[towtotas-t02tg] Co : Af . | SECRET FRP3 55/24/25 { STAFF 7 . . : { ’ CONF: C/EA@8 INFO: FILEs VRy DDO, C/CAw3, C/CCS, C/CI=4, C/EPS/EG) C/IP/DMS, C/PCS/INT, C/SIA/FL, DDO/DOyODPD=D, OGC-2, OLT7—SA/DO/0,. (28/P) ior aarnes eee 78 0472194 PAGE 001 TOT: 2803052 MAR 78 DIRECTOR 195505 SECRET | | DQDC¢+ A oe STAFF 2803052 R 195505. - oP ; - 70: PRIORITY BAD ee | @ f4 “ye Sb bee rs oF psec | WNINTEL RYBAT TAPPER - Cy oe 0 | THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE WRITTEN BY NICHOLAS M, HORROCK APPEARED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES ON 27 MARCH 1978, (FYI © THE NAMES GIVEN TQ THE COMMITTEE By WILCOTT-INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING GEORGE BREEND j WILLIAM V, BROE, JIM DELANEY, JERRY “ CHESTER ITO, ELWOOD D, (PETE) MARTIN, ® REDERICK RANDALL, JACK RANDALL, KAN TAKAI, DORIS . : 7 CARRY WATANABE, JIM WOODS, LOUISE WOODS, PETE WHEELER, AND. SHIZUO YAMADA, PLEASE NOTE THESE NAMES WERE NOT-GIVEN IN THE a ARTICLE, AND AS FAR AS WE ARE AWARE, ‘ARE NOT AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.) nn QUOTE OSWALD LINK TO C.J.A, SUGGESTED AT INQUIRY EX-EMPLOYEE OF AGENCY TELLS PANEL THAT HE HEARD OSWALD WAS AN OPERATIVE IN JAPAN IN THE '50'S BY NICHOLAS M, HORROCK SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON, MARCH 26@=A FORMER FINANCE OFFICER FOR THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY HAS TESTIFIED BEFORE THE HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS THAT HIS COLLEAGUES HAD TOLO MIM THAT LEE HARVEY OSWALD WAS A SECRET OPERATIVE FOR THE AGENCY IN JAPAN IN THE LATE 1950'S, THE WITNESS, JAMES B, WILCOTT, WHO SAID THAT HE HAD SERVED IN LOW@LEVEL JOBS WITH THE C,1,A, FROM 1957 THROUGH APRIL 1966, CONTENDED IN AN INTERVIEW THAT CONVERSATIONS WITH COLLEAGUES IN THE AGENCY'S TOKYO STATION AFTER PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S ASSASSINATION ON NOV. 22- 1963 CONVINCED HIM THAT OSWALD, WHO HAD REEN RECRUITED BY THE AGENCY TO INFILTRATE THE SOVIET UNION AND SERVED AS A MARINE IN THE FAR EAST, MR, WILCOTT, WHO ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HIS MEMORY OF EVENTS 15 CRE ceiny
7490000 7 ym . i SECRET STAFF 78 0472194 PAGE 002 ; . TOT: 2803057 MAR 78 DIRECTOR 195505 “YEARS AGO WAS OF TEN SKETCHY, SAID THAT HE TESTIFIED UNDER OATH AT A CLOSED SESSION OF THE HOUSE COMM]TTEE ON WEDNESDAY, SUPPLYING THE NAMES OF SEVERAL OFFICIALS OF THE C,1.A, WHO MIGHT BE ABLE TO GIVE FURTHER DETAILS ON THE MATTER, , ‘ROBERT BLAKEY, THE CHIEF COUNSEL AND STAFF DIRECTOR OF THE COMMITTEE, DECLINED TO COMMENT ON THE TESTIMONY, HOWEVER, AN INTERIM REPORT ISSUED BY THE COMMITTEE