Your point is off the subject of the History Channel special, which special seems designed to suck people into believing Oswald had help from the Russians at this point in time by ignoring evidence and making it appear documents that weren't redacted were redacted.
Regarding Gaudet, he wasn't a "CIA AGENT" like you suggest but like thousand of other international travelers during the Cold War period, simply volunteered to furnish information to Domestic Contact Division of the CIA... they would debrief travelers to learn what they could. His most active period was 1948 - 1955, and from 1955 - 1961 he was an infrequent contributor. He had no contact with the CIA after 1961.
He didn't know Oswald, but said he saw him at the Trade Mart distributing literature, and didn't even travel to Mexico at the same time as Oswald. He left a week earlier, and only had a stop-over in Mexico because his destination wasn't Mexico but Central America.
Gaudet's name wasn't left off the FBI report that became Warren Commission Document 75 (CD75) prepared by FBI Agent DeBrueys on 12/2/63. You can see his name for yourself here:
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10477#relPageId=577&tab=page
I'm not sure where you're getting your information, but much of it appears erroneous.
The HSCA investigated all this and you can find their conclusions here:
http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/report/html/HSCA_Report_0124b.htm
Hank
WASHINGTON, D.C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1976
Another JFK Slaying Riddle
Oswald, CIA Trails Crossed;
Shadowy Figure Emerges
By Norman Kempster
Washington Star Staff Writer
Senate investigators are trying to
untangle a perplexing coincidence
that links Lee Harvey Oswald with a
long-time CIA agent who published a
Latin American newsletter as a
“cover” for his intelligence work.
The former agent, William George
Gaudet, received a Mexican tourist
permit with the serial number just
preceding that of one issued to Oswald
on Sept. 17, 1963, about two months
before the assassination of President
John F. Kennedy.
In a telephone interview this week.
Gaudet. wno is now living in retire-
ment in Waveland. Miss., said he
knew Oswald by sight at the time, al-
though he cannot recall if Oswald
was with him in the Mexican consu-
late in New Orleans.
Asked if he was sent by the CIA to
the consulate to keep track of Os-
wald, Gaudet responded. "I was
not.”
THE GAUDET matter is under
study by Sen. Richard Schweiker. R-
Pa., a member of a two-man sub-
committee of the Senate Intelligence
Committee, which is investigating
the relationship between the Warren;
Commission and the CIA and FBI.
The commission, headed by the!
late Chief Justice Earl Warren, con- 1
eluded that Oswald, acting alone,
murdered Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963 J
Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby two
days later.
Continued From A-l
Schweiker has said the
assassination investigation
should be reopened because
of new evidence that has
been discovered since the
Warren Commission pub-
lished its report. He said his
own investigation has found
curious "intelligence fin-
gerprints” on the case.
The Gaudet matter
seems to be one more of the
puzzles that have added to
the controversy that sur-
rounds the Kennedy assas-
sination. The Warren Com-
mission was told that
Oswald went to Mexico City
in October 1963. While there
he contacted the Cuban and
Soviet embassies in an
apparent effort to obtain
permission to go to Cuba.
There is evidence that the
CIA had Oswald under sur-
veillance while he was in
Mexico, although many of
the details of his trip are
still being disputed.
ESPITE GAUDET’S in-
sistance that his trip to
Mexico had nothing to do
with Oswald’s, the coinci-
dence of numbers raises
questions that the commis-
sion apparently did not ask.
Evidence supplied to the
commission concerning
Gaudet is confusing unless
several widely separated
reports are brought togeth-
er. It is impossible to tell
from the face of the docu-
ments whether the FBI,
which served as the investi-
gative arm of the commis-
sion, made the necessary
connections.
Schweiker has complain-
ed that the FBI often sub-
mitted documents to the
commission without helping
the members determine the
significance of the papers.
The commission appar-
ently was informed that
Gaudet had received the
tourist card issued iust be-
fore Oswald’s. But the pub-
lished report gives no indi-
cation that the information
was given more than pass-
ing consideration. Working
only from the originally
published materials, it was
impossible to learn of the
coincidence in serial num-
bers.
GAUDET'S newsletter
operation was headquarter-
ed in New Orleans. He said
he frequently had seen Os-
wald distributing handbills
of the "Fair Play for Cuba
Committee,” a pro-Castro
group, outside of his office.
