He then wrote about the Loran Eugene Hall story (subject of missing pages) because it is the subject of an FBI report (CD 1179) on which there is an address that is about half a mile from Hernando's Hideaway. The address on the FBI report is also "only a mile or so from the Central Shopping center where del Valle met his untimely demise." Kensington and his father reportedly overheard an assassination plot against President Kennedy at Hernando's Hideaway days prior to November 22, 1963.⁴⁸²

In December 1992, Michael Kensington was shown two color slides of Wing's Rambler. As anyone who has seen the slides can attest, the color of the car is nondescript. There are three significant results from Kensington's comparison of George Wing's car to the one he saw:

First, the colors match. Kensington said he could not make out the hue in the slides of Wing's Rambler but stated that his father's car was "Pepto-Bismol" colored, or light-pink, as was the Hernando's Hideaway Rambler. That is the color, although faded, of George Wing's Rambler station wagon.⁴⁸³

Second, Kensington could not have done his double-take prior to 1959. His family bought their 1956 Rambler in 1959. When he stated this he did not yet know Wing's car is a 1959.

Third, there is a visual similarity to the 1950s styling. Upon comparison of the pertinent body styles Kensington determined he could not have confused a 1960, 1961 or 1962 model with their family's 1956 Rambler. Therefore the car he saw could not have been later than a 1959. And although Kensington could not rule out the 1958 model, the possibilities are substantially narrowed.⁴⁸⁴

Kensington looked up Rambler styles and determined that the pronounced rear fins he remembers are on both the 1958 and 1959 models. The 1960 and 1961 models had much less pronounced "shark fins". He remembers doing his double-take near the end of the ownership of their 1956 Rambler. His father sold it when they bought a 1960 Corvair in 1961 or 1962, according to one of his parents. Kensington added that he was not a teenager in 1959 but he was a teen when he did the double-take. This means that a 1959 Rambler cannot be ruled out based on the timing of Kensintgton's observations. Only if he had done his double-take prior to the fall of 1958 would it rule out Wing's car. Kensington also said he was interested in C.B. Smith's possible Jules Dubois connection because it was David Salvador, a friend of Dubois, who started the 30th of November movement.⁴⁸⁵ The significance of this connection requires a detailed look at Cecil Bernard Smith, Sr.

George's widow, Lucila Lopez Wing, believes the car was C.B. Smith's personal automobile and not just a car from his used car lot.⁴⁸⁶ Even if Smith was the original owner of the car he had enough right-wing, military-industrial, LBJ, and Latin American connections to make his ownership important.

If Lucila Wing is correct, the car's owner could still have been either C.B. Smith, Sr. or his son, C.B. Smith, Jr. It is much more likely that it was the elder Smith's car, however, since Rambler reportedly went out of business because of their inability to appeal to younger drivers. It is also known that Smith, Jr. had a preference for Porches, making it unlikely he would own a Rambler wagon.⁴⁸⁷

Smith, Jr. was sales manager of C.B. Smith Motors by October, 1964. The son's ownership of the car would not make much difference with regard to links to the assassination since Smith, Sr. still owned the dealership as late as 1967 and his son (born 1923) was more military than his father. Smith, Jr. was a dive bomber pilot when he was a Marine Air Corps first lieutenant in the Pacific during World War II. In Korea he was promoted to captain and served with the First Marine Division.⁴⁸⁸

C.B. Smith, Sr., was born in West, Texas, to a farm and ranching family, and graduated from Rotan high school in 1920. He was a captain in the College Cadet Corps at Grubbs Vocational College from 1920-22 (Grubbs became the University of Texas at Arlington which named Smith an outstanding alumnus in 1967 -- mentioned earlier in reference to de Mohrenschildt). He didn't do anything else militarily until World War II when he was Chairman of the United States-Canadian War Production Committee and served with the Chief of Staff, Army Ordinance, in Washington and Detroit, as Director of Tools and Equipment.⁴⁸⁹

It would be interesting to learn, though, the nature of his work just prior to the war. After Grubbs, Smith, Sr. got his BA and MA at the University of Texas at Austin where he continued to be quite a frat, scholar and athlete until 1928. He then became athletic director and professor of government at Houston Junior College (now the University of Houston). While in Houston he considered joining the diplomatic corps but opted to join the Universal Credit Company instead, spending two years with that organization in Mexico.⁴⁹⁰ Could that have been some kind of intelligence work?

After the war Smith, Sr. spent ten years with the Chevrolet Division of General Motors (GM) as an executive in Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis and Houston. This raises the question of whether Smith, with his intense interest in Latin American politics, ever became associated with Amadeo Barletta.

Barletta was a director of Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust (CVOVT), the company started by George de Mohrenschildt and former Pantipec Oil president, Warren Smith (Canfield and Webberman, Coup de Etat in America). Barletta was also the Cuban representative of General Motors and a close associate of Batista and Trujillo. Pantipec Oil was owned by William F. Buckley, Jr.'s parents.⁴⁹¹ De Mohrenschildt, in what had to have been one of his first jobs upon graduating from UT, worked at Pantipec under Warren W. Smith in 1945. The question of a possible family relationship between C.B. Smith and Warren Smith should also be a focus of future research.

If C.B. Smith knew Barletta it would not only be a link to de Mohrenschildt but to another director of his company, Jose M. Bosch Lamarque. Bosch Lamarque supported Castro then turned against him in 1959. He was Castro's chief contact with Jules Dubois, a journalist and Army intelligence vet who helped engineer the Guatemala coup in 1954. Dubois' old underground contract, David Salvador, founded the anti-communist 30th of November Movement. A Cuban, identified by the Secret Service as belonging to 30th of November, said during an arms deal on November 21, 1963 that the financial backers of his group would soon "take care of Kennedy."⁴⁹²

A national 30th of November leader, Jesus Fernandez Hernandez, was the resident, in 1962 and 1963, of Hernando's Hideaway. He was leasing the house from the Keys Realty Company. Rolando Cubella's co-plotter in the AM/LASH plot was Eugenio Rolando Martinez, the owner of the CIA front, Keys Realty, which owned Hernando's Hideaway where Kensington witnessed the Rambler similar to George Gordon Wing's. Martinez was also the skipper of the Collins Radio ship Rex during its ill-fated raid on Cuba in late October 1963 -- a fact attributed to Frank Sturgis by Peter Dale Scott in Crime and Cover-Up. Scott adds that Sturgis was probably involved with this raid as well. Sturgis was a long-time associate of Eugenio Martinez.⁴⁹³

Bosch Lamarque was an original supporter of Carlos Bringuier's Directorial Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE) and Alpha 66 which was linked to three attempts on Castro including the attempt involving the Odios.⁴⁹⁴ DRE and Alpha 66 grew out of the group originally funded by Bosch Lamarque, and DRE had overlapping goals and personnel with 30th of November.⁴⁹⁵ It is therefore probable that de Mohrenschildt's fellow oil company employee Bosch Lamarque was one of the financial backers who would soon "take care of Kennedy."

Yet another director of CVOVT, Jose I. de la Camara, was an employee of Augustin Batista Falla's Trust Company of Cuba. The Batista Falla family was behind the Lake Pontchartrain training camp where Loran Hall and Gerry Patrick Hemming were training Cuban exiles.⁴⁹⁶ Bringuier accused Oswald of attempting to infiltrate this very camp after Oswald allegedly went there with David Ferrie.⁴⁹⁷ And of course Hall and Hemming bring us full circle back to Hernando's Hideaway. The FBI report, which Michael Kensington wrote about (CD 1179) links Hall and Hemming to Dick Whatley, a former Brigade 2506 trainer in Guatemala, whose address on that report was near Hernando's Hideaway. Also, according to Marita Lorenz, Hemming was among those who left from a Miami safehouse and drove to Dallas in a station wagon to kill Kennedy.⁴⁹⁸

Aside from the fact that these people were primary players in Second Naval Guerrilla and the false stories about Oswald (subjects of missing pages), these associations would sufficiently link Smith to the conspirators and go a long way toward proving this car to be the infamous Hernando's Hideaway/Dealey Plaza Rambler. The possibility that C.B. Smith did not know this Cuban GM representative, during a time when even the average American was riveted by the events in Cuba, would be incredible.

More direct links between C.B. Smith, Warren W. Smith, and George de Mohrenschildt are also likely. Although older, William F. Buckley, Sr., like Smith, had resided at UT's very fraternal upperclassmen dormitory, "Old B Hall." By the time C.B. Smith was at UT (1922), Buckley had been expelled from Mexico for his counterrevolutionary activities (no doubt in league with Allen Dulles' uncle, Robert Lansing) and had begun lecturing on Mexican politics.⁴⁹⁹ During his years at UT, C.B. Smith "was a member of the Friar's Senior Honor Society; president of the International Relations Society, President of Student Graduate School, Pi Sigma Alpha Honorary Government Society; Manager, University Men's Dormitory." Smith was an avid student of Southwest and Latin American history and government and after graduating remained a "great friend and admirer of Walter Prescott Webb," his professor of Southwestern history. Smith also spent "as much time as possible in research on these subjects."⁵⁰⁰ It is therefore likely that Smith and Buckley came to share their mutual interests in UT and Mexico long before 1963. The question of a family relationship between C.B. Smith and Warren Smith should also be a focus of future research.

In addition to Smith's former ownership of the Rambler station wagon, several questions remain concerning its ownership prior to Smith, and during George Wing's ownership. Two questions to be answered are: who, if anyone, owned the car prior to C.B. Smith?; and to whom was the "turista" sticker registered in 1964?

The first question is important because Oswald was under the impression that he left Dealey Plaza in "Mrs. Paine's" station wagon. If, as indicated by Navy Department documents, Ruth Paine knew Oswald as early as 1957⁵⁰¹ then it could be that the Paines originally owned the car and sold it to Smith who in turn sold it to Wing in an attempt to "launder" the car.

While we do not know when or from whom Smith bought the car, we do know he "delivered" the car to Wing on April 26, 1963 (this date was on a warranty card in the glove compartment). This was possibly a very significant time in the conspiracy.

On April 24, Marina moved in with Ruth Paine, and Oswald left for New Orleans. On April 25, Oswald arrived in New Orleans to begin his infamous summer there. And before any of these things happened, LBJ arrived at Love Field shortly before noon on Tuesday, April 23, for a busy day of two luncheons, two private conferences at both Dallas newspapers' offices, a large banquet, and an address to a meeting of scientists. During the one-hour conference at the Dallas Times Herald, he said that Kennedy may visit Dallas "on a one-day visit to Texas in the near future." According to some news accounts, Johnson referred to Kennedy using the analogy of a pilot. He reportedly told the press not to shoot Kennedy down now but wait until his visit to shoot him down.⁵⁰² It sounds like a "go" signal.

The second question is about the turista sticker. It will be difficult to answer but it is still important. Either Wing took the car to Mexico or someone else did. If Wing made the trip it was either a vacation or UT business. Both of these reasons can be verified through Wing's UT personnel records. If there is no record of Wing being away from UT during that period then things get strange again. If someone else took the car, who was it? Did Wing let him use the car or was it stolen (and was it reported stolen)? Did the borrower or thief have any links to the assassination?

