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BEHIND THE FACADE OF IMAGINATION
“Well, one Sunday, I was sitting here in the sitting room and was reading the Dallas paper—we had just returned from England and Europe from a holiday." That is how Don Pierson (shown left in a 1964 newspaper photograph), began to explain how he created Radio London that year after reading an article about a shipboard station called Radio Caroline.
"I mulled about it all afternoon, then that evening late decided I was going to England [again]. So, I got the family up out of bed, went into Dallas, [and] caught the “red eye” [flight] into New York. Our passports were about expired; [so], we got new passports, and that afternoon we’re on the plane into England, and got there that night.” But who was Don Pierson, and why was he about to turn around and go back to the British Isles after leisurely reading a newspaper?
The item that intrigued him concerned the advent of a daytime radio station broadcasting from a ship called Caroline that was anchored just outside British territorial waters off southeast England, and Don Pierson went in search of the story behind the story. Unfortunately for him, he never found it.
What intrigued Don Pierson about Radio Caroline was lack of competition from British Broadcasting Corporation which held a monopoly licence for all British radio transmissions. The only competitive sounds in English for British ears to tune into, came from outside the country. They mainly consisted of broadcasts from West Germany which were directed towards the ears of U.S. troops serving on U.S. bases in that country, and its transmissions were identified as the American Forces Network (AFN). There were also nighttime broadcasts that began around 6 PM in the winter, and they originated from Radio Luxembourg which was located within that eponymous country. But its skywave signal faded in and out on British radio sets.
Radio Caroline had begun broadcasting from 6 in the morning until 6 in the evening, and it became immediately obvious to Don Pierson that a radio station similar to the highly popular top 40 radio station in Dallas that was known by the call letters KLIF, could win a huge audience, sell a lot of advertising time and make a huge profit if costs were kept to a bare minimum. Its only daytime competitor would be Radio Caroline, and it seemed to be an amateurish affair consisting of one or two inexperienced disc jockeys who had a pile of records to play. Unfortunately, Don Pierson had no idea of what he was getting into when he once more boarded a plane taking both him and his family to London.
In 1964, Don Pierson was 39 and his wife was a year younger. They had two children: a son age 14 and a daughter age 4, and they all took that overnight flight. When they arrived they checked into the new Hilton Hotel near Hyde Park. Don said: "For the next few days, I endeavored to pay the children, I think, fifty cents an hour to listen to BBC radio programs, but after a day, they quit. They said they couldn’t stand an hour of a violin solo and an hour of a woman singing an operetta without the accompaniment of music.”
In the meantime, Don Pierson attempted to meet with Ronan O'Rahilly, the person that the American press reports said was responsible for creating Radio Caroline, but the news reports were inaccurate because O'Rahilly was merely a 'front man' shielding the actual investors from enquiries by the press. Don said: "After a day or so of trying unsuccessfully to meet with Ronan O’Rahilly I took action."
Don Pierson remained in London for most of April, by which time a second radio ship called Mi Amigo had dropped anchor next to the motor vessel Caroline on April 27, 1964, and made preparations to begin broadcasting as Radio Atlanta. "While I was there, I wanted to see where the locations were for these ships. "According to the press, they were off the coast of Harwich. Essex. So the way to do it was to simply charter a plane and we flew out over the North Sea. I did take a camera."
Don Pierson admittted: "I knew nothing about commercial radio, nothing about shipping, and I thought well anything I could see that they were doing successfully, I could use that as a benchmark to start my education in that field.”
When the Piersons returned to Texas, Don Pierson began making telephone calls to potential investors and, he said: "The first question they always asked was, ‘If this is such a good idea, why wasn’t it done before?’ And that was a question that really and truly I couldn’t answer."
To examine the thought process driving Don Pierson's mind back in 1964, it is necessary to understand what was going on in the world back then. Not just in the United Kingdom (UK), but in the United States of America (USA), as well.
