What follows, if not ignored, will be dismissed as a few separate coincidences. Below is a quote of my 2019 post in this thread, followed by a linked, partial quote of a Maryferrell.org page in the cryptonym section about GUIDE-223.
The central figure in this rather lengthy collection of words is Edwin M. "Squirrel" Ashcraft, chief of CIA DCD (Domestic Contacts Division) in 1963 - 64.
Ashcraft was a Princeton classmate of George Bouhe's sister's husband, the two attending annual reunions into the 1970s,
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/238376179/edwin-maurice-ashcraftEdwin Maurice Ashcraft III
Died 18 January, 1981
...the boss of Moore in Dallas and of William Burke and Lloyd Ray in NOLA. Ashcraft had to have had intimate, realtime knowledge of Webster and Oswald, as well as of Frederick Merrill, the handler at Dept. of State of Ruth Paine.
George Bouhe died in Plainfield, NJ, the home of his sister and her husband, Ashcraft's classmate at Princeton.
Merrill's father and Webster's boss, Henry James Rand,
were the two sons of the highest executives of the Remington Rand Corp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rand_Jr.
WF Merrill :
Business: Rand in Command - TIME
Time Magazine
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,752940,00.htmlJuly 27, 1931
In command of Remington Rand, Inc. there were until last week two outstanding figures. Now there is but one.
The remaining figure is that of
James Henry Rand Jr., 44, chairman and president of the company. Soon after he graduated from Harvard in 1908 he went into the business of making business simpler. One of the first companies
he worked for was his father's Rand Co., Inc., producer of card index systems. In 1915 he and his father disagreed.In 1927 James H. Rand Jr. put through his biggest deal of ... One possibility was that, although Remington Rand's profits have dwindled lately,
President Merrill ...
Reagan and the architect of he 1980 October Surprise were both born in Tampico, IL, pop. 750, knew each other as boys, Hugh Downs married Shaheen's sister, Hugh's partner, Barbara Walters, acted as a go between with Shaheens arms dealer associates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_ShaheenJohn Shaheen - Wikipedia
[1] Career Prior to World War II, Shaheen worked in publicity in Chicago. [2] During World War II Shaheen was at the Office of Strategic Services, and was awarded the Silver Star and Legion of Merit. [3] At OSS he was "chief of OSS Special Projects" and head of the Reports Declassification
We live in a society in which John Connally's children cannot be named in his wikipedia page, and the FBI could not connect the wife of its former agent, IB Hale, or his wife who sent Oswald to Leslie Welding, as Connally's deceased daughter, Kathleen's in-laws. Kathleen's spouse, Bobby Hale
and his brother were observed breaking into the FBI 1962 stake-out of Judith Campbell's L.A. apartment.
If the Warren Report were a used car..... and before the test drive, you insisted on a good long look under the hood...
Your Honor, an establishment rule: Other wikipedia bios of Texas Governors (and to some extent, Navy Secretaries...) are permitted to name and to discuss their children!
I prefer to live in a world in which the establishment exerts less control. How about you?
Wikipedia obviously does not censor the bio article of Connally's immediate predecessor.:
Connally's successor as Navy Secretary is afforded a wider wikipedia "leash" but not when the subject is the matter of Korth's daughter
going out the same way as Kathleen Connally Hale (and George DeM, too!).... self inflicted 20 gauge! (See 1969 article image @ bottom of post) Verita Korth death certificate indicates no autopsy was performed and time of coroner inquest is 2-1/2 hours after time of death!
So much for any thorough investigation!
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYBY-7RW?i=258&cc=1983324
Mr. RANKIN. Did this friend and other Russian friends visit you at Mercedes Street?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes. When we lived at Fort Worth we became acquainted with Peter Gregory, he is a Russian, he lives in Fort Worth and through him we became acquainted with others.
Mr. RANKIN. Will you tell us insofar as you recall, the friends that you knew in Fort Worth?
Mrs. OSWALD. Our first acquaintance was Gregory. Through him I met Gali Clark, Mrs. Elena Hall. That is all in Fort Worth. And then we met George Bouhe in Dallas, and Anna Meller, and Anna Ray and Katya Ford.
Mr. RANKIN. By your answer do you mean that some of those people you met in Dallas and some in Fort Worth?.....
