Appendix
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, or 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-year-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 trademark which over time was allowed to lapse into disuse. That logo is 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 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 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 liability 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 later-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 fraudulent 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 explanation 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'.