(09-13-2023, 11:33 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: WoW, good stuff. Especially last two lines! Never heard that one before.
Oh, there's more!
In his younger days, Arthur Collins was an amateur radio buff in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and made news headlines
when his homemade receiver picked up radio transmissions of Navy Commander Richard E. Byrd from his polar
exploration expedition. Byrd -as many know, is the cousin of the founder of the Civil Air Patrol and owner of the
Texas School Book Depository building.
Later on, Arthur's radio company became a major defence contractor during World War II and following the war,
participated in Operation Paperclip. Collins Radio hired Dr. Alex Lipisch, the former Nazi scientist who developed
the Delta I glider and ME 163 Komet jet fighter. 1963 was a good year for Collins Radio, as it began to receive
large military contracts including one for the construction of a microwave communications network in Southeast
Asia, specifically Vietnam.
At Collins' request, Dr. Lipisch was assigned to the boat development program that worked with General Dynamics
-a strange tangent for a business based around radio communication, but due to Collins' company now a good friend
of the CIA, Lipisch was instructed to build and refine a fast speedboat to be used for the Central Intelligence Agency's
Cuban infiltration missions. This craft (V20) was later used in Vietnam.
In November of 1963, Collins Radio Company of Richardson Texas leased a ship called 'Rex' for supposedly scientific
research in the Caribbean Sea and the Bahamas. The Rex was originally owned by he Somoza regime in Nicaragua
to the Belcher Oil Company of Florida, with its dock fees being paid by the CIA front company 'Sea Ship Inc'.
On November 1, 1963 the New York Times published a front page photograph of the ship the Rex, which Fidel Castro
identified as the boat that dropped off a team of assassins in Cuba a few nights previous. The ship had been docked
at Palm Beach, Florida, near the JFK family compound. The Rex’s Halloween-eve mission was in clear violation of
President Kennedy’s March 1963 edict that no para-military raids against Cuba were to originate from U.S. shores.
Quite a straying from radios!
To further add intrigue to the JFK puzzle, when David Ferrie’s pre-assassination telephone records were scrutinsed, it
was discovered that Ferrie had made frequent calls from the New Orleans law office of G. Ray Gill to the Belcher Oil
Company, the company that was the listed owner of the Rex.
When Lee Harvey Oswald returned to Texas from Soviet Russia, George DeMohrenschildt introduced him to retired
Navy Admiral Chester Bruton, an executive at Collins Radio. Due to Oswald's previous employment at a radio factory
in Minsk, DeMohrenschildt had suggested Collins Radio would be an appropriate place to work now back in the USA.
At the time of the assassination Admiral Bruton was working on a top-secret nuclear submarine communications project
for Collins with the Navy’s nuclear sub radar and communications HQ being based at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
The Woods Hole institute was responsible for locating the wreckage of the USS Thresher, that sunk on April 10, 1963,
the day Oswald is accused of shooting Gen. Walker.
Woods Hole is close to Michael Paine’s Forbes family island that Allen Dulles’ mistress and OSS operative Mary Bancroft
had visited, and where Michael’s wife Ruth Hyde Paine was in residence when she wrote to Marina Oswald to ask her to
move in with her in Dallas.
Curiously, after Oswald was murdered by Jack Ruby, his widow Marina Oswald married former Collins Radio employee
Kenneth Porter. In Miami, Florida, a Cuban exile and Collins Radio executive was murdered in a still unsolved homicide.
Collins Radio would go on and supply and maintain the equipment used by the Voice of America, all the manned NASA
space flights, the Strategic Air Command (SAC) as well as all equipment used for the CIA’s Guatemalan and Cuban
operations.
According to the Collins Radio Annual Report to stockholders for 1963-64, Collins Radio not only installed and maintained
the radios aboard most military and executive branch planes, they also operated the relay station known as "Liberty" at their
Cedar Rapids, Iowa headquarters, This Base would serve as the relay station for all radio communications between the White
House, the Pentagon, Air Force One, Air Force Two, the Cabinet plane and Andrews AFB in Washington.
Read The TV Guide, yer' don't need a TV.