THE BIZARRE WORLD OF DON PIERSON
This is not a simplistic story at all because it involves cultural climates that no longer exist in more than one nation.
On April 15, 1963, Donald Grey Pierson who became a car dealer at age 21, was elected Mayor of his tiny town called Eastland. The following year (shown in press photo left), Mayor Don told United Press International (UPI) that the city council had passed a proposal for an ordinance that provided for a $1,000 fine or three years imprisonment for anyone caught selling or using tobacco products withing the city limits. To enforce the law, Mayor Don was reported by UPI as saying that "he proposed the Gestapo-like technique of citizen's arrest as a possible answer" to enforcement of the law because Eastland's six-man police force would be unable to cope.
This was Don' Pierson's sense of humor at work to gain free publicity. It worked. In the UK, London's Daily Mirror which sold over 5 million copies each day, created its own large-size political cartoon about this event that was also reported in newspapers worldwide. The very next day the council decided to "forget" the proposal, and so it never came up for a vote.
It was this kind of humor that became the way in which many maverick business leaders of Texas conducted their affairs, and soft-spoken Don Pierson was a master of its application. He belonged to the non-cowboy boots or hat brigade like 'The Old Scotchman' Gordon McLendon and his millionaire pal Clint Murchison Jr whose motto was to always speculate with other peoples' money.
on January 14 (newspaper photo shown left), Mayor Don he became Chairman of a bank in nearby and much larger city of Abilene, Texas. His father-in-law was also on its board of directors.
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In February 1964, Donald Grey Pierson
Don was a car dealer p, a Dodge-Plymouth agency in Comanche. After opening his second dealership in 1953 for Oldsmobile-Cadillac in Eastland, he went on to establish a number of other automobile dealerships in Texas selling such makes as Volkswagen, Hillman, Renault, Triumph, Jaguar, Porsche, and BMW.
he had reached a motivating first conclusion that made his future success in the business world very clear. The British 'Baby Boom' generation of British music led by the Beatles already exploding on American radio. The term 'Beatlemania' had been born in a sedate town in England many months earlier, and what were these British kids doing?
They were a rock 'n' roll starved generation were making music by imitating America's first generation of rock 'n' roll stars. But Associated Press was reporting that British teens could not switch of their radio sets and hear the equivalent of Gordon McLendon's Dallas based daytime top 40 station KLIF when they got out of school. The British Broadcasting Corporation was known as the 'Auntie' who frowned upon upstart American behavior and the music that encouraged it. So, BBC simply said "no!" We are not going to play that kind of rubbish on our airways. Maybe we will insert the kind of music you like hear and there during the day, but that is it. All day teen pop music on the British airwaves is out of the question.
So a young Irishman put a transmitter on an old Danish ferry boat which was equipped with a DJ named Simon Dee who had a pile of records which he was spinning from just over three miles from the shoreline of southeast England. Sometimes he had to put a copper penny on the arm of the turntable to weigh it down when storms caused thee ship to roll and ride with the movement of the waves.
Some of Simon's records were by Elvis, sometimes by Mantovani He had songs from Oklahoma and ballads from Frank Sinatra with discs by Ray Charles and the Rolling Stones thrown into the mix for good measure. The ex-Fredericia now called 'Caroline', was on the air from 6 in the morning until 6 at night after which British adults began turning on their tellies, and British teens began retuning their radio sets away from BBC transmissions to the fading and crackling sounds that came from sponsored record shows broadcast by Radio Luxembourg.
In Dallas, KLIF was fighting for teen listeners who were tempted to tune in the top 40 and PAMS jingle sounds of 'Wonderful KBOX', and then Radio Caroline got a ship-based competitor called Radio Atlanta. One of its two original DJs sounded like a graduate from the North Texas hillbilly school of cowboy broadcasting, although the musical fare of Radio Atlanta from 6 until 6, was similar to that of Radio Caroline.
