Phillip
A. Twombly was Executive
Vice President of Coca Cola for their Caribbean operations. Later
he owned
a bank in Fullerton, California. According to Chauncey
Holt this
bank was used to distribute CIA
funds
for covert operations.
In
1963 Holt received instructions from Twombly to provide false ID documents
for Lee Harvey Oswald. These documents
(in the names of Lee Harvey Oswald and Alek Hiddell) were delivered
by a man called George Reynolds. In August, 1963, Twombly asked Holt
to travel to New Orleans, where he
met Oswald and Carlos
Bringuier.
Chauncey
Holt
later claimed he was went to Dallas in November, 1963, with Charlie
Nicoletti, James Canty and Leo Moceri. In Dallas he passed on
forged documents and guns (with silencers) to Charles
Harrelson and Charles Rogers (Richard
Montoya). Holt was told that "an incident was going to be created
which could be laid at the door of pro-Castro Cubans. The word attempted
assassination was never used. We assumed that from all this light
loaded ammunition that maybe somebody was going to try to take a shot
from somewhere, probably the Dal-Tex building, or one of the buildings
around there. But at no time was it ever intimidated to us that an
assassination or attempted assassination on Kennedy."
When
the Kennedy motorcade reached the Dealey
Plaza Holt
was in the parking lot behind the Grassy
Knoll.
After the shooting took place Holt went to hide in a railroad car.
He was joined by Charles
Harrelson and Charles Rogers.
However, soon afterwards, Dallas police officers entered the railroad
car and arrested all three men. The three men along with Jim
Brading were
interviewed by Gordon
Shanklin of the FBI and
then released.
In
October, 1991, Holt
confessed to John Craig, Phillip Rogers and Gary
Shaw about
his role in the assassination of John
F. Kennedy.
Holt's story was undermined in 1992 when the
Dallas Police Department revealed that the three tramps were Gus Abrams,
John F. Gedney and Harold Doyle. Ray and Mary LaFontaine carried out
their own research into this claim. They traced Doyle and Gedley who
confirmed they were two of the tramps in the photograph. Gus Abrams
was dead but his sister identified him as the third tramp in the photograph.
Open
Debate on the Kennedy Assassination
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Chauncey
Holt
was interviewed
by John Craig,
Phillip Rogers and Gary
Shaw for
Newsweek magazine (19th October, 1991)
I should point
out of course, one name I haven't mentioned and probably the most
important on the West Coast was Phillip A. Twombly. Twombly had
been at one time an Executive Vice President of Coca Cola for their
Caribbean operations. And along with Donald Kendall (Pepsi Cola),
was considered by the CIA to be the eyes and ears of the CIA (down
there). So he came to California and bought a bank in Fullerton,
which was strictly for the use as a conduit of finances.
All of the
instructions that came to the West Coast came through Twombly. Twombly
in turn, we would, we rarely met face to face. He had two assistance,
one, a man by the name of David L. Palmer, and he had a gentleman
by the name of Marilyn Mahab?, who used to pass on all the information
to us in the way of instructions as to what we were to provide.
All of the
requests that came for the stuff that we were to produce for Oswald,
who we had never heard of, didn't even know, came from, through
Twombly. These were pamphlets we were suppose to do, false identifications,
a number of false identifications that ended up in the hands of
authorities. We did IDs for Oswald in both his name and Hidel...
Phillip
Twombly asked us if we would be willing to fly to New Orleans and
give some support to Oswald, who was a stranger to us. The only
thing we knew about Oswald at the time was we had detected the address
on there as being 544 Camp Street. Although we were not familiar
with Oswald we certainly knew what was at 544 Camp Street because
we had done that before. It was the HQ of Sergio A. Smith's organization,
the CRC. There was a restaurant in the first floor and Guy Bannister
had an office in the building, although he used an address around
the corner, it was in the same building. And George Reynolds knew
the man who owned the building, a guy by the name of Sam Newman,
and he knew him.
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