CONFIDENTIAL AND SECRET DOCUMENTS OF THE WARREN COMMISSION DEPOSITED IN THE U. S. ARCHIVES NEIL MACDONALD ASSISTANT EDITOR (COMPUTERS AND ANIMATION FOR NOVEMBER 1970 pp 44 - 47) After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 1968, the Warren Commission, consistiny of nine persons appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, and headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court, examined evidence, and concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin. The correctness of this conclusion has been challenged by many investigators and researchers. One of the latest challenges was the article, "The Assassination of President Kennedy: The Application of Computers to the Photographic Evidence", by Richard E. Sprague, published in the May 1970 issue of Computers and Automation. Nobody who has studied the evidence, the contradictions in the Warren Commission report and documents, the acts of suppression of information, the photographs available, the physics of the shots, etc., can any longer logically maintain that a single assassin accounts for all the shots and other events in Dealey Plaza on that occasion. This implies a Conspiracy. It appears that at least some and probably a majority of the members of the Warren Commission realized very soon that there had been a conspiracy, with more than one gunman in Dealey Plaza shooting at President Kennedy; and so, on grounds of "national security", they engaged in a "second conspiracy to cover up the first one. Following the reporting of the Warren Commission in September 1964, ten months after the assassination, over 200 of their documents (and by some counts as many as 350), were classified as confidential, secret, or top secret, and were placed in the U.S. Archives, many of them to stay secret for 75 years. Probably by some administrative error, the list of the subjects of these documents was not so classified. Table 1 shows a copy of a list of over 200 documents of the Warren Commission which are in the Archives of the United States in Washington, D.C.,and which have been classified as confidential, secret, or top secret, so that the American people and researchers into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy cannot see them or study them. This list shows the identifying "commission document" (CD) number, the originating agency, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the subject, and in some cases the place of origin of the document. Judging from the subjects it is truly extraordinary that some of these documents have been classified, such as: 322g USIA Public and propaganda reactions to the assassination, in Poland 489 FBI Mark Lane, Buffalo appearances Lane is the lawyer and former member of the legislature of New York State who wrote the best selling book Rush to Judgement about President Kennedy's assassination. At least eight of these classified documents mention Mark Lane in their title, as if he had had something to do with the assassination instead of with questioning the investigation by the Warren Commission and other government agencies. There is considerable evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald worked from time to time over a number of years, for the CIA or one of its subcontractors. Several of the subjects in Table I suggest confirmation of this possibility: 931 CIA Oswald's access to information about the U2 [the high-flying spy plane] 528 CIA re allegation that Lee Harvey Oswald was interviewed by the CIA in the USSR 692 CIA reproduction of CIA official dossier on Lee Harvey Oswald 698 CIA reports of travel and activitie: Lee Harvey Oswald as Marine 1216 CIA Memorandum from Helms entitled "Lee Harvey Oswald " 1273 CIA Memorandum from Helms re apparent inconsistencies Helms was the head of the CIA at the time of the Warren Commission's existence. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³ Abbreviations used in Table I ³ ³ ----------------------------- ³ ³ CIA Central Intelligence Agency ³ ³ FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation³ ³ HEW Department of Health, Education³ ³ and Welfare ³ ³ IRS Internal Revenue Service ³ ³ JD Department of Justice ³ ³ La. State of Louisiana ³ ³ SIS U.S. Senate Subcommittee on ³ ³ Internal Security ³ ³ SS U.S. Secret Service ³ ³ State U.S. State Department ³ ³ Trs. Department of the Treasury ³ ³ USIA U.S. Information Agency ³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ Table I: LIST OF SECRET DOCUMENTS Comm. Doc. Agency Subject / Place 66 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / San Diego 76 FBI Hoaxes, False Reports, Irresponsible Reporting 78 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald's Mexican trip 89 FBI Income tax returns of Jack Ruby and associates 90 FBI Income tax returns of Lee Harvey Oswald and relatives 100 CIA Analysis of world reaction to assassination of John F. Kennedy lOla Trs. Income tax information on Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald, and others lOlf Trs. Narcotics Bureau report re Jack Ruby 114 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Louisville 117 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / St. Louis 119 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Albany 136 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Tampa 153 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Norfolk 181 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Cincinnati 190 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Cincinnati 212 FBI Ruth Hyde Paine / Philadelphia 218 FBI Michael Ralph Paine / Los Anyeles 222 SS re Lloyd John Wilson and his implication in the assassination 227 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Miami 258 FBI Michael Ralph Paine / Los Angeles 271 FBI Assassination of President John F. Kennedy / El Paso 273 FBI Assassination of President John F. Kennedy / Charlotte 278 thru 287 Reports on various assassination attempts throughout the world State 299 FBI Tax returns for Jack Ruby and Earl Ruby 300 CIA re Recent Soviet statements of Lee Harvey Oswald 321 CIA Chronology of Lee Harvey Oswald in the USSR / Washington, DC 322f USIA Foreign radio and press reactions to the assassination of President Kennedy 322g USIA Public and propaganda reactions to the assassination in Poland 347 CIA Activity of Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City 351 SIS Lee Harvey Oswald memo 355 JD Witnesses interviewed re Jack Ruby 361 CIA Biographical information on Mrs. L.H. Oswald and relatives 365 La. Compiled information on Lee Harvey Oswald / Baton Rouge (pps. 31 to 41 withheld) 367 FBI Jack and Earl Ruby tax returns 382 FBI Medical Records of Fanny Rubenstein 384 CIA Activity of Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City 390 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Chicago 425 IRS Summary of tax returns / Washington,DC 426 CIA Interrogations of Silvia Duran and Husband in Mexico City 432 Materials sent by James H. Martin pertaining to Marina Oswald 433 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / New York 434 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Washington, DC 442 State Telegrams between State Dept. and the U.S. Embassy, Mexico City 445 FBI National Guardian; Mark Lane / New York 448 CIA Mohammed Reggab alleyations re Marina Oswald 449 FBI re residence of Marina Oswald, James Martin 451 FBI Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko; interview 469 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Oklahoma 470 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Dallas 471 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Cleveland 478 FBI Memorandum: "Lee Harvey Oswald also known as" / Dallas 480 FBI Marguerite Oswald in Boston / Boston 489 FBI Mark Lane, Buffalo appearance / Buffalo 499 FBI Deirdre Griswold; Robert Gwathmey / Washington, DC 504-506 FBI Sylvia Ludlow Hyde Hoke / Cincinnatti, Seattle, New York and 508 527 IRS Hyman Rubenstein; tax returns 528 CIA re allegation Lee Harvey Oswald interviewed by the CIA in the USSR 530 FBI George DeMohrenschildt / Washington,DC 540 FBI George DeMohrenschildt / Washington,DC 548 FBI George DeMohrenschildt 557 FBI re Lee Harvey Oswald's attempted suicide / Dallas 564 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Washington, DC 565 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Washington, DC 566 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Washington, DC 597 FBI Bundesnachrichtendienst file 599 FBI Vada Oswald statements / Denton 600 thru 629 George Lyman Paine, Jr. and FBI Frances Drake Paine 631 CIA re CIA dissemination of information on Lee Harvey Oswald/ Washington 653 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Chicago 663 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Washington, DC 664 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Washington, DC 665 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Washington, DC 669 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Dallas 674 CIA Information given to the Secret Service but not yet the Warren Commission / Washington, DC 677 SS Memorandum