The whole book distributing business at the TSBD was just a front, as the TSBD was a CIA front company. If you haven't read The Spider's Web: the TSBD and the Dallas Plot by William Weston, you should.
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Let's look specifically at how they operated. Remember that they did not sell books to consumers. It was a wholesale operation, selling books to schools for classes. But, there is no evidence whatsoever they were wholesaling books. You know what wholesale means, which is buying in bulk or in volume.
What we know is that fulfillment at the TSBD involved "order-fillers" (including Oswald) going through the stacks of boxes of books to fulfill orders. There is no evidence that boxes were being sold.
Order-fillers were given invoices which had the titles they were to gather. And they were given a clipboard, although I don't know why they needed one. They were not given carts or wagons. And we don't see any carts or wagons. We see boxes of books with mostly illegible writing. Occasionally, you can make out a few words, such as Mathematics. Boxes of books are heavy, and it's hard to imagine skinny guy slike Oswald and Bonnie Ray Williams just carrying them by hand. Don't you think that if they were doing that, that it would have been established? We have been led to believe that what they were handling were units of books, and a number that could easily handled by hand. And they took the books down to the guy who did the shipping on the 1st floor: Troy West.
Now, there were quite a few order-fillers. Oswald, Frazier, Jaman, Norman, Williams- they were all order-fillers, and there were more. The only one we have ever heard about who did the shipping is Troy. But, he didn't call himself the shipper. He called himself the mailer. And the way he mailed things was to wrap them in brown paper using a Pitney Bowes wrapping machine.
But,, you wouldn't wrap a big box of books in brown paper. And those boxes presumably were shipped to the TSBD without being wrapped in brown paper. So, why would they have to be shipped out in brown paper?
But, what Troy West revealed to his questioner David Belin (who is the guy who, when asked, said that what Oswald was doing at 10th and Patton was going to Mexico. Ole'!) was that he didn't even work in the building. Troy West, the face of shipping at the TSBD, said that he didn't even work in the building.
Don't take my word for it. Read it yourself. So, Belin was trying to determine where exactly in the building Troy worked.
Mr. BELIN - Well I have a first floor map here of the Texas School Book Depository. Here is Elm Street and here is the front entrance. Here is Mr. Truly's office, and Here is Mr. Shelley's office. There is the stairway down to the basement, and there are the elevators and the back stairway. There are the toilets there. About where would you wrap mail there?
Mr. WEST - Well, my place was in the west side of the other building.
Now, you would think that when Belin heard that, that he would have stopped and said, "You mean, you didn't even work in this building?" But, Belin didn't do that. He just ignored and kept going.
Mr. BELIN - Was it near the stairway?
Mr. WEST - No; it wasn't close to the stairway.
Mr. BELIN - Was it closer to the Elm Street side of the building?
Mr. WEST - No, sir.
Mr. BELIN - What was it close to? The west side is the side near the railroad tracks and the triple underpass. Is that what you think is the west side?
You see what I mean? So, Troy West didn't work in that building. Thern, who did the shipping in that building? We don't know. And again, no one would wrap a big box of books in brown paper. There would be no need to because the heavy cardboard box was sufficient to endure the rigors of shipping. Putting brown paper over it wasn't going to be helpful, and it wasn't necessary.
We know that the "order-fillers" worked all morning. So, if they were bringing stock down to be shipped, why was there no stack of parcels ready to go out the door?
And who would run a business that way, with boxes of books stacked as high as 9 high? I wonder how that was accomplished because we don't see any fork-lifts, and there no ladders. What if you needed books that were in that 9th box on top? How would you get to it? And look at that mess on the 6th floor. Look at all the open boxes. Were they really supplying schools? And considering it was a very old warehouse, what about vermin and cockroaches? Wouldn't they keep the boxes sealed up? How come we never saw any stock that was readu to go out the door? Who was their shipper? We don't know. All we know about is Troy West, who called himself the mailer. You can't tell me they used the Post Office to ship boxes of books to schools. And Troy West didn't even work in that building. What he did, in whatever building he worked, was wrap small parcels in brown paper, so that they could be mailed. You don't ship books to schools that way.
The TSBD had 33 employees, not counting the higher-ups. Do you think one guy, Troy West, could wraps and mail enough parcels every day that the profit generated could pay the salares of all those people, plus that of the executives, plus all the other expeneses. How much did it cost to heat that building in the winter and cool it in the summer?






