Kennedy and Oswald: The Big Picture

Kennedy & Oswald: The Big Picture

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Murder most foul, as in the best it is,

But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

– William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark

Act I, Scene V

DEDICATION

To Lee Harvey Oswald

For the heroic sacrifices he made in his efforts to save President Kennedy’s life at least three times, then making the ultimate sacrifice – giving his life – in one final attempt to save Kennedy.

"To Lee Harvey Oswald, my dearest friend,

who gave his life for President John F. Kennedy,

and to his family, who need to know that their

husband and father was a brave, good man,

a patriot, and a true American hero

of whom they can be proud."

Judyth Vary Baker’s dedication in her book, Me & Lee: How I came to know, love and lose Lee Harvey Oswald, Trine Day (2010).

Acknowledgments

With special thanks to: researchers, witnesses and members of the JFK Historical Group; over 100 witnesses, authors, experts and researchers who presented their arguments and evidence to the annual JFK Assassination Conferences of 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016; over 75 witnesses, authors, experts and researchers who presented their arguments and evidence to the Symposia of 2012, 2013, 2014, and to the 1st and 2nd Oswald Conferences in New Orleans; TrineDay books; our conference sponsors; witnesses who dared post at our JFK Dallas Conference websites and on Facebook pages for inspection, debate and verification; assistants at the National Archives who went beyond the call of duty (when they learned that some records had been altered, they provided personal stampings and their initials to authenticate some of these key documents that had been altered online); to the great researchers, journalists and brave witnesses of the past, living and dead, whose work and testimonies preserved and protected the truth for future generations; and to the many friends, family and supporters whose faithful help at every level made this book possible, please accept our profound and eternal gratitude.

Special Acknowledgments

We add our deep appreciation to former CIA officer Donald Deneselya and researcher-activist Paul Kuntzler, who provided us with valuable information and insights. Over a period of decades, beginning in the 1970s, Donald Deneselya revealed valuable information that he alone had access to, exposing the truth to authors and investigators. He testified at the Church Committee, the Schweiker Sub-Committee and the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

The authors are pleased to also acknowledge the considerable contribution from Kris Millegan, publisher of Trine Day. Kris allowed us to use important sections from co-author Judyth Vary Baker’s book, Me & Lee.

Table of Contents

cover

Title-page

Copyright page

Epigraph

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Author quotes

Meet Donald Deneselya

Background: the CIA and Dr. Alton Ochsner

Meet Judyth Vary Baker

Science, cancer research, and Athletics

Ask the Question. Ask the Question!

The End of the Project

Why we were there:

David Ferrie, The Insider

Four Friends

Some of Judyth’s Witnesses

Meet Edward Schwartz, Co-Author

Paul Kuntzler’s Ad

Paul Kuntzler, Don Deneselya, Edward Schwartz

Preface

Why You Should Care:

Why Conspiracy Is a Bad Word

The New World Order and End-of-World Fears

Two Cases of Corruption, Deceit & Conspiracy

Case Study #2

From an Office Building with a High-Powered Rifle

The Origin of The Second Wallet

Tampering of a Personnel File

The Morphing of the CIA

The U-2 Incident

Sources of the U-2 Information

Edward Schwartz and Judyth Vary Baker

Other Important Books

Restoring the American Dream

Learning About the Real Lee Harvey Oswald

Chapter 25: Countdown

Saturday, November 16, 1963

Sunday, November 17, 1963

Killing Kennedy to Destroy America

Killing JFK’s Policies

Changing the System

The Lies That Changed Our World

Part I – Yesterday’s Links To Today’s Evils

The Military – Industrial Complex, Big Business, and Globalism

Why The Big Picture Is Full of Holes

Operation Mockingbird and Fake News

Labels That Kill

Why we should care:

Using Conspiracy Theory to Cover-Up

Document 1035-960

Dead Witnesses Don’t Talk

The Four Amigos and the City of Dallas

Farris Rookstool: Damage Control Expert

Unsubstantiated!

CIA-betrayed: The Case of Edwin Wilson

The Four Amigos

Our Favorite Families (Not)

The Warren Commission’s Mission

The Commission’s Conflicts of Interest

Playing Hide-and-Seek with the Evidence

Hoover Cooperated in the Cover-Up

The Secrets of Jekyll Island

Executive Order No. 11110: An Example of Kennedy’s Courage

The Council on Foreign Relations: Strengthening the Oligarchy

The Bretton Woods Conference

The OSS and the Central Intelligence Agency

Dec. 22, 1963: A Former President Warns the Nation About the CIA

Kennedy vs the CIA, the Military and the State Department: the Cuban Missile Crisis

When a Dollar Was Gold

Big Government Is Big Business

The Panama Papers: Deja Vu

Get Used to the Word Oligarchy

The Military-Industrial Complex and Government Corruption

The Gold Standard and the Economy

FDR, JFK and LBJ on the Road to Globalization

1945: An Important Year on the Road to Globalization

Operation Paperclip

The Korean War

The Amazing Insight of JFK

Bilder-what? The Bilderbergs

The American Oligarchy and American Voters

The U.S. Defense Budget and Our Warrior Mentality

To Control the Nation, Our Official History Must Be Controlled

Erasing Kennedy’s Heroism from History

Another Witness Exposes the Greatness of JFK

The North American Leaders’ Summit of 2005

College, Jobs and Mobility: Crushing the American Dream

Trump, the TPP Partnership Deal, and Death Threats

JFK and the Vietnam War

NSAM #52

McGeorge Bundy and the Sabotage of NSAM #263

The DRAFT

How, When and Why the Vietnam War Began

The Saigon Military Mission and the Death of Millions

False Flag: To Kill a Prince

Why Vietnam Was Chosen for War

Karma and the United States

Kill the Insurgents and Communists!

