OSWALD-TIPPIT ASSOCIATES
On Oct.1, 1962. George deMorenschildt and his wife, Jeanne, picked up
Marina Oswald and daughter June, and headed for Farmers Branch, a
suburb of Dallas, to spend the day at the home of Admiral Henry C.
Burton, where they had access to a large swimming pool. Mrs. Burton
had invited deMorenschildt to use the pool whenever he liked. George
drove to Farmers Branch almost every day that summer to swim in the
pool.
Admiral Burton had been a lawyer before becoming a submarine
commander.He eventually became the director of naval communications.
"In this capacity he had undertaken to reorganize the global system
which the Navy uses to communicate with and control the movements of
all subs, surface ****ps, airplanes and missals and also to pinpoint
the location of enemy vessels ." When he retired, he joined COLLINS
RADIO in Richardson, Texas as Vice-President, where he continued to
work on modernizing and refining the communication system." Although
he professed to be an international entrepreneur, his actual business
remained a mystery."
George had told the Admiral about Lee Oswald and tried to get Lee a
job in the electronic field, but Burton refused to help.
That day, Burton was away on business in Europe for COLLINS RADIO.
Late in the afternoon, LHO showed up , to the surprise of everyone and
for a few tense minutes Lee sat there quietly. Then Mrs. Burton
offered Lee a drink and tensions relaxed.
See Legend, The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, by Edward Jay
Epstein.
From Legend.
In Feb. 1977, Wes Wise, a re****ter with KRLD TV in Dallas, and
later mayor of that city, told the HSCA that he had information about
a car near the scene of the Tippit shooting that was traced to Carl
Mather, a close friend of Tippit's. Mather was interviewed and said
that he had worked all day on the 22nd. of Nov. at his job at COLLINS
RADIO CO. of Richardson, Texas. He said that he had been employed at
COLLINS for 21 years. One assignment involved work in Brandywine , MD,
at Andrews Air Force Base, where he did electronics work on then Vice-
President Johnson's airplane, Air Force Two.
He said that he had left work at about 2 pm to take the family to
the Tippit's home to offer their condolences. They stayed until about
5 pm when they took the Tippit children with them.
For complete details on explanation of why his car was seen , see
OSWALD-TIPPIT ASSOCIATES, Staff Re****t , HSCA, March 1979.
The CIA spent a half million dollars a year on the REX, a
reconditioned Navy patrol boat and used a phantom crew to patrol the
Caribbean.They were paid $300 per month and had been recruited by a
team of former Batista naval men working for the CIA.It's function was
clandestine.The craft was leased to COLLINS RADIO of Texas for
"electronic and oceanographic research". "COLLINS was a division of
COLLINS RADIO of Cedar Rapids , IOWA, a major defense contractor that
more than once provided cover for CIA operations. The Rex's dockage
fees were paid by a third outfit called Sea Key ****pping Company,
which operated out of a post office box.
READ -THE FISH IS RED for details on COLLINS and the CIA.
Collins Radio and the CIA
Shortly after 2:00 PM, Mr. T. F. White observed a man sitting in a
1961 red Ford Falcon, with the engine running, in the El Chico parking
lot behind his garage. This is five blocks north of the Texas Theater.
As Mr. White approached the car, the driver turned and looked at him.
The driver then sped off in a westerly direction on Davis Street. Mr.
White, who later saw Oswald's picture on TV, said the man in the
Falcon was identical to Oswald and wore a "white T-****rt." When told
by the FBI that Oswald was in jail at 2:00 PM, White still maintained
that the man he saw driving the red Falcon was "possibly identical" to
the Oswald he had seen on TV after the assassination. This Oswald
"sighting" shortly after Harvey Oswald's arrest at the Texas Theater
could have been a case of mistaken identity. But Mr. White, who had
been given police training, wrote down the vehicle's license plate
number. The plates belonged to a blue 1957 Plymouth 4 door sedan-not a
1961 red Ford Falcon. The Plymouth belonged to Carl Mather, a long
time employee of Collins Radio and close friend of J.D. Tippit.
Newsman and former Dallas Mayor Wes Wise heard of the unusual Oswald
sighting. Mr. Wise and fellow news re****ter Jane Bartell questioned
Mather about the incident over dinner. Mather was so nervous he could
hardly talk and said little. In 1977 the HSCA wanted to interview
Mather about this incident. He agreed, but not before he was granted
immunity from prosecution by the Justice Department. Mather was
interviewed by the HSCA, but most of the do***ents relating to that
interview remain classified in the National Archives. Why?
One possible reason is Oswald's prior connection to Collins Radio and
what Collins Radio actually represented. Oswald, in the company of
George De Mohrenschildt, had once visited the home of retired Admiral
Henry Bruton, who was an executive of Collins Radio. This was re****ted
by the HSCA in a manuscript called "I'm A Patsy" by De Mohrenschildt.
Bruton and his position with Collins is also mentioned in Edward
Epstein's book Legend. Bruton had been a lawyer in Virginia before
becoming a Navy intelligence officer. Bruton's specialty was
electronic surveillance and this is what he was bringing to Collins
Radio. In April of 1963, the Wall Street Journal announced that
Collins would construct a modern radio communications system linking
Laos, Thailand, and South Vietnam. On November 1, 1963, the New York
Times re****ted that Fidel Castro had captured a large boat called the
Rex which was being leased to Collins Radio at the time. The next day,
one of the captured Cuban exiles aboard the Rex confessed that the
boat had been used to ferry arms into Cuba and that "the CIA organized
all arms ****pments" (New York Times 11/3/63). According to Bill Kelly
(Back Channels, Summer 1992), the Rex was the flag****p of the JM/WAVE
fleet, the CIA's super station in Miami. According to Kelly, Castro
announced that the arms ****pments were meant for an assassination
attempt on top Cuban leaders. What a provocative scenario: five blocks
from where Oswald was arrested we have an Oswald double in a car
traced to Tippit's friend and the friend works for a CIA associated
company that plays a role in the plots against Cuba and Castro.
SEE: Harvey, Lee and Tippit: A New Look at the Tippit Shooting
by John Armstrong
http://www.ctka.net/pr198-jfk.html
Anyone for COLLINS RADIO?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_Collins
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