Kennedy's Killers

S1.25 - NO 3 06721 EWSREAL IES Tracking Down Kennedy's Killers

NEW EVIDENCE CIA Man Who Knew Oswald Tells How Castro Paid For The Assassination • How The CIA Could Have Stopped It Details Of Ruby-Oswald Meetings

JFK Murder Is Linked To Watergate HACK P .

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HIS month's NEWSREAL Series topic is Explanation Page 2 undoubtedly the single most important piece of unfinished business before the federal T Comment Page 3 government. Three of our national leaders have been gunned down Castro Paid for JFK's Death Page 5 and it is no longer possible to continue the sham that they were killed by "lone nut gunmen." Fish Intelligence Code Page 15 For more than 13 years now, our government has been controlled by people other than those we elected Operative A's Story Checks Page 16 to office. More Shocking Details In the name of national security, our Central Intelli- Page 21 gence Agency has been turned into a Murder Incorpo- Oswald Knew Ruby Page 23 rated, starting its private wars all over the world and executing people like Mafia hit men. Oswald's Note to 'Mr. Hunt' Page 27 Our Federal Bureau of Investigation has lied to us repeatedly and spied on laW abiding citizens instead of Is It H. L. Hunt? Page 28 the criminals they are suppose to be watching. We want no more of it! Or Is It E. Howard Hunt? Page 30 If the House Assassinations Committee can't do the Kennedy-King Deaths Linked job its carved out for itself, then, by all means, the Page 32 President should appoint a Special Assassinations Prose- Watson's Story Checked Page 35 cutor. The truth should out, NOW. JFK, ML K, RFK, Wallace Conspiracy Page 36 This issue was the work of Tom Lutz, who has spent the better part of the last three years probing the death How House Committee Came To Be Page 43 of John Kennedy. Jim Brading: Released Page 45

DeMohrenschildt & Oswald Page 47

The Committee's Leads PUBLISHER: Julie S. Hendren Page 49 EDITOR: Tom Valentine Hall: Proof FBI Lied Page 52 MANAGING EDITOR: Kathy Redmond Watergate Analysis, Page 55 ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Tom Lutz They Knew Of A Plot Page 58 ART DIRECTOR: Henry Thornton Intergraphics Ltd. Two 'Tramps' Identified Page 62 NEWSREAL SERIES : Newsreel Series is the registered trademark of Newsreel Series, Inc. Entire contents copyright 'C.1976 by Newsreel Series, Inc., PO. Box 147, Morton Grove, iii. 60053. Nothing may be reproduced in whole or in part from this Coming Up Next Month publication without written permission of the publisher. Second-class mailing permit pending. Second- class postage paid at Chicago, Ill., and additional CANCER mailing offices. SUBSCRIPTIONS: $12.00 paid annually for 12 issues subscription. $24.00 paid two years for 24 The Medical issues. An additional $1 must be added for subscri- bers living in Canada and Mexico; $2 elsewhere other than the United States. 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PAGE 2 KENNEDY NEVVSFIEAL SERIES COMMENT By TOM LUTZ

EOPLE I meet who learn that while the CIA and the FBI may Can anyone believe that the CIA is that I've been investigating have done many wrong things in con- under control when it's operatives may p the assassination of President nection with the Kennedy assassina- be setting up assassinations and the Kennedy universally have one question tion, they want to believe that things leaders of the CIA are arranging to ask me. are better now, that the CIA and the private wars? Despite the horror stories that came FBI have been cleaned up. I submit that the investigation of out of Watergate and the subsequent The sad truth is that the CIA and the CIA and the FBI by the Senate probe of the CIA, people ask me this: the FBI are no better today than they Select Committee on Intelligence was Do you really believe the CIA, the were in 1963. Maybe they are worse. a white wash that barely touched the FBI and other intelligence agencies Early in April of this year, the tip of the ice berg. could have been involved in the as- Washington Post reported that a I would like to believe that Presi- sassination? When I begin to explain former CIA explosive expert, Edward dent Carter did not approve the CIA that it is very likely that both the CIA P. Wilson, and three Miami-based plans to have mercenaries fight in and the FBI were involved in at least anti-Castro Cubans were being sought Zaire, and I don't believe he gave such the cover up of the conspiracy that in connection with the bomb-murder approval. Yet the CIA is out building murdered President Kennedy, I am of Chilean Ambassador Orlando Lete- its own private army for a war Con- usually confronted with looks of lier. gress hasn't approved. dismay. People simply don't want to Letelier was killed in 1976, our bi- I would like to believe that former know the truth about their govern- centennial year. President Ford didn't approve plans to ment, I've learned. They know what Wilson's name popped up in the have the Chilean Ambassador mur- I'm saying is probably true, but they Letelier hit after it was learned that dered, and I don't believe he did, but would just as soon not know about it. Libyan sources contacted him about he was murdered nonetheless. (By the same token, however, people acquiring a remote-control detonation The inescapable fact is that intelli- still want to hear about a conspiracy in device similar to the one used in Lete- gence agencies of this country are JFK's death. I attribute this to the lier's murder. The source in Libya uncontrollable monsters that have run American fascination with mystery. wanted a Libyan living in Egypt assas- amuck. They make up their own rules, People view the JFK case much like sinated. do as they please and are accountable they do a segment of "Kojak" or Later in April Newsday, the Long to no one. "Charlie's Angels." Sadly, the JFK Island, N.Y., tabloid newspaper re- Is the price we must pay for our assassination is not fiction.) ported that the CIA was recruiting freedom the total loss of it? It is equally true that people believe mercenaries to fight in Zaire.

NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 3 err OPERATIVE A's STORY Castro Paid For Kennedy's Death And The CIA Could Have Stopped It

By TOM LUTZ South America and Africa. They also the Everglades and also operated out carried out many covert operations in of a CIA "safe house" south of down- RESIDENT John F. Kennedy the United States. town Miami. was murdered by teams of as- Prior to President Kennedy's elec- The CIA support of Alpha 66 and psassins led by a double agent tion victory over Richard Nixon, Fidel the other Cuban exile forces included working for Castro's Cuba, but the as- Castro overthrew the Cuban govern- payments of $1,000 a month to a sassination could have been prevented ment with considerable assistance private in the exile army, $1,100 to a had the Central Intelligence Agency from the CIA. Were it not for people Cuban sergeant, $1,200 to a Cuban acted on warnings from Lee Harvey like Captain William Morgan and lieutenant and $1,500 or much more Oswald. Frank Sturgis, who became one of the to a Cuban major, depending upon the That and a multitude of other Watergate burglars, Castro's revolution major's potential role in the planned shocking revelations came in an inter- would have failed. Morgan and Sturgis invasion. view with a man who worked for the and other Americans molded together At the same time that the Cuban CIA and knew Oswald well. This Castro's fighting force. exiles were in training, Cuban exiled source did not testify before the However, after the Cuban revolu- leaders established various organiza- Warren Commission nor has he ever tion, Castro declared his government tions to which those Cuban soldiers told a reporter what he knows. He con- communistic. It was at that point that belonged and paid tribute. sented to the interview only if I would the CIA switched to backing Cuban Operative "A" said that the Cuban not reveal his name. Much of his story exiles in their fight against Castro. soldiers were forced to pay up to 80 matches known or suspected facts Alpha 66 originally was to be per cent of their monthly payments about the assassination, and some of it named First Brigade American Volun- from the CIA to the various Cuban is entirely new but more plausible than teers, then it had no name and was organizations. the official Warren Commission therefore called "No Name," then it Some of the organizations to which Report. All of it is documentable. His became known as the 30th November the Cubans were forced to pay their code name for this article is operative Group and finally Alpha 66, operative "A." tribute were the Cuban Revolutionary "A" said. Council (a confederation of many Operative "A" insists that to under- Following the declaration by Castro other anti-Castro groups), Cuban Exile stand why John Kennedy was killed, that Cuba was to be communistic, the Orphanages, relief funds, etc. Accord- one must disregard "official" history Eisenhower White House, in the form ing to operative "A," the Cuban exile beginning before the Bay of Pigs. of Special Group 54/12, which was leaders then skimmed those funds, Then, once you underqtand the full headed by Vice President Richard M. banking the money in secret accounts circumstances leading to JFK's mur- Nixon, decided that assistance should in Mexico and around the world. der, you will also see how the same be given to the Cuban exiles. When President Kennedy learned forces were behind the deaths of That assistance led toward what the where the CIA money was going, he Robert Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther White House hoped would be a suc- cut off all further payments. This left King and the Watergate Affair. cessful invasion of Cuba and the over- the Cuban exile leaders high and dry, Operative "A" met the real Lee throw of the Castro government. operative "A" said, and they, there- Harvey Oswald when he was a CIA- Through the CIA alone, more than fore, became more and more eager to connected guerrilla officer training $50 million a year was being spent on bring about an invaison. They felt, Cuban exile troops in the Everglades JM WAVE, an operation set up outside operative "A" said, that if they could of Florida. Supposedly, according to the University of Miami to fund and establish a beachhead on Cuba that the Warren Commission, Oswald was coordinate the Cuban exiles training Kennedy would recognize a govern- in Russia at that time. He was not. An in Florida and outside New Orleans. ment in exile and then reestablish sup- Oswald double, working for the CIA After the election, President Ken- port payments, which they could and called "Gibraltor," was in Russia. nedy continued to support JM WAVE, then continue to skim. Those Cuban exiles, called Alpha and thus the CIA-backed Alpha 66. The result was the so-called "Bay 66, were responsible for considerable Operative "A" said that he was a of Pigs Invasion." secret combat action throughout lieutenant who trained volunteers in This invasion was carried out with- NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 5 "Operation Pedro" had far greater implications for the United States government and particularly the CIA. Castro agents were able to round up every CIA operative on the island. That meant that Castro agents had penetrated the CIA at a very high level. And because of that "leak," Castro knew every move the CIA made, inside and outside the United States. Moreover, it was because of that CIA "leak" that plans to kill President Kennedy were allowed to go forth, according to operative "A." Operative "A" contends that many, many people in the Cuban exile combat groups were aware of the CIA "leak," despite the fact that it was supposedly classified. Operative "A" would like others to confirm this by contacting this magazine. When the 2506 division did invade, it did not depart from the United States. The U.S., therefore, could Capt. Manuel Artime, a close friend of not stop the invasion. By the same E. Howard Hunt, was captured in token, the U.S. could not officially Cltba during an unsuccessful invaion. assist the invasion either. If Castro Artime later raised funds for the could have proved that the U.S. Watergate burglars. directly aided the 2506 division, it might have meant a world war with out sanction of the CIA or anyone else Russia coming to Castro's assistance. in the U.S. government. It was led by The tension was electrifyingly high the Cuban Revolutionary Council's for the drama that unfolded. Operative 2506 division, probably the worse rag- "A" was directed to attend meetings Anti-Castro leader Dr. Jose Cardona, tag bunch among the Cuban exile with uniformed men from the various whose son led the 2506 division in forces, according to operative "A." branches of the United States armed the Bay of Pigs invasion. However, three days prior to the forces. The officers explained what so-called Bay of Pigs invasion, Castro President Kennedy's position on the Castro was in a unique position. While instituted "Operation Pedro." Opera- invasion was and why. They then he might have wanted to crush the tion Pedro involved Cuban agents asked for suggestions from Operative invading forces he had more than arresting the complete CIA spy net- "A" and the other American leaders 5,000 men and 80 tanks awaiting the work operating in Cuba. This meant of the Cuban exiles who were not a rag-tag 2506 division, which was that no one would be able to assist the part of the 2506 division. composed of roughly 1,100 men -- he 2506 division when it landed in Cuba. Operative "A" explained that could not. Many of the invading men

