Saturday, September 28, 2013

Editor's Introduction

To mark the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who died in Dallas, Texas, on 22 November 1963, the author of this blog has chosen to re-present a classic work, The Torbitt Document: Nomenclature of An Assassination Cabal, which surfaced in 1970 as an anonymous, copyright-free document published under the pseudonym William Torbitt.

"The Torbitt Document," as it became known, created a huge sensation.

Penned by an attorney who once worked as an investigator for the office of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, it argues that Kennedy died in a right-wing (fascist) coup d'etat, conceived and executed by the FBI's Division Five, with the aid and assistance of elements from the Defense Industrial Security Command (DISC), a secretive action branch of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency.

Above:  Jim Garrison, District Attorney of Orleans Parish, 1961 - 1973, is best known for his investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy, portrayed in Oliver Stone's film JFK.  William Torbitt was one of Garrison's investigators.

Long before Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK, the Torbitt Document confronted the American public with a deadly serious and (some say) heroic effort to name the conspirators who killed President John Kennedy.



As an attempt to martial immense amounts of legal evidence in a short space, it certainly is a tour de force, and it stands in very stark contrast to the government's 26-volume Warren Commission Hearings, whose 898-page summary concluded that the president died at the hands of a lone assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald,.

 

Above: Chief Justice Earl Warren and other members of the Warren Commission present a copy of the finished Warren Report to President Johnson on September 24, 1964. To the far left stands John J. McCloy, an assistant Secretary of War who oversaw the American occupation of Germany after World War II. Just to the left of Warren stands future president Gerald Ford.  To the right of Johnson stands Allen Dulles, a former head of the CIA who was fired by Kennedy in September 1961.  On the far right stands Rep. Hale Boggs, the only member of the Warren Commission to disagree with its conclusion that Kennedy was killed by a lone gunman.  Boggs died in a mysterious plane crash in 1972.


The author of the Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal names names: One will find here a fearless, no-nonsense summary of all the people whom Torbitt considers guilty of participating in a criminal conspiracy to kill Kennedy, from the White House and the highest levels of military command, down to the field operatives and gunmen suspected of firing the fatal shots that changed American history forever on 22 November 1963.

 Above: A Polaroid snapshot taken by witness Mary Moorman on 22 November 1963, moments after the fatal shot. 

Today, as in November 1963, one must decide for oneself whom to believe and just how persuasive one finds the evidence presented. The advantage of the internet is that one may now easily fact-check Torbitt's research and cross-reference the Torbitt Document to many online books, photographs, documentaries, databases and legal documents.

Chapter Titles, Photos, Illustrations and Links

The original manuscript includes no chapter titles or illustrations: It was a wall of words divided only by chapter numbers. The editor of this blog has therefore provided chapter titles (content summaries) not found in the original manuscript, in order to help the reader with navigation.

The Blogger search tool ("Search This Blog" at the top of the column to the right) also provides a means for searching the entire Torbitt Document.  Just type a name or subject that interests you in the box, then click the search button. Please be sure to click on the "Linked from Here" tab to view additional results.

Whenever possible, photographs of the people named by the "nomenclature" have been provided, usually with cross-links to their Wikipedia biographies.  To learn more about an individual, just click on the name.

An effort has also been made to cross-link to book titles mentioned by Torbitt.  

Eventually, this blog will cross-link all references found in Torbitt to the Warren Commission Hearings and the Warren Exhibits cited by Torbitt.  To read and explore the Warren Report for yourself, see the History Matters Warren Commission Archive here.

The Rockefeller Commission Investigation

As the Wikipedia article on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy points out:

"The United States President's Commission on CIA activities within the United States was set up under President Gerald Ford in 1975 to investigate the activities of the CIA within the United States. The commission was led by Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller, and is sometimes referred to as the Rockefeller Commission.

"Part of the commission's work dealt with the Kennedy assassination, specifically the head snap as seen in the Zapruder film (first shown to the general public in 1975), and the possible presence of E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis in Dallas.  The commission concluded that neither Hunt nor Sturgis was in Dallas at the time of the assassination."



