Saturday, September 5, 2026

Thomas Eli Davis Jr. posed as Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico? Philip Shenon pro-LBJ propaganda?

 https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbakerJ.htm
He volunteered to courier the materials to Mexico City, where a medical student, doctor or intern was scheduled to take the materials to Cuba. Oswald made frantic efforts to get the materials, which had a short shelf-life, into Cuba himself when his contacts failed to appear. The project, in fact, had been called off because of Hurricane Flora, which devastated Cuba at this time. Oswald was ordered to Dallas: his "desire to go to Cuba" was never mentioned again by him.

 https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKdavis.htm

  However, as Jefferson Morley pointed out in Our Man in Mexico: "The unstated message emanating from the White House was by now clear to Win - though not to Mann. Speculation about Oswald's motives was to be cut off, not pursued.... Jefferson Morley argues that [CIA station chief] Phillips is being disingenuous: "Phillips knew all along about Alvarado's service as a CIA informant. Even the FBI knew all along he was under CIA control....Duran was interviewed by the Mexican authorities soon after the assassination she described the man who visited the Cuban consul's office as being "blond-haired" and with "blue or green eyes". [Thomas Eli Davis Jr.!} Neither detail fits in with the authentic Oswald. But these details had been removed from the statement by the time it reached the Warren Commission....Summers showed Duran a film of Oswald taken at the time of his arrest, Duran said: "The man on the film is not like the man I saw here in Mexico City."

When Thomas Eli Davis Jr. was arrested by Moroccan national security police (Interpol) in Tangier on December 8, 1963, authorities discovered a "rambling, somewhat cryptic, unsigned letter" written in Davis’s own handwriting. [1, 2]
The Moroccan police held Davis primarily because this handwritten letter referred "in passing" to Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which had occurred just a few weeks prior




 https://www.voltairenet.org/article167692.html H.P. Albarelli in his Coup in Dallas book definitely details that Thomas Eli Davis Jr. went to MExico City WITH Lee Harvey Oswald and that this was covered up by the CIA....

A claim published by Shenon that RFK Jr. in more recent years said his father suspected Castro is without any known corroboration and appears to be a factual error, with no known evidence yet set forth that either RFK Jr. or any other family member said that of RFK.

To the extent there is evidence that RFK had names in mind as suspects in his brother's death (other than Oswald), the testimony that does exist (of the later RFK's thinking) appears focused on the mob or Marcello angle, though there is no evidence that was stronger than suspicion. (If RFK did have or know of evidence stronger than suspicion, he never let on, but that can reasonably be understood as he didn't have such.)

I conclude that Shenon's representation of RFK as singly focused on a lifelong fear that Castro had killed JFK (or had encouraged or incited a Castro-loving Oswald to kill JFK or however it worked), as blowback for the plots against Castro, in the context of an article about the CIA becoming more open in revealing that its director in 1963 had engaged in lying in a benign coverup, is not supported by evidence.

https://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/search?q=shenon

 The Lone Nutters never mention that hard right anti-Castro Cuban Antonio Veciana is on the record that he saw Lee Harvey Oswald with his CIA handler David Atlee Phillips a few months before the JFK assassination in Dallas, TX.       Or that Oswald stamped his New Orleans political fliers with the address 544 Camp St. which just happens to have been Guy Banister’s office and an office that had previously been occupied by hard right Anti-Castro Cubans. Or that the CIA’s David Atlee Phillips was running a subversion campaign of the pro Castro Fair Play for Cuba organization.

After the JFK assassination and after he was murdered as part of the cover up, Lee Harvey Oswald’s legacy was tarred by the forced LYING of a terrified Marina Oswald who had a toddler June and a baby Rachel and who did not speak English very well. Marina Oswald hated her White Russian (anti-communist refuge) interpreter Ilya Mamontov because Mamontov was putting words into her mouth to posthumously slander and cast shade on the her deceased husband Lee Harvey Oswald.