Anti-Castro landing craft used in the Bay of Pigs invasion. Castro published this picture as proof that the CIA hacked the Bay of Pigs invasion.

NEWSREAL SERIES PAGE 6 KENNEDY landed, a high ranking officer of the Castro and the so-called invading 2506 division radioed Castro the posi- 2506 division. It was the 176 men who tions of the invaders. That high rank- parachuted onto Cuban soil who ing officer was a Castro agent, and the brought about the fighting. Neverthe- entire Bay of Pigs invasion might very less, the Castro forces had little dif- well have been staged by Castro him- ficulty capturing more than 1,100 self. men, so Castro got exactly what he As a consequence, operative "A" wanted — if not what he planned: The and the Americans were faced with ability to embarrass the United States this situation: and President Kennedy in the eyes of • Castro had the 2506 division sur- the world. rounded and could capture every man Because of that embarrassment, without firing a shot. Castro could President Kennedy was furious. He then declare to the world that he had ordered a total shut down of all the defeated a CIA-led invasion, force. He activities of the Cuban exiles. Contrary had, he could say, beaten the United to his orders, however, the CIA con- States. tinued to use the Cuban exiles all over ▪ The 2506 division was a mess. the world. All attempts to stop the Even if many of the men would have CIA-backed exiles failed, including the gladly given their lives just to fight U.S. Marines and Special Forces that Castro, they were so poorly organized were sent into the Everglades to cap- (probably because the high-ranking ture operative "A's" men. Instead of officer who was a Castro agent made capturing and disarming the exiles, them that way) that when they the exiles captured one team of landed, they did not even have their Special Forces. equipment. They had to wait until Since the CIA could no longer fund that was put ashore. Moreover, they the Cuban exiles with President Ken- had loaded at least one tank aboard nedy's approval, it put the Cubans into the invasion ship, but they had no the illegal drug smuggling business or means of getting it ashore. paid them with counterfeit money, It was in this setting that operative operative "A" said. The Cubans hated "A" suggested to the American armed the idea of being involved in illegal forces officers that additional Cuban drug smuggling operations, but they Antonio de Varona, another 2506 exiles could be airlifted and dropped did so anyway to support their guer- division political leader. by parachute to force Castro to fight. rilla forces. If any of the Cubans were The American officers agreed with the caught with the illegal drugs or the idea but said that U.S. air force planes counterfeit money, the CIA denied had relatives living in Cuba and Cas- could not be used. It was then• that any knowledge of illegal activities, and tro was afraid that if he had to kill all operative "A" said that his Cuban the Cubans and those Americans in- the anti-Castro Cuban invaders, it exiles had their own planes -- 16 B26s. volved went to jail. Operative "A" said might backfire on him with an internal This revelation shocked the American he once buried more than $300,000 revolution. officers, but they quickly agreed to that was given to him by the CIA be- But Castro actually was uncon- the plan and 176 men from operative cause he knew it was counterfeit. The cerned about this. When the invaders "A's" forces were dropped between Cuban exiles also stole arms and sup-

One of Alpha 66's 16 B-26 bombers that was shot down over Cuba in the Bay of Pigs invasion.

NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 7 plies when the CIA would provide command of the safe house and opera- unclear what his assignment was. them with plans of bases from which tive "A" was appointed his executive However, the file showed that Os- they took the arms and supplies. The officer. "That was a crazy time," wald was recruited into CIA work FBI knew nothing about the illegal operative "A" recalled. Walker was of (Note: neither he nor operative "A" activities prompted by the CIA. The the "old school" and he could not were CIA agents; they were operatives) FBI, therefore, chased the Cuban comprehend the concept of building when Oswald was with the Marines exiles all over the country. Worse a guerrilla army. "Gen. Walker showed at Atsugi in Japan. He worked with a yet, the CIA then used the Cuban up wearing his general's stars," opera- security clearance on the U-2 recon exiles for its "private wars" all over tive "A" said. "He announced that he flights over Russia. the world, trumping up reasons why was in command by authority of the The CIA "washed" Oswald out of the Cubans should be lighting in U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. the Marines just as they had operative Africa "against Castro." The Cubans There's no question about it: He was wanted only one thing: to overthrow a little bananas. I think if he would Castro. Yet the CIA used them where have walked in in his T-shirt, he still ever it wanted to use them. would have been wearing those stars." After the Bay of Pigs, Castro agreed Gen. Walker, whci lasted only a to exchange his prisoners for U.S. short time at the Miami safe house, medical supplies. According to opera- did institute many reforms in Alpha tive "A," the man who arranged the 66. He discontinued the practice of exchange with Castro was none other simply letting sick or injured guer- than Jack Ruby, a lowly stripjoint rilla trainees die in the Everglades. owner who later shot and killed Lee He wanted to change the practice of Harvey Oswald after the assassination shooting injured personnel who were of President Kennedy. Operative "A" unable to make their own escapes was never in direct contact with Ruby, during a covert operation. On that but he believes he probably operated count, he failed. Walker got the Alpha for Clay Shaw, the New Orleans 66 forces better supplies, water, food businessman District Attorney Jim and uniforms. He was even able to Garrison tried for conspiracy to assas- secure medical supplies to treat sinate the President. Shaw was a "free- "jungle rot," which was very bother- lancer" in the intelligence community some to the exiles. He also arranged who would work for the highest to have many of the Cubans trained bidder — be that the CIA, the KGB or at regular army training centers, Castro. Ruby knew Castro from the such as Ft. Henning. days he ran gals to him and ran drugs Immediately upon Walker's arrival, out of Cuba. Ruby's connections will operative "A" and Oswald, who had be detailed in other articles in this just finished his third week of training magazine. in the Everglades, were ordered back to the safe house. Operative "A" had ALPHA 66 taken Oswald into the Everglades for guerrilla training. Back at the safe To understand what happened in house Oswald went to classes and Dealey Plaza November 22, 1963, it operative "A" did Walker's bidding. is necessary to understand the world Among those chores were reviewing all of Alpha 66 — the world into which the CIA-connected people in Alpha Lee Harvey Oswald was sent. 66. Oswald's file was among those. Operative "A" first saw Lee Harvey According to operative "A," the Oswald at the CIA "safe house" in Oswald file clearly indicated that a Miami. This was shortly before Gener- "second Oswald" was in Russia. He al Edwin A. Walker took over the was code named "Gibraltor." It was

PAGE 8 KENNEDY NEWSREAL SERIES "A" — with less than honorable dis- Operative "A" recalls having taken wald was "wired, up tight, nervous." charges. While the Warren Commis- Oswald into the Everglades before sion contends that Oswald almost However, he wasn't in much different Gen. Walker took over the Miami safe shape than the rest of the recruits. immediately went to Russia, the Os- house. Like everyone else, Oswald was wald who was arrested in Dallas and When they arrived, according to issued fatigues, boots, a first aid kit, operative "A," Oswald was allowed to the Oswald operative "A" knew in 'a knife and a canteen with water puri- rest briefly with the rest of the men. Miami and the Everglades did not. fication pills. Then, as was the ritual with all new (While the file said that the real Os- During the journey into the Ever- wald was in Miami, operative "A" recruits, Oswald was given "black bag" glades at night (they traveled at night routine. The "black bag" routine in- is willing to admit that he may have for cover and because it made the ex been handling the Oswald double.) volved having the new recruits stand in perience that much more scary), Os front of black bags. Inside the bags were nonpoisonous snakes, generally Anacondas. The instructor would then ask each recruit if he was afraid of snakes. When each recruit would answer "no," the instructor would pull the snake out of the bag and let the snake bite the recruit. How the recruit reacted would be a good indication of what he knew about snakes. Os- wald's reaction was typical. He tried to administer first aid to himself. (Obviously, Oswald had to be taught about snakes. Operative "A" taught him, although he said that Oswald was always afraid of any snake.) Then the recruits were forced to eat the snakes — raw. After Oswald was in training only three weeks, both operative "A" and Oswald were ordered back to the safe house in Miami. However, Oswald had presented himself well during the training. Normally only about one- third of the recruits made it through the first three weeks. The others were washed out. Oswald and operative "A" walked out of the Everglades to a predeter- mined point, at which they were picked up and given a ride the rest of the way in a truck. The men laid on the floor of the bed of the truck with the flaps on the back of the truck drawn closed. . Back at the safe house, operative "A" became Gen. Walker's executive officer. "The old man even promoted me," operative "A" said. "He made me a captain, and that was funny be- Alpha 66 Above is a group of Americans and anti- Castro Cubans who were arrested in the Florida Everglades. At the left and moving right are: Gary Patrick Hemming, Lawrence John Howard, Emilio ("Sun Tan") Santana, Loran Eugene Hall, and William Syemour. All were involved in the guerrilla forces of Alpha 66.

NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 9 cause he didn't know it but the CIA didn't have such a rank for those connected with the Cuban exiles." (One other man was promoted to captain, Capt. Pina. Pina lost his left eye when a P.T. boat he commanded was strafed by Communist Cuban aircraft, and he now wears a patch over that eye and works intelligence.) Oswald was told to report for classes. From time to time from then until they left Miami, Oswald and operative "A" met and socialized. From a man code named "Charlie Novak," Oswald learned Russian phrases. Oswald -- at least this one — didn't speak Russian. "Charlie Novak" was an ex-Russian air force pilot who had defected to the U.S. Another man Oswald saw a lot of at the safe house was his roommate, a former amateur wrestler from Bowling Green, Ky., who washed out of the program at the training camp. Life at the safe house, according to operative "A," was far better than what Oswald experienced in the Ever- glades. Out there, recruits were awakened each morning and put before a "firing squad" that fired blank bullets — which was training for the recruits in how to die well. At the safe house, the food was excellent, operative "A" said, and it was available around the clock. The house was owned by an American woman who worked in the kitchen. "I am convinced that she didn't know it was a CIA operation," operative "A" said. "For all I know, she thought she - was running an orphanage. These were 'her boys,' and she treated them like Reenactment of the assassination as described by operative ".4. "At the to that. One day, she came to me and above is the view from the drainage port or sewer where "Tony" fired. Th said that her money was late. She said photo below shows how a man could fit into that sewer, At the left is ho that she hated to complain but that the Cuban may have escaped from his position behind the fence. That sem the food was expensive. I got her the port links with the one on the street where the President s car passed. The a money. I'm sure this woman is still sassins could have simply walked out of the sewer, which surfaces miles awc alive. She liked Oswald a lot and called from Dealey Plaza. him her 'pet.' " Operative "A" and Oswald became close enough friends that the two traveled by car to visit operative "A's" mother. Oswald drove the car, was issued to "Leon H. Oswald," and and more aware that they were being although the Warren Commission de- that one included both a driver's used by the CIA. Operative "A" said termined that Lee Harvey Oswald license and a pilot's license. To opera- that the Cubans actually hated the didn't know how to drive. tive "A's" knowledge, Oswald could CIA, and had they known that he was "That's bull," said operative "A." not fly -- although operative "A" working for the CIA, they might have "Oswald drove all over the place. He knows that his pilot's license and iden- killed him was a crazy driver, too. In the CIA, tification were used any number of "The Cubans had good cause to we were always renting cars and Os- other times by those connected with be angry," operative "A" said. "The wald was always bringing them back the CIA Miami safe house. The second CIA used the Cubans for whatever all banged up." set of identification in Oswald's file they wanted." Among those "uses" I told operative "A" that a police was for "Lee Harvey Oswald," and were: • The assassinations of Rafael chief in Ohio swears that he gave that identification included a driver's Truillo of the Dominican Republic and Oswald a speeding ticket. That jogged license also. Many other people used Patrice Lumumbo of the Congo, and operative "A's" memory: "I think I that ID, too. the attempted assassination of Papa remember that. We got pinched some- Doc Francios Duvalier of Hatti. place in the Mid-west." THE PLOT Operative "A" explained that in Os- • The "phony" war in Dominican wald's file — he called it a 201 — there Following the disaster of the Bay of Republic, in which Cuban exiles were two sets of identification. One Pigs, the Cuban exiles became more dressed up like Castro guerrillas and

NEWSREAL SERIE: PAGE 10 KENNEDY ecuted when CIA-man Robert St. Clair arranged for the Haitian govern. ment to execute a British M-16 agent in operative "A's" place. The British agent was in Haiti on a vacation. Naturally, the British government registered a strong protest. After the Dominican Republic disaster, the Cuban exile guerrilla forces began to split up and be highly distrustful of anything that smelled of the CIA. It was in the Spring of 1962 when operative "A" was first approached about the plot that was already in mo- tion to assassinate John F. Kennedy. Oswald was present at the Miami safe house with operative "A" when two other men made appearances. One was known to operative "A" as "Tony." According to the information operative "A" had at that time, "Tony" was one individual to avoid. He had fought originally for Castro and acted as a double agent for the CIA. The Cubans nicknamed him "The Butcher" because of his blood thirsty tactics. At the time he showed up at the Miami safe house, he had a red beard and red hair. Operative "A" believes "Tony" was wearing a dis- guise. "Tony," operative "A" later learned, was acting as a Castro agent, and he organized and led the assassination squad that murdered President Kennedy. Operative "A" did not learn the true identity of "Tony" until after the full developments of Water- gate. "Tony" is still alive. In fact, he is now a full CIA agent. Another man who appeared at the Miami safe house was "Tom K—," whose real name was known to operative "A" at the time. "Tom K--" is still alive. Today he runs his own private "army-for-hire," and he has pulled off several daring raids into Mexico. "Tom K—" also became one of the assassins. In fact, it was "Tom K—" who originally approached operative "A" invaded that island country. The to become part of the assassination on these charges, including Trujillo's squad. He invited operative "A" to Cuban exiles were told that if Tru- assassination. jillo were convinced that Castro had join him for coffee. Once they were • The same type of "phony" in the restaurant, "Tom K--" told invaded his country, he might call for invasion was also tried in Hatti. U.S. assistance and then allow the anti- operative "A," "We are really going Among other things, Cuban exile places now. I'm on my way to New Castro Cuban exiles to use the Domi- B-26s, disguised to look like Castro nican Respublic as a staging area from York. We are going to kill the presi- planes, strafed and bombed that is- dent." which they could invade Cuba. Once land country. They also dressed up the Cuban exiles, disguised as Castro- Naturally, operative "A" could not dead Cuban exiles in Castro guerrilla believe what he heard. He declined to ites, were on the Dominican Republic, uniforms and threw them out of air- the CIA double-crossed them by send- join the others who shortly thereafter planes onto the island of Haiti, making left for New York in a Nash Rambler. ing in six CIA P-51 Mustangs to strafe, it convenient for the Haitian govern- wound and kill the Cuban exiles and As soon as he could, operative "A" ment to find the evidence, and thus reported back to his CIA superior, U.S. Airborne Forces on the island. In again making it appear that Castro other words, the CIA had a private who instructed operative "A" to go to forces were on the island. Operative New York and penetrate the assassina- war with itself – and the victims "A" is very familar with the operation were both Cuban and American. tion group. It was the hope of that the CIA was running in Haiti. He was CIA superior that in penetrating the Operative "A" wonders if ex-CIA mart in an airplane that was shot down over Lee Echols would like to comment group, the CIA might learn where Haiti. He was scheduled to be ex- their CIA "leak" was that allowed

NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 11 Castro to know every move the CIA which point the identities would be had been making since before the switched back. Bay of Pigs invasion. Operative "A" Because the assassination plot was stressed that it was because the CIA based on a "need to know" intelli- wanted to plug up its "leak" that it gence operation, Oswald was never allowed the plan to move forward. told the exact location of the assas- Operative "A" went to New York. sination until only a short time before After much difficulty, he located the the assassination. apartment in which the group was While the plans for the assassination meeting and plotting the assassination. developed, operative "A" learned that That apartment was on the second two other people had penetrated the floor and had a ledge running around assassination group for the CIA. One the outside. Operative "A" got some was probably J.D. Tippit, operative window washer equipment and got out "A" believes. He was the policeman on that ledge. There he overheard the who was murdered after the assas- men discussing the fact that the sination. Oswald was 'blamed for his "second Oswald" was coming back death, although operative "A" does to New York from Russia and that not think Oswald killed him. they were going to switch Oswalds -- The other penetration was made by in other words, replace Lee Harvey a woman, whom operative "A" Oswald with his double. believes was either "Mary" or "Gloria Learning that Oswald might be in- Hope," a woman who taught at a volved in the plot, operative "A" university in Mexico City and was traced him down and eventually found believed to be a girlfriend of Jack him at the bus station in New York. Ruby. "The FBI knows about her," "When I saw him, I asked him, operative "A" said. "As incredible as 'Lee, what the hell is going on?' " this sounds, she was on loan to the operative "A" said. Oswald was visibly CIA from the FBI. That was the only shaken and told operative "A" that, time I ever heard about the FBI loan- yes, the group was planning to assas- ing the CIA someone. It was very sinate the president. Oswald said, how- unusual." ever, that he penetrated the group and Operative "A" explained that it was would report hack all developments. a standard intelligence practice to Operative "A" then called his CIA superior and he was ordered not to attempt a penetration himself. His CIA superior said that Oswald could be trusted and that operative "A" should maintain contact with Oswald to keep abreast' of the assassination plot and attempt to learn about the CIA "leak"- that went to Castro. At that point, it was June of 1962. Seventeen months later, the President of the United States was dead. (Operative "A" does not know from first-hand knowledge, but he assuthes that Marina Oswald had to be told something in order to have the "switch" come off without complica- tions. It is reasonable to assume that This photo was taken just moments after the assassination. The uniformed the location of the switch was Atlanta policeman is I.W. Foster. The man smoking the cigarette is &R. ("Buddy') where the "Gibraltor" Oswald and his Walthers, a Dallas sheriff's deputy. The man bending over and apparently wife changed planes and spent some picking something up identified himself as from the Secret Service, although time. When the "Oswald couple" the Secret Service has not been able to identify him. At first Wathers said the boarded a plane for the flight to man was picking up .45 shell casings or bullets, but then he quickly changed Dallas, they had less luggage then his story. Walthers is now dead. when they got off the plane in At- lanta.) make three penetrations of an organi- Oswald also had another Dallas From that point on, operative "A" zation. Each of the other two had "back up" man whom operative "A" had only debriefing contacts with "back ups" who operated with their believes now lives in California. Opera. Oswald. These were arranged when penetrated people the same way operative "A" never learned the identity of Oswald went to New Orleans and Mex- tive "A" did with Oswald. The CIA the man, but he feels confident that ico City. Operative "A" would sche- would get three reports back from the he would recognize him if he saw him. dule a trip for Oswald by bus or car. three penetrations and then match At one of the debriefing sessions, Someone else with either the "Leon them up. Apparently, operative "A" Oswald told operative "A": "These H. Oswald" ID or the ''Lee Harvey believes, the other two penetrations people are organized and they've got Oswald" ID that the CIA possessed were given the same misinformation money. They are going to kill the in Oswald's file would take Oswald's because their reports differed from Os- President of the United States." place in the car or bus, Oswald would wald's, but Oswald was getting the Oswald did provide operative "A" be debriefed and then flown ahead, at correct information. the only clue the CIA got as to the

