Of Salisbury, MD died Saturday, December 25, 2010 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Born October 4, 1921 in Winchester, MA, he was the son of the late Carmine and Grace Tucci. He worked in the Passport Division with the Department of State. He was a United States Navy veteran. Survivors include his sister, Dona Raymond; nieces: Jeanne Fineran and Judith Diven and nephews: Peter Raymond, Robert (Bob) Raymond, Dennis Raymond and James Henson. No Services are planned at this time. Arrangements are in the care of Holloway Funeral Home, 501 Snow Hill Rd. Salisbury, Maryland 21804.
To send condolences to the family visit www.hollowayfh.com. Dominic L. Tucci
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January 11, 2011
An old friend who will always remember the friendliness of Leo Tucci while with the U.S. Passport office many years ago.
Joe Payne.
~ Joseph Payne, New Tazewell, Tennessee, December 31, 2010
A very old friend of long ago God Bless
Doris Walsh
History Matters - Copy of Lee Harvey Oswald's Refusal Notice issued by Frances G. Knight, U.S. Passport Office on March 25, 1960. Warren Commission record no. 962
History Matters - Operations Memorandum from Department of State, Washington, D.C. to American Embassy, Moscow March 28, 1960. Also another Memo not included from PPT (Passport Office) that was dated July 20, 1960.
Who I thought might have been Barbara Watson's initials on notes with BW seems to have been Bernice Waterman SCS (Special Consular Services) Note dated March 15, 1961 regarding Lee Harvey Oswald writing to his mother on the welfare aspect. This shows that PPT and probably SY (Office of Security) was building a case on Lee Harvey Oswald. Passport Office is trying to track Oswald.
Many memo's and letters with the Warren Commission Hearings, Volume XVIII are from Passport Office Officials. Robert D. Johnson was head of the Legal Department (PT/L). He presented me with the High Quality Step Increase in 1972.
In this memorandum the U.S. Passport Office directs anyone at the Moscow Embassy to facilitate Oswalds entry back into the U.S. The statement - "For the best interest of the United States, therefore, and as the possession of a passport might facilitate his obtention* of an exit visa it is believed that we should do everything within our power to facilitate Oswald's entry into the United States". *("Obtention" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792.)
Mr. Kupic signs a memo Requesting the file of Lee Harvey Oswald on November 17, 1961 (Mr. Kupiec sent me to the Eighth floor of the U.S. Passport Office with an "Eyes Only" envelope for Secretary of State, Henry Kissenger. Strangely to me in according the the record the file then was marked as No Lookout File , meaning that the designation had been removed by August 2, 1961.
In this memo, dated November 22, 1961 (exactly 2 years till Oswald executed Kennedy) Mr. Kupiec is asked to return Lee Harvey Oswald file that had been charged to him since November 17th.
From History Matters - Warren Commission, Volume XXII: CE 1057 - Internal memorandum
An original passport application, executed and signed by LEE H . OSWALD, which includes a photograph of OSWALD and reflects the stamp indicating passport 1-nod June 25, 1963, was made available to SA EUGENE C . GIES by MUIMAY HELLMAN, lawyer, Legal Advisor's Office, U . S. Department of State (USDS), Washington, D . C . This original application was hand carried by SA GIES to the FBI Laboratory and turned over to SA JAMES B. CADIGAN .
T0 : J . Lee Rankin
FROM : W . David Slawson
SUBJECT : Personal Check on State Department Files
Reference is made to the letter from Mr . Abram Chayes, the Legal Adviser to the Department of State, dated May 8, 1964 and the memorandum attached thereto . Question No . 1 in that memorandum asks the Department of State to explain the appearance of the word "NO" on the copy of a list of applicants for passports which was sent by telegram from the New Orleans passport office to the passport office in Washington, D . C ., on June 24, 1963 . The answer given by the Department of State is that NO" signifies that the message originated in the New Orleans passport office and that this symbol is routinely placed on incoming teletype messages by anyone of the group of employees in the TWX section . The answer goes on to say that the placement of the symbol on this particular message opposite to the name of Lee Harvey Oswald was purely coincidental .
