Coup d'état – Dallas 1963

Naïveté is not innocence, it is gross and moribund ignorance.

Abstract

In this article I explain the role of Harry D. Holmes, the postal inspector for Dallas in 1963. How he colluded with the FBI on behalf of Allen Dulles, the liaison for Wall Street and the military complex in the formal building of a consensus to assassinate President Kennedy after he issued NSAM 263 in October of 1963.

The ONLY rational explanation for the near pristine condition of CE399 is that it was fired into cotton wadding. I will expand on that in the article, and much will be predicated on Federal Rule 406: Evidence of a person's habit or an organization's routine practice. This is applied to the organizations', CIA and FBI.

Rule 406 – Habit; Routine Practice

Evidence of a person’s habit or an organization’s routine practice may be admitted to prove that on a particular occasion the person or organization acted in accordance with the habit or routine practice. The court may admit this evidence regardless of whether it is corroborated or whether there was an eyewitness.

This rule officiates the concept of Modus Operandi as relevant evidence in criminal law.

In tandem with Routine Habit is the construction of the “profile” of a group or individual. That would be a catalog of the habits and routines of individuals or groups.
This can turn from an exacting science to an art form by talented individuals with long experience in such investigation and research.

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Let us begin with the ‘Magic Bullet’, CE399.

There is no rational explanation as to the near pristine condition of this bullet other than that it was fired into cotton wadding. It is simply impossible for a bullet to have caused that much damage and not be more damaged, as test firings have consistently proven.

The first 4 links in the chain of custody of the bullet found a Parkland are unable to identify it as CE399.
They are:

1. Orderly Darrell Tomlinson >>
2. Parkland hospital security director O.P. Wright >>
3. SS Agent Richard Johnsen >>
4. Agent Rowley (Secret Service Chief).

A break in the chain of custody at this proximate point proves that the bullet of record, CE399 is NOT the bullet found at parkland, and therefor CE399 is a planted bullet by the highest authorities themselves.

Therefore it is reasonable to presume that CE399 was never fired in Dealey Plaza, and that it was actually fired in the main FBI crime lab in DC, from the Mannlicher Carcano now in evidence serial number C2766. It is also reasonable to presume that Oswald never had possession of this rifle, that the FBI ordered and received the rifle themselves, which leads to the probability that the postal inspector of Dallas colluded with the FBI in the project to frame Lee Oswald as the sole assassin of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963.

The postal inspector for Dallas in 1963 was Harry D. Holmes. He was stationed at the Postal Annex in Dallas 207 S Houston St, Dallas, TX, at the far west end of Dealey Plaza near the triple overpass.

Holmes would have an excellent view of Dealey Plaza that day.

Harry Holmes had access to all mail incoming and outgoing in Dallas in 1963. He had access to the keys of all postal boxes and the lists of names of all postal residents in Dallas as well.

The FBI lab was fully capable of producing printed documents and forging signatures. They have experts at detecting forgeries who would be experts at forging them as well. Whatever imprint stamps that may be needed could also be acquired or manufactured at a sophisticated crime lab such as the one in Washington DC.

The manufacture of the identification cards for Alek Hidell would be simple for these FBI experts.

An important aside here is that Lee Oswald’s wallet was alleged to have been dropped at the scene of the Tippit killing. As well as other incriminating evidence, such as shells claimed to have come from Oswald’s 38 caliber pistol. How extraordinarily convenient for the police!

In 1964 Harry Holmes was called to testify before the Warren Commission and presented most of the postal documents relevant to Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby which were used by the commission in the investigation of the assassination.

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In 1963, 57-year old Dallas Postal Inspector Harry D. Holmes was an active
informant for the FBI (Dallas "T-2"). He was also the only non- law
enforcement officer allowed to sit in during one of Oswald's
interrogations. But from Holmes' testimony we realize that he played a
much larger role between the scenes.

Postal inspectors took an interest in Oswald soon after he returned from
the Soviet Union. They knew he was receiving subversive materials in Fort
Worth and interviewed his neighbors on Mercedes Street. Postal employees
in Dallas also notified the FBI that Oswald was receiving "The Worker" at
his box, probably with Holmes' knowledge. If a lookout was placed on
Oswald's post office box 2915, as it should have been, then a firearm or
other large package addressed to "A. Hidell" or Oswald would almost
certainly have been brought to the attention of postal inspectors.

FBI INFORMANT. On November 22, 1963 Holmes played a very
active role as events began to unfold in Dallas and told the Commission:

"Well, throughout the entire period I was feeding change of
addresses as bits of information to the FBI and Secret Service, and sort
of a coordinating deal on it, but then about Sunday morning about
(9:20....."

Commission attorney Belin interrupted Holmes and said, "Pardon me a
second." Belin then had a discussion with Holmes "off the record" and
probably warned him not to say anything else about feeding bits of
information to the FBI and Secret Service.