It was not as though Don Pierson was a closet Texan. He had served as a U.S. pilot in the military, and he had also spent time in England, not too many years ago. Don Pierson was a West Texas car dealer, and one day, a few years earlier, he had been in England where he boarded a British Railways train to attend a Roots auto convention. That is where he says that he first met Tom Danaher from Wichita Falls, Texas where he imported and sold European vehicles.
In the Appendix is a 1985 transcript taken from a taped recording. It is the only authentic audio interview with Don Pierson about his creation of not only Radio London, but his other two offshore stations called Radio England and Britain Radio. There is also an explanation of how Mervyn Hagger, Genie Baskir and Eric Gilder, who are the editorial trio behind this book, all came together around the year 1980 after meeting with Don Pierson.
Because the documented real story about the offshore station called Radio London has never been explained in detail before now, many opportunity seekers have filled that void with bogus accounts derived from their own imaginative vanities. That process began in the year 1990 with a 'documentary' primarily hosted by Ian Cowper Ross was shown on BBC television with the title of 'A Pirate's Tale'. That fake tale focused upon the 1964 station called 'Radio Caroline', and it triggered many more bogus stories by other individuals.
In 1997, a British company called East Anglian Productions published a book called 'The Wonderful Radio London Story 1964-1967, (The life and times of Big L)', which was derived from sample documents loaned to Christopher Gaydon in England and used by him without permission under the published name of Chris Elliot. These papers mostly originated with Mervyn Hagger who had custody of Don Pierson's broadcasting archives. It was originally comprised of an informal collection of letters and documents which had been carelessly stuffed into two battered cardboard boxes deposited upon a toilet seat in an old Pullman rail car. Located on a short rail track in Don Pierson's back garden, this train car served as Don's guest house, and that is where Mervyn Hagger discovered them while staying there overnight.
The audio interview with Don Pierson (mentioned above), subsequently led to Don bequeathing his archives to Mervyn Hagger along with a copy of a letter that he wrote which contained details of their first meeting to create what has finally become this book. A spin-off from a franchised magazine venture involving Don, Mervyn and Genie, was a syndicated radio program called the Radio London Show that was broadcast nightly on the super-power 'border-blasting' transmitter of XERF in Ciudad, Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, and once a week over Don Pierson's KVMX in Eastland, and KXOL in Fort Worth, Texas. It was via a remote connection to Christopher Gaydon and a second phase of these syndicated shows that he came into possession of some Don Pierson's archived documents. However, Gaydon failed to undertake further research, and his partner began assembling his own version from two people who had outlived Don Pierson but who Don Pierson had brought into his offshore venture.
Because Don Pierson was no longer living, Gaydon and his associate's contacts felt free to invent their own fake stories about Don Pierson and his offshore stations. All of this is explained in detail within the Appendix. In the primary chapters is the background story to how and why offshore radio stations were created and why Radio London is rooted in the story of Gordon McLendon. It was his Dallas radio station with call letters KLIF that became the foundation of this story when a Dallas striptease nightclub owner named Jack Ruby bought some sandwiches which facilitated his murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. He became the accused killer of President John F. Kennedy whose name became tied via a Mafia story to the naming of Radio Caroline, while Lee Harvey Oswald had previous been a day-tripper to England before Gordon McLendon became entangled with an offshore radio station in the Baltic Sea who fringe signal was possibly audible to Lee Harvey Oswald working in a Minsk radio factory.
This is a very strange story that has only been previously told in garbled segments because no one dares to tell the compete and truthful tale who was a part of the original events, without imperiling their own health and safety.
You didn't think that this was a simple fan story about disc jockeys and a radio station, did you?
A WORK IN PROGRESS - LATEST EDITORIAL REVISION: Saturday, December 21, 2024 at 8:45 PM
We began correcting typos and reassigning text to specific pages last night. At the moment there is a duplication of copy.
WHEN IT ALL BEGAN ANEW
This phase of the human story as it pertains to both Britain and America, began in the year 1959, although it was going to take a few more years before someone gave it a name. Well, to be more precise, it was not an event that gained a name but the key players who appeared on the world stage.