The answer to the question of whether George Bouhe's wife's husband Tilbury O. Freeman was in direct contact (Freeman's roommate Burt Seay likely knew Squirrel Ashcraft well, in 1928) with CIA's Chief of Domestic Contacts, Edwin Squirrel Ashcraft, may lie in the keepsakes or memories of this man, last interviewed in late 2018!:
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/948198/verita_korth_amarillo_globe_2_may_1969/
Joe Kennedy, Jrs' fatal flight was in this "operation" of Rand, Shaheen, and McGraw,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aphroditehttps://web.archive.org/web/20140419184429/https://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php/topic,10365.msg304167.htmlhttps://jfkfacts.org/curtis-lemay-to-jfk-during-the-cuban-missile-crisis/#comment-441710
“Info on Special Ops Wanted Bruce McCaw writes: My father, Lt. Col. John Elroy McCaw, worked on OSS Special Projects known as operations Aphrodite, Simmons, and Javaman. He worked with OSSers John Shaheen and Jim Rand and is particularly interested in Javaman, which called for blowing up the tunnel…”
Tampico IL. May 1,1951 “John M. Shaheen And Eastern Young Lady Wed…. while H James Rand of Cleveland, Ohio was best man.”
[quote ]
https://www.maryferrell.org/php/cryptdb.php?id=GUIDE-223&search=ashcraft%20parkland....
104-10181-10128: SUBJECT: ROBERT EDWARD WEBSTER, PROJECT LONGSTRIDE
One of the coordinating officers who played a role in this decision to prevent Johnson from becoming a CIA officer in 1958, still known only to us as SR/COP/FI, coordinated with East-West Contacts officer Frederick Merrill at the State Department during the defection of Robert Webster during 1959. "About 21 September 1959 Mr. (Robert) Crowley of OOCD informed me that REDACTED, Chief East West Contacts OO had received word that Mr. (Frederick) Merrill, East West Contacts State Department, that inquiry was being made by Rand Corporation of State Department to determine the whereabouts of Mr. Webster who had departed his office without notice to the parent company...to the best of our knowledge (Webster was not carrying out a CIA clandestine task and) Mr. Webster had not been briefed by and was unknown to either DDP or OO offices."
104-10182-10065: DEBRIEFING OF ROBERT EDWARD WEBSTER.
4/16/63 report:
Ned Bennett is listed on the bottom
as one of the participants in the debriefing of Webster in 1962. In 1967, Bennett was the one who "pulled together" the memo on "countering criticism of the Warren Report" and offered a game plan on how to discredit these researchers. 104-10404-10376, p. 2 (handwritten portion).
104-10408-10347: MFR: LEE HARVEY OSWALD FBI REQUESTS POLYGRAPH OF ALVARADO
12/3/63 memo by C/CI-SIG Birch O'Neal re polygraph of Gilberto Alvarado. Margainalia, when looked in a mirror, states "Ask Ashcraft - OO on Oswald" (bleed-through on upper right corner of the 12/3/63 Alvarado document). One analysis is that
it was appropriate to ask E.M. Ashcraft, chief of the Domestic Contact Division - also known as Office of Operations or OO - about Oswald, because if anyone knew about Oswald,
Ashcraft was in the right place as chief of Domestic Contact Division. Joan Mellen's analysis: "This is how it might have worked. Ashcraft would have called Thomas Casasin or Richard L. Winch or Donald E. Poole at SR6. This person in turn would have talked to Rudy Balaban (SR6 Research). Balaban, code name “Valentino,” would have consulted with Reed, who then called OS, the Office of Security, requesting permission to debrief Oswald. OS would pass the request on to Personnel Security Division, who would give a green light or a red light. On occasion Balaban and Reed would do debriefings together." Mellen also states: "This document was perused by historian, John Newman. Newman looked at a signature on the upper right hand corner, a signature that apparently had leaked off or burned off from another document, because it’s in reverse, as if it were viewed through a mirror. Newman concluded that the signature belonged to “Andy Anderson” because “00 Oswald” was written beneath it. The 00 Oswald were clear, but the signature was not that of Andy Anderson! This signature, revealing who ordered the debriefing of Oswald,
in fact belongs to one E. M. Ashcraft, Chief of the Contact Division. He and Robert Crowley, OSB/CI (Domestic Contacts Division, Operational Support Branch, Counter Intelligence), were on the same level." For Newman's analysis, see 104-10331-10237. [/quote ]