PO BOX 2915. Harry Holmes never explained when he first
learned that Oswald rented a box at the General Post Office, but as a
postal inspector it was his job to know about people who received
"subversive" materials, such as Oswald. Holmes claimed that he received a
telephone call from a postal clerk at the Dallas Terminal Annex who
remembered renting Oswald PO Box 6225 on November 2, 1963,but neither
Holmes nor anyone identified the the postal clerk. Lloyd H. Stephens,
Postal Inspector in Charge at Fort Worth, tried to locate the clerk so
that he could send him a letter of commendation, but the clerk was never
located, and probably existed only in Harry Holmes' mind.

THREE STORIES BY HOLMES. Holmes told the Warren Commission that
on the morning of November 23, "The FBI furnished me information that a
money order of some description in the amount of $21.95 had been used as
reimbursement for the gun that had been purchased from Klein's in Chicago,
and that the purchase date was March 20, 1963" According to Holmes, it was
this inaccurate information which caused a delay of several hours in
locating the correct money order in the amount of $21.45.

STORY#1. Holmes told the Commission that he found the correct
price of the rifle by locating an advertisement in a magazine. He said,
"I had my secretary go out and purchae about half a dozen books on
outdoor-type magazines such as Field and Stream, with the thought that I
might locate the gun to identify it, and I did." The Commission never
sought to verify the accuracy of this statement with Holmes' secretary.

NOTE: Anyone who has ever looked at the rifle pictured in Klein's
small black and white advertisement knows that Holmes' statement is
ridiculous. The picture is nothing more than a black silhouette and could
not possibly be used to identify the rifle.

STORY#2. Holmes told a different story to the FBI and said that he
found a magazine in the "Nixie" section at the post office and after
looking through the magazine found a Klein's ad that showed the price of
an identical rifle for $21.45.
STORY#3. In a letter dated April 10, 1965 to J.V. Staples,
Assistant Inspector in Charge at Fort Worth, Harry Holmes wrote, "In the
afternoon of November 23, through information furnished by Inspector McGee
of Chicago at our request, it was possible for me to isolate and identify
the number of the money order...." Holmes told one story to Assistant
Inspector Staples and a different story to the Warren Commission.
$12.78 RIFLE. Another reason to doubt Holmes' story is that on
Saturday morning the FBI announced that the rifle used to assassinate
President Kennedy was purchased for $12.78. Why would the Bureau tell
Holmes to look for a postal money order in the amount of $21.95 after
announcing that Oswald paid $12.78 for the rifle?
THE INVISIBLE MONEY ORDER STUB. Holmes told the Commission, "I
passed the information to the men who were looking for this money order
'stub' to show the only way you could find ne.....within 10 minutes they
called back and said they had a money order in that amount issued at the
main post office, which is the same place as this post office box was at
the time box 2915, and the money order had been issued early on the
morning of March 12th, 1963. But Harry Holmes never produced a money
order "stub," it was never seen by anybody in Dallas, and not a single
post office employee corrroborated Holmes' story.
EARLY ON THE MORNING OF MARCH 12, 1963. On April 2, 1964 Harry
Holmes told the Warren Commission that he knew the money order had been
issued early on the morning of March 1, 1963. But how did he
know?......There is no time stamp on postal money orders and the only
indication that it was purchased on the morning of March 12 was the
postmark on the envelope allegedly mailed to Klein's, that read "10:30
am." A copy of this envelope was allegedly found on Klein's microfilm,
but the microfilm was confiscated by FBI agents on November 23 and was not
seen again until the Commission deposed William Waldman on May 20,
1964-seven weeks after Holmes testified. Harry Holmes could not possibly
have known that postal money order No, 2,202,130,462 was issued early on
the morning of March 12, 1963, unless he had previously seen the mailing
envelope from Klein's microfilm or issued the money order himself on the
morning of March 12.
MONEY ORDER IN WASHINGTON, DC. Holmes told the Warren Commission,
"This number (2,202,130,462) was transmitted to the Chief Inspector in
Washington, who immediately got the money order center at Washington to
begin a search, which they use IBM equipment to kick out this money order,
and about 7 o'clock (actually 8:00 PM) Saturday night they did kick out
the original money order and sent it over, so they said, by special
conveyance to the Secret Service, chief of the Secret Service at
Washington now, and turned out, so they said, to be the correct money
order.

Holmes is the only person, anywhere in the US Post Office system, who knew
the number of the postal money order No. 2,202,130,462 on the afternoon of
November 23. No other Dallas Postal employee was interviewed by the FBI
or Warren Commission and there is no confirmation whatsoever that a "stub"
for this money order was found at the GPO in Dallas, despite Holmes'
claim.

