USMC Post Assassination Investigation

During its investigation the HSCA learned from the wife of a former officer that a special investigations team was sent to San Diego and Japan. 

According to Larry Huff, the navigation officer with a Top Secret clearance who flew on the same plane, they wrote a report on Oswald’s activities when he was there. The USMC investigators reportedly concluded that Oswald was incapable of committing the assassination alone. 

But that report has never been acknowledged let alone released, even though the officials were supplied with the plane’s tail numbers, flight data and the names of the pilot and others aboard. The Assassination Records Review Board’s Final Report merely notes that, “the Marine Corps did not locate evidence of any internal investigations of Lee Harvey Oswald, other than correspondence already published in the Warren Report.”

When one of the officers who Huff said was also on the plane was interview by the HSCA, he requested to check with the military first, and after doing so, the HSCA permitted the military to ask him questions after they had done so.

After everyone confirmed everything Huff had to say, including the commanding officer of the Hawaii base where the plane was stationed, the officer Huff mentioned said glowing things about Huff and recommended him highly, but when the military officer questioned him about Huff's psych, after a few coughs and promptings, obviously prearranged, the officer said he questioned Huff's mental stability.

In any case, besides the ONI Naval Criminal Investigation Service investigation of Oswald after his defection, which we know about from Fred Reeves (ARRB), for which there are no records, there seems to have been a USMC investigation of Oswald after the assassination, for which there are no records.

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                    POSSIBLE MILITARY INVESTIGATION OF

                            THE ASSASSINATION

                               Staff Report

                                  of the

                     Select Committee on Assassinations

                        U.S. House of Representatives

                           Ninety-fifth Congress

                              Second Session

                                March 1979

                                  (539)

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                                 CONTENTS

                                                            Paragraph

     Huff allegation  ..........................................(1)

     The committee's investigation ............................ (2)

     Huff interview and deposition ............................(11)             

     Moffitt interview.........................................(22)             

     Roberts interview.........................................(27) 

     Morgan Interview..........................................(31) 

     Contacts with CID officers................................(33) 

     Morgan letter.............................................(41) 

                                  (540)

                  POSSIBLE MILITARY INVESTIGATION OF THE

                               ASSASSINATION

                               HUFF ALLEGATION

     (1)  In March 1977, the committee received information that the military  

had conducted an investigation of Oswald after the assassination. The     

information came in a letter from Gloria Deane Huff of Pinehurst, Idaho, who

wrote that her present husband, Larry Huff, had participated in one of the

investigative teams while in the military. (1) Mrs. Huff indicated that she

wanted to bring this information to the attention of the committee because,

despite all the published reports about the  assassination and subsequent

Government investigations, she had never seen any information about the

investigation in which her husband participated. (2)

                         THE COMMITTEE'S INVESTIGATION

     (2)  Pursuant to the information received from Mrs. Huff, the committee   

undertook to verify the alleged investigation and any reports that may have

resulted. The committee requested pertinent files of the appropriate agencies*

and interviewed persons who would have had direct knowledge of such an

investigation.

     (3)  The committee contacted Larry Huff at his home in Pineburst, Idaho,  

by telephone on March 21, 1977. (3) At that time, he confirmed the substance of

the letter his wife had sent the committee. He additionally identified the

commanding officer, Lt. Gen. Carson A. Roberts, who, according to Huff, would

have been in charge of the investigative team at Camp Smith, Hawaii, which was

purportedly the base from which one investigative team originated. (4) Huff said

during the telephone interview that Lieutenant General Roberts served as

commander in chief of the fleet of the 1st Marine Brigade, Pacific Marine

Force.(5) According to Huff, the teams were dispatched to Japan and Dallas and

the report of the investigation was classified "Secret--For Marine Corps Eyes

Only."(6)

     (4) On March 23, 1977, the committee wrote Lt. Col. Carl Miller of the    

Marine Corps Liaison Office and requested all Marine Corps documents concerning

the assassination of President Kennedy; (7) the request was phrased broadly to

include any materials of such an investigation which might not be easily

identifiable. On June 6, 1977, the committee wrote Gen. Louis Wilson, Commandant

of the Marine Corps, and made a similar request.(8)

     (5) The committee then sought to contact the individuals who were

     responsible for compiling records of Oswald's military background. It

     -------------------------------

       * Included among the agencies contacted were the Department of Defense   

and the U.S. Marine Corps, both headquarters and various bases.

