Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I have. Mr. GOLDSMITH - How long were these records maintained? or C.I.A. Mr. WILCOTT - XXXXXXXXXXXXX (spelling). Mr. WILCOTT - Gordon Finch. Mr. WILCOTT - The basis for that is discussions that I had with people at the XXXXX Station. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, it never really came forward for you to go to the Warren Commission, did it? Considering the far-reaching extent of control over so many occupations in American society, the CIA could very well have infiltrated the schoolbook depositories and their associated publishers. * Assassination Archives and Research Center leads the fight in federal court for full JFK disclosure. Mr. WILCOTT - Surely, sir. [22] And this likely included coaxing Shelly and Lovelady into making an ersatz trip across the street to the railroad yards before their return to the TSBD, which is now when they said they saw Styles and Adams. [7] Through some insider intrigue, a saleslady at Neiman Marcus found out what Jacqueline Kennedy was going to wear the day of her arrival in Dallas. Mr. DODD - Would you care to tell us any of the names of people whom you communicated with? You may have noticed that at the end of my letter to Alternative Views I carbon-copied to my will. It was intended as a jab at myself lest I get too full of myself rereading it 50 years from now. Mr. SAWYER - What did he do -- anything? His first day on the job was October 29, 1945. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. WILCOTT - Generally so, I would say, at that time. The CIA then told him a story of how someone could be thrown out of a plane without a parachute and the CIA would protect them. From April of 1965 to April of 1966, I was at Miami Station in finance, and I was handling the staff payroll. Mr. DODD - And you and your wife both went to work for the CIA about the same time? And I will ask the question again, okay. In 1992, Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act that placed all remaining government documents pertaining to the assassination in a special category and . Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you ever actually Xerox records being destroyed or changed? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir, I did. James Wilcott worked out of the Tokyo CIA station at the time of the assassination. Mr. CORNWELL - What year was that? 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. I am sorry. Roy Truly, who started working for the book depository in 1934, took a part-time job at the North American Aviation plant in Arlington, Texas during the war years. I asked the first man I sawa man who was telephoning from a pillar in the middle of the roomwhere I could call from. However, information on the Prayer-man.com website shows that Shelley was indeed an officer during the war, albeit as a lieutenant in the Reserve Officer Training Corps at Crozier Tech. Mr. WILCOTT - We had -- in Utica there was a group called the Vietnam Educational Council, which was informed people, formed to inform people as to what was going on in Vietnam, and we didn't feel that there was coverage enough in the media as to what was going on, and the purpose of the Vietnam Educational Council was to inform people as to what was going on. Mr. WILCOTT - Not until after I left the agency. Mr. CORNWELL - On any other occasion? Why this information would.come out to a CIA station XXXXXXX rather than some other part of the world is, I assume, because Oswald was trained in Japan, according to your belief. When Doug Kellner answered the phone, I described to him the contents of the letter. This we concluded from putting various pieces of information together. Mr. PREYER - Why did you resign from the CIA? [17] Gladys Cason, One Life, self-published book, 2004, pp. He is about to publish his book and, as you can understand, friendship and loyalty make me reluctant to discuss this matter with anyone else. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Would you read the list to the Committee? For in Barry Ernests book, The Girl on the Stairs, the reader will read that both Vickie Adams and Sandy Styles told Barry that they did not see either Shelly or Lovelady when they descended from the fourth floor to the first. I was up to my neck before I realized it. I found it very, very difficult to talk about these things that I think ought to be talked about, very difficult. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. CORNWELL - Why did you leave the CIA? Mr. SAWYER - Could you tell us what those things consisted of? 66-67. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Assuming that Oswald was an agent for the CIA, would the agency's cash disbursement files have referred to either Oswald or to his cryptonym? Mr. WILCOTT - I believe our full strength was around XXXXXXX and we never actually had that many, I don't think. His father died on November 2, 1990. TESTIMONY OF JAMES B. WILCOTT, A FORMER EMPLOYEE OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY: Mr. GOLDSMITH - For the record, would you please state your name and address and occupation? I believe it was more in a speculative realm. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And your testimony has been truthful and candid? I discussed it with my friends and the people that I was associating with socially. However, the woman became terrified at the mention of it & said she would deny she ever said it if I tried to publicize the incident. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Upon your memory and the list that your brought with you today, will you tell the Committee the names of the CIA Case Officers who you remember working XXXXXXXXXX in 1963? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. However, please contact me before mentioning my name to anyone. And I think that is why I probably heard a lot more things than other people did, for instance, than my wife did, because of that situation. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Where is Concord located? When I got to the phone, two of the lines were lit up. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I think we had better go over that one more time. Mr. WILCOTT - My wife and I both left the CIA because we became convinced that what CIA was doing couldn't be reconciled to basic principles of democracy or basic principles of humanism. This book provides the first useful, in-depth analysis of the 120 phone calls by LBJ in the week following the assassination regarding such items as the Civil Rights Act, demands made by the military and similar political power plays. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I was on security duty, and on security duty, agents were coming in and out of the station, and I pulled a lot of security duty, three and four nights right in a row, and pulled as much as 24 hours on weekends, and an agent would come back from meeting with somebody and he would be waiting for his wife to pick him up or would be waiting for a call from one of the indigenous agents that he was running and a lot of times conversations would be talked. Mr. PREYER - Let me interrupt. [18], Less than a minute after the assassination, two Scott Foresman employees, Victoria Adams and Sandra Styles, who were on the fourth floor, ran down the stairs to the first floor. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir; I believe that happened. When I interviewed him, he was living alone with his three cats, depending for his income on the charity of his father and disability checks. What it was is hard to guess. That he continued to serve in a military, or semi-military, capacity at the same time he was working for a schoolbook company is indicated by his obituary, which said he was a veteran of World War II. Mr. WILCOTT - The "need-to-know" principle was not all that we followed, and just about every one of the big projects that the agency was involved in, information leaked out, and we especially within the CIA knew about it, and someone would go to a party and have a little bit too much to drink and start saying things that they really shouldn't be saying to keep in mind what the "need-to-know" principle was. JFK Assassination : The James B. Wilcott Files And The CIA Oswald Project: An Investigative Report. We are operating under House Resolution 222, which mandates the Committee to conduct a full and complete investigation and study of the circumstances surrounding the assassination and death of President John F. Kennedy, including determining whether the existing laws of the United States concerning the protection of the President and the investigatory jurisdiction and capability of agencies and departments are adequate in their provisions and enforcement; and whether there was full disclosure of evidence and information among agencies and department of the United States Government and whether any evidence or information not in the possession of an agency of department would have been of assistance in investigating the assassination and why such information was not provided or collected by that agency or department, and to make recommendations to the House if the Select Committee deems it appropriate for the amendment of existing legislation or the enactment of new legislation. 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. WILCOTT - We thought every year, my wife and I and the friends that we had -- we said, "Well, this is one thing that they aren't going to keep a lid on." Henry Hurt, author of Reasonable Doubt, discovered such boxes while investigating the claims of an alleged conspirator. In November 1963, on the Friday before Thanksgiving, President Kennedy was riding in a Lincoln convertible rolling through the streets of Dallas. Mr. SCHAAP - My name is William Schaap, S - c - h - a -, a - p (spelling), and I am an Attorney here in Washington. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Mr. Wilcott, assuming that Oswald had been employed as an agent by the CIA, would there have been a reference to that fact in the CIA's cash disbursement file? Mr. WILCOTT - Well, it was "We all know all about you" and signed "The Minutemen" or some very vulgar remarks and "We know all about you and signed "Minutemen." Mr. WILCOTT - That is true. After completing the questionnaire, the two F.B.I. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Mr. Wilcott, did I ask you to prepare a list of CIA Case Officers working at XXXXXXXXX Station in 1963? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. There was XXXXXXXXXXXX Branch, who had XXXXXXXXXXX cover. [27] Gerald McKnight, Breach of Trust p. 115. Common to both the 1977 and 1989 letters are the strange men asking strange questions. 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. GOLDSMITH - But as a matter of routine, would the CIA cash disbursement files refer to the cryptonym of either the person or the project that is receiving funds? At the end of the hallway to his right was another door. It was not until 1999 that I spoke to someone who could solve this apparent discrepancy. Two weeks later, he wrote back: Received your letter of July 7, 1999. Did you cover this ground? Also at this location were the office suites of eight schoolbook publishing companies, including Scott Foresman, Southwestern, Macmillan, and McGraw-Hill. I do. In the decade following his HSCA testimony, Jim Wilcott joined Vietnam veteran Brian Willson and the Nuremberg Actions community outside the Concord Naval Weapons Station in nonviolent resistance to weapons shipments to the CIA-sponsored Contra war in Nicaragua. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And will you tell the Committee what that relationship was? It was more of a casual kind of thing, to my way of thinking. G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director. 49, No. [20] Before going up the stairs, Truly paused to tell Shelley to guard the stairs and elevators to make sure no one uses them.[21]. Mr. GOLDSMITH - What is the name of the book? (Its address, I later learned, was 11310 Gemini Lane.) Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. WILCOTT - I flipped through it. While working as a journalist in Dallas, Tx. We appreciate that, and if at, any time you think of any further way in which your testimony can be corroborated or the name of any other CIA man or any record or anything of that sort that might be available we hope you will get in touch with us and let us know about it. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, they did. Mr. WILCOTT - That is right. As we shall see, this might have been designed to conceal the fact that some people working there were being harassed and bullied. It was about XXX I think, was our actual roster was. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Why would anyone have shared this particular information with you? Mr. WILCOTT - It is a little bit east of Oakland, California. If Shelleys claim to Glaze about his association with the CIA is true, it indicates that he was leading a double life as a schoolbook man as well as an intelligence operative. Yes, I do, and I believe there was such a reference. 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