The money order was allegedly found by National Archives employee Robert
Jackson, but there were no witnesses present and this man was never
questioned by the FBI or Warren Commission. Jackson delivered the money
order to the home of postal finance officer J. Harold Marks and it was
soon picked up by Secret Service agent Parker.
Holmes lied to the Commission. Holmes version of events
surrounding the money order were essential in linking Oswald with the mail
order rifle from Klein's and went unchallenged. But when David Belin
questioned Holmes about statements made by Oswald during his last
interrogation, attended by Captain Fritz, Forrest Sorrels, Thomas Kelly,
and Holmes, Belin immediately noticed some glaring contradictions.

Belin asked Holmes, "Did he (Oswald) ever say anything about going to
Mexico?" Holmes, replied, "Yes. To the extent that mostly about-well- he
didn't spend, 'Where did you get the money?' He didn't say that where he
stayed it cost $26 some off, ridiculous amount to eat, and another
ridiculous small amount to stay all night, and that he went to the Mexican
Embassy to try to get this permission to go to Russia by Cuba, but most of
the talks that we want to talk about was how he got by with a little
amount....They refused him and he became angry and he said he burst out of
there, and I don't know I don't recall now why he went into the business
about how mad it made him...he goes over to the Russian Embassy. he was
already at the American. This was the Mexican-he wanted to go to Cuba.
Then he went to the Russian Embassy and he said, because he said then he
wanted to go to Russia by way of Cuba, still trying to get to Cuba and try
that angle and they refused and said, 'Come back in 30 days,' or something
like that. And, he went out of there angry and disgusted"

Harry Holmes was the only person who sat in on the interrogations of
November 24 who claimed that Oswald said he had been in Mexico City. Belin
recognized the contradiction and said, "Is this something that you think
you might have picked up from just reading the papers, ir is this
something you remember?" Holmes replied, "That is what said in there."
Belin must have realized that Holmes was clearly trying to link Oswald to
Cuba, and also must have realized that Holmes was lying.

NOTE: On December 17, 1963, four months before he was interviewed
by the Warren Commission, Holmes wrote a detailed "Memorandum of
Interview" of Oswald's interrogations on November 24, 1963. This
memorandum was published in the Warren Volumes as Holmes Ex. No. 4, but
Holmes wrote nothing about Oswald's alleged trip to Mexico City.

David Belin then discussed the postal money order with Holmes who said,
"Oswald had bee questioned about it (the money order) from about 10 A.M.
to noon on November 24, before he was killed." Once again Holmes lied to
the Warren Commission, because neither Captain Fritz, Forrest Sorrels, or
Thomas Kelly remembered that Oswald was asked or said anything about a
postal money order.

Holmes' lies and contradictory statements are not enough to prove that he
colluded with the FBI and fabricated the money order that linked Oswald
with the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle. But Holmes was the first person in
Dallas to know the number of the money order, the only person who claimed
to have located the money order "stub," and he had access to postal money
orders and GPO cancellation stamps. If Holmes was not involved, then why
did he wait 4 hours before telling postal inspectors that this
never-deposited, never-cashed money order could be found at the Federal
Records Center in Washington, DC?

Exposing the Warren Commission

The Warren Commission was certainly aware that Oswald's alleged purchase
of a rifle from Klein's was based on highly questionable and inconclusive
evidence. They relied not only on dubious evidence (mis- dated bank
deposits/an uncashed money order/bills of lading that failed to identify
the rifles), they knowingly suppressed evidence (Oswald's application for
PO Box 2915), ignored evidence (postal form 2162), failed to interview
crucial witnesses (Louis Feldsott, Fred Rupp, J.A. Mueller, William Sharp,
Robert Jackson), failed to properly question Klein's employees (about
36-inch Italian carbines, the mounting of scopes, regulations concerning
the shipment of firearms through the USPO), failed to properly evaluate
evidence (postal money order, envelope mailed to Klein's, Klein's bank
statements), and allowed the introduction of irrelevant and misleading
evidence (November, 1963 ad from Field and Stream). The Commission broke
so many rules of civil procedure in trying to "prove" that Oswald
purchased C2766 from Klein's, that we have learned not to trust them,
their methods, or their conclusions.

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is a federal law enforcement agency, and U.S. postal inspectors are law enforcement officers.

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If we are to believe the Warren Commission, then we believe that Oswald skipped work for an undetermined period of time on the morning of March 12, walked 11 blocks to the post office, purchased a postal money order, traveled several miles across the Trinity River in order to mail the letter, and then returned to his job unnoticed. And then, if we believe the Warren Commission, this letter was picked up by a mail carrier sometime after 10:30 am in zone 12, delivered to the post office in zone 7, sorted and placed into an airmail pouch, transported to the Love Field Airport, and loaded aboard the last flight to Chicago before the plane departed at noon. This money order was allegedly received by Klein's Sporting Goods in Chicago the following morning, was included with over a thousand other mail orders from around the country, and then deposited into Klein's bank account. If this sounds a little far-fetched, believe me, it gets better.