INDICATED THAT, ALTHOUGH THE STAFF HAD CONDUCTED SOME 1-400 FIELD INTERVIEWS, THE COMMITTEE CHOSE TO FLY RELATIVELY FORMAL, SWORN TESTIMONY LIKE THAT SUPPLIED BY MR. WILCOTT, PROJECTS CALLED "CRYPTOS" ACCORDING TO SEVERAL SOURCES, THE COMMITTEE WAS INVESTIGATING _MR. WILCOTT'*S TESTIMONY, MR, WILCOTT SAID THAT HE JOINED THE C.I.A, AS A LOW=RANKING FINANCE OFFICER IN 1957 AND WAS SENT TO TOKYO IN 1960, AT THE TOKYO STATION, WHICH WAS IN A BUILDING THAT OSTENSIBLY HOUSED ‘UNITED STATES AIR FORCE’ PERSONNEL, MR. WILCOTT SAID, HIS RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDED: MAKING CASH DISBURSEMENTS FOR PROJECTS IDENTIFIED ONLY BY CODE NAMES CALLED "CRYPTOS," HE SAID THAT HIS WIFE WAS A CLERICAL EMPLOYEE OF THE AGENCY AT THAT TIME AND. THAT HE. ‘STOOD. “WATCH SHIFTS" TO EARN EXTRA MONEY, MR, wILcoTT SAID THAT “ALTHOUGH THE TRADITIONS AND THE REGULATIONS OF THE AGENCY SEPARATED MEMBERS OF THE SUPPORT STAFF SUCH AS HIMSELF FROM INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS AND OTHER OFFICIALS, “HE FRATERNIZED WITH OPERATIONAL “PERSONNEL WHILE HE WAS ON NIGHTe WATCH DUTY, IN. OCCASIONAL OFF@DUTY CONVERSATIONS AND AT THE TELLER'S CAGE WHERE HE MADE: AHIS DISBURSEMENTS, HE SAID THAT IN THE MONTHS AFTER KENNEDY'S DEATH HE HAD: SEVERAL CONVERSATIONS WITH PERSONNEL INVOLVED IN COVERT OPERATIONS, THOSE TALKS, HE SAID, CONVINCED HIM THAT OSWALD, WHO HAD BEEN STATIONED AT ATSUGI AIR BASE, JAPAN, HAD BEEN RECRUITED TO INFILTRATE THE SOVIET UNION AS A SPY, _ ONLY ONE CONVERSATION MR, WILCOTT SAID THAT HE COULD RECALL: ONLY ONE SPECIFIC CONVERSATION, WHICH OCCURRED SHORTLY AFTER JACK RUBY SHOT OSWALD © IN DALLAS, IN AN ACCOUNT OF THE CONVERSATION THAT HE PREPARED FOR “. PUBLICATION, MR, WILCOTT NOTED, ‘1 WAS TALKING WITH SOMEONE, I \ _CAN'T RECALL WHO FOR SURE, AND I EXPRESSED DISBELIEF ABOUT OSWALD , EVEN BEING A C.I.A. PROJECT, I WAS TOLD SOMETHING LIKE, "WELL, ° SECRET “ee
14-00000 3 SECRET STAFF 78 0472194 PAGE 004 TOT: 2803052 MAR 78 DIRECTOR 195505 EPPS FOR e pe Be DOSED es ew Be OE Fe we @ © ey EE ae OP ew Gs EP Ge ar Ep oo ay HF HS OF a GP Ew EP |S OH OP aD aD HE EH GS oH ap GH Gr ap & ay E> gm GP oY ED ep aE ED eB MR, WILCOTT'S STORY FROM PHILIP AGEF, A FORMER AGENT OF THE C,1.,A, WHO PUBLISHED SEVERAL YEARS AGO A BOOK ATTACKING THE AGENCY'S OPERATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA, MR, WILCOTT WAS REPRESENTED AT THE COMMITTEE HEARING BY WILLIAM H, SCHAAP, ONE OF MR, AGEE'S LAWYERS, UNQUOTE, NO FILE. E2 IMPDET.> ORIG CEA/J (GATELY X1388 27 MAR 78) COORD CEA/STE (DOREY) DCEA (BUELL) SA/D0/0 (GREGG) REL$ CEA/J (GATELY). CL BY 019522, SECRET ft END OF MESSAGE