The Rand spray gun demonstrated at the American Exhibition:Â Johanna Smith, rough notes, staff summary of Webster, 3/16/79, p. 2; HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (staff notes) / NARA Record Number: 180-10142-10469.
CI head Ray Rocca testified that Webster was regarded as a loss:Â HSCA Interview of Raymond G. Rocca, 17 July 1978, p. 216.
Rand felt that the Soviets were using Vera to entice Webster to stay, "in order to gain his knowledge of (the) plastics and synthetics industry":Â FBI memo from F. A. Frohbose to Alan Belmont, 10/15/59, NARA Record Number: 124-10210-10359.
We also know that the Soviets have requested information concerning fiberglass and plastics through our double agents:Â SSA William Branigan, chief of Espionage section to Assistant Director Alan Belmont, 10/19//59, FBI - HSCA Subject Files, W - X / FBI - HSCA Subject File: Robert Edward Webster / NARA Record Number: 124-10210-10362.
After visiting his mother for three days, he abruptly left her and arrived in New Orleans by the 16th:Â Warren Commission Hearings, Volume 1, testimony of Marguerite Oswald, p. 201 .
Webster got a 20 day visa for travel around the USSR:Â Memo from "LAB" at New York FBI office to Director, FBI, 9/15/59, FBI - HSCA Subject Files, W - X / FBI - HSCA Subject File: Robert Edward Webster / NARA Record Number: 124-10210-10354.
Air Force intelligence described it as a 20 day "Intourist" tour of Kiev, a tourism agency firmly in the hands of the KGB. Â Rand sent word for Webster to come home : Â Memo from SA P. H. Fields to F. A. Frohbose, 9/21/59, FBI - HSCA Subject Files, W - X / FBI - HSCA Subject File: Robert Edward Webster / NARA Record Number: 124-10210-10354.
Oswald had obtained a ticket to go to Le Havre, France by freighter for the next day. Memoranda of SA J. Dawson Van Epps, 12/3/63 and 12/4/63, Warren Commission Exhibit 2673; also see
Oswald's immigration questionnaire says that he was a shipping export agent: Â Â Immigration questionnaire, 9/16/59, Warren Commission Hearings, Volume 23,
p. 747, Exhibit 1948.
Freeport Sulfur was one of the major corporations with Cuban interests that was ready to go to war with Castro: Â Official History of the Bay of Pigs, Volume III, p. 182; Miscellaneous CIA Series / NARA Record Number: 104-10301-10004.
Galveston is known for some of the largest sulfur terminals in the world:Â Chicago Talks, "Plan Commission Paves Way for Chicago's First Sulfur Factory", 11/5/10.
Oswald's freighter was packed with sulfur in all hatches: Memo by SA J. Dawson Van Eps, 12/3/63; Commission Document 6 - FBI De Brueys Report of 8 Dec 1963 re: Oswald, p. 311. Â
On September 18, at Rand's request, Frederick Merrill of the East West Contacts, State Department sought information on Webster:Â Memorandum for the Record by SR/COP/FI about Robert Edward Webster, Project (Redacted), 10/8/59; HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 17: Ruiz - Webster) / NARA Record Number: 104-10181-10128.
Merrill had approved the work of Ruth Paine and her Quaker group to organize East-West exchanges in 1957-1958: "CIEE History, Part I: 1947-1960", p. 12.  Also see George Michael Evica, A Certain Arrogance, p. 245.Â
This was the same week that the Paine family moved to the suburban Dallas town of Irving and transferred their bank accounts, while Legend Maker #12 Michael Paine settled into his new job at the Bell Aircraft Company, soon to be better known as Bell Helicopter: Â Move to Irving:Â Testimony of Ruth Hyde Paine, 3/18/64, Warren Commission Hearings, Volume 2, page 432, 434; Bell Helicopter:Â Commission Document 261 - FBI Lewis Report of 26 Dec 1963 re: Michael Paine , Interview of Mrs. Arthur Young by SA John Wineberg and SA Mason Smith, 12/24/63, p. 3.
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