All US Postal Money orders have unique serial numbers. In the fall of 1962, Oswald purchased numerous money orders from the same downtown post office and mailed them to Washington, DC in order to repay a loan from the government for his travel expenses incurred when he returned to the USA from Russia. These money orders were purchased in numerical sequence beginning in November, 1962. These serial numbers show that some 1200 money orders per week were purchased at the downtown post office in Dallas. At this rate we see that Oswald's alleged purchase of a money order on March 12, 1963 should have been numbered 2,202,011,935. But the serial number of the money order published in the Warren Volumes was more than 118,000 numbers higher. At the rate of 1200 money order per week, this money order should have been purchased in late 1964 or early 1965. In other words, this money order could easily have been pulled from a stack of fresh, unsold money orders by a postal official in Dallas, sometime after the assassination, and then given to the FBI. A close look at the details surrounding the "finding" of the money order the day after the assassination strongly suggests that this is what happened.

MANNLICHER CARCANO RIFLE-C2766.

Crescent Firearms was a major importer of firearms from Italy and was required by law to keep and maintain a list of serial numbers for all firearms they imported and sold to retailers, such as Klein's Sporting Goods in Chicago. The Dallas Police found an Italian Mannlicher Carcano rifle, serial number C2766, on the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository building following the assassination of President Kennedy. That evening (11/22/63) the owner of Crescent Firearms, Louis Feldsott, was contacted by the FBI in New York and asked if his company had records concerning the importation and sale of this rifle. Feldsott searched his records and found that a Mannlicher Carcano rifle, serial number C2766, had been sold to Klein's Sporting Goods in Chicago on June 18, 1962. Feldsott turned his original records over to the FBI, and those records disappeared. He allegedly told an FBI agent the rifle was 36", but without original records the model number and length of this rifle sold on June 18, 1962 are unknown. There was no description of this rifle (C2766)  given by Feldsott in his affidavit, and the FBI withheld all information relating to this rifle. 
 

NOTE: It is important to remember that Feldsott told the FBI that his records showed C2766 was sold to Klein's on June 18, 1962. The Warren Commission, from photographic records provided by the FBI (photographs--not original records), concluded that Crescent Firearms sold C2766 to Klein's in February, 1963. The WC obtained a signed affidavit from Feldsott wherein he stated that "C2766" was sold to Klein's on June 18, 1962. But they never obtained an affidavit or testimony from Feldsott that indicated he sold another rifle, with serial number C2766, to Klein's in February, 1963 or any time. Debate continues as to whether there was more than one Mannlicher Carcano rifle with serial number C2766. But the answer to that question may be that a second Mannlicher Carcano rifle, with serial number C2766, has never been found.

The FBI agents who visited Feldsott likely reported their findings to the SAC New York immediately. The SAC New York likely provided the same information to FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, who in turn probably instructed the FBI's office in Chicago to send agents to Klein's to search records for the sale of C2766 from Crescent to Klein's on June 18, 1962. Prior to visiting Klein's, this was the only available information the FBI had relating to the sale of C2766.

KLEIN'S MICROFILM. The FBI's Chicago office sent 3 agents to Klein's late in the evening of November 22.  These agents arrived at Klein's at 10:00 PM and were met by Klein's Vice-President William Waldman. These agents were likely told to search Klein's records (microfilm) and determine both the name and address of the person who purchased C2766 from Klein's in 1962, and determine if another rifle bearing serial number C2766 had been sold. Seven hours later, at 5:00 AM in the morning, the FBI agents advised Waldman that they had found records relating to C2766 and asked if they could take the microfilm. Waldman agreed and the FBI agents left with the microfilm. The FBI never produced a single document that shows the date C2766 was delivered to Klein's (sold by Crescent on June 18, 1962) nor the identity and address of the person who purchased that rifle from Klein's. All original records from Crescent Arms (Louis Feldsott's company) and the Klein's microfilm disappeared while in FBI custody. Only "photographs" of documents were given to the WC, and are now at the National Archives.

NOTE: The FBI agents also found records that Klein's sold a rifle similar to that found on the 6th floor of the TSBD for $21.95 with a postal money order that was issued on March 20, 1963 (CD 296). The FBI provided no information as to the serial number of this rifle, the model number of the rifle, the name of the purchaser of this rifle, or the location of the post office from which the $21.95 money order was purchased. This may have been the postal money order that J. Edgar Hoover was referring to when he advised President Johnson at 9:00 AM on the morning of 11/23/63 that the bureau had recovered the money order used to purchase the rifle. Researchers will recall that the $21.45 postal money order (pictured below) was allegedly found in Arlington, VA during the evening of 11/23/63.