On January 17, 1961, millions of Americans turned on their television sets to watch their President Dwight D. Eisenhower deliver his final address to the nation as its Chief Executive. It became known as the speech in which their President warned citizens about a 'Military Industrial Complex' that was taking over administration of the country because it offered extremely well-paying jobs, all funded by tax money. There was just one problem.
To employ citizens to work in this 'Military Industrial Complex', the companies which formed its cartel had to keep manufacturing products, but when the quota was reached and the shelves were full, the 'Military Industrial Complex' had to get rid of the old stock to make room for the new stock, and the only way to do that on a big scale was to get someone to destroy the old stock. The easiest way to do that was to start a new series of continuing wars. Enemies destroyed these American products and Americans replaced the old shelf stock with upgraded new stock.
It was a win-win situation for all Americans employed by the Military Industrial Complex. It translated into full employment at top wages, so the more foreign wars that America engaged in, the more that the American economy would continue to grow. For awhile, these better paid employees were able to spend their wages locally by buying consumer products.
But then came the day when the growth of Internet shopping resulted in a lot those wages being spent Online to pay for goods that were not even made in the USA. When the Consumer Industrial Complex shifted its own manufacturing plants to countries such as China, those wages derived from the Military Industrial Complex which originated from U.S. taxation had now resulted in a stalement. Many of the beligerants that America was fighting abroad were being supplied arms made in China, and China was receiving income from purchases of products made for the Consumer Industrial Complex by high paid employees of the Military Industrial Complex.
HOW THIS ABSURDITY ORIGINATED
The economic reality of the American economy, and thus the sub-economies of the Western nations such the United Kingdom has been couched in deceit since the modern consumer age began at the dawn of the Twentieth Century. By the time of World War Two, the doyen of misinformation and misdirection was Winston Churchill. He created his own fighting forces which today would classified as terrorists. It was out of his shadowy world of psychological warfare that 'James Bond' emerged as a symbol of entertainment, but the man who invested 007 had worked in the dark shadows of top secret activities all focussed upon deceiving the German Axis into military defeat.
The psychological warfare employed in Churchill's secret side of World War Two, was not restricted to code breaking and sabotage. It was also engaged in delivering fake sermons broadcast by a genuine Catholic priest, and entertainment programs hosted by DJs whose patter was intended to seem as though it was of patriotic German origin for German troops fighting the British. In reality, it was coming from Britain and directed at Germans using pornography and cruel misinformation about loved ones left behind in their own homeland.
By the 1950s, this learned behavior of military warfare by deception, was cloaked in the religious name of 'Crusade for Freedom' and President Eisenhower endorsed its operations. A pretence was launched to convince the American public the 'Crusade' was a citizen inspired and funded charity, to conceal its true owner and controller, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Foreign governments were undermined with U.S. fake news, fake employee unions, fake newspapers and fake broadcasting stations as part of the 'Crusade' which employed employee unions, publications, balloon drops and one of the largest U.S. overseas propaganda operations that was given the umbrella name of 'Radio Free Europe' (RFE). Its primary studio transmissions were received in Portugal where they were then rebroadcast on shortwave from a gigantic farm of antennas.
THE HOLE IN THE FABRIC OF U.S. PROPAGANDA
Initially, RFE programming was transmitted as five different stations in the languages off Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Poland, and Bulgaria. This deceptive programming map had a huge gap in it, because the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were part of the USSR, but because they were not considered primary targets for CIA propaganda by RFE, and yet their strategic importance could not be ignored.
The Baltic is almost a closed inland sea, but it has a feeder from the Atlantic Ocean into the North Sea which enters a choke-point between the Narrows of Denmark and Sweden. On one shore of the Baltic Sea its waves crash against the shoreline of Sweden, but the other shore is controlled by Denmark, Germany, Poland, the enclave of Kalingrad which is also a part of Russia which ajoins Lithuania, Estonia and St Petersburg, Russia. On its northern shore is Helsinki, Finland.
