Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

I hope you realize by now that there is no telex, that what people have been calling a telex is a fabrication of one William Walter, who was a night clerk at the FBI office in New Orleans. He is the only person on Earth who ever claimed to see that telex. 

But, he didn't have the telex, and he didn't have a copy of the telex, and he didn't write down what the telex said. He didn't even surface with this claim of a telex until 1968, which was 5 years after the assassination.

So, at some point, he just sat down and composed a mock-telex, trying to recall from memory the wordage- and that is what we have. 

Nobody ever came forward to confirm his story. And even though he was married at the time, his ex-wife denied that he ever said anything about it to her. 

And we know from logic and common sense that the telex- if it existed- could not have contained what he said it did. There is no reason to think that Oswald would have contacted the FBI about a "militant revolutionary group" plotting to kill Kennedy. If he knew anything at all, he knew something specific, and he would have said so. 

What would have been the point of saying that a "militant revolutionary group" was doing it? It wasn't a guessing game, was it? 

And then from Hoover's end, what would have been the point of responding by having agents start investigating all the hate and racial groups in the country? It was November 17. There was no time for that. It was just days away. The proper response would have been to cancel the President's trip and secondly to contact Oswald (or whomever sent it) for more information. 

Now keep in mind that Walter definitely said that the telex came from the FBI and not from the informant. That's the FBI in Washington. So, there is no basis whatsoever to say that Oswald sent it. 

So, how did the informant contact the FBI? We don't know, and Walter didn't know either. He only knew about the telex; not about the informant

So, you can think anything you want about the informant and how he contacted the FBI, but it's just your imagination at work. We simply don't know.  

Remember: if the informant knew anything, he knew something specific. If it was a militant revolutionary group, then what militant revolutionary group?  

So, the fabricated telex by William Walter makes no sense- neither from Hoover's point of view nor Oswald's- that is, if you assume Oswald was the informant.  

But, since you don't have an actual telex, and since the fabricated one is ludicrous in its content, what it means is that you don't have anything. It does not begin to meet the threshold of being evidence.  

Here is how COPA wrote it up:

On November 17, 1963, FBI overnight code clerk William S. Walter, in New Orleans, maintained that he received an Airtel alert from FBI headquarters in Washington about “a threat to assassinate President Kennedy November 22-23” in Dallas “by a militant revolutionary group.” Instructions in the Teletype included contacting infiltrators in local racists hate groups. The original airtel and all copies disappeared shortly after the assassination. Word of the Teletype did not leak out until five years after the assassination. Upon receiving the Teletype (Walter said under oath), “I immediately contacted the special agent-in-charge who had the category of threats against the president and read him the teletype. He instructed me to call the agents that had responsibility and informants, and as I called them, I noted the time and the names of the agents that I called. That all took place in the early morning hours of the 17th of November.” Ray & Mary La Fontaine maintain that this Airtel is the result of LHO’s pre assassination interview with the Dallas FBI.

“URGENT: 1:45 AM EST 11-17-63 HLF 1 PAGE
TO ALL SACS:
FROM: DIRECTOR
THREAT TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT KENNEDY IN DALLAS TEXAS NOVEMBER 22 DASH TWENTY THREE NINETEEN SIXTY THREE. MISC INFORMATION CONCERNING. INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED BY THE BUREAUS BUREAU HAS DETERMINED THAT A MILITANT REVOLUTIONARY GROUP MAY ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT KENNEDY ON HIS PROPOSED TRIP TO DALLAS TEXAS NOVEMBER TWENTY TWO DASH TWENTY THREE NINETEEN SIXTY THREE. ALL RECEIVING OFFICES SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT ALL CIS, PCIS LOGICAL RACE AND HATE GROUP INFORMANTS AND DETERMINE IF ANY BASIS FOR THREAT. BUREAU SHOULD BE KEPT ADVISED OF ALL DEVELOPMENTS BY TELETYPE. OTHER OFFICES HAVE BEEN ADVISED. END AND ACK PLS.”

Notice that COPA also corrected all the egregious spelling errors in Walter's mock- telex. I guess they figured it was just his problem that his spelling was so atrocious, and that it did not apply to the actual telex. And frankly, I agree with that. I don't think there is any chance that a communication from J. Edgar Hoover could have been as bad as Walter wrote it.  

Still, I think they should have at least pointed out that Walter's mock-up contained those atrocious spelling errors because he is the man. This is all derived from him and no one else, and his atrocious spelling is part of who he is, and it is relevant.

And even if you believe Walter- and whether you do or don't, the fact is that his story is unsubstantiated- there is no reason and no basis to connect it to Oswald. Did you listen to Oswald at the Midnight Press Conference? He said: 

"I don't know what this is all about. Nobody has told me anything. I know I have been accused of murdering a policeman. I know nothing more than that."

Do you think Oswald was lying bold-faced to the world? He had to have been lying if he said the above (and he did say it, and it is filmed and recorded) when, in fact, he had infiltrated the plot and informed the FBI about it. 

And if so, why during his interrogations did he not bring it up, especially since A FBI AGENT WAS SITTING RIGHT THERE: JAMES HOSTY.

How could Oswald be sitting across from Hosty and not say, "You know I contacted the FBI warning them about the plot. And you know I left you a hand-written note about it at your office." 

Of course, Oswald did not send the telex, and William Walter said as much. At most, Oswald was the informant- although Walter never said that either. And the fact is: there is not the slightest bit of evidence connecting Oswald with Walter's story. Nor is there the slightest bit of evidence that the Lee Harvey Oswald of fame had any prior knowledge of the JFK assassination.