Jean De Menil and his brother-in-law, Eric Boissonnas were two of the wealthiest men in the U.S. in November, 1963. Both men were associated with the Schlumberger Corp. in Houston, TX, they had each married a daughter of founder Conrad Schlumberger.
Did agencies of the U.S. government learn of their links to alleged Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby associate, Thomas Eli Davis III, then or since, and simply stand down or suppress any knowledge of those links?
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Éric Boissonnas – The Billionnaire Poet
PisteHors.com – Feb 28, 2005
The death of Éric Boissonnas on the 28th of February, 2005 probably went … Eric , and his brother Remi were looking for a site to develop in the American style.http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1987_468092/the-de-menil-family-bastion.html
Houston Chronicle – Jul 6, 1987
But in 1939 John was in Romania with his brother-in-law, Eric Boissonnas. “My father and other engineers from the company were in the underground.
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So what does this information have to do with the title of this article? In 1956, Eric Boissonna’s wife’s niece, Josephine was living with him and his wife, Sylvie Schlumberger. Josephine Schlumberger was the daugther of Sylvie Boissonna’s and Dominique De Menil’s brother, Dr. Marc Schlumberger. Josephine was engaged to be married to a nice young man.:
Last Word .By Ethel Beckwith
Sunday Herald – Apr 8, 1956…France will culminate a Columbia campus friendship when Bruce Benson Hawley, son of People’s Savings Bank exec, marries the Parisienne at Barnard, Josephine Schlumberger daughter of a Paris physician, lives with her uncle and aunt on Logan Rd, New Canaan, Mr. and Mrs. Eric Boissonnas.
There are indication the U.S. government knew of the above relationships, if not when the FBI recorded this in mid 1963 (the name of Bruce Hawley’s father, Samuel Warren Hawley, is handwritten just under the stamp in the right top area of the page)
viewed at this link.:
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But if the dots were not connected then, there was another opportunity for the U.S. government, about six months later.:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/09/business/samuel-w-hawley-92-ex-bank-executive.html
Samuel W. Hawley, 92, Ex-Bank Executive
Published: March 09, 2002Samuel W. Hawley, a former president of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks, died on Feb. 28 at his home in Fairfield, Conn. He was 92…
…Samuel Waller Hawley was born in Bridgeport and graduated from Yale College in 1931 and from Harvard Business School in 1933. He went to work for the bank as a clerk later in 1933.
His wife of 64 years, Sissy, died before him.
He is survived by two sons, Bruce B., of Easton, Conn., and Samuel W. Jr., of Fairfield; a daughter, Carolyn H. Davis, of Fairfield; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
It is a curious “miss” on the part of U.S. government agencies responsible for investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, because there were also these prompts, later.:
Letter 18 June, 1981, from Bernard Fensterwald to DDCI Adm. Bobby Inman; page 3:
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LETTER:BECAUSE OF YOUR KNOWN INTEREST IN THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION/COPY OF “PROJECT CURRENTLY BEING UNDERTAKEN BY THE AMATEURS pg 18
Found in: Miscellaneous CIA Series
Walker Friend of Clemand Joseph Charles who in turn was close to Duvalier and Jacqueline Lancelot * * * Colonel George de Lannurian SDECE alleged to have met with right-wing Texans soon before the
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In fact, after reading Bill Kelly’s excellent article on the 1961 Houma, LA raid of a Schlumberger Corp. explosives storage bunker, and other sources of great background pieces on Bruce Hawley and his wife Josephine Schlumberger’s brother-in-law, Thomas Eli Davis, III, it almost seems there was a lack of will on the U.S. government’s part to fully investigate “all this”!
Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy – Page 207
books.google.com Jim Marrs – 1993 – 625 pages – Preview
His wife told authorities that her husband was a soldier of fortune who had operated in such diverse countries as … Davis “because of a letter in his handwriting which referred in passing to Oswald and the Kennedy assassination…
Reasonable doubt: an investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy
books.google.com Henry Hurt – 1986 – 555 pages….reference so odd that it suggests the possibility of a
a coded message.40 In a State Department telegram about the matter, the document was described as a “rambling, somewhat cryptic,
unsigned letter in Davis’ handwriting which refers in passing to ‘Oswald’ and to Kennedy assassination.” The actual letter is not in the public record.41 In these exotic travels, where was Thomas Eli Davis III on November 22, 1963?
