We ran across Mr. Morgan when looking for information about Charles W. Lyons in the maryferrell.org JFK Assassination Archives
Edward Pierpont Morgan was an FBI agent from 1940 to 1947. He left in the FBI in 1947 and went into private practice in the law firm of Welch, Mott & Morgan in Washington D.C."Edward" is not an unusual name, and neither is "Morgan." "Pierpont" is not a name most people run into often, and when paired with "Morgan", one thinks of J.P. Morgan, the famed financier.
In fact, Edward Pierpont Morgan's father is named John Pierpont Morgan, just like the famous one, but he is not the famous one, or his almost as famous son, JP Morgan Jr.
The famous J.P. Morgan's gets the "Pierpont" name from his mother Juliet Pierpont (1816 to 1884.)
The name Pierpont of the less famous J.P. Morgan does not look like a family name. J.P. Morgan, the father of Edward Pierpont Morgan, was born in 1892 and we could not find any preceding "Pierponts" in his family tree.
Charles W. Lyons
Charles W. Lyons has been mentioned on the George Webb and "McDuff" Youtube channels. Charles W. Lyons was an FBI agent in the Washington field office.Charles W. Lyons has merited attention by George Webb and "McDuff" under the broad and abbreviated thesis that:
- Operation Paperclip, the OSS/CIA plan to bring German and Nazi rocket scientists to the USA after World War II, was considerably larger than the 1,600 scientist estimate conventionally used.
- All types of scientists were brought over (not just rocket and aerospace experts) such as psychologists, psychiatrists, pharmaceutical chemists, and others.
- Non-scientists, including former members of the SS, snipers, and assassins were included.
- Many were "rinsed" through the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite states, and/or Soviet client states like the Ukraine and Belarus (White Russia.)
- A German, who can speak Russian, is a lot easier to get past State Department and FBI visa checks if he looks more like a defector and less like a former Nazi.
- MacDuff's father was charged with investigating the influx of rinsed Nazi's via CIA channels.
What were Mr. Lyons and Mr. Morgan Talking About?
On August 8, 1950, another agent in the Washington Field Office, William Leece was assigned a case that was related to some accusations made by Senator Joe McCarthy. The linked memo says that Lyons was attached to the case on October 2, 1950, but then adds that both Lyons and Leece had been jointly assigned to this investigation on August 8, 1950.The memo, dated November 19, 1952, seems to try to clear up some confusion as to whether Lyons was assigned to the case when an interview of Morgan was conducted sometime between August and October of 1950. The relevance of the date of Lyons' assignment stems from the interview that Lyons conducted (as well as Agent Robinette) with Morgan, "but since the interview was negative, it was not reported."
In short, Lyons was supposed to have told his superiors at the FBI Field Office that he spoke with Morgan, and should have reported what was said. The failure of Lyons to report his interview with Morgan prompted a letter recommending "censure for Special Agent Lyons..."
John Pierpont Morgan thought very highly of himself
Morgan had been out of the FBI for three years when he was interviewed by Agent Lyons. He had joined the law firm of Welch, Mott & Morgan and became National Director of the Office of Price Stability (OPS) in 1951. It was at his desk at the OPS when Morgan started to become a real pain-in-the-neck for the FBI, apparently "mouthing-off" that he would eventually be Hoover's replacement, but more annoyingly, poaching promising FBI agents and FBI Academy students for the OPS.As the January 13, 1951 memo below indicates, it looks the CIA had, or was in the process of, recruiting Mr. Morgan. We will surmise that Morgan was really recruiting for the CIA and the OPS was more likely a cover.
We'll also speculate that Morgan was recruiting Charles W. Lyons (or already had) for CIA work.
We'll also speculate that Morgan was recruiting Charles W. Lyons (or already had) for CIA work.
Charles W. Lyons next shows up in Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's Office
Joan Mellen provides the necessary background about the persecution of Otto Otepka here.Otepka was the "Deputy Director of the State Department Office of Security. This meant that Otepka was in charge of granting security clearances for all State Department personnel."
He supposedly ran afoul of RFK for denying a security clearance to a political appointee. The standard story is that RFK decided to make life miserable for Otepka, and that included filling Otepka's office with his own loyalists, including Charles W. Lyons.
... Now four more Kennedy people arrived at the Office of Security to keep watch over Otepka. They included Joseph E. Rosetti, who had served in John F. Kennedy’s congressional office; Massachusetts Kennedy intimate, Robert J. McCarthy; and Charles W. Lyons, also from Massachusetts. These three were joined by David I. Belisle, a National Security Agency operative and friend of Walter Sheridan’s from his days at NSA. Belisle was to serve as Otepka’s immediate superior.
The alternative Joan Mellen theory
As Joan Mellen notes, the harassment of Otepka for slow footing security clearances for JFK political appointees seems excessive.As Joan Mellen also notes, Otepka, in his position at the State Department, started asking a lot of question about a guy named Lee Harvey Oswald, whose file, per standard processes, fell on his desk. Otepka's interest and questions about Lee Harvey Oswald is what prompted the harassment.
