Volume 16 , Issue 22

The Oswald Project

Was there multiple, double look-a-likes used to craft one lone scapegoat? Jim Douglass' JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters examines the composite scapegoat served up to the world in the guise of Lee Harvey Oswald and the domestic intelligence network that was writing his story.

The following excerpts from JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It matters, is for everyone who still has questions and wants to know what happen to cause the assassination of a peace-making president by his own national security state. The links throughout the article linked below are from endnotes of sources online, books of specific references compiled, correlated by Jim Douglass.

US AF Sgt. Robert Vinson's Affidavit concerning two Oswalds: Affidavit - State of Florida, County of Walton - I, Robert Griel Vinson, of lawful age and upon my oath, state and affirm that my statement given to Mr. James P Johnston on September 28, 1994, consisting of 52 pages, each of which bears my signature, contains information that is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. Dated this 30 day of July, 1996. Signed Robert Griel Vinson. Notarized the same day by Lutrell W. Fielding, Notary public.

The link above shows the affidavit and Vinson's statement with links to documents.

As the story goes - US AF Sgt. Robert Vinson saw the second Oswald on the afternoon of 11/22/1963, after T. F. White did. Vinson witnessed the Oswald double escaping from Dallas in a CIA plane (C-54) that had taken off from Washington DC in route to Lowry AFB in Denver, with Sgt. Vinson aboard, but it made a special stop in Dallas to pick up two men. One of which was the Oswald double.

20 November 1963 Sgt. Vinson took a trip from Colorado Springs to Washington DC to go over his superiors heads to ask why he had not received an overdue promotion. Col. Chapman referred Sgt. Vinson's promotion question to an office at the Pentagon. The personnel officer at the Pentagon scanned Vinson's records, and was puzzled why he hadn't been promoted. Vinson was assured by their office that they would look into the situation.

The next day, November 22, 1963, Vinson took a bus to Andrews AFB, where he planned to hitch a ride on the first available flight going to Colorado Springs vicinity. Vinson checked in at the counter and the airman told him there was nothing going out his way. Vinson wrote his name, serial number on the check-in sheet, so if anything came up they would tell him. A loud speaker paged him about 15 minutes later and there was a flight heading for Lowry AFB in Denver. Vinson got on a prop driven C-54, large cargo plane that had no military markings or serial numbers.

The C-54's only identification was on its tail (a rust brown graphic of an egg shaped earth, crossed by white grid marks). Vinson got on the plane and he was alone. After a few minutes two men got on the plane and walked past Vinson without saying a word. The plane took off. At a location Vinson thought was somewhere over Nebraska, Vinson suddenly heard an unemotional voice say over the intercom, "The President was shot at 12:29."

After the announcement the plane banked into a sharp left turn. It began heading south. About 3:30 pm Central Time, Vinson saw on the horizon the skyline of a city he was familiar with, Dallas. The plane landed on a sandy area along side the Trinity River and in a few minutes two men were running towards the plane from a jeep. One of the pilots opened the passenger door and two men came aboard.

The two men were wearing off-white beige coveralls, carrying nothing. They sat behind the cockpit, saying nothing to the men that let them on or to each other. The taller man was 6 foot to 6-foot, 1-inch, weighing 180 or 190lbs. Vinson thought he was Cuban. The other man was 5-foot,, 7-inches, about 150 to 160lbs.

Without ever stopping the engines the plane took off in a northwest direction. They flew to a base, where the men got off the plane without saying a word. Vinson saw a small building with lights on. It was an air policeman (AP). Vinson asked him where he was and the AP said, "You're at Roswell Air Force base in New Mexico."

The AP said he could not go anywhere because the base was on alert. After a couple of hours, the AP told Vinson the alert was over and gave Vinson directions to a bus stop. Vinson made it home by the next day, and as he and his wife were watching television coverage of the assassination, Vinson noticed a picture of Lee Harvey Oswald and said to his wife, "That guy looks just like the little guy who was on the airplane."