Unfortunately the most detailed information we have on Wing, aside from photographs of a most interesting montage on his office door, comes from his obituary:

Mr. George Gordon Wing, born August 31, 1922, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died at his home in Austin on Thursday, December 19, 1991.

He was preceded in death by his father, George Wing, his mother, Geraldine Gordon Wing, and his brother William.

He served in the United States Navy during World War II. He graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia, attended Mexico City College and received a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley.

He was a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin from 1962 to the time of his death.

He is survived by his wife, Lucila Lopez Wing and her four children, Adriana Rodriguez Conchola, Esteban Rodriguez, Carlos Rodriguez, and Sergio Rodriguez, and by a nephew and a niece from Philadelphia, Terence Wing and Susan Wing.

A memorial mass will be held on Tuesday, December 24 at 10:00 AM, at the University Catholic Student Center.

Services under the direction of the Angel Funeral Home, 1811 South Congress Avenue, 441-9738.

Other known pieces of significant personal information are his Social Security number, 187-18-5710; his UT employee number, 96139; and his 1972 Texas Driver's License index number, 2398458. We know that in 1963 he lived at 717 Landon Lane, Austin, Texas. From as early as September 13, 1967 to as late as June 6, 1977 he lived at 2102 Marquette Lane, Austin, Texas (phone: GL-27210). And as early as October 30, 1982 he lived at 2102 Robinhood (phone: 476-1630). In 1966 his license plate number was BGS839; in 1967 it was BTD307; in 1971 it was BJY237; in 1972 it was BKN46; in 1975 it was BKN973; and in 1977 it was AGQ821. The mileage on the car on September 1, 1966 was 68162; on September 13, 1967 it was 73525; and on February 19, 1975 it was 79930. Finally, his insurance agent at one time was "M.E. Luper, State Farm Insurance Co's, Tex. Pub. Employees Assoc. Bldg., 311 East 14th Street, Austin 1, Texas, Ph. GR 8-8545."

The final coincidences of his life were that he died the day the movie JFK premiered. And his funeral was at the "Angel" Funeral Home. (This latter coincidence will become apparent in this paper.) In addition, it is recalled that Philadelphia is the hometown of Frank Fiorini Sturgis and is near Pittsburgh, hometown of the Mannarino brothers -- all subjects of missing pages.

A page of biographical information included with Wing's 1961 doctoral dissertation states that he was at Mexico City College from 1949 to 1950. The next listing puts him at the University of California beginning in 1952. This two-year gap following his stay at Mexico City College is intriguing for several reasons. 1950 was the year Hunt hired Buckley to work with him at the CIA's Mexico City station. Hunt hired him because, as he recalled, "I knew the student situation in Mexico City was crying out for some corrective attention, and I thought here was a young man just out of college. I was going to be in the embassy myself, and I needed somebody on the outside who could make contacts and deal with the younger people." Besides Wing, another student who was reportedly at Mexico City College in 1950 was Fidel Castro.⁵⁰³

Military personnel records of George Wing's Naval career include a photograph taken of Wing in the early 1940s. All of the facial features closely resemble those of the "turtleneck" man in the missing photo from The Fish is Red. It is inconclusive however since neither it nor the reproduction of the St. George photo show his left ear's anatomy with sufficient clarity.⁵⁰⁴

Wing's service record was the first document found which linked Wing to Florida. Also intriguing is Wing's heavy involvement with ordnance (weapons, ammunition, combat vehicles, tools and equipment) and naval aviation. During World War II, C.B. Smith served as Director of Tools and Equipment for the Chief of Staff, Army Ordnance. In 1940 D.H. Byrd made a successful bid for the location of Hensley Field, U.S. Naval Air Base in Grand Prairie, Texas, near Dallas.

In July 1962, while he was Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth awarded Byrd a plaque calling him a "Long-time friend of the Navy -- and particularly of Naval aviation..." for his role with Hensley field and for supporting the expeditions of his cousin Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, a pioneer of naval aviation.⁵⁰⁵

It is rumored Wing was not tenured despite his being an associate professor. Dr. Wing, who earned a Bachelor of Science from Temple University in Philadelphia in 1949 and a Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley in 1961, was a specialist in Latin American literature for almost thirty years at UT. This is unusual for two reasons. First, it is extremely rare in academia to be anywhere that long without tenure.

Second, Wing has apparently published very little. The following articles are all that have been located by this paper's researchers: "Trilce I: A Second Look," (Austin, TX: ILAS, 1972); "Octavio Paz: Or The Revolution in Search of an Actor," (Austin, TX: ILAS, 1973); "Some Remarks on the Literary Criticism of Carlos Fuentes," (in Rob Brody with Charles Roseman [eds.] Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View, The University of Texas Press, 1982, pp. 200-215); "A Gallery of Women in Carlos Fuentes's Cantar de ciegos," (in Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 8, Summer 1988, pp. 217-224); and his 1961 doctoral dissertation, Octavio Paz: Poetry, Politics, and the Myth of the Mexican. It thus appears Wing violated the "publish or perish" rule.

An associate who had worked with Wing considered him to be a "very weird person." She said that during the period she worked with him he drank heavily and wore disheveled clothing. She also spoke negatively about his personal hygiene.⁵⁰⁶ In a similar description, Chuck Bradshaw, described Wing as "an odd fellow."⁵⁰⁷ Bradshaw is a former employee of C.B. Smith, Sr. who also knew George Wing. His observations about Smith will be discussed further.

John Wheat, a former student of George Wing's, found Wing to be very intelligent and to have a sarcastic wit. He said Wing would stand under a "no smoking" sign, light up a cigarette, and make a point about literature. He was never cruel, John said, but he enjoyed playing around.

John said Wing was primarily interested in the psychological and political aspects of literature. That is also evident from Wing's scarce writings. John said Wing was liberal and progressive much in the same way as Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. On the subject of tenure, John said that Wing must have been tenured because it comes with being an associate professor.⁵⁰⁸

In his writings, Wing comes across as an intelligent and insightful literary critic. Former students have described him as politically to the left. One former student said he was "obsessed with Pablo Neruda." In the first posthumous anthology of the work of this Nobel Prize winning Argentine poet, editor and translator Ben Belitt described Neruda as prophetic, adding, "The vision of things to come -- as cancer, as coup d'état, as assassination -- is there." In this same volume, Pablo Neruda, Five Decades: A Selection (Poems: 1925-1970), is a poem entitled The United Fruit Company.⁵⁰⁹

On October 28, 1992, researcher John Garcia had a short conversation with UT Spanish professor Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth (the close friend of Harry Ransom) about the late George Gordon Wing. Gonzalez-Gerth said he thinks Wing came to UT in 1960-61 (actually Wing began teaching at UT in the fall of 1962). John asked if it is possible that Wing was involved with Cuban exiles in Florida. Gonzalez-Gerth said Wing was very progressive and involved in civil rights. He said he did not think Wing would have had much to do with right-wing anti-Castro Cubans. Finally, Gonzalez-Gerth said, "What if all this time the George Wing that we knew was disguised?" Gonzalez-Gerth was in a hurry to get to his office and the conversation rested there.⁵¹⁰

This conversation took place on the elevator at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. While talking to Gonzalez-Gerth, Garcia had an odd sense that Gonzalez-Gerth and Wing had not been very close. The tone was that Gonzalez-Gerth had not known Wing that intimately.

Auto records kept by George Wing during his lifetime reveal that R.L. Lewis, a salesman at C.B. Smith Motors, handled the sale of the Rambler from Smith to Wing. It was learned that Lewis died of a heart attack on January 11, 1964.⁵¹¹ This was only seven weeks after the assassination.

Wilma Johnson of Manor, Texas, the former office manager at C.B. Smith Motors, said that all the old records were lost in "the flood." She said they had been stored down on Lamar. She was referring to the Memorial Day Flood of 1981 which severely damaged businesses along Lamar Blvd. from about twelfth street down to the river. The auto dealerships at Sixth Street and Lamar were especially hard hit since they are right next to Shoal Creek.⁵¹² Other records still to be sought are those for P.K. Williams Rambler, Austin's dealership at the time, to see if Smith bought the car there and whether or not it was bought new.⁵¹³

Chuck Bradshaw, born 1937, became C.B. Smith, Sr.'s garage manager in 1962. Chuck told a story about how he and C.B. Smith, Jr., who became his father's sales manager, built three racing cars in Smith's shop while Smith, Sr. was in Japan for a year partly to see the Olympics. Upon his return, Smith, who was not a race car enthusiast, ordered Chuck to get rid of the cars immediately.⁵¹⁴ The XVIII Summer Games were held in Tokyo October 10 to 24, 1964. In light of D.H. Byrd's late 1963 hunting trip, it is noteworthy that Smith left on his year-long trip to Japan one year prior to the Olympics and returned in late October 1964 -- one month after the Warren Commission Report was issued. It is not yet known whether the U.S. and Japan had an extradition treaty in effect at that time.⁵¹⁵

C.B. Smith, Sr. always drove Chryslers, according to Bradshaw, and Smith, Jr. always drove Porsches. Chuck said that Smith Jr.'s son David is a helicopter pilot. He also said that Smith was so tight with money "He could take a nickel and squeeze a dime out of it." Smith owned only three suits, black, brown, and blue.⁵¹⁶

Despite his frugality, Smith financially supported Lyndon Johnson's campaigns. When asked about this Chuck said, "Oh yes, C.B. Smith and Johnson were very close. We would often hear him on the phone with Lady Bird." Chuck said one of C.B. Smith Motors' Christmas parties (he thinks 1965) was held at the LBJ Ranch. One of Chuck's mechanics got drunk at this party and shot Smith's van full of holes with a shotgun.⁵¹⁷

Smith, Jr. took over the business, according to Chuck, around 1968, about the time Chuck left, and sold it to Chuck Nash's Pontiac dealership in the 1970s. Bradshaw described Smith, Sr. as "military" in the way he ran his business with a clear chain of command.⁵¹⁸

These bits of personal information about Smith and Wing have proven and may continue to prove useful in analyzing the missing pages. The more that is learned about these men and about the assassination, the more intertwined they seem to become.

Of interest from Russell's references to "Angel" are the following: "Of Angel, Nagell wrote to Fensterwald in 1975: `A friend out here, formerly connected with Alpha 66, advises that an Angel was apprehended in Cuba while on ice, possibly in 1965 or 1966. This Angel was found in possession of .45 calibre ammunition containing (?) or coated with cyanide....He is said to have copped out that he and several cohorts were on a CIA-sponsored mission to assassinate Fidel.'

"In 1984, Nagell hinted to me that Angel might have been among forty-eight political prisoners released by Castro that June, in what was termed by the Cuban premier as a `personal gesture' triggered by a visit from Jesse Jackson."⁵¹⁹

This indicates that Angel could not be Wing. The thought was entertained because a "war name" is, in many cases, a whimsical reference to one's real name. George Wing's only UT yearbook photos appear in the Cactus Yearbook for 1964 (p. 48) and 1967 (p. 549).

