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Online Steve M. Galbraith

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Re: "Marina and Lee" by Priscilla Johnson McMillan
« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2023, 06:03:02 PM »
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McMillan was outed as a lifelong CIA collaborator shortly before her death...

“I think that Miss Johnson can be encouraged to write pretty much the articles we want. It will require a little more contact and discussion, but I think she could come around…. Basically, if approached with sympathy in the cause she considers most vital, I believe she would be interested in helping us in many ways. It would be important to avoid making her think that she was being used as a propaganda tool and expected to write what she is told.” - 1962 CIA memo
How is that evidence much less proof of her being a "CIA collaborator"? Someone suggests that she "can be encouraged" is not evidence of anything other than someones opinion.

C'mon Jon that's pretty sloppy thinking.

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Re: "Marina and Lee" by Priscilla Johnson McMillan
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Offline Tom Scully

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Re: "Marina and Lee" by Priscilla Johnson McMillan
« Reply #9 on: April 16, 2023, 06:02:57 AM »
How is that evidence much less proof of her being a "CIA collaborator"? Someone suggests that she "can be encouraged" is not evidence of anything other than someones opinion.

C'mon Jon that's pretty sloppy thinking.

You've been exposed to the following details. Shame on you.

https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/19058-questions-for-peter-janney-on-his-book-mary%E2%80%99s-mosaic/page/4/#comment-257705

"...One new lead comes from a heretofore unconnected recollection of Priscilla's. It concerns a neighbor, who was a close friend and regular tennis partner of Stuart Johnson's, Priscilla's father. Sometime soon after her return from the Soviet Union, this friend asked Stuart if he might speak with Priscilla about her experiences in Moscow. The meeting took place, and Priscilla told the man what she could remember about her stay in Moscow. That man, who had known her since she was a small child, was F. Trubee Davidson. He worked for the CIA.9

Looking back on her experience now, Priscilla believes it is possi ble that Davidson "was waiting for me to grow up to recruit me." It is an intriguing thought, and one that she has had about one other person too. "The other person who was waiting for me to grow up," she recalls, "was Cord Meyer." While we do not know the extent of Cord Meyer's knowledge or interest in Johnson up to the time that the CIA closed out its interest in her in January 1957, he does show up the next time they become interested..."

https://alt.assassination.jfk.narkive.com/exwnALMK/was-clark-clifford-containing-marina-oswald-in-1964
 Was Clark Clifford containing Marina Oswald in 1964?
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Without Reservations: From Harlem to the End of the Santa Fe ...
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Samuel B. Ballen · 2001 · ‎Snippet view
Found inside – Page 265
From Harlem to the End of the Santa Fe Trail Samuel B. Ballen. > a Lilienthal ( no connection to the AEC ... David Davenport was a former CIA man who had become disenchanted and was now semi - retired to his youthful locus of Santa Fe .

"His career encompassed a number of fields, from intelligence to law..."


At the time the photo below was taken, the report of the lawsuit at the bottom of this post by presidential advisor Clark Clifford's first cousin, Joanne McAdams, describes the man in the center of the photo as the husband of Clark Clifford's aunt, Marguerite Bowman McAdams.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162587029/marguerite-a-mcadams

https://jfkfacts.org/comment-of-the-week-10/#comment-845835
In autumn, 1964, David Coit Davenport snapped this photo.:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/author-85-knew-jfk-killer-oswald-article-1.1525293
Marina Oswald (left), widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, with friend Jerre Hastings (center) and Priscilla Johnson McMillan. McMillan befriended Oswald after the assassination of JFK.

https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/20170-do-marina-oswalds-autumn-1964-travels-have-any-connection-with-dr-arthur-m-sackler/#comment-273011
....
1940 U.S. Census snippet of a household in New Trier (Winnetka)Illinois:


https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/journalist-who-wrote-acclaimed-work-on-oswald-jfk-worked-in-santa-fe/article_df69caf4-f94c-11eb-a3d3-b75d1a38ada6.html

By Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com Aug 21, 2021 Updated Sep 26, 2022


Priscilla Johnson McMillan, left, with Marina Oswald, right, in Santa Fe in 1964.
Courtesy photo

McMillan brought Marina to Santa Fe, where McMillan’s cousin, David C. Davenport, lived. They were here for two months in 1964.