His wife of that period has indicated that she was never sure of Davis’s whereabouts — that Davis was difficult to keep up with. For part of their travels they stayed in Madrid with friends of hers.Seth Kantor, however, writes that on November 22 Tommy Davis was in jail in Algiers for gun-dealing with anti-Algerian terrorists.
According to Kantor, who reiterated his assertions to the author in 1984, Tommy Davis was released almost immediately from the Algerian prison through the efforts of the CIA assassination figure code- named QJ/WIN.That sensational report cannot be confirmed beyond Kantor’s assertion that he has full confidence in the credibility of his intelligence source. The arrest itself, however,
has other support.42 About a year after the assassination, Tommy Davis was interviewed by veteran Dallas newspaperman George W. Carter, who had covered the JFK assassination. Carter enjoyed a reputation as an excellent reporter.Years before Kantor’s published account, Davis told Carter that he was in Algiers on the day of the assassination and that he was arrested.
Davis also told Carter that while in Algeria, he was using the name Oswald.43 Davis stated to Carter that he was worried that someone might try to link him to the assassination because of these connections.
He told Carter that his passport had been canceled but that he was leaving the country anyway.44
Tom Howard, who evidently remained intrigued by the Ruby-Davis connection, which went unexamined by the Warren Commission.
Carter’s interview with Tommy Davis, whom he described as having “a tremendous mind,” came about after Carter started asking questions of people in the town where Davis lived.
Carter believed that Davis talked to him in an effort to find out how much was known about his Algerian activities — and whether there was any evidence of official interest. There was, of course, no official interest …Who was Jack Ruby?
books.google.com Seth Kantor – 1978 – 242 pages
… in September, 1973, according to Eldon Moyers, who then was sheriff of Wise County, Texas, Davis was stealing three-quarter- inch copper wire from an abandoned rock-crusher site in the county. In the darkness Davis cut his way into ….Acorn
Lucien Sarti
Editor’s Note: Several issues back, in the Reader Feedback secton of Fair Play, we ran a letter from a guy asking about Christian David. We answered as best we could, referring the letter-writer to Anthony Summers’ account of the Christian David/Lucien Sarti/Steve Rivele story, published in a 1991 edition of his book Conspiracy. After seeing what we publshed, a Fair Play reader emailed us some additional information, which we present here.What follows are some notes on Rivele’s published account of the alleged Corsican connection to the Kennedy assassination. Rivele’s book was published in French; what we now publish are a university professor’s notes on what he had read….
….p. 46: [David looked at the photo that the CIA had offered of Oswald -- who was not Oswald in Mexico City]: “I believe I know him” he said with great care. “He is Belgian, a very dangerous man. He would often frequent the port of Marseilles sending arms to the Congo. They called him Vic. He was also a killer. He took contracts.” …[Later Rivele called Gary Shaw to tell him about what David had said; Shaw suggested that Rivele look into a Thomas Eli Davis III.] “Gary believed that this Davis was the man who had impersonated Oswald and had worked with Jack Ruby. He was also employed by the CIA and had said in confidence on at least two occasions that he had used Oswald’s name. Gary added that Davis had died in 1973, in very mysterious circumstances.”
In May, 1963 FBI agents in Los Angeles interviewed the sister-in-law of Josephine Schlumberger Hawley, Carolyn Hawley Davis and her husband, Thomas Eli Davis. Here they are in their own words, the entire FBI report begins here, complete with Bruce and Carolyn Hawley’s father, Samuels name handwritten near the upper right corner stamp.:
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Page 6: Excerpt of nearly simultaneoulsy conducted FBI interview of Carolyn’s husband, Thomas Eli Davis, III:
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FBI informant Kenneth Eugene Owens, indicates around the same time as the above interviews were conducted that Carolyn Hawley Davis was financing the “work” of her husband Thomas Eli Davis, III.: (Bottom paragraph)
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The FBI learns the number of Carolyn’s American Express Card:
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Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy – Page 206
books.google.com Jim Marrs – 1993 – 625 pages – Preview
However the CIA did — and still does — have a classified file on Thomas Eli Davis III. … Born to a respectable Texas rancher couple on August 27, 1936, Davis was discharged from the Army in 1958 and attended the University of Michigan …
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Reasonable doubt: an investigation into the assassination of John …books.google.com Henry Hurt – 1986 – 555 pages – Snippet view
46 The mystery of Thomas Eli Davis III will probably never be resolved. His third and last wife, whom he married after the … The CIA states that it cannot find any records on Davis. The FBI still has documents on Davis, more than 200 …
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