Saturday, 15 c. August 1959:
David Ferrie, calling himself David Ferris, lands in Yale, Michigan at a tiny airport early in the morning, and follows the family of T. Casey Brennan northward to Hopeville, Michigan, where they go to the office of a hypnotist, "Dr. E," later named as being Dr. J.H. Earnshaw. He gives the children red lollipops that knock them out. This Hopeville office is an MK-ULTRA operation called "The Project."
SOURCE: Castle Mirage - The Prelude: Conjurella by T. Casey Brennan
Monday, 17 August 1959:
Quoted from the source regarding control of nuclear weapon deployment by "unified commanders" [NOTE: At the time, Daniel Ellsberg is a consultant via Rand Corporation, on a Navy contract, to Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Command (CINCPAC), Admiral Harry Felt.]:
Unified commanders--that is, the commanders-in-chief (CINCs) of regional, or theater, commands, such as European or Pacific, that included units from all three services--had control of nuclear bombs and missiles, as did, of course, SAC, the first specified command. The proliferation of nuclear weapons inevitably produced duplication of targets. Coordination conferences and special committee failed to solve this problem, much less resolve inter-service conflicts over the weight of a nuclear attack.
SOURCE: Article and supporting documents, "The Creation of SIOP-62: More Evidence on the Origins of Overkill," National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 130, Edited by William Burr, on the web at http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB130/index.htm
Tuesday, 1 c. September 1959:
Lee Harvey Oswald comes to Yale, Michigan with David Ferrie. T. Casey Brennan has started seventh grade. He is somehow in contact with Oswald. According to Brennan: "He said that Dr. E was going to give him 'almost god-like powers', and that he was doing 'something important for the government'. He said he was going on a trip, but he would be back to see me every so often. He spoke of great authority that he would have on his return, and his explanations of that coming authority vacillated between the governmental and the mystical."
SOURCE: Castle Mirage - The Prelude: Conjurella by T. Casey Brennan
Friday, 4 September 1959:
Lee Harvey Oswald is transferred out of MACS-9 (Marine Air Control Squadron) in preparation for his discharge. He applies for a passport at the Superior Court in Santa Ana, California. His application states that he plans to leave the United States on 21 September to attend the Albert Schweitzer College and the University of Turku in Finland, and to travel in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, England, France, Germany, and Russia.
SOURCE: Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia: An Unauthorized History from the Kennedy Assassination; The Journey From USA to USSR--on the web at http://www.russianbooks.org/oswald/journey.htm
Thursday, 10 September 1959:
Lee Harvey Oswald's passport, applied for at the Superior Court of Santa Ana, California, is "routinely issued."
SOURCE: Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia: An Unauthorized History from the Kennedy Assassination; The Journey From USA to USSR--on the web at http://www.russianbooks.org/oswald/journey.htm
Friday, 11 September 1959:
Lee Harvey Oswald is released from active duty. No indication of where he is, but apparently either El Toro, or Santa Ana, California.
SOURCE: Oswald timeline at http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/oswald.htm#photos
Monday, 14 September 1959:
Lee Harvey Oswald goes "directly home after his discharge," arriving in Fort Worth, Texas on this date.
SOURCE: Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia: An Unauthorized History from the Kennedy Assassination; The Journey From USA to USSR--on the web at http://www.russianbooks.org/oswald/journey.htm
Thursday, 17 September 1959:
Just three days after arriving in Fort Worth, Texas, Lee Harvey Oswald is in New Orleans. He speaks with a representative of Travel Consultants, Inc., a New Orleans travel bureau. He fills out a "Passenger Immigration Questionnaire" on which he gives his occupation as "shipping export agent." He says he will be abroad for two months on a pleasure trip. He books passage from New Orleans to Le Havre, France on a freighter, the SS Marion Lykes. It is scheduled to sail the next day, 18 September (but won't actually sail until 20 September). He pays $220.75 for passage, then in the evening registers at the Libery Hotel in New Orleans. Apparently, Oswald is in New Orleans for the next two days.