    

                                  (541)

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     was believed that evidence or reports of such an investigation after the  

assassination would have appeared in Oswald's file. The committee contacted Lt.

Col. Bill Brewer of the Intelligence Division of Marine Corps Headqurters on

August 1, 1977. (9) Brewer had been in charge of  compiling the Oswald military

file for the use of the Warren Commission. (10) Brewer stated that the Warren

Commission had been interested primarily in records concerning Oswald's security

classification in the military and that his records check had only included

local records within the individual commands where Oswald had served and did not

include records that were classified secret or top secret. (11) He said his

office had no investigative jurisdiction.

     (6)  The committee has contacted Roy Elmquist of the Office of Naval

Intelligence on August 1, 1977. Elmquist stated that the only investigative

request to the Office of Naval Intelligence from the Marine Corps that had any

bearing on Oswald or the assassination concerned the death of Martin Schrand,

who had served at Cubi Point Naval Air Station in the Philippines at the same

time Oswald had in 1958 and who had died from a gunshot wound while on guard

duty. (13) Elmquist stated further that any other investigation pertinent to the

assassination would have been conducted by the FBI(14).

     (7)  On August 2, 1977, the committee wrote Capt. Donald Nielsen, the     

Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs of the Department of

Defense, and requested all material concerning Lee Harvey Oswald and the

investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy in the possession of the

Naval Investigative Service. (15)

     (8)  On February 15, 1978, in a phone conversation with committee staff,  

Huff further identified the airplanes that he said were used in the  

investigation by the military. He stated at that time that one plane flew from

El Toro or Camp Pendleton in California to Dallas in December ]963. (16) He said

the plane was a KC-130. The second plane had flown from Camp Smith, Hawaii, to

Atsugi Naval Air Station in Japan between December 7 and 22, 1963. (17) It was a

C-54 plane with serial No. 50855.

     (18) Huff identified the commander of the plane as Chief Warrant Officer  

Morgan. (19)

     (9)  On March 9, 1978, the committee requested the following documents    

from the Department of Defense:

         1. Any and all records (including logs and crew lists) pertaining to  

or concerning the flight of a C-54 military plane, serial No. 50855, which

departed Camp Smith, Hawaii on December 7, 1963 for Japan and returned on

December 22, 1963.

         2. Any and all records (including logs and crew lists) pertaining

            to or concerning the flight of a KC-130 military plane which        

departed El Toro or Camp Pendleton base in California the first weekend in

December 1963 for Dallas, Tex.

         3. Any and all records, including classified material, concerning or  

referring to an investigation by the Marine Corps or the Air Force        

Office of Special Investigations into the J.F.K. assassination. It is believed

the investigation took place at Atsugi Air Base, Japan, and the El Toro Marine

Base, Santa Ana, Calif., in December 1963. (20)

     The committee also included in that request that Lt. Gen. Carson Roberts  

and Chief Warrant Officer Morgan be made available for

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     interview, or if either man is no longer a member of the military, that   

the committee be provided with the last known address for each. (21)

     (10)  On April 19, 1978, the Department of Defense responded that the Air 

Force had no records on Roberts or Morgan and that it had no flight records

concerning either military plane identified in the committee's request. (22)

Regarding the records of the alleged military investigation, the Department of

Defense responded that it had no record that the Air Force Office of Special

Investigations had conducted an investigation into the assassination of

President Kennedy in Japan or California in 1963. (23) The Department explained

that it believed the alleged investigation was being confused with an

investigation that was conducted on Oswald's half-brother, John Edward Pic. (24)

According to the Department, the Pic investigation records were destroyed

because no "derogatory information" (which presumably means information which

would have been relevant to the assassination investigation) was developed;    

portions of that file relating to Oswald, however, were still on file and 

available for review by the committee at the Pentagon. (25) In May 1978, the

Department of Defense provided the committee with the present addresses of

Lieutenant General Roberts(26) and Chief Warrant Officer Morgan,(27) who had

both retired from the military.

