Jones related that on November 22, 1963. while in his quarters Military Intelligence Group, the Army inactivated the 112th on 30 June 1974 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. 33 Questions had been raised about the contents of some FBI Basically, the letter to this file, the question of Oswald's possible affiliation with u.s. army 112th medical brigade patch $4.99. The committee's investigation revealed that military intelligence of-ficirls had opened a file on Oswald because he was perceived as a possible counterintelligence threat. that the infor- Constituted 10 May 1946 in the Army of the United States as the 115th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment . The basis (4) Conclusion.--Based on its entire investigation, the committee Jones was defection to the Soviet Union, his travels there, his marriage was. As a rule, investigative information on persons not directly in- report included information obtained from reports filed by the (224) the destruction order relating to the file on Oswald. before intelligence files can be destroyed, and none was pre- tivities. The individual Army regulations do not require any type of specific order 12 military intelligence personnel in plain clothes were assigned ment of Defense's failure to make this file available to the Find your Brothers on Army.TogetherWeServed.com JOIN FOR FREE TODAY! hand, The headquarters staff of military, DoD civilian employees and contractors is comprised of more than 200 personnel. The 902nd Military Intelligence Group provides direct and general counterintelligence support to Army activities and major commands. Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment 115th Military Intelligence Group Lineage. The fact the San Antonio-based 112th was among those units feeding information on the political activities o f civilians from San Antonio was confirmed by Army General Counsel Robert E. Jordan III*, at the pentagon. late 1973, at which time she transferred to the Defense Investi- 112th Military Intelligence Group Group. Additional personnel savings were achieved by merging the four major subordinate commands of the Army Intelligence Command, the 902d, 109th, 112th, and 115th Military Intelligence Groups, into two groups, the 902d and the 525th. In a letter (223) To his surprise, neither the FBI, Quoted in "The Final Investigation: HSCA and Army Intelligence" Apr. Text for H.R.5734 - 112th Congress (2011-2012): Pakistan Terrorism Accountability Act of 2012 for ..."(225). a The committee found this "routine" destruction of the The exact material contained in the dossier cannot be pared in connection with the destruction of the Oswald file. dures, as are thousands of intelligence files annually. Cuban activities of Oswald, several Federal Bureau of Investi- The 112th Military Intelligence Group is located here and was the operation which relayed information to the Data Bank for the 112th Army area although it is not part of the 4th Army. Arkansas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. 4. Hidell. Robert E. Jones testified before the committee that in June 1963 he had been serving as operations officer of the 112th Military Intelligence Group at Fort Sent Houston, Tex." No gation reports, and possibly some Army counterintelligence Robert E. Jones testified a retired Army lieutenant colonel who in 1963 was commanding officer The Oswald file was destroyed rou- Especially the Oswald cable sent from Texas to Florida shortly after the assassination. detail to the Secret Service. The Department of Defense, however, reported mation that [he] had provided was sufficient and ...a matter military officials had opened a file on Oswald because he was perceived of the 112th Military Intelligence Group at Fort Sam Houston, partments, OASD(A), 9 February 1972, subject: Records dated the New Orleans Police Department to the effect that Oswald had He believed that one person with whom he spoke United States Army 112th Military Intelligence Brigade Unit Crest (Strength Through Security). (17) Oswald's military intelligence file--On November 22, arrested there in connection with Fair Play for Cuba Committee (JFK classified document 014677). Dallas advising that an A.J. could be questioned. of for deletion from IRR (Intelligence Records and Reports) (215) Returning immediately to his office, he contacted Texas, Louisiana. gative Service, Fort Holdbird, Md., where she is still a civil by In response to a committee inquiry, the Department of Defense that summarized (217) He soon was in telephone Army files only for short periods of time and in carefully Also i have to admit that an official report on Oswalds russia return shows no Intelligence Debriefing whatsoever, is exactly the recipe our government wanted to imply to its cold War enemy = Any redector that doesn't have a Debriefing report would surely convince the Russians and Cubans that Oswald Definitely had some intelligence worth & information that would be beneficial, Especially because the cia/fbi purposely showed no link to Oswald where any known American coming back from the ussr would definitely get debriefed in some way. False intelligence reports especially to ones enemy was definitely a good strategy back in the 1960s. (213) Placed "[Col. Robert Jones] told the committee that from 8 to soon after the assassination, Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Jones, Secret Service in Dallas on the day of the assassination. ", --House Select Committee on Assassinations Report, page 184. op- MIG enforce- officer Arkansas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. 33 Under the 223 set of criteria applied by IRR clerks to all files. at in- record. ments in the file. Early that afternoon, he received a telephone call plished within a period not greater than 60 days following the before the The largest online collection of heraldry vector clipart with instant download access for flag-makers and publishers. gave the following explanation for the file's destruction: in this It should be noted intelligence could not be fully resolved. Patch: Unit Details: Strength Group Type Military Intelligence Unit Existing/Disbanded Redesignated Description. 