Above:  A rare photo of Operation 40 members, taken from the cover of Barry and the Boys: The CIA, The Mob, and America's Secret History.  The photo allegedly shows Porter Goss, head of CIA from 2004 to 2006, sitting next to Barry Seal and Felix Rodriguez.  See Daniel Hopsicker's story "Porter and The Boys" here.  

Continued Relevance of Torbitt Document

Lest one think that the Torbitt document is now entirely irrelevant, it is interesting to note that Porter Goss, a congressman who co-sponsored the USA Patriot Act in 2002 and co-chaired the Joint 911 Intelligence Inquiry, once participated in Operation 40 during his days as a young CIA operative.  Goss, in other words, was very much associated with the "cabal" so carefully examined by William Torbitt below.  Goss went on to serve as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2004 to 2006, at the height of the United States' recent war in Iraq.

William Torbitt investigated the JFK assassination passionately, professionally and with such brilliant accuracy that his masterpiece, the Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal remains a highly readable and alarming wake-up call to America -- a wake-up call which many Americans ignored.

Perhaps now, on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the time has finally come to ask ourselves a simple question: Was William Torbitt wrong to predict that a pro-fascist, mafia-connected syndicate -- the men who killed Kennedy -- would continue to use their positions within the U.S. intelligence community to create war, chaos and confusion?

What's past is, indeed, prologue.  JFK's assassination continues to cast its dark shadow upon us all.

William Tobitt's Notice (1970)


This manuscript is the result of research and investigation by the investigator and author. It is compiled for the sole purpose of research and the statements and averments of fact contained herein are the result of investigation and research of agencies both private and public. The purpose of this document is to place into perspective such research and investigative findings and is to be used only at a time in the future when it may be legally published and circulated as an historical document. The name of the author is a cognomen and nom de plume.



Ch. 1. The Cabal: FBI Division Five and DIA's Defense Industrial Security Command


When Jim Garrison, the New Orleans District Attorney, began to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy, he took the position that regardless of who was behind the assassination, the American people could take the truth, should have the facts, and that the right of the American people to know superceded any damage that might be done to the image of the United States by the revelation of respected government leaders' involvement in the crime.


 
Chief Justice Earl Warren and other members of the Commission charged to investigate the assassination took another position; that is, to reveal the assassination scheme would do great harm and damage to the image of the United States in the eyes of the world, and therefore, it would be to the best interests of the nation that their findings be as were reported by them. 

Enough evidence has now been uncovered by the Warren Commission, other investigative agencies here and in Europe, and Jim Garrison to reveal an almost total working knowledge of how the assassination was carried out and by whom.



The killing of President Kennedy was planned and supervised by Division Five of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a relatively small department within the FBI whose usual duties are espionage and counter-espionage activities. 

Actually, Division Five acted dually with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) which was acting on behalf of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. Directly under the two-pronged leadership of Division Five and the DIA was the Control Group, their highly secret police agency:  the Defense Industrial Security Command

The Defense Industrial Security Command has always been kept secret because it acts, in addition to its two official control organizations, on behalf of NASA, the Atomic Energy Commission, the U.S. Information Agency, and the arms, equipment, ammunition, munitions and related miscellaneous supply manufacturing corporations contracting with NASA, the AEC, USIA, and the Pentagon.

One can readily observe that the Defense Industrial Security Command is not compatible with an open democracy and the U.S. Constitution. Consequently, the top secret arms manufacturers' police agency has been kept from the knowledge of even most U.S. officials and congressmen. 


 Above: David E. Lillienthal, 1937.   Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The Defense Industrial Security Command had its beginnings when J. Edgar Hoover in the early 1930's organized the police force of the fledgling Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) at the request of David Lilienthal. The police force covered the entire Tennessee Valley Authority from Knoxville, Tennessee through Huntsville and Florence, Alabama into Kentucky and back through the eastern portion of Tennessee into southern Kentucky. This was one of the first federal agencies with a separate police force.

This force grew and Lillienthal took it forward to cover the Atomic Energy Commission, thus tying it into the army intelligence service. 


