ONI - THE OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE (ONI)
and the Assassination of President Kennedy
and the Assassination of President Kennedy
JFK & ONI
Navy Ensign John F. Kennedy was assigned to the
ONI and was working as an ONI officer when he met his sister’s college
roommate Inga Arvad of Denmark. As Miss Denmark 1931 Arvad attended the
propaganda tinged 1936 Olympics in Berlin where she “charmed Adolph
Hitler and his cohorts so much that she gained access to their inner
circle, and was Hitler’s guest” at the Olympics.
As a 1940 student at the Columbia School of
Journalism [which later received funding from the CIA front Catherwood
Foundation], Arvad lived with JFK’s sister Kathleen when they both
worked for the New York Times
Herald. At the time JFK dated Arvad, she worked for the ubiquitous North
American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), which also employed Ernest
Hemingway when he liberated Paris with the OSS, Priscilla Johnson
McMillan when she interviewed Oswald in Moscow and Virginia Prewett when
she covered Alpha 66 operations in Cuba.
Kennedy and Arvad spent some time together in a
Charleston, South Carolina hotel that was bugged by the FBI, and when
Arvad’s background as a possible spy was established, Kennedy was
transferred out of ONI to the PT boat squadron in the Pacific.
We do know that the ONI played a major role in
the study of assassination and various ways, means and methods to
accomplish it. At a NATO conference in Norway on the subject of stress
in combat, U.S. Navy Lt. Commander (LCDR) Thomas Narut was quoted in the
London Sunday Times as saying that such research is continuous, on
going and operational.
According to Narut, “...combat readiness
units…include men for commando-type operations and...for insertion into
U.S. embassies under cover,…ready to kill in those countries should the
need arise….U.S. Navy psychologists specially selected men for these
commando tasks, from submarine crews, paratroops, and some were
convicted murderers from military prisons...Research on those given
awards for valor in battle [ie. Audie Murphy] has shown….that the best
killers are men with ‘passive-aggressive’ personalities...Among the
tests used is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. This
consists of hundreds of questions, and rates personality on many traits
including such things as hostility, depression, psychopathy...” The
Times reported that, “The men selected were brought either to the Navy’s
neuropsychiatric laboratory in San Diego, California (which also trains
spys in techniques to counter interrogation), or to the laboratory
where Narut works in the U.S. Naval Medical Center in Naples.”
OSWALD & ONI
Gerald Posner’s “Case Closed” (Random House,
1993), noted that when Oswald was tested by Dr. R. Hartog as a New York
City delinquent, “Hartog’s diagnosis [of Oswald] was that of a
‘personality pattern disturbance….and passive-aggressive tendencies,” -
just what the Navy psychs were looking for in potential assassins.
Following in the footsteps of his older brother,
Lee Harvey Oswald joined the USMC as soon as he was legally of age, and
was twice stationed in San Diego, California, home of the Navy’s
“neuropsychiatric” lab where they taught counter-intelligence and
interrogation resistance techniques.
Trained as a radar operator, Oswald was also
stationed at Atsugi, Japan, where he occasionally stood guard duty at
the U2 hanger. In 1956, Edwin P. Wilson was assigned to a sixty man
detachment responsible for U2 security, which was based at North Las
Vegas, Nevada, abut assigned overseas under cover of the Maritime Survey
Associates, of 80 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. For some time Wilson
served in Japan but he also was stationed at Adana, Turkey when Francis
Gary Powers was flying out of there. Wilson would later, in 1971, serve
in ONI’s Task Force 157, which was established by RA Rufus Taylor, who
was director of ONI at the time of the assassination.
Oswald may have become involved in ONI
counter-intelligence operations in Japan, (when DONI Rufus Taylor was
also there) and where he is said to have been the target for recruitment
by KGB assets. Although the Navy has refused to even admit that such a
program existed, and some, like Otto Otepka of State Dept. Security,
lost their jobs over it, there apparently was a Navy run defector
program that included Oswald.
When Oswald left the USMC he returned to his
hometown of New Orleans, from where he obtained, from a travel agency at
the World Trade Mart, passage on a tramp steamer to Europe, the first
leg of his journey to Russia. On his passport was stamped his
occupation: “Import-Export Agent.”