PAGE 12 KENNEDY N EWSREAL SERIE grassy knoll; B was the drainage port picked up behind Dealey Plaza In the or sewer; and C was a building, which railyard as a man he had met who was became the County Records Building. with Naval Intelligence. That "tramp" Oswald's position, in what became was released and there is no record of the Book Depository, was also in- his arrest other than photos taken by dicated. The map also contained other newsmen.) important information, including From the debriefing sessions opera- weather temperature ranges and wind tive "A" had with Oswald, he learned speed ranges ; On the street, the map that the assassins were highly sophis- was marked off in meters. ("I remem- ticated. Each of A and C had backup ber that because I had a helluva time gunmen to help them escape and each figuring out the meters," operative team had different escape routes. "A" said.) The assassins knew the train schedules With the diagram, the CIA was able and had metered the kill zone down to to establish that the assassination was within inches. Oswald also reported going to take place someplace in the that they had the potential to throw southwest. That was the only area of up a blockade on the parade route. the country that would have such (It's known from photographs that temperatures and wind for that period one motorcycle policeman who was in of the year. The CIA then reviewed front of the President's car was in the street maps for hundreds of towns way of the car. That ought be one until they settled on Austin and explanation as to why the President's Dallas, both of which had locations car did not exceed 11 miles per hour that matched the map. At that point, until after all shots were fired.) operative "A" said, "we were, pretty Operative "A" believes that "Tom certain it was going to be Dallas. K—" made his getaway in the Nash Oswald told operative "A" that the Rambler. Sheriff Deputy Roger Craig man firing from point A would be a told the Warren Commission he saw Cuban who had been convinced by the a man about the build of Oswald get others that this would help the anti- into such a car and speed away. "Tom Castro cause. The man firing from B, K---" resembled Oswald in stature, in the sewer, would be "Tony." And operative "A" said. "hi fact, we used the man firing from point C was to to kid him and Oswald that they be "Tom K--." both walked alike." Oswald said that his role was to Operative "A" contends that the as- detonate an explosive in the building sassins probably knew who had pene- he was to occupy. This was to be a trated them and they probably also diversionary maneuver that would knew that Oswald wasn't going to per- bring the building down on the people form his role. That's why Oswald was below. The firing was to came prin- probably set up as the patsy. cipally from points B and A with C as Operative "A" said that the a back up. Point C, Oswald told morning of the assassination he operative "A," was going to have an received a desperate phone call from automatic weapon that would allow a Oswald in which Oswald said that he burst of up to 30 rounds in seconds if was right all along and that they were the other two failed to kill the Presi- going to kill the president that day. dent. By this time, there was very little that Oswald also reported that the as- operative "A" could do. He told Os- sassins had converted an abandoned air wald to stay by the phone and that he field in Mexico into a practice range would call him back. "I made a few „for the assassination. They even calls," operative "A" said, "but no ''.-plowed a road into the field at the pre- one would listen to me. Finally, I exact location of the assassination. It cise measurements of Dealey Plaza. called Oswald back and someone was an "overlay," which was a map. Oswald reported that point C on the else was on the line. That guy told me Oswald used lip balm extensively as map was a tower of the abandoned that Oswald had instructed him to a spy tool. He would cake the lip balm air strip, and that the assassins were take my message, l hung up." onto his lips and then wipe it off very concerned about that since the After the assassination, operative with a handkerchief. When the hand- tower wasn't high enough. "A" believes, Oswald tried to get kerchief was soaked with grease, he Whether or not those plans arrested. "He knew he was a dead could then lay it on a document and changed, operative "A" does not man. The best he could hope for is the grease on the cloth would pick up know. It doesn't surprise operative getting into jail and getting protec- the ink from the document. It was "A" that Oswald didn't set off the ex- tion. He needed to buy time." sort of a crude copying idea that CIA plosive and that none was found in Operative "A" said that, like people used in the field, and it is the Book Depository. "Oswald wasn't everyone else who worked for the CIA commonly referred to as an "overlay." there to cooperate with them," in the capacity that he and Oswald The overlay Oswald presented to operative "A" said. operative "A" was of a complicated did, Oswald was given a very high FBI Operative "A" is unable to explain cover code number. Operative "A" street map. While they didn't know it why the assassination wasn't stopped. at the time, it was of Dealey Plaza. theorizes that the reason no tape "There must have been 20 intelligence recordings or notes were kept of the On that map were three letters - agencies that were in on it," he said. A, B, and C. Position A became the interrogation of Oswald was that (He identified one of the "tramps" Oswald gave them his FBI number,

NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 13 which would have checked out, and did know Ruby because he mentioned paid for by Castro and he picked CIA- the Dallas police, the FBI and the him during one of the debriefings. tied men to perform it." Secret Service were at a total loss as to Operative "A" does believe that Operative "A" said that the Warren what to do about Oswald. This would many, many people must have known Commission had no other alternative fit with a conversation Oswald had almost immediately after the assas- but to cover up the real plot. It would with his brother Robert, Saturday sination who was responsible. "Hoover have destroyed our intelligence net- after his Friday night arrest. Robert had to know," he said. He noted that work and probably started World War Oswald described his brother this way: there were several reports of an as- III, he theorized. "He wasn't somewhere out in left sassination plot, including a bulletin Castro couldn't take "credit" for field. He was aware of what was out of Miami. "This plot was known the "hit" either, operative "A" said. happening. He was not at all nervous. throughout the police-intelligence That would have closed the CIA and We talked about some family things -- community," he said. cut off his intelligence "leak." Castro shoes for the baby – and then I cut in Sadly, the reason the plot was would also have "awaken the sleeping and said. 'Lee, they've got your gun. allowed to continue was that the CIA bear" (the American public) and his They've got your pistol. What the Sam wanted to trace the important "leak" banana Republic would have been Hill is it all about? And he just said, in its intelligence network that was smashed in a second. 'Don't believe all that so-called evi- going to Castro. Even with the presi- After it was over, one of operative dence.' " dent dead, the CIA still didn't know "A's" superiors summed up the Operative "A" readily admits that who was responsible for the teak. feeling of the CIA on the assassina- he doesn't know all there is to know "This much is certain," operative tion: about Ruby. He is certain that Oswald "A" said: "It (the assassination) was "We only lost one man."

Point C Warehouse Texas Schoolbook Oswald's Depository Window

Record's Building

Point A

Dealey Plaza

corornersa Street Overpass

This is an artist's rendition of a map Oswald gave to Operative "A." At that tune, neither Oswald nor operative "A" realized that the buildings would be Dealey Plaza. Point A is where one assassin shot, Point B is where "Tony" fired and Point C is where "Tom K—" would have fired an automatic weapon had not "Tony" and the Cuban, who fired from Point A, killed the President.

PAGE 14 KENNEDY NEWSREAL SERI Operative "A" also believes that there are many Cubans and their families who can provide information about the activities of the Cuban exiles that will confirm his story. The Cuban exiles who worked for the CIA were allowed to send Ardnas Says: letters and photos to their loved ones. The Fish Swims Shallow. This magazine will pursue all leads readers The Shark Swims Deep. send about the assassination and the ac- Go North-South Or East. tivities of the Cuban exiles. The majority of If the mystery of means of survival for those Cubans who died who murdered John F. the Cuban exiles. It in combat for the CIA Kennedy is ever to be operates in every com- received no benefits solved, many people munity in which from the United States who know operative Cubans reside. It is government. Their "A's" story is true will strongly anticommun- families are, we believe, have to step forward to ist and hopes one day entitled to normal GI confirm the details. to overthrow Fidel benefits, just like any Among those are Castro. other man fighting for certain to be people Operative "A" says the United States. If who are now a part of there are those in Fish through this magazine Fish Intelligence -- or Intelligence who know and whatever sources know of it. what he knows about that can be brought to "Officially, everyone the assassination and bear the whole story denies the existence of how the Cuban exiles can be told, then per- Fish Intelligence," says have been used by the haps those benefits will operative "A," "but CIA in covert opera- be given to the Cuban that is what came out tions around the world. exile families. of the assassination. Above is the symbol If you have a loved Fish is feeding the CIA of the Fish Intelligence one who fought with intelligence from all network. Below that is the Cuban exiles, if you over the world -- ba- a message, in code, yourself were with the sically free of charge. from operative "A" to Cuban exiles, or if you There are hundreds and anyone in the Fish have information rela- hundreds of thousands Intelligence who can tive to this story, con- of Cubans all over the help. According to tact this magazine with world working for us." operative "A," this is whatever evidence you Following the assas- the first time that the have. Write N EWS- sination, the Fish In- existence of Fish In- REAL, P.O. Box 147, telligence network telligence has ever been Morton Grove, Ill. came into being as a made public. 60053. NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 15 Operative A's Story Checks Out With Existing Facts