SOURCE: Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia: An Unauthorized History from the Kennedy Assassination; The Journey From USA to USSR--on the web at http://www.russianbooks.org/oswald/journey.htm
Sunday, 20 September 1959:
Lee Harvey Oswald boards the Marion Lykes in New Orleans in the morning, bound for Le Havre, France.
SOURCE: Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia: An Unauthorized History from the Kennedy Assassination; The Journey From USA to USSR--on the web at http://www.russianbooks.org/oswald/journey.htm; also, "A Flight of Fancy," by Chris Mills at http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/fancy2.txt
Thursday, 1 c. October 1959:
Michael and Ruth Hyde Paine move into a house in Irving, Texas, at 2515 West Fifth Stree, that they will rent for a year, then buy.
SOURCE: Testimony of Ruth Hyde Paine, Warren Commission, file 1
Thursday, 1 c. October 1959:
Michael and Ruth Hyde Paine move into a house in Irving, Texas, at 2515 West Fifth Stree, that they will rent for a year, then buy.
SOURCE: Testimony of Ruth Hyde Paine, Warren Commission, file 1
Thursday, 1 October 1959:
General Alva R. Fitch becomes the Army's Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (D/ACSI).
SOURCE: Brief biography of Lt. Gen. Alva R. Fitch for oral history interviews by Ed Moise, faculty at Clemson University, data taken from Fitch's autobiography, on the web at http://www.clemson.edu/caah/history/facultypages/EdMoise/oral.html
Wednesday, 7 October 1959:
William S. Burroughs is already involved to some degree with Dianetics and Scientology. On this date he writes in a letter to Allen Ginsberg that Dianetic therapy is a way to "simply run the tape back and forth until the trauma is wiped off. It works." [NOTE: Burroghs--a raving homosexual and drug who shot his wife in the head in 1951 and was institutionalized in 1940 after cutting the tip of his pinky finger off to impress a boyfriend, and who was convicted of forging drug prescriptions--later has connections with poet Gary Snyder, who himself would meet in Japan with Daniel Ellsberg in January 1960 (see chronology entry for 15 c. January 1960).]
SOURCE: Article: "Corporeal Communications Technologies in William S. Burroughs and L. Ron Hubbard" by Douglas Kahn
Thursday, 8 October 1959:
Lee Harvey Oswald arrives on the SS Marion Lykes in Le Havre, France. According to his passport, he boards the 51,000 ton liner Liberte the same day, probably in the evening, bound for Southampton, England. The ship either leaves that night or in the early hours of 9 October 1959 for Southampton.
SOURCE: Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia: An Unauthorized History from the Kennedy Assassination; The Journey From USA to USSR--on the web at http://www.russianbooks.org/oswald/journey.htm; also, "A Flight of Fancy," by Chris Mills at http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/fancy2.txt
Friday, 9 October 1959:
Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in the mid-afternoon at "Cowes Roads," deep water outside the Southampton harbor's mouth, aboard the liner Liberte. Oswald arrives by tug on the mainland at either 7:50 p.m. or 8:40 p.m. He tells cusom officials at Southampton that he has $700, and plans to remain in the United Kingdom for a week before proceeding to a school in Switzerland. He likely joins a British Rail train, after passing through customs, bound for Waterloo Station in Central London, likely arriving London late in the evening.
SOURCE: Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia: An Unauthorized History from the Kennedy Assassination; The Journey From USA to USSR--on the web at http://www.russianbooks.org/oswald/journey.htm; also, "A Flight of Fancy," by Chris Mills at http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/fancy2.txt
Saturday, 10 c. October 1959:
LRH, learning that East Grinstead has been unable to fill a vacancy for a Road Safety Organizer, volunteers for the job. As he explains to a meeting of the East Grinstead Road Safety Committee, he is anxious to make a contribution to the community and he feels that the experience he has gained can be put to good use in East Grinstead. He gives an interesting talk on road safety campaigns in the United States, puts forward many ideas on how to reduce accidents locally, confidently answered questions and is unanimously elected as the town's new Road Safety Organizer by a grateful committee.