In New Orleans at the same time, and the only
time and place their careers and travels have thus far shown to overlap,
Col. Jose Rivera, USAR was teaching at a local medical college. When
Oswald was stationed at San Diego before his defection, although in the
Army Reserves, Rivera was stationed at a Naval Research Center near San
Francisco, California.
After Oswald defected, his honorable discharge
was changed to “undesirable,” which infuriated him once he learned of
it, and indeed, how could he be declared “undesirable” after he had
already left the service. Another Catch-22.
Writing a letter to the Secretary of the Navy
John Connally, Oswald compared his trip to Minsk was “like Hemingway
went to Paris.” Now Priscilla Johnson McMillan, who knew Oswald in
Moscow, wrote that Oswald compared his stay in Russia to when Hemingway
went to Paris in the 1920s. But Oswald didn’t say the 1920s, when
Hemingway lived there with the Lost Generation. He could have instead
been referring to Hemingway’s liberation of Paris in 1944.
While working in liaison with the ONI in the
Caribbean, Hemingway kept watch for Nazi subs and ships while fishing
aboard his boat the Pilar, the fuel for which was supplied by the ONI.
After D-Day however, Hemingway went to England, where his son was a
British Special Operations trained JEDBERG. He was dropped behind the
lines where he was captured and held prisoner until the war’s end. After
D-Day, Hemingway obtained correspondent credentials and went to France,
where he hooked up with an OSS contingent led by Col. David Bruce.
Bruce would later become Hemingway’s best man and serve as John F.
Kennedy’s ambassador to the Court of St. James (UK). After the fight for
Paris was mainly over, Hemingway, Bruce and their commandos liberated
the bar of the Ritz Hotel, which had been occupied by the German General
command earlier that morning. Hemingway took a head count of his party
and ordered sixty vodka martinis, shaken-not-stirred.
Oswald’s letter to Connally that mentioned
“Hemingway in Paris” was received by the new Secretary of the Navy, Fred
Korth, a Fort Worth attorney who knew Oswald’s family. Korth had to
resign as Navy Sec in the weeks before the assassination because he was
entwined with the controversial TFX jet fighter contract negotiations
with General Dynamics and the Continental National Bank of Fort Worth.
Korth was also present at the Hotel Cortez meeting when JFK and LBJ
hashed out the details of the Texas trip.
When Oswald returned to Texas with his Russian
wife, he met George DeMohrenschildt, who became a close friend. One of
the more bizarre incidents between Oswald and DeMohrenschildt is the
story of how DeMohrenschildt tried to get Oswald a job at Collins Radio
by introducing him to a Collins executive - retired US Navy Admiral
Chester Bruton.
DeMohrenschildt came knocking at Bruton’s door
saying that he knew the previous owners of the house, and using his
well-honed charm, managed an invitation to use Bruton’s pool, and
invited Marina to use it as well. One day, while Marina and
DeMohrenschildt were lounging by the pool with Bruton, Oswald arrived
unannounced and stayed for lunch. Oswald didn’t get along very well with
the Admiral, an officer and “lifer” and needless to say, he didn’t get a
job at Collins. DeMohrenschildt tried to sell him on the fact that
after all, Oswald did work in a radio factory in Russia. But the Collins
Radio connections would later multiply and require closer examination
[See: The Collins Radio Connections http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2008/01/collins-radio-connections.html].
Bruton was a former nuclear submarine commander
who was hired by Collins after he retired from the Navy. He was
reportedly working on a new electronics system for communicating with
nuclear submarines at sea. Operating under the code names “Binnacle” and
“Holystone,” the ONI began using nuclear subs, not only for nuclear
Polaris missile deterrent, but for electronic espionage. As mentioned in
“Blind Man’s Bluff – The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage”
(By Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew, Harper, 1998), “Congress okayed
these popular proposals and offered up funding that caught the attention
of the Office of Naval Intelligence. The Navy might have been promising
an era that mirrored Jules Verne, but a few submarine espionage
specialists now saw the means to launch a new age of spying that would
be much closer to James Bond.”
“In addition to these operations off the Soviet
Coast, some diesel subs carried Russian émigrés back to the Soviet
Union to spy for the United States, and other diesel subs were landing
commandos in places like Borneo, Indonesia and the Middle East to track
the expanding Soviet influence. [Shortly after the failed Bay of Pigs
invasion in 1961, Navy commandos used diesel submarines to engineer the
escape of prominent Cubans from Castro’s regime. Over several weeks,
commandos slipped from the subs and rowed to shore in inflatable rafts.