8y TOM LUTZ a self-alleged CIA contract employee, goofier than that," operative "A" Hugh C. McDonald, accused the man said. believe much of the story of who appears in CE 237 as being the So, operative "A" went to the CIA operative "A" because it actual assassin of President Kennedy. 201 files and pulled the ID of a man supplies something the War- McDonald referred to him in his book he had never met: Lee Harvey Oswald. I He then called a friend of his and ren Commission could not: why Lee as "Saul." Harvey Oswald was involved in the as- Operative "A" introduced me to asked him if he wanted to go to Mex- sassination of John F. Kennedy and Saul when we met at an airport early ico City all-expenses paid. He outlined the real motive for the slaying. in April of this year. The hairline, nose the assignment, and the friend laugh- The Warren Commission, appointed and ears of this man matched the man ingly said, "Of course." That friend is by President Kennedy's successor, in CE 237. After we shook hands, the man I met, the man who even• Lyndon Johnson, to investigate the this "Saul" offered to carry one of my tually found his picture published in CE murder, concluded it "could not make bags. Some assassin you got here, the Warren Commission Report as any definitive determination of Os- Mr. McDonald, I thought to myself. 237. "A" wald's motives." In our discussions, I learned the real Both his friend and operative Operative "A's" story also fits well reason "Saul's" photo appears in the flew to Mexico City. The friend made with information dug up by critics of Warren Commission Report. It would two trips to the Cuban Embassy, the Warren Commission. be laughable except for McDonald's stopped for the "pause that refreshes," And operative "A" presented me wild charge and the worry it must and came home. with physical evidence that solves the have given the man since the Warren Unbeknown to operative "A" and mystery of Commission Exhibit (CE) Commission Report was published. his friend, the CIA had the Cuban 237. Operative "A" said that seven Embassy (the only such embassy in CE 237 is a photograph of a man months before Lee Harvey Oswald the Western hemisphere at that time) that was taken by the CIA outside the arrived in Mexico City on Sept. 26, under photographic surveilience. The Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. The 1963, he received a CIA assignment to friend's picture was taken a total of CIA identified the man as Lee Harvey check out the wild rumor that the four times, he was identified as Lee Oswald, although anyone who has seen Cuban Embassy was in such financial Harvey Oswald, and the photos were this photograph knows immediately distress that it was cutting up its diplo- filed until the assassination of the that it is not of Lee Harvey Oswald. matic cables and using them for toilet President. The darkest of suspicions have been paper.* "1 thought they were nuts, but Because Oswald's trip to Mexico swirling around CE 237 and last year, I'd received assignments that were City was so suspicious — coming as it

NEWSREAL SERIE PAGE 16 KENNEDY did just a little more than a month be- their facts were correct). The Brigade wald -- if not a triple. fore the assassination — the Warren was run by one Frank Fiorini, who is More specifically, the liberal critics Commission was hard pressed to better known as Frank Sturgis, the have zeroed in on the period in Os- ignore the inconsistencies presented by Watergate burglar. His group, it was wald's life when he was supposedly in the photos when they were turned charged, was financed by gambling Russia to document the Oswald over by the CIA. Originally, the CIA joint operators tossed out of Cuba by double theory. The record speaks for said they were photos of Lee Harvey Castro with the overthrow of Batista. itself: When Oswald entered the Oswald; then the Agency admitted Politics have played no small part Marines on Oct. 24, 1956, his medical that it didn't know who was in the in the feelings of the critics and examination records show that he was pictures. It remained a mystery until defenders of the Warren Commission. five feet eight inches, weighed 131 I met the man in CE 237 early in April Kennedy was a liberal and the liberal pounds and had blue eyes. A medical of this year. critics couldn't stomach it when the examination administered when he Warren Commission implied that Lee * • • was discharged from the Marines on Harvey Oswald was a commie sym- Sept. 3, 1959, indicates he grew three pathizer. Conservatives — if they didn't inches, gained 19 pounds and his eyes Many critics and defenders of the dogmatically defend the Warren Com- had changed from blue to grey. His Warren Commission report will at- mission -- wanted to lay the blame of passport, dated the next day -- Sept. 4, tempt to ignore operative "A's" story the assassination directly on Castro or 1959 -- lists him at the same height because he says he met Oswald in even a larger international communist and with the same color eyes as his Miami sometime in 1960. It is not a plot. As a result, the political glasses discharge records show. However, new allegation. Reporters Jerry and worn by a critic of the Warren Com- when Oswald was arrested in New Or- Janice Buchanan published a series of mission have often determined what leans on Aug. 9, 1963, he had shrunk articles shortly after the assassination facts he or she will recognize. two inches, lost 14 pounds and now quoting sources that said they saw Oddly, while many liberal critics had brown eyes. His autopsy report, Oswald in Miami. The Buchanan have been unable to accept the notion dated Nov. 24, 1963, states he had brothers were discredited by liberal that perhaps Oswald might have been gained four pounds since his New Or- critics who claimed they were mem- in Miami, they embraced the idea, leans arrest, was the same height, but bers of the International Anti-Com- first developed by Richard Popkin now had grey-blue colored eyes. munist Brigade (which doesn't have in his book The Second Oswald, that There is more evidence that an anything to do with whether or not perhaps there was a double for Os-

NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 17 Oswald double went to Russia. In his ment application signed by Lee Harvey • On Oct. 10, 1963 -- six weeks so-called diary, the Oswald who went Oswald on which he indicated that he before the assassination the CIA to Russia made this illiterate entry for owned an automobile. teletyped the FBI, the Departments the day of his marriage: Moulder's evidence and operative of State and Navy that a "Lee Henry After an evening of eating and "A's" story about Oswald's ability (sic.) Oswald" contacted the Soviet drinking in which explains one of the inconsistencies Embassy in Mexico City on Oct. 1, started a fright and the fuse blow the Warren Commission could not; 1963. The teletype described Oswald on an overloaded circite we take the story of Albert Guy Bogard, a car as an American "approximately 35 our leave and walk the 15 minutes salesman at a Lincoln-Mercury dealer- years old, with an athletic build, about to our home. We lived near each ship in Dallas. Bogard claimed that on six feet tall, with a receding hairline," other, at midnight we were home. November 9, 1963, a Lee Oswald a description that fits CE 237 fa( walked into his show room and said better than the five-foot, nine-inch, The Oswald who it is agreed was in he was interested in buying a used car. 135-pound Oswald, who was 23 years New Orleans wrote this to the presi- They went to the lot, selected a old at the time. dent of the Fair Play for Cuba Com- model, and went for a test drive, (In March of 1964, then chief of mittee: during which Oswald drove at speeds CIA's Clandestine Services, Richard up to 70 miles per hour. Other Helms corrected the error in that tele- Dear Mr. Lee: employees of the dealership backed type concerning Oswald's middle name I was glad to receive your Bogard's story and Bogard passed a lie in a memorandum Helms wrote the advice concerning my try at starting detector test. Yet the Warren Com- Warren Commission.) a New Orleans F.P.C.C. chapter. mission determined he was mistaken, On Oct. 23, 1963, the CIA once I hope you won't be too disap- that Oswald was at home. again teletyped the Navy, this time pointed at my innovations but I On balance, it is safe to say that the requesting the most recent photo- do think they are necessary for this issue of Oswald's lack of ability to graphs of Oswald. The Agency asked area. drive is still open to serious question. the Navy because Oswald had been a Beyond that, I'm convinced that Marine and the Marines are under the The Oswald in Russia was described operative "A" would do well as a Navy. Apparently, the CIA knew that by an American journalist who inter- witness in a court of law. He readily Oswald wasn't "approximately 35 viewed him as "resembling a college admits he doesn't know all the years old, with an athletic build, boy with a southern drawl." The New answers. But he has details -- remark- about six feet tall, with a receding Orleans Oswald and the one arrested able details. Yet he is admittedly weak hairline." in Dallas is described as a slob. More- on dates, which fits with the fact that The Oct. 10, 1963, teletype said over, the photos of Oswald in Russia operative "A" is not an assassination that the source of the information differ from those taken in New Or- buff -- he has not kept up with what about Oswald visiting the Soviet Em- leans and Dallas. the Warren Report critics have been bassy in Mexico City was "reliable saying and writing. He recalls inci- and sensitive." Most likely, it appears It could be argued almost endlessly dents. 1-le can't always put a date on now, that source was a wiretap the — given the evidence available — that when they happened, but he CIA had on the Soviet Embassy -- the Oswald in Russia and the Oswald remembers what happened. (To illu- information that may have been within New Orleans and Dallas were not strate how bad he is on dates, he held from the Warren Commission. In the same man. The Oswald in Russia consistently refers to the assassination all likelihood, Oswald did visit the refused telephone calls from his as having taken place "15 years ago," Soviet Embassy about Oct. 1, 1963. family and returned their letters un- although it's only been 14 years.) He was in Mexico City at the time. opened. The Oswald arrested in Dallas Operative "A" has evidence. He has The more important question is gladly received his brother Robert who a story that is consistent with the this: Why is the CIA telling the FBI carne to visit him. So, if it is possible known facts. He has believability. and the Departments of State and that a double for Oswald went to This much is certain: Operative Navy six weeks before the assassina- Russia, where then was the real Os- "A" believes his story, and he has tion that it is onto the shenanigans of wald? Why couldn't he have been in some further scary tales that add to it. Oswald? How did it mistake his middle Miami -- and if not Miami, where? Realizing the knowledge he has name? How did it so badly mistake Another aspect of operative "A's" concerning the assassination, operative his description? (It should be noted story that conflicts with the Warren "A" was more than concerned for his also that the same teletype misspelled Commission Report and the accepted own life after the president was killed. the maiden surname of Mrs. Oswald criticism is that Oswald could drive. And for good reason. One day he as "Pusakova," instead of Prusakova.) Operative "A" says that Oswald had received a phone call from one of his One can only speculate about those two driver's licenses in his CIA 20l CIA superiors and was told to be at answers, although one thing is certain: file, that Oswald like to drive and that a mailbox at an appointed hour. He The CIA won't win spelling bees with Oswald was a bad driver. Assassination immediately became suspicious. As a the Oct. 10, 1963, teletype. But as- critic John Moulder dug up two result, he hired a bum to stand there sume the following: pieces of evidence that would indicate in his place. At the appointed time, an i) The CIA wiretap on the Soviet that operative "A" is right. The first explosion went off, killing the bum. , Embassy picks up a phone conversa was an Ohio policeman who swears Soon thereafter, operative "A" was tion Oct. 1, 1963, between the he issued Oswald a speeding ticket at instructed to met another CIA man embassy and a man who identifies about the time Oswald would have in an apartment house. Again, he hired himself as "Lee Oswald." been in Miami with operative "A." a bum to walk upstairs before him. ii) In its files, the CIA station it Operative "A" contends he recalls Someone beat the bum to death. Mexico City has four photographs of Oswald receiving such a ticket. He was Since then, he has let all concerned a man who was photographed outside with Oswald; they were on their way know that he has hard, physical the Cuban Embassy several months be- to operative "A's" mother's home in evidence to support his story. If any- fore, and that man had identified him- another state. thing happens to hint, that evidence self as "Lee Oswald." Assume there Moulder also turned up an employ- will be turned over to the right people. is no date on those photos, nor any

