Target JFK by Robert K. Wilcox

Author:Robert K. Wilcox
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781621575535
Publisher: Brisance Books Group LLC
Published: 2016-10-04T16:00:00+00:00

23

Accusations

Dussaq couldn’t wait to get out of Germany.

“Whoopee!!!” he wrote Charlotte on October 26, 1953. “Am reporting to the port of embarkation, Bremerhaven . . . The ship will leave on the 24th or 25th (of November). And if all goes well, which is unlikely on an army transport, we should get in New York some nine (9) days later. You see, my beloved, it is not exactly the New Amsterdam [a luxury liner]! But even if I had to row for it I would not mind!”

On the surface, the Army showed little concern about his security clearance problem. He was given an honorable discharge and retained his rank of captain in the reserves. When I filed Freedom of Information Act requests to the Army for pertinent records about the problem, I was told none existed. There might have been some years earlier, but records dating prior to 1959 were destroyed in compliance with federal law allowing for agency house cleaning.1

They had destroyed them—or so they said.

So much for that route.

Authorized or not, evidence indicates he’d kept, upon exit, his .32 Colt automatic pistol issue. Friends visiting his house in later years have reported seeing it and other Army issue weapons. I have correspondence by Dusssaq indicating the same. His discharge papers show he was given $647.57 in back pay.2 Before sailing, he made a final visit to Geneva, which was probably when and where he sold his Buick, arranging to have the money sent back to his account in Los Angeles.

In New York, he had the opportunity to interview for an agent’s job with New York Life, a company he apparently had worked for earlier. It is one of the nation’s oldest and largest insurance companies. His father-in-law, Harry S. Clary, who worked for New York Life in Los Angeles, arranged the interview, indicating in a letter to René about the interview that he might be aware of René’s security problem. “I feel sure you are making the best of your situation and hope that these letters from home will cheer and encourage you to bear with good will the problems you face until such time as you . . . return to your family”3

But it doesn’t appear René kept the New York Life appointment. That’s the impression given in a letter to Charlotte.4 He had written his old boss, Jack White, at Prudential in Los Angeles, about his pending NY Life interview. White had promptly cabled back that Prudential would match or better any offer. That, it turned out, seems to have been what René wanted to hear. There was no further mention by him about Cuba or his ice cream venture there except to tell Charlotte that a friend was contemplating going to the island for Christmas.5

Cuba would remain a mystery in his agenda.

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