The Cubans who were piloted back to the subs often had to dive 15 to 30
feet through dark waters to enter the submerged craft through special
pressurized compartments. May of those rescued likely would have been
jailed or executed for plotting to overthrow Castro, according to former
U.S. sailors involved in the operation.”
“Couriers met returning submarines at the dock,
ready to whisk the intelligence directly to NSA headquarters in Fort
Meade, Maryland,” so it is interesting that Oswald met and leafleted the
crew when the USS Wasp put into port at New Orleans.
After the shooting of Gen. Edwin Walker Lee
Harvey Oswald took a bus from Dallas, Texas to his hometown of New
Orleans, where through the efforts of an old family friend, Mrs. Myrtle
Evans, he obtained an apartment on Magazine Street and then got a job at
the Riley Coffee Company.
Two weeks earlier, in Washington, D.C., Dr./Col.
Jose Rivera, USAR, gave Adele Edisen Oswald’s New Orleans Magazine
street phone number - that’s two weeks before Oswald himself knew where
he would be living. At the time, Dr./Col. Rivera, although in the U.S.
Army Reserves, was officially stationed at the U.S. Naval Biological Lab
at the University of California, Berkeley.
The ONI offices in New Orleans were in the same
building where Oswald kept his Post Office box, just across the street
from 544 Camp Street, the central base of various nefarious operations
run by Guy Bannister. Although his record does not indicate he ever
served in the Navy, Bannister is said to have worked with the FBI in New
York when they were working with the Mafia in liaison with the ONI.
Bannister did have a friend, Guy Persac Johnson,
served in ONI in the Pacific and later became Jim Garrison’s law
partner and for awhile, Clay Shaw’s attorney. Guy P. Johnson was alleged
to have a copy of the elusive “Homme Report” that ostensibly proves
that RFK had a contract out to kill Castro.
Garrison mentions in a footnote to On The Trail
of the Assassins, that the Louisiana State Police found a book in Guy
Bannister's office on Naval Intelligence, by Admiral Ellis Zacharias.
One of Zacharias' literary collaborators was
Ladislas Farago, who wrote a series of articles in 1963 on the woeful
state of U.S. anti-submarine warfare preparation. He said they were
lacking Congressional backing which hampered weapon research and the
improving of technology and that the cautious spending would also result
in mechanical deficiencies. About two months after Farago's material
was published, the Thresher went down.
From New Orleans, Lee Harvey Oswald returned to
Texas, via Mexico City around the same time that three men visited
Sylvia Odio and her sister, one of whom was “Leon Oswald, an ex-Marine
who could kill anyone, like the Secretary of the Navy.”
Around the same time, Edward Bray was visited
by three men in suits who claimed to represent JFCOTT – Justice for the
Crew of The Thresher, the nuclear sub that went down with all hands,
ostensibly because of faulty hardware made by the Bendix corporation,
for whom Bray worked. Like Odio’s visitors the JFCOTT visiters to Bray
also threatened the President and Governor Connally, the former
Secretary of the Navy. Bray even wrote to Connally to warn him of the
threats. After the assassination, some people, like James Reston, Jr.,
son of the NY Times reporter, speculated that Oswald actually intended
to shoot Connally rather than Kennedy.
In his book “Reasonable Doubt” Henry Hurt
attributes some shady “bagman” activities in New Orleans to an unnamed
former Navy man and Notre Dame alumni, while former D.A. Jim Garrison
recalled being approached and threatened about his investigation into
the Kennedy assassination and by Colorado oilman John Miller, who had
attended the U.S. Naval Academy.
A number of Oswald’s former USMC shipmates
return to action in the drama, including G.P. Hemming in San Diego,
Kerry Thornley and A. Hiedell in New Orleans and Roscoe White in Dallas.
Roscoe White, who sailed to Japan with Oswld, and later worked for the
Dallas Police Department, allegedly worked under cover for ONI.
According to documents obtained by his son, he received ONI typed
orders:
Navy Int.
Code A. M R C
Remark data
1666106
NRC VRC NAC
- 1963
http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2011/10/oni-assassination-of-president-kennedy.html
Code A. M R C
Remark data
1666106
NRC VRC NAC
- 1963
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