PAGE 18 KENNEDY NEWSREAL SERIE: out. (That may have been done for one of two reasons: The CIA might have realized that the photos were not of Lee Harvey Oswald outside the Soviet Embassy; rather they were of a "Lee Harvey Oswald" outside the Cuban Embassy. If that were the case, CE 237 then they might have realized that the teletype of Oct. 1, 1963, was in error and they were trying to cover up that error. Secondly, the CIA might not have wanted the Cuban or Soviet Embassies to be aware that the CIA had photographic surveillence on those embassies; it might have had diploma- tic repercussions.) In any event, the photos were turned over to Special FBI Agent Bardwell Odum, who showed them to Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, who originally said she did not recognize the man. Yet, the next day, after her son was gunned down by Jack Ruby, Mrs. Os- wald told the press that the FBI had shown her pictures of her son's assassin the day before, which was an understandable mistake by an over- wrought mother. The Warren Commission was thus left with another loose end it could tie into its lone assassins theory. In- terestingly, it was the commission that, in trying to clear the matter up, added the most mystery. It said the CIA gave the FBI photos of "a man who, it was thought at that time, might have been associated with Oswald." (Emphasis added.) Associ- ated? That single word had sinister implications in a report that said there was no conspiracy. Moreover, the Re- port quoted Richard Helms of the CIA as saying that "the original photograph had been taken by the CIA outside of the United States sometime between July 1, 1963 and November 22, 1963." Thus, the CIA is suddenly put in the position of backing as far as possible from its Oct. 10, 1963, badly botched up teletype to the FBI and the Departments of State and Navy. The Agency is flatly not saying that location. Assume that man is "ap- the CIA was right on top of matters), the photos were taken Oct. 1, 1963, proximately 35 years old, with an the CIA made a mistake on the spell- outside the Cuban Embassy. Apparent- athletic build, about six feet tall, with ing of Oswald's middle name, the spell- ly, realizing its mistake, it is coming a receding hairline," which aptly des- ing of his wife's maiden surname, and somewhat clean and saying that the cribes CE 237, the man to whom I was the photos it had previously identified photos could have been taken long be- introduced by operative "A." as Lee Harvey Oswald. fore Lee Harvey Oswald was in Mex- iii) When the four photos of the ico City on Oct, 1; moreover, it has man who identified himself as "Lee Those are all fair assumptions. backed off the implication that the Oswald" were taken several months Mistakes were obviously made. The problem then became how the CIA photos were taken outside the Soviet before outside the Cuban Embassy, Embassy. it would be likely that the CIA would would cover them up. Two assassination researchers -- at- gather a little basic information to go The day after the assassination -- torney Bernard Fensterwald and along with those photos. Thus, it can with all agencies alerted to scramble former CIA man George O'Toole as be assumed, that is how the CIA knew for information on Lee Harvey Oswald well as writer Paul Hoch - have Oswald was a Marine and was married - the photos were hand-carried out of endeavored to imply that CIA was to a native Russian. Mexico City to Dallas. But the CIA switching its story about the photos to iv) Putting apples and oranges required that the background of obscure the facts. They noted that a together (so it would appear as though those photos be cut away or cropped statement by CIA man Richard Helms

NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 19 of Investigation. There is no indication that the FBI, which was investigating Oswald for his pro-Castro activities, ever followed up on the information." The Times further reported that: "In response to inquiries about the matter from The New York Times, the CIA issued an unusual public statement on the matter. It would not confirm that there were any tape-recorded conversations but said: " 'On October 9, 1963, Central Intelligence Agency headquarters received information that a person named Lee Oswald contacted the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City in late September or early October 1963. In transmitting the information on 10 October 1963 Central Intelligence Agency headquarters said Lee Oswald was probably identical to Lee Henry (sic.) Oswald, a former radar operator in the United States Marine Corps, born 18 October 1939 in New Orleans who defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 and who subsequently made arrangements to return to the United States with a Russian wife. " 'This biographical data was based upon Federal Bureau of Investigation These are two different views of CE 237. They were turned over to the reports provided to the Central In- Warren Commission marked classified and placed in the National Archives. telligence Agency following Oswald's A freedom of information law suit made them public. The photos are of the defection to the Soviet Union. same man who appears in CE 237 only they were taken the day after CE 237 " 'This information was also pro- was photographed. vided to the Immigration and Naturali- zation Service, the Department of -- which said "the original photograph assume now, Helms' August 7, 1964, Navy, the United States Ambassador had been taken by the CIA outside of statement was the best way the CIA and his staff in Mexico and to the Rep- the United States sometime between could "come clean" on the mystery resentative of the FBI in Mexico. July 1, 1963 and November 22, 1963" photos that became CE 237. The " 'Following the assassination of -- was given to the Commission on fact is the CIA didn't know when President Kennedy, Central Intelli- August 7, 1964. They imply there is those photos were taken. It also didn't gence Agency records revealed that a a cover•up afoot in the fact that on know the identity of the man in the person believed to be Oswald was in July 22, 1964, Helms gave the Com- photos, or it didn't want to say it had contact with the Cuban Embassy on mission an earlier affidavit that stated photographed a man working on as- 27 September 1963 for purpose of the original photograph was taken signment from the ClA doing some- receiving a transit visa for use enroute in Mexico City on October 4, 1963." thing that had no relationship to the to the USSR. I submit that the earlier affidavit, assassination other than the fact that " 'In addition a number of photo- which is just as misleading as the the man was using CIA identification graphs of individuals believed to be in August 7, 1964, statement, probably of Lee Harvey Oswald. contact with the Cuban and Soviet caused the Commission to require a Thus, Richard Helms and the CIA Embassies in Mexico City were re- new statement from Helms (the one were placed in a very embarrassing ceived from the Central Intelligence in which he says the photos were position. Neither Helms nor anyone Agency station in Mexico and were "taken by the CIA outside of the else in the CIA could say who CE 237 compared with pictures of Lee Harvey United States sometime between July was without letting the Commission Oswald by the CIA officers in Mex- 1, 1963, and November 22, 1963.") know that the CIA used Oswald's ico City and CIA headquarters and by The reason the Commission probably identifibation, and that Oswald United States authorities in Dallas, required the August 7, 1964, state- worked for the CIA. Texas. ment is that if the Commission went As a footnote to this footnote, it " It was determined that none of by the earlier Helms affidavit, it would should be noted that on Sept. 21, these photographs was the photograph have had to conclude that whoever 1975, the New York Times reported of Lee Harvey Oswald. Their deter- was impersonating Oswald did so the that the CIA had secretly tape-re- mination, and the raw data upon day after Oswald had left Mexico City. corded two telephone conversations which they were based, along with the That could only have compounded the Lee Harvey Oswald had with both the reports of his visit to the Soviet Em- mystery that the man in the photos Soviet and Cuban Embassies about bassy, were made to the Warren and "might have been associated with eight weeks before the President was Rockefeller Commissions as were all Oswald." It would have been very dif- assassinated. "The call to the Soviet other materials relevant to the inves- ficult for a man to be "associated with Embassy," reported the Times, " tigation of President Kennedy's Oswald" atter Oswald had left Mexico alerted the CIA to the presence of death.' " City. Oswald in Mexico City, and on Oct. 10 In the case of CE 237, the CIA More likely, it seems reasonable to the agency warned the Federal Bureau ought to learn how to shut its mouth.

PAGE 20 KENNEDY NEWSREAL.SEIRIE From Operative A...

