FBI Informant 179 - The Untold Oswald Story That Is The Key To Everything - Part One
Based on the 2019 George Webb book, "FBI Informant 179
With Donald Trump’s declassification of the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassination files today, I have had several people ask me how they could get my JFK book that I wrote on Amazon Kindle many years ago. Unfortunately, I wrote directly into the Kindle format, and when Amazon banned me, I lost about forty 111 pages books that I had written.
One of these books was “Oswald - FBI Informant 179,” which details Oswald's fourteen months as an FBI Informant. I have decided to republish them here on my historical substack since the JFK files will be available in fifteen to forty-five days.
Before I get started here, I wanted to make a comment about the Trump Executive Order to release the files. The EO is not an immediate release. The EO instructs the ODNI to review the files within 45 days, and then get back to Trump with a recommended release schedule.
Israel’s subtle and not-so-subtle threats to Kennedy over getting the atomic bomb have been buried in the files. You can see here that a young Congressman from Schaumberg, Illinois, carrying the water for Israeli Prime Minister Ben Gurion with a veiled threat letter to RFK in July of 1963.
You can almost see the JFK assassination and the State sponsorship and bankrolling of Israel after the death of JFK and RFK rolling out of this letter all the way to Anthrax for Israel and 9/11. You are going to have to come here for the truth for a while longer, I am afraid, and I am not sure the Israel complicity documents will ever be released.
By nature of any historical investigation, it is document-driven. This document, a transcript from an interview two months after the JFK assassination in January of 1964, clearly states that Oswald was acting as an FBI Undercover Agent with the number 179. The January 1964 transcript clearly states Oswald was employed in the capacity of an FBI Undercover Agent from September 1962 to the time of the JFK assassination.
Now, keeping in mind that Oswald is an FBI Undercover Agent, it is probably more likely that he was just an undercover informant, looking at the traditional Oswald timeline.
Oswald may have also falsely believed that he was a paid informant by Guy Bannister, former FBI Agent and CIA operative at 544 Camp Street. The CIA used informant number 179 for a prostitution sting operation in New Orleans. I call this the Oswald Denial memo, and you can see FBI Division Five Chief William Sullivan sent it, and a Brennan and a Callahan also in Division Five were signatories to the Oswald Denial Memo.
Again, Bannister and IB Hale could have easily reused an Informant number to give Oswald the impression that he was an official informant.
A $200 payment per month by the Chicago Mob to Oswald may have been an effortless thing to hide from one of Jack Ruby’s prostitution operations being run in Dallas and New Orleans.
Below is a concise month-by-month (or key date) chronology of Lee Harvey Oswald’s known whereabouts and major activities from September 1962 until November 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Please note that exact dates and details can vary among different historical sources, but this outline reflects the generally accepted timeline.
But first, there is the McCone Memo, linking Oswald to his time in Russia to the CIA, potentially passing misinformation to the Russians about U-2 flights at a radar factory near Minsk.
Other news articles established Oswald’s CIA links before he went to Russia as well from the secret CIA U2 base in Atsugi, Japan.
Now, Oswald returns to the United States as a two time defector at the height of the Cold War in June 1962, and falls in with the top members of the Dallas Petroleum Club.
1962
September 1962
Location: Fort Worth, Texas.
Lee Harvey Oswald had recently returned (June 1962) from the Soviet Union with his wife, Marina, and their infant daughter.
During this period, Oswald was residing in Fort Worth; Oswald was introduced to George Mohrenschildt, a White Russian oil executive whose father ran the Czar’s petroleum fields in Baku for Noble Oil.
Some believe Oswald lived with De Mohrenschildt’s relatives in Minsk while Oswald lived in Russia.
De Mohrenschildt also worked for Humble Oil, owned by George H.W. Bush’s father, Prescott, and was involved in oil exploration throughout the Carribean Basin and Central and South America. CIA Operation PBSUCCESS operated in this region at this time (Prescott Bush Success, some think, was the expanded code name.
The traditional Oswald timeline leaves out that the person sponsoring Oswald’s return was General Dynamics Security Vice President Insall Baines Hale, or IB Hale, living in Fort Worth, Texas, at the time.
Here is an IB Hale Coffee Cup that Neighborhood News in Michigan sold in 2020 and 2021. Hale was an FBI Agent and expert sniper before becoming “Security” for Chicago Mob-owned General Dynamics in Fort Worth.
October 1962
Move to Dallas: Oswald and his family relocated from Fort Worth to Dallas.
They stayed briefly with friends and acquaintances while Oswald searched for stable work.
On October 12th, just before the Cuban Missile Crisis begins, IB Hale gets Oswald a job at Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall, a firm that does Top Secret photo interpretation for U-2 spy plane missions.
The U-2 photos that appear doctored are presented to President Kennedy to discourage him from a full-scale invasion of Cuba. Kennedy calls off Cuba Invasion.
Late 1962 to January–April 1963
Employment at Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall (Dallas)
October 12, 1962: Oswald was hired as a photoprint trainee (sometimes described as a photographic print technician) at Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall, a Dallas graphic arts and printing company.