This strategic void in the radio propaganda map, coincided both geographically and in time with the actions of Gordon McLendon, Clint Murchison Jr. and Robert F. Thompson, all three from Dallas, Texas, and all of them wealthy in their own right. McLendon, who was the shadow behind the creation of Radio London, built a career in radio broadcasting based upon a foundation laid down by his father Bart who built a chain of movie theatres.
Murchison sat on top of a family cartel of companies, and Thompson was tied to another wealthy individual whose income was derived from government contracts in the construction business. It was therefore an unlikely trio from Dallas, Texas who suddenly found their attention being attracted to an area of the Baltic Sea close to that nation's capital in Stockholm.
It was even more peculiar that the three of them should show any interest in creating from scratch a 'pirate' broadcasting ship called Radio Nord (North) transmitting pop music and news in the Swedish language. With regards to the south of Sweden, Gordon McLenddon wrote a letter on October 3, 1960 to his friend General Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua, who he seems to have gone into business with to buy half of the two-ship Radio Mercur operation. He sent a copy of his letter to his father Bart, and to his colleague Robert F. Thompson who was taking charge of the legal and financial arrangements to operate Radio Nord via a Liechtenstein anstalt. (This is a financial operating system unique to Liechtenstein because it is not a business corporation according to either the British or American definition of that word.)
However, it should come as no surprise that Gordon McLendon was not only best pals with David Atlee Phillips who dabbled in clandestine broadcasting when the CIA needed help in overthowing hostile governments, but that Gordon McLendon was also a member of a board of broadcasting advisors to Radio Free Europe. It was not as if McLendon was unaware of what the CIA was attempting to accomplish as part of its 'Crusade' in Europe.
Therefore it should not appear as an oddity in 'coincidental' timing regarding the sudden interest paid by McLendon, Murchison and Thompson regarding broadcasting from the Baltic Sea. Although Sweden was nominally neutral with regards to the West-East divide in Europe, militarily it was firmly rooted on the side of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. However, Sweden also had its own share of problems in dealing with spies from within its own territorial borders. Radio ships operating just off the shorelines of Sweden could be secretly managed by CIA personnel who kept their covert distance and location hidden from the overt facilities of the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm.
"WHEN THE TRUTH IS FOUND TO BE LIES"
It was singer and songwriter Grace Slick who noted in he follow-on line to her own stanza that"all the joy within you dies". This story is more in keeping with the idea that all understanding of past events has vanishedd into a big ball of confusion, Nothing is the way that it was originally claimed to be, and yet, with patience, it is possible see a new picture of events begin to emerge from the fog of contradictions.
McLendon not only had domestic managers for his several stations in the USA, he also maintained a staff to comprehensively control his entire operation. Glen Callison was responsible for McLendon engineering, and consequently Callison was dispatched to Europe to oversee the fitting-out of a ship renamed Bon Jour' that became the home of Radio Nord. The Group Sales Manager was Charles William Weaver, and he was assigned the task of managing Radio Nord as a business operation, beyond the local manager's duties in Stockholm.
Bill, as he was known to both friends and associates eventually closed the operation down, and that included shutting down the office and studio in Stockholm, and disposing of the transmitters and ship. He made copious notes about his relationship to the Radio Nord operation, and he attempted to complete a published manuscript, but he died due to illness before he could complete his book 'Triple Double Cross'. A ghost writer then came into possession of one version of Weaver's story which that person then changed to read as a work of make-believe fiction.
However, the ghost writer did not deviate from the main thrust of Weaver's story, and that was the accusation that Bart McLendon, working with his son Gordon, were working for the CIA when they created 'Radio Nord'. But more that, Weaver claimed that a faction of CIA personnel were also linked to a very complicated conspiracy involving the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, and Harvey Oswald was drawn into it.