    

                         HUFF INTERVIEW AND DEPOSITION

     (11)  Larry Huff was interviewed and deposed by the committee on May 8    

and 9, 1978, to get further details of the investigation Huff related to the

committee. During the deposition in U.S. district court for the Eastern district

of Washington at Spokane, Wash., on May 9, 1978, Huff stated under oath that on

December 14, 1963, he departed Kaneohe Base in Hawaii in a C-54-T aircraft,

serial number 50855, for Wake Island, with Chief Warrant Officer Morgan as

pilot. (28) He stated that the plane continued from Wake Island to Tachikawa.,

Japan.(29) Huff stated that there were 10 to 12 CID military investigators on

that flight. (3G) They disembarked at Tachikawa, Japan, which Huff identified as

the closest landing base to the base at Atsugi. (31)                   

     (12)  Huff stated that he would have received written orders for the 

     flight the day before from Major Rice, who was the commanding officer at  

Kaneohe Bay. (32) Huff said that the orders from Rice normally originated from

the command of the Fleet Marine Corps of the Pacific at Camp Smith, over which

Lieutenant Genera] Roberts was commanding officer. (33) In the case of this

flight, Huff did not know for sure where the orders originated, but that they

could also have come from Marine Corps  headquarters. (34).

     (13)  Huff explained that he had served as a navigator at Camp Smith and  

that his normal responsibilities included transporting military crews. (35) He

had received no debriefing or special instructions for this flight; he said he

learned the purpose of the trip by the CID investigators through conversations

on the plane during the flight. Huff said that no other intelligence personnel

were present on the flight.

     (14)  During the deposition, Huff used a log he maintained during his      

career in the military for the exact dates of the flights and other

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     data about the plane. He made those logs available to the committee.

     The log entry for December 14, 1963 states that a C-54 with serial

No. 50855 flew from Kaneohe Bay to Wake Island with Warrant Officer Morgan as

pilot; the flying time was 11.1 hours.(38) On December 15, the same plane

continued from Wake Island to Guam; it flew from Guam to Okinawa on December 16

and then to Tachikawa by way of Hong Kong on December 20, 1963. (39)

     (15)  Huff stated in the deposition that he returned to Kaneohe Bay after

leaving the investigators in Japa.n to investigate Oswald's activities at

Atsugi. (40) He also said that he believed he returned to Japan to pick the CID

team up later in December 1963. (41) According to Huff's logbook and his

testimony, he made two trips from Tachikawa during that period, one on December

22, 1963 (which presumably would have been the flight when Huff returned to

Hawaii after leaving the investigative team) and another on January 1964, from

Kaneohe Bay to Iwakuni and Atsugi in Japan; he returned from the latter trip on

February 5, 1964. (42) The trips in January had Captain Kruse as pilot of the

plane, which was identified as a VC 54-P, serial number 90392. (43)

     (16)  Huff stated in the deposition that the return flight from Japan

to Kaneohe Bay included the same team of CID investigators he had flown

earlier.(44) On the return flight, he had spoken with the investigators about

their work in Japan and was told they had spent the entire stay investigating

Oswald. (45) Huff said that during that flight he was allowed to read the report

prepared by the investigators.(46) He described the report as being typewritten,

about 20 pages,(47) and classified "Secret, for Marine Corps Eyes Only." (48)