 Above: Louis Mortimer Bloomfield, head of Permindex

L.M. Bloomfield, a Montreal, Canada lawyer bearing the reputation as a sex deviate, the direct supervisor of all contractual agents with J. Edgar Hoover's Division Five, was the top co-ordinator for the network planning the execution. A Swiss corporation, Permindex, was used to head five front organizations responsible for furnishing personnel and supervisors to carry out assigned duties. The five groups under Permindex and their supervisors were:

1. The Czarist Russian, Eastern European and Middle East exile organization called Solidarists, headed by Ferenc Nagy, ex-Hungarian premier, and John De Menil, Russian exile from Houston, Texas -- a close friend and supporter of Lyndon Johnson for over 30 years.

2. A section of the American Council of Christian Churches headed by H.L. Hunt of Dallas, Texas.

3. A Cuban exile group called Free Cuba Committee headed by Carlos Prio Socarras, ex-Cuban president.

4. An organization of United States, Caribbean and Havana, Cuba gamblers called the Syndicate headed by Clifford Jones, ex-Lieutenant Governor of Nevada and Democratic National Committeeman, and Bobby Baker of Washington, D.C. This group worked closely with a Mafia family headed by Joe Bonanno.

5. The Security Division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) headed by Wernher Von Braun, head of the German Nazi rocket program from 1932 through 1945. Headquarters for this group was the Defense Industrial Security Command at Muscle Shoals Redstone Arsenal in Alabama and on East Broad Street in Columbus, Ohio.



Above: William C. Sullivan, FBI agent in charge of DISC

The Defense Industrial Security Command is the police and espionage agency for the U.S. munitions makers. DISC was organized by J. Edgar Hoover; William Sullivan, his chief assistant, is in direct command. We shall later examine the involvement of a large number of the DISC agents including Clay Shaw, Guy Bannister, David Ferrie, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby and others with Permindex's Louis Mortimer Bloomfield of Montreal, Canada in charge. 

As it must be, all of the preceding facts are established and documented by overwhelming evidence beyond a reasonable doubt on the following pages.

Gordon Novel obtained the aid of the Columbus office in 1967 when Jim Garrison was attempting to get him back to Louisiana from Ohio. Personnel of the Defense Intelligence Agency were subject to assignment with the Defense Industrial Security Command.



 Above: J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, in office 1935 - 1972.

The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation [J. Edgar Hoover] was in charge of NASA's Security Division and the Defense Industrial Security Command in his position as head of counter-espionage activities in the United States. His agents investigated every employee of the space agency as well as the employees of the pertinent contractors doing business with NASA and also prospective employees of every arms and munitions manufacturer. 



Above: Lt. Gen. Joseph F. Carroll (1910 - 1991), first director of the DIA

The Defense Intelligence Agency is headed [1970] by Lt. General Joseph F. Carroll, a former assistant Director of the FBI. Carroll worked closely with Sullivan, Hoover and L.M. Bloomfield in directing activities of the munition-makers' police agency, the Defense Industrial Security Command.

Walter Sheridan, whose activities are covered later, was the direct liaison man between Carroll and Robert F. Kennedy during the pertinent period. 

The address for DISC is 3990 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio. The field office for the Command was located at the old Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville and Muscle Shoals, Alabama. 

Von Braun had been decorated more than any other Nazi during World War II. Hoover had worked directly with Von Braun in connection with NASA's security since his arrival in the United States in December 1945. [Editor's Note: See Operation Paperclip.]



 Above: Lyndon B. Johnson, Chairman of NASA

Lyndon Johnson, as vice-president, was Chairman of NASA, and Johnson, Von Braun, Bobby Baker, [and] Fred Black had worked diligently to obtain the $9 billion Apollo contract for North American Aviation in 1961. NASA awarded this contract to North American despite the fact that it went against the recommendation of its own source evaluation board.

Each of the NASA security personnel who were assigned duties in connection with the assassination were employees or contractees for Division Five of the FBI and many were connected with the other four groups. It must be borne in mind that this was a relatively small group within all of these agencies. It was not official and it was not an American operation, but was simply the independent action taken by these men, some of whom happened to hold official positions. 


