"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - enshrined on the lobby floor of the entrance to CIA headquarters. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. He was not questioned by the Warren Commission. Mr. CORNWELL - In the conversations which you have described occurring within a period of one, two or three months after the assassination with other CIA employees and officers, did they suggest in those conversations to you that their employment, the CIA's employment, of Oswald had any relation to the assassination or only that it related to the, events you have already described -- namely, the training of him in Atsugi in the Russian language and the sending of him to Russia and using of him as a double agent and that sort of thing? One of the aforementioned employees (whose name I cannot recall) stated that when she went to work for Bill Shelly at the school book depository in the early 1970s she was interviewed for the job by some type of government agents who asked if she had been recruited by the F.B.I. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And for purposes of clarification, now, if Oswald was already dead at the time that you went to this book, why did you go back to examine the book? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mr. PREYER - I would like before we begin to read a written statement concerning the subject of the investigation. Mr. WILCOTT - My wife and I came to believe that what CIA was doing couldn't be reconciled to basic principles of democracy or basic principles of humanism. 49, No. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. SAWYER - When you refer to Oswald as an agent, you are referring to the extent you have -- as an agent as opposed to a paid informer, in effect? Mr. WILCOTT - No. There was a lot of excitement going on at the station after the Kennedy assassination. Mr. PREYER - I understand this might be a good place for us to break and go and vote, so that we will take another recess for about ten minutes. Mr. WILCOTT - Not publicly. I was scared until the Carter Administration. Mr. WILCOTT - Jerry Fox was a Case Officer for his branch the Soviet Russia Branch, XXXXXXXXXX Station, who purchased information from the Soviets. A fellow researcher named Eric Lee Jordan visited the site and took pictures of it. Mr. GOLDSMITH - How many people have you spoken to that said that Oswald was an agent of the CIA, to the best of your recollection? Jack Cason, the TSBD president, was a stocky, robust man before the assassination. Mr. WILCOTT - That is correct, sir. And do you know for a fact that he was given Russian courses? Mr. WILCOTT - That is correct. It has every one that I can remember. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Write to Editor@jfkfacts.org. In the mid-1970s, the band employed a ten-piece orchestra to back them up. I did not pay attention to this at the time. Mr. PREYER - Under our committee rules, Mr. Wilcott, a witness is entitled, at the conclusion of the questioning, to make a five-minute statement if he wishes or to give a fuller explanation of any of his answers; so that at this time we make that five minutes available to you if you care to elaborate or say anything further. My testimony included numerous meetings with a man named Bill Shelly (I am no longer certain of the correct spelling of his last name.) Joe died on August 29, 2001 at the age of 55. Mr. SAWYER - Are there any others that you can specifially identify as coming from the CIA or FBI? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. I will be back in about 10 minutes. And perhaps even having people inside the TSBD as assets. Conditions at home and at work put a severe strain on Joes parents. With perhaps two CIA agents on the same premises, a careful scrutiny of the company they worked for is needed to understand what happened the day President Kennedy was killed. Mr. SAWYER - Was he in Utica? Two men, who identified themselves (with I.D.) Mr. WILCOTT - It was right at my window, my disbursing cage window. John F. Kennedy Subcommittee However, while visiting the vacant building in 1983, Hurt saw seven large wooden boxes on the sixth floor, left behind by the TSBD when it moved to a new location in 1970. 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 - Very generally now, what were your responsibilities as a finance employee with the agency? Mr. WILCOTT - Or perhaps January. Mr. WILCOTT - Very much. Shelleys claim that he was an intelligence officer would make sense if, as an ROTC lieutenant, he received intelligence training and perhaps even given some assignments in counterespionage. Mr. WILCOTT - I may have, sir, and I can't remember. 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 - No, sir; I think I had good performance reviews right up to the time that I left. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Did you contact any CIA officer or employee with respect to the secrecy oath and discuss with them whether or not you should be permitted to discuss these matters outside of the Agency? According to former CIA finance officer James B. Wilcott's testimony before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), Lee Harvey Oswald "was a regular employee, receiving a full-time salary for agent work, for doing CIA operational work." 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. [17] Joe Bergin, Sr. became a Texas Ranger in 1934, while serving concurrently as a school superintendent in Greenville, Texas. However, please contact me before mentioning my name to anyone. Please try your request again later. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, I was on day duty for the station. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, it was my understanding that Lee Harvey Oswald was an employee of the agency and was an agent, of the agency. Yet their new location was seven miles south of the intersection of Royal Lane and Interstate 35 at 8301 Ambassador Row. Mr. WILCOTT - With any degree of certainty, other than just speculation, I would say, six or seven with some degree of certainty. Shelleys second claim was that he joined the CIA. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Mr. Wilcott, assuming that Oswald had been employed as an agent by the CIA, would there have been a reference to that fact in the CIA's cash disbursement file? [23] William Weston, Robert MacNeil and the Three Calm Men, in the November 1994 issue of The Fourth Decade. The incident occurred in about 1969. 1964, of course, the Vietnam war was going on and Lyndon Johnson was now president. XXXXXXXXXXXXX. Mr. WILCOTT - They were maintained on a thirty-day basis, and then they were closed off at the end of the month. Mr. GOLDSMITH - How do you spell XXXXXXXXXX last name? Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, you first came across this, information in November of 1963, is that correct? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you bring that list with you today? He was not questioned by the Warren Commission. Mae Brussell showed copies of this document to the editors of Globe. [20] Before going up the stairs, Truly paused to tell Shelley to guard the stairs and elevators to make sure no one uses them.[21]. ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, is your testimony then that even though. He was an accomplished journalist and author and had worked as a radio engineer in his early career. After leaving high school he might have continued as an intelligence operative working undercover in local defense plants (plural) during the last months of the war. I think we ought to state that the record shows that Mr. Sawyer is a member of the Kennedy Subcommitte Preyer. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Why not? He was the mayor at that time. She planned to wear it that Friday evening at a social gathering. Mr. WILCOTT - That is correct. There was talk about it going on at the station, and several months following at the station. Mr. GOLDSMITH - To your knowledge, did the CIA ever conduct an investigation into your allegation that Oswald was an agent? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. During a phone conversation, he told me that he had a letter that mentioned Shelley joining the CIA. Had the seemingly insignificant trail of bread crumbs I stumbled across had not been so he avidly guarded, I might never have given it a second thought. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. [27] Gerald McKnight, Breach of Trust p. 115. There is a vast literature on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, . Mr. WILCOTT - Particularly George Breen and XXXXXXXXX to a lesser extent. Having a double life would not have made Shelley unique among the people who worked at the book depository. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you ever bring your allegation to the attention of anyone in the CIA? Their whereabouts are completely unknown. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, with the Agency, yes, sir. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And were you dismissed by the agency or did you resign? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. WILCOTT - It is a little bit east of Oakland, California. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I am not sure that that is responsive. Mr. CORNWELL - And would that -- at least in part --. Mr. WILCOTT - -- to the Miami Station. 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." would that interview have contained your resume of the Oswald agency matter, your statements about that matter? Mr. DODD - When did you leave to go back? It was a guard-type function at the station, which I worked for overtime. [26], Pierce Allman, a local newsman, later said that after he approached the TSBD, a man he recalled as Oswald near the front of the building, directed him to a phone inside.[27]. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you check your cash disbursement files? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I was on security duty, and on security duty, agents were coming in and out of the station, and I pulled a lot of security duty, three and four nights right in a row, and pulled as much as 24 hours on weekends, and an agent would come back from meeting with somebody and he would be waiting for his wife to pick him up or would be waiting for a call from one of the indigenous agents that he was running and a lot of times conversations would be talked. The incident involving two government agents asking new employees strange questions also occurred at this location. We publish here the Wilcott affidavit and interrogation by the HSCA, declassified by the Assassination Records Review Board. Mr. DODD - And it is your clear recollection that he was described as an agent? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I am. I am sorry. We will. Mr. GOLDSMITH - However, your testimony is that you spoke to only six people as an estimate who indicated that Oswald was a CIA agent -- and when I say six people, I mean six CIA people, is that correct? Mr. WILCOTT - I am sorry? Mr. DODD - When you were told all of this? Mr. CORNWELL - Do you recall whether or not you used that in the process of looking through the 30-day book you described? I went immediately into the clear space on the ground floor and asked where there was a phone. They appear to be members of the security staff described by Joe Bergin, Jr. Glazes letters add a further detail that they were members of the FBI. The November 14, 1961 date came from Leon, Sexton branch manager in Dallas from 1961 to 1964. 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. WILCOTT - Not the files, no. I apologize. 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 - That is correct, sir. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mary Lea Williams, a receptionist for Allyn & Bacon, said the move occurred two or three years before the assassination. During this same time, I also met and spoke with relevant employees who later worked for Lee Harvey Oswalds supervisor after the assassination of President Kennedy. Mr. SCHAAP - Mr. Chairman, I would like to interpose, I guess, an objection, although I would like to make it more in the nature of a request, that I have some problems in terms of advising my client with respect to possibly self incrimination, that I would not advise him to go into questions of his specific knowledge of the oath and the application to what he did other than the fact that he has told you, which is a fact, that he did sign the oath; but to, go into his mental processes as to whether he felt what he was then doing related to the oath in a particular way, I would request that those questions not be asked on the grounds that they may violate either his First Amendment rights or his Fifth Amendment rights, if that would be all right. It was only my personal Joe Molina, credit manager for the book depository since 1947, worked with FBI informer William Lowery in infiltrating leftist organizations. Mr. GOLDSMITH - How many months after the assassination was this? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you have anything to add in response to that question? Mr. CORNWELL - But your testimony or your statements on the subject hadn't been made a matter of publicity on any other occasion? Mr. CORNWELL - Did they request that you leave? His duties routinely brought him in contact with all station people, and in particular with operational agents. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So basically, you checked only one of the advance books, is that correct? From April of 1965 to April of 1966, I was at Miami Station in finance, and I was handling the staff payroll. A puzzling aspect of Glazes 1989 letter was his reference to the book depository having moved to a location near the intersection of Royal Lane and Interstate 35. In addition, all of my interview notes and tapes inexplicably disappeared. Standing next to him was a man wearing a brown suitcoat. Prior to this time, the building was occupied by a wholesale grocery company engaged in supplying restaurants and institutions.[4] The wholesale grocery company was the John Sexton Company. One of said employees, her husband, and child, disappeared without a trace a few hours after granting me an interview. 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. If it is true that Shelley was affiliated in some way with CIA or U.S. intelligence, that would be a disturbing and potentially significant development.[10]. I found it very, very difficult to talk about these things that I think ought to be talked about, very difficult. 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