Huff recollected that the substance of the report dealt with interviews of

individuals and that it contained psychological evaluation of Oswald.(49) Huff

remembered the conclusion being that Oswald was incapable of committing the

assassination alone.(50) Huff said he read the report for about 30 minutes. (51)

     (17)  Huff was asked during the deposition what circumstances existed that

would have allowed him to see such a report.(52) He replied that it was not

unusual for him to have had access to it; he had been granted a secret clearance

by the military on March 5, 1956, which would have allowed him access to

classified materials.(53)

     Huff stated that he has never seen the report again nor heard any reference

to it. (54) He surmised that the report would be kept intelligence files either

at the Intelligence Division of Camp Smith or with the Commandant of the Marine

Corps in Washington, D.C.(55)

     (18)  Huff stated during the deposition that he did not recall the

names of any oF the CID team and that he had never flown with them before. (56)

Besides the captains of the two flights, Huff could not recall exactly who the

other members of the crew were. Nevertheless, he stated that he usually flew

with a radio operator named Ralph K. Fall and another navigator named Roy

Gibson. (57)

     (19)  Huff also stated that soon after the assassination in November

1963, he had received word of another investigative team which was to travel to

Dallas to investigate the assassination. Huff said in the deposition that he was

at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Cali-

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     fornia on November 23, 1963. (58) His logbook entry for that period  

indicates that Huff flew from Kaneohe Bay to El Toro on November 16 and 17 and

that he left El Toro and returned to Kaneohe Bay on November 23. (59) Huff said

that while at El Toro, he had had a conversation with George Moffitt, a friend

who was also a senior navigator at El Toro.(60) According to Huff, Mofitt told

Huff that he, Moffitt, had received orders to prepare a navigation team to

assist a flight going to Dallas to conduct an investigation. (61)

     (20)  Huff said he left El Toro soon after hearing this from Mofitt and   

never heard any results or the outcome of that flight. He did not know if 

Moffitt actually went along on the flight.(62) He identified Moffitt as a 

master gunnery sergeant at El Toro. (63)

     (21)  When the committee interviewed Huff at his home on May 8, 1978, in  

preparation for the deposition the next day, Huff give them a list of     

addresses and phone numbers of military friends he had served with. (64) Huff

explained that the list had been mailed to him earlier that year in  

preparation for a reunion being planned. (65) The list contained a cover  

letter outlining plans for the reamion.(66) George Moffitt's address and phone

number were included on that list. (67) In an attempt to provide the names of

other personnel from Kaneohe Bay and Camp Smith, Huff stated additionally that

Tom Allen was the chief mechanic at Camp Smith and that Allen might be able to

remember details about the use of military planes at Camp Smith. (68) The list

also contained an address and telephone number for Tom Allen. (69) The Committee

attempted to locate Allen at that address but could not do so.

                              MOFFIT INTERVIEW

     (22)  The committee did contact George Moffitt in California and arranged

time for in interview. When contacted by the committee, Mofitt stated      that

he wanted to clear the interview with the interview with the military and have

the assistance of military counsel.  (70) The interview took place on June 15,

1978, in the Office of Legal Counsel at El Toro Marine Base.  During that

interview, Moffitt stated that he worked as a navigator at El Toro with the rank

of master gunnery sergeant. (71)

     When asked about his activities in November and December 1963. Moffitt    

stated that he did not believe he had participated in a flight to    

Dallas.(72)  Moffitt stated he is certain that he never told Huff that he 

participated in either the planning or execution of a trip to Dallas in

connection with an assassination investigation.(73) Moffitt said     

additionally that he had no information or knowledge of anyone participating in

such a military investigation following the assassination. (74)

     (23) Moffitt said he knew Larry Huff and that they were tog›her at the     

time of the assassination. (75) Mott said he knew the names of Chief Warrant

Officer Morgan, Major Rice, Tom Allen, Ralph Fall, and Captain Kruse, but that

he could not recall where he knew each of those men. (76) He recalled that Lt.