Enter President Kennedy

The Hueys, the Vietnam War, and Dallas

The Dulles Connection to Dallas

The Sacrifice That Changed History

The McNamara-Taylor Tour and Report

The Diem Coup

The Mythmakers Exposed

Dispelling the Myths

The History Channel Exposed

He Was Just Stupid

All’s Fair in Love and War

The CIA Forged Classified Files in 1972

Twisting the Truth About Kennedy’s Role in the Vietnam War

The Cuban Study Group and Acts of Treason

War Profits and Texas Presidents

Krulak’s Saga

False Flag: The Gulf of Tonkin Incident

The First Attack

Vietnam and Globalism

The Vatican Connection to the Vietnam War

Pope Pius XII

Pope John XXIII

Pope Paul VI

Part II – Power Corrupts

A Lust for Power, and the Consequences

The Fear Factor and the Domino Theory

Fake News and the Media

Foreknowledge of the Assassination, and Other Secrets

Pre-Planned: Oswald the Only Assassin

The Brainwashing Effect of False Reports

Should We Link the WTC to the Assassination?

The Trade Mart and Permindex

Evidence Hidden/Destroyed/Lost and Sealed

Dr. Crenshaw’s description of JFK’s exit wound.

Jim Garrison, Clay Shaw and His Banana Buddies

JFK: Invited to Speak at the Trade Mart

The Painful Truth

Because They Hated Him

The CIA, Opium, United Fruit and LHO

The United Fruit Octopus

Who Dare Call It Treason?

The Paineful Deception

Michael the Enabler

Helpful Ruth Paine and her CIA Family

The Money Order, the Blanket and the Cameras

The Money Order

The Clean Blanket

The Camera

Applying Common Sense

Tracy Barnes’ Role in the JFK Assassination

Robert Morrow: Attempts to Solve the Case

Misinformation About Harvey and Lee

Robert Morrow’s Story: Part True, Part False, CIA Slips off the Hook

Morrow’s Account Examined, Continued:

A Different Storm Drain Story

QJ/WIN

Kenny O’Donnel and Dave Powers: For the good of the country

The Kill Shot

The Info-Prostitutes

October, 1963: the CIA Gains Strength

Oswald, the Fake Defector, and the U-2

Lee Oswald’s Problems as a Fake Defector

Lee & Marina Fall into the Hands of the Paines

Marina was Cruelly Isolated

The CIA Out of Control

Part III – Oswald’s Innocence

Setting Up the Patsy – The Paines

More About Ruth and Michael Paine

Lee Oswald Thought Judyth Was CIA

The Reily Cover Jobs

Pix of the Paines: The Front Yard Photos

The Photo in Marina’s Shoe

The Secret Service Takes Over

Did Lee Give His Brother the Imperial Reflex?

The Dallas Police Visit Irving

Reconstructing Two Rolls of Film

The Ever-Helpful Mr. Paine

The Ever-Helpful Mrs. Paine

Lee, the Wife Beater

Lee Oswald’s Last Job

Ruth’s Lack of True Concern for Marina

The Big Picture: The Plots Come Together

The Handlers Handle Lee Oswald’s Requests for a Lawyer

The Call That Killed

Grover Proctor and the Raleigh Call

Mind Kontrol, Fake Churches and the Occult

E. Howard Hunt

Bullets, Bullets, Everywhere…

The South Knoll

Storm Drains and Other Enigmas

Convenient Lies

Who Saw the Kill?

Witnesses Ignored by the Warren Commission

The Men Who Killed Kennedy

LBJ Usurps the White House

Lyndon Johnson’s Conduct as President

Nixon Forgets Where He Was on Nov 22: An Example of Cover-Up

Nixon’s Lies: A Lesson in Cover-up

Nixon’s Lies Reveal How Cover-Ups Work

Hess’ Biggest Blunder

Presidential Puppetry

Outrageous Lies Ignored and Censorship Conducted by the Media

What Nixon Knew Destroyed Him

The Bay of Pigs Thing

A Final Look at the Big Picture

Winning the War for Justice

Appendices

Mrs. Mahlon Tobias, George Bouhe and Jack Ruby

Interesting Facts

Mary Ferrell, David Ferrie, Harrison Livingstone, and the Occult

Controlling Dallas: Mary Ferrell as Dragon Lady and Angel

Lee Harvey Oswald Was Denied a Lawyer

Before The Judge

If not James Files, or in addition to James Files, we have CIA’s William Harvey running a stable of French assassins… :

Tracking down the assassin

Heroin, Vietnam and Dallas

The CIA drug trade

Trolls and Entrapment Websites

Index

Edward

Schwartz: "Without Judyth’s intimate knowledge about Lee Oswald presented in this book, an important part of Oswald’s story would have been lost to the historical record. This book also includes information from new witnesses who have stepped forth in her support. With Kennedy & Oswald, Kris has enabled the world to better understand what happened to our beloved United States of America after the deaths of Kennedy and Oswald – two true American heroes."

Judyth Vary Baker: "Oswald a hero? Don’t throw the book down. Read on!"

Meet Donald

Deneselya

Donald Deneselya asking a question at a Paul Kuntzler JFK Assassination lecture.

In November 1962, Don Deneselya was promoted from the Foreign Documents Division, Soviet Branch, to James Jesus Angleton’s Counterintelligence Clandestine Services. Angleton controlled the fates of many CIA operatives.

In 2010, Don began informing the authors about the CIA’s past super-secretive component within the Agency, known to a very few insiders as the Domestic Operations Base (DOB). Donald Deneselya was one of those insiders. The DOB was a Covert Action Division, located in Alexandria, VA, approximately a one hour drive from the official CIA headquarters in Langley, VA. Another important, less secretive CIA component, the Domestic Operations Division (DOD), facetiously known as the Dirty Tricks Division, was founded in 1962 by Tracy Barnes.

Perry Crookham was the Chief of the DOB. He had come to the CIA from the U.S. Marines. Crookham remained in charge of the DOB until early to mid-1963, when he was replaced by Tracy Barnes. Barnes then remained in control of the DOD as well.

The Chief of the DOB oversaw all of the CIA’s corporate assets such as INTERARMCO, a global armaments distribution company, Air America, a global illegal drug distribution company, and Zapata Offshore, the oil company associated with George H. W. Bush. Perry Crookham’s deputy at the DOB, until Tracy Barnes took over, was William Rip Robertson. According to Deneselya, Barnes coordinated CIA-ordered assassinations on behalf of Richard Helms and Allen Dulles, and Robertson was involved.