MAN OF MYSTERY
It is at this point in the story, that the peculiar and underreported travels of Lee Harvey Oswald have already entered the seascape of the Baltic and its surrounding countries. Apparently, only one U.S. citizen has ever had access to the KGB files on Lee Harvey Oswald, and that person is the author Norman Mailer. In 1995, Mailer wrote a non-fiction biography titled Oswald's Tale - an American mystery. Unfortunately Mailer deviated from his title and the book ceased to be just Oswald's Tale, because he addded Mailer's own tale about Oswald. However, this does not detract from the reported facts in evidence about Oswald's activties that are known and can be documented.
It is Mailer's reporting of those facts which are of interest in this recital, because although Oswald's arrival in England and then in Finland has been officially noted, there is nothing on the official record which explains why he went to England when he said that he was going to attend college in Switzerland. The same questions arise over his appearance in Finland by unknown means, and again he used further education as his cover story.
Mailer does supply details concerning his employment at the Belorussian Radio and Television Facory in Minsk between the years from 1960 and 1962. Mailer also notes that Oswald made several visits to the United States Embassy in Moscow where the KGB could not follow him. What took place behind those walls we cannot be sure about.
THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS AND THE TEXT IS SUBJECT TO CORRECTION AND ALTERATION
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CHAPTER TWO
A Strange Sequence of Events
To find the beginnings of stories which exploded into news headlines during the 1960s, it is necessary to turn back the annals of time to the year 1959. It is in that year that the story behind the 1963 Assassination of President John F. Kennedy really begins. Because it was on October 9, 1959 that Lee Harvey Oswald disembarked from a passenger liner at Southampton, England after he went on board at the Port of Le Harve in France.
The day before on Thursday, October 8, 1959, the Conservative Party won reelection in the United Kingdom, and upon arrival at Southampton, Oswald told UK Customs that he would be travelling on to Switzerland to attend college.
Where he went after getting his US Passport stamped, is anyone's guess. All of the hotels near London Airport, as Heathrow was then known, were full, because of the UK General Election the day before. But according to the next British stamp in his US Passport, Oswald did not immediately leave the British Isles. So where did he go?
Lee Harvey Oswald just vanished, and neither London's Metropolitan Police at Scotland Yard, orr the US CIA or FBI had any idea of went after he left Southampton. He just disappeared.
The next day Oswald reappeared, not in Switzerland, but at an expensive hotel in Helsinki, Finland.
UK stamps in his US Passport show that Lee Harvey Oswald departed Le Harve, France on a Wednesday, arrived at Southampton, England on a Thursday, and departed from London Airport, England on a Friday, and arrived in Helsinki, Finland on that same day. But where was Lee Harvey Oswald while in England between Thursday and Friday?
How he got to Helsinki after leaving London is also a mystery. There are many theories, but there are no entries on any passenger manifest that has so far come to light. In other words there is no proof to point to any form of transportation to any destination, other than the second British stamp in his US Passport that was made at London Airport. But that only proves that his US Passport was stamped.
For decades the CIA, FBI and a host of other agencies have played the guessing game about Oswald's whereabouts. The next comment about his presence came from Helsinki in Finland. But how did he get there? No one could answer that question. Then, out of the blue on December 9, 2023, the Finnish Security Intelligence Service (SUPO), declassified a 60-years-old document and raised even more questions. The SUPO press release was reported by the English Language Department of the Finnish Public Service Media Company (Yle).
On December 9, 2023, SUPO released a picture (above-left) of an accommodation notice from the Hotel Torni in Helsinki. It raised even more questions about the manner in which Lee Harvey Oswald had become the occupant of its Room 309 on October 10, 1959, but as per the norm, no one could provide a definitive answer.