This position involved tasks such as making photographic enlargements and other print-related work.
Oswald remained employed at Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall through the end of 1962 and into early 1963 (he was ultimately laid off the following April in 1963).
March 1963
Mail-Order Firearms: Oswald, under the alias “A. Hidell,” ordered a .38 revolver and a Mannlicher–Carcano rifle (the rifle later identified as the JFK assassination weapon).
This was done through mail-order from Klein’s Sporting Goods in Chicago.
Oswald may have created his fake IDs with JCS equipment that made counterfeit IDs for the CIA.
April 10, 1963
Attempt on General Walker’s Life: An unidentified gunman shot at Major General Edwin A. Walker through a window of Walker’s Dallas home.
Evidence later suggested Oswald was the shooter, though this only became widely known after the Kennedy assassination.
Retired General Walker, who is an extreme anti-Communist, wanted to lead an invasion of Cuba with Cuban exiles.
Perhaps Oswald is attempting to inflame the anti-Castro movement to flush out their recruiters to infiltrate the organization as an undercover informant.
April 24, 1963
Move to New Orleans: Oswald abruptly left Dallas for New Orleans, intending to find work and possibly relocate permanently.
Oswald also may be on assignment to infiltrate the anti-Castro forces that are massing in New Orleans for a planned invasion in the late summer of 1963.
May–July 1963
New Orleans Period:
May 10: Oswald found work at the Reily Coffee Company in New Orleans but was fired on July 19 for poor performance and excessive political activism on the job.
During these months, he began openly supporting the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC), a pro-Castro organization.
Oswald oddly puts the address of 544 Camp Street on the canary-colored flyers, the home of ex-FBI Agent Guy Bannister’s headquarters for a Cuba Invasion being organized and trained for across Lake Pontchartrain.
August 9, 1963
Arrest in New Orleans: Oswald was arrested for disturbing the peace after a scuffle with anti-Castro Cuban exiles while handing out FPCC leaflets.
This incident drew local attention to Oswald’s pro-Castro sympathies.
Late August–September 1963
Departure from New Orleans:
Oswald’s activities in New Orleans culminated in his decision to leave the city.
Around September 25, he traveled from New Orleans (possibly via Houston) toward Mexico.
September 27–October 3, 1963
Trip to Mexico City:
Oswald visited both the Cuban and Soviet consulates, apparently seeking a transit visa to Cuba and hoping to travel onward to the Soviet Union.
His requests were denied or delayed, and he returned to the U.S. by bus, arriving back in Texas on October 3.
October 1963
Return to Dallas Area:
Upon returning, Oswald stayed at the home of Ruth Paine (a friend of Marina’s) in Irving, Texas, while Marina and their children also lived there.
October 14: Ruth Paine helped Oswald obtain a job at the Texas School Book Depository in downtown Dallas.
November 1963 (Leading up to the Assassination)
Early November: Oswald continued working at the Texas School Book Depository. Marina was still living separately at Ruth Paine’s home in Irving, while Oswald rented a room in Dallas.
November 21, 1963 (Evening): Oswald traveled from Dallas to Irving, claiming he needed to pick up curtain rods (this is the official story he told). It is believed he retrieved his rifle from the Paine’s garage that night.
November 22, 1963 – Assassination of JFK
Morning: Oswald arrived at the Texas School Book Depository carrying a long paper bag (allegedly containing the disassembled rifle).
12:30 p.m.: President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dealey Plaza. The fatal shots were believed to have come from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, where Oswald worked.
Aftermath:
Oswald left the Depository shortly after the shooting.
At approximately 1:15 p.m., Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit was shot and killed in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas. Oswald was later charged with Tippit’s murder.
Around 1:50 p.m., Oswald was arrested in the Texas Theatre.
Over the next two days, he was interrogated multiple times by Dallas police, but no formal recorded confession was made. Oswald maintained he was a “patsy.”
On November 24, while being transferred to the county jail, Oswald was shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby on live television.
Key Takeaways
Frequent Relocations: From September 1962 to November 1963, Oswald lived in Fort Worth, moved to Dallas, spent several months in New Orleans, made a brief trip to Mexico City, and ultimately returned to Dallas.
Political Advocacy: During this period, Oswald became increasingly vocal in pro-Castro and left-wing political causes, joining (or claiming to represent) the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
Acquisition of Weapons: Oswald’s mail-order purchase of the rifle in March 1963 and the revolver were pivotal pieces of evidence linking him to the JFK assassination and the earlier attempted shooting of General Edwin Walker.
Job at Texas School Book Depository: The final phase of Oswald’s life in October–November 1963 placed him in the building from which JFK was shot on November 22, setting the stage for the events that followed.
The wife of IB Hale actually gets Oswald the job at the Texas School Book Depository.
This timeline highlights the most significant developments in Oswald’s life from September 1962 until the assassination on November 22, 1963, according to the historical record established by the Warren Commission and numerous independent investigations.
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