Robertson’s name is known among Kennedy assassination researchers, whereas Perry Crookham’s existence remained hidden from history, unknown outside the CIA, until Donald Deneselya revealed his name and who he was to the authors. You will be hard-pressed to find mention of Crookham in any other book.

In 1975, Donald Deneselya told Senator Richard Schweiker some astonishing news about Lee Harvey Oswald: Oswald was CIA and had been debriefed. Deneselya said the debriefing by the CIA’s Alden (Andy) Anderson occurred upon Oswald’s return to the United States from the Soviet Union in June 1962.¹ Senator Schweiker chaired the Kennedy assassination portion of the Church Committee’s investigation of the CIA in the mid-1970s.

Donald Deneselya told us he was interviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), 1978-1979. The committee was unable to locate Oswald’s debriefing report where it should have been filed, in the Industrial Registry Branch. In 1979, the HSCA concluded that there was no evidence that Oswald had ever been contacted by the CIA.

In 1993, CIA historian John Newman, working under contract for the PBS TV Frontline production, Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? came across a newly-declassified CIA document with handwriting on it that read: Anderson OO on Oswald. In CIA jargon, OO is the symbol used for overt operations. The Oswald debriefing report should have been open, not a secret report. However, in reality, it was a secret report. Donald Deneselya was then brought in to respond to questions from Frontline, appearing on TV in shadow.

Before his transfer to Angleton’s Clandestine Services in November 1962, Deneselya had worked as a Russian translator in the Soviet (SR) branch of the Foreign Documents Division. Months after Oswald’s return to the United States, Don found Oswald’s debriefing report on his desk (Oswald’s name was not on it). The report merely stated that a Marine defector who worked in the Minsk Radio Plant was returning with his family. There was nothing secretive about the Minsk Radio Plant, Don says. The CIA knew that no military electronics or weapons were produced there. The plant was a factory where workers manufactured radios and TVs for the Russian civilian population.

The fact that Oswald’s name was missing from his debriefing report was extremely unusual. According to Don, the CIA didn’t want the public to ever find out that Oswald was sent to Russia to give the Russians secret information to enable them to shoot down a U-2 aircraft, and that was the real reason why his name was not on his debriefing report. Less than three weeks after the assassination, on December 10, 1963, Deneselya realized that the missing name on that 1962 debriefing report was Lee Harvey Oswald, and that Oswald had not killed President Kennedy. Don told us how he came to know those facts.

Deneselya, as did other CIA employees who were aware of Oswald’s debriefing report, assumed that it had been turned over to the Warren Commission, which had been charged by President Johnson to investigate the murder of his predecessor. But it had not. Essentially, Oswald was a spy in the service of spymaster Angleton, just as his lover, Judyth Vary Baker, had stated in 1999.²

¹ 1. Researcher Joan Mellen contends that Anderson was a female. Without going into a deep discussion as to why we tend to disagree, we focus on the fact revealed by Deneselya that Oswald was debriefed. Note that former CIA Deputy Dir. Helms told Frontline, while being filmed for TV in 1992, that Deneselya was mistaken: the CIA had not debriefed Oswald. CIA historian Newman then reminded Helms that denying Oswald was debrief after such a stay in the USSR looked more suspicious than if he had admitted it. At that, Helms asked to be re-filmed, to state that Oswald had been debriefed, in front of Deneselya, Newman and the film crew. His request was denied.

² 2. Judyth Vary Baker. Me & Lee: How I came to know, love and lose Lee Harvey Oswald. Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2010. 218.

Ask yourself, Why was Dr. Alton Ochsner, who hated JFK, put in charge of President Kennedy’s 1962 visit to New Orleans?

Background: the CIA and Dr. Alton Ochsner

To understand how Judyth Baker came to know Oswald, we need to know about a man who was involved with Kennedy’s enemies, although, until Judyth spoke out, his connections remained unexposed. This man was the famed oncologist and heart surgeon, Dr. Alton Ochsner, the founder of Ochsner Clinic. His entanglement with the military, the OSS and CIA, the ultra-rich and the Mafia may have gained its first significance through his friendship with Gen. Claire Chennault, famed for his Flying Tigers airborne fighting team. After WWII, Chennault founded the Civil Air Transport system, often used by the CIA in operations related to China. In 1950, the CIA bought Chennaut’s CAT fleet to use for covert purposes. ¹ According to Robert Sam Anson in his 1975 Bantam book They’ve Killed the President!, Air America (formerly CAT) was CIA owned and operated, transporting heroin from Indochina to America during the early1960s and beyond. The heroin was processed by the Corsican Mafia and distributed by the American Mafia. The Kennedy brothers were notorious opponents of the American Mafia and were on the verge of eliminating their organization when President Kennedy was murdered.

Chennault was so close to Ochsner that he died in Ochsner’s clinic (of lung cancer from smoking). By the time JFK was in office, Anson tells us, The Indochina [narcotics] connection was coming undone…. And continues, The question was whether organized crime could survive another five years of the brothers Kennedy.²

Dr. Ochsner’s connections to CIA black ops was not limited to Chennault, nor to his ongoing friendship with Chennault’s Asian wife, Anna Chen Chennault (Chen Xiangmei), who would play a historic role in the Vietnam War after consulting with Ochsner about how to help Nixon break up a peace summit that LBJ had sponsored. In a December 2016 article in the New York Times facts emerged that Nixon put Anna to work for him to destroy the summit:

Nixon insisted that he had not sabotaged Johnson’s 1968 peace initiative to bring the war in Vietnam to an early conclusion. My God. I would never do anything to encourage South Vietnam not to come to the table, Nixon told Johnson, in a conversation captured on the White House taping system.

We now know Nixon lied. A new-found cache of notes left by H. R. Haldeman, his closest aide, shows that Nixon directed his campaign’s efforts to scuttle the peace talks, which he feared could give his opponent, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, an edge in the 1968 election. On Oct. 22, 1968, he ordered Haldeman to monkey wrench the initiative.

