From - Sun Jan 26 17:00:24 1997 Path: db1.datablast.net!news-in.tiac.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!205.252.116.190!feed1.news.erols.com!news.idt.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.thenet.net!jmcadams From: lpease@netcom.com (Lisa Pease) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated Subject: Re: >>The Bullets<< Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 02:04:06 GMT Organization: Netcom On-Line Services Lines: 75 Approved: aja@thuntek.net Message-ID: References: <32CF7A09.5324@worldnet.att.net> <5b01la$nqf@server1.mich.com> <32E46679.2946@worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: homer.thenet.net Content-Type: text X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Apparently-To: alt-conspiracy-jfk-moderated@uunet.uu.net Content-Length: 2813 Status: O Originator: jmcadams@homer.thenet.net Xref: db1.datablast.net alt.conspiracy.jfk:23831 alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated:4839 John Ritchson (jonr2@worldnet.att.net) wrote: : Anthony Marsh wrote: : > : > Which woking materials found in the TSBD would leave traces of barium : > and antimony on one's hands? : > : > Anthony Marsh The following is Hoover's list of ordinary working materials that would leave barium and antimony on one's hands: FBI 124-1002-10014 HQ 105-82555-2614 FROM: Director - FBI TO: J Lee Rankin DATE: 03/18/64 Dear Mr Rankin: During the course of discussion of neutron activation analyses between Mr Melvin Eisenberg of your staff and Special Agent John F Gallagher of this Bureau on March 16, 1964, Mr Eisenberg requested the following information: 1. What are some items in common usage which contain barium? Some items that may include barium are: Grease, ceramics, glass, paint, printing ink, paper, rubber, plastics, leather, cloth, pyrotechnics, oilcloth and linoleum, storage batteries, matches and cosmetics. 2. What are some items in common usage which contain antimony? Some items that may include antimony are: Matches, type metal, lead alloys, paints and lacquers, pigments for oil and water colors, flameproof textiles, storage batteries, pyrotechnics, ruber, pharmaceutical preparations and calico. 3. What are some items in common usage which contain both barium and antimony? Baruim and antimony may be found in the following items: Printed paper and-cloth, paint, storage batteries, rubber and matches, pyrotechnics and possibly other items. 4. Would neutron activation analyses show if a bullet passed through the hole in the front of President Kennedy's shirt near the colloar button area and also if a bullet passed through the material of his tie? Neutron activation is a sensitive analytical technique to determine elements present in a substance. During the course of the spectrographic examinations previously conducted of the fabric surrounding the hole in the front of the shirt, including the tie, no copper was found in excess of that present elsewhere in undamaged areas of the shirt and tie. Therefore, no copper was found which could be attributed to projectile fragments. It is not felt that the increased senstivity of neutron activation analyses would contribute substantially to the understanding of the origin of this hole and frayed area. Sincerely yours, -- Lisa Pease "With the demise of the Cold War...a small reform of the National Security legislation would close down the CIA's covert action apparatus, which is no longer necessary....Regulation of the CIA's covert operations might thus deny some future drug lord the political protection he needs to flood America with heroin or cocaine." - Alfred McCoy, The Politics of Heroin Check out my Real History Archives @ www.webcom.com/lpease Visit the site of Probe Magazine at www.webcom.com/ctka