Gen. Carson Roberts was the commanding officer of the Fleet Marine Force

operating out of Camp Smith. (77) He said that at least one C-54 plane was

detailed to Roberts. (78)

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     (24) Moffitt said that it would not be unusual for him to transport CID   

personnel; (79) he had received a top secret clearance in 1961. (80) He said he

did not know for sure if he traveled to or from Dallas in November 1963 but that

master logs maintained by the military would indicate the record of such flights

(81) In addition, Moffitt provided the committee with  his personal log book

which he also maintained during his military career. (82) The only entry by

Moffit for November 1963 indicates a total flight time of 17.5 hours and a

notation of "KO-130 F", presumably referring to a type of plane. (83) The log

book spans the period from August 1957 through 1964; however, the period

December 1962 through December 1963 only carries notations for the types of

plane, with no information regarding origins of flights or destinations such as

are made for all of the other months in the book. (84)

     (26)  Moffitt was asked by the committee during the interview if he

knew of any reason why Huff would give the information to the committee

regarding an alleged military investigation of the assassination contrary to the

information being given by Moffitt. Moffitt responded that he knew of no such

reason and that he had no reason to question Huff's credibility. (85) Moffitt

explained that he and Huff were good friends and that their relationship had

included house sitting for each other when one was sent overseas.(86) During the

interview the Marine Corps attorney who was present repeated the question of

whether Moffitt knew of any reason to doubt Huff's credibility and Moffit

repeated that he did not. (87) The Marine Corps attorney then repeated the

question a second time; that time Moffitt replied that he believed Huff had a

mental problem in the past and perhaps that was a reason to question Huff's

credibility. (88) Moffitt did not elaborate or offer any details about Huff's

purported mental problem.

                              ROBERTS INTERVIEW

     (27)  Lt. Gen. Carson A. Roberts was interviewed by a committee staff

investigator on May 25, 1978, at his home in Whispering Pines, N.C. Roberts had

retired from military service on March 1, 1964.(89)

     (28)  During the interview, General Roberts stated that he was in command

of Camp Smith at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, at the time of the assassination in

November 1963. (90) He knew of no military flights nor investigations by

military or civilian personnel connected with the assassination of President

Kennedy.(91) General Roberts was asked specifically if he recalled any

information about a flight of CID investigators from Kaneohe Bay to Atsugi,

Japan, to probe intothe background and associations of Lee Harvey Oswald.(92)

General Roberts said that he had no such knowledge, did not issue the orders for

any such flight, and that if such a flight or investigation had come to his

attention, he would have remembered it. (98) However, he also stated  that it

would be possible for such orders to be issued from naval headquarters in

Washington, D.C., and that he might not necessarily have known about those

orders. (94)

     (29)  When asked about the planes which were, under his personal command, 

General Roberts consulted the log book he maintained dur-

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     ing his military service which he then kept at his home. After reviewing  

the log, he stated that a V-5-54-P model plane with serial No. 90392 was  

assigned to him at the time of the assassination. (95) General Roberts said the

log book indicated that he did not participate in any flights from June 1963 to

January 1964. (96) He stated that it would have been unusual for his plane to

have been used for any missions without his knowledge. He explained also that he

only maintained records of flights on which he personally flew.(97)

     (30)  General Roberts told the committee investigator that log books and  

any of official records concerning the plane would be sent to either Marine

Operations or to the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, D.C., when the plane

was no longer in use by the military.(98)

    

                             MORGAN  INTERVIEW

     (31)  Roger G. Morgan was interviewed by committee staff by telephone on  

November 7, 1978. He stated that he was a commanding officer of military  

transport flights at Kaneohe Bar in Hawaii at the time of the assassination.

(99) When asked if he had flown a team of CID investigators to Japan in December

1963 in connection with an investigation into the assassination of President

Kennedy, Morgan said that he would not normally have known who his passengers

were on the military transports, even if they had included a team of CID  

investigators.(100) Further, his flight orders would not necessarily have 

included that information.(101) Morgan also said that after so many years, he

could not remember such a flight or incident, but that he had no recollection of

having had anything to do with an assassination investigation. (102) Morgan was

asked if he would consult his personal flight logs to see if they shed any light

on any flights to Japan he might have participated in after the assassination.