Above: J. Edgar Hoover formed Division Five, the FBI's counter-espionage branch, in 1936

J. Edgar Hoover was named first Director of the FBI in 1924, and he immediately organized the anti-communist Division Five for espionage and counter-espionage work which President Roosevelt made official in 1936. Actually, Division Five was in existence as the General Intelligence Division (GID) of the Justice Department since 1919. Hoover, an Assistant Attorney General and head of the GID, had used the Czarist Russians in tracing the Bolsheviks during the Red Scare and Palmer raids of that period. (The FBI Nobody Knows, Fred Cook).

1924 was the year the Communists finally took complete control of Russia after five years of resistance by the imperial Czarists. From 1918 to 1923, the leaders of the Czarists were leaving Russia with vast fortunes by the tens of thousands. 


 Above: John De Menil with Andy Warhol, Montreal, 1968.

One of those escaping Russians was John De Menil, presently of Houston, Texas, who fled to France, married into the Schlumberger family, moved to Caracas, Venezuela and then to Houston, Texas before World War II. He is presently [1970] the Chairman of the Board of Schlumberger Corporation, a world-wide oil well service company. 

The forerunners of the Solidarists have been described by James Wechsler of the New York Post and other writers, before and during World War II, as the Ukrainian fascists. [See: Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.]

The Solidarists expanded this group to include all East European exiles, including those of various religious denominations. [Editor's Note: See Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, World Anti-Communist League.]

Of course, these Russian exiles in all countries of the world were violently anti-communist and considered themselves as a government in exile with headquarters in Munich, Germany.

One has only to glance at Czarist Russian history to learn that these people are the most proficient dealers in assassination the world has ever known. 


George De Mohrenschildt, a Russian emigre who refused to join the Solidarists and who was familiar with the workings of espionage groups and had worked with them in the past, testified that J. Edgar Hoover, using Division Five of the FBI, was the planner of the assassination of President Kennedy. Through DeMohrenschildt's testimony before the Commission and his documentation, the connection of the espionage section of the FBI and the assassination has been established. (IX, 47 et seq, 77 et seq, Russian exiles testimony to Commission.)

The public records of the corporate records department of Italy and Switzerland; Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1963, 1964; Invisible Government and Espionage Establishment by Wise and Ross; Buddy Floyd murder files, Alice Texas; Warren Commission, 26 volumes; the Grand Jury records of New Orleans Parish, New Orleans, Louisiana; and the District Attorney Records of New Orleans Parish, New Orleans, Louisiana, all further substantiate, bolster, and corroborate the testimony of De Mohrenschildt concerning the FBI's Division Five's involvement.

Many examiners of the case have concluded that George De Mohrenschildt was a part of the conspiracy because of his close association with Oswald during the fall of 1962, and winter and early spring of 1963, but a close reading of the Russian exile's testimony before the Warren Commission shows that De Mohrenschildt was being used by the Solidarists the same as Oswald was being used, and was to have been tied in with Oswald in connection with the assassination. However, De Mohrenschildt, a highly polished professional geologist, saved himself by moving to Haiti in April of 1963 in connection with a contract with the government of Haiti, where he still resided on the day of the assassination of President Kennedy. 

De Mohrenschildt, in retrospect, knew that Division Five of the FBI and the Solidarists had intended to use him as a scapegoat along with Oswald, and he did not hesitate to name the small group within the Federal Bureau of Investigation as the instigators of the assassination of President Kennedy. (New Orleans District Attorney Records).


 Above: Jack Ruby, owner of the Carousel Club

Concerning the Solidarists, Jack Ruby was a second-generation immigrant from the White Russian area of Poland and his brother, Hyman Rubenstein, was born there. Ralph Paul, Ruby's Dallas partner in the Carousel Club, was a Russian immigrant having been born in Kiev, Russia. (Ralph Paul and Hyman Rubenstein exhibits, XXI).