On the morning of 11/23/63 the FBI, from original Crescent Arms records and the original Klein's microfilm likely knew the name and address of the individual who purchased the Manlicher Carcano, serial number C2766, from Kleins--the same rifle that Crescent sold to Klein's on June 18, 1962. They also likely knew the name and address of the individual who purchased a rifle from Kleins with a $21.95 postal money order that was issued on March 20, 1963. But neither of these rifles could, allegedly, be linked to the Manlicher Carcano rifle (with scope), serial number C2766, that was now at FBI headquarters.

A $12.78 MAIL ORDER RIFLE. The FBI soon announced that LHO had purchased a mail order rifle from Klein's Sporting Goods for $12.78 that was used to assassinate President Kennedy. But how did the FBI determine the price of the rifle was $12.78? Did the Klein's microfilm show that the rifle (C2766) Crescent sold to them on June 18, 1962, was the same rifle that was re-sold for $12.78 to an individual the FBI refused to identify? The FBI eventually realized that a $12.78 mail order rifle was a problem. The price of a MC rifle sold by Klein's without a scope was $12.78, but the rifle found by the Dallas Police on the 6th floor of the TSBD had a 4 x 18 power scope and was sold by Klein's for $19.95 ($21.45 including postage). There was also a timing problem. Crescent's records showed they sold only one Mannlicher-Carcano rifle with serial number "C2766" to Klein's, and that was on June 18, 1962. But Oswald allegedly purchased a Mannlicher Carcano rifle (C2766) from Klein's nine months later--in March, 1963. The FBI had to determine, or come up with a story, as to Oswald/Hidell's purchase of C2766 in March, 1963. They also had to explain how and where a scope was installed on a $12.78 mail order rifle. While the $12.78 mail order rifle was reported nationwide by news and television reporters for the next week (11/23/63 thru 11/29/63) the FBI ignored Feldsott and his records, and all attention was focused on the 40" Mannlicher Carcano rifle (C2766) with a 4 power Japanese scope at FBI headquarters. 

NOTE: If the Klein's microfilm records, bank records, and a $21.45 postal money order were in FBI custody on 11/23/63, as reported by the Warren Commission, there would be no confusion. The FBI would have announced that the rifle in their possession was purchased via mail-order by Oswald/Hidell from Klein's Sporting Goods for $21.45. However, it would appear that the only original records the FBI ever had for C2766, at any time, was the sale of this rifle from Crescent to Klein's on June 18, 1962, and a subsequent sale to an individual whose identity the FBI withheld.

6.5 mm ammunition. The FBI, after checking gun and sports shops in and around Dallas/Ft. Worth, was unable to determine where or when Oswald had purchased 6.5 mm ammunition for the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle. The FBI determined the ammunition had been manufactured by the Western Cartridge Corporation of East Alton, Illinois. The company manufactured four million rounds of this ammunition for the US Marine Corps in 1954, yet this ammunition did not fit and could not be used in any USMC weapon. An FBI memo, dated 12/2/63, stated "this gives rise to the obvious speculation that it is a contract for ammunition placed by CIA with Western under a USMC cover for concealment purposes."

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Warren Commission attorney David Belin interviewed Klein's Vice President William Waldman and questioned him about the money order. Belin handed Waldman the uncashed, never deposited $21.45 money order (Commission Exhibit 788) and asked him to read the words from the Klein's rubber-stamped endorsement on the reverse side of the money order. Then, with the unpaid money order in front of both men, neither Belin nor Waldman volunteered that this unpaid money order was never bank endorsed, never bank stamped, and never dated by any financial institution. In other words, it should have been obvious to both men that this money order had never been bank endorsed for deposit into a bank or cashed. Waldman was asked to identify a $21.45 deposit as one of the entries included in a total deposit of $13, 827.98, which he did (Waldman exhibit 10). But there is nothing that identifies the source of this $21.45 deposit (cash, check, money order, etc.). Now, let's look at the date of the $13,827.98 deposit slip as shown in the Warren Volumes. It is dated February 15, 1963--a month before Oswald allegedly ordered the rifle from Klein's (March 12, 1963)... a month before!! This was the ONLY deposit slip presented by the Commission, yet they knowingly used this deposit slip, dated February 15, 1963, to help prove that Oswald ordered a mail-order rifle from Klein's on March 12, 1963.

Robert Wilmouth, Vice President of the First National Bank of Chicago was interviewed by the FBI on 11/23/63, but was never asked if the unpaid $21.45 postal money order was deposited to his bank. Wilmouth told the FBI that a postal money order, after deposit to his bank, would have been sent to the Federal Reserve Bank and then sent to the US postal processing center in Kansas City. He told the FBI that the Federal Reserve Bank would be able to identify the money order by number. It would have been easy for the FBI to ask the Federal Reserve Bank to identify the $21.45 postal money order by the number that appeared on the FNB of Chicago deposit, but they never asked and for a very good reason. The unpaid postal money order (shown above) was never endorsed by the FNB of Chicago, never routed to the Federal Reserve Bank and never endorsed by the Federal Reserve Bank. The Federal Reserve Bank would not have a copy of this or any unpaid money order.