Vinson's wife said, "Are you nuts? It couldn't be him He's in jail. Well, keep quiet about it."

Sgt. Vinson did keep quiet about about the little guy he saw get on the plane in Dallas ... for thirty years.

In the Spring of 1964, after Vinson was promoted to technical sergeant, Vinson's neighbors were being questioned by the FBI about what kind of people the Vinsons were. It was not long afterwards that Vinson was ordered by his commanding officer to sign a new secrecy agreement. Vinson's wife was asked to fill out a personal history statement, sign a secrecy agreement.

It was 25 November 1964, Vinson received orders to go to Washington DC, to report to a certain telephone number in conjunction with a Special Project. Vinson spent five days at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, going through a series of psychological, physical tests. Vinson was interviewed in a conference room by a circle of men in semi-darkness. They asked Vinson to work for them. He refused. Vinson wanted to retire from the Air Force and take a job in Colorado Springs.

Three months later, Vinson was ordered to report to a telephone number for the CIA, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The difference here was Vinson was told to work for the CIA. It seems the Air Force had reassigned Vinson to a top secret CIA project, Blackbird SR 71 spy plane, at an air base hidden in the Nellis Mountains, 40 miles northwest of Las Vegas. This was the same Site 51, which in recent years, after the base was closed because of radioactive contamination from the Nevada Test Site.

Vinson's new assignment out of Site 51 included experimental aircraft shaped like saucers. The same was true at the CIA's in Roswell, New Mexico, home of the "flying saucers" that people saw in the area. The CIA encouraged the flying saucer reports as a convenient cover story for US experimental aircraft.

It was the final year and a half of Vinson's Air Force enlistment, he served as the administrative supervisor for base supply of the CIA's SR-71/Blackbird spy plane project at Site 51.

Was the CIA keeping both Vinson and his wife under close observation, while paying him off for his continuing silence with the CIA's monthly cash payments as a bonus to his Air Force salary?

Vinson's CIA employment ceased with his retirement from the Air Force, 1 October 1966. Vinson and his wife felt as if they had been freed from a plush prison. Vinson maintained his silence during the next twenty years. He worked in Wichita, Kansas, out of fear for his life and concern for his military retirement benefits.

The JFK Records Act of 1992, mandated the disclosure of government records on the assassination, and Vinson consulted with his member of Congress, Rep. Dan Glickman of Wichita. Vinson was told, to his relief that the new law freed him from his secrecy agreement when it came to assassination information. It wasn't until 23 November 1993, Robert Vinson told the story of his flight from Dallas to news anchor Larry Hatterberg on Wichita's KAKE-TV Channel 10 News.



As the article Oswald's Doubles: How Multiple Lookalikes Were Used To Craft One Lone Scapegoat states in one of it's many descriptive paragraphs, "Thanks to the pieces of information presented by Mayor Wes Wise; auto mechanic T. F. White; concession stand operator Butch Burroughs; hobby shop owner Bernard Haire; and Air Force Sergeant Robert Vinson of NORAD, we now have a larger picture of the way in which two men played the role of Lee Harvey Oswald in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. The interlocking testimonies of Wise, White, Burroughs, Haire, and Vinson have given us a back-stage view of the double Oswald drama directed by the CIA."

There were reports of President Kennedy being fatally shot from the front into the throat, which could have only come from the "Grassy Knoll." The Harvey Oswald who shot from the Book Observatory only had a view of the backside of President Kennedy. Jack Ruby alledgedly delivered a semi-automatic rifle to the "Grassy Knoll" the day before.

Who made that "Grassy Knoll" front shot? Was President Kennedy publicly executed in 1963 by the CIA & FBI? Was President Kennedy turning toward peace in the critical imperatives of seeking to end the Cold War with the enemy, his Russian counterpart, and a reconciliation, increased understanding towards the United States and Cuba's Fidel Castro, who was the "thorn in the side" of the American military industrial intelligence complex?   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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