However, three years later, on November 23, 1963, which was the day following the murder of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, SUPO wrote a Memo. That was on the day before Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in front of Dallas Police, and a hoard of newspaper reporters during 'live' television coverage. That Memo remained a secret until December 9, 1963, when Yle released an English language version of its SUPO story. This is what Yle reported:
"On the night of October 10, 1959, a young man identified as Lee Harvey Oswald arrived at Hotel Toni in Helsinki. Hailing from the United States, he checked into Room 309, claiming a five-day stay. However, after just two nights, Oswald changed hotels, moving to the Klauss Kurki Hotel, where he stayed an additional three nights. Despite SUPO's efforts the authorities were unable to determine Oswald's motives for his trip to Helsinki. The 19-year-old American's activities during his stay remained elusive, with SUPO noting the lack of means to track his movements beyond hotel registers and passport control lists."
This Yle 2023 report was published Online at https://yle.fi/a/74-20064205 and it continues:
"After leaving Helsinki, SUPO's files indicate that Oswald applied for a Soviet Visa, which was granted surprisingly quickly. The U.S. Warren Commission, responsible for investigating John F. Kennedy's assassination, noted that Oswald's Visa was approved in an unusually quick timeframe. On October 12, 1959, he applied for a Tourist Visa at the Soviet Embassy in Helsinki and on 14 October that Visa was approved. The waiting period for similar Visas usually took over a week to be appoved during this time in the Cold War. Oswald's US passport application stated his intention to study in Switzerland or at the University of Turku. His application to the University of Turku turned out to be a cover, adding to the enigma surrounding Oswald's actions in Finland."
This SUPO release of information in 2023 only makes matters even more confusing than they were to begin with. The illustration to the right was part of the document published in Finland in 2023. It misspells Oswald's middle name as 'Harwey', and it states in English that he is deceased.
But since Oswald arrived in Finland during 1959, not in 1963 as reflected on this document which claims that he was 'deceased' the day before Jack Ruby shot and killed him on 'live' television. The date of Oswald's murder was on 24.11.63, not on 23.11.63. Then there is the question of how and why within hours of President Kennedy being murdered in Dallas, Texas, this report was created in Finland on 23.11.63 about Lee Harvey Oswald?
In December 2023, when SUPO released its 60-years-old secret document, a lot more questions were raised and not answered. Here is more of the 2023 Yle text:
"The declassified documents raise questions about Oswald's arrival in Helsinki. Conflicting information suggests he may have come from London or Stockholm, with uncertainties about his exact route. Oswald's name was not found on arrival lists, leaving SUPO to speculate on potential routes, including flights or ferries from Stockholm. Given that the only flight from London to Helsinki on 10 October landed at 11:33pm and he checked into the Hotel Torni less than an hour later, it is unlikely that he came directly from the United Kingdom. Rather, SUPO considered it more likely that Oswald came to Helsinki via Stockholm, either by plane or ferry. Flights from Stockholm to Helsinki landed at 12:25pm, 3:00pm, and 4:55pm. A ferry from Stockholm to Turku had arrived at 8:35am and passengers made the rest of the journey by buses to Helsinki which arrived by noon that day."
It seems that the original mistake arose at the Klaus Kurki Hotel, which SUPO later corrected. Oswald had been at that hotel awaiting a USSR Visa to enter Russia via Vainikkala. The reason why information about the arrival of Oswald in Stockholm is important, is because his arrival coincided with CIA assets taking an interest in the strategic location of Sweden on one side of the Baltic Sea, and facing the so-called 'Iron Curtain' on the opposite shoreline.
"The Eyes of Texas" together with the ears of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, were hard at work both monitoring and trying to influence activity behind the 'Iron Curtain'. That is the moment when Lee Harvey Oswald suddenly appeared on the scene during October 10, 1959. If he did first arrive in Stockholm, Sweden, as SUPO seems to think, then he would have been able to make contact with agents for the CIA who were in the process of establishing their own broadcasting station on board a ship equipped with sonar detection equipment.
As far as the press was concerned, three maverick Texans who were millionaires in their own right, had suddenly taken an interest in the Scandinavian pop music scene. That news began to appear in print during November 1959, which was less than a month after the arrival of Lee Harvey Oswald on October 10, 1959.