From November 23 thru November 29, while television stations, radio, and newspapers continued to report to the nation that a $12.78 mail order rifle was used to assassinate President Kennedy, the FBI's attention was focused on the 40" Mannlicher Carcano (C2766) and on the Klein's microfilm. They ignored Louis Feldsott and his company records that showed only one rifle with serial number C2766 was sold to Klein's--on June 18, 1962. They quickly gathered all original records related to C2766, including those from Harborside Terminal (a bonded warehouse where Crescent stored the imported Italian rifles), Fred Rupp (licensed gun dealer who reconditioned the Italian rifles), Lifschutz Freight (transported rifles from Rupp to Klein's) and Klein's (retail merchant). Each of these companies were required, by federal law, to keep and maintain the serial number of each and every firearm received and delivered. Each and every firearm imported into the US could then be traced by serial number from its origin (Italy), importation into the United States, refurbishing, sale to a retail establishment, and the final sale to a retail customer. Accurate record keeping was mandatory in the gun trade and strictly adhered to. But after the FBI confiscated original records from Harborside, Rupp, Lifschutz, and Klein's, they altered those records, photographed the altered records, and then destroyed the original records. Only photographs were given to the Warren Commission and only photographs remain at the National Archives.

NOTE: Louis Feldsott's original records also disappeared and he was never questioned by the Warren Commission.

A $21.45 MAIL ORDER RIFLE. It appears that during the week of November 23-29 the FBI was able to collect and alter enough documents to convince the public that LHO purchased a $21.45 mail order rifle from Klein's in March, 1963. The $12.78 mail order rifle, as reported by the media, quickly faded into history as did information concerning the rifle that Feldsott sold to Klein's on June 18, 1962. On November 29 (one week after the assassination) the Atlanta Journal reported from a UPI dispatch that Oswald purchased an Italian rifle with scope from Klein's Sporting Goods in Chicago in March, 1963 for $19.95 ($21.45 including postage). Photographs of altered documents were given to the WC, which allowed the Commission to piece together the importation, reconditioning, transportation and sale of "C2766" from Harborside to Klein's to Oswald/Hidell in March,1963.

From PHOTOGRAPHS, PAPER COPIES, an uncashed/never deposited money order, and a deposit slip dated one month before the rifle was allegedly ordered from Klein's, the FBI and Warren Commission concluded that Oswald had purchased the rifle found on the 6th floor of the TSBD by Dallas Police. They concluded that Oswald had clipped a coupon from the February, 1963 issue of the American Rifleman magazine, wrote the name "A. Hidell" on the coupon, listed his address as PO Box 2915, Dallas, Texas and enclosed a postal money order in the amount of $21.45 for payment.

NOTE: Without original records it is impossible for anyone to accurately trace "C2766" from the time it arrived in the United States to the time it was delivered to Klein's.

SUMMARY OF C2766.  Some 8-9 hours after President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Crescent Firearms owner/President Louis Feldsott gave his company's original records relating to the importing and sale of C2766 to the FBI. According to company records Crescent Firearms sold C2766 to Klein's Sporting Goods on June 18, 1962. Klein's then re-sold this rifle (C2766) to an individual who's identity appeared on Klein's original microfilm records. On 11/23/63 three FBI agents examined Klein's original microfilm records and most likely knew the identity of the person who purchased C2766. But that person was not Oswald/Hidell. The identity of this person remains unknown. The FBI agents took the original Klein's microfilm, which was soon hand delivered to FBI headquarters in Washington DC. On March 27, 1964 the FBI advised the Warren Commission "the original records  from which the film was made have been destroyed."

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Allen Dulles was the liaison for Wall Street and the military complex in the formal building of a consensus to assassinate President Kennedy after he issued NSAM 263 in October of 1963.

NSAM 263: JFK’S ORDER TO WITHDRAWAL
The 1,000-man withdrawal from Vietnam was originally planned to take place during the election campaign of 1964.   However, the Buddhist crisis erupted in April 1963 and proceeded during the summer to knock the political bottom out of the regime in Saigon. 

At the May SECDEF conference, as the crisis was unfolding, McNamara announced “concrete” plans to withdraw 1,000 men, not in 1964, but by the end of 1963.  Kennedy needed a recommendation to start the withdrawal in 1963—and he needed it right away.  He needed to start the withdrawal early and had do it without being publicly associated with the military optimism accompanying that recommendation.  Kennedy accomplished that by having McNamara make the recommendation.  Kennedy and McNamara steamrolled their opposition in the uproar that occurred when Kennedy made McNamara announce his recommendations to the press on the steps of the White House on October 2, 1963. 