(103) He then asked that the committee write him what specific information it

wanted from his log books and he would consult them for that.(104) The committee

sent a letter to Morgan on that same date requesting information about the     

dates, crews and destinations of military flights on which he participated from

Kaneohe Bay to Atsugi or Tachikawa, Japan, in December 1963.(105)

     (32) Morgan identified Lt. Gen. Carson Roberts as the Commander of the    

Pacific Fleet at Kaneohe Bay at the time of the assassination. (106) He   

stated that Maj. Don Rice was also an executive of Hcer at Kaneohe Bay at that

time. (107)

                         CONTACTS WITH CID OFFICERS

     (33)  Based on that information from Morgan, the committee requested on   

November 9, 1978, that the Defense Department make Major Rice available for

interview.(108) On June 26, 1978, the committee had already requested that Major

Rice be made available based on the information provided by Larry Huff;(109)

however, the Defense Department had not been able to locate material

identifiable with Major Rice because the committee could not at that time

provide Rice's first name.

     (34)  In a further effort to determine whether the military had in fact    

conducted an investigation of Oswald or the assassination which

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     might contain information not released previously, the committee     

requested that the Department of Defense identify the chief CID officers who

would have had knowledge of or involvement in such an investigation. On June 19,

1978, the committee requested in writing that the chief CID officers who were

stationed at El Toro Marine Base in California and Camp Smith in Hawaii in

November and December 1963 be made available for interview. (110) The committee

also requested that the chief CID officer for the Marine Corps for that period

also be made available to the committee.(111)

     (35)  Because Huff, Moffitt, Lieutenant General Roberts had all indicated 

their belief that information concerning flights master logs for military air

and crews of military aircraft would be located in files permanently at Marine

Corps headquarters, the committee requested in writing to the Defense Department

on June 26, 1978, that it be provided access to "any and all master logs,

concerning or referring to military aircraft stationed at Camp Smith, Hawaii and

El Toro Marine Base in November and December 1963." (112)

     (36)  In a letter dated July 26, 1978, the Department of Defense provided 

information concerning the number and type of military aircraft stationed at El

Toro and Kaneohe Bay in 1963. According to that letter, 15 model KC-I30F planes

were among the total aircraft stationed at El Toro from October through December

1963; those planes were further identified as Lockheed transport planes.(113)

Additionally, two model C-54P planes were stationed at Kaneohe Bay during the

same period. (114) Those planes are identified as Douglas Skymaster transport

planes. (115)

     (37)  In the July 26 letter, the Department of Defense stated that no     

master logs for military aircraft could be obtained through Marine Corps

headquarters, but that the committee could request that information through the

Washington National Record Center of the General Services Administration. (116)

     (38)  In a memorandum dated July 14, 1978, the Department of Defense 

responded to the committee's letter of March 19, 1978, requesting that CID

personnel be identified and made available for interview.(117)

     (39)  Based on the last known address provided by the Defense Department, 

the committee was unable to locate retired gunnery sergeant H.E. Aubrey, who was

identified as the chief CID investigator st Camp Smith in November-December

1963.

     (40)  On November 6, 1978, the committee interviewed by phone Harold 

Flower, who served as a CID officer at El Toro Marine Base at the time of the

assassination. Flower stated Howard Bearden was in command of the CID unit at

that time; Bearden was deceased. (118) Flower stated that to his knowledge, no

investigation of the assassinator of Oswald was conducted in his command. and he

had no knowledge of such an investigation. (119) Flower said that if the Office

of Naval Intelligence had conducted such an investigation out of El Toro, he

would have known about it. (120) Flower was also asked if it were possible that

such an investigation could have been conducted out of El Toro using civilian

investigation personnel who would not have necessarily been under the command of

his CID unit. Flower said that if the local FBI office had conducted an   

inquiry at El Toro, he would

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     have known about it, because he personally knew all of the Special Agents 

stationed at the local FBI field office in nearby Santa Ana, Calif.(121)  