! Keep Anna Chennault working on South Vietnam, Haldeman scrawled, recording Nixon’s orders. Any other way to monkey wrench it? Anything RN can do."

Ochsner, a former president of the American Cancer Society, was also the close friend of U.S. Secret Ops OSS Founder and CIA creator Wild Bill Donovan. The two men held lifelong posts in the American Cancer Society. Donovan was also treated for cancer in Ochsner’s clinic, later to die at Walter Reed. Ochsner had a recent clearance for sensitive work with the CIA³ when Judyth first met him at the Watson Clinic gala in Florida. His decades-long friendship and partnerships with CIA asset Clay Shaw, who New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison had arrested as an accomplice to Kennedy’s assassination, and Ochsner’s near-fanatic anti-communist organization INCA, which distributed CIA-approved radio propaganda throughout Latin America, was only the tip of the iceberg of the good doctor’s CIA-related activities.

¹ 1. http://www.utdallas.edu/library/specialcollections/hac/cataam/ retrieved Aug. 21, 2016.

² 2. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/opinion/sunday/nixons-vietnam-treachery.htmlDavid E. Scheim. Contract on America. New York: Shapolsky Publishers, 1988. 51.

³ 3. Secret records released in July, 2017 show Ochsner had a personal contact with the CIA on Jan. 8, 1962, and that Oschner Clinic’s last direct contact with the CIA was Nov. 8, 1963, only two weeks before Kennedy’s murder.

Meet

Judyth Vary Baker

Judyth Vary Baker, author of Me & Lee, and David Ferrie: Mafia Pilot, reveals fascinating new information in this book to support her story that she was Oswald’s girlfriend and that Oswald did not shoot President Kennedy. To review some of the key points in Me & Lee, we begin with Judyth, born in South Bend, Indiana, who at age 14 became determined to find a cure for cancer. She says in Me & Lee, My beloved grandmother, my mother’s mother, was dying from breast cancer. It instilled in me a deep hatred of cancer. ¹

Science, cancer research, and Athletics

Judyth, working with doctors trained at Oak Ridge under the eye of the CIA, and aided by military contacts, induced lung cancer in mice in only seven days, using sophisticated carcinogens derived from cigarette products. In April, 1961, Judyth crashed the elite 4th Annual Science Writers’ Seminar to show her work to the nation’s leading scientists. There she impressed five important people: two were Nobel Prize winners in chemistry – Sir Robert Robinson, who lived in Buffalo, NY, and Indiana-born Dr. Harold Urey. The other three were nationally prominent doctors specializing in cancer research who had campaigned together against smoking. They would all become fascinated with Judyth’s accomplishment, which definitively linked cigarette products to lung cancer. They were 1) Dr. George Moore,Director of Roswell Park Institute for Cancer Research, located in Buffalo, NY, 2) Dr. Harold Diehl (Vice President of the American Cancer Society and its Cancer Research Director) and 3) Dr. Alton Ochsner, founder of the famed Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans. The Ochsner Journal tells us Alton Ochsner made many contributions to medicine and surgery, but he will always be remembered for exposing the hazards of tobacco and its link to lung cancer. He was the first anti-smoking crusader. ²

Naturally, Ochsner and his two crusading friends were intrigued and encouraged with the fact that Judyth had used tobacco products to produce lung cancer in her germ-free, weanling mice in just seven days. On Jan. 11, 1964, the first Surgeon-General’s report on Smoking and Cancer would nail tobacco as the leading cause of lung cancer.³ The five men sent Judyth on to New York for advanced training, Dr. Robinson paying for her transportation there. In June, 1961, Judyth arrived at Roswell Park, where she worked in Dr. Moore’s personal laboratory, studying radiobiology and cancer viruses. Judyth was one of several assistants who also helped Dr. Moore test variations of a super-formula to grow cancer cells, later to be known as the RPMI 1640 formula. The formula was so good that it’s still being used in laboratories around the world today. In 1963, one of the reasons Judyth was invited to work with Ochsner’s close associate, Dr. Mary S. Sherman, was that Judyth had the most recent recipe for the RPMI formula, having continued to have access to the latest versions since 1961. Judyth also attended seminars under Dr. Edwin Mirand as a part-time participant in his training program, and was tutored by Dr. James T. Grace on how to safely handle deadly cancer-causing viruses, including the SV40 Monkey Virus.

Dr. Moore at work in his lab.

Importantly, newspapers reported that after her training at Roswell Park, Judyth was assigned, as soon as she began college, to find the substances that cause the cancer to become most deadly.⁴ This assignment required her to do research in medical libraries and to test methods to enhance cancer growth.

I now realize that late in 1961, plans were already afoot with the CIA to look into cancer as a biological weapon,⁵ Judyth says. I was a willing researcher for some of their findings, required to send in reports. In my book, I mention how many journals I was assigned to read even in New Orleans. There was concern that the Russians were developing such a bio-weapon. For this reason, Judyth had been enrolled in night classes learning Russian while still in high school.

Judyth had access to supplies and support for her lab work in the fall of 1961, enhancing the growth of melanoma supplied to her by Roswell Park. She presented a paper on melanogenesis to the Indiana Academy of Science,⁶ but was thwarted in her plans to become a nun (as well as a doctor) by her parents, who needed her to help run the family business. But by Feb. 1962, Judyth was attending the University of Florida under a full scholarship from Senator George Smathers. UF was his alma mater. He was anxious to have Judyth there, and she was anxious to stay away from her parents.

At UF, Judyth, who had previously dated Tony Lopez-Fresquet, the son of Fidel Castro’s Finance Minister, Rufo Lopez-Fresquet,⁷made friends with anti-Castro Cuban students and …grew to despise President Kennedy because of the Bay of Pigs that ended up with tortures, deaths and so many sufferings … but it was Lee Harvey Oswald, who deeply admired Kennedy, who would change my mind about JFK.