In the third interview of his oral history, McNamara made it clear that both those for and against the withdrawal were acutely aware of the importance of a public announcement and the concept of “concrete.” 

NSAM 263 was not written until 11 October 1963, but it recorded President Kennedy’s historic actions that took place on six days earlier on 5.  Here is the president’s decision on the withdrawal from Vietnam:

The president approved the military recommendations contained in Section I B (1-3) of the report, but directed that no formal announcement be made of the implementation of plans to withdraw 1,000 U.S. military personnel by the end of 1963. [Emphasis added]

The military recommendations in Section I B (1-3) of the McNamara-Taylor report were these: 1) that MACV and Diem come up with what had to be done to complete the military campaign in I, II, and III Corps by the end of 1964 and IV Corps by the end of 1965; 2) that the training program be established so that the South Vietnamese could take over essential functions and permit the bulk of American forces to be withdrawn by that time; and 3) that the Defense Department should announce “in the very near future” the 1,000-man withdrawal.

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The routine practices of CIA are well known history. The toppling of democratically elected governments throughout the cold war period is well documented.

As Colonel Fletcher Prouty has detailed in his work, General Edmond Lansdale was the chosen expert of the military for fomenting coup d'état in many countries such as the Philippians, Guatemala, Mosaddegh in Iran, General Rafael Trujillo Dominican Republic, and countless others.

Operation CHAOS or Operation MHCHAOS was a Central Intelligence Agency domestic espionage project targeting the American people from 1967 to 1974.

Operation MKUltra

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief

Operation Mockingbird, CIA taking corporate media as a propaganda arm of the National Security State

This was the CIA’ known Modus Operandi

The FBI has an equally well known Modus Operandi

The FBI has an equally well known Modus Operandi

Dr. Whitehurst and the FBI Lab Scandal

Dr. Frederic Whitehurst initially blew the whistle on the systemic forensic fraud in the FBI crime lab, he could never have known it was the start of a lifelong fight for government accountability.

In 1994, he reported his concerns with FBI lab practices internally. It was “alterations of reports, alterations of evidence, folks testifying outside their areas of expertise in courts of law”, said Whitehurst, but “really what was going on was human rights violations. We have a right to fair trials in this country… And that’s not what was going on at the FBI lab.”

After his superiors failed to take any action, he took his concerns to the Department of Justice. Whitehurst faced significant and ongoing retaliation from the FBI, who highly criticized his claims, attacked his credibility, and fired him from his position at the FBI crime lab as chemist and lab supervisor.

Bad Science and Forensic Fraud

 Eventually, investigations were launched into Whitehurst’s allegations but failed to lead to any justice. It wasn’t until ten years later that Whitehurst was finally vindicated, when a scathing 500+ page study of the lab by the Justice Department Inspector General, Michael Bromwich, concluded major reforms were required in the lab. This included the use of forensic hair analyses, which had been used for decades in state and federal criminal cases, and was proven flawed and inaccurate more than ninety percent of the time. Some of the cases Whitehurst had reported included the 1993 World Trade Center attack, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the O.J. Simpson murder case.

As a result, the FBI agreed to unprecedented reforms. These included outside accreditation of its crime lab, the appointment of an objective and independent scientist to oversee lab operations, and the removal of various lab officials who had engaged in misconduct. The FBI pledged to review all cases potentially affected by the lab’s flawed forensic science.

Department of (In)Justice

While Dr. Whitehurst received $1.16 million as settlement from the FBI in 1998, he continued to investigate and research FBI misconduct in cases that used hair analysis, compiling the data as head of the National Whistleblower Center’s (NWC) Forensic Justice Project. It was here that he discovered the Justice Department had failed to keep its promise to review the potentially affected cases and to notify the adversely affected defendants.

https://whistleblowersblog.org/government-whistleblowers/intelligence-community-whistleblowers/dr-whitehurst-and-the-fbi-lab-scandal/

COINTELPRO

COINTELPRO was a series of covert and illegal projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic American political organizations, from 1956 to 1971.

Rule 406 – Habit; Routine Practice - Again:

Evidence of a person’s habit or an organization’s routine practice may be admitted to prove that on a particular occasion the person or organization acted in accordance with the habit or routine practice. The court may admit this evidence regardless of whether it is corroborated or whether there was an eyewitness.

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Dr. Perry attempted to save President Kennedy's life on November 22, 1963 by performing a tracheostomy and administering closed chest massage in Trauma Room One at Parkland hospital.

The tracheostomy he performed was a small, transverse incision 2.5 to 3 cm wide, which he made through a puncture in the President's throat---below the Adam's apple and just to the right of the midline---a puncture which he characterized as AN ENTRANCE WOUND three different times during the televised hospital press conference that afternoon following JFK's death.

On the day President Kennedy was treated, all of the attending physicians who saw the bullet wound in the throat characterized it as a typical entrance wound. Their observations have always stood in stark opposition to the official U.S. government cover story that President Kennedy was killed by an assassin firing from above and behind, and that he was not shot from the front by anyone.

What most of the public does not know---and what is detailed in my book, "Inside the Assassination Records Review Board," is that late on the night of President Kennedy's autopsy at Bethesda Naval hospital, Federal officials located at Bethesda began harrassing Dr. Perry on the telephone in an attempt to get him to change his mind about having seen an entry wound in the President's throat earlier in the day. Nurse Audrey Bell told me in 1997 that Dr. Perry complained to her the next morning (on Saturday, November 23, 1963) that he had gotten almost no sleep the night before, because unnamed persons at Bethesda had been pressuring him on the telephone all night long to get him to change his opinion about the nature of the bullet wound in the throat, and to redescribe it as an exit, rather than an entrance.

In his 1981 book "Best Evidence," David Lifton documented that the Secret Service confiscated videotapes of the Parkland hospital press conference from at least one local television station, and that Secret Service Chief James Rowley had informed the Warren Commission in 1964 that no videotapes or transcripts of the press conference could be found. But as Lifton revealed, a White House verbatim transcript of the press conference (White House Transcript 1327-C) later surfaced. In my own book, "Inside the ARRB," I reveal that Chief Rowley lied to the Warren Commission when he said no transcripts could be found, for on the last page of transcript 1327-C, the document is stamped as received by Rowley's office on November 26, 1963. His statement to the Warren Commission was therefore false.

A graduate student, James Gochenaur, revealed to both the Church Committee and to the HSCA in the mid-1970s that Secret Service Agent Elmer Moore had confessed to him in 1970 that he had "leaned on Dr. Perry" shortly after the Bethesda autopsy to get him to stop describing the bullet wound in President Kennedy's throat as an entrance wound. (The Bethesda autopsy report concluded it was an exit wound.) According to Gochenaur, Moore also told him that the Secret Service had to investigate the assassination in an expected, predetermined way or they would "get their heads chopped off." Moore, unfortunately, also told Gochenaur that sometimes he thought President Kennedy was "a traitor" because he was "giving things away to the Russians."

[According to Arlen Specter, this same Elmer Moore was present when Chief Justice Warren, Gerald Ford, and he interviewed Jack Ruby in Dallas; and Arlen Specter also revealed in 2003 (at a conference in Pittsburgh) that Elmer Moore was the Secret Service Agent who showed him an undocumented photograph of President Kennedy's back wound during the May 1964 re-enactment of the Dallas motorcade conducted by the Warren Commission.]

Unfortunately, after Federal officials at Bethesda (on November 22-23, 1963) and Elmer Moore (between November 29-December 11, 1963) "leaned on" Dr. Perry, he spent the remainder of his life straddling the fence and saying that the bullet wound in JFK's throat "could have been either" an entrance or an exit wound.

But that is not what he said on the afternoon of the assassination, before there was an official explanation for the crime to fall in line with. White House Transcript 1327-C makes that very clear, as I reveal in my book, in Chapters 7 and 9.

Former Chief Operating Room nurse Audrey Bell related to me in 1997 that Dr. Perry was in a state of torment on November 23, 1963, after being pressured by Federal officials all night long to change his mind, because, as he put it, "my professional credibility is at stake." Sadly, he appears to have decided for the remainder of his life that discretion was the better part of valor.

The story does not end here. The chief prosector at the President's autopsy, Dr. James J. Humes, described the throat wound in the autopsy report as having "widely gaping, irregular edges," and in his Warren Commission testimony, Humes said the gaping wound in the throat was 7 to 8 cm wide. In contrast, Dr. Charles Crenshaw, a third year resident at Parkland in 1963, told ABC's "20/20" news magazine in 1992 that after the tracheostomy tube and flange were removed from the President's neck following his death, that the very small incision made by Dr. Perry closed of its own volition, and that the bullet wound had NOT been obliterated and was still clearly visible. When Dr. Crenshaw viewed the widely published bootleg autopsy photo (from Bethesda Naval hospital) showing the incision in JFK's neck, he expressed the opinion to ABC's "20/20" that the incision in that photograph was DOUBLE the width of the incision Dr. Perry originally made on the President's body.

The descriptions of the incision in the anterior neck, provided by Dr. Humes and Dr. Crenshaw, together constitute de facto evidence that JFK's throat wound was tampered with prior to the start of the Navy autopsy at Bethesda Naval hospital. President Kennedy's body was in the custody of the U.S. Secret Service while enroute Washington D.C. from Dallas, Texas.

https://insidethearrb.livejournal.com/2370.html

– JFK assassination Secret Service documentary: the Kennedy agents 2016 – See: 2:20 agent pulled off of right bumper by lead agent in follow car.

J. Edgar Hoover Operated a Shadow FBI Engaged in Illegal Surveillance: Exposing the Secret (2014)