number:
104-10106-10434.
There
was a 1974 discovery of an Itkin file and a "MIKE/PORTIO/HAITI" file in
Angelton's possession, just two files of many that Angleton kept out of
the CIA records: Memo from David H. Blee, Chief, CI Staff,
to Chief, Information Management Group, 11/29/79,
Miscellaneous
CIA Series / NARA Record
Number:
104-10303-10000
Itkin's Story of His Work for the CIA: As related by notes, by Warren Donovan, 1/17/68,
NARA Record
Number: 104-10107-10116;
for a broader overview, see Time Magazine, 10/17/69; and
how he got his CIA code name "Portio" and more in the New York Times, 12/15/69.
Itkin's handler in 1963 was Mario Brod, who was recruited in Italy by James Angleton during World War II and had operational involvements in Haiti: Notes re memo from Jerrold B. Brown for
Inspector General, "Possible Questionable Activity", 7/1/75, pp. 1-2,
HSCA
Segregated CIA Collection (staff notes) /NARA Record Number: 180-10143-10196.
Before his brother was killed, Bobby Kennedy himself was relying on mob tips from Itkin : Memo from Jerrold B. Brown for Inspector General, "Possible
Questionable Activity", 7/1/75,
HSCA
Segregated CIA Collection, Box 43 / NARA Record Number: 104-10119-10002. , 7
HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 43 /
NARA Record Number: 104-10119-10002.
In
1966, Itkin was reportedly researching the case of the Sovi et spy
George Blake, under his code name "Portio," while Angleton held onto his
private "Mike/Portio/Haiti" file: "Notes on People", New York Times,
2/23/72
HSCA
Segregated CIA Collection, Box 43 / NARA Record Number:
1993.07.24.08:41:29:500310.
By 1971, Paul Hartman from CIRA was asking to review Itkin's CIA file, no doubt to educate himself on some fine points: 6/4/71
request by Paul Hartman for Itkin's security file,
NARA Record Number: 1993.07.24.08:41:29:500310.
This group of Russian refugees called themselves Solidarists: Warren
Commission testimony of George De Mohrenschildt, Vol. 9, p. 267.
When
the group's leader was interviewed in New York in 1957 by the FBI, the
Dallaspeople he knew of that were active at that time were Igor
Voshinin and oil man Paul Raigorodsky: Memo by SA Paul Garrity, New York, to
Director, FBI, 10/21/57,
FBI
- HSCA Subject Files, Q - R /
FBI
- HSCA Subject File: Paul M. Raigorodsky / NARA Record Number: 124-90123-10010.
Raigorodsky, known as the "Czar", served as the chief of the Petroleum Coordinator for War during two years in the forties: 9/16/52 memo by St. Louis FBI.
FBI
- HSCA Subject File: Paul M. Raigorodsky /NARA Record Number: 124-90123-10089.
Igor Voshinin and his wife Natalie lived in the New York City area between 1947-1955, when they moved to Dallas: Testimony
of Igor Voshinin, Warren Commission Hearings, Vol. 8, p. 450.
The
NTS - Russian Solidarists...exists in the form of an underground movement in Russia and also
has groups in the rest of the world: FBI interview by SA Kenneth B. Jackson with Mrs. Igor Voshinin, 12/10/63,
Dallas, Texas;
Oswald 201 File, Vol 16/, CD 205, Part 1.
George
repeatedly hinted that he was performing some services for the State
Department... Mrs. Igor (Natalie)
Voshinin, Warren Commission Hearings. 8, p. 442, 3/26/64.
De
Mohrenschildt made a presentation at a lecture hall about General
Vlasov's Russian army that fought on the side of the Germans: Testimony of Igor
Voshinin, Warren Commission Hearings, Volume 8, page 468.
Raigorodsky agreed that de Mohrenschildt was a "prankster": Testimony of Paul
Raigorodsky, 3/31/64, Warren Commission Hearings, Vol. 9, p. 20.
When asked if de Mohrenschildt was a "provocative personality", Natalie Voshinin said "definitely". Id., Vol. 8, p. 443.
He said that Kennedy was the first Democrat he would ever vote for: George
de Mohrenschildt, manuscript of
I'm a
Patsy! I'm a Patsy! HSCA Report, Volume 12, p. 225.
Look
at de Mohrenschildt's musings about Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev:
"He is gone now, God bless his Bible-quoting soul and his earthy
personality": George de
Mohrenschildt,
I'm a
Patsy!, p. 204.