Having continued her pre-med studies at UF,⁸ Judyth’s focus remained on cancer research. By Feb. 1963, Judyth had developed a blood titration model to detect live cancer cells in the human body.⁹ She and her friend Kathy Santi were in pre-med classes together in April, 1963 when Judyth shared with Kathy that she would soon be going to Tulane Medical School, two years ahead of time. Dr. Ochsner, who had been receiving her reports, had shared them with the famed cancer researcher, Dr. Mary Sherman. Now Judyth was invited to come to New Orleans to work with Sherman in an internship. I was thrilled, Judyth says. Dr. Sherman, who directed the bone pathology laboratory at Ochsner Clinic, was considered one of the foremost cancer researchers in America.¹⁰ Because she wanted no interference from her parents, and her fiancé, Robert, might break up with her if he knew she would be moving to New Orleans permanently, Judyth was tight-lipped about the offer. I wanted no more interference from anybody, she said, not even from my fiancé. In the Fall, I was promised a stipend and full scholarship to Tulane Medical School. It was a dream come true.

Dr. Kathleen Santi

One of the last things I did at UF was to help my friend Kathy write her application to Emory School of Medicine at Emory University, Judyth says. Then I told her goodbye. Today, she is Dr. Kathy Santi. She still remembers that I told her I would be leaving UF to go to Tulane.

Judyth adds: I had one problem: Robert! I thought I was in love with this young, strong-willed math genius, Robert Baker. I had gotten him interested in geology and math (he began as an English major) and was now ablaze with a passion for science. I was ablaze with passion, too – for the new-found wonders of sex! It was the dawn of the sexual revolution, I had lost my faith in God when my father had removed me from the convent and fed me anti-Catholic literature, and I considered myself ‘free’ – a slip of paper saying we were married was what was needed to get birth control pills. Not that I was running around. I had fixed my joy in life on the tall, blue-eyed genius, Robert Allison Baker, III.

Judyth believed she could lure Robert to New Orleans. I told him they had superior geology and math programs, so I encouraged him to try for a summer job there. Only by getting married could we get birth control pills. I had suffered a miscarriage and was willing to marry to get them!

As for her plans to stay in New Orleans, Robert still had a trimester and a half left to finish his degree in English. I was afraid he wouldn’t marry me if I told him we would have to live apart after marriage for six months. Robert had promised to write every day, and that he’d send money to put toward a rented room, so Judyth traveled to New Orleans two weeks early on the bus ticket Ochsner had sent her by internal mail from Tallahassee, the state capital. I think Senator Smathers might have been asked to send the bus ticket.

Judyth arrived Friday April 19, 1963 in The Big Easy. Robert promised to come as soon as he could, but he had to convince his parents it was better to try to get a summer job with an oil company than to type letters in their real estate office. One thing for sure: they were anti-Catholic. Both sets of parents had met and despised each other, so an elopement was planned.

Arriving before dawn, expecting a private room ready for her at the YWCA, Judyth was shocked to discover that her sponsoring doctors were out of town. UF was on the trimester system – she had come two weeks early – and they hadn’t expected her until May. She was forced to use her small available funds to move into the cheapest available room, already occupied by two strippers, a Playboy Bunny trainee, and a brassy waitress.

My raunchy new friends soon introduced me to the exciting side of New Orleans, Judyth tells us. But I was a trained asset, only19, and naïve. It wasn’t a safe situation. Then Lee showed up. I had visited the post office daily to check for a letter from my fiancé (who usually failed to write). I now understand that Lee must have been sent to befriend and protect me, if only temporarily. He was only 23, and clean-cut. There was this chemistry between us! It was amazing, and immediate!

Eight days after she arrived, on Saturday, April 27, the day after Judyth met Lee Harvey Oswald for the first time, he introduced her to Dr. David Ferrie. Dave was so busy, says Judyth, defending himself in a case against Eastern Air Lines, to get his pilot’s license back, that he had asked for an assistant. Because he was homosexual, Dave thought I was his requested assistant, who would not be in danger from him!

In Me & Lee, Judyth explains what happened next:

[Ferrie told her]: We’re using various chemicals, in combination with radiation, to see what happens with fast-growing cancers. We’re using it to mutate monkey viruses, too.

Mutating monkey viruses! Radiation! Fast-growing cancers!

That’s exactly what I’ve been trained to handle, I commented, noting how conveniently my skill set just happened to match their research.

I was told you were, Dr. Ferrie said, without explaining how he came by that particular piece of information, but I figured it had to be Dr. Ochsner.¹¹

Judyth was shocked to learn that her job that summer was to help Dr. Sherman and David Ferrie in an underground project created by Ochsner to develop a cancer bioweapon to kill Fidel Castro. They convinced her that working on the Project, as it was called, was her patriotic duty.¹²

The theory was: it was known that Kennedy’s enemies – a coalition of the CIA, the military, right-wing oilmen and millionaires whose refineries and other resources had been confiscated in Cuba, and the Mafia – their casinos closed, their drug rings shut down – all wanted JFK dead. J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, who loathed the Kennedys, would be willing to create a cover-up investigation. They saw Kennedy as soft on communism, weak on war, and deserving death. Lyndon Johnson, who craved the Presidency for himself, working with his longtime friend Hoover, would make sure such a nefarious deed would be laid at the feet of innocents.

However, the same coalition would move to take Cuba if Castro died. They would install a CIA-approved puppet and get everything back that they had lost. Thus, if Castro died, plans for the Kennedy assassination would likely be called off, as every group had important reasons to get involved with Cuba. The military and CIA would regain prestige, and because Bobby Kennedy was behind secret efforts to remove Castro from power, he would cooperate with a military takeover, while JFK himself would be looking good. Meanwhile, the Mafia had power through blackmail (immoral behavior) to handle their two worst enemies: the president and his brother. Since LBJ and Hoover were also vulnerable, and would not impede the Mafia, the coalition was getting more powerful by the week. Johnson, suspected of accepting bribes, was already in trouble, and would look the other way if he knew Kennedy was in danger. The big hope was that killing Castro would break up the coalition and JFK would not be killed.¹³ This could even stop World War III, Judyth was told, but now it was a race against time.