A list of the forty-eight former prisoners, however, might reveal a name of someone currently suspected of being Angel and a check could be made for associations to Wing; especially since the yearbook photos do not rule out the possibility that the St. George photo in The Fish is Red is Wing.

"Nagell has said that he `complained' to Desmond FitzGerald on August 27, 1963, apparently about the Oswald-related operation having gone out of control." This date is one day before Wing put new tires on the Rambler, and in the same time frame that Oswald visited Ruby's friend Robert Ray McKeown in Bay Cliff, Texas; having been driven there by "Hernandez" in a "light-colored car."⁵²⁰

As discussed earlier, Watergate burglar Bernard Barker has admitted, as has Frank Sturgis, to being close to Carlos Prio Socarras, the wealthy financier of Cuban exile activities. Prio Socarras was once arrested in a gun-running conspiracy with Robert Ray McKeown. McKeown had been involved with Jack Ruby in "running jeeps to Cuba" and other smuggling schemes. The point of these relationships in connection with McKeown's "light-colored car" is that Barker was the man identified by Deputy Constable Seymour Weitzman as one of the fake Secret Service agents in Dealey Plaza. Another fake Secret Service man, identified by Roger Craig as Edgar Eugene Bradley, only made a note of Craig's description of the Rambler -- not the men who were escaping in it. It is possible, as we will see, that C.B. Smith was also in contact with Prio Socarras and his gun-running activities through a fellow Texan and financial supporter of LBJ.

As with the story of the arrest and release of the Rambler driver in Dealey Plaza, this story of "Bay Cliff, Texas" should be double-checked by researchers. A search for "Bay Cliff" using maps adapted from the county maps issued by the Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation and prepared by the Texas A & M University Cartographics Laboratory, reveal no such city. There are the cities of Bacliff, Bay City, Bayside, Baytown, and Bayview, all in far South Texas, not between Dallas and Houston where Dick Russell said Bay Cliff is supposed to be.⁵²¹

Most likely the correct city is Bacliff, just south of Houston off of Interstate Highway 45 which runs between Dallas and Houston. It is also near Beaumont, where Ruby's other gun-running associate, Thomas Eli Davis III, lived. Author Henry Hurt says that Beaumont is "not far from where McKeown had his headquarters." Making matters worse, reporter and author Seth Kantor (whom Hurt cites) places McKeown in "Bashore, Texas" -- another non-existent town.⁵²² If this geography lesson seems a bit trivial, it will become more important when we discuss an incident in another Texas town that took place around the same time. If the two incidents are related, the traveling required could have been the motivation behind putting new tires on Wing's Rambler on August 28, 1963.

Russell points out that "[Victor Espinosa] Hernandez -- identified only as `A' in the congressional investigation's reports -- was involved `with anti-Castro exiles and underworld figures who were operating the guerrilla training camp in New Orleans in July, 1963,' according to CIA files. [He] purchased twenty-four hundred pounds of dynamite and twenty bomb casings meant to be dropped on Cuban targets. His contact was Richard Lauchli, a co-founder of the paramilitary Minutemen group.⁵²³ After Hernandez transported the matériel to the New Orleans camp, it was seized on July 31, 1963 in an FBI raid. Hernandez, Lauchli, and nine other men were temporarily detained." The raid on the Lake Pontchartrain camp and specifically the story of "A" are subjects of many missing pages in the mutilated copies of Crime and Cover-Up and The Fish is Red.

It is essential to note here, in thinking about the Rambler, that Victor Espinosa Hernandez was a lifelong friend of Rolando Cubela and that Cubella's co-plotter in the AM/LASH plot was Eugenio Rolando Martinez, the owner of the CIA front, Keys Realty Company, which owned Hernando's Hideaway where Kensington witnessed the Rambler similar to George Gordon Wing's.

Martinez was also the skipper of the Collins Radio ship Rex during its ill-fated raid on Cuba in late October 1963 -- a fact attributed to Frank Sturgis by Peter Dale Scott in Crime and Cover-Up. Scott adds that Sturgis was probably involved with this raid as well. Sturgis was a long-time associate of Eugenio Martinez.⁵²⁴

Robert Sam Anson, in his book, "They've Killed the President!", uses the Rex as an example of a violation of Kennedy's warning to six Americans to stop their anti-Castro activities -- namely Sturgis. The above information was a specific target for censorship (or discovery) in these mutilated books.

However, in the most mutilated book found to date, The Fish is Red, the entire story of the Rex survived. The only difference between it and the accounts in Scott and Anson is Hinckle/Turner's failure to mention the roles of Martinez and Sturgis⁵²⁵ -- roles that link them to Collins Radio and ultimately to de Mohrenschildt, Oswald, and D.H. Byrd.

In bringing to a full circle the McKeown story, the missing pages mystery, the many UT connections to the assassination, and Mike Kensington's near identification of George Wing's Rambler, it is of interest that some researchers are looking for a man named Hernandez in their search for "Angel."

One suspect is Jesus Fernandez Hernandez, the Cuban who was leasing Hernando's Hideaway from Eugenio Martinez in 1962 and 1963. However, considering the coincidences seen in the combined discoveries of Wing's car and the mutilated books, another candidate is Victor Espinosa Hernandez. Completing the circle could depend on the declassification of the only classified document in the three boxes comprising Lyndon Johnson's pre-presidential office diary.

The only known information about what is contained in this document is its description on the pink "removed" form filed chronologically in its place. This pink form shows that the document is a Secret Service report about an incident in Graham, Texas on August 31, 1963 and that the report was given to LBJ's aid Walter Jenkins.

This date is within the time frame of Oswald's visit to McKeown in a light-colored car driven by "Hernandez," four days after Nagell's report to Desmond FitzGerald about the Oswald-related operation having gone out of control, and three days after George Wing put two new tires on his Rambler.⁵²⁶ Records exist of several tire purchase dates, including August 28, 1963, (2 tires/27 mo. guarantee), and November 20, 1964, (2 tires/30 mo. guarantee).⁵²⁷ They place the Rambler in Austin on these dates.

Graham, Texas is in the southeast corner of Lee County, just west of Fort Worth. It is a fairly direct route between Graham and Bacliff -- a trip that could be made in a day. Thus the earlier of the two dates may be significant with regard to an anti-Castro Cuban/Minuteman/Oswald/Ruby connection discovered by Warren Commission attorneys Hubert and Griffin but not investigated by the FBI or CIA. It involves Robert Ray McKeown and the fact that Ruby associate Bertha Cheek was the sister of Earlene Roberts, the housekeeper at Oswald's rooming house. The Hubert/Griffin leads will be discussed further in this paper.

A declassification request was filed for this Secret Service report on November 21, 1991. On Oct. 21, 1992, it was learned that declassification requests are sent to the agency where they originated for approval and that it is not unusual for the process to take as long as two years. However, it is likely that one other person will make the final decision: the man who watches over the research and researchers in the LBJ Library reading room and who compiled Johnson's national security file at the Library, Walt Whitman Rostow.

Considering the possible importance of missing pages subject "A" to the McKeown affair, a check was made of the other missing pages for McKeown. The following was found:

Crime and Cover-Up (p. 44): Here Scott discusses links between Ruby, Roselli, and Ramsey Clark. "One of Ruby's...`close personal friends' and character witnesses for his liquor license was Hal Collins (22 H 928), brother-in-law of prominent local attorney Robert L. Clark, the brother and uncle respectively of U.S. Attorneys General Tom and Ramsey Clark (CD 4.371)....Robert L. Clark and his law partner Maury Hughes... arranged the...parole in 1947 of John Roselli....It is probably irrelevant that Robert Clark also served as general counsel for an airline originally organized in part by Houston syndicate pay-off connection Jack Harold Halfen, who channeled money from the Dallas-Chicago mob's slot machines in Houston to Texas politicians as high (he claimed) as Lyndon Johnson. But Halfen also `smuggled guns and surplus American bombers to Fidel Castro,' in a deal which apparently involved Carlos Prio Socarras and his Texas associate, Ruby's Cuban business contact, Robert R. McKeown."

In another possible example of purpose behind the mutilations, two McKeown pages in Anson survived (239-40). Anson discusses McKeown's gun running to Castro, Ruby seeking McKeown's help in a sale of surplus Jeeps to Castro, and Ruby seeking McKeown's help in getting three people out of Cuba. This standard McKeown-Ruby story, devoid of details, survived. However, it seems the "irrelevant" McKeown-Prio-Halfen-Houston-LBJ-Clark-Roselli links had to disappear.

LBJ's financial supporters Halfen and C.B. Smith both had experience in military ordnance and shared an interest in Cuba. Could Smith have been involved with Halfen and McKeown in Cuban gun running? If so, it would be a Smith-Ruby link reminiscent of the possible Carousel Club link of Smith's friend Harry Ransom. Leon Hubert, the Warren Commission's attorney in charge of investigating Ruby, found significance in "Ruby's admission that in 1959 he was interested in selling jeeps to Cuba and other reports that persons interested in Cuban arms sales were responsible for the assassination of President Kennedy."⁵²⁸

George Michael Evica writes about memoranda written by Leon Hubert and Bert Griffin indicating they were investigating an anti-Castro Cuban/Minutemen/Oswald/Ruby connection. It says, "We have...suggested the theory that Ruby and Mrs. [Bertha] Cheek could have been involved in Cuban arms sales of which Oswald gained knowledge through his efforts to infiltrate the anti-Castro Cubans."⁵²⁹ Mrs. Cheek was the sister of Earlene Roberts, housekeeper at 1026 N. Beckley, where Oswald was living at the time of the assassination.⁵³⁰

The CIA and FBI failed to follow up on these leads. They seem to corroborate the McKeown-Hernandez-Lauchli-Oswald connection and the Ruby-Periera-Magnolia-Paine connection. Given those connections, the Hubert/Griffin leads may still trace back to the Dealey Plaza Rambler in a way that substantiates the possibility that the light-colored car used for Oswald's visit to McKeown was that very Rambler station wagon. That possibility involves the fundamental question of how Oswald could claim that the Rambler "belongs" to Ruth Paine when she apparently did not own such a car.

Earlier in this paper, it was mentioned that Bert Sugar and Sybil Leek apparently had information that Paine borrowed a car similar to the one seen in Dealey Plaza. What was not mentioned, however, was that they claimed she "sometimes borrowed" the car from Jack Ruby.⁵³¹ Whatever the vices of Sugar's and Leek's book, to make a claim that Ruth Paine borrowed anything from Jack Ruby must be based on something. If they invented the claim out of nothing it is certainly odd that a possible Ruby-Oswald-Paine link through Bertha Cheek and her sister Earlene Roberts seems to corroborate it. If true, this is the second possible Paine-Ruby link after the Paine-Magnolia-Periera-Ruby connection.

There is also a third scenario which, as we have seen, brings together the Miami Rambler, the Dealey Plaza Rambler, Wing's Rambler, Ruth Paine, Jack Ruby, and Oswald. In his manuscript, Peter Dale Scott mentions Jesus Fernandez Hernandez, the leaseholder of Hernando's Hideaway. He says he is a leader of the "30th of November Movement (founded by Dubois' old underground contact David Salvador)...."⁵³² That is why Kensington found the possible connection between C.B. Smith and Jules Dubois interesting.

