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Pseudonym: Easby, Robert L.

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Definition:
Alan P. White, the deputy chief at the Mexico City station during 1963-64.
Category:
pseudonym
Status:
Documented
Discussion:
Alan White told Gus Russo (Brothers in Arms, p. 312) that the Oswald tapes from Mexico City were in existence after 11/22/63, but denied it under oath at deposition. 5/8/78, p. 20. (at National Archives) At John Whitten's deposition, he was asked about the existence of these tapes after 11/22/63. His response was "I think so...tapes were probably still in existence." (https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=251#relPageId=80&tab=page - and the following page)
Sources:

104-10061-10115: LIST OF NAMES RE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION INVESTIGATION

At page 43 of the original version of this document, it appears that the original requests were numbered on this original sheet, and then transferred onto three by five cards. Item #71 reads "Robert L. Easby". This page is not found in later versions of this document!

104-10079-10014 NOTEBOOK, SMALL, BLACK WITH LIST

Notebook used by the CIA to provide the HSCA with responses to requests to solve pseudonyms and cryptonyms - item #71 reads "Alan P. White".

104-10067-10333: CABLE RE PHOTOS OF PERSON SUSPECTED TO BE OSWALD ON FLIGHT FOR DALLAS

11/23/63 cable MEXI-7021 from Easby/White to Director: "(FBI) agent left here 2000 local with two copies each of six photos person suspected (to) be Oswald (note: The "Mystery Man") on special flight to Dallas. He carrying envelope with one copy each photo for airmail special from Dallas for Galbond/JC King at home as per telecon with Curtis. 1 copy each (of) these photos showing same person exiting (Cuban) Embassy forwarded in HMMA 22533 (see 104-10422-10254, pp. 2-3) leaving regular pouch tonight.

Oswald, the CIA, and Mexico City (aka "Lopez Report") Current Section: 5. Responsibility for the Operation

"Alan White, who was Deputy Chief of Station in Mexico City in 1963, testified that Ann Goodpasture was a 'Special Assistant' to the Chief of Station and that 'her main responsibilities were to handle the surveillance operations..."

Oswald, the CIA, and Mexico City (aka "Lopez Report") Current Section: B. Narrative of Mexico City Station Actions Prior to the Assassination

"The description of Oswald is marked on (DIR 74830, see 104-10125-10249, p. 2) with a double black line, a check mark, and the description '24 years old' in Ann Goodpasture's hand-writing. At this point, at least Ms. Goodpasture and Allen White, the DCOS, realized that the photograph they had described in MEXI 6453 (see 104-10428-10260, p. 2) was not of Oswald. But this realization was evidently not shared by all the officers in the station...Ms. Goodpasture remembers she believed, based on the cable, that the photograph reported in MEXI-6453 was not Oswald.

Simpich, State Secret, Chapter 6: https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/State_Secret_Chapter6.html#ftn45

Endnote 45: Warren Commission staffers David Slawson and William Coleman admitted in a 2003 interview that White was the one who actually played the Oswald tape for them in Mexico City during April 1964: This admission was made in interviews conducted by the authors Gus Russo and Stephen Moulton, recounted in Brothers in Arms (New York, Bloomsbury, 2008), p. 312. Endnote 47: Under penalty of perjury, Alan White and several other CIA officers denied that an Oswald tape existed after 11/22/63, but John Whitten's testimony was that "I think so...tapes were probably still in existence". See 124-10230-10434: FBI agent Bert Turner also asked the Mexico City office to send to him "tapes previously reviewed in Dallas".

Contributors:
Bill Simpich • Carmine Savastano

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