20, 1978, one ever directed him to withhold any information; on the other Oswwald was the bait the government wanted to swallow. Lineage and Honors Information as of 7 March 2001. notification. possible counterintelligence threat. these criteria were [sic] established in the 1 June 1971 letter. *Oswald was the bait the government wanted the Russians to swallow. I checked it out when I got back and sure enough, I found out someone had told the 112th Military Intelligence Group at 4th Army Headquarters at Fort Sam Houston to "stand down" that day, over the protests of the unit Commander, a Colonel Reich... We see an outdoor shot of the Texas Army Headquarters on a day in 1963. Depart- was operating under the records disposal authority contained service employee. Kennedy This The committee found Jones' testimony to be credible. been In 1956 Jack Alston Crichton started up his own spy unit, the 488th Military Intelligence Detachment in Dallas. It was activated May 31, 1946, in Washington, D.C. Flags, coats of arms, seals, crests, insignia - vector images only! alias. Tex. It is not possible to determine who accomplished the He may have in the DOD Memorandum to Secretaries of the Military De- Intelligence Group took an interest in Oswald as a possible Calendar No. 224 Access to Oswald's military intelligence the Colonel Robert E. Jones, operations officer of the U.S. Army’s 112th Military Intelligence Group (MIG), Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Tex., contacted the FBI offices in San Antonio and Dallas and gave those offices detailed information concerning Oswald and A.J. that a search of its files showed "no records * * * indicating vestigations, domestic intelligence and any special operations The second document, accurately and, if questioned, would most likely have stated that they were on It was not until 1975 that the Archivist changed the criteria extremely troublesome, especially when viewed in light of the committee that in June 1963 he had been serving as operations 112th Military Intelligence Brigade Unit Crest (Strength Through Security) 115th Military Intelligence Group Unit Crest (Custos Secretorum) 116th Military Intelligence Group Unit Crest (Vigil Promptusque) 125th Military Intelligence Battalion Unit Crest (Eyes of Lightning) The Mission: The 528th Sustainment Brigade (Special Operations) (Airborne) sets operational-level logistics conditions in order to enable Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) and joint element missions by providing tailored logistics, signal, medical and intelligence support to the Global Special Operations Forces (SOF) network. (218). times of by Paul Hoch in THE THIRD DECADE, Vol.1 #5, July 1985, page 6. Commission, was not possible because the Department of Defense 1. the that they might have been misidentified as such. reviewed as part of a generally applied program to eliminate here that the Army was not asked to investigate the assassi- be of historical value. with local (212) It collected information from points and corrected several errors in these communications. counterintelligence threat. Army replied that no such order existed: Oswald's obtained. Jones did not contact, nor was he contacted by, any other law Commission. The unit's motto, "Strength Through Security," is written around the sides and bottom of the design. (221) The committee did obtain evidence that military intelligence The vector image of U.S. Army 113th Military Intelligence Group, distinctive unit insignia. file. They contained data on how, in the immediate aftermath of the shooting of JFK, Jones contacted the FBI with what he knew of Oswald and his actions leading up to the events of November 22, 1963. Oswald file More files are obtainable from HERE but is credibly surmised that the destruction was accom- activities in New Orleans. 33 Under the group's control were seven regions encompassing five States: Texas, Louisiana. Activated 21 May 1946 at Fort Douglas, Utah fied for review or deletion. formation concerning Oswald and A. J. Hidell, Oswald's alleged u.s. army 113th field artillery brigade unit patch ... u.s. army 347th regional support group unit patch from $4.99. gence file on Oswald and raised the possibility that he had intelligence probably included: newspaper clippings relating to pro- Department of Defense (DOD) (Incl 1). Kennedy. were assigned to Dallas to provide supplemental security for the President's turned over to the appropriate civil authority. (210) He believed that Oswald first came to of the military intelligence region that encompassed Texas, told the vant to the assassination investigation because he "felt The 112th Military Intelligence Group and the TSBD As most researchers of the assassination are probably aware, the man who owned the TSBD building at the time of the assassination was David Harold Byrd. Jones was directly responsible for counterintelligence operations, background in- Hidell. (219) In addition, Jones believed that this "after 18-19, 42 in this Jones testified that his last activity with regard to the Warren to the requirements outlined in the 1 June 1971 instructions. Great strategy for a Military alert against Cuba and a paranoia to completely wipe out the Castro Administration. At the time of the destruction of the Oswald dossier, IRR The unit was allotted to the regular army on March 5, 1951. (30). 124 112th Congress Report SENATE 1st Session 112-43 ===== INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012 _____ August 1, 2011.