Jose M. Bosch Lamarque, the director of de Mohrenschildt's Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Trust, was Castro's chief contact with Dubois.⁵³³ Bosch Lamarque, Barletta, and de la Camara (all on de Mohrenschildt's board) are collectively tied to the Castro assassination attempt involving the Odios, General Motors, Batista, Trujillo, and the Lake Pontchartrain training camp -- the camp where Bringuier, Hall, Hemming, Victor Espinosa Hernandez ("A"), and Lauchli are all tied together.

Scott's research ties all of this to Marina's interrogators, the Abwehr, Reinhard Gehlen, the Paines, General Walker, Operation Second Naval Guerrilla, the false Oswald stories (specifically "D"), Martino, Weyl, Andrew St. George, Haiti, DIA, Vietnam withdrawal, Charles Willoughby, the Minutemen, Dudley Dougherty, the Hunts, and Pennsylvania⁵³⁴ -- the home state of Frank Sturgis, the Mannarino brothers, and George Wing.

Furthermore, before Batista's fall at the hands of Castro, DeGolyer and MacNaughton had been active exploring for oil in Cuba, on behalf of a closely linked company which later (as Panoil) had Jack Alston Crichton as director. De Mohrenschildt's Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust, an "interlocking" company with DeGolyer and MacNaughton, also explored in Cuba at this time.⁵³⁵ DeGolyer and MacNaughton advised Harry Ransom's university about its most important asset -- oil.⁵³⁶

Crichton, head of a local Army Intelligence Unit, former employee of DeGolyer and MacNaughton,⁵³⁷ and trustee of the H.L. Hunt Foundation,⁵³⁸ had D.H. Byrd as a director of his own company,⁵³⁹ arranged for Marina Oswald to have his, George Bouhe's and Ruth Paine's friend Ilya Mamantov as her interpreter,⁵⁴⁰ had worked under Warren Smith at Pantipec,⁵⁴¹ and was John Connally's Republican opponent in the 1964 governor's race.⁵⁴²

Mamantov (the mutual friend of Paine, Crichton and de Mohrenschildt),⁵⁴³ from whom Schmidt, Pierce, and Fredricksen were taking scientific Russian classes at Magnolia Laboratories,⁵⁴⁴ co-founded the CIA-backed St. Nicholas Parish,⁵⁴⁵ which had as a financial patron former deGolyer associate Paul Raigorodsky, who belonged to the elite Tryall Golf Club retreat in Jamaica with Michael Paine's cousin Alexander "Sandy" Forbes, a former director of United fruit.⁵⁴⁶

All of these connections together account for the Rambler, the missing pages, Bancroft, Burris, Byrd, Ransom, Angel, and Leopoldo. Are the Rambler and C.B. Smith tied to Hernando's Hideaway through de Mohrenschildt's Cuban Oil Trust? Are the Rambler and Wing tied to Angel (a.k.a. Hernandez?) through the St. George photo in The Fish is Red and the fact that the Esquire magazine displayed most prominently in Wing's back seat was the August 1963 issue -- the month the "Oswald operation" went out of control, and possibly the month Oswald was driven to McKeown's by "Hernandez"?

A reference to The Fish is Red in JFK: The Book of the Film led to more insights into these questions:

"H.L. Hunt backs anti-Castro Cubans [Hinkle and Turner, The Fish Is Red, P. 202]. Hunt voices his concerns about the threat of a Kennedy dynasty in a July 11, 1963 letter to Senator Harry Byrd: `The stake is the entire future of the nation' [Letter to Senator Byrd, Box 270, Byrd Papers, University of Virginia Library]. Hunt is trying to persuade Southern Democrats to switch affiliation to the Republican Party."⁵⁴⁷

Page 202 of The Fish Is Red is not a missing page but pages 203 through 206 were removed. On page 202, as discussed earlier, Hinkle and Turner raise the question of where Orlando Bosch got the massive funding he needed to continue his raids on Cuba after splitting from the CIA. Bosch rebelled against U.S. government backing in 1963 after an FBI informant foiled his Violynn III raid (involving Sturgis, Rorke, and the Minutemen) and brought twin FBI raids against his Florida airfield and Lake Pontchartrain training camp.

The answer to the funding question came when "During a 1968 trial of Bosch's group in Miami, a telephone tape transcript was introduced in which Bosch indicated that a Mr. Hunt -- `the one with the wells' -- was providing backing."

Page 202 also ties Bosch to the Rorke/Sullivan flight in a discussion that is continued on missing page 203. Allowed to remain is the fact that Rorke was an early associate of Bosch. Deleted was the fact that Rorke was once an FBI employee and may have been suspected by Bosch of being the informer who tipped the FBI about the Violynn III mission, the bombing run from the Florida airstrip, and the bomb cache at Lake Pontchartrain; a suspicion that led Bosch to set up the flight to get rid of Rorke.

Two other theories about this flight are also presented on page 203. Hemming says the mystery passenger was a Cuban double agent who hijacked the plane to Cuba. Sturgis says the plane was shot down by Castro.

Since the missing section (203-06) is primarily about Guy Banister's connections to Friends of Democratic Cuba (linked by Dick Russell to Angel and Leopoldo), the Santa Ana mission (which also involved Gordon Novel), the Anti-Communist League of the Caribbean (linked to Nixon and the China Lobby), and Ferrie and Oswald, formerly of Civil Air Patrol, there are many connections to UT and Wing's Rambler.

Why then focus on the deletion of only part of the story of the Rorke/Sullivan flight? That flight began on September 25, 1963, the day Oswald was in Austin.⁵⁴⁸ The Beech Travelair's whereabouts between taking off from Fort Lauderdale at 8:00 a.m. and its "non-refueling" thirty miles away in Hollywood Florida five hours later are a complete mystery.⁵⁴⁹

Due to evidence which cannot yet be fully disclosed, this paper's author believes this flight may have had something to do with Oswald's trip to Austin. That evidence may be related to the fact that Lyndon Johnson arrived in Austin that night. Three times that day Johnson talked by phone to the East Coast representative of Beech Aircraft, Darrell Schneider. They spoke twice in Washington D.C. and later that night by long distance after Johnson arrived at his ranch. It was the last call Johnson made before going to bed.⁵⁵⁰

They spoke to each other many times between late 1963 and 1968 but apparently never again did they speak three different times in one day or at odd hours. The other calls between them in 1963 appear to coincide with major moves by Oswald leading up to and including his employment at the Texas Schoolbook Depository.⁵⁵¹ According to Hinkle and Turner, Bosch used H.L. Hunt's money for pilots and twin engine planes for his raids.

This reference in JFK: The Book of the Film not only shows H.L. Hunt complaining about a Kennedy dynasty at the same time he is funding Bosch, he is complaining to Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia, the cousin of D.H. Byrd.

Since Sturgis and Hemming were trainers at the Lake Pontchartrain camp, and since Sturgis arranged the Rorke/Sullivan flight, their theories about the flight must remain suspect. All three theories conflict with Marita Lorenz's claim that Rorke, Sturgis, Bosch and Hemming were with the group that drove from a CIA safehouse in Miami to Dallas in November 1963 to kill Kennedy.⁵⁵² Casting doubt on Lorenz, however, Gus Russo said:

I know Marita and a lot of work was done on her by various people. John Stockwell -- to put it in a nutshell -- had made a deal with Marita Lorenz to write her biography.

He spent two years of his time with no income researching, working with her, writing this biography. He wrote this thing then went around to try to fact check all the stuff that she had given him. It was all lies. And he waisted two years of his life.

And he told me specifically where it was all lies. The Castro story is to an extent true but nowhere near as big as she makes it out to be. There was never a child by Castro, which she claims. He went down to Havana and checked all the hospitals.

I mean he really tried to push this thing. He's spoken to all of the people who were supposedly in the motorcade going to Dallas. Nothing clicks. There's a lot more to it than that but I don't know what her motivation is. I don't want to get into that, you know, kind of thing. But I just don't believe her for a lot of reasons.⁵⁵³

The fact that the Beech Travelair attracted so much attention to itself with its odd takeoffs, landings, flight plans, and final disappearance may have been intentional. The purpose would be to distract attention from its actual flight plans that day. If Rorke took part in the drive to Dallas with Sturgis and Bosch two months later it is highly unlikely that he was the FBI informant Bosch suspected.

It is interesting to note, however, that Oswald was suspected both of being an FBI informant and (by Hemming and others) of infiltrating the anti-Castro Cubans and the Lake Pontchartrain training camp. Rorke, Sturgis, Hemming, and Bosch may have found their infiltrator, he may have been the mystery passenger on that flight, and they may have gotten their revenge by framing him for the assassination of President Kennedy.

Another event that helped shed light on the missing pages (especially those dealing with Sylvia Odio) was when in early 1993 author Pete Brewton spoke about his book The Mafia, CIA, and George Bush to a crowd of about fifty people in Austin. Some of what he said adds to information concerning the Rambler's possible connection to the Odio incident.

In 1985 Walter Mischer, Sr., friend and fund raiser for LBJ, Lloyd Bentsen, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush, bought 12,000 acres in Belize near Guatemala for the CIA. Mischer's son-in-law, Robert Corson, was a CIA asset. The land has not been used for anything. Belize is an English speaking country. The Coca-Cola Company had land there. It is primarily a transshipment point for Columbian cocaine and an area for marijuana crops.⁵⁵⁴

Belize was where Geoffrey Sullivan was seen days after his Sturgis-arranged flight with Alex Rorke and their mysterious passenger reportedly crashed at sea soon after September 25, 1963.

Corson, scheduled for trial in December 1992, was found dead in El Paso the day after the presidential election. Brewton got a note that said, "How does it feel to be a murderer.-- Corson" No drugs were found in his body although pills were strewn around his room. The cause of death was determined to be heart blockage. His face was cyanotic.

Corson had decided to turn states evidence against someone high up. The Justice Department, however, denied he was turning states evidence. County Judge John Lindsey of Houston could have been greatly damaged by Corson. Lindsey is a powerful Republican and is close to a lot of Republican officials.

Corson was basically a money-launderer. His mother tried to convince Brewton, after Corson died, that her son was not a CIA contract agent. Brewton thinks she was put up to this because of a subsequent event which he could not talk about.

During the question and answer period journalist David Armstrong said that George Bush's Zapata Oil Company leased land from E. Trine Starnes' preacher father. E.T. Starnes declared bankruptcy in 1976 after borrowing money from Mischer's Continental Bank in Houston. Brewton did not know this. Starnes was also the second largest borrower at Silverado Savings and one of the biggest private donors to the Contras.

Brewton said Bush and Bentsen are the main movers of a group of businessmen in Houston who were behind the S&L scandal. "The point," Brewton said, "is who got the money. These Houston guys probably got it. We may never find out. It can be done however but the Justice Department is not doing it. Justice has stopped subpoenas to banks in the Grand Cayman Islands."