Joan Mellen argues that Oswald, as a CIA asset, was on RFK's radar from early on in the JFK administration, because Oswald was part of an RFK/JFK plan to eventually take out Castro. This argument is further strengthened by RFK's post JFK assassination actions to supposedly way-lay the Jim Garrison investigation, and otherwise try to limit his pre-JFK assassination tracking of Oswald's whereabouts.
The alternative, alternative, George Webb and "McDuff" theory
If you are a regular follower of George Webb and John O'Loughlin (aka, McDuff: Kennedy's Man to Smash the CIA) then you know McDuff's father worked at the FBI during the JFK administration. As the story goes (and we'll make corrections or amend if we get the story wrong), FBI Agent McDuff was put in charge of examining the files of thousands of European emigres to the USA after World War 2 and figure out which ones were actually Nazis or some type of war criminal.The task would be laborious. While the roughly 1,600 "Paper-Clipped" Nazi's had an official excuse to have received a US visa after the war (they were a scientist, or had intelligence to share, etc. [ie. somebody signed off on their entry]), the emigre files on McDuff's desk may have only been suspected, or had been "rinsed." The rinsed group would imply that they would not have been allowed to come to the USA because of their Nazi past. These would include standard Nazi scientists (perhaps not rocket scientists like the Paper Clipped group, but other scientists that might be useful, such as psychiatrists and bio-chemists; the kind that would be useful for a well financed CIA mind control program.) In addition to scientists, their might be an assortment of die-hard militant type Nazis, SS members, and overall, the types of Nazi's that one would need for third world junta support, assassinations,Gladio operations, and assorted country destabilization efforts.
Under that premise, the Nazi's with marks "on their permanent record" and who the CIA wanted for their dirty work, would have needed to have been cleaned and rinsed, in order for them to get past bureaucrats like Otto Otepka.
The working theory is that the Nazi's were rinsed through Eastern Europe and Russia (Belorus and Ukraine) as well as South America and Cuba. For example, a Nazi scientist might be forced to stick it out in the Ukraine for ten years, learn the language and practice their trade. After a while, the Nazi scientist is no longer a Nazi, but a Ukrainian scientist who hates communism and wants to defect to the West.They can then sail through Otepka's visa checks, or people in different agencies with similar mandates.
White Russians in Louisiana
Whether or not Otepka caught on to the process of rinsing Nazi's into White Russians remains to be seen. It seems likely though, that the CIA did not need Otepka messing up their Nazi rat line. In hindsight, that RFK put Walter Sheridan in charge of watching Otepka, makes it look like a CIA operation, since only years later would JFK researchers surmise that Sheridan was a CIA cut out all along.That also seems to be the case with Charles W. Lyons, as explained above.
Also years later, it would be Walter Sheridan that pushed the narrative that RFK and JFK were planning to kill Castro, with Oswald in on the effort, and that the "Blow Back" from that plan is what eventually caused Oswald and/or his band of Castro assassins to turn their guns on JFK instead. There are therefore a few possibilities as to why RFK had an interest in Lee Harvey Oswald, and the White Russian community in and around Lafayette, Louisiana a year or two before November 1963;
- RFK was keeping tabs on LHO Castro assassin team assembly progress.
- RFK was aware some of the White Russians were likely Nazi's and LHO, having recently returned from White Russia (Minsk) was involved in the rinse and repatriation.
- Lyons and Sheridan and the CIA in general were spinning stories and pointing fingers at Otepka in attempt to keep RFK out of the loop. In other words, perhaps LHO was in Louisiana to help manage the White Russian Nazi rat line, but Sheridan and his CIA superiors were telling RFK that LHO was rounding up Cubans willing to take a shot at Castro under a covert program started under Eisenhower and Nixon.
Webb and McDuff also suggested the 1953 election of Batista to his second term, and under the pressure of Castro's revolution, caused Batista to cozy up to the American organized crime cabal, which effectively ended Hoover's FBI presence their. The CIA filled the void at this time and started using Cuba as washing and rinsing station for Nazi's looking for entry into the USA.
Everyone Always Blame RFK
Blaming RFK for his brothers death was a good way for the CIA to deflect the blame from its own likely involvement. Robert Maheu, the "consultant" to Howard Hughes is often given credit for taking the first steps to take out Castro. We won't revisit the intrigue and embellishments of Robert Maheu, nonetheless, one could make the argument that Maheu approached the Mafia, on behalf of the CIA, to assassinate Castro, on the orders of RFK and JFK.Under the assumption that the Kennedy Brother's orders to kill Castro never existed or were abandoned well before November 1963, then those that continued to push that narrative, were or are likely to still be trying to absolve of any CIA involvement in the death of JFK.
The Robert Maheu narrative naturally comes under suspicion. We think the narrative becomes even more suspicious by noting that Robert Maheu, retained Edward Pierpont Morgan, as his lawyer on matters related to Maheu's business with Howard Hughes.
As referenced above, Edward Pierpont Morgan was in all likelihood a CIA cutout since the early 50's, and also likely recruited FBI agents into the company, such as Charles W. Lyons. As shown in the screen shot below, Morgan was actively pushing the story that Castro hired Oswald to kill JFK, which is a variation of a CIA deflection story, and may have had some credence without the hindsight that Edward Pierpont Morgan was a "Company" man all along.
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