Mr. Parnell, I think you know by now I am under the influence of "the facts" rather than a particular POV or agenda.
This results in being no more popular than you are among those who know what they know.
I don't think the opinions of several witnesses you describe in your post linked below are as cut and dry as you do.
William M. Kent AKA Doug Gupton and James K. Cogswell, are two, "for instance" examples.
https://wtracyparnell.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-bishop-sketch-who-did-it-look-like.html VS
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=48681&relPageId=14&search=gupton_and%20bishophttps://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/mackenzie-secrets.html1997 By ANGUS MACKENZIE
"... Meanwhile, President Johnson had replaced Raborn as CIA director with Helms, who immediately made a crucial decision. He transferred responsibility for the Ramparts operation away from Osborn to a key CIA operative whose identity would not be known for years. Richard Ober's name is curiously absent from indexes of books about political spying of his era. Ober managed to keep in the shadows--a force behind the scenes, a man careful to say nothing that would reveal his true role. Few of his associates would even admit to knowing him. It was a breach of the code when one associate gave me a rough description of Ober as a big man with reddish skin and hair.
Ober was a counterintelligence specialist in the Directorate of Plans, sometimes known as the dirty tricks department. He had joined the Agency in 1948 and had a background that CIA directors trusted--Harvard class of 1943, army experience, graduate study in international affairs at Columbia University. At the CIA, Ober had completed two tours of duty abroad, returning to run clandestine operations from a desk and to study at the National War College before becoming the elite of the elite: a counterintelligence officer. Ober and his fellow counterintelligence agents worked in isolation from the rest of the Agency, in the most secret of the Agency's secret compartments. Counterintelligence involves destroying the effectiveness of foreign intelligence services and protecting one's own spies from exposure and subversion. During the 1950s and early 1960s counterintelligence had been widely expanded to all manner of internal police jobs, which now included stopping American publications from printing articles about questionable CIA operations..."
https://garyrevel.com/jfk/whitten.html
John Whitten: The CIA Official who Pursued the Truth of the JFK Assassination
Opinion/Historical Perspective by Gary Revel
Even in 1963 the CIA had it's own domestic operations within the US regardless of their legality. Much of it was centered in Miami, Florida and used some of the Cuban Exiles as contracted assets for covert operations. After the killing of JFK the CIA Director of Plans-Richard Helms, Counterintelligence Chief Jim Angleton and Special Operations Liason Richard Ober were ready to cover up any involvement of the CIA. Helms had contingency plans for the termination of a president who became a threat to the National Secutiry of the United States. One of those plans had been implemented by 'someone' and it had to be as if it the plan never existed.
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Cogswell grew up in then rural Scarsdale, NY, no more than one mile from Richard Ober's home and both attended Phillips Exeter Academy at the same time in the late 1930s. Cogswell graduated from Amherst College in MA in 1953 after serving as a Naval officer during WWII. Ober's father, Harold, happened to be F Scott Fitzgerald's literary agent and Fitzgerald's daughter, Scottie, considered Richard Ober and his brother, Nathan, as her siblings. Cogswell happened to marry the owner of Kilmarnock Books' daughter, Nancy Van Ness, of nearby New Canaan, CT, in 1945.:
The Aspiring Sage of St. Paul
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41583118Next, Cornelius Van Ness
, a wealthy, Harvard-educated collector of rare books and manuscripts - also a newcomer to St. Paul - invited Tom to join him in opening a new bookstore. Calling it "Kilmarnock Books," Van Ness hired Tom as manager, giving him and Peggy badly needed extra income. The Kilmarnock, where tea by the fireplace was available every...
F Scott Fitzgerald, Love Letters, Used - AbeBooks
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/kw/love-letters/used/This handwritten letter is 2 pages, 8.5 " x 11" written in ink from Great Neck when Scott and
Tom Boyd were friends and colleagues on the St. Paul Daily News. In addition to being a book reviewer,
Boyd also had a bookshop, Kilmarnock Books. Dimensions; 8.5" x 11". Signed boldly "As ever Scott " Detailed letter of provenance upon request.
With no prior mining management experience, Cogswell soon found himself working in Cuba in such a position.:
Cogswell's name turns up on pg. 42 of 2017 released docs describing 1960 inquiry into FPCC funding.:
https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/jfk/NARA-Oct2017/NARA-Nov17-2017/docid-32175247.pdfIn 1942, DeMohrenschildt happened to rent a room in the DC home of then Navy Capt., Paul Joachim and shared the home with another naval officer tennant, Harry Hull, married to Cogswell's first cousin, an employee of OSS.
https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/17374-what-is-a-break-through-thread-or-post-is-this-one/page/3/?tab=comments#comment-220402
Posted February 28, 2011 (edited)
Was the scenario involving James K. Cogswell III, actually a multi agency effort to deflect the HSCA's attention away from ONI? Too many coincidences... Cogswell had been married (2nd marriage in 1953) to the daughter of Will Farish III's inheritance trustee; Farish became GHW Bush's "best friend." De Mohrenshildt's 1942, Washington DC housemate, later Rear Admiral Harry Hull's wife was Cogswell's first cousin. Their landlord, later retired Rear Admiral Paul L. Joachim was brutally shot to death in Oct., 1962. Joachim's step-father was the designer of US Navy codebreakers' first Underwood Code Machine aka the Kata-Kana Typewriter. Carl A. Joerissen became Paul Joachim's stepfather when Paul was 8 years old. Later four star Navy Admiral William K Phillips became Harry Hull's step-uncle when Harry was 13 years old. Cogswell's sister, Theodora, is referred to as being part of the OP, by the HSCA. One of Cogswell's aunts, wife of his uncle, Capt. Francis Cogswell, retired from the CIA in 1954. His other aunt, Bianca Harrington Cogswell, daughter of Admiral James K Cogswell, I, first married a man named Clement, and then married Capt. Donald C. Bingham. When her daughter, Louisa, married Harry Hull, Cogswell's aunt became Harry's mother-in-law. Cogswell III brought Joseph Dryer and his knowledge of De Mohrenschildt to the attention of Dorothe Matlack....