The Parvus Company, according to Brewton, is a security-investigations company which has Richard Helms as its board chairman. "The only guy there who is not a former member of the intelligence community," Brewton said, "is Theodore Dimitry of the Vinson & Elkins law firm." Judge James Elkins was especially close to Walter Mischer.

Brewton reported that another Houston law firm, Fulbright and Jaworski, stopped Brewton's stories in the Houston Post. They are the libel lawyers for the paper. They had conflicts of interest with Mischer that they did not reveal to the Post. They had represented many of Mischer's companies.

Jaworski is indirectly related to the missing pages. Canfield and Webberman referenced Julius Mader's Who's Who in CIA about Texas Attorney General Waggoner Carr's CIA connections (Coup d'Etat in America, pages 577-578). The pages to which Canfield and Webberman referred were found missing from UT's only copy of Mader's book.

Pages 577-78 of Who's Who in CIA include both of Canfield's and Webberman's only citations from this book. The first concerns Carr's board membership at the M.D. Anderson Foundation. The second regards Robert Gerald Storey's CIA connection as a board member of the International Education Exchange, a part of the CIA's Institute of International Education.

The "Texas Court of Inquiry" into the Kennedy assassination consisted of only three men: Carr, Storey, and Jaworski. Peter Dale Scott adds that Storey is a former Army intelligence colonel and a member in 1946 of the U.S. legal team at Nuremberg along with Leon Jaworski.⁵⁵⁵

Dallas D.A. Henry Wade, Carr, Storey and Jaworski met with the Warren Commission in January 1964 to discuss allegations that Oswald had been an informant for either the FBI or CIA. Scott also cites Harold Weisberg's observation that Jaworski himself sat on the board of the M.D. Anderson Foundation, "a CIA conduit." Scott also notes many other connections between these three men and the financial backers of Second Naval Guerrilla and those involved with Lee and Marina Oswald.⁵⁵⁶

The Mader pages had been torn out leaving a single dot of red ink on the edge of the tear -- a red ball point pen had been used to remove many of the other missing pages. This book was kept in a locked "cage" and had to be requested at the circulation desk.

It is understandable that UT's protectors would be sensitive about these particular Mader pages. In 1941, the Texas legislature provided funds for a state cancer research hospital to be administered by UT. The newly formed M.D. Anderson Foundation, in its first major project, provided matching funds and a site in downtown Houston. For over thirty years, the M.D. Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research was directed by Dr. R. Lee Clark. He was succeeded in 1978 by Dr. Charles A. LeMaistre, who by the time of Harry Ransom's death two years earlier had become UT's system chancellor.⁵⁵⁷

At the time of Kennedy's assassination, LeMaistre was the director of Woodlawn Hospital and an associate professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. The Dallas County Hospital District was comprised of Parkland Memorial Hospital and Woodlawn Hospital. Among his fellow teachers at Southwestern Medical School were the doctors who treated Kennedy, Connally, Tippit, and Oswald. Two months earlier Governor Connally had appointed LeMaistre to chair the state committee on tuberculosis. Dr. LeMaistre's counterpart at Parkland Hospital was its administrator, Dr. Charles Jack Price. It was C.J. Price who was asked by Secret Service agent Clint Hill to help in obtaining a casket for the President. And it was Price's assistant, Steve Landregan, who called Vernon O'Neal's funeral home.⁵⁵⁸

In the late 1980s, the M.D. Anderson Hospital was the focus of a bizarre homicide case (see Nexis). A staff member was charged with attempted murder when it was determined he was trying to kill a co-worker by injecting him with cancer cells -- despite the fact that this is supposed to be impossible. In 1982, Dallas Deputy Sheriff Al Maddox told researchers that a phony doctor had been assigned to Ruby while he was in jail by "...whoever supplied the county at that time with doctors....And one day I went in and Ruby told me, he said, `Well, they injected me for a cold.' He said it was cancer cells. That's what he told me, Ruby did. I said you don't believe that shit. He said, `I damn sure do!'"

Police officer Tom Tilson has told researchers, "It was the opinion of a number of other Dallas police officers that Ruby had received injections of cancer while he was incarcerated in the Dallas County Jail following the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald." After Ruby's death in January 1967, an autopsy determined that there were traces of white cancerous tumors throughout his body. The Dallas County medical examiner who performed the autopsy, Dr. Earl Rose, was asked by the House Assassinations Committee if Ruby could have known about his cancer in November 1963. He said no. Ruby died after a three week stay at Parkland Hospital -- having been admitted two days after his new trial site had been announced.⁵⁵⁹

Pete Brewton's statements overlapped with a few other subjects discussed in this paper. "The Tower Commission never did their job," Brewton said, "They never looked for any of this." There are some "deepthroats" coming out of the woodwork now, but they believe their lives are in danger. In making the point that major political scandals do go undetected, Pete said that James McCord wrote to Judge John Sirica and kept Watergate alive after everyone had dropped it, including Woodward and Bernstein. McCord had been closely involved with E. Howard Hunt, Bernard Barker, Frank Sturgis, and Eugenio Martinez in Second Naval Guerrilla and the AM/LASH plot.

With regard to Austin, Pete did not know much about Austin's Lamar Savings, he writes about Austin's Creditbanc in his book. Brewton does know, however, that Adnan Khashoggi, Lamar's largest borrower, borrowed money from Continental Savings a week before he did the first arms for hostages deal.

In August 1990 Lamar Savings owner Stanley Adams, Jr. was being deposed for the civil lawsuit against him over the collapse of his savings and loan.⁵⁶⁰ The deposition was stopped on August 1 when he became emotionally upset. The U.S. District Judge who presided over the case had appointed a special court master to prepare the case for trial. The man he appointed was Waggoner Carr. The case was settled December 4, 1990 when Adams agreed to pay the government $1.9 million. The lawsuit sought $92 million in damages and a maximum sentence of seventy years in prison. Other charges against Adams involving another savings and loan were dropped entirely.⁵⁶¹

The Judge was James Nowlin, the same judge who had presided over the July 1990 airliner hijacking trial of Jose Manuel Gonzalez-Gonzalez. This defendant, who was eventually convicted of the hijacking, made statements in that trial indicating that he may be the son of Reinaldo Gonzalez.⁵⁶² Reinaldo Gonzalez was Antonio Veciana's gunman in the October 24, 1961 CIA attempt to assassinate Castro. After the plot failed he hid at the Odios' house before being captured by Castro and imprisoned along with Amador Odio. Robert Morrow, in his book, The Senator Must Die, refers to a document published in his appendix to show that Jose Miro Cardona, the first head of the Cuban Revolutionary Council, had been Castro's prime minister. This same document lists, "In Charge of Foreign Relations: Reinol Gonzáles Gonzáles" -- who may be the same person as Veciana's gunman.⁵⁶³

During his trial, Jose said his father had been a political prisoner of Castro and had died in prison. Born in Cuba on January 3, 1951, Jose testified that he and his brother (age ten) emigrated to the U.S. in 1962. They arrived in Miami leaving their mother and father in Cuba. His mother later went to Spain where her family owned property. She came to the U.S. in 1966. Until then, he and his brother lived with friends of his father and family in Florida City and in Opalaca for a year. Because they did not get along with their surrogate family they were put into a Jesuit school until their mother arrived in Miami.⁵⁶⁴

Their mother then took them to New Orleans where she worked as a housekeeper. Jose dropped out of high school and took electrical engineering classes at Control Data Institute in Virginia. He soon returned to New Orleans and was working in the restaurant-bar-hotel business by age seventeen. He was heard to say, while on the witness stand, that he was working at the Habana Bar when he met his future wife, Helen Virginia Masferrer. This intriguing statement could not be varified due to the unavailability of transcripts for this trial (none was made because there was no appeal).⁵⁶⁵

Had Jose been questioned about any of this, we might have learned whether this was the same Habana Bar owned by Orest Pena, the FBI informant who had worked closely with Sergio Arcacha Smith and David Ferrie at the Cuban Revolutionary Council in New Orleans, and who claimed that Oswald met with several men in his bar on many occasions in the summer of 1963. In an interview for CBS News, broadcast on November 26, 1975, Pena said that his FBI contact, Warren deBrueys, had also been in contact with Oswald that summer. Pena stated that deBrueys came to him about ten days before Pena testified before the Warren Commission and said, "If you ever talk anything about me, I will get rid -- get rid of your ass."⁵⁶⁶

If Gonzalez-Gonzalez had been asked about his wife, we might have learned whether she was related to Rolando "El Tigre" Masferrer, the old hand at gunrunning and "hatchet man" during the Batista dictatorship. According to Robert Morrow, Masferrer convinced Batista to go along with Meyer Lansky's post war gambling and narcotics plans for Cuba. As a Cuban senator with his own private army, Masferrer protected the Mafia's interests, becoming friends with Santos Trafficante, Jr. in the process. Morrow says that "Richard Nixon was among Batista's frequent and well received guests" during this period.⁵⁶⁷

The friendship between Masferrer and Trafficante continued in the U.S. after Castro took control. Masferrer escaped from Cuba with Cuban congressman Eladio del Valle. Masferrer's anti-Castro mercenaries (training on Howard Hughes' island, No Name Key) had been the ones approved by Rostow's friend Richard Bissell to assassinate Castro. They were the core group of Operation Forty. The future leader of Masferrer's anti-Castro mercenaries in Florida was Loran Eugene Hall. Gerry Patrick Hemming, who was a member of the group, claimed Oswald had tried to join after leaving the Marines in 1959 but was turned down by Masferrer's men in Los Angeles.⁵⁶⁸

When Howard Burris' good friend Richard Helms took over Bissell's job as the CIA's Deputy Director of Plans with the blessing of the just fired Allen Dulles and Charles Cabell, he decided, despite a CIA internal memo to the contrary, to continue the assassination plots against Castro using Trafficante's and Masferrer's men. He worked directly with John Roselli as his sole contact with Trafficante. By February 1962, J. Edgar Hoover had struck a deal with Helms to jointly cover up their agencies' criminal activities. By May 1962, Dulles favorite Tracy Barnes had established his super-secret Domestic Operations Division, hiring Dulles loyalist E. Howard Hunt as its covert action chief.⁵⁶⁹

After the missile crisis, Kennedy declared a "hands-of Cuba" policy. Antonio Veciana, the head of Alpha 66, defied the Kennedy brothers with a March 17, 1963 attack against a Soviet military post and two Soviet freighters. The Kennedys cracked down against the anti-Castro raiders on March 30. The next day, Oscar del Valle Garcia, the organizer of Operation Forty, used Masferrer's men to blow up a Soviet ship. The sole American on board the raider ship was Jerry Buchanan, protege of Frank Sturgis, Orlando Bosch, and INCA's Manuel Gil -- whose boss, Ed Butler (Oswald's radio debate opponent), later sat on the American Security Council with Rostow favorite Ed Lansdale; the same Jerry Buchanan whose brother James Buchanan became the propagator of Frank Sturgis' false Oswald stories in the Pompano Beach Sun Sentinel.⁵⁷⁰