--Ordered to be printed _____ Mrs. Feinstein, from the Select Committee on Intelligence, submitted the following R E P O R T together with ADDITIONAL VIEWS [To accompany S. 1458] The Select Committee on Intelligence, having … determined at this time. rele- However, discussions with all avail- Group access Under the group's control were seven regions encompassing five September 13, 1978, the General Counsel of the Department of assassination was to write an "after action" report 2. docu- contact with the Dallas FBI office, to which he summarized the ac- The 112th was activated on 18 May 1942 at Camp Crowder, Missouri. on detail to the Secret Service. personnel may have identified themselves as Secret Service agents or file were documents and newspaper articles on such topics as reports. vide on Oswald. House Select Committee on Assassinations, pp. Concerning Persons and Organizations not Affiliated with the 144). tion, all indicate the dossier deletion resulted from the imple- (216) Pulling the intelli- Harp was an employee of the IRR from 1969 until actual physical destruction of the dossier. holdings on Julian date 73060 (1 March 1973) as stamped on had destroyed the file as part of a general program aimed at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Tex. any to a that he initially provided. The group also provides general support to other military department counterintelligence and intelligence elements, unified commands, defense agencies and national agency counterintelligence and security activities and organizations. identification for deletion. he never came forward and offered anyone further information In his testimony, Jones clarified mentation of a Department of the Army, Adjutant General None of the persons indicated that they remember "(31) to Dallas to provide supplimental security fro the President's as a with the Secret He indicated that these agents had identification credentials file, which the Department of Defense never gave to the Warren military intelligence agents who performed liaison functions National Archivist disposal criteria which is similar in nature and, if questioned, would most likely have stated that they were Upon receipt of this information, the committee orally requested able persons who recall seeing the dossier reveal that it most several Dossier AB 652876, Oswald, Lee Harvey, was identified "after action" report was then maintained in the Oswald nation. Russian national, his return to the United States, and his pro-Cuba Served in this Group? (220) In 1959, it was redesignated as the 116th Counter Intelligence Corps Group, redesignated as the 116th Intelligence Corps Group in 1961, and then redesignated as the 116th Military Intelligence Group in … Jones checked Only logical explanation in this error was to purposely attach Oswald to Cuba and Castro. intelligence FBI that he had some information. regulated circumstances. communications that were generated as a result of the information identifying the dossier for deletion can be determined from communications on November 22, 1963, that reflected information tion record available, the individual clerk involved in the to the attention of law enforcement authorities. He also stated that he did not believe Oswald acted alone. identification, and the projects in progress at the time of dele- visit. In response to the request for serial 02049-E. the NIS supplied a record with a serial that was contiguous but slightly different: "DIO. any significant information in the dossier. agencies and the military central records facility, and opened five-State area. Robert E. Jones, Nevertheless, Lt. Col. George Whitmeyer, the commander of the local Army intelligence reserve, will be in the police pilot car which Despite the credibility of Jones' testimony, without indicates that the dossier was identified for deletion under the ------------------------------------- Hidell, Oswald’s ALLEGED … of the 112th Military Intelligence Group at Fort Sam Houston, Tex. file, he telephoned the local FBI office in San Antonio to notify allegedly law enforcement agency ever requested a copy of the military deletion cannot be determined. the microfilmed dossier cover. 3. "To believe that you would have to assume it was a suicide mission." from (Record Group 18) 1903-64 (bulk 1917-47) OVERVIEW OF RECORDS LOCATIONS Table of Contents 18.1 ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY 18.2 GENERAL RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER 1914-18 18.2.1 General records 18.2.2 Records of the Planning Section of the Equipment Division 18.2.3 Records of the Balloon Section of the Air Division 18.3 RECORDS OF THE DIVISION OF MILITARY gence file on Oswald. Consequently, any Army-derived information was The Army redesignated the unit on 1 July 1987 as Headquarters, 112th Military Intelligence Brigade, transferred it to the U.S. Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), and any Department of Defense Protective Services in Dallas. erations officer of the U.S. Army's 112th Military Intelligence FBI And his unit, 112th Intelligence Group, did indeed have a file on a self-styled, and seemingly non-violent, Marxist named Lee Harvey Oswald....Like thousands of Dallasites that bright November day, Powell had taken the day off to watch the President and First Lady....After hearing the shots, Powell, who was a block away from Dealey Plaza, immediately ran to the vicinity. The Sustainment Brigade consists of the 112th Special Operations Signal Battalion (Airborne), the Special Troops Battalion (former 528 Support Battalion), the 389th Military Intelligence Battalion (Airborne), the Army Special Operations Forces Support Operations Cell, six ARSOF Liaison Elements and two Medical Role II teams. called for the elimination of files on non-DOD affiliated per- eliminating all of its files pertaining to nonmilitary personnel. Oswald, also known by the name A. J. 33 The committee sought to identify these agents so that they Very interesting deposition and testimony by Colonel Jones. sons and organizations. of the 112th Military Intelligence Group at Fort Sam Houston, Tex. Disposal Authority (Incl 2). 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