By TOM LUTZ the Kennedy assassination in that Oswald attempted an assassination of witness' presence. Shaw, according to Gen. Walker. URING the course of the ex- former executive assistant CIA Direc- "That wasn't Oswald," operative tended interview I had with tor Victor Marchetti, worked with Fer- operative "A," he revealed "A" said. "And they weren't trying D rie for the CIA. to kill Gen. Walker. It was the Cuban other surprising — if not shocking -- Ferrie, one of Banister's investi- details. Among those were: exiles, trying to get publicity for their gators, helped train anti-Castro Cuban cause." Walker openly supported an • The death of W. Guy Banister. guerrillas at Lake Ponchartrain. Those Bannister, a former FBI agent-in. overthrow of Castro. guerrillas were part of -the Cuban "That was a fake assassination to charge of the Chicago office, operated Revolutionary Council, which was a private detective agency out of help gain sympathy for Walker and formed in 1961 by E. Howard Hunt, help him raise more money for the 531 Lafayette Place in New Orleans the Watergate burglar. when Oswald was there. The building Cuban exile cause," operative "A" had another entrance, 544 Camp St. According to the official report, said. Lee Harvey Oswald distributed pro- W. Guy Banister died the summer of • The movies of Castro raping a Castro literature that carried the ad- 1964 of an "apparent" heart attack. hotel maid. dress 544 Camp St. But according to operative "A," The CIA sponsored a fake movie of David Ferrie, the pilot District Banister was murdered. Operative "A" Castro raping a hotel maid, which Attorney Jim . Garrison said might says that Banister "snitched" to the was widely reported in the U.S. as have flown a getaway plane for the FBI on a CIA planned theft of guns authentic. assassins, worked for Banister as an from an armory by Cuban exiles. • CIA-sponsored assassinations, investigator. Ferrie also worked for break-ins, Illegal activity. • The attempted assassination of Asked if the U.S. Intelligence Mafia boss Carlos Marcella. Ferrie, Gen. Edwin A. Walker. Clay Shaw and Oswald were accused community can be run morally with- The Warren Commission concluded out assassinations, break-ins and other by a Garrison witness as having plotted that on April 10, 1963, Lee Harvey More Shocking Details

aay Shaw David Ferrie

NEVVSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 21 illegal activities, operative "A" said it truth when he told Sen. George Mc- he called the White House, he got one could not. He predicted that such Govern that there have been 24 of the President's secretaries. She said practices will continue on both sides, separate plots on his life, operative she would check and call him back. and therefore we have no choice. "A" laughed. "What did he mean? The call was returned and operative "But you have to realize that Twenty-four plots a day? The CIA "A" was instructed to go to a pay American intelligence is unlike intelli- tried everything but a kamakazee pilot telephone and await a second call. gence organizations anywhere else in on him — and believe me, they would He did. The second caller confirmed the world. We don't care about have tried that if they could have the offer and told operative "A" to people's lives. The others do. Blow found one," operative "A" said. go through channels from then on. away a CIA agent, and the CIA feels, • CIA operative pay. 'So what? He knew what it was all • Kennedy.approVed Castro asses. When I mentioned to operative "A" about.' The other countries investi- sination plots. that the CIA JM WAVE operation in gate the deaths of their agents and Operative "A" related that one day Miami had a budget of $50 million a when they find out who's responsible, while on duty at the Miami safe house year before the Bay of Pigs cut-off of the 'pay-back' is a bitch." he received a presidential offer of $1 funds by President Kennedy, he said, • The success of the CIA and the million in gold, a new identity and the "I wish they would have given some of Citbans. chance to live anywhere in the world that money to me. I was earning about Asked about the failure of the CIA for the man who could kill both Fidel $450 a month. Nobody would work and the use of the Cuban exiles, opera- and Raul Castro. "I thought it was for the CIA like I did for the money. tive "A" admitted that the CIA has crazy — one of them, okay, but both You couldn't get people to do what a knack for picking the wrong side in of them? So I said, "What the hell. I'll we did for any amount of money. We guerrilla wars. "But we did okay in the call the White House." And I did. did it out of loyalty. You can't buy Six-Day Israeli War, didn't we?" If President Kennedy wanted to blow the stuff we did. We did it for our • CIA plots against Castro. away both of them, I wanted to know country." Asked if Castro was stretching the directly," operative rA" said. When

Fidel Castro Gen. Edwin A. Walker

PAGE 22 KENNEDY NEWSREAL SERIE Oswald Knew Jack Ruby T would have been typical of the Govenor of Texas. This informa- Jack Ruby — friend of the "I'm sure, I've got the equipment tion was passed on to the Texas De- underworld, police buff, FBI I partment of Public Safety on Oct. 5, ready." After considerable discussion snitch and smuggler of guns and drugs. 1963 by telephone. On Sunday, about the money and the proposed According to investigators of the assassination of the governor, the law- Nov. 24, 1963 I definitely realized House Committee to Investigate Assas- yer quotes Oswald as asking Ruby: sinations, Ruby introduced one of his that the picture in the Nov. 23, 1963 Dallas "Not that it makes me any difference, strippers and others to "Lee Harvey Times Herald of Lee Harvey but what have you got against the Oswald of the CIA." Oswald was a picture of the man using the name of H.L. Lee whose conver- governor?" to which Ruby replied: The Warren Commission concluded "He won't work with us on paroles; that Ruby and Oswald had never met. sation with Jack Ruby I had overheard back on Oct. 4, 1963." with a few of the right boys out we Yet there is more and more evidence - could really open up this State, with like that dug up by the Committee to Oct. 4, 1963, was the day after Lee Harvey Oswald had returned a little cooperation from the Governor. Investigate Assassinations — that Ruby The boys in Chicago have no place to and Oswald met on several different from his mysterious trip to Mexico City. go, no place to really operate; they've occasions. And, if that evidence is to clamped down the lid in Chicago; According to attorney Jarnagin, be believed, they weren't just passing Cuba is closed; everything is dead, the time of day when they met. Oswald came to Ruby because he wanted money. He quotes Oswald as look at this place, half empty; if we Buried in the Warren Commission can open up this State we could pack Report itself is a startling statement by saying to Ruby: "I need a place to stay and a job." The attorney further this place every night, those boys an attorney who claims to have re- will spend, if they have the money; presented one of Ruby's strippers. quotes Oswald as asking Ruby this: "What about half now, and half after and remember, we're right next to The attorney, Carroll Jarnagin, wrote Mexico; there'd be money for every- to the FBI on December 4, 1963, that the job?" The attorney then quotes Ruby as saying: "Are you sure you body, if we can open up this State." "I heard Jack Ruby talking to a man Oswald: "How do you know that can do the job without hitting any- using the name of H.L. Lee. These the Governor won't work with you?" body but the Governor?" to which, men were talking about plans to kill Ruby: "It's no use, he's been in the lawyer says, Oswald replied: Washington too long, they're too NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 23

• straight up there; after they've been New Orleans District Attorney Jim "8. In 1962, Jack Ruby, while in there awhile they get to thinking like Garrison conducted, but Garrison was Oswald's company, appeared at a the Attorney General. The Attorney totally aware that Oswald met Ruby motel in Morgan City (La.) operated General, now there's a guy the boys outside New Orleans and the two by Pete Guarisco, and asked for Pete. would like to get, but it's no use, he talked for some period of time. Guarisco is known as being connected stays in Washington too much." On December 24, 1967, Garrison with Carlos Marcello." Oswald:. "A rifle shoots as far in answered a phone call from organized The background to that point of Washington as it does here, doesn't crime expert Ed Reid, author of the Garrison's memo is interesting. Ac- it?" bestselling "The Green Felt Jungle." cording to sources connected with Ruby: "Forget it, that would bring Reid told Garrison he had information Garrison's investigation, Garrison paid the heat on everywhere, and the Feds that would link New Orleans Mafia dearly to find out that Ruby and would get into everything, no, forget boss Carlos Marcello to the assas- Oswald met at Pete Guarisco's motel. about the Attorney General." sination. "I told him," Garrison wrote At the time of Garrison's investigation, Oswald: "Killing the Governor of in a memo for his archives, "that, word of the Ruby-Oswald meeting in Texas will put the heat on too, won't while there had appeared to be some Morgan City came to the district at- it?" indications of this especially with torney's office. Investigators were dis- Ruby: "Not really, they'll think regard to Ruby — they had never quite patched to the motel to question the some crack-pot or communist did it, flowered into any kinds of evidence. I lead. At first, they hit a stonewall - and It will be written off as an untold him we were interested in any nobody remembered anything, includ- solved crime." new information concerning this as- ing what day It was. Then word came Oswald: "That is if I get away." pect and that I would have a repre- back to the DA's office that, if he Ruby: "You'll get away, all you sentative of the office contact him would let a "certain person" free, he have to do is run out the back door." very soon. I also advised him that we would get cooperation from the Gua- Oswald: "What kind of door is would consider it without being in- risco's motel employees. That "cer- back there, it won't accidentally fluenced by what we have been forced tain person" was a known organized lock on me will it?" to regard as a rather insistent prob- crime figure at a lower level. He was Ruby: "No, you can get out that ability (namely, the involvement of in- charged with armed robbery and this way without any trouble." dividuals of militant and extreme right was his third offense — in effect, if Oswald: "It doesn't open onto wing orientation)." convicted, he was going down the an open fire escape, does it? I don't Garrison then detailed 13 leads his chute for a long stretch in the pen. want to run out onto an open fire office had uncovered concerning the What Jim Garrison knows about escape with a rifle in my hand right links of organized crime to the assas- what next transpired is unknown, but after the shooting." sination. The eighth point put Ruby that "certain person" was freed - Ruby: "No, it's a safe way out, I'll and Oswald into the same room to- "cut loose" without a trial. In ex- show you, but not now." gether. It reads: change, the employees of Pete Gua- Oswald: "There's really only one building to do it from, one that covers Main, Elm and Commerce." Ruby: "Which one is that?" Oswald: "The School Book Build- ing, dose to the triple underpass." -