The Kennedys cracked down harder. The anti-Castro groups intensified their raids. In May, Masferrer's men raided a Cuban militia camp near Havana. American right-wing groups, angered by the Kennedy crack-down, threw their support behind the raiders. Miro Cardona resigned as head of the CRC, declaring Kennedy a Russian-led traitor against Second Naval Guerrilla. Mario Garcia Kohly, the former Cuban businessman, picked by conservatives in Eisenhower's administration (like Nixon), to replace Castro, united the anti-Castro leaders, including former Cuban president Carlos Prio Socarras, Masferrer's group in Miami (who merged with Alpha 66 and 30th of November), and David Ferrie's Lake Pontchartrain group in Louisiana. The assassination teams were chosen from these groups, according to Morrow, to shoot Kennedy. Meanwhile, Trafficante had Masferrer set up a phony CIA team to kill Castro, making sure they would be caught, provoking anti-Kennedy statements from Cuba's leaders. He arranged for a Cuban lawyer, Carlos Garcia Bongo (subject of missing HSCA pages) to leak the plot to Castro. Concurrently, the CIA had Rolando Cubela and Manuel Artime begin the real AM/LASH plot against Castro. Finally, it was Masferrer, according to Morrow, who coordinated the plan to give Ferrie's old Civil Air Patrol cadet, Lee Oswald, a high profile as the lone Castro-affiliated gunman.⁵⁷¹

Peter Dale Scott notes that, "Whatever their shortcomings, the FBI and the Warren Commission between them meticulously demolished the prima facie case that Oswald and Ruby were agents of Castro and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee."⁵⁷²

Perhaps it was his failure to blame the assassination on Castro that Masferrer was killed in a car bombing in 1975 for his "systematic work in the destruction of the anti-Communist struggle." Thirty years later the exiles still sit in Florida and wait to return to Cuba. There is one other connection to Nixon: Masferrer's nephew, Rolandito, had been employed with SNG veteran Gerry Hemming at Parabellum, a subsidiary of gunrunner Mitchell WerBell's arms manufacturing company headed by Anselmo Alliegro, Jr., "an heir to the shadowy Anson millions."⁵⁷³

While testifying in his own defense, Jose Manuel Gonzalez-Gonzalez claimed he hijacked the plane in an attempt to seek political protection in Cuba because he was being pursued by federal agents and Cuban exiles. He said they were after him because he had learned of a plot to assassinate former mayor Morial of New Orleans, who was seeking reelection. Morial died under uncertain circumstances after a party. He had apparently collapsed next to his car where his body was found the next morning.⁵⁷⁴

Neither the prosecutor, nor his court appointed defense attorney, nor Judge Nowlin asked Gonzalez-Gonzalez any questions about any of this. Gonzalez-Gonzalez's attorney was pleading insanity for his client. It was an ongoing joke among trial spectators, however, that the defense was not providing any proof of this. Jose was calm and focused on the witness stand. The prosecution provided two expert witnesses to show Gonzalez-Gonzalez was sane.⁵⁷⁵

The first, Dr. Richard Coons, stated he was an Austin criminal forensic psychiatrist who graduated from a Virginia college, UT Law School, and UT's Southwestern Medical School in 1964. He said he served at Fort Sam Houston in the Army Medical Corps from 1971 to 1972. The second was Dr. James Fredrickson, who said he graduated from UT's Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, and Baylor University in Waco before practicing at Dallas' Timberlawn and Parkland Hospitals. He has done work for the Marines, Army, Navy, and State Department, mostly as an expert witness in Texas.⁵⁷⁶

The reporter who covered this trial for the Austin-American Statesman told this author during a trial recess that one of the jurors had been on a jury in Nowlin's court the previous month. The reporter said she was surprised that this juror was not disqualified. One other juror, who had an extensive military background, produced the same reaction. The reporter said she thought the military nature of the airline business should have been reason enough for disqualification.

Both the Gonzalez-Gonzalez trial and the Adams trial were potentially damaging to the CIA. In 1992, Nowlin was at the center of a political scandal involving secret consultations with Republicans while overseeing the redrawing of Texas congressional districts.

There are two final items relating to these topics worth noting here. First, Robert Sam Anson revealed in his book, They've Killed the President, a claim by researcher Richard Sprague that CBS has film of the Rambler leaving the crime scene.⁵⁷⁷ If true, this film is crucial to the identification of Wing's Rambler.⁵⁷⁸ And second, the book Government by Gunplay revealed that George Wallace's accused, would-be, assassin, Arthur Bremer, drove a Rambler. Considering his role in the Bremer case, this may be another example of E. Howard Hunt's involvement with an assassin with a Rambler.⁵⁷⁹

One of the researchers for this paper has been extremely valuable in the role of devil's advocate. His arguments on occasion become circular, however, when he insists that because no hard evidence has been found, none should be sought. "Pursue the UT connections," he said, "and leave George Wing and his Rambler out of it." But, if nothing else, the evidence presented here, stemming directly from Wing's outré and grotesque station wagon, is a map possibly leading to several "smoking guns."

Sincere effort has been made here to avoid direct claims of involvement by individuals mentioned in this paper in any conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy. The implications, however, are unavoidable. It must be noted, therefore, that any implied conspiracy presented in this limited context does not pass the "so what" test. Too many fundamental questions are left unanswered. Taken in the context of the research of others over the past thirty years, however, this evidence can be viewed as part of a substantive circumstantial case which begins to define the conspiracy.

Ironically, the fact that the available record indicates that Ruth Paine did not own a Rambler station wagon at the time of the assassination makes relevant one of the most fundamental questions: was George Wing's car the one seen in Dealey Plaza and the one believed by Oswald and Craig to belong to Ruth Paine? The answer might be found among available information.

Gary Shaw's original seven slides of Elm Street traffic are labeled in other than chronological sequence. The photo used in his book Cover-Up, to show the Rambler, is the fifth in the chronological sequence.⁵⁸⁰

This photo shows a car that is darker in color and a later model than Wing's. In the seventh slide, however, there are two light-colored cars crossing the intersection at Houston Street. This photo was first published on the cover of Penn Jones, Jr.'s book, Forgive My Grief III. The car in front does not match the 1959 Rambler's grill or headlight design. The one behind it, sitting in the intersection has similar grill, headlight, hood, and wheel well characteristics to Wing's Rambler. The image is outside the camera's depth of field and only the front half of the car is visible. Perhaps computer expert Tom Wilson can enhance it. The Hertz clock still reads 12:40 in the seventh photo.

Film of this scene taken at 12:40, however, would be ideal for answering this question, and seems to actually exist. Not only does Richard E. Sprague (the researcher not the HSCA counsel) believe that CBS has such a film, he claims it shows exactly what Roger Craig, Marvin Robinson, and Mrs. James (Helen) Forrest all independently described.⁵⁸¹

FBI document 5920 is a letter with enclosures which Sprague sent to Senator Robert Kennedy in 1967. It was forwarded to J. Edgar Hoover by RFK's secretary, Miss Polly Busselle. A researcher at UT found it among microfilm of FBI documents in the summer of 1992.

Of particular use to Rambler identification efforts in Sprague's list of photos are numbers 32-35, 41-46, 58, 59, 66, 130, 131, 233-35, 246-58, 337, and 342; as well as some of the Gene Daniels photos. The CBS film Sprague spoke of may actually be one of these.

The most important point, which certainly should not be overlooked here, is that if there is film of the Rambler incident it would show Oswald or "his identical twin" getting into the car, thus proving the existence of a conspiracy! Only this fact makes the identification of Wing's Rambler less important. If it then turns out to be Wing's car, living conspirators may have already been found.

It is obvious that finding this film is of supreme importance. If the CBS film exists, however, it is not naively suggested that they will simply hand it over. But of all the lawsuits that could be brought against CBS, none could be more important than a suit for the release of such a film.

Perhaps attempts to identify Wing's Rambler in Dealey Plaza are premature, however. If in fact Ruth Paine did own a light-colored Rambler station wagon in 1963, it would be a major step toward eliminating Wing's car from suspicion. It will be interesting to see how the evidence manipulators (see below) deal with this dilemma. Should evidence of a Paine Rambler suddenly appear, it would further corroborate Oswald and Craig, casting further suspicion on Paine.

Despite Dallas County Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig's published Warren Commission testimony which, according to Craig, had fourteen changes from his original testimony, Craig is certain he saw a Rambler station wagon with a luggage rack on top. Craig also maintained his certainty that the Rambler was light-green although the Commission changed it to white. Craig was also certain that "Mrs. Ruth Paine, the woman Marina Oswald lived with in Irving, Texas, owned a Rambler station wagon, at that time, of this same color."⁵⁸² Craig does not say in his autobiography how he knew this.

When asked if he had anything to add to his Warren Commission testimony Craig said, "No; except -- uh -- except for the fact that it came out later that Mrs. Paine does own a station wagon and -- uh -- it has a luggage rack on top. And this came out, of course, later after I got back to the office. I didn't know about this. Buddy Walthers brought it up. I believe they went by the house and the car was parked in the driveway."⁵⁸³ Craig apparently told Jim Garrison that "Deputy Sheriff Buddy Walthers drove out to the Paine residence in the suburb of Irving and confirmed that Mrs. Ruth Paine did have a Nash Rambler station wagon with a luggage rack on top."⁵⁸⁴

The FBI, however, apparently established that Ruth Paine owned a green, 1955 Chevrolet station wagon with a luggage rack on top. But since the agent conducting the investigation was James P. Hosty, who admitted destroying evidence under orders,⁵⁸⁵ and since he did not see the car until three months after the assassination, the "evidence" of this car could have been altered or fabricated.⁵⁸⁶ Another possible explanation for why Oswald said it was Ruth Paine's Rambler stems from something Oswald said at his interrogation. According to Captain Fritz's report Oswald said, "No. I don't own a car but the Paines have two cars."⁵⁸⁷

It seems Craig is the only witness in Dealey Plaza to describe the hue of the car. The others described it as light-colored or light-gray, possibly having been uncertain of the hue. Because of this, it is important to establish whether or not Craig was color-blind since light-pink would appear light-green to a color-blind person. Another explanation for the color discrepancy is that this was a similar situation to Carl Mather's car being seen with a different color but having the same license plates.⁵⁸⁸ Neither case rules out the possibility that a car the color of the UT Rambler was used in some way by the conspirators.

If the UT Rambler was used by the conspirators in the JFK assassination, then it was in Mexico in 1964, ended up back in the United States as some sort of souvenir, and stayed near a circle of friends that included Lyndon Johnson, Walt Rostow, Jack Dulles, Harry Ransom, C.B. Smith, and two professors of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin.

According to the rule of falsifiability, if this car was not involved in the assassination, the evidence will prove the claim (that it was involved) false. If the claim is true, the evidence will not disprove it. So far none of the evidence disproves that George Wing's station wagon was the car seen by Michael Kensington, Roger Craig, Marvin Robinson, Helen Forrest, and Richard Carr.⁵⁸⁹ Neither does it disprove Wing's Rambler was the one known to Oswald as the car that took him from Dealey Plaza. The search for evidence continues however. Help in that search is both needed and requested from the research community.

