At the time of the assassination of JFK, Wilcott worked at the Agency's Tokyo station where he said he was told by other Agency personnel that funds he himself had disbursed were for "Oswald" or the "Oswald Project." Mr. CORNWELL - Did they tell you whether or not you passed the polygraphs? He closed his 1989 letter with a lurid metaphor: I will help any wayI just want to be forewarned. 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? I am afraid we are going to have to leave to make this vote right now. [13], (As an aside, CIA officer William Harvey worked for Bobbs-Merrill in the last years of his life as a law editor.[14]). He refused to let me quote him or use his name in print. Copies of my written testimony have disappeared from my personal files. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Why did you go back to look at the book? By comparing the window next to them, which measured 14 inches off the floor, one box was about 15 x 30 x 60 inches, and thus had an estimated capacity of 15 cubic feet. I don't recall its origins with clarity, but I think it was given to me by a professor at Southern Methodist University here in Dallas. Mr. CORNWELL - What year was that? James Wilcott's Testimony Intro Author: Jim Hargrove <hargrove@enteract.com> . [23], The man using the pay phone was Shelley, for in an affidavit made out that same afternoon, he said, "I went back into the building [from outside where he viewed the shooting of the president] and went inside and called my wife and told her what happened. It has every one that I can remember. Mr. WILCOTT - Gordon Finch. This fear casting a shadow over the lives of former employees was also directed against journalists seeking to lift the veil of secrecy. Did you write it down or do anything? Did you cover this ground? [4] FBI report of Roy Truly interview by Nat Pinkston, November 23, 1963, File No. I will help any wayI just want to be forewarned. Mr. WILCOTT - The "need-to-know" principle was not all that we followed, and just about every one of the big projects that the agency was involved in, information leaked out, and we especially within the CIA knew about it, and someone would go to a party and have a little bit too much to drink and start saying things that they really shouldn't be saying to keep in mind what the "need-to-know" principle was. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And who made these references to Oswald being an agent of the CIA? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, in a speculative manner. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Can you give the Committee the names of any persons who might corroborate your allegation? At the end of the hallway to his right was another door. I was really scared to go to the Government and talk about any of these things. Mr. PREYER - He stated that as a fact and not that he believed it was drawn out for Oswald or it could have been or something like that? Mr. Wilcott. But you apparently indicated that you feel there was a direct connection between the Bay of Pigs operation and the assassination of the President. Mr. WILCOTT - It was at least a matter of weeks and perhaps as much as three months after. JAMES WILCOTT'S TESTIMONYJames B. Wilcott, a former CIA accountant, swore in a secret session of the House Select Committee on Assassinations that he was told by other CIA employees that Lee Harvey Oswald was paid by the CIA, and that money he himself had disbursed was for "Oswald or the Oswald project." Mr. WILCOTT - I believe they would at one time. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Was he a CIA employee? He is about to publish his book and, as you can understand, friendship and loyalty make me reluctant to discuss this matter with anyone else. Copyright 2016-2022 by kennedysandking.com All Rights Reserved. 359-360, 386-387. In November 1963, on the Friday before Thanksgiving, President Kennedy was riding in a Lincoln convertible rolling through the streets of Dallas. As Rose points out, this is a bit odd also, since most of the building witnesses were taken to the sheriffs office, which was much closer to the TSBD than police headquarters. * 2017 JFK has a detailed guide to the massive JFK disclosures scheduled for October 2017. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, sir, I think of an agent as an actual employee of the Agency; we called them indigenous agents XX XXXXXX who were agents that were on a regular salary by the case officer who was running an agent, and then there were a lot of one-time informers or maybe one- or two- or three-time informers that were paid like maybe $50 or so to attend a meeting of a political party or something of that nature. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. When I interviewed him, he was living alone with his three cats, depending for his income on the charity of his father and disability checks. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I did. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Yet their new location was seven miles south of the intersection of Royal Lane and Interstate 35 at 8301 Ambassador Row. Mr. GOLDSMITH - What were these people's names? 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. Mr. DODD - Am I to presume that you told your wife of the conversation you had with this case officer at the time it occurred? Mr. WILCOTT - That is correct. [19] Immediately after Adams and Styles went out the back door, Officer Marion Baker came in through the front door and met Roy Truly. The first contact I had with any reporter or any newspaper people or any media people was with Glad Day Press. He said he went back inside and went into the basement for ten minutes, supposedly eating his lunch.[25]. Mr. WILCOTT - Along those lines they said things like, well, that Oswald couldn't have pulled the trigger, that only CIA could have set up such an elaborate project and there was nobody with the kind of knowledge or information that could have done this, and this was more in the speculative realm. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you remember which of these individuals if any, made the specific allegation or reference that Oswald was an agent? Additional gift options are available when buying one eBook at a time. The incident occurred in about 1969. New York, 1989) p. 319. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you have any knowledge of any record of the CIA at the XXXXXXXX Station ever being destroyed out of the ordinary course of business, not as a matter of routine? Mr. WILCOTT - That is correct. Mr. WILCOTT - That is right. 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? During the period, it was unvouchered funds, and my duties were general accounting, and my rate in status was GS-5. Upon exiting the elevator, he saw a short hallway. Mr. WILCOTT - Not that I know of. Shelleys second claim was that he joined the CIA. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, the payments that were made especially to substations like Oswald's was operated -- it was a substation of the XXXXXXXX station, and they had one in XXXXXX and they had one in XXXXXXXXX-- and it may be six months or even a year after the intial allocation that the final accounting for those funds were submitted, and they would operate out of revolving funds or out of their own personal funds in many cases. Mr. WILCOTT - Approximately two years, sir. Mr. WILCOTT - I flipped through it. [28] A roll call of warehouse employees seemed to indicate that Oswald was indeed absent. It achieved commercial success in 1970 with a hit song called "Mr. Bojangles. In 1992, the band was still active, touring the country and recording albums. . . I then proceeded to write an article called The Glaze Letters for the May 1999 issue of Jerry Roses JFK assassination research journal called The Fourth Decade. He was not questioned by the Warren Commission. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, it was just a cryptonym, and it could refer to a person, or it could refer to something else and I would have no way of knowing what a cryptonym referred to. 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? at the best online prices at eBay! Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Well, in other words, if you got the information three months after the assassination, Oswald had already been dead for three months, is that right? Mr. WILCOTT - Not the files, no. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, sir, the day after the assassination I don't think that there was any of that kind of talk. From June of 1964 to about December of 1964, I was at Roseland. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, I would get calls and they would say "We know all about you," shooting a machine gun into the Mr. GOLDSMITH - Very generally now, what were your responsibilities as a finance employee with the agency? William Weston examines the curious letters of Elzie Glaze and considers potential connections between the CIA and the Texas School Book Depository. For many years he assisted organizations that helped veterans, monitored the nuclear power industry, and worked to ensure basic human rights. Give as a gift or purchase for a team or group. Mr. GOLDSMITH - What was your response to this revelatic as to what Oswald's cryptonym was? Mr. SAWYER - Do you distinguish between an agent and a paid informant or do you use those terms interchangeably? 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. Carolyn Walther, a street spectator waiting to see the presidents motorcade, observed a two-man sniper team at a window on the fifth floor on the far-right side of the building. about it & possibly do a story on it. Yes, I do, and I believe there was such a reference. Mr. CORNWELL - All you can recall is that, when you. [8] Jim Marrs, Crossfire (Carroll & Graf. In 1984, they began sending tapes of their programs to public access channels in Dallas and San Antonio and then to other cities around the country, hence the name of the umbrella organization, the Alternative Information Network. Governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie, sat in front of them. Mr. SAWYER - What would they say? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. I went immediately into the clear space on the ground floor and asked where there was a phone. The two new employees were administered a written questionnaire asking about their opinions of current topics of the day, especially social issues. Apparently, work at the book depository was not so demanding as to preclude these forays into military, law enforcement, or intelligence organizations. 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Mr. PREYER - Thank you very much and we appreciate you and Mr. Schaap being with us today, and the hearing will stand in recess. His wife Mildred refused to talk about the assassination even with members of her own family. I have some information concerning the assassination of President John Kennedy that I wish to submit for your scrutiny. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. WILCOTT - I have no idea, sir. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, when the officer told you -- strike that. This was just prior to moving to Langley, in finance, and my duties there were policing accounts, and included auditing of special accounts. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I am sure somewhere. Mr. WILCOTT - That is right. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Is it fair to say that the CIA is an operation that runs itself on a "need-to-know" basis? Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Mr. WILCOTT - It is a little bit east of Oakland, California. And during that period, I had been promoted, GS-7 and also gained a career status. That would have put it into 1964? Reminder warnings were given on an individual or a small group basis. [12], A suggestion of smuggling activities within the TSBD comes in the form of boxes too large to be practical containers of books. Did he say to you, "I think Oswald was a CIA agent," or did that first person say to you that he was a CIA agent? Mr. WILCOTT - In 1968. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Mr. Wilcott after leaving the XXXXXXXXX Station, was there any other time when you came across any information that indicated that Oswald was a CIA agent? Mr. WILCOTT - Most of the people were involved in the civil rights movement or in the antiwar movement in 1968. 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. 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