On May 2, 1963, Judyth (confusing sexual pleasure with love) married her fiancé, Robert Baker, against everyone’s advice. Though he did come and marry Judyth, driving them all the way to Mobile, Alabama when he was told there was a two-day waiting period in Louisiana, it was not the romantic gesture of I can’t wait! that Judyth thought it was. Robert had avoided telling Judyth that he had only one day to marry her before leaving for an offshore seismic job, where he would be replacing a man whose hands had been blown off by dynamite. Nor would he tell her where he was going. I won’t have you following me, he told her. I knew you wouldn’t marry me if I told you I would be gone most of the time. Robert essentially abandoned her a day later. Judyth says, With Robert almost always gone, Lee had to come through like a champ to rescue me from several bad situations. He cared. It was a big contrast compared to Robert. A police raid the same night Robert packed and left made Judyth homeless. The Richardsons – a pastor and his wife at St. George’s Episcopal Church – took Judyth in at about 2am, after she came knocking at their door in desperation. Lee was the only one I dared contact, Judyth says. Imagine if I had told the Ochsner Clinic that I had been kicked out of a whorehouse! I hadn’t realized it, I was so thrilled to get a nice room I could afford!

Lee quickly found an apartment for Judyth at 1032 Marengo St., paying for part of the rent himself. The landlady there, Susie Hanover, had known Lee from his childhood, perhaps because she taught arts and crafts, perhaps because they both loved dogs, or because her husband, a pleasure boat captain, had known Lee’s Uncle Dutz Murret when Dutz worked there at the docks as an enforcer for Mafia mob boss Carlos Marcello. The docks were owned by the Mafia, Lee had explained to Judyth. In Judyth’s opinion, Marcello owned the whole city. The apartment was one bus stop away from Lee’s apartment at 4905 Magazine St. They would soon be riding the same bus to and from the same workplace – Reily Coffee Co. – almost every work day for the next eleven weeks, and for many weeks beyond that to other destinations.

As for Robert, he finally located Judyth by calling the Y where she left a message for him. He would show up now and then to get his clothes washed, and to enjoy marital privileges. His job on the quarter-boat included good pay, room, board, and gambling buddies. We lived off what I was paid, Judyth observes, Robert was an utter miser who even calculated that a jar of peanut butter would stretch further if we mixed it half and half with cheap margarine . Judyth has shown researchers and many friends an example of Robert’s ongoing neglect: a postcard he sent to her when he came through New Orleans, partying with friends:

Though Robert was in the same town and had been gone for weeks, he was too busy with his friends to see me, Judyth says. Robert could be so hurtful, whereas Lee was always there for me.

Over time, Judyth grew resentful. We began to fight when he showed up. He would refuse to let me buy a pair of work shoes. But I was afraid to divorce him. In the 1960s, that could have hurt my reputation at Reily Coffee: Dave Ferrie had reminded me that Reily was a super-conservative, rightwing, anti-communist company. Reily was providing paychecks and cover jobs so Lee and I could work part time, undetected, on The Project. Lee’s records were laundered so Personnel wouldn’t know he had lived in the Soviet Union.

As for Lee, his had been a marriage of convenience, to stop him from getting deported from the USSR, where he had been sent by the CIA as a spy. Not that he didn’t care about Marina, his wife: he did. Lee remained 30 months in the USSR, then managed to get his wife and baby to Dallas, that trip financed by a U.S. State Department loan – at the height of the Cold War.

Just as Judyth, Lee was unhappily married. His squabbles and fights with Marina had previously resulted in fistfights and periods of separation, but after Judyth said she’d never have anything to do with him if he laid a hand on Marina again, Lee Oswald is on record as having changed his ways. According to a newsgroup post by researcher David Lifton, who personally knew Marina:

"[Oswald did not have]…a very nice record. BUT then…

>>>> BUT THEN. . . somewhere in the first 3 months of 1963, it stopped.

>>>> Completely stopped. And, as far as I know, there was never ever again an

>>>> incidence of hitting or slapping or anything like that---during the

>>>> entire 5 month New Orleans period (4/24/63 - 9/24/63), and during the

>>>> last six weeks after his return from Mexico City (10/4-11/22).

>>>> As I say, if anyone takes issue with this, please email me at

>>>> dlifton@compuserve.com, and provide cites."

Judyth and Lee had fallen in love, and though they kept their affair a secret, their affection for each other did not go unnoticed by witnesses who have gone on record. But there was a big problem. If Lee divorced his pregnant wife, she would return to Russia and he would probably never see his babies again.

Lee, who had affectionately called me ‘Juduffki’ – who rejoiced because I, too, loved Russian music and literature and could sing duets with him, play chess, ride horses, and speak some Russian – this man who loved my athletic build and my love for the outdoors and animals, a girl who hated money and shallowness as much as he did – this man Judyth says, decided he had to return to Russia with his pregnant wife and baby. He couldn’t abandon them! He had decided to move as far away from me as he could, so he’d never see me again and regret it.

When Lee left, Juduffki was devastated.

But it was impossible for us to be apart like that, Judyth says. "We were both incredibly miserable. I knew it was right for him to go back to them, but life had no meaning without Lee. As for Lee, he wept bitterly before his wife, telling her ‘I don’t know what to do!’ That’s on record, too.¹⁴ Of course, she didn’t understand why he was crying so hard."

Lee and I had gone through a lot together Judyth says. That is an understatement, but our agony at being separated forever was the worst of all. Lee did try to start the move to Russia, which made his wife extremely happy. But it was hopeless. Lee finally told her she would have to make an application just for herself. He would handle his application separately. It was obvious to Marina that Lee had changed his mind. Finally, Lee did return to me.

I actually hid under the bed so he wouldn’t find me, but Lee knelt down and laid his gold wedding ring on the floor between us. ‘When I come to you,’ he said (after we could escape our troubles by fleeing to Mexico), ‘I won’t be wearing this ring!’ Our rings had cost us many mixed feelings. I wore mine ‘American style’ on my left hand, but Lee wore his ‘Russian style’, on his right hand. The rings would clink when we held hands and walked together. We hated that.