But perhaps this car had nothing to do with the assassination. Perhaps like the back seat magazines and the missing pages, it too was just a sign or a signal, something that would attract the attention of someone knowledgeable about the JFK assassination, something which would help put the other clues into perspective and lead to previously unseen relationships in the mosaic of the Kennedy assassination.

That being the case then perhaps too the whole thing is an elaborate hoax. If so, assurance is given here that no such hoax originated with this author or others whose research contributed to this paper. It cannot as yet be conclusively ruled out, though, that such a hoax originated with George Wing or someone who knew him. Those who have made these findings, with the exception of those wishing anonymity, are willing to undergo polygraph examination, voice stress analysis, brain wave scanning, or other physically non-intrusive methods of varifying truthfulness, relative to any and all statements made herein.

Then again maybe all of this is just one of the most amazing coincidences that has ever existed. Whether real, coincidence, or hoax however, the evidence of the UT Rambler is similar to and predates the evidence of Ricky White, which was first made public in August 1990, concerning his father Rosco White's role in the assassination. By the time White's story broke in the Austin American-Statesman, the Rambler, the magazines, and the first of the missing pages had already been discovered. In fact it was the similarities between the story of the Rambler and the story of Rosco White -- the idea of leaving artifacts, clues, and documents where they could be found -- that led to sufficient curiosity to start the first hard research into the Rambler in November 1990.

In the search for truth about the Kennedy assassination, rife as it is with disinformation in the accepted areas of learning, we cannot be blinded to the possibility that the truth can still be found or that it may be in some rather unorthodox places. This paper's author and researchers understand the damage that continues to be done by those who introduce red herrings, intentionally or not, into the investigation of President Kennedy's murder. As a group, we decided in January 1993 that the public release of our findings would help in the search for the truth more than hurt it. After nearly four years of justifiable caution we felt that at least some of what we had found pointed in the direction of what had actually happened to President Kennedy. In the months that followed, leading up to the presentation of this paper at the Second Research Conference of The Third Decade in June 1993, that decision was reinforced by subsequent findings.

Whether real, coincidence, or hoax, the Rambler has led to a new look at those with well known roles in the story of the assassination like the Paines, Dulles, Brading, Johnson, and de Mohrenschildt, those with lesser known roles like Martino, Burris, Byrd, Bancroft, Lansdale, Bush, Nixon, and Rostow, and a first look at those with as yet unknown possible roles like Harry Huntt Ransom, George Gordon Wing and Cecil Bernard Smith.

To quote Wing himself, from an article he wrote in 1982, in which he examines "...a brilliant analysis [by Carlos Fuentes] of Moby Dick in terms of its profound meanings,..."

...Fuentes gives us a Melville who is not only a subverter of the established order but also a prophet whose prognostications gain validity in our own time. Melville could not accept the idea of the United States held by his fellow countrymen -- God's chosen people, a nation that had never experienced defeat and felt itself heir to the future. Melville had a vision, Fuentes says, of the excesses to which all of these certainties could lead: to the imposition of false ends and private fetishes; to the sacrifice of the collective good on the alter of an abstract freedom of the individual, to the simplistic division of history into a Manichean struggle between the good -- the United States -- and the evil -- those who oppose the United States, to manifest destiny, to "the lonely crowd," inorganic atomism; to the confusion between private opinion and general truth; to the radical lack of comprehension of the truth of others whenever it does not correspond to the particular vision of things held by a North American: as a consequence, the truth of others is suspect and must be destroyed. Indeed, Fuentes concludes, in our time, Captain Ahab still lives, and his name is MacArthur and Dulles, Joe McCarthy and Johnson, the white whale is in Cuba, in China, in Vietnam, in Santo Domingo, in a film, in a book....⁵⁹⁰

Wing ends this same article with a statement which can be applied to other aspects of his life -- a statement which may one day prove to be very revealing about what had once been viewed as his eccentricities:

"In this essay, I have of necessity treated a complex subject in a somewhat fragmentary and incomplete fashion. Nevertheless, I hope to have awakened some interest in pursuing further any of the topics I have deliberately left truncated."

The following are the nine books discovered missing or with pages removed at the Perry-Casteñeda and Benson Libraries on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. The first was discovered in June 1989; the rest in May-June 1991 when only the author and one other person knew all of the facts about what was being found. No books were found after these; but books with missing pages yet to be found, now that word of them is more widespread, are less credible. Following the nine books are the only two back seat magazines to be positively identified of at least four that are visible in photographs of George Wing's Rambler station wagon. The identity of the third is at present only tentative, but the visible elements on its cover do appear to be an identifiable match.

1. Anthony Summers, Conspiracy, (NY: McGraw Hill, 1980), pp. 125-26, 447-52, 545-46, 593-94; discovered June 1989.

2. Robert Sam Anson, They've Killed the President, (NY: Bantam, 1975), pp. 197-98, 255-58, 267-68, 275-76, 297-300, 307-14, 331-34, 387-88; discovered May 1, 1991.

3. HSCA Volume V: Trafficante testimony, pp. 363-68, 373-76; discovered May 9, 1991.

4. Jaques Cattel, ed., Directory of American Scholars, Vol. I, (NY: R.R. Bowker Co. sixth ed. 1974), p. 672 (only the Nathaniel Weyl biography was removed, the rest of the page remains intact); discovered May 13, 1991.

5. Peter Dale Scott, Crime and Cover-Up, (Berkeley, CA: Westworks, 1977), pp. 7-22, 27-28, 31-38, 41-44, 51-56, 61-62, 65-66; discovered May 13, 1991.

6. Wim J. Meiners, De Moordfabriek: Tussen Dallas En Watergate, (NY: Ace; Bussum: Centripress, 1974), pp. 42-64, photos 4 pp.; discovered May 23, 1991. Note: An intact copy of this book was obtained through an interlibrary loan from the University of Kansas Libraries; E / 842.9 /.M43.

7. Warren Hinckle with William Turner, The Fish is Red, (NY: Harper and Row, 1981), pp. 31-40, 43-46, 53-54, 101-04, 111-26, 131-34, 155-74, 203-06, photo section: 8 pp., 215-18, 223-24, 335-38, 349-52; discovered May 24, 1991.

8. Michael Canfield with Alan J. Webberman, Coup d'Etat in America, (NY: Third Press, 1975); confirmed missing May 24, 1991.

9. Julius Mader, Who's Who in CIA, (Berlin: Self-published, 1968), pp. 577-78; discovered June 1, 1991.

1. Esquire, August 1963, Vol. LX, No. 2, whole No. 357.

2. Esquire, January 1964, Vol. LXI, No. 1, whole No. 362.

3. Life, June 7, 1963, Vol. 54, No. 23.

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480. Michael Kensington, "The Miami Connection to the JFK Assassination," The Third Decade, Sept., 1992, pp. 26-31.

481. Interview: Jan. 3, 1993, Michael Kensington.

482. Kensington.

483. A discussion of the implications of this fact with regard to Craig's description of "light-green" can be found in the conclusion of this paper.

484. Interview: Jan. 3, 1993, Michael Kensington.

485. Interview: Jan. 16, 1993, Michael Kensington.

486. Interview: Mar. 1992, Lucila Lopez Wing, widow of George Gordon Wing. Note: Mrs. Wing has not been interviewed extensively about the subjects dealt with in this paper. She was sent a polite letter in March 1993 asking for any information she could provide concerning her husband's interest in his Rambler.

487. Interview: May 6, 1993, Chuck Bradshaw by researcher Stephen Bright.

488. "C.B. Smith Handed Festival Task," The Austin American, Oct. 16, 1964.

489. The University of Texas at Arlington, "C.B. Smith, Sr., October 24, 1967."

490. The University of Texas at Arlington, "C.B. Smith, Sr., October 24, 1967."

491. Scott, Government Documents..., ch. II, p. 4. Note: Buckley, Sr. and Smith, Sr. were former residents of UT's "Old B Hall" upperclassmen dormitory. Also recall the newspaper announcement dated Oct. 2, 1963, mentioned earlier in this paper, which says that Buckley will speak at UT Austin from Dec. 8-14, 1963; Martino gave his talk in Austin on Oct. 1, and Oswald was in Austin on Sept. 25, the day before the Odio incident.

492. Scott, Government Documents..., ch. II, pp. 4, 8-9. Note: Dubois continued to be an important CIA "asset" to David Atlee Phillips throughout the 1960s. (See Freed, Death in Washington, p. 50.)

493. Scott, Crime and Cover-Up, p. 20; interview: Jan. 3, 1993, Michael Kensington.

494. Scott, Government Documents..., ch. II, pp. 5, 7; Hinkle with Turner, The Fish is Red, p. 106-07. Note: Hinkle and Turner put the date of that attempt in October 1961, while Scott places it in October 1962. There is a story, to be discussed in this paper, about a trial here in Austin in 1990 involving the son of the man who hid at the Odios' house after fleeing that failed attempt. (See Summers, Conspiracy, pp. 417-18.)

495. Scott, Government Documents..., ch. II, pp. 7-10.

496. Scott, Government Documents..., ch. II, pp. 5-6; Scott, Crime and Cover-Up, pp. 17-18, 34-35; Summers, Conspiracy, p. 417.

497. Scott, Government Documents..., ch. II, p. 5; Summers, Conspiracy, p. 417.

498. Lane, Plausible Denial, pp. 300-01.

499. Frantz, The Forty Acre Follies, p. 98; Judis, William F. Buckley, Jr., p. 22; Link, Woodrow Wilson, p. 16-17.

500. The University of Texas at Arlington, "C.B. Smith, Sr., October 24, 1967."

501. Di Eugenio, Destiny Betrayed, pp. 342-43 n.22.

502. "A Busy Day in Dallas for LBJ -- Thousands Welcome Johnson," The Dallas Times Herald, Apr. 24, 1963; "Continued Cuba Watch Revealed By Vice President," The Dallas Times Herald, Apr. 24, 1963; Interview: Feb. 2, 1993, David Lifton.

503. George Gordon Wing, Octavio Paz: Poetry, Politics, and the Myth of the Mexican, doctoral dissertation, University of California at Berkeley, Mar. 3, 1961, p. 3; E. Howard Hunt, Undercover, (NY: Berkeley, 1974), p. 69, cited in Judis, William F. Buckley, Jr., p. 80; Interview: Jun. 7, 1993, with an individual wishing anonymity, who told this paper's researchers that Castro used to try to get dates with his Spanish teacher at Mexico City College in 1950.

504. The author's chance photo of Wing driving his Rambler in 1990 is a left profile. No two ears are alike and a match is reportedly as good as a fingerprint.

505. Byrd, I'm an Endangered Species, pp. 94, 97.

506. Bill Christensen, a student in the UT Spanish and Portuguese Department, learned this from his girlfriend, Jean Miller, who used to work with Wing.

