Told to report to base by the tower. [23], The man using the pay phone was Shelley, for in an affidavit made out that same afternoon, he said, "I went back into the building [from outside where he viewed the shooting of the president] and went inside and called my wife and told her what happened. For many years he assisted organizations that helped veterans, monitored the nuclear power industry, and worked to ensure basic human rights. They constructed a new building in the northwest part of Dallas, which both companies shared. Mr. GOLDSMITH - What is the name of the book? Regardless, it ended up in my files around the time we opened the JFK Center in 1989. Mr. CORNWELL - Had you done anything or said anything engaged in any activity which became of concern to them? Two men, who identified themselves (with I.D.) The book depository was in a seven-story, red brick building located at 411 Elm Street. Mr. WILCOTT - Dozens, literally dozens. I . Mr. WILCOTT - On two other occasions, I was on KPOO Radio in San Francisco and I discussed in detail, in quite a bit of detail, the speculations and also the incident of the case officer contacting me at the window. After leaving high school he might have continued as an intelligence operative working undercover in local defense plants (plural) during the last months of the war. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Was Jerry Fox one of the people that made. There was a fourth calm man, perhaps unnoticed by MacNeil, who was getting a coke on the second floor. Needless to say, she never did wear that dress. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And, Mr. Wilcott, is it true that you are a former employee with the CIA and that you are here today testifying voluntarily without a subpoena? Mr. WILCOTT - Not directly, no, sir. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And have you just described one of those instances to us? Mr. WILCOTT - I can't remember the exact persons. Mr. CORNWELL - That is, that subject matter, your statement on the Oswald agency matter, be printed or otherwise publicized in a news publication, radio or TV or anything like that on any other occasion? New security officers appeared. James Wilcott worked out of the Tokyo CIA station at the time of the assassination. House of Representatives, I asked Mr. Peets if he knew of any member of the band who disappeared in Dallas in the mid-1970s. According to Wilcott, Tokyo time of killing was approx. Mr. WILCOTT - I may have, sir, and I can't remember. He was not questioned by the Warren Commission. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Who was George Breen? In 1999, a friend and fellow researcher named Steve Gaal discovered among the listings of the JFK assassination section of the National Archives website a notice of a letter written by a Mr. Glaze to the HSCA. Mr. CORNWELL - Did any event cause any disagreement between you and the Agency? Carolyn Walther, a street spectator waiting to see the presidents motorcade, observed a two-man sniper team at a window on the fifth floor on the far-right side of the building. Mr. Shelly was Lee Harvey Oswalds supervisor at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy. The Warren Commission did all they could to delay the arrival time on the first floor by Adams and Styles in order to remove the two girls from the stairs when Oswald would have likely been on them. I next called John Peets, the manager of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Mr. PREYER - So that in XXXX, you indicated, six or seven people talked to you and were, as I understood it, rather definite about the Oswald connection? It must have been puzzling to Glaze, as it is to us reading his letters, why a government agency would be providing security for a privately-owned company. For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions. Mr. CORNWELL - How many of them were newspaper or magazine reporters or involved in at least the news business ? Mr. SAWYER - Do you distinguish between an agent and a paid informant or do you use those terms interchangeably? In November 1963, on the Friday before Thanksgiving, President Kennedy was riding in a Lincoln convertible rolling through the streets of Dallas. Wilcott also claimed that while at his station assignment in Japan, it was common knowledge that Lee Harvey Oswald worked for the CIA. Afterwards, she, her husband, and their child quickly disappeared. as members of the F.B.I., approached the two new employees at work & took them to an empty room inside the building. 25-26. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Findings of the Select Committee on Assassinations in the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tenn. April 4, 1968. XXXXXXXXXXXXX. I then proceeded to write an article called The Glaze Letters for the May 1999 issue of Jerry Roses JFK assassination research journal called The Fourth Decade. His mother was a strong, confident woman before the assassination, but afterwards she suffered a complete breakdown in her health and had to be hospitalized. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I have opinions. Since the floors were not strong enough to accommodate forklifts, he wondered how the warehouse men could have moved such enormous boxes. Supposedly, he fell asleep at the wheel, or committed suicide, when he rammed into the back of a semi-truck. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And finally, as I said at the beginning is it fair to say that you are here voluntarily today? Find all the books, read about the author, and more. His desire to tell what he knew overcame his fear at least twice in his life. This was making payments and keeping pay records. Mr. WILCOTT - I am sorry, sir; I lost the thread of your question. Please try your request again later. Mr. WILCOTT - They were retained for approximately one year by the finance office, approximately one to two years, and were destroyed at the time of audit. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, it was just a cryptonym, and it could refer to a person, or it could refer to something else and I would have no way of knowing what a cryptonym referred to. Mr. WILCOTT - I was recruited from the school in Syracuse New York, where I was taking a course in accounting and busi- ness administration. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Very generally now, what were your responsibilities as a finance employee with the agency? I talked to reporters from various papers, and I talked to people in other forms of meetings, and to me it is not surprising at all. Mr. PREYER - That was shop talk, speculation, I gather; people were saying that the CIA is somehow connected with it. Mr. WILCOTT - Especially after Kennedy's assassination, there was a great deal of very, very serious discontent with CIA, and the morale at the station had dropped considerably, and we heard some very, very bitter denunciations of CIA and the projects that they were undertaking. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And you have had access to the cash disbursement files at XXXXXXXXXXXXX Station? Upon request, the National Archives sent me a copy of the letter. Mr. Shelly claims to have been an intelligence officer during World War II and thereafter joined the CIA. I am sorry. Mr. WILCOTT - No, I don't. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And are you saying then that you attempted to investigate this allegation? No doubt the police asked Shelley a lot of questions, and it is possible that they kept him in custody until he gave satisfactory answers. Mr. PREYER - It had no relation to your performance? He was fortunate to have many travels, including celebration of his 60th birthday in Antarctica. Having a double life would not have made Shelley unique among the people who worked at the book depository. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir; that was a smaller station. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I understand. He was in the military service over there, and so you feel be was a double agent who was trained while he was in the military by the CIA, and you mentioned he was given a Russian course. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Have you received a copy of the Committee's rules? Mr. DODD - And she was aware of it from 1964 up until 1968 -- Mr. WILCOTT - I believe that Oswald was a double agent, was sent over to the Soviet Union to do intelligence work, that the defection was phoney and it was set up and that I believe that Marina Oswald was an agent that had been recruited sometime before and was waiting their in Tokyo for Lee Harvey Oswald. responsibilities were primarily record keeping and disbursing of funds. Mr. PREYER - Well, that is the other question that I want to be very sure on. But you apparently indicated that you feel there was a direct connection between the Bay of Pigs operation and the assassination of the President. [12], A suggestion of smuggling activities within the TSBD comes in the form of boxes too large to be practical containers of books. I called the number of the Avalanche Journal in Lubbock, Texas and got the personnel director. Was there any dispute between you and the Agency? Mr. WILCOTT - Well, the payments that were made especially to substations like Oswald's was operated -- it was a substation of the XXXXXXXX station, and they had one in XXXXXX and they had one in XXXXXXXXX-- and it may be six months or even a year after the intial allocation that the final accounting for those funds were submitted, and they would operate out of revolving funds or out of their own personal funds in many cases. The shot killed Dr. King. Out of curiosity, he opened this door and saw a large storage area that took over half of the square footage of the fourth floor. Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them. According to this person, shortly after going to work for Bill Schelly, she & another new employee were subjected to some rather odd questioning when considering they were hired as clerks. Mr. WILCOTT - So it was sometime between February and June of 1964? Mr. WILCOTT - I think it must have been two or three omths (sic) after the assassination. On November 22, 1963, there were sixty-nine people working in the building at 411 Elm Streetthirty-three for the TSBD and forty-six for the publishers. Mr. WILCOTT - It was a book that I had. As you can well imagine, she was quite confused because the job was low-paying and involved minor duties. Occupation of the building during the summer of 1963 could be a first step in a planning stage. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Mr. Wilcott after leaving the XXXXXXXXX Station, was there any other time when you came across any information that indicated that Oswald was a CIA agent? A fellow researcher named Eric Lee Jordan visited the site and took pictures of it. Other people who worked at the book depository suffered as well. The building is a large, one-story, concrete tilt-up, ideal for storing and moving huge quantities of material goods with forklifts and palettes. At the time of the assassination, Shelley was in his sixteenth year of employment at the TSBD. Mr. WILCOTT - I was able to but I never did. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. He was not questioned by the Warren Commission. Why would anyone share the information that Oswald was an agent with you, Mr. Wilcott? WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1978 . Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you have any personal knowledge that any records at CIA Headquarters were ever destroyed? 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