The ”not-very-sophisticated” Lone Nutters believe Oswald’s public lies that he was a “pro Castro Marxist” (as opposed to an ONI, CIA, FBI governmental operative, which he was). Then the Lone Nutters compound their error by believing the coerced lies of a terrified Marina Oswald 1) that Oswald may have had something to do with the April, 1963 attempted shooting of hard right activist (and also closeted homosexual and JFK-hater) Gen. Edwin Walker 2) that “crazy” Oswald wanted to hijack a plane to Cuba (never happened!!), that Oswald was about to go shoot former Vice President Richard Nixon, but Marina says she locked Oswald in the bathroom to prevent that heinous crime. That was a big fat lie because bathrooms lock from the inside and no, Marina Oswald was not strong enough to keep Oswald barricaded in the bath room.

https://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2026/08/stanley-marcus-of-dallas-believed-that.html?sc=1788620198704#c6242294467119246861

 Shenon answered, "Apologies, but I wrote that book more than a decade ago and I don't remember that level of detail. The interview transcript must exist somewhere..."

Wow what a squirmy evasive response - like Reagan! "I don't recall" the book I promoted... 

  https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/30699-what-is-the-source-for-a-philip-shenon-claim-that-robert-kennedys-family-and-friends-said-rfk-never-stopped-fearing-that-castro-was-behind-his-brothers-death/

it's very likely shadowy individuals associated with the Cuban embassy in Mexico City quite possibly baited Oswald to strike against Kennedy, seeing him as an opportunistic useful idiot. And that U.S. security officials actively worked to keep Oswald's activities in Mexico a secret to history. In sad irony, the secret campaign to eliminate Castro, a campaign actively supported by the President's brother and Attorney General, may very well have sealed JFK's fate.  Shenon is convinced by documentary evidence that Oswald was engaged in a conspiracy and that the Warren Commission could have gone deeply into the plot if they had been allowed to. Finally the book illuminates that Oswald announced plans to kill Kennedy in Mexico City in September 1963. (source :J. Edgar Hoover)

A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination

unlisted on yt.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEu8SVUhqaY
Philip Shenon, a veteran investigative journalist and former New York Times correspondent, heavily featured Elena Garro in his 2013 book, A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination. [1, 2]
  • The Twist Party Allegation: Shenon details how Elena Garro (who was once married to Nobel laureate Octavio Paz) claimed to have seen Lee Harvey Oswald at a "twist party" in Mexico City in the fall of 1963. [1]
  • The Conspiracy Claim: According to Garro, the party was packed with pro-Castro sympathizers and Cuban diplomats who openly talked about their desire to see President John F. Kennedy assassinated.
On 8/7/2025 at 4:11 PM, James DiEugenio said:

David:

Is it not amazing that Angleton isolated both Elena Del Garro and Duran within 24 hours of Kennedy's killing?

https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/29966-lho-was-in-mexico-city/page/16/
The first is that Rocca had cabled Luis Echeverria on November 23rd concerning the relationship between Oswald and Sylvia Duran, the receptionist at the Cuban consulate. This is important because, as David Josephs has revealed, Secretary of Interior Echeverria would eventually take over the investigation of Oswald in Mexico City; leaving the FBI and Warren Commission out in the cold. What makes this important is that this was before Helms had assigned Angleton his liaison duties with the Commission. Secondly, the day after the assassination, a CIA agent escorted Elena Garro de Paz to the Vermont Hotel. In other words, within 24 hours, Angleton and Rocca are controlling Duran, a prime witness to Oswald not being in Mexico City, and Elena Garro, a witness who would eventually say that Oswald was having an affair with Duran.
Lafitte is noting that Tom Davis will be identified as “Oswald” for a project with McWillie.
Wow so Shenon is wrong!? wild.
AI says:
The claim that Thomas Eli Davis, Jr. (also referred to as Thomas Eli Davis III) impersonated Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City is a prominent theory within JFK assassination research, but it remains an unproven allegation rather than an established historical fact.
  • The Thomas Davis Connection: Thomas Eli Davis, Jr. was a soldier of fortune, gunrunner, and occasional intelligence-connected operative linked to figures like Jack Ruby. Because of his background and operational ties, some researchers and alternate investigators theorized he could have been the "dangle" or imposter utilized in intelligence operations meant to mimic or frame Oswald. [1, 2, 3, 4]
  • Official Findings: Official bodies, including the Warren Commission and subsequent review boards, concluded that the real Lee Harvey Oswald traveled to Mexico City, though they acknowledged anomalies, conflicting witness descriptions, and confused surveillance imagery regarding his exact movements and phone calls. Conclusive physical or archival proof identifying Thomas Davis as an active impersonator has never surfaced in official government releases
  • Thomas Eli Davis III* thomaselidavisiii –another strange character involved with “Oswald” who was arrested Dec. 8, 1963 in Tangiers Morocco. At the time of his arrest, Davis was carrying a letter in his own hand referring to Oswald and the JFK assassination. The addressee was lawyer Thomas G. Proctor, an original board member of the American-Canadian Uranium Co. Ltd.
     
