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Record:
SCELSO, JOHN
Sources:

HSCA Mexico City Report (Lopez), pp. 109, 111, 114-115, 154; CIA Box 6, Folder 8 (MMF 442); CIA Doc JFK-104-10004-10195; CIA Doc JFK-104-10004-10199 (original draft of 12/13/63); CIA Doc JFK 104-10015-10048, p. 3 (originally released as CIA 7-2); CIA Doc JFK 104-10015-10091, cover sheet (originally released as CIA 56-20); CIA Doc JFK 104-10018-10064 (originally released as CIA 420-757); CIA Doc JFK 104-10018-10103 (originally released as CIA 377-731); CIA Doc JFK 104-10015-10046; CIA Doc JFK 104-10015-10059 (originally released as CIA 36-540); CIA JFK-104-10015-10007, Lifton's p. 10; CIA JFK-104-10015- 10028, Lifton's p. 37; CIA JFK-104-10015-10045, Lifton's p. 58; CIA JFK 104-10015-10064 (originally CIA 65-25), Lifton's p. 61; CIA 77-545 (re-released as CIA JFK 104-10015-10124, Lifton's pp. 76-78); CIA 220-644 (released as CIA 104-10015-10218, Lifton's pp. 101-103); CIA 221-645 (first released as JFK 104-10015-10228, Lifton's pp. 118-120); CIA 222-646 (released first time as JFK 104-10015-10224, Lifton's pp. 115-117); CIA 230-650 (re-released as CIA JFK 104-10015-10217, Lifton's pp. 98-100); CIA 236-653 (re-released as CIA 104-10015-10219, Lifton's pp. 104-106); CIA 237-652 (released first time as JFK 104-10015-10222, Lifton's pp. 112-114); CIA 255-667 (first released as JFK 104-10015-10254, Lifton's pp. 154-156); CIA 258-668, as released in 1995 (re-released as JFK 104-10015-10251, Lifton's pp. 144-146), (see MMF 2599); CIA 262-671 (first released as JFK 104-10015-10256, Lifton's pp. 157-159); CIA 264-100 (re-released as JFK 104-10015-10253, Lifton's pp. 150-153); CIA 1531-1103A (re-released as JFK 104-10015-10236, Lifton's pp. 138-140); JFK 104-10015-10309, Lifton's pp. 287-289

Mary's
Comments:

Chief of the Mexico Branch in 1963. "Report on Oswald from John Scelso, C/WH/3, to James Angleton, C/CI, 12/24/63." Oswald referred to as GPFLOOR case. Scelso wrote note to (?) Dottie (?), dated 7 July 1967. Compare with 5 July 1967 note from Lund and reference to 7 July 1967. Scelso is probably a cryptonym -- perhaps for Alan White. Scelso is an attorney (Scelso's May 16, 1978, testimony to HSCA, p. 1-3; was in CIA 23 years, testimony p. 1-4; at time of assassination, he was chief of a branch responsible for operations in Mexico and Central America, down to and including Panama, p. 1-4; Scelso thought branch was called WH-3, p. 1-5; was relieved of responsibility for assassination investigation in early 1964, p. 1-10) David Atlee Phillips married a relative of John Scelso. (Scelso's testimony to HSCA on May 16, 1978, p. 1-21.) Scelso was cryptonym of John M. Whitten.

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