SOURCE: Russell Miller, book: Bare Faced Messiah, Chapter 14
Saturday, 10 October 1959:
Lee Harvey Oswald is in London. He takes a plane to Helsinki
SOURCE: Oswald timeline at http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/oswald.htm#photos
Friday, 16 October 1959:
Quoted from the source:
To the USSR Supreme Soviet
16th October 1959
I, Lee Harvey Oswald, am asking to be granted citizenship of The Soviet Union. My visa is valid from 15th of October and expires on 21st of October. My citizenship should be granted before this date. In the mean time I am waiting for your decision about my citizenship.
Currently I am a citizen of the United States of America. I want citizenship because I am a Communist and working class person. I have lived in a decadent capitalist society, where the workers are slaves. I am 20, I served in US marines for three years, I served in occupation forces in Japan. I have seen American militarism in all its forms.
I do not want to return to any other country outside of the Soviet Union's borders.
I wish to reject my American citizenship and accept the responsibility of a Soviet citizen.
I saved up some money while serving for two years as a private in the American military service in order to come to Russia with one purpose, to obtain citizenship. I do not have enough money to live here indefinitely or to return to any other country. I do not want to go to any other country. I am asking you to consider my request as soon as possible.
Sincerely yours.
Lee Harvey Oswald
Note from translators: The writing on the graphic of the envelope in Russian appears to be in a different hand, and from what we can decipher, is simply translating what appears in English. The phrase, "very urgent!" is underlined twice at top right of the envelope, and MAY be in a hand similar to Oswald's, but that is really speculation.
SOURCE: Translation of Oswald letter printed in article, "Americans won't find out anything - Yeltsin passed Kennedy's file to Clinton," by Maxim Zhukov and Aleksei Alekseyev, on the web at http://www.jfk-info.com/trans-1.htm
Saturday, 31 October 1959:
LRH leaves London flying first-class on BOAC via Calcutta and Singapore to Melbourne, Australia, for lectures there. At the Hubbard Communications Office in Spring Street, Melbourne, he is greeted by an ecstatic crowd of Scientologists who cheer noisily when he announces his belief that Australia will be the first clear continent. Between lectures, he spends hours with local HASI executives discussing ways of persuading the Australian Labour Party and trades union movement to adopt Scientology techniques
SOURCE: Russell Miller, book: Bare Faced Messiah, Chapter 14
Saturday, 31 October 1959:
Text of State Department telegram to Secretary of State, JFK Exhibit F-534:
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Control: 20261
Rec'd: OCTOBER 31, 1959 7:59 A.M.
FROM: Moscow
TO: Secretary of State
NO: 1304, OCTOBER 31, 1 P.M.
FOR PO [MAYBE ? SEMI-LEGIBLE]
LEE HARVEY OSWALD, UNMARRIED AGE 20 PP 1733242 ISSUED SEPT 10 1959 APPEARED AT EMB TODAY TO RENOUNCE AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP, STATED APPLIED IN MOSCOW FOR SOVIET CITIZENSHIP FOLLOWING ENTRY FROM HELSINKI OCT 15. MOTHER'S ADDRESS AND HIS LAST ADDRESS US 4936 COLLINWOOD ST., FORT WORTH TEXAS. SAYS ACTION CONTEMPLATED LAST TWO YEARS. MAIN REASON "I AM MARXIST". ATTITUDE ARROGANT AGGRESSIVE. RECENTLY DISCHARGED MARINE CORPS. SAY HAS OFFERED SOVIETS ANY INFORMATION HE HAS ACQUIRED AS ENLISTED RADAR OPERATOR.
IN VIEW PETRULLI CASE WE PROPOSE DELAY EXECUTING RENUNCIATION UNTIL SOVIET ACTION KNOWN OR DEPT ADVISES. DESPATCH FOLLOWS. PRESS INFORMED.
FREERS
SOURCE: House Select Committee on Assassinations document JFK Exhibit F-534