While in confinement, Jack Ruby said in letters later authenticated by Hamilton Autographs, New York City, that pogroms against the Jews in this country were a real threat. He repeated over and over the words "pogroms against the Jews" in these letters and in a number of habeas corpus hearings in federal district court in Dallas, and at the same time he testified that Lyndon Johnson was the head of the organization carrying out the assassination plans. Ruby's testimony is acceptable in every court as an accomplice witness needing only corroboration in so far as his naming Lyndon Johnson as one of the accomplices. 

This has been done.

Ruby's constant use of the words "pogroms against the Jews" reveal his close affiliation with and his deeply ingrained awareness of his family's Russian Czarist background. Everyone even slightly conversant with Russian history knows that the words "pogroms against the Jews" are exclusively descriptive of the Czarist Russian Cossacks pillaging and killing of Jews in their villages and neighborhoods in Russia during the centuries under the Czars.

But to return to J. Edgar Hoover's connection with the Czarist Russians in exile: 

With the Solidarists' vast number of agents within Russia and the common anti-communist objectives with J. Edgar Hoover, these two groups immediately merged and have continually worked almost as one since that time. In 1960, when it was determined that Castro was a Communist, he too was considered an occupying force, and the Cuban exiles with the common cause worked quite naturally into the Solidarist and Division Five organizations. [Editor's Note: See Anti-Communist League of the Caribbean, Guy Bannister.]

Another organization participating with Division Five was a religious group called the American Council of Christian Churches. A.C.C.C.'s West Coast representative, E.E. Bradley, was indicted by the New Orleans Grand Jury for complicity in the assassination. A.C.C.C. launched a campaign in 1964, at J. Edgar Hoover's request, to elect him President of the United States. (1964 Campaign Records; American Council of Christian Churches records, N.Y.C.)

In 1941, J. Edgar Hoover had his good friend and agent, Carl McIntire, organize the espionage and intelligence unit under the cover name "American Council of Christian Churches" with the headquarters in New York City. This group was able to take in many innocent religious groups who did not know they were connected with a spy and propaganda agency. However, Hoover and McIntire, through this guise, were able to place agents posing as ministers and missionaries throughout the United States and most Latin American countries. We will examine the involvement of this group's agents later. (Religious Bodies of America, 1961, Revised; New Orleans District Attorney Records).

Hoover was joined in the cabal to murder President Kennedy by 

  • Lyndon Johnson,
  • Walter Jenkins, Johnson's assistant,
  • Fred Korth (whom Kennedy had fired as Secretary of the Navy some two weeks before November 22),
  • H.L. Hunt of A.C.C.C,
  • Jean De Menil, Houston multi-millionaire, head of Schlumberger and a director of the Russian exile Solidarists,
  • Carlos Prio Socarras, ex-Cuban president and long-time gambling partner of Jack Ruby and director of the anti-Castro Cubans,
  • Bobby Baker, ex-Senate Secretary,
  • Roy M. Cohen, New York attorney and head of the Jewish League Against Communism,
  • Clifford Jones, ex-Lieutenant Governor of Nevada, Democratic National Committeeman, and business partner with Bobby Baker and L.J. McWillie,
  • L.J. McWillie, of Las Vegas, Nevada, a partner in Havana gambling with Ruby and Jones,
  • L.M. Bloomfield of Montreal, a long time friend and agent of J. Edgar Hoover,
  • Ferenc Nagy, ex-Premier of Hungary,
  • Wernher Von Braun, German Nazi rocket engineer whom Hitler personally decorated for his work in slaughtering over 7,000 Allies during World War II,
  • John Connally and
  • Clint Murchison, Sr.


(Jack Ruby’s letters, Hamilton’s Autographs, N.Y.C.; XXVI, 634; XXIII, 157 et seq.; XXVI, 650; Basel Switzerland Publications A-Z, August, 1961; Canadian LeDevoir Publications, March 1967; Rome Paesa Sera Publications, March, April, 1967, also 1959 through 1969 files; Il Giornia of Milan, Italy, 1967-1968 files; Il Tempe, Rome, 1967-1968 files; New Orleans District Attorney Records; Swiss Intelligence, J.F. Kennedy files.)