Flower said that although he had heard that Oswald had been stationed at the

Marine Corps Air Facility at Santa Ana, he had no other knowledge of Oswald's

military background.(122) Flower stated additionally that the Air Facility at

Santa Ana bad its own CID unit, which would be the appropriate repository of

information about Oswald. (123)

    

                              MORGAN LETTER

     (41)  On December 8, 1978, the committee received a letter from former    

CWO Roger G. Morgan dated December 5, 1978. In the letter, Morgan said he had

consulted his personal log books of his military service as had been requested

by the committee. (124) Morgan stated in the letter:

    

            My personal log books do reflect the fact that I was the commander

of a flight from Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii to Tachikawa AFB in Japan and return on the

dates in question.

            The aircraft type was a C-54, assigned to Marine Aircraft "Group   

13, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. The aircraft bureau number was 50855. The names of

other crew members or passengers is not contained in these personal records, but

could be found in official records. (125)

     Submitted by:

                                             ROBERT BLAKEY,

                                   Chief Counsel and Staff Director.

                                             GARY CORNWELL,

                                                  Deputy Chief Counsel.

                                             SURELL BRADY,

                                                  Staff Counsel.

                              REFERENCES

       (1) Letter from Gloria Huff, Mar. 8, 1977 (JFK document No. 01354S).

       (2) Ibid.

       (3) Staff outside contact report, Larry Huff, Mar. 21, 1977, HSCA (JFK  

Document).

       (4) Ibid.

       (5) Ibid.

       (6) Ibid.

       (7) Letter to Lt. Col. Carl Miller, Mar. 23, 1977, HSCA (JFK document   

No. 013563).

       (8) Letter to Gen. Louis Wilson, June 6, 1977, HSCA (JFK document No.   

013562).

       (9) Staff outside contact report, Aug. 1, 1977, HSCA (JFK document No.

     015030).

       (10) Ibid.

       (11) Ibid.

       (12) Ibid.

       (13) Staff outside contact report, Aug. 1, 1977, HSCA (JFK document No. 

015029).

       (14) Ibid.

       (15) Letter to Capt. Donald Nielsen, Aug. 2, 1977, HSCA. (JFK document  

No. 013564).

       (16) Staff outside contact report, Larry Huff, Feb. 15, 1978, HSCA.

       (17) Ibid.

       (18) Ibid.

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       (19) Ibid.

       (20) See outside contact report, Nov. 9, 1978, for reference to letter  

to Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense, Mar. 9, 1978, HSCA (JFK document No.

015048).

       (21) Ibid.

       (22) Staff outside contact report, Apr. 19, 1978, HSCA (JFK document    

No. 007369).

       (23) Id. at pp. 6-7.

       (24) Id. at p. 7.

       (25) Ibid.

       (26) Staff outside contact report. May 1, 1978, HSCA (JFK document No.  

007656).

       (27) Staff outside contact report, May 5, 1978, HSCA (JFK document No.  

008120).

       (28) Deposition of Larry Cecil Huff, May 9, 1978, HSCA, p. 7 (JFK  

document No. 014615).

       (29) Ibid.

       (30) Id. at p. 9.

       (31) Id. at p. 7.

       (32) Id. at p. 8.

       (33) Ibid.

       (34) Id. at p. 9.

       (35) Ibid.

       (36) Id. at p. 10.

       (37) Id. at p. 15.

       (38) Aviator's flight log book of Larry Huff (JFK document No.

013552).                                                                         

       (39) Ibid.

       (40) See ref. 28, Huff deposition, p. 11

       (41) Ibid.

       (42) See ref. 38.

       (43) Ibid.

       (44) See ref. 28, Huff deposition, 12.

       (45) Ibid.

       (46) Ibid.

       (47) Ibid., p. 13.

       (48) Ibid.

       (49) Ibid.

       (50) Ibid.

       (51) Id. at p. 15.

       (52) Id. at pp. 13-14.

       (53) Id. at p. 14.

       (54) Id. at p. 15.

       (55) Ibid.

       (56) Id. at p. 9.

       (57) Id. at p. 10.

       (58) Id. at p. 16.

       (59) See ref. 38.

       (60) See ref. 28. Huff deposition, p. 16.

       (61) Ibid.

       (62) Id. at p. 17.

       (63) Id. at p. 16.

       (64) Letter from Roger E. Leblanc, June 15, 1977, with list attached    

(JFK document No. 013551).

       (65) Ibid.

       (66) Ibid.

       (67) Ibid.

       (68) Huff interview, May 8, 1978, HSCA, p. 2 (JFK document No.

008531).                                                                        

       (69) Ibid.

       (70) Staff outside contact report, June 14, 1978, HSCA (JFK document    

010037).

       (71) Staff interview of George Moffitt, June 15, 1978, HSCA, p. 1 (JFK

document. No. 10145).

       (72) Ibid.

       (73) Id. at p. 3.

       (74) Id. at p. 2.

       (75) Ibid.

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       (76) Id. at p. 3.

       (77) Id. at p. 1.

       (78) Id. at p. 2.

       (79) Ibid.

       (80) Id. at p. 3.

       (81) Id. at p. 2.

       (82) Aviators flight log book of George Moffitt (JFK document No.  

013554).

       (83) Ibid.

       (84) Ibid.

       (85) See ref. 71, Moffitt interview, p. 5.

       (86) Ibid.

       (87) Ibid.

       (88) Ibid.

       (89) Staff interview of Gen. Carson A. Roberts, May 25, 1978, HSCA, p.  

1. (JFK document No. 009408).

       (90) Ibid.

       (91) Ibid.

       (92) Id. at pp. 1-2.

       (93) Id. at p. 2.

       (94) Ibid.

       (95) Id. at p. 3.

       (96) Id. at p. 2.

       (97) Id. at p. 3.

       (98) Id. at p. 2.

       (99) Staff outside contact report, Nov. 7, 1978, HSCA, p. 1 (JFK   

document No. 013020).

       (100) Ibid.

       (101) Id. at pp. 1-2.

       (102) Id. at p. 1.

       (103) Ibid.

       (104) Ibid.

       (105) Staff letter to Roger G. Morgan, Nov. 7, 1978, HSCA (JFK document 

No. 013080).

       (106) Staff outside contact report, Nov. 7, 1978, HSCA, p. 2 (JFK  

document No. 013020).

       (107) Ibid.

       (108) Letter to Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense, Nov. 9, 1978, HSCA  

(JFK document No. 015048).

       (109) Letter to Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense, June 26, 1978, HSCA 

(JFK document No. 015048).

       (110) Letter to Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense, June 19, 1978, HSCA 

(JFK document No. 015048).

       (111) Letter to Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense, June 26, 1978, HSCA

     (JFK document No. 015048).

       (112) Ibid.

       (113) Fact sheet from Department of Defense, July 26, 1963, tab A (JFK

     classified document No. 103).

       (114) Ibid.

       (115) Ibid.

       (116) Ibid., enclosure 2, p. 10.

       (117) Memorandum to the House Select Committee on Assassinations from   

Judy Miller, Office of the Secretary of Defense, July 14, 1978 (JFK document No.

009986).

       (118) Staff outside contact report, Nov. 6, 1978, HSCA (JFK document No.

013005).

       (119) Ibid.

       (120) Ibid.

       (121) Id. at p. 2.

       (122) Ibid.

       (123) Ibid.

       (124) Letter from Roger G. Morgan to House Select Committee of     

Assassinations staff, Dec. 5, 1978 (JFK document No. 013576).

       (125) Ibid.