“Undoubtably there was all sorts of craziness going on after the assassination, and I think Priscilla’s instinct would have been, ‘Let’s go someplace where we can be alone and not be bothered by other people knocking on the door,’ ” said Davenport’s son, Dave Davenport.

McMillan and Marina Oswald likely stayed at his father’s home on Brownell-Howland Road off Bishops Lodge Road during that time, he said. He described the house as a “rambling old place” that offered glorious views of the surrounding mountains and a backyard full of piñon trees that seemed to creep up to the back porch.

In her acknowledgements section of Marina and Lee, McMillan thanked her cousin for providing “a haven during the unquiet weeks of September and October of 1964, just after the Warren Report [on the Kennedy assassination] was issued.”

Dave Davenport, who still lives in Santa Fe, said he was attending college when McMillan brought Marina to Santa Fe in 1964. But he often met McMillan at family dinners during her other visits to the city. He recalled her as “a person who was very, very curious about the world and about people..."

The Case Against Congree - Page 309
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Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson · 1968 · ‎Snippet view
Found inside – Page 309
with his cronies , he'll boast that Clark Clifford charged him $ 25,000 . ... It was a duty that Clifford could not shirk -his client , the William Douglas McAdams drug advertising firm , was founded by his uncle .

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/35602601/
Monday, July 31, 1967
"Huge suit filed BULLETIN A suit has been filed in the First Judicial District court by Miss Joanne McAdams of Santa Fe asking for damages in the amount of 390,000,000. The suit is based upon alleged wrongful arrest resulting from an emergency court order which itself was based, the plaintiff asserts in her complaint, on "the false and malicious medical reports of Beregere Kenney and Gene Roscnbaum two Santa Fe physicians. Named as defendants in the suit arc Kenney, Rosenbaum, Rudolph Bramanli, M. D., Dan Palmer, M. D... Lcc R. Chutnow, M. D., Jerome Hasty, Marguerite McAdams Hasty, James M. Scarborough, Samuel Z. Mo.n- toya, Alfonso G. Sanchez, Norman M. Neel, Leon Kare- lilz, James B. Thomson, Robert Elder, Frances Clark, Laura Mac Naylor, David Davenport. Diana Kerner, Perez Roybal, New Mexico Slate Hospital, and the Santa Fc County Grand Jury of Jan. 4, 1967. Miss Me Adams, who is not represented by an attorney in the suit relates in the complaint that she had come to Santa Fe to visit her mother, Mrs. Marguerite McAdams Hasty, and her mother's husband, Jerome Hasty, and David Davenport, a friend of Hasty, induced her to consult Dr. Roscnbaum. As a result, she claims, the sheriff of Sazita Fc County, Perez Roybal, arrested her without a warrant and she was transported lo the-State Hospital at Las- Vegas, where she \vas incaceratcd from July 28, 1965 to August 15, J.%5. The p l a i n t i f f states in her complaint that Dr. Bramanti issued a false and malcious medical report "accusing the plaintiff of buing mentally ill," and recommended that "judicial proceedings be instituted against the plaintiff." Further, the complaint states, UK- ulaintift was held "incommunicado" five days; was refused a lawyer which she had requested: and that medication was "forced on her" against her will. . Leon KareliU, the complaint says "was induced by t h e other dcfcndenls and conspired with them to trick the plaintiff into signing a voluntary commitment paper on Aug. 12." A hearing was held before Judge James M. Scarborough, Ihe coiTiplainUnt says, without her knowledge or presence. When she left (V» hospital Aug. 15, 19G5 t h e release form stated die h--; been "admitted lo the hospital on July 28, as .n vr.'iifitary patient." The woman stated in her complaint ^hc was not able to obtain legal counsel; dial certain records and dockets wort missing; thai James E. Thomson gave her false and misleading information on the recommendation of Norman M. Ncel, assistant district attorney. Finally, when Ihe plaintiff went to the Grand Jury... to obtain criminal indictments against Dr. Palmer and Dr. Uramanti and Judges Scarborough and Monloya, District Attorney Sanchez and Ncel and others, the 'Giymd J u r y ignored ihe charges.

http://jfkdebate.com/index.php/node/1
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Offline Jon Banks

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Re: "Marina and Lee" by Priscilla Johnson McMillan
« Reply #10 on: April 16, 2023, 03:29:34 PM »
How is that evidence much less proof of her being a "CIA collaborator"? Someone suggests that she "can be encouraged" is not evidence of anything other than someones opinion.


She was confirmed to be a CIA asset.