Gaudet said he knew Os-
wald by name and by sight
although they had never
met.
Gaudet also expressed
some opinions about the
Kennedy assassination that
coincide with the views of
some of the critics of the
Warren Commission.
Despite Oswald's rhetori-
cal support for Cuban
Premier Fidel Castro, Gau-
det said he believes Oswald
actually was involved with
a group of anti-Castro
Cubans.
Gaudet was asked if he
had formed an opinion
about why Kennedy was
killed.
“The only possible idea
that I could have would be
the anti-Castro Cubans
(conspired to kill him) be-
cause of the fiasco at the
Bay of Pigs,’' Gaudet re-
sponded. "If I was an anti-
Castro Cuban, there is no
question I would have been
very bitter about what hap-
pened at the Bay of Pigs."
Gaudet said he had no
way of knowing if Oswald
had contacts with the CIA
because “my work with the
CIA did not involve any-
thing within the United
States "
THE REPORT included
the full text of a letter from
the Mexican government
listing the names, ad-
dresses and as much other
information as possible
about the people who re-
ceived cards numbered
824082, 824083, 824086 and
824087. Oswald received
card numbered 824085. No
mention was made of
824084.
An FBI report submitted
to the commission but not
made public until later said
"no record of 824084 locat-
ed."
But a recently declas-
sed document lists Gaudet
as the holder of card num-
ber 824084, something that
Gaudet readily confirmed.
Another FBI report made
public earlier said Gaudet
received a tourist card on
the same day as Oswald,
but it made no mention of
the similarity in serial
numbers. That document
said Gaudet “indicated that
he has in the past been an
employee of the CIA.’’
In a telephone interview.
Gaudet was bitter about
that FBI report, which he
said should never have been
declassified. He said he
only reluctantly told the
FBI about his CIA back-
ground after the bureau
had agreed to protect his
cover.
"IF THE CIA needed me
to do a job, now that my
cover’s been revealed, I
couldn’t be of any help to
them, even if I wanted to."
Gaudet said. “I’m useless
to them. I couldn’t go back
to Central America.”
At 67, Gaudet is unlikely
to be called out of retire-
ment. He now talks freely
about an intelligence career
that he said spanned 25
years beginning during
World War - II, when he
served in a special Latin
American unit headed by
now Vice President Nelson
Rockefeller.
He said he joined the CIA
shortly after the agency
was created in 1947, and
continued until 1969.
Throughout his career
with the CIA, Gaudet lived
a double life as a spy and as
a journalist who specialized
in Latin American affairs.
He said he provided some
information to the planners
of the Bay of Pigs invasion
of Cuba.
Gaudet was publisher of
Latin American Report, a
newsletter that sold for $15
a week to clients with an
interest in the region. He
also wrote free-lance dis-
patches for several U.S.
publications, including the
Miami Herald. His CIA
connections apparently
were not revealed to publi-
cations that purchased his
articles. Chase Manhattan Bank,
First National City Bank of
New York, Standard Oil Co.
of New Jersey (now Exxon)
and other businesses.
Gaudet declined to go
into detail about his other
financial arrangements
with the CIA. But he said he
spied for patriotic reasons
and not for the money that
he received.
During the years Gaudet
said he was working for the
CIA, the agency frequently
provided journalistic cover
jobs for its agents. CIA
Director William E.‘ Colby
has said that since 1973 the
agency has not employed as
agents full-time staff mem-
bers of major U.S. publica-
tions or broadcast net-
works. But he refused to
rule out the use of employees
of small specialized news-
letters or of foreign publi-
cations.
GAUDET SAID the two
biggest customers for the
newsletter — purchasing
more than 20 subscriptions
each — were the ClA and
the Soviet intelligence serv-
ice. the KGB.
Although the CIA and the
KGB each were paying
more than $15,000 annually
for subscriptions, Gaudet
denied that the money
amounted to a subsidy of
his efforts. He said both
agencies bought the letter
for the information it con-
tained.
Other clients included the
United Fruit Company.
Phone(202) 484-5000
Hank, now you know where some of my information comes from, in this case it was an interview with Gaudet and what I stated is what he stated. He said he knew of LHO, he (Gaudet) was a CIA Agent, he published a newsletter, it was bought by others (the CIA purchasing from itself was common, it was an easy way to pay for Operations and laundry the money), he was employed by the Agency for 25 years.