We would both throw away our rings when we met to marry! We were now admitting it, that we were hopelessly, helplessly, infinitely, in love. Lee and I hadn’t actually slept together all this time yet, but now, our hearts yearned for a physical union to meet our hearts’ desires. Lee was my heart’s eternal choice, and I was his. Lee had cried himself out over the prospect of divorcing his wife and perhaps losing his babies, but he had made up his mind.

He told me he knew that Baker had declared he would marry me, but had never asked me to marry him, so Lee had decided he would ask me not once, but one hundred times, to marry him! Our special song, Let It Be Me by the Everly Brothers, was playing in our room the hour Lee asked me, for the one hundredth time, to be his wife. It was June 29th, 1963, and we were at the Roosevelt Hotel.

Juduffki and Lee then exchanged vows to the God of their fathers, before all the invisible witnesses who had lived, loved and died as one. In their eyes, they were married. From then on, we called each other husband and wife, Judyth says. And we would never regret it. After that, we went to the Blue Room, where we began planning ways to escape our embroilment in The Project. A huge load had been lifted, says Judyth, adding sadly: We were so young and full of hope.

Ask the Question. Ask the Question!

I intended to tell Robert everything, feeling guilty, Judyth admits. "But when Robert showed zero interest in my life, I decided I wouldn’t tell him a thing unless he asked just one question: ‘What did you do today?’ That’s all I wanted."

"Then I’d confess that I was working in secret projects for the government, that I was going to stay in New Orleans, go to medical school, and wanted a divorce. My landlady, Susie Hanover, and Lee himself started counting the days to see how long it would take before Robert might finally ask, "What did you do today? Or anything remotely close. Amazingly, Robert couldn’t even say ‘I love you.’ It was extremely frustrating."

So I kept my mouth shut, thank God. Later, I was so deep into The Project – the real reason I had been lured to New Orleans – that I didn’t dare tell somebody like Robert Baker anything at all.

Today, we think Robert was probably a high-functioning math genius with Aspergers. I now believe he did his best, Judyth says. He was a gifted mathematician, had patents in seismology for himself and for Exxon, had solved one of those unconquerable math problems that had sat around for centuries, and he didn’t mind how many children we would accumulate because his thoughts were always elsewhere. Before he died, Robert’s greatest sorrow was that he was unable to finish his latest math proof. If he was hard on me, he was just as hard on himself.

Judy in 1969. She named her first child ‘Susie’ after Susie Hanover. She did not cut her hair for ten years because Lee had touched it, and after cutting it, she kept a braid of it, which she still has.

¹ 1. Judyth Vary Baker. Op cit. 5.

² 2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3399234/ Retrieved Jan. 30, 2017

³ https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/history/ Retrieved Dec. 15, 2016.

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⁵ 5. See Len Horowitz’ video and comments at http://www.newsofinterest.tv/video_pages_flash/politics/len_horowitz/ilwt_detrick_gallo.php and his accompanying video on YouTube at https://youtu.be/vzIXugGuLGs. Retrieved Jan. 30, 2017.

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⁷ 7. Judyth kept files and records concerning the years between 1960 and 1964, which have been seen by many researchers in her evidence file folders. Many are also published in her books Me & Lee and David Ferrie: Mafia Pilot.

⁸ 8. Judyth’s college and university records were altered. Even though she attended pre-med classes – she was in the same Comparative Anatomy class as her friend Kathy Santi, for example – no record remains of any of her pre-med classes.

⁹ 9. Judyth’s test could detect cancer within a few minutes after centrifuging down blood samples and placing an aggregate of antibody material on a coated slide. In early 1963 she proved the method worked by tagging the antibodies with radioactive iodine. ( A similar approach was reported in 2007: http://appliedradiology.com/articles/radioactive-antibodies-selective-targeting-and-treatment-of-cancer-and-other-diseases Retrieved July 15, 2016 ) Judyth used radioactive iodine tagging again in late August, 1963 to detect live cancer cells in prisoners injected with a weaponized cancer, after initially protesting the experiment. Knowing that it would proceed anyway, she agreed to do the blood tests, since they might detect whether the injected cancer had taken hold –information that could halt experiments on additional prisoners. In 2013, a 15-year-old young scientist, Jack Andraka, created a similar but better test that could detect a wider range of cancers (see www.jackandraka.com). However, he was turned down 200 times, he said, before he was allowed to use a facility to develop the test. Judyth was fortunate that in the 1960’s there were more opportunities for a young scientist’s work to be supported in advanced labs. Today, because she doesn’t have the right degrees – after having been blackballed by Dr. Alton Ochsner for objecting to the use of unwitting prisoners who volunteered for a cancer research project designed to kill them, Judyth remains locked out of all opportunities to conduct cancer research.

¹⁰ 10. Ibid. 9496.

¹¹ 11. Ibid. 140.

¹² 12. Ibid. 180, 183.

¹³ 13. Ibid. 283.

¹⁴ 14. See p. 418, first edition of Marina and Lee, the authorized biography by CIA asset Priscilla Johnson McMillan. Harper & Row, 1977.

New Orleans, 1963

The End of the Project

"A fter a long summer of hard work on The Project, the details of which are chronicled in Me & Lee, with all that Lee was doing to protect the project by pretending to be pro- Castro and ferreting out Castro’s spies, on Saturday, August 31, 1963, Lee and I traveled by automobile to East Louisiana State Mental Hospital in Jackson, Louisiana to check on the condition of one or more prisoners from Angola Penitentiary." ¹

Why we were there:

The prisoner(s) had been injected with the cancer-causing bioweapon by David Ferrie two days earlier; Clay Shaw (prosecuted by Jim Garrison regarding the Kennedy assassination in 1967) had provided the transportation at that time to bring Ferrie and Oswald into the mental hospital as part of a convoy transferring the volunteer prisoners from Angola.

But in Clinton, Judyth tells us, after picking up an aide who would show them where the clinic was (it was not in the main building) they had to wait by a payphone for a very important phone call. When it came, they were to drive a few miles toward Jackson, where at the turnoff to the mental hospital, they were to join a convoy bringing the prisoners up from Angola. Unfortunately, there was a long delay. And even more unfortunate, the day they had to wait by the payphone was the day after Martin Luther King’s famous I have a dream speech in Washington, D.C.

