Two documents for your review, the first a report on the various CIA business contacts with Clay Shaw. The second FBI document while not supporting the evolving stories attached to the Clay Bertrand pseudonym, does offer that two unnamed and likely unreported FBI informants claimed Clay Bertrand was Clay Shaw.#JFK #Evidence
A document verifying the Central Intelligence Agency utilized George de Mohrenschildt's second wife and brother. Officials note in the document that the de Mohrenschildts claim to be the only couple who associated with both the Oswalds and the Kennedys. #JFK #Evidence
Four newly documented CIA projects for your review. Projects Butane, Cellotex-1, and Cellotex-2, each of these projects targeted members of the media for revealing classified information. Additionally, the CIA's Office of Security targeted dissident groups considered a threat to Agency employees and operations codenamed Project Merrimac. Each in the Agency's own words are "probable violations of the Agency's charter." #JFK #CIA
Hearty alpine thistles were in bloom in the rural lanes outside Geneva, Switzerland in the summer of 1962. Just beyond this scenic atmosphere "KGB officer Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko contacted the CIA...Over the course of five meetings he provided sufficient information to enable the two officers from CIA's Soviet Russia Division...to establish that he was a bona fide source. The major information furnished by him at that time was the identification of a US code technician who had been recruited by the KGB, and the identification of the location of KGB microphones in the US Embassy in Moscow, 52 of which were later found." Nosenko's eventual defection and the drastic shift in his treatment would lead to years of solitary imprisonment...
Read MoreThree new pseudonyms for your review, the first Bronson Tweedy the first CIA Africa division leader questioned about discussing the possible assassination of Congolese leader Patrice LaMumba. The second is the false name of a former DGI (Cuban Intelligence) Chief of Uraguay, and the final name is a Chinese ally of the anti-Communist Cuban group the Unidad Revolucionaria. #JFK #CIA #DGI
Three documents that support the feasible existence of recorded material directly related to the CIA and Mafia Castro plotting. This evidence likely was destroyed to protect official interests. #CIA #JFK #Castro
Three new CIA Security Files are offered for your inspection. The file of Richard Snyder, American consul and CIA operative, he spoke with Lee Harvey Oswald at the American Embassy during his Russian defection. Additionally, the files of two men among the handful with direct knowledge of the CIA Castro plots Edward Morgan and James O'Connell. All these documents have been added to the Consolidated CIA Files. #CIA #JFK
A collection of CIA Fitness Reports with most regarding the years 1963-1964, each reveals some personal information and employee assignments. Among those featured are David Atlee Phillips, George Joannides, E. Howard Hunt, Anne Goodpasture, Boris Tarasoff, and Thomas Keenan. Agency Fitness Reports have been absorbed with hundreds of similar documents into the Consolidated CIA Files section and you can now access them within its resources.
Inspecting the CIA's 201 Records System and internal policies for navigating official intelligence files. #CIA #Evidence
In the Central Intelligence Agency files regarding Cuba under the Batista regime, Fidel Castro "manages to get himself involved in many things that do not concern him." "Beginning in 1948, the activities of Fidel Castro came to be of increasing concern to the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States Government (USG)." Despite the allegations of some officials, no direct link to Communism was established in Castro's history until after hostilities with the United States. "In fact, Agency support for the peaceful transfer of power from Batista to a democratically elected successor and amnesty for Castro and his followers...was proposed in a memorandum from the Inspector General in November 1957...
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Three new documents, the first is an internal paper on the dangers and benefits of counterintelligence by CIA officer Woodbury Carter. The second is a policy document regarding Covert Security Approvals, such as those used in Agency Project QKENCHANT. The third is the Cuban Mug Book and Key Book Volume One, it contains hundreds of pictures and identities of Cuban nationals observed by the Agency for possible operational and security reasons. Each is offered for your inspection.
A collection of CIA Personal History Statements, the files offer extensive information on each subject's private biography in their own words. Among the notable subjects included are CIA Officer David Sanchez Morales, CIA asset Lucien Conein, CIA Dallas group chief James Walton Moore, DRE case officer Ross Crozier, and Mexico City station employees Charlotte Bustos Videla, and Anna and Boris Tarasoff for your review. Agency PHS documents have been absorbed into the Consolidated CIA Files section and you can access them within its resources.
The term Executive Action refers to words in formerly suppressed documents that promote the assassination of enemy leaders. Political assassination by no means is a modern development or a singularly American crime. Many officials had no reason to suspect that formerly private documents would become public knowledge. Despite the clandestine operations, suppression of facts, and verifiable destruction of documents, a substantial body of evidence remains...
Read MoreTwo CIA employee aliases offered for your inspection. CIA Special Affairs Staff employee Daniel Flores and Operations Officer Harold Francis Swenson. #CIA #Alias
Three additional CIA Security Files have been added that include anti-Castro exile leader Orlando Bosch Avila, CIA officer William King Harvey, and CIA employee Sylvia Hyde Hoke. Each offered for your inspection. Collected Security Files have been absorbed with several other documents into the Consolidated CIA Files section and you can access them within its resources.