On January 4, 1960, after doctors in the Soviet Union concluded that Oswald had staged a medically superficial rendition of a suicide attempt, he was sent to Minsk to begin work at the Belorussian Radio and Television Factory. He had been assigned a small apartment with wafer-thin walls that the KGB had perferated with a small hole to spy on Oswald's every move. They even followed him and kept a dated diary of his moments. But what they could not do is follow him into the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, because it was diplomatically considered to be a part of the sovereign territory of the United States of Amercica. It was a practical way for Oswald to stay in touch with CIA agents attached to the Embassy, without having to worry about his conversations being monitored by the KGB.
On February 3, 1960, Gordon McLendon informed General Somoza of Nicaragua that he had concluded a deal to acquire the Swedish half of the Danish Radio Mercur.
In February 2014, our company received legal notification that the BBC was challenging all our trade marks in the UK; the words "Radio London", the rl logo and the combined rl logo with the words "Radio London" across it. At the same time, the BBC had applied to register the trade mark "BBC Radio London", so clearly this new registration was likely to conflict with our existing ones.
After our suffering an extremely stressful year, a Hearing between both parties was held at the IPO (Intellectual Property Office) in February 2015. At the end of March 2015, the Hearing Officer issued a decision on the case and held that for certain of the goods/services covered by our trade marks, Radio London Ltd had not clocked-up what was regarded as sufficient use. The IPO therefore revoked, or restricted our UK trade mark registrations."
However, the original design of the 'rl' logo as used by Radlon (Sales) Ltd in 1964, is not the modified version that was 
claimed by the Paynes. The version used by Radlon (Sales) was a logo that appears to have been a modified version of the Litton Industries Inc. registered trade mark which over time was allowed to lapse into disuse. That logo is shown shown to the right of this text.
The logo shown to the left, is on the first advertising rate card issued by Radlon (Sales) Limited in 1964, and it claims to represent advertising sales for the offshore Radio London. But that station was deemed to be a 'pirate' by the UK government and so it was never registered as a trading company. In fact, the British Broadcasting Corporation had used that name before World War II.
Litton Industries used the same kind of type font for its 'r', but it placed its 'i' underneath the 'r' instead of alongside it like Radlon (Sales) Ltd. The Radio London version used a much skinnier font from the one used by Litton, and the truncated version used by the Paynes.
The Paynes admit that they got their misinformation about Don Pierson and 'Wonderful Radio London' from Elliot and Ben Toney, whose autobiography they published. They also took on the liabiliaty of publishing it. In fact, Mary Payne admits as much on her web site. But 
does the account by Ben Toney differ from the real story about the original Radio London and its latter-day version? The answer is, yes, it does, and significantly so on both accounts.
First of all the second phase of Wonderful Radio London began long before Elliot and the Paynes began their own fraudulentt impersonations, because it began around 1979 with the arrival of Mervyn Hagger in Eastland, Texas. That is where he met Don Pierson for the first time.
HOW MERVYN MET DON
However, Mervyn Hagger had first attempted to make contact with Don Pierson by letter. It was written on August 16, 1967 and mailed from Birmingham, England. On Sunday, May 22, 1983, Mervyn Hagger found that letter in one of the cardboard boxes containing the legal and company archives of Don Pierson in Eastland, Texas.
When Mervyn Hagger wrote that letter, he was both an accredited member of the National Union of Journalists, and an associate member of the Foreign Press Association as a published feature writer for British newspapers and a company newspaper.
This is where, when and how the foundation for the trio of Mervyn Hagger, Genie Baskir and Dr Eric Gilder was built and which enabled them to met for the first time. That initial joint meeting began what has now become an investigation that has lasted for decades to become the foundation for this explanaion about the real story behind not just offshore broadcasting, but the origins of broadcasting itself. It is also the story of how KLIF in Dallas morphed into Radio London, and then how the British Broadcasting Corporation attempted to morph it into their own copycat station called 'BBC Radio One'.