We all went into the large filing room where files of this kind are kept . Mr . Tucci told me that telegrams of this type are kept for three years before being destroyed, and in view of the fact that a great number come in each day, this means that the filing space required is substantial . I told him to give me the telegrams from the New Orleans passport office for June 1963 . He took them out of the file drawer In my presence and handed them to me . I looked at e_rtually every telegram in the group he gave me, which included all of June . All but two or three out of the approximately 50-60 telegrams I estimate were in the file had the letters "NO" written on them in red pencil . Moreover, in almost all cases the symbol appeared about two-thirds of the way down the page on the right hand aide, the same place it appeared on the message containing the name of Lee Harvey Oswald . = next asked Mr . Tucci to show me the telegrams from the New York passport office for June 1963 " I chose New York simply at random, wanting to check the routine from some office other than New Orleans . He produced tm :m from the file drawer in my presence . Examination of the New York telegrams gave the same results as the examination of the New Orleans telegrams, excet that here of course the symbol was "NY" Instead of "NO ."
I Inquired of Mr . Tucci whether there were any written procedural guides or similar documents which would show that the passport office employees were to follow the foregoing procedure of marking Incoming telegrams of this type or that simply listed the symbols used, for example, "NO" for "New Orleans ." Mr . Tucci did not know whether any written regulations existed, but he said that he would search for them and if any could be found he would see that the Commission received a copy . In the meantime he thought it wise that we ask some employees whether they knew of any such written regulations, and we did so . None of the employees was aware that such procedures had ever been put into written
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If you or your students have ever had questions about Mother Mary, this site is for you. It offers insight to frequently asked questions about Mary. It is a site set up my Marian scholars. You can submit your own questions and someone will answer it for you. Some questions and answers include: What do we know about Mary's life? Which are the Marian feast days? Why does Mary always wear light blue? What do Catholics believe about the virginity of Mary? Why do there seem to be so many Marian apparitions? Why do Catholics pray to Mary? This page is maintained by the Marian Library/International Marian Research institute, Dayton, Ohio. -- Leo Tucci
This site is useful for anyone who would like to learn more about praying the Rosary. Visitors of this site can browse the information by links or by categories. Some information includes: "About the rosary," "How to pray the rosary," as well as a link to a bimonthly newsletter of the Rosary confraternity. It offers graphics that can be printed for use in the classroom. It also plays beautiful religious music, like Ave Maria, as you browse. -- Leo Tucci
Ocean City pleasure: bountiful fall rockfish Outdoors
November 15, 1998|By Peter Baker | Peter Baker,SUN STAFF
OCEAN CITY -- In mid-November, the sights and sounds at the south end of the boardwalk are in sharp contrast to those at the peak of the tourist season, when the parking lots are chock with cars, the promenade and beaches are packed with sun and junk-food worshipers and the smells from the Thrasher's french fries stand thicken the breeze.
Tourists are so few the municipal parking meters have been removed.
But in the nearshore waters, at the inlet and for a short distance into the back bays, there is a lightly used recreational fishery that might have the potential to send crowds of hardy fishermen down the ocean. And it is neither tautog nor sea bass, both of which have been the main fare for jetty and inshore anglers for many years. Instead, Maryland Fisheries Service biologists say, it is striped bass, the big rockfish that migrate south along the Atlantic Coast in autumn.
"Rockfish?" asked Jay Joo, a mortgage banker from Silver Spring who was fishing from the eastern tip of the north jetty Thursday morning. "I'm after tautog. I have seen people catching rockfish here, but it's one or two now and then, and usually they are too small to keep."
Charles Robinson and Leo Tucci (Mr. Robinson was the head of the General Services Division, U.S. Passport Office, Joe Payne) were bundled up as they sat along the jetty at the height of the afternoon warmth and the peak of the turning tide, talking and fishing as they have for dozens of years.
"Stripers? We don't fish for them," said Robinson, who retired from the U.S. Passport Office in Washington along with his friend, Tucci. "We usually come down starting in September through October, November and December, mostly for tautog or trout."
Tucci, who now lives in Salisbury, said he has been fishing Ocean City for 35 or 40 years, and stripers have never been a heavily targeted species.
"We're mostly tautog fishermen," said Tucci, as he sat on his bait bucket. "Maybe that's part of the reason we don't do much with stripers, which feed best at night.
"Tautog don't bite at night. When it gets dark, you might as well pack up and go home."
But for the anglers who are willing to play the tides and dress for the chilly and sometimes blustery weather of late fall and early winter, some of the best striper fishing of the year might be found along the Maryland coast.
"This is absolutely an under-utilized fishery," said Martin L. Gary, chief of the Fisheries Service Allocation and User Group Program. "And what perplexes me is that all the effort is at the inlet and the Route 50 bridge.