L.J. McWillie, who earlier had been a partner in the Havana, Cuba gambling casino with Jack Ruby, Clifford Jones and ex-Cuban President, Carlos Prio Socarras, in 1962 entered a new business arrangement with Clifford Jones and Bobby Baker at the Thunderbird Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. (XXIII, 36 et seq.; XXIII, 161 et seq.; New Orleans District Attorney Records.)

The Warren Commission uncovered incontrovertible evidence that Ruby and McWillie were the closest friends and business associates for over fifteen years. Ruby and Ray Brandly of Dallas, the Warren Commission discovered, had sent a number of Cobra guns to McWillie in Havana in 1958, but Ruby and McWillie had been gun runners for years. (XIV, 542; XXVI, 499; V, 181 et seq.)

The complicity of Carlos Prio Socarras, President of Cuba from 1948 to 1952, with the assassination group was documented and authenticated in the official volumes of the Warren Commission Hearings in volume XXVI at page 634:
December 1, 1963

AT T-2 advised on November 29, 1963, . . . . stated that in the . . . 1950's, Jack Ruby held interest in the Colonial Inn, a nightclub and gambling house in Hollandale, Florida. He stated that Jack Ruby, known then as Rubenstein, was active in arranging illegal flights of weapons from Miami to the Castro organization in Cuba. According to T-2, Ruby was reportedly part owner of two planes used for these purposes.

T-2 further stated that Ruby subsequently left Miami and purchased a substantial share in a Havana gambling house in which one Carlos Prio. . . . was principal owner. T-2 stated that Carlos Prio was within favor of former Cuban leader Batista, but was instrumental in financing and managing accumulation of arms by pro-Castro forces . . .

On page 650 of the same volume, a revealing document is found connecting Prio, Ruby, and Robert Ray McKeown, the gun-runner who was to work with Ruby in shipping the surplus jeeps to Cuba in 1959, T. Gonzales, who rode the bus into Mexico with Oswald, and Ramos, who stayed at the Hotel Commercia in Mexico City with Oswald. The document follows:

Information concerning reported contact between Jack L. Ruby and Robert Ray McKeown was furnished the President's Commission on March 2, 1964 . . . .

Files reveal that McKeown was one of the subjects in an extensive investigation . . . concerning the activities of Carlos Prio. . . . Prio, a former President of Cuba . . . was engaged with others, including McKeown, in attempting to assist Castro in his revolutionary action against the Batista regime in Cuba. . . .

Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Unit, Bureau of Internal Revenue, continued the investigation in this matter and charged various individuals, including McKeown, with conspiracy to smuggle guns and related equipment to Cuba. The defendants in this action were as follows: Dr. Carlos Prio Socarras, also known as Carlos Prio, age unknown, male, resident of Miami, Florida, citizen of Cuba. . . .

Orlando Garcia Vasquez, also known as Orlando Vasquez, F. Valdez, Ramos, age unknown, male, resident of Miami, Florida, citizen of Cuba.

Angel Banos, age unknown, male, resident of Miami, Florida, citizen of the United States.

Robert R. McKeown, also known as Dick McKeown, Max, J. T. Brown, H.J. McAllister, age 47, male, resident of Galena Park, Texas, citizen of the United States. . . .

Manuel Arques, also known as Manny, age 23, male, resident of Miami, Florida, citizen of the United States.

Evelyn Eleanor Archer, also known as Mrs. Manuel Arques, Ruby, age 36, female, resident of Keyport, New Jersey, citizen of the United States.

Pedro Luis Chaviano Reyes, also known as Luis Chaviano, F. Castillo, Gilbert Pawtoja, age 44, male resident of Miami, Florida, citizen of Cuba.

Abelardo Pujol Barrera, also known as Joe Sanco, Jose Sauco, Jose Alonzo, age 42, male, resident of Miami, Florida, citizen of Cuba.

Francisco Gonzales Obregon, also known as T. Gonzales.
Mrs. Ethel Jane McKeown, age unknown, female, resident of Galena Park, Texas, citizen of the United States.”