JFK Facts » Meet Joan Mellen, a prolific provocateur of ...
https://jfkfacts.org/provocative-prolific-joan-mellen/#comment-869553Cogswell's best man (1953 wedding to Joan Farish), George O. Walbridge II, is pictured with his boss Lem Billings in Havana in !955, with Carlos Prio's former PR flack. Both men worked for Francis McAdoo, brother of DeMohrenschildt's aunt by marriage, Nona McAdoo.
http://jfkforum.com/images/CogswellBillingsWalbridge.jpgCogswell brought Joseph Dryer to the attention of the HSCA in 1976.JFK Facts » Was Oswald a CIA operative or not?
https://jfkfacts.org/was-oswald-a-cia-operative-or-not/#comment-157151In Joan Mellen's 2012 book, "Our Man in Haiti," Joan quotes Joseph F. Dryer, Jr.'s description of his meeting with Clemard Charles and DeMohrenschildt on April 25. We know from declassified CIA documents that Wubriny/1 aka Thomas J. Devine, also met with both men in NYC on that same date.
https://www.maryferrell.org/php/cryptdb.php?id=AMTOUT-1124-10286-10456:
01/11/66: Memorandum from SAC, Miami to Director: Subject: Anti-Fidel Castro Activities (Alleged Plans to Assassinate Fidel Castro) IS - Cuba: Pages 17-18: ..."Godoy advised he had received contributions of approximately $100.00 every three or four months from Mario Lazo, Cuban lawyer residing in the New York City area, who has written articles concerning the invasion of Playa Giron in the 'Readers' Digest,' monthly publication published at Pleasantville, New York. He also advised James K. Cogswell, former businessman in Cuba now residing at 14 E. 60th Street, New York City, had collected money from various friends of Cogswell in the New York City area, for the purpose of assisting in anti-Fidel Castro activities. He advised that neither Lazo or Cogswell were aware of any details concerning the aforementioned plan to possibly attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro..." - - - In an interview with the FBI in November, 1965, James Cogswell stated that Mario Lazo had one of the most prosperous law firms in Cuba, and that this law firm handled the affairs of the American Embassy in Havana for many years.
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=84490&search=124-10286-10461#relPageId=12&tab=pageCogswell's parent's attended Richard Ober's brother Nathan's wedding in 1950. Matron of honor Lanahan was F Scott Fitzgerald's daughter, Scottie. Nathan Ober's bride's maid of honor, Patricia Southgate was the wife of Peter Matthiesen.
http://jfkforum.com/images/CogswellGuestAtNathanOber1950Wed1of2.jpghttp://jfkforum.com/images/CogswellGuestAtNathanOber1950Wed2of2.jpgJohn Train - JFK Assassination Debate - The Education Forum
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https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/14613-john-train/They were Plimpton (Harvard '48), Novelist Harold Humes (M.I.T. '48),
Peter Matthiessen (Yale '50) and
John P.C. Train (Harvard '50), son of the late lawyer-writer Arthur Train. Over Pernods at the Chaplain bar in Montparnasse, they agreed that the world badly needed a new little magazine, and scraped together $ 1,000 to start it.
Alexandra Mills to Marry in April - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/21/archives/alexandra-mills-to-marry-in-april.htmlJan 21, 1973
Devine is with Train, Cabot & Associates, a private‐investment company here. He is member of the Brook and the Racquet and Tennis Club in New York.
http://jfkforum.com/2017/10/01/are-we-there-yet/
...Meet the esteemed editor of the Allendale-Columbia School, class of 1944 Yearbook.. Nineteen years later and within two weeks of the final time he looked into Oswald’s eyes, DeMohrenschildt was looking into these eyes. Devine interrupted a long hiatus from CIA to meet George DeM. and Clemard Charles and Devine reported 8 additional contacts with DeMohrenschildt through the following month.
Devine went on to attend M.I.T. and, just a few months later was residing in the Sigma Chi fraternity house with Garry Coit and fifteen other fraternity mates.
Peter Dryer, another of the not forgotten ten on Devine’s list in the yearbook, was the brother of Joseph F. Dryer, Jr., who met DeMohrenschildt in separate NYC meeting, but on the very same day as Devine, on 25 April, 1963 !
Peter Dryer partnered with brother Joseph in Cuba and then in Guatemala and was also a member of Wyeth’s 1948 Princeton class.
In January, 1964, Garry Coit happened to become the CIA contact of Priscilla Johnson….
Marion Sims “Buz” Wyeth had become by 1949, close enough to Devine’s former classmate to invite Hawley Ward to be an usher in his wedding party.:..
Devine, Dryer's brother, Peter, and Hawley Ward were three of twenty classmates of grades K-8 at Allendale School in
which Devine's father Adrian was headmaster.
Wyeth was Priscilla's book editor who patiently waited 14 years for Priscilla to publish, "Marina and Lee". Wyeth's father architect designed Joseph Dryer's West Palm home, and the Wyeths also lived in West Palm, on Woodbridge, a dead end two lawns from DeMohrenschildt's in-laws, the Philip Sharples.