      “At the time of the Kennedy assassination, Davis was in North Africa allegedly setting up a deal to supply arms to the OAS. Less than a month later he was jailed in Tangiers in connection with the assassination…  [He] not only was in New Orleans during the same time as Oswald in the summer of 1963, but once admitted to reporter George Carter that he used the name ‘Oswald’ while in North Africa.” [p207, Crossfire, by Jim Marrs]
       Davis’s wife traveled with him and told this to police: “She stated they left the United States on November 2, 1963, and arrived in Tangiers via London, Paris, and Madrid on November 28… Proctor reportedly [was the] legal agent [for] Morocco’s World’s Fair Exhibit New York.”
        From the small amount of information published about “soldier of fortune” Thomas E. Davis, it is known that he was born in McKinney,Texas (north of Dallas, hometown of the Clary/Bates family) and died from accidental electrocution in Jacksboro, 1973, supposedly in the act of stealing copper wire.
       Researchers have discovered that Davis was sprung from the Tangiers jail, possibly before or at the time of JFK’s assassination, by a mysterious intelligence agent known as QJ/WIN, whose identity is uncertain but said to have been an accomplished smuggler, spy and con man of French origin. QJ/WIN was enlisted by the CIA’s William Harvey to assemble an assassination team to kill Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, and continue in various undercover operations as a citizen of Luxembourg doing business in that city. Army cryptologist Eugene Dinkin is thought to have intercepted the Kennedy plot among the coded message traffic tied to this CIA-OAS group– Dinkin initiated his rogue campaign of warning in Luxembourg on October 25.  Both Albert Osborne-a.k.a. Bowen and the unfortunate Dinkin were flown out of Luxembourg on December 5, 1963, three days before the alleged arrest of Davis.
    *
    Jack Ruby and Thomas E. Davis:
    “On March 15, 1959 Ruby telephoned and met with CIA-connected gun-runner Thomas Eli Davis III in Beaumont, TX. A year earlier, in June, 1958, Davis received a sentence of five years of probation for robbing a bank. While on probation Davis worked for the Agency training anti-Castro units in Florida. Soon, Ruby and Davis were supplying arms and munitions to Anti-Castro Cubans, apparently without the fear of arrest.
    NOTE: When JFK was assassinated, Davis was in jail …[and]was released from jail through the intervention of the CIA’s foreign agent code-named “QJ/WIN,” who was identified by the top-secret CIA Inspector General’s Report as the “principle asset” in the Agency’s assassination program known as ZR/RIFLE.
        After Ruby’s arrest for killing Oswald, his defense attorney (Tom Howard) asked  Ruby if he could think of anything that might damage his defense. Ruby responded and said there would be a problem if a man by the name of “Davis” should come up. Davis was later identified as Thomas Eli Davis III…  Ruby told Howard that “he had  been involved with Davis, who  was.. entangled in anti-Castro efforts and that he (Ruby) had intended to begin a regular gun-running business with Davis”. Ruby warned Howard about this connection,  and feared that if it were to be revealed by either an investigative reporter or a witness it would blow open the CIA’s role in JFK’s assassination.”

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