Mr. PREYER - Thank you for being here today, and I will call the subcommittee to order at this time. [23], The man using the pay phone was Shelley, for in an affidavit made out that same afternoon, he said, "I went back into the building [from outside where he viewed the shooting of the president] and went inside and called my wife and told her what happened. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. The first contact I had with any reporter or any newspaper people or any media people was with Glad Day Press. One of said employees, her husband, and child, disappeared without a trace a few hours after granting me an interview. (sic) By comparing the window next to them, which measured 14 inches off the floor, one box was about 15 x 30 x 60 inches, and thus had an estimated capacity of 15 cubic feet. Please excuse this messy letter. Below is Mr. Glazes letter: House of Re. Why would men who had just shown their FBI identification badges suspect that new employees were concealing the fact that they too were connected to an intelligence agency? Mr. WILCOTT - I was able to but I never did. ALTERED! In 1938, he became a salesman for Scott Foresman. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes; it is my belief that he was a regular agent and this was a regular project of the Agency to send Oswald to the Soviet Union. Mr. PREYER - Why did you resign from the CIA? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. (At this time the school book depository had been relocated to a warehouse near the intersection of Royal Lane and Interstate 35.). JAMES WILCOTT'S TESTIMONYJames B. Wilcott, a former CIA accountant, swore in a secret session of the House Select Committee on Assassinations that he was told by other CIA employees that Lee Harvey Oswald was paid by the CIA, and that money he himself had disbursed was for "Oswald or the Oswald project." Mr. WILCOTT - It was my Request for Advance Book. He was an accomplished journalist and author and had worked as a radio engineer in his early career. My testimony included numerous meetings with a man named Bill Shelly (I am no longer certain of the correct spelling of his last name.) Mr. WILCOTT - No, I don't. As mentioned, I was forced to flee Dallas until another day. As we shall see, this might have been designed to conceal the fact that some people working there were being harassed and bullied. Mr. DODD - Am I to believe by that that you were not aware at the time you made the disbursement that it was, in fact, an Oswald project? Two retired Sexton officials told me that they moved out of the building on November 14, 1961, and that it remained vacant for at least a year. Mr. PREYER - That was shop talk, speculation, I gather; people were saying that the CIA is somehow connected with it. There was XXXXXXXXXXXX Branch, who had XXXXXXXXXXX cover. Mr. WILCOTT - With any degree of certainty, other than just speculation, I would say, six or seven with some degree of certainty. Mr. DODD - I am a little confused, I suppose, Mr. WILCOTT - In 1963, I wasn't think that much about it. The Warren Commission did all they could to delay the arrival time on the first floor by Adams and Styles in order to remove the two girls from the stairs when Oswald would have likely been on them. One label read Texas School Book Depository, 500 Red Pony books by John Steinbeck, from Bobbs-Merrill. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And were you dismissed by the agency or did you resign? He learned this after the fact through various sources within the Agency, who all recognized what had happened after the assassination and the association of Oswalds name with the crime. Needless to say, she never did wear that dress. Did you recognize any part of it, the first two letters or the last portions of it, as referring to any geographic area or any type of activity or anything like that? [6] Interviews of Joe Bergin, Jr. February 12 and 26, 1994 and August 7, 1999. Mr. WILCOTT - Dozens, literally dozens. It was a total loss. The third calm man was probably Wesley Fraizer, who stuck close to Shelley and Lovelady. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, it never really came forward for you to go to the Warren Commission, did it? Mr. WILCOTT - Well, it was my understanding that Lee Harvey Oswald was an employee of the agency and was an agent, of the agency. Afterwards, she, her husband, and their child quickly disappeared. Wilcott also claimed that while at his station assignment in Japan, it was common knowledge that Lee Harvey Oswald worked for the CIA. Mr. DODD - I have no further questions. Mr. WILCOTT - That is correct, sir. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, that was just those that were assigned to XXXXXX and those projects that were assigned to XXXXXXXX. I then proceeded to write an article called The Glaze Letters for the May 1999 issue of Jerry Roses JFK assassination research journal called The Fourth Decade. Mr. GOLDSMITH - At the time that this allegation first came to your attention, did you learn the name of Oswald's Case Offficer at the CIA? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir, I did. Additional gift options are available when buying one eBook at a time. 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. Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. Mr. WILCOTT - Oh, yes. If it is true that Shelley was affiliated in some way with CIA or U.S. intelligence, that would be a disturbing and potentially significant development.[10]. According to one of the FBI reports of the first interrogation of Oswald in the Dallas homicide office: OSWALD stated that he took this Coke down to the first floor and stood around and had lunch in the employees lunch room. Mr. CORNWELL - And would that -- at least in part --. That was the SR branch which had all of the projects having anything to do with the Soviet Union. 