from Chief Rowley to Mr.Belin, report on assassination 680 CIA Oswald chronoloyy in Russia 681 IRS Tax returns: Carroll, Ruby, Meyers, Volpert 687 SS Ruth Paine; Naushon Island Cottages / Boston 688 IRS Numerous tax returns 691 CIA Oswald chronology in Russia 692 CIA Reproduction of CIA official dossier on Lee Harvey Oswald 694 FBI Various Mark Lane appearances 698 CIA Reports of travel and activities: Lee Harvey Oswald and Marina 700 HEW Various social security records; Jack Ruby associates 702 FBI FBI criteria for giving information to the Secret Service 703 IRS IRS information on those mentioned in CD 681 708 CIA Reply to questions posed by State Dept. 710 CIA re: Richard Thomas Gibson 713 FBI Tax returns: Michael & Ruth Paine 720 FBI (r) thru (ee): Photos Jack Ruby strippers 721 FBI Oswald's trip to Mexico 726 CIA Actions of Silvia Duran after first interrogation / Washington, DC 729 FBI Allegation that Oswald was in Montreal, summer,l963 / Washington, DC 751 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald: re Mexican trip / Washington, DC 763 FBI Mark Lane appearances / Los Angeles 785 FBI Oswald in Mexico : 7 photos attached / Washington, DC 788 FBI Memorandum on Eugene B. Dinkin / Chicago 794 FBI "Lee Harvey Oswald" re Elizabeth Catlett Mora 795 SS Interview with Harry McCormick, Dallas Morning News / Dallas 796 HEW Social Security information on Karen Bennett et al. / Washington, DC 801 FBI Jeanne De Mohrenschildt / Chicago 808 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Cincinnati 812 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Miami 817 CIA Allegations concerning Anton Erdinger / Washington, DC 818 CIA Revisions of CD 321 / Washington, DC 844 CIA re Lydia Dimytruk, Russian acquaintance of Marina Oswald / Washington, DC 848 FBI Michael and Ruth Paine tax returns,'56-'58 / Washington, DC 853 SS re: Manuel Rodriguez, 5310 Columbia, Dallas Reaction of Cuban exile community to Pres. Kennedy's death / Washington, DC / Miami / Dallas 854 SS Control no. 1426; Odio, McChann, Leopoldo, J. Martin / Miami 871 CIA Photos of Oswald in Russia / Washington, DC 872 FBI Oswald's travel in Mexico / Washington, DC 873 FBI Oswald's travel in Mexico / Washington, DC 874 FBI Oswald's travel in Mexico / Washington, DC 880 FBI re Oswald safe deposit box, in Laredo, Houston / Washington, DC 894 FBI re Detroit branch of the Fair Play Committee for Cuba / Detroit 895 FBI re Reva and Joseph Bernstein / Washington, DC 896 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Washington, DC 902 CIA Criteria for giving information to the Secret Service 908 FBI Oswald trust fund / Dallas 910 FBI Inquiry into Oswald's Mexican trip / Washington, DC 911 CIA Marina Oswald's notebook / Washington, DC 928 CIA Lev Setyayev and Lee Harvey Oswald cortact with USSR citizens / Washington, DC 931 CIA Oswald's access to information about the U-2 / Washington, DC 933 FBI Investigation of Paul V. Carroll / El Paso 935 CIA Role of Cuba Intelligence Service in processing visa application / Washington, DC 941 FBI Telephone nos. on 47th page of Lee Harvey Oswald's address book / Washington, DC 943 CIA Allegations of PFC Eugene Dinkin re assassination plot / Washington,DC 944 CIA Mexican control of US citizens travel to Cuba / Mexico 945 SS Interview of Rev. Walter McChann on April 30 / Washington, DC 955 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald / Los Angeles 959 FBI Arnold Louis Kessler / Washington, DC 971 CIA Telephone call to U.S. embassy, Canberra, re planned assassination / Washington, DC 977 FBI Interview with Abraham Bolden / Chicago 983 FBI re claims of Manuel Santamarina Mendez and Luis Fernandez Gonzalez / Washington, DC 988 FBI Information concerning General Edwin Walker / Boston 990 CIA Khrushchev and Drew Pearson discussion re Lee Harvey Oswald / Washington, DC 991 FBI Letter to Atty. Gen'l from Norman P. Michaud / Bureau Prisons 992 FBI re: Norman P. Michaud; threat against Lyndon B. Johnson / Phoenix 1000 CIA Mexican interrogation of Gilbert Alvarado / Washington, DC 1005 FBI Interview of Mrs. Lucille Labonte Sudbury, Ontario / Washington, DC 1006 FBI re Charles Small, also called Smolikoff (Mexican trip) / Washington, DC 1007 FBI Oswald's Mexican trip; entry & departure / Washington, DC 1008 FBI Oswald's Mexican trip; hotel registration / Washington, DC 1012 CIA George and Jeanne DeMohrenschild / Washington, DC 1014 SS Memorandum, Soddels to Chief Rowley re Zapruder film / Dallas 1029 FBI Oswald's Mexican trip / Washington, DC 1030 FBI Statements of Reva Frank Bernstein / Washington, DC 