WILLIAM GAUDET (cia agent)

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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, who 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.
Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby two
days later.

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.

DESPITE 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 Cent ral Am erica.”

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 CIA 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,...

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interesting facts:

william gaudet was CIA
william gaudet had an office in the trade mart in new orleans
clay shaw (the only man charged in the assassination of jfk ) was director of the trade mart in new orleans.
william gaudet admitted that he knew oswald in new orleans by sight and by name .

its highly unlikely that gaudet had an office in the trade mart in new orleans and that that he and his office were unknown to shaw , especially considering we know that shaw had his own cia connections .

as we all know ATLEAST OFFICIALLY oswald went to the mexican consulate in new orleans to get a tourist card etc . the number of the  tourist card issued to oswald was # 24085 . have a guess who was issued the tourist card just before oswalds ? WILLIAM GAUDET , guadets tourist card number was # 24084 .


"Weberman's "Nodule 13" :

On Tuesday, September 17, 1963, William G. Gaudet applied for tourist card so that he could enter Mexico just before OSWALD did. [Washington Star 1.11.76] When the FBI interviewed Gaudet about his Mexican Tourist Card in 1964, he told the Bureau that in the early afternoon of Tuesday, September 17, 1963, he picked up a travel permit from the Mexican Consulate. According to Gaudet, obtaining a Tourist Card just before OSWALD did was coincidental, and he did not see OSWALD at the Mexican Consulate in New Orleans that day: "There were six or seven persons waiting to pick up permits and to the best of his recollection, LEE HARVEY OSWALD was not one of them.""

the above doesnt have to mean that gaudet didnt see oswald because he wasnt there , assuming oswald really was there oswald could have been there later at a time when guadet wasnt there . but we know that he knew oswald by sight and name so if he had been there gaudet would have to recognize him .


guadet knew guy bannister

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I knew Banister but I didn't know him well...now Ronnie Caire knew Banister much better than I did. Banister knew OSWALD. Ferrie was a friend of a lot of queers...I think he did know OSWALD...but I don't think either one of them is capable of planning a conspiracy like this...I was closely related with Ed Butler because one of the prime
sponsors of the Information Council of the Americas in New Orleans was a very close personal friend of mine and an investor in my company, Alton Ochsner. The Information Council had a big, big banquet down here, a money raising thing, at which time they prevailed upon Nelson Rockefeller to come down and be one of the speakers, and that's the last time I personally saw Nelson Rockefeller...I feel certain the Rockefeller Commission will not call me as a witness. [Interview with Alan Stone WRR Dallas 5.7.75; ARA file interview with Gaudet]

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as we can see above gaudet is also connected to one alton oschner . anyone familliar with dr marys monkey will know about oschner / ferrie etc .


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I knew OSWALD because he was in at the International Trade Mart for quite a few days. That's where I had my office, which was on Camp and Common in New Orleans. And he was there distributing pamphlets for the
Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Who the Fair Play for Cuba Committee was, I don't know. I do know I saw him [OSWALD] one time with a former...I think he was an FBI agent and a man by the name of Guy Banister, and Guy of course is now dead. What Guy's role was in all this I...I really don't know, but I did see him discussing various
things with Banister at the time and I think Banister knew a whole lot of what was going on...I never met OSWALD and I never talked to him personally.

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above is gaudet stating that he saw oswald and bannister together , that can only mean they did indeed know each other from that building on camp street which they both occupied .

the FBI knew about mr gaudet and naturally then they knew about him being a CIA agent

"the FBI's March 16, 1964, report to the Warren Commission (CE 2193), which appears to be an accurate English translation of a Mexican government Spanish-language document originally written on November 30, 1963 (but which the FBI claimed that it didn't receive until March 9, 1964), makes absolutely no mention of FM - 8 No. 24084 (the tourist card issued right before Oswald's at the New Orleans Mexican Consulate on September 17, 1963) although it does give the names and numbers and details of four other tourist cards which were also very sequentially-close to Oswald's.. See page -4- and -5- of the document."

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh25/pdf/WH25_CE_2193.pdf


But here's page 4 of an internal FBI document dated November 30, 1963, which shows that the FBI knew by November 30, 1963, that FM - 8 No. 24084 had been issued to William George Gaudet.

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=57684&relPageId=153&search=24084_gaudet


the FBI and j edgar hoover clearly didnt want mr gaudets appearance at the consulate to pick up his tourist card  (be it innocent or otherwise)to be known , the only reason i can see for that is that they knew that he was CIA . this only goes to show that even so early on that the FBI was concealing important information about this case .

the FBI told the HSCA in the late 70s that they "couldn't locate" the record of FM - 8 No. 24084, one then wonders how the FBI decided to interview Gaudet on November 27, 1963 in the first place if hey couldnt locate the record in the first place . but clearly they had located it and lied .