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? House of Representatives, It was not until 1999 that I spoke to someone who could solve this apparent discrepancy. This was preparing and reconciling payrolls. I asked the first man I sawa man who was telephoning from a pillar in the middle of the roomwhere I could call from. Its also includes links to many hours of online videos you can watch on the evidence covered. Fritz was on the sixth floor examining the scene when Truly told him of this. Mar 26, 2017, 6:30:52 PM to The dubious allegations of James Wilcott, a former CIA finance officer who testified before the HSCA in executive session, are still repeated by theorists promoting. Dedicated to the political vision and legacy of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X,and to the investigation of their murders. Mr. PREYER - And you did mention the case officer who came in and told you that the money he had drawn out a few weeks earlier was drawn out for Oswald? Missing evidence could be attributed to the systematic destruction of anything contrary to the official version. Mr. PREYER - I would like before we begin to read a written statement concerning the subject of the investigation. He was in the military service over there, and so you feel be was a double agent who was trained while he was in the military by the CIA, and you mentioned he was given a Russian course. Mr. WILCOTT - No, I didn't. New York, 1989) p. 319. Here, by your own testimony, you were supportive of the President, and certainly the most significant tragedy, I think, probably in the last 15 years or 20 years was the assassination of President Kennedy, and you are told by some who worked for the Agency that Oswald was a CIA agent and you already were dissatisfied with the actions of the Agency and you are told this in 1964 and yet it takes four, years, or two years, after you had left the Agency, recognizing the tremendous import and significance of that, and I am terribly confused as to why you decided to keep that information to yourself and to your wife. Mr. WILCOTT - Approximately two years, sir. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And what is the reason for that? I will help any wayI just want to be forewarned. She died in 1969. Mr. WILCOTT - That is correct, sir. In the mid-1970s, the band employed a ten-piece orchestra to back them up. [13] Henry Hurt, Reasonable Doubt (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1985), pp. Mr. WILCOTT - I really don't know. Mr. WILCOTT - -- to the Miami Station. Yet their new location was seven miles south of the intersection of Royal Lane and Interstate 35 at 8301 Ambassador Row. Mr. WILCOTT - Certainly, from May of 1957 to January of 1960, I was in the pre-fab building on the Potomac in finance. At the end of. I next called John Peets, the manager of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. SAWYER - Could you tell us what those things consisted of? Mr. CORNWELL - On any other occasion? 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? Mr. GOLDSMITH - What were these people's names? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. GOLDSMITH - How did you know, in 1963, what type of security precautions the Warren Commission had for conducting its investigation? 1964, of course, the Vietnam war was going on and Lyndon Johnson was now president. In April of 1966, I resigned from the CIA. at the best online prices at eBay! According to former CIA finance officer James B. Wilcotts testimony before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), Lee Harvey Oswald was a regular employee, receiving a full-time salary for agent work, for doing CIA operational work.[1] A memorandum by Warren Commission general counsel J. Lee Rankin said that Oswalds CIA payroll number was 110669. And when did you begin to develop attitudes of dissatisfaction with the Agency and its reaction and attitudes toward what you described as undemocratic principles and a lack of humanism? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Do you have anything to add in response to that question? Mr. WILCOTT - In 1968. In November 1963, on the Friday before Thanksgiving, President Kennedy was riding in a Lincoln convertible rolling through the streets of Dallas. Wilcotts affidavit and deposition were declassified by the ARRB. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I have opinions. I apologize. Mr. WILCOTT - My name is James B. Wilcott. Those are discussions with people who gave the indication that there was every certainty that Oswald was an agent of CIA, runout of XXXXXXX Station, and that he was freed from Russia there in the final courses in Russia and was trained by CIA people at Atsugi. JFK Assassination : The James B. Wilcott Files And The CIA Oswald Project: An Investigative Report. Copies of my written testimony have disappeared from my personal files. Mr. WILCOTT - It was right at my window, my disbursing cage window. As Rose points out, this is a bit odd also, since most of the building witnesses were taken to the sheriffs office, which was much closer to the TSBD than police headquarters. Mr. WILCOTT - So it was sometime between February and June of 1964? 3 By James Mathis and Martha Wagner Murphy Enlarge A photograph from Warren Commission exhibits shows the open limousine that carried President and Mrs. Kennedy through downtown Dallas. that I had at my gate, and I did that with cryptonyms from time to time for something -- we would want to check back into their accounting for something. Mr. WILCOTT - I have been trying to talk about this thing and other things for the last ten years. Mr. WILCOTT - At least -- there was at least six or seven people, specifically, who said that they either knew or believed Oswald to be an agent of the CIA. Spaulding Jones, former branch manager of MacMillan, said they moved in around 1957 or 1958. Out of curiosity, he opened this door and saw a large storage area that took over half of the square footage of the fourth floor. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, the payments that were made especially to substations like Oswald's was operated -- it was a substation of the XXXXXXXX station, and they had one in XXXXXX and they had one in XXXXXXXXX-- and it may be six months or even a year after the intial allocation that the final accounting for those funds were submitted, and they would operate out of revolving funds or out of their own personal funds in many cases. Mr. WILCOTT - I don't know. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Your book. Mr. SAWYER - What was the gist of them? Mr. WILCOTT - Certainly with George Breen, XXXXXXXXXXX the circle of social friends that we had. Mr. WILCOTT - No; I think that I looked through my advance book -- and I had a book where the advances on projects were run, and I leafed through them, and I must have at least leafed through them to see if what he said was true. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I did. Retired TSBD vice president Ochus Campbell said the move took place about five years prior to the assassination. My efforts to follow up on the leads suggested by Harris were initially unsuccessful. Mr. WILCOTT - That was late '68 or perhaps early 1969. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir; that was a smaller station. In 1947, the year when the CIA was formed, the Dallas city directory lists William Shelley as a clerk for the Hugh Perry Book Depository (the old name for the Texas School Book Depository), and that he had a room at 515 Martinique Avenue. Mr. GOLDSMITH - As a matter of routine, there would be that reference? Mr. Shelly was Lee Harvey Oswalds supervisor at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And for purposes of clarification, now, if Oswald was already dead at the time that you went to this book, why did you go back to examine the book? Ruffians driving by yelled derogatory things and threw objects at the house such as half-empty beer cans. Adams said, I believe the President has been shot. Neither Shelley nor Lovelady said anything in reply. Told to report to base by the tower. Mr. WILCOTT - It has been 15 years, and I can't remember specifically who said what, but certainly I am sure that Jerry Fox, for instance, had at least made some mention of it. Their whereabouts are completely unknown. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Assassinations, The subcommittee met at 10:20 a.m., pursuant to notice, in room 2344 of the Rayburn Office Building, the Honorable Richard Preyer (Chairman of the subcommittee), presiding. Mr. GOLDSMITH - What is that opinion? It must have been puzzling to Glaze, as it is to us reading his letters, why a government agency would be providing security for a privately-owned company. G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director. Mr. PREYER - And Miami, was that comparable in size? Although he left in December 1973, he was certain that the musician who disappeared in Dallas was not among the core members of the band. If you should need to contact me, you may do so in care of the Lubbock Avalanche Journal newspaper in Lubbock, Tx. Mr. WILCOTT - That is right. According to his testimony to the Warren Commission, after graduating from high school, he worked in defense plants a little bit during the war and started working at the Texas School Book Depository.[15] The short amount of time between his graduation in late May 1945 and the end of World War II on September 2 plus his employment in defense plants seems to conflict with his claim that he joined an intelligence service and became an officer. The stark contrast in the quality of scholarship between the two books was one factor convincing him that there was a huge conspiracy behind the assassination. Mr. CORNWELL - Had you done anything or said anything engaged in any activity which became of concern to them? Mr. GOLDSMITH - With whom? It has every one that I can remember. The CIA and the JFK Assassination. As far as I know, the unknown Dallas author who interviewed has not published his book. According to this person, shortly after going to work for Bill Schelly, she & another new employee were subjected to some rather odd questioning when considering they were hired as clerks. 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 her if the new building was near the intersection of Royal Lane and Interstate 35, and she said yes, on Gemini Lane. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you discuss this information with Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir. 66-67. Try again. The 1960 directory lists him as a department manager for the Texas School Book Depository, living in a house at 126 Tatum Avenue. Did you have further questions? Two weeks later, he wrote back: Received your letter of July 7, 1999. A fellow researcher named Eric Lee Jordan visited the site and took pictures of it. [13], (As an aside, CIA officer William Harvey worked for Bobbs-Merrill in the last years of his life as a law editor.[14]). (3) if there is/was an Alternative Information Network in Austin, or if Kellner and Morrow are real persons and remember receiving the letter. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mr. WILCOTT - The principal reason. Mr. PREYER - Thank you very much and we appreciate you and Mr. Schaap being with us today, and the hearing will stand in recess. Mr. DODD - It would have been a cryptonym and he was telling you, you had, in fact, made a disbursement? At the time of the assassination, Shelley was in his sixteenth year of employment at the TSBD. Wilcott worked in the accounting department and was in charge of disbursement of cash funds. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, there were several other incidents that I believe could possibly be somehow connected with CIA. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, in a speculative manner. Mr. WILCOTT - That is correct. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. All visits to the building must be strictly business-related. * JFK Facts editorJefferson Morley will personally answer your JFK questions. . Mr. WILCOTT - The specific incident was soon after the Kennedy assassination, where an agent, a Case Officer -- I am sure it was a Case Officer -- came up to my window to draw money, and he specifically said in the conversation that ensued, he specifically said, "Well, Jim, the money that I drew the last couple of weeks ago or so was money," either for the Oswald project or for Oswald. 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. The other one was the Lone Star School Book Depository, also located in the city of Dallas. Their apartment looked as if no one had ever lived in it. Write to Editor@jfkfacts.org. Mr. WILCOTT - That is true, sir. Mr. WILCOTT - Oh, yes. 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." John P. Horton, XXXXXXXXX Section; XXXXXXXXXXXXX Branch; and Chester Ito, XXXXXXXXX Branch; and Kan Takai, XXXXX Branch; and Jim Delaney, China Branch; and Bob Rentner, SR Branch -- and there is some question about that, the branch he was with. ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY Shelley told Glaze that he himself was arrested for the assassination. I have no further questions. I apologize." His duties routinely brought him in contact with all station people, and in particular with operational agents. Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And who made these references to Oswald being an agent of the CIA? Oversized boxes were also seen by Joe Bergin, Jr. when he visited his father at the 411 Elm Street building. Give as a gift or purchase for a team or group. Mr. WILCOTT - I don't know how to answer that. Mr. WILCOTT - Very much. Mr. WILCOTT - My wife and I came to believe that what CIA was doing couldn't be reconciled to basic principles of democracy or basic principles of humanism. Last modified on Sunday, 10 November 2019 23:45, The JFK Assassination Decoded: Two Reviews, Malcolm X's Family to File $100 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit, Alleging Cover-up of His Murder, A Personal Encounter with the Warren Commission, JFK Medical Betrayal: Where The Evidence Lies by Russell Kent, Whitney, the Ambassador, and Batista's Tax Break for Freeport Sulphur , The Wilcott Affidavit and Interrogation by the HSCA. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you have any basis for thinking that their security was poor? [6] They held a big meeting during which they warned everyone not to discuss the assassination with outsiders. He was traveling from his mothers house in Ohio to Georgia. She planned to wear it that Friday evening at a social gathering. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. He was sickly looking, and, like his father, had lost weight. Three of the seven boxes appear in a photograph in his book. Did you write it down or do anything? Mr. WILCOTT - They were maintained on a thirty-day basis, and then they were closed off at the end of the month. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you ever actually Xerox records being destroyed or changed? that correct? Mr. GOLDSMITH - You testified that your records were only kept for thirty days, is that correct? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Excuse me, please proceed very slowly. Also at this location were the office suites of eight schoolbook publishing companies, including Scott Foresman, Southwestern, Macmillan, and McGraw-Hill. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, then, really, no purpose would have been served by checking those records? There were more people than that that believed it, and six people with any degree of certainty that, you know, I felt from what they were saying that they either had some kind of substantial knowledge, or they had talked to somebody who had some knowledge. I think, or I am certain, in my own mind, that, if these people were approached that some of these people -- Mr. CORNWELL - What did they say along those lines? Do you believe that there was such a reference to Oswald? I remember hearing about some CIA people who had somehow helped the right-wing Minute Men in Texas to get arms, originally intended for the invasion. Among the Dallas individuals and companies engaged in supplying arms to Cuban exiles and the Minute Men might have been the ones occupying the building at 411 Elm Street. Feel free to use any part of it as you please. He is loved and will always be remembered by his wife Sylvia Glaze, daughter Hailey Glaze, and sister, brothers, nieces, nephews and friends. Mr. CORNWELL - Perhaps I can rephrase the question and get more pointedly what I need without running into the problem that you see. Joe was unable to determine if the arson was assassination-related. Not long after Oswald departed from the scene, Shelley told Truly that Oswald was missing. And I will ask the question again, okay. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Mr. WILCOTT - Not directly, no, sir. [30] In that same article Rose writes that Shelly was one of the building employees who identified Oswald for the police when he was brought in to the station. [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]. James Wilcott worked out of the Tokyo CIA station at the time of the assassination. Mr. CORNWELL - Did they request that you leave? The Three Barons proves that it is possible (with enough research), to reconstruct the organizational chart of the JFK plot. Finally, under threats and intense harassment from Dallas Police, I was forced to flee Dallas in early 1975. Thank you for your letter. Mr. WILCOTT - That is right. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Where is Concord located? Mr. WILCOTT - I worked from the years, May, of 1957 to, April, of 1966. Having a double life would not have made Shelley unique among the people who worked at the book depository. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Have you received a copy of the Committee's rules? Mr. DODD - How long had you been married by the way? Mr. DODD - And your dissatisfaction with the Agency and with the course of American government preceded the actual assassination of President Kennedy? During this same time, I also met and spoke with relevant employees who later worked for Lee Harvey Oswalds supervisor after the assassination of President Kennedy. At the time of the assassination of JFK, Wilcott worked at the Agency's Tokyo station where he said he was told by other Agency personnel that funds he himself had disbursed were for "Oswald" or the "Oswald Project." Mr. GOLDSMITH - I realize this is testimony 15 years after the fact. Mae Brussell showed copies of this document to the editors of Globe. There is a very large spider guarding this web of secrecy. This would put his visit in a period sometime during the summer or fall of 1963. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, he mentioned the cryptonym specifically under which the money was drawn. Mr. GOLDSMITH - What was their response? Considering what William Harvey wrote about creating phony 201 files for ZR/RIFLE scapegoats, an obvious first question is: How genuine is Oswald's file (or what little we have . Mr. CORNWELL - When was that? Mr. WILCOTT - My boss, Frank O'Connor said that this was told him by the public safety commissioner and that the FBI had told the public safety commissioner. 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. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I did. Would you tell the Committee what the "need-to-know" principle is? Mr. WILCOTT - Well, my tires were slashed and damage done to my car and I believe sugar poured in the gas tank, and whether this was actually CIA or not I have no way of knowing, and it could also have been just for harassment as a result of antiwar activities but I think there is also a possibility that it could have been attempts to intimidate me into talking about the CIA. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Were any of these people on your list possible subjects who made references to Oswald being a CIA agent? I don't know that anyone has ever looked into it. 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. 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. WILCOTT - Gordon Finch. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, is your testimony then that even though. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Is the answer to that "yes"? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Who was George Breen? Mr. PREYER - It was your conclusion from that talk that some of these people might have knowledge that he was a CIA agent rather than that they were speculating about it? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir; it was a cryptonym that I was familiar with, that it must have been at least two or three occasions that I had remembered it and it did ring a bell, yes. Mr. CORNWELL - On that occasion to whom did you speak? 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. James Wilcott's Testimony Intro Author: Jim Hargrove <hargrove@enteract.com> . Mr. WILCOTT - It was a book that I had. In late 1977, while working as a reporter for the Avalanche-Journal newspaper in Lubbock, Texas, I submitted written testimony to the United States House of Representatives newly-formed Select Committee on Assassinations. Shelleys claim that he was an intelligence officer would make sense if, as an ROTC lieutenant, he received intelligence training and perhaps even given some assignments in counterespionage. Dedicated to the political vision and legacy of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X,and to the investigation of their murders. In 1970, the TSBD and the schoolbook publishers moved out of the old 411 Elm Street building. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. My next call was to the Alternative Information Network founded by Doug Kellner and Frank Morrow. the day we would list all of the advances that were made in an advance book. He followed environmental concerns and space exploration, and he enjoyed playing and watching sports. By the way, I am a Mr.not a Ms.as the letter from Mr. Blakey indicates. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, I was on day duty for the station. Mr. WILCOTT - This was SNIC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee before they became a black power group Mr. WILCOTT - That is correct. From January of 1965 to about March of 1965, I was at Langley in the same area, in finance, policing accounts and auditing of special accounts, and I was promoted up to GS-9. Mr. CORNWELL - The cryptonym -- did you write it down at any point? 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 - Well, with the Agency, yes, sir. He could not remember when this occurred, but it was before the assassination, but after extensive remodeling had been done on the third and fourth floors to add office suites for the publishing companies. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, does that mean you were able to check back only thirty days from the time that you were given this information? Mr. DODD - Just one second, then. Mr. WILCOTT - No, sir. 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. 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