On the plight of the poor, George brought up his bond with Lee Oswald: George de
Mohrenschildt,
I'm a Patsy!, p. 187.
Bouhe testified that Paul Raigorodsky was the'godfather' of the group, while he himself did the organization work: Warren
Commission Hearings, Testimony of George Bouhe, Vol. 8, p. 358.
George
Bouhe formed the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Parish, one of the two
Russian Orthodox parishes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in 1963: FBI interview by
James Hosty of Igor Voshinin, 12/12/63,
Commission
Document 205 - FBI Report of 23 Dec 1963 re: Oswald, p. 593.
Testimony of George Bouhe, Warren Commission Hearings, Vol. 8, p. 357.
The
"Bouhe group" met in individual homes with a priest from Houston
visiting every five or six weeks and had services in Church Slavonic, an
old Slavic language: Mrs. Igor Voshinin, Vol. 8, p. 430,
3/26/64.
De Mohrenschildt was part of St. Nicholas' choir when married to a Philadelphi woman from the prominent Sharples family: Warren Commission Hearings, Testimony of Igor Voshinin,. Vol.. 8, p. 455.
The
other church, St. Seraphim's, was located at 4203 Newton Street in
Dallas,where Igor Voshinin attended and services were in English: FBI interview by
James Hosty of Igor Voshinin, 12/12/63, Commission
Document 205 - FBI Report of 23 Dec 1963 re: Oswald, p. 593.
Bouhe was in everyone's business, saying things like: "Well, you know, I forget things - so I keep a file on everybody." : Warren Commission Hearings, Testimony of Igor Voshinin, Volume 8, p. 454.
De Mohrenschildt considered Clark to be his lawyer: Interview by Norman E.
Warner, First Secretary of the American Embassy in Haiti, of George
DeMohrnschildt, 12/4/63
Clark referred to his interviewing agent Earle Haley as "Earl": Testimony of Max Clark, Warren Commission
Hearings, Volume 8, pp. 349, 352.
Everyone was discussing whether or not they should (associate with Oswald): Testimony of Max Clark, Warren Commission
Hearings, Volume 8, p. 351.
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in 1951, Convair had also won the Air Force contract for the first funded ICBM
study contract: George Michael Evica, A Certain
Arrogance, (Xlibris, 2006), p. 205.
Her name was in Oswald's address book: See the Office of Security memo, with Max Clark's bio and OSI file: RIF#
104-10419-10316, pp. 1-5.
Clark received a "covert security approval" by the CIA in April 1959 for use in what was referred to as "Project ROCK":
RIF# 104-10419-10316.
William Harvey was part of Project ROCK during this time period: HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 42/ RIF# 104-10106-10581.
Also see M. D. Stevens memo to file, 1/30/64, "Lee Harvey
Oswald/Address Book", HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 47, NARA Record
Number: 104-10132-10011. Re the U-2 (Aquatone) tie-in with Project ROCK.
Max Clark worked closely with I.B. Hale, the chief of industrial security at General Dynamics: HSCA Segregated
CIA Collection, Box 40; NARA Record Number:
1993.08.02.10:25:15:250060; Office of Security
File on Clark, Max Edward.
I.
B. Hale had been married to Virginia Hale, who got Oswald his sheet
metal worker job at Leslie Whiting during July 1962...she remembered
Oswald "quite well": Interview by SA Earle Haley and SA Robley D. Madland with Virginia
Hale, Warren Commission Hearings, Volume 23, p. 694, Exhibit 1891.
At
the time, the 7 billion dollar contract for the TFX was the largest military
contract in history: Peter Dale Scott, in The Dallas Conspiracy, Chapter
3.
The next day, August 6, JFK mistress Judith Campbell
twice called the White House: Anthony Summers, Official
and Confidential, (G. P. Putnam's Sons: New York, 1993), p. 301.
On
I.B. (Insall Bailey) Hale's role with the break-in at home of Judith
Campbell, girlfriend of both JFK and gangster Sam Giancana: Report of SA William R. Carter, 8/8/62, FBI - HSCA Subject
File: John Roselli/NARA Record Number: 124-10220-10433. Carter was interviewed by Sy Hersh in The Dark Side of Camelot.
Controversy over the decision to award the contract to General Dynamics: George C. Wilson, "Twining's Book Backs", Washington Post, 9/18/66.