The usually empty courthouse block was full of inspired and motivated blacks who were attempting to register to vote. The line moved slowly, as Clinton’s Registrar did everything possible to delay and discourage them. Thus Lee, Shaw and Ferrie were on view for hours as they waited for the phone call, trapped in their Cadillac. The stale argument that they were there to get Lee registered so he could get a job fails in the face of the car not moving away to a different, less visible location while waiting for Oswald to get registered. The Cadillac, borrowed from the Trade Mart where Shaw was an official, was needed because it would look like part of the convoy and would be allowed to enter, along with the other vehicles in the convoy, no questions asked.

Judyth then adds: "In my book, I go into full detail, while here, you’re just getting an outline. Basically, Dave Ferrie came along to properly inject the prisoners with the highly aggressive super-cancer. That cancer was killing monkeys in 28 to 30 days. I was told the prisoners first received heavy x-rays, as planned, under Dave’s direction. Today, I see how the doctors were willing to hide behind ‘untraceables’ such as David Ferrie, who had the requisite training to do their bidding. The high x-ray dose destroyed the prisoners’ immune system. After the injections, Dave instructed some clinic techs on how to keep the biological weapon alive and sterile, in case an additional injection was needed later.

Lee was there to observe everything. Nothing was to be written down. He could orally pass on the information to an anti-Castro medical contact in Mexico City who, just as Lee, would be posing as pro-Castro.

Judyth adds, Lee had to pass on the information exactly as he had observed it. He had also learned how to handle the material and keep it alive, but he had to memorize what Dave told the techs. No paper trail was allowed. As for Clay Shaw, that distinguished-looking Trade Mart official was there to prove the project was legitimate, and as a longtime friend of Dr. Ochsner, he presented a professional and trusted presence. He also provided bribery money (security) from Ochsner and conservative right-wing supporters. Some of the money was probably from the Mafia too, compliments of Carlos Marcello.

After Lee saw everything, he asked the clinic’s receptionist where the Personnel Office was. Lee had to have an alibi for being there, and he would make sure enough people heard him say he was seeking a job at the hospital so that when he had to return with me, on Saturday, he could say he was there to check on the progress of his job application.

As a trained cancer researcher, Judyth’s task two days later was to determine if any of the injected cancer cells were still alive in their human hosts. She was no longer in favor with Ochsner, having protested that the experiment was being conducted on healthy prisoners who had not been told the experiment was designed to kill them. Ochsner was finished with me, Judyth says. My massive sin had been writing a protest in a private note to the great man. Unfortunately, the note’s contents became known to everyone immediately, and Ochsner was furious. He cursed me with such ichor and hatred that I knew my career in cancer was finished. But he still needed me to conduct the blood tests on the prisoners. I was praying the cancer wouldn’t take hold in human beings, but I was wrong.

When she found a few live cancer cells, Judyth surmised that the bioweapon was effective – so far. If the prisoner’s antibodies weren’t killing the cancer cells, the weapon could work. The whole procedure took only minutes for each sample. The remaining blood samples were iced down for Dr. Sherman’s researchers to study later. Then Lee drove Judyth back to New Orleans, stopping on the way at Reeves Morgan’s house in Jackson. Judyth thought it was to cool down the old car, but Lee said he had to return a key.

That same night, after dropping Judyth off at her apartment at 1032 Marengo, Lee purchased a bus ticket to Houston. The original plan was to have him travel by bus to Houston as soon as a patient died. From there, he would cross the border at Laredo, then go on to Mexico City. Therefore, it was important to have as much time between the ticket purchase and the bus trip as possible, so any death would not be linked too close to Lee’s trip to Mexico City. After all, Lee had made himself loud and visible at the hospital two days earlier as an anti-Castro job seeker. All the little details were planned well ahead of time, with alternate plans for travel as well.

As for Judyth, both Dr. Mary and David Ferrie, who had grown fond of her, could do nothing except to urge Ochsner to send Judyth back to Florida without breaking her neck. A few days later, Judyth found herself forced, at least temporarily, to return to Florida with Robert. Realizing that Judyth would be interviewed by newspaper reporters, and that it would look strange that she wasn’t doing cancer research after leaving New Orleans, arrangements were made to have Judyth work as an assistant chemist at Peninsular ChemResearch. It was a prestigious job, Judyth recalls. Every chemistry grad student at UF wanted to get the position I got.

It seemed that Judyth’s career in science was still blooming, if not quite in cancer research, and the reporters went on to other stories. Keep your head down, be a vanilla girl! Dave told her. As for Judyth, she kept her suitcase packed under the bed, ready for a call from Lee to fly to Mexico. They had plans for long hikes, wilderness living, and marriage by a Catholic priest after a quickie Mexican divorce. Lee had put Catholic on his Mexican visa application to help prepare for it. As for Lee, after the trips to Clinton and Jackson, it was time to lay low. He stopped handing out flyers, there were no more interviews, and he was staying at home a lot, reading books on his porch, not even pretending to look for a job. Lee wanted to be forgotten and out of the news as he waited anxiously to see if a prisoner was going to die. That would be his signal to transport the bioweapon to Mexico City.

When a prisoner did die, twenty-eight days later, the product was deemed ready to use against Fidel Castro. Everything was ready. For years, Dr. Ochsner had trained many Cuban medical students who were now doctors. Many of them resented being cut off from the USA. Many resented the huge pay cuts Castro enforced. Some of them were trusted by Castro. They had access to him or to technicians who did, with their x-ray units and medical supplies.

Judyth and Lee were ordered never to see each other again, but thanks to David Ferrie, they would remain in contact anyway. Dave, who was the same age as Judyth’s father, and who had never had a daughter, helped her by arranging a telephone number using a Mafia racing line. After weeks of pretending they had obeyed Ochsner’s orders to stay apart, Lee made contact with Judyth from Laredo, just before crossing the border on his way to Mexico City with the deadly cancer. So much was at stake! Judyth recalls. "We were unaware that the CIA would never allow the bioweapon to get into Cuban hands. Lee and I were blinded by our hopes to help