JFK Revelations: Excerpt from New Book “Official Stories”
By Liam Scheff
Here’s a name we don’t learn in school: George de Mohrenschildt. Born in Russia in 1911, he emigrated to the U.S in 1938. He was strongly anti-communist.
His brother joined the OSS’s (early CIA’s) overseas operations in Europe, to fight the Communists in Russia. George appeared to have some alliances with the Nazis; he said that was to get back what was stolen by the Stalinists, but who knows.
In his 30s, George (“deM” for short) applied for work with the CIA; they (the official story goes) looked askance because of his “Nazi” leanings. But the rest of George’s life was marked by meetings with CIA and U.S. intelligence and government officials in the U.S., Haiti, Mexico and Europe.
He was a petroleum geologist and a member of the oilmen’s secret clubhouse – the Dallas Petroleum Club. He was wealthy, traveled internationally and spoke at least five languages. He was regularly debriefed by CIA and I think reported to them for instruction.
Because it was George De Mohrenschildt who became (putative Kennedy assassin) Lee Oswald’s new best friend in Dallas. He was 31 years his senior, from a class and a level of training that the “lone nut” version of Oswald never achieved. What did they have in common?
They spoke Russian together. George deM declared that Lee was “remarkably fluent.” Go figure. I guess those lessons and that time being a defecting expatriate, really paid off.
But wait – how’s this for connected? George deM was a personal friend of the Bush family. His nephew went to boarding school with a cousin of President Bush, the first. George deM even wrote George Bush, Sr. a personal letter asking for a favor in 1976 and got a personal reply. We’ll get to that in a minute.
Dear George
George deM was a popular and connected man. He was close with the socialite Bouvier family of New York. He even bounced little Jackie on his knee when she was a young girl. She called him “Uncle George.”
Pause. Rewind. George de Mohrenschildt bounced young Jackie Kennedy on his knee? The man who became best friends with “lone nut” Lee Harvey. Bounced the wife of the future assassinated president. On his knee.
(Bring out the coincidence meter! Plug it in! Type in the sentence. Oh no, we’ve broken the coincidence meter!)
No, this wasn’t a coincidence. This was planning. This guy was chosen. He’s CIA. Setting up a patsy. Or, believe what you like, but for reasons omitted from all official versions, George took Lee right under his wing. It was George deM who got Lee the job at the military map makers. It was George deM who introduced Lee and his wife Marina to a woman named Ruth Hyde Paine.
It was Mrs. Paine who facilitated the weirdness in Oswald country. She conveniently and oh-so-amicably separated from her husband in 1963, just in time for Marina to move in, because she and Lee were on the outs.
Ruth Paine became Marina’s new best friend. Lee rented a room elsewhere, visiting the family on weekends, but still got Marina sufficiently pregnant to have another child, while she was at Paine’s. Paine got Lee a job at the school book depository looking down on Elm and Houston Streets, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas.
In October, 1963. Five weeks before. The President arrived. Just in time to use his extraordinary Russian, map-making and radio-operating skills…stacking textbooks.
But who was Ruth Paine? Her father worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development. So did her brother-in-law. And U.S.A.I.D. functions as? A CIA front-operation.
Lee took the job stacking school books for a few dollars a day, until the fateful day that John F. Kennedy’s limo rolled down Elm street, under the open windows of the buildings looming over…Open windows? Hold that thought.
In 1976, George deM wrote to…you might not believe me, but it’s true. He wrote the head of the CIA, personally, in a hand-written note and asked him for help. George deM said he was being hounded for what he’d said and written about Lee Oswald. He got a letter back from the head of the CIA, addressing him not as Mr. De Mohrenschildt, but as “George.”
Who did he write, but another George. George H.W. Bush, future V.P. and President, then head of the CIA. Bush told him, essentially, politely, in the cold tones only a Connecticut Yalie can master, to go fuck himself. Here’s how he put it:
“I can only speculate that you may have become ‘newsworthy’ again in view of the renewed interest in the Kennedy assassination and thus may be attracting the attention of people in the media. I hope this letter has been of some comfort to you, George, although I realize I am unable to answer your question completely. George Bush, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.”
De Mohrenschildt was dead weeks later, with intelligence officers looking for his “little black book.” That address book was retrieved by an honest investigator working to reveal information about assassinations. In the book was found a name and address: “Bush, George H. W. (Poppy), 1412 W. Ohio also Zapata Petroleum, Midland.” I guess they did know each other, after all.
Link:
http://theintelhub.com/2012/06/08/jfk-revelations-excerpt-from-new-book-official-stories/
George was a "best friend" of Lee Oswald? The De Mohrenschildts were more concerned with Marina and her child and that is why they stayed friendly with the Oswalds. Hardly a best friend of Lee. He says Lee spoke Russian fluently, but he also called him an uneducated hillbilly who had little to say on any subject and who George found boring.
ReplyDeleteMr. JENNER. Did you form any impression in the area, let us say, of reliability---that is, whether our Government would entrust him with something that required a high degree of intelligence, a high degree of imagination, a high degree of ability to retain his equilibrium under pressure, a management of a situation, to be flexible enough?
Mr. De MOHRENSCHILDT. I never would believe that any government would be stupid enough to trust Lee with anything important.
Mr. JENNER. Give me the basis of your opinion.
Mr. De MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, again, as I said, an unstable individual, mixed-up individual, uneducated individual, without background. What government would give him any confidential work? No government would. Even the government of Ghana would not give him any job of any type.
In I Am a Patsy, George said he regretted betraying Lee, felt manipulated by Albert Jenner, and in a flood of shame and guilt, wrote a book I AM A PATSY repudiating his remarks to the warren Commission. Anonymous does not give us his/her real name. Wrote George: "One of the reasons we agree with Mrs. Marguerite Oswald: that her son was probably innocent of Kennedy's assassination - and we insisted on this during the Warren Commission interviews (although it was never brought up publicly) - was the following: Lee actually admired President Kennedy in his own reserved way. One day we discussed with Lee Kennedy's efforts to bring peace to the world and to end the cold war. "Great, great!" Exclaimed Lee. "If he succeeds, he will be the greatest president in the history of this country." George also wrote that he was ashamed of himself for what he'd said about Lee: My wife and I spent many an agonizing moment thinking of Lee, ashamed that we did not stand up more decisively in his defense. But who would have listened to us at the time and would have published anything true and favorable to him?" There are many additional statements of remorse on his part for what he told the Commission. Let us talk of the clever "leading on" by the choice lawyers of the Warren Commission, which forced us, Lee's friends and acquaintances, to appear somewhat antagonistic to him.
ReplyDeleteThe general opinion setup in the United Stated at the time puts pressure on you, warps your judgment, changes your words.
In these short chapters we tried to correct the distorted image of this good friend of ours." Here is what George also said: "I became receptive to some of Lee's ideas, listened to them, discussed them freely and came to look at him as a friend, almost a son.".