The arms and ammunitions being smuggled to Castro at the time and later to anti-Castro Cubans by McKeown, Ruby, Prio, and their New Orleans associates were obtained principally from the Redstone Arsenal in the Florence, Muscle Shoals, and Huntsville area of Alabama, and to a lesser extent from the Pine Bluff, Arkansas arsenal. The orders for these men and direction for their activities came from the office of the Defense Industrial Security Command, the munitions makers secret police agency at Redstone. (District Attorney Records, Southern District of Texas in U.S. vs McKeown).

McKeown, Ruby, Prio, and their New Orleans associates, David Ferrie, Clay Shaw, Maurice Brooks Gatlin, Guy Bannister, Sergio Arcacha Smith, and the others all followed the orders of Jean De Menil in Houston and Wernher Von Braun of Redstone. 

Clay Shaw and Walter Jenkins, only two of the large number of sex deviates at command and lower level in the cabal, were together almost constantly, pushing L.B.J. during the 1960 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, according to delegates present there. Shaw and Jenkins will be covered later and their close relationship established.

Prio had met with John De Menil and Fidel Castro in Houston, Texas in 1956 and furnished Castro with the funds to purchase the ship which transported Castro and his men back to Cuba after their Mexican stay. This is documented in all accounts of Castro's rise to power. 

Prio, De Menil and their group all turned violently against Castro in 1960 when Castro made public his Communist connections. After this time, De Menil and Prio, through Schlumberger, furnished agents, arms, transportation and organization for the overthrow of Castro. As a matter of fact, Artime, who was in charge of the Bay of Pigs Cuban Revolutionary Council, had been Cuba's Premier under Prio's rule. 

Jack Ruby's complicity with ex-President Prio in the running of guns to Cuba, both before and after Castro took charge in January 1959, is documented by well over 150 credible witnesses in the twenty-six volumes of evidence taken before the Warren Commission. 

A large group of these witnesses testified concerning Jack Ruby's presence and gun running activities in Islamorada, Florida in 1958. Islamorada is located on the Florida Keys, which DeMenil and Schlumberger have for a long time used as a shipping point for arms due to its proximity to Cuba. We quote from the testimony of the witnesses:

Mrs. Mary Thompson, 1155 Dupont, Kalamazoo, Michigan, states as follows:
On about May 30, 1958, she travelled to Islamorada, Florida, accompanied by her daughter and son-in-law, Dolores and Richard Rhoads. They visited her brother and sister-in- law, James and Mary Lou ‘Butch’ Woodard, who resided in a cottage, address not known, which was located behind the cottage of Ted Williams, well-known professional baseball player. While there, they met Jack and Isabel (last name unknown), acquaintances of the Woodards. There was not sufficient room in the Woodard cottage and Jack and Isabel suggested that Dolores and Richard spend the night at their home. The offer was accepted and it was determined that Jack and Isabel lived in a small motel situated on a white coral pier, which was reached by crossing an old bridge.

. . . . . Mary Lou said that Jack was originally from Chicago, Illinois, and reportedly had killed a couple of men. He later ran a drinking place in Dallas, Texas, where he became acquainted with James Woodard, who was a member of the Dallas, Texas Police Department for a short time in 1954. . . . . . . .

Mary Lou said that Jack had a trunk full of guns and ... that Jack was going to supply them to the Cubans. Mrs. Thompson stated that she was told that there were supplies of guns hidden in the marshes. . . .

Mary Thompson and six members of her family identified Jack Ruby as being the person involved in the gun running in Florida in 1958. But the Warren Commission had already uncovered one hundred fifty unimpeached witnesses who put Jack Ruby in the Cuban gun running business for over twelve years preceding 1963. 

Let us return to the involvement of Carlos Prio Socarras. 