See below:

MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS FROM AARC CIA COLLECTION, BOX 113
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=54212#relPageId=289



Priscilla Johnson and the CIA

After graduating from Harvard with a master's degree in 1952 she applied to join the Central Intelligence Agency. On 3rd October, 1952, a request was submitted for a security clearance as an "Intelligence Officer, GS-7" in Operations to work in the Soviet Realities Division of the CIA. On 21 January, 1953, this was changed to a request for a security clearance for Johnson (CIA number as 71589) to work as an Intelligence Officer. On the same day, Bruce L. Solie responded that Johnson had "declined employment on 21 January 1953". A formal cancellation was put in her file on 10 February and it was said "it is not believed there is any CE interest in subject case."


https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKjohnsonPR.htm


While she was rejected for employment at the CIA due to her association with Leftist organizations, she was confirmed (in the 1970s) to be a “witting collaborator” who worked with or did favors for the CIA…
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Offline Tom Scully

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Re: "Marina and Lee" by Priscilla Johnson McMillan
« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2023, 02:32:06 AM »
She was confirmed to be a CIA asset.

See below:

MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS FROM AARC CIA COLLECTION, BOX 113
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=54212#relPageId=289



Priscilla Johnson and the CIA

After graduating from Harvard with a master's degree in 1952 she applied to join the Central Intelligence Agency. On 3rd October, 1952, a request was submitted for a security clearance as an "Intelligence Officer, GS-7" in Operations to work in the Soviet Realities Division of the CIA. On 21 January, 1953, this was changed to a request for a security clearance for Johnson (CIA number as 71589) to work as an Intelligence Officer. On the same day, Bruce L. Solie responded that Johnson had "declined employment on 21 January 1953". A formal cancellation was put in her file on 10 February and it was said "it is not believed there is any CE interest in subject case."


https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKjohnsonPR.htm


While she was rejected for employment at the CIA due to her association with Leftist organizations, she was confirmed (in the 1970s) to be a “witting collaborator” who worked with or did favors for the CIA…

Tom Devine lived in an M.I.T. frat house in 1944 with Priscilla's future CIA contact, Gary Coit. Two weeks after Demohrenschildt left Dallas in April, 1963, Devine, as CIA Wubriny/1, met with and was investigating DeMohrenschildt within a day or two of his close friend from Rochester, Joseph Dryer, doing the same. I had found that Dryer's brother Peter was a classmate of Devine's from grades K - 9....

From "Our Man in Haiti," by Joan Mellen,

Dryer meeting with DeMohrenschildt,
http://jfkforum.com/images/DryerMeetsDeMohrenschildtClemardCharles.jpg

Mellen: "(Joseph) Dryer revealed to me that his best friend when he was growing up in Rochester was Thomas Devine."
http://jfkforum.com/images/MellenDryer.jpg

The China Diary of George H. W. Bush: The Making of a Global ...books.google.com › books
Jeffrey A. Engel · 2011
FOUND INSIDE – PAGE 311
The Making of a Global President Jeffrey A. Engel. I brought home a picture for Bar from ... Bemis, Lias and Devine had a meeting regarding my political future—very thoughtful of them.5 All I know now is to do the best job one can here.

"Bemis" is the guy described by Billy Joe Lord in his complaint letter to President Carter.
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=9963#relPageId=270
Fitzgerald Bemiss was GW Bush's best friend, summering neighbors, from boyhood in Kennebunkport and was a cousin of Henry Hurt's wife. Her father was the brother of Freeport Sulphur's Langbourne Williams.

The obituary of Lord's Midland employer, Allison, former Bush campaign manager, who Bemiss advised Hurt could pressure Billy Joe Lord into cooperating with Hurt,
Click on image at this link, to magnify
http://jfkforum.com/images/BillyLordAllison.jpg

Henry Hurt's father-in-law and his brother, Langbourne, were nephews of Bemis's grandmother....
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88953152/george-dandridge-williams
George Dandridge Williams

Bemiss grandmother,
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88850510/cyane-dandridge-bemiss
Cyane Dandridge Williams Bemiss

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65388323/fitzgerald-bemiss
FitzGerald Bemiss

Henry Hurt's 1968 wedding announcement describes Hurt as "of Kennebunkport" where he was employed as a teacher.
His future bride's father's name is included in the announcement.
http://jfkforum.com/images/HenryHurtKennebunkport.jpg
 


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