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merctal ule to thtJ country, according to Kun Lohn. lhen In clluge of d.tstrl· buUon for Mmox Corp lo New York Ctty All Mrnox cameru dlstnbutod Ln tbll country bed su1 dJglts s11r11ng wnh senal number 135000, Lohn Sllld. Sll.~18 not a reais1e.recl number . . QO~d number • Lohn sold lhe " unobtrusive" camera Is about three tncblli long and 10 tncbh w1d1: and was used as a "spy camera" ;t bolh sides during World War 1110 pho1ograph documents ind otlier uptonage work.
had P11ne on either Nov 22 or Nov 21, 1963 Pr.istdent Joltn p Kon· necly wu ~Dated here Nov 22 ~r unsuccc:..rully ll)ltng 10 presOSWALD WORKED 81 the Dllllas sureT ~"iuto reporung be had found IYpe:i<:tllng firm of Jaggns-Cbtlos-SioI IJX"llgbt 1110:1er and not 1 MtoalL vall w 1%2, which did classtfti:d worlt ewta Iba P'BI 1wo months later ·for the Army Map Service. There he placed nto thcTr r~ords 1 Mtnox cam· learned IJl operate Speclllltzcd photo- era wh1cb thenatd w~ not Oswald"s. graphic equipment 11 • JOb he took severa! months alter returning to tlllJ AN 1'111 11£PORT &11d lh11 MJnox lll country from ~IWlll, where he camera WllS obuuned Jan.. JI, 1964, from defacted In 19S9 Whtie Oswald wu lo Russia be phoMri. Rutb Paine of lrvlng and that It belonged to btr hu~bllnd Mr.I Patne'i wgrapbed a number of mtlltery tlllit•I· bo.me WU where Oswald's Wife WU l I d b - ~• r at ons au ot er se...,,uve scenes o 111y10g 11 the lime of llu• a&l>llSSJn~t1on more Ulttrest ~ o ~ ljlUU.. and was wbt:re Rose said bt: found 1 lb•n a s1g1llset: PhDIDI, 1 11 1a.Iten MtnoJ1 camera among O&w11d·s per· In ~ ere Oswald Uved, l<IDll ellecUI more lhan two months bowed the 11rpon, 1n army otflce earlier butldlng, 1 polytechntcal i1111nute ind Mrs P11oe told 1'11e Nt:ws abe does • radlo-1elevtsl90 I ~ not re<;.all bttng asked lo turn over 1 n t.llnox c.tmera to the PSI, although "I'm or 14 years the PBI dtd not even sure they IPBll Ullked about It and revc1l tile O..wald photOi 10 R~u wn11 Ibey dtd or w!Ult we d1d l JUSI ex.tsted unul references to them were don't remember" Her hub bond owned decllbliilled with Other as:.asslnauon a MlnOll badly ln need or repair in 1964, docu111ents 11151 January. Neither the but ihe could not retail the FBI or any photos the105Clves nor the loc:auon other law autbonllcS ~rch1n11 her whure the PBJ found them was bOWll! or gar1111e for ti after the Dell11 revl!aled poljce . .rch of Nov 22-23. R~. I 24-year veteran Of tbe DallllS police force. said the camera be round ~ numbc:r of the t.ltnox "wu real blllall, 1hou1 like 1 half-pock M~Uodi,- ol>t•med from ~rli. of cigarettes to stte" 1rul was loaded P.lne by the PB1 ,..,_ l15Uld . . . .25£, wuh 1 c~tte or film He said be "h1Ch dJd DOI exl.it among any Of Ibo dldo'I know whether any of lhe lllm camer11 dlslrlbuted for com· bAICI llOen expoied
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STOY A SAID cameras and camera equipment were found botb t11 thu hoUJe and Ln Oswald's subag In the garage Nov 22-23. but be could 001 rec.all where 1he Germ1n camera was found He also said he reml!mbers someone - •1 thtnlr. 11 wa somebody from the PBI Jhar on.atuna aboul that c r"'lnvolvm& lbe camer1 and light melt:r
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""II would stand 10 reason that 1r "'e found 1 llght meter that would be ~ wtth a Mlooit c1mer1 then naturally we woulJ want to know wbere the cam..ra ts," Gemberltns told The News " Now Mr Rose, I can't vouch - If be says he i:boughl !1 was a camera and It wu or whether he thought II was11't. I Just can't say I don 't know " J Gordon Shanklin, ageot·tn-charge of the Dallas PBI office during tbe llSl>8SSJna1100 In ve¥Ugauon , said ti.I could not rec:aU the camera lnctd~nt "'I am sure It (camera or hght mt!tllr) w"nt up there IFBI lab Ill Wash1ng1on ), wha1ever 11 was," Shanklin 51.td "It's probably ~1.tll ln ev1d11nct, I don'I know . But I om s ure lha1 If It bod been 1 Mlnox Clllllcr1 •nd ii was found. then It wo11Jd have l>eell reponed as 11111 " An Inventory of prop1:ny taken from the Paine house and 11arage was made Nov 26, 196J, Ill the FBI office here and bSled "one Mmox CalJl~r'" under It.c m num uventory
. The thing we got it llvtng out of ~ald's seat>ag was 1 Mlnox miniature re No quesuon about It "They med to g1:t me 10 cllange the o e er ecordS becallk 11 wun"\ UKht meter gent. nceot Dram. delivered the 1 don't ltnow why Ibey wanted 11 ropeny 10 the PBl laboratory 10 Wuh· cbang..d . but Ibey must hive bad some ingtoo on Nov 2r,lld &iilefl\OL 1...a uve for It " t:eetie' nsm p s but the * AW! " Wlnox The FBI 5 reponed acquismon of 1 Ug!!t meter" 1ppeued for the ilisr Mmox camera from Mrs Paine two -~er..,_ _ months later occu"ed alter 01:w61Den 11111rted asking questions about reporu lhe PBJ was lrymg to pres.<iure Dlllas poltce 1n10 11tertng tha1r Inventory of 02.-wald'a propeny ROBERT GEMBERLING, DOW retired FBI ag1:n1 wbo wrote 1he fir.11 report submllled 10 thu Warr110 Comml5slon referr1ng to the camera Mrs Paine reportedly 1upplled 10 the FBI. Mild "'If lllltl"S Whal I~ rj!porl IMQ'I, I feel 5Ul'll llult"s trllA."