Many who have read Jarnagin's statement have wondered how anyone could recall the conversation with as much accuracy as he did. Penn Jones, the Texas newspaperman who followed the assassination from the moment Kennedy was killed, did some checking on Jamagin and finally interviewed him. Jones came away believ- Oswald met with ing that the man had almost total Ruby outside New recall ability. For one thing, Jones dis- Orleans In a mob- covered that Jamagin was a crack owned motel. chess player, which requires a good memory, and also was an excellent student, scoring in the top 20 per cent of his class from SMU. Jarnagin had no trouble getting into the Uni- versity of Chicago law school. In all, Jones was convinced, but the Warren Commission apparently wasn't. The Commission didn't even bother to call Jarnagin as a witness. *

There has been considerable speculation why this was never revealed by those involved in the investigation

PAGE 24 KENNEDY NEWSREAL SERiE risco's motel suddenly remembered everything about Ruby and Oswald them. As New Orleans District Attor- selling "war surplus material" to the meeting at the Morgan City motel. ney Jim Garrison noted in his private memo to his archives, "Jack Ruby ap- new Cuban government. Ruby said he • • * tried to sell Castro surplus jeeps. If Oswald had met with Ruby, pears to have had mob connections to some degree. He was connected back The man from whom Ruby was Oswald wouldn't have been the man going to buy those jeeps was Robert the Warren Commission portrayed him in Chicago (where he was born and suspected of being connected with a McKeown. McKeown, however, to be. remembers the deal much differently. Ruby was, according to the Warren mob-hit of a union leader) with men in the narcotics business and his arrival McKeown claims that Ruby wanted to Commission, a stripjoint owner who buy guns from him. And McKeown was fond of the police and reporters. in Dallas in the late forties followed this imbroglio. He appears to have ought to know: In 1958, McKeown (At the time of the assassination, he was arrested for running guns to his supposedly was in the offices of the been involved in running guns to Cuba through Mexico. Several individuals friend, Cuban President Prio Socarras, Dallas Morning News.) According to a Batista underling. the Warren Commission, Ruby was a have specifically named Ruby as being active in the narcotics business in In 1976, Robert McKeown told harmless enough lone nut, no real CBS-TV that he was approached by threat to society - no one authorities Dallas." Is there any support to such charges Lee Harvey Oswald. McKeown said should have suspected of being a po- that, shortly before the assassination tential assassin of the man alleged to by Garrison, and could they lead back to Lee Harvey Oswald? of President Kennedy, Oswald wanted have assassinated the President of the to buy three rifles. To this date, no United States. Indeed there are, and it could. After the Castro overthrow of one has connected the Robert But was Ruby such a man? McKeown who was going to sell arms Independent research shows he was Batista in 1959, Ruby visited Lewis J. McWillie, a mob-connected gambler, to Jack Ruby to the Robert McKeown not. who was approached by Lee Harvey After Ruby shot Oswald, he told in Havana, Cuba. McWillie said he paid for the trip, according to the Warren Oswald for the purchase of arms. the cops: "You know me. I'm Jack McKeown is important to the in- Ruby." Commission. The month was August, and in October Castro declared that vestigation of President Kennedy's Indeed, the cops knew Ruby. Tons death. He admits he was a gun dealer. of them frequented his stripjoint, Cuba would be communist. In August, the mob knew it was in trouble. It Even Fidel Castro came to visit him including, evidence shows, J.D. Trippit, during his April, 1959, tour of the the cop Oswald supposedly shot after desperately needed to maintain control of the gambling operations in United States. Castro even offered he allegedly killed President Kennedy. McKeown a position in his new Ruby knew a lot of other people, Cuba. Suddenly, Ruby shows up in Cuba. According to the Warren Com- government. But McKeown was too - including those who make strongly anti-communist. When Mc- cement overcoats for people who cross mission, the purpose of Ruby's trip was pleasure and, according to Ruby, Keown ran guns to Castro, he thought he was supporting someone who would aid the anti-communist cause. Oddly enough, three weeks after Castro visited McKeown, a man came to McKeown with an offer of $25,000 for an introduction to Castro. McKeown said that he wanted $5,000 up front. Apparently, the man could not produce that and the deal fell through. On November 24, the day Ruby shot Oswald, McKeown was reading the newspaper and saw a picture of Jack Ruby. It was then that he realized that the man who had offered him $25,000 for an introduction to Fidel Castro was Ruby introduced none other than Jack Ruby, the man Oswald to his strip- who killed Lee Harvey Oswald. pers as "Lee Harvey • I • Oswald of the CIA." In 1968, newspaperman Penn Jones reported that he could "confirm all the rumors about Jack Ruby's money after he killed Lee Oswald. Ruby had $2,000 on his person, and the authorities found $10,000 in their search of his apartment. The statement by the authorities concerning money in Ruby's car was: 'The trunk was full of money.' " Interestingly, several M-16 rifles, hand grenades, a Browning automatic rifle and several thousand rounds of ammunition were found in the store- room of Ruby's apartment, following his arrest for shooting Oswald. Was Ruby simply a "hired hit- man?" NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 25 It's about time!

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PAGE 26 KENNEDY NEWSREAL S6FtlE as interesting as the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald might have held a Oswald's Letter position with some "Mr. Hunt." In July of 1975, veteran assassination newsman Penn Jones received a copy of the Oswald note from someone in To a 'Mr. Hunt' Mexico City who signed a cover letter EE Harvey Oswald held "a "P.S." That cover letter, written in "Dear Mr. Hunt: Spanish, said: position" with a "Mr. Hunt" "I would like information concern- and as late as November 8, "At the end of last year (meaning L ing my position. I am asking only for 1975), I gave Mr. Kelley, director of 1963, just 14 days before he allegedly information. I am suggesting that we the FBI, a letter from Lee Oswald. It assassinated the President of the United discuss the matter fully before any States, he wrote a note to "Mr. Hunt" is my understanding it could have steps are taken by me or anyone else. brought out circumstances to the as- asking for "information concerning my Thank you. position." sassination of President Kennedy. Since "[Signed] Lee Harvey Oswald." Mr. Kelley hasn't responded to that That shocking revelation came to Paul Meskil, the reporter for the light March 2, 1977, when letter, I've got the right to believe Newsweek Oswald-note story in the Daily News, something bad might happen to me, and reported the existence of Oswald's repeated the claim that the "Mr. Hunt" note, which was unknown to the Warren that is why I see myself obligated to to whom Oswald wrote was H.L. Hunt, keep myself away for a short time. Commission but has been on the desk of but told NEWSREAL that that aspect the FBI since 1974. "Convinced of the importance of Newsweek, which of the story was picked up from that letter mentioned and knowing that does not advocate reopening the in- Newsweek vestigation into the murder of John F. you have been doing some investigation "After the story was printed," Meskil independently of the assassination, I am Kennedy, made very light of the exis- said, "I decided to check back with my tence of the note and its potential sending you a copy of the same letter." federal source about that H.L. Hunt While not a handwriting expert, importance. Newsweek also reported business. My source didn't know where that the "Mr. Hunt" to whom the Jones has probably reviewed as much of Newsweek had gotten that. He said he Lee Harvey Oswald's handwritten note was addressed was H.L. Hunt, the thought it might be E. Howard Hunt, late Texas oil billionaire. The maga- material as anyone, and Jones is con- but he was just guessing." vinced that the note is authentic. zine gave no source for that assump- Meskil, a nationally known authority tion. "I consider this to be an extremely on organized crime and the author of important piece of evidence. My only The following day, the New York several books, said that his federal Daily News reported that a federal question is this: How many times, in source thought • the note was either how many ways, do we have to prove authority had confirmed that the note written by Lee Harvey Oswald or some- does exist, The source quoted the there was a conspiracy?" Jones told one did a very good copy of his hand- NEWSREAL. "Oswald-Mr. Hunt" note to the Daily writing. News as follows: When asked about the identity of The story behind the note is nearly "Mr. Hunt" being H.L. Hunt, the Texas

NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 27 oil billionaire, Jones said: "I never told volved in the plot, and they are sup- an authentic note from Oswald to a them it was H.L. Hunt. Newsweek posedly all alive.) "Mr. Hunt" to FBI director Kelley and must have assumed that. There are Newsman Jones was at a total loss he (Kelley) had not acted upon it in thousands and thousands of Hunts as to why Newsweek would have a public way by July of 1975, it would around. Only thing I know is that named H.L. Hunt as the "Mr. Hunt" be very logical for that person in Mexico H.L. Hunt is dead, and dead people to whom Lee Harvey Oswald might have City to send a copy of that note to don't sue for libel. For all I know, it been writing his note on November 8, Penn Jones. Jones was "the" original could have been [former CIA agent and 1963. critic of the Warren Report and has Watergate break-in figure] E. Howard Jones said that he had mailed a letter been a paragon of integrity among Hunt, who had an office at 544 Camp back to Mexico City to the man who those people who have been dubbed St. in New Orleans, which is the address sent him a copy Of the Oswald note. "assassination buffs." that was stamped on literature Oswald "I never got the letter back, so I can • That Newsweek would "break" distributed when he was in New only assume that it was delivered," the story the way it did is totally under- Orleans. (It should be noted that Jones said. standable. That magazine's position is W. Guy Banister, a former FBI agent This much is known about the well established on the question of who who is said to have been working for "Mr. Hunt-Oswald".connection: killed John Kennedy. Long ago, News- the CIA at that time, also had an office • Federal authorities, probably the week determined that the Warren in the 544 Camp St. building in New FBI, have apparently been aware of the Commission was right, that Lee Harvey Orleans. Banister, now dead, was one existence of a note allegedly written by Oswald, acting alone, killed President target of New Orleans District Attorney Lee Harvey Oswald to a "Mr. Hunt" Kennedy. Jim Garrison's grand jury investigation since some time in 1974. • Paul Meskil, who wrote the "Os- into the conspiracy that killed President • Those federal authorities believe wald-Mr. Hunt" connection story for Kennedy. Since then, he has been the note was either written by Oswald, the New York Daily News knows a lot accused by Robert D. Morrow, a self- or it is a good copy of his handwritting. of feds. He is not a Kennedy