On November 20, 1963, Salvador Diaz Verson proceeded to Mexico City at the direction of Carlos Prio. In Mexico City, Diaz immediately after the assassination fed the following story to the world news media: 

[Editor’s Note: The referenced article is missing in the original manuscript]

Dr. Angel Fernandez Varela stated that when Diaz Verson returned to Miami from Mexico City in the latter part of November 1963, Diaz Verson advised him that while in Mexico City he had had contact with other newspapermen there and had learned that the Mexican Federal Police had arrested a Mexican citizen, Sylvia Duran, an employee of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City, because of her connection between Oswald and the Cuban Embassy. (Warren Commission, vol. XXVI, p. 413)

Dr. Fernandez said Diaz Verson also told him that Oswald had stayed at the home of Duran, and subsequently met with the Cuban Ambassador in Mexico City at a restaurant called Caballo Bayo, accompanied by Sylvia Duran. Dr. Fernandez said he understood from Diaz Verson that Duran, the Cuban Ambassador to Mexico, whose name Fernandez did not know, and Oswald, reportedly went for a ride together in a car. Dr. Fernandez said that the federal police in Mexico City reportedly had turned over the information concerning these incidents involving Oswald; to the United States Embassy in Mexico City. (Ibid.)

Salvador Diaz Verson had been Prio's Chief of Military Intelligence Service during the Cuban presidency of Prio from 1948 through 1952. Diaz and Prio together had worked for the Defense Industrial Security Command since coming to the U.S. after Castro embraced Communism. (XXVI, 411)
The anti-Castro Cuban part of the plan was to tie the Castro regime into the murder of Kennedy and thus to have the U. S. military give all service to the overthrow of Castro. [Editor’s Note:  See Operation Northwoods, Operation Mongoose.]

Another connection of Carlos Prio Socarras and the assassination unit was uncovered by the Warren Commission. This evidence concerned Dr. Cesar Fernandez, Prio's Minister of Information during his presidency of Cuba. Prio and Fernandez in addition had been close lifetime friends and Prio obtained Fernandez employment with the Defense Industrial Security Command. The following was confirmed by the daughter of the witness in all respects, she having been shown the documents of Mrs. Hoover in October, 1963. Here is the story of Prio's friend, Fernandez.

On November 27, 1963, Corporal Theodore La Zar, Pennsylvania State Police, Hollidaysburg, Pa., advised that at approximately 10:00 pm on November 27, 1963, Robert Steele, 316 Brayton Avenue, Altoona, Pa., stopped at the Pennsylvania State Police Barracks and advised that he was the brother of Margaret Kathryn Hoover, 105 S. Walnut St., Martinsburg, Pa., and had the following information to offer concerning the assassination of President Kennedy which he had received from her. (XXVI, 652).

During the third week in October, 1963, Mrs. Hoover who lives in a second-story apartment, 105 S. Walnut St., Martinsburg, Pa., located three items in the dry leaves immediately below her upstairs porch. This porch and Mrs. Hoover's residence are located at the rear of a lot containing two homes. The home at the rear is occupied by Mrs. Hoover and the home in the front of the lot, which was formerly occupied by Mrs. Hoover, is known as 400 E. Allegheny St., Martinsburg, Pa., and for the past two months has been occupied by Dr. Julio Fernandez, a Cuban refugee, who is presently teaching at the Morrison Cove Junior High School, Martinsburg. (Ibid.)

These items consisted of an envelope used for tickets from the Seaboard Airline Railroad Company, Miami, Fla.; a used ticket which was enclosed therein indicating the holder had a coach reservation on the railroad, seat number 48, car number 3E, on a train leaving Miami, Fla., at 12:40 pm on September 25, 1963, and arriving in Washington, D.C., the following date. This ticket bore the number, D-214332. Also in the leaves was a throw-away advertisement, commonly used in advertising trailers, which was found by Mrs. Hoover. Pencilled on the back of this throw-away, which contained no handwriting, were the following notations: 

The upper left hand corner contained the name of a club, unrecalled by Mrs. Hoover, and a six-digit number thereunder which contained either an address or a telephone number. (Ibid.)

In the top middle of the page was the name, Lee Oswald. (Ibid.)

On the right top of the page was the word, “Rubenstein.” (Ibid.) 

In the middle of the page were the words "Jack Ruby." (Ibid.). 

On the bottom of the page, toward the center, were the words, Dallas, Texas. (Ibid.).