507. Interview: May 4, 1993, Chuck Bradshaw.

508. Interview: Jun. 29, and Aug. 10, 1993, John Wheat.

509. Ben Belitt, ed., Pablo Neruda, Five Decades: A Selection (Poems: 1925-1970), (NY: Grove Weidenfeld, 1974), pp. xvii, 78, 79.

510. Interview: Oct. 28, 1992, Migel Gonzalez-Gerth by John Garcia. Note: According to Donald Freed, "Good old David [Atlee] Phillips...passed among his liberal friends as a McGovern Democrat" while setting up his extreme right-wing Association of Retired Intelligence Officers. (See Freed, Death in Washington, p. 124.)

511. C.B. Smith Motors Warranty Guarantee No. 64413A issued Apr., 26, 1963 to George Gordon Wing; Interview: Jan., 8, 1993, a close relative of R.L. Lewis, who wishes anonymity.

512. Interview: Jan. 13, 1993, a secretary for C.B. Smith Investments, by researcher David G. Armstrong.

513. P.K. Williams Motors repair receipt nos. 8494 (Sept. 1, 1966) and 14693 (Sept. 13, 1967) were found in Wing's Rambler's glove compartment.

514. Interview: Feb. 17, 1993, Chuck Bradshaw, former C.B. Smith employee who knew Wing and later worked on his car at P.K. Williams Motors.

515. Interview: May 4, 1993, Chuck Bradshaw.

516. Interview: Feb. 17, 1993, Chuck Bradshaw.

517. Interview: Feb. 17, 1993, Chuck Bradshaw.

518. Interview: Feb. 17, 1993, Chuck Bradshaw.

519. Russell, The Man Who Knew Too Much, p. 581.

520. Russell, The Man Who Knew Too Much, pp. 431-32, 701.

521. The Roads of Texas, (Fredericksburg, TX: Shearer Publishing, 1988), pp. 52-53, 68-69, 88-107, 120-23, 161. Note: These maps include places considered to be ghost towns with populations as small as five people.

522. Henry Hurt, Reasonable Doubt, (NY: Henry Holt, 1985), p. 402; Seth Kantor, The Ruby Cover-Up, (NY: Zebra, 1978), pp. 43, 249-50.

523. Russell, The Man Who Knew Too Much, p. 432.

524. Scott, Crime and Cover-Up, p. 20; Interview: Jan. 3, 1993, Michael Kensington.

525. Hinckle with Turner, The Fish is Red, pp. 137-42, 144-46.

526. Graham, Texas is in eastern Young County, which would put it less than two-hundred miles from "Bay Cliff" if Bay Cliff actually existed and was where it was reported to be, half-way between Dallas and Houston.

527. Montgomery Ward tire warranty forms 27420-4 and 27420-6 found in Wing's Rambler's glove compartment.

528. CD 205, p. 453-62; Hubert Memos, Mar. 6 and 19, 1964, cited in Canfield with Weberman, Coup d'état in America, p. 51.

529. CD 23, CE 2694, CD 853, cited in George Michael Evica, And We Are All Mortal: New Evidence and Analysis in the John F. Kennedy Assassination, (West Hartford, CT: University of Hartford, 1978), p. 112.

530. Canfield with Weberman, Coup d'état in America, pp. 50-52.

531. Sugar with Leek, The Assassination Chain, p. 113.

532. Scott, Government Documents..., ch. II, p. 9.

533. Scott, Government Documents..., ch. II, p. 4.

534. Scott, Government Documents..., ch. II, passim.

535. Scott, Government Documents..., ch. II, pp. 3-4.

536. Tinkle, Mr. De, pp. 224, 239.

537. Scott, Government Documents..., ch. I, p. 11; Scott, The Dallas Conspiracy, ch. IX, p. 20.

538. Scott, Government Documents..., ch. II, p. 19.

539. Scott, The Dallas Conspiracy, ch. IX, pp. 20-21.

540. 9 H 106, 107 cited in Scott, The Dallas Conspiracy, ch. III, pp. 16, 37, ch. VII, p. 17, ch. IX, p. 27. Note: "After the assassination there were repeated conspiratorial efforts to extract from Marina Oswald false evidence against her late husband. Those involved in these efforts included Jack Crichton of Army Reserve Intelligence Service, at least one Russian "interpreter" [Mamantov] from Oswald's restricted circle of contacts in the oil industry, and at least four apparently unrelated persons linked to Marina's post-assassination hosts (the Great Southwest Corporation) and their lawyers (Wynne, Jaffe and Tinsley). Bedford Wynne of this law firm, a prominent oil lobbyist in Washington for the Murchisons, was investigated for his role in a Murchison kickback to [LBJ friend] Bobby Baker." (See Scott, The Dallas Conspiracy, ch. III.)

541. 9 H 202, cited in Scott, The Dallas Conspiracy, ch. VI, pp. 32-33.

542. Scott, The Dallas Conspiracy, ch. X, p. 4.

543. Scott, The Dallas Conspiracy, ch. VI, p. 32.

544. 9 H 106, 107 cited in Scott, The Dallas Conspiracy, ch. III, pp. 16, 37.

545. Scott, Government Documents..., ch. II, p. 1.

546. Scott, Government Documents..., ch. II, p. 4.

547. Stone with Sklar, JFK: The Book of the Film, p. 92.

548. "Oswald in Austin," The Texas Observer, Dec. 27, 1963, pp. 4-5.

549. Unsolved Mysteries, "Rorke-Sullivan Flight", 60 minutes, NBC Television Network, Dec. 19, 1990.

550. "Pre-presidential Office Diary, Sept. 25, 1963," LBJ Library, Box 3.

551. "Pre-presidential Office Diary, Sept. 25, 1963," LBJ Library, Box 3.

552. Lane, Plausible Denial, pp. 300-01.

553. Unpublished Transcript: Newman with Russo, pp. 28-29.

554. Pete Brewton, Speech, Unitarian Church in Austin, Feb. 10, 1993.

555. Scott, Government Documents..., ch. III, pp. 29-31.

556. Scott, Government Documents..., ch. III, pp. 29-31.

557. Clyde W. Burleson, A Guide to the Texas Medical Center, (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1987), p. 104; Eckhardt, One Hundred Faithful..., p. 81.

558. Austin American-Statesman, "Governor Appoints TB Group," Sept. 26, 1963, p. AA-14; 6 H 1-152; David Lifton, Best Evidence, (NY: Macmillan, 1980), p. 673.

559. Marrs, Crossfire, pp. 431-33.

560. Kim Tyson, "Fatigued Adams to be examined," Austin American-Statesman, Aug. 11, 1990, pp. D1, D3.

561. Kirk Ladendorf, "Adams case settled for $1.9 million," Austin American-Statesman, Dec. 5, 1990, pp. D1, D10.

562. Brian Builta, "Gonzalez-Gonzalez convicted in hijacking," The Daily Texan, Jul. 19, 1990, p. 1; Morrow, The Senator Must Die, p. 245.

563. Hinckle with Turner, The Fish is Red, p. 106-07; Exhibit 28 of the Senate Select Committee on Internal Security, Jan. 23, 1959, cited in Morrow, The Senator Must Die, pp. 244-45.

564. Author's notes from Gonzalez-Gonzalez trial, Jul., 17, 1990.

565. Author's notes from Gonzalez-Gonzalez trial, Jul., 17, 1990.

566. Fensterwald, Coincidence or Conspiracy, pp. 257-58.

567. Hinckle with Turner, The Fish is Red, pp. 232-33; Morrow, The Senator Must Die, pp. 14-17.

568. Morrow, The Senator Must Die, pp. 14-17, 25, 31, 39, 82.

569. Morrow, The Senator Must Die, pp. 58-61, 80.

570. Morrow, The Senator Must Die, pp. 39, 71, 72; Canfield with Webberman, Coup d'état in America, pp. 104-05; Scott, Crime and Cover-Up, pp. 14, 56, n. 52a; Scott, The Dallas Conspiracy, ch. IV, p. 10.

571. Morrow, The Senator Must Die, pp. 72-75, 88, 107.

572. Scott, The Dallas Conspiracy, ch. II, p. 2.

573. Hinckle with Turner, The Fish is Red, pp. 317, 320, 321.

574. Interview: Apr. 1991, Aug. 11, 1993, Aletha Reppel, a New Orleans native, who was told this by her family who are long-time residents of New Orleans.

575. Author's notes from Gonzalez-Gonzalez trial, Jul., 17, 1990.

576. Author's notes from Gonzalez-Gonzalez trial, Jul., 17, 1990.

577. Anson, They've Killed the President, p. 360.

578. A study of the catalog of the Sprague collection reveals several color and black-and-white films and still photos which may show the Dealey Plaza Rambler.

579. William Turner, "The Shooting of George Wallace," Sid Blumenthal with Harvey Yazijian, eds., Government by Gunplay: Assassination Conspiracy Theories from Dallas to Today, (NY: Signet, 1976), p. 64; Hunt: Senate Watergate Committee Report, GPO ed., p. 129, cited in Fensterwald, Coincidence or Conspiracy, p. 523.

580. For researchers who have access to Gary Shaw's original slides, the chronological order and their labels are as follows: 1) 220 JAN 75; 2) 23 FEB 75; 3) 22 FEB 75; 4) 21 FEB 75; 5) 334 JAN 75; 6) 199 JAN 75; 7) 188 JAN 75.

581. Anson, They've Killed the President, p. 360.

582. Craig, When They Kill a President, pp. 10, 16, 18; Two Men in Dallas: John Kennedy and Roger Craig, 60 minutes, videotape. Narrated by Mark Lane. Alpa Productions, 1977.

583. 6 H 271.

584. Jim Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins, p. 95n.

585. Hurt, Reasonable Doubt, p. 253.

586. Warren Commission Exhibit (CE) 1875, Vol. 23, p. 681, paragraph 5; CE 2125, 24 H 697. Note: a strange coincidence about this motel registration card is that it is from the "Rambler Motel" in Wa-Kom Texas.

587. Sylvia Meagher, Accessories After the Fact, (NY: Bobs-Merrill, 1967; Random House, 1976; Vintage, 1992), p. 232.

588. Groden with Livingstone, High Treason, p. 238-39.

589. Carr described it as a "1961 or 1962 Grey Rambler Station Wagon...which had Texas license...." Craig described it as light-green and wrote in 1971, "I said the license plates on the Rambler were not the same color as Texas plates. The Warren Commission: Omitted the not -- omitted but one word, an important one, so that it appeared that the license plates were the same color as Texas plates." In a cover-up, this matter would be a prime target for obfuscation. Therefore, the consistencies in the descriptions of the car -- that it was a light color, a Rambler station wagon, driven by a man with a dark complexion, and a white male identical to Oswald entered it -- carry the greater weight as evidence. (See Thompson, Six Seconds in Dallas, pp. 303-06, 404-05. Craig, When They Kill a President, p. 18; Kurtz, Crime of The Century, p. 132.)

590. George Gordon Wing, "Some Remarks on the Literary Criticism of Carlos Fuentes," Rob Brody with Charles Ruseman, eds., Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View, (Austin, TX: The University of Texas Press, 1982), pp. 210, 211.

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