1037 FBI Mexican aspects of Oswald investion / Washington, DC 1038 FBI Mexican aspects of Oswald investigation / Washington, DC 1039 FBI re Charles William Denton / New York 1041 CIA Allegations re Intelligence Training School in Minsk, U.S.S.R. / Washington, D.C. 1054 CIA Information on Jack Ruby and associates / Washington, DC 1080 FBI Information on Harold R. Isaacs Marilyn D. Murret / Boston 1084 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald; Luis Fernandez Gonzalez / Washington, DC 1085 FBI Cuban exile Groups and individuals / Washington, DC 1089 CIA Letter re assassination sent to Costa Rican embassy / Washington, DC 1096 CIA Fascists and Nazis today; Paris, Albin Michel; Dennis Eisenberg 1098 FBI Interviews of Capt. Voltz and Capt. Stutts / San Francisco 1126 FBI Jack Ruby: long distance phone calls to / Washington, DC 1131 CIA Soviet brainwashing techniques / Washington, DC 1133 FBI Toll charges incurred by Seth Kantor / Dallas 1138 FBI Various Ruby phone calls (Evan Grant; Vegas club) / Dallas 1149 FBI Investigations re Ruby, Paul, Senator, Breck, Wall / Dallas 1171 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald; Internal Security; Cuba / Miami 1173 FBI Letter to Tulsa Tribune by Nick Krochmal, Cleveland / Cleveland 1180 FBI Mexican aspects of the investigation / Washington, DC 1188 CIA Allegation Oswald was in Tangier Morocco / Washington, DC 1206 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald; Internal Security; Cuba / San Francisco 1212 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald re checks / New York 1216 CIA Memorandum from Helms entitled "Lee Harvey Oswald" / Washington, DC 1220 FBI Lee Harvey Oswald; re Guests at Hotel Del Cammercio / Washington, DC 1222 CIA Statements by DeMohrenschildt re assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald / Washington, DC 1262 FBI Jack Ruby: investigation relating to Paul R. Jones / Charlotte 1268 FBI Re interview of Jess Willard Lynch / Phoenix 1269 FBI Location of photos of a bone specimen, CIA / Dallas 1273 CIA Memo from Helms re apparent inconsistencies / Washington, DC 1287 CIA re Lee Harvey Oswald and affidavit concerning cropped picture / Washington, DC 1345 Dulles memo re help given Oswald by Mme Yekaterina A. Furtseva 1353 FBI Oswald; Internal Security; Cuba / Baltimore 1356 CIA Soviet Hunting Societies / Washington, DC 1358 CIA Time required for Soviet visa in Helsinki.1964 / Washington, DC 1359 FBI re statements on assassination by Fidel Castro / Washington, DC 1373 SS re Waldemar Boris Kara Patnitsky / New York I : 37B State Various Moscow embassy conversations / Moscow 138O FBI Mark Lane / New York 1394 FBI Information furnished by Katherine M. Halle re A.I.Kinchuk / Washington, DC 1404 FBI Records of Dallas police; phone calls to Ft. Worth / Dallas 14O9 FBI Results of investigation to locate Carlos Camorgo / Washington, DC 14l3 FBI Interview with Richard D. Walker / Dallas 14l4 FBI Copy of slip of paper Jack Ruby left at Graphic Studio / Dallas 1424 Earl Ruby letter to the Commission 1425 FBI re American GI Forum / Washington DC 1427 FBI re maintaining contact with Albert Alexander Osborne / Washington, DC 1437 FBI re Sidney Joseph Whiteside / Houston 1443 CIA re Konstantin Petrovich Sergievsky / Washington, DC 1452 SS re Nancy M. Dowell, also called Tami True / Dallas 1457 FBI Mark Lane and his trip to Europe / Washington, DC 1470 FBI Long distance calls of Harry Olsen / Dallas 1479 CIA re publication of documents furnished the Warren Commission / Washington, 1482 IRS Tax returns Robert B.Baker, Bruce Carlin, et al. / Washington, DC 1486 FRT Oswald; Internal Security; Cuba / Miami 1487 FBI Memo entitled Mark Lane, James Delaney Garst / Washington, DC 1990 State re permission for Warren Commission to publish certain State Documents / Washington, DC 1504 FBI Bruce Ray Carlin toll charges / Dallas 1510 FBI Translations of FBI items D-244 to D-248 and 250 / Washington. DC 1522 FBI Mark Lane 1523 FBI Statement from Omaha re Warren Egbert Hefflon 1528 FBI re William Wayne Howe's interest in providing home 1532 CIA Documents seized at end of World War II re Joachim Joesten 1539 FBI O.Pena and B.Flechenstein / New Orleans 1543 FBI German newspaper article / Washington, DC 1544 FBI Report from a confidential source pertaining to a document from West Germany 1545 CIA Activity of Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City / Washington, OC 1551 CIA Conversations between Cuban President and ambassador 1552 CIA Soviet use of kidnapping and assassination; Soviet press reaction