Pan Am Bank of Miami

 Pan Am Bank of Miami 

1) Robert Ray McCowan, who ran guns to Castro when he was in the mountains, testified that he was paid for the guns in cash wrapped in Pan Am Bank wrappers. He was later visited in Texas at his ranch by Castro, who wanted him to be part of his administration. Shortly there after Lee Harvey Oswald and another man visited him attempting to purchase rifles and then Jack Ruby visited him seeking assistance in getting a friend out of a Cuban prison. 

2) When Jack Ruby visited Cuba, he was supposed to bring a long entertainment writer Tony Zoppi, but Zoppi decided to cover the Rat Pack show in Vegas instead. So Ruby went to Havana himself, and visited his friend Louis McWillie, a pit boss at a casino owned by the Fox brothers. When he left Cuba, instead of flying to Dallas, Ruby flew to Miami, where he deposited a suitcase full of cash in the Fox brothers account at the Pan Am Bank. 

3) Antonio Veciana said that after he was recruited by David Atlee Phillips, Phillips took him to an office in the Pan Am Bank in Miami where he was given a lie detector test, signed a security agreement and was given basic lessons in psychological warfare and clandestine tradecraft. 

BK NOTES: There are other Three Time Hits I am working on and will add to this list ASAP - Julio Fernandez, Scripps Howard News Service, Joe Goulden, Catherwood Foundation, Pan Am Foundation, University of Miami, etc. 

Texas Employment Commission

 Texas Employment Commission 

1) When he returned to Texas from USSR Oswald was given two jobs by the Texas Employment Commission - the first to sheet medal company where Oswald was welcome to stay, but quit, and opened the PO box so they could send him his check. 

2) The second job was a Jaggers/Chiles/Stoval graphics arts firm where he worked for quite a long time, including doing work for a major client - the Army Map Service, placing arrows and captions on aerial and U2 photos. Oswald was doing this in October 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis and some of the poster sized photos of Soviet missiles in Cuba were shown to the President and used by Art Lindell in briefing the president, Charles deGaul and the American Ambassador to UK. 

3) When John Judge and I were at the DC National Airport on our way to Dallas, these posters of Cuba taken by U2s were on display, and we noticed that down in the right hand corner, where artists usually sign their work, there was a notation - Jaggers/Chiles/Stoval. 

4) One of the employees of the Texas Employment Commission who assisted in getting Oswald these jobs was Mrs. Virginia Hale, the wife of a top level FBI official who worked closely with J. E. Hoover. She was also the mother of twins, the Hale twins, who like their father, were football stars at Arlington Heights HS in Fort Worth, where Oswald also was enrolled. Oswald tried out for the team but was laughed off the field by the Hale twins, and a few months later Oswald enlisted in the USMC. 

5) While Oswald was in USSR, the Hale twins were seen by an FBI stakeout team breaking into the Las Vegas apartment of Judith Campbell (Exner), who was having simultanious affairs with both Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana and President Kennedy. Because the FBI stakeout team recognized the twins as the son of a top level FBI agent they did nothing. 

Defense Language Insitute

 Defense  Language Institute at Monteray, California 

1) At an early Warren Commission meeting Lee J. Rankin is quoted as saying, "We will have to find out what he (Oswald) was studying there (DLI)," though whatever document he was referring to is no longer among the WC documents, and there is no record of Oswald having attended that school. 

2) Oswald did study Russian and met for lunch with the sister of a fellow Marine who was also studying Russian, and they spoke Russian throughout their lunch. She may have attended the DLI, which also had a mobile lab that traveled throughout California training students in foreign languages. 

3) Ralph Meyers, the son (or nephew) of Jack Ruby's Chicago friend Larry Meyers, did attend the Defense Language Institute when he served in the Army Security Agency, which was affiliated with the National Security Agency. Ralph was then deployed to Turkey to a remote top secret U2 and NSA listening post. Returning to Chicago Ralph was sheep dipped as they say, as a Chicago bus driver before working as a journalist in Mexico City when Oswald and Larry's brother visited there. 

New Orleans International Trade Mart

 1) Oswald handed out Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflets at the International Trade Mart. 

2) William Gaudet, editor of the Latin American Report newsletter, funded by the CIA, had an office in the Trade Mart and witnessed Oswald leafleting. 

3) Clay Shaw was director of the Trade Mart in the summer of 1963 when he was seen with Oswald and Ferrie in Clinton, La., and was later indicted by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. 

4) In the 1980s, a successor to Shaw as director of the Trade Mart left that position to take on the job of director of the Defense Language School at the Presideo in Monteray, California (AKA Monteray Language Insitute) 

Civil Air Patrol

 Civil Air Patrol 

1) The Civil Air Patrol was started in 1941, shortly before Pearl Harbor and founded by Texas oilman D.H. Byrd and Cord Meyer, Sr., both early flying pioneers. Byrd owned the Texas School Book Depository at the time of the assassination and Cord Meyer, Sr. is the father of Cord Meyer, Jr., head of the CIA's International Organizations Division and husband of Mary Pinchot Meyer. 

2) Lee Harvey Oswald was a CAP cadet in New Orleans and served under Captain David Ferrie, who he also met with when he returned to New Orleans in the summer of 1963. 

3) The CAP Pennsylvania Chapter had a plan to utilize CAP cadets as undercover informants and have them infiltrate communist and left wing organizations. 

IRC - International Rescue Committee

 IRC - International Rescue Committee 

1- Lee H. Oswald wrote to the IRC three times from USSR seeking assistance in returning home to USA. 

2- The IRC was founded and directed by Leo Cherne, a close friend and agent of William Buckley 

3- IRC supported Tom Dooley in assisting refugees in Southeast Asia

4- The IRC and Dooley's operations were part of former NAZI general Reinhard Gehlen's Operation Wringer, that interviewed and debriefed refugees from Communist countries. Gehlen said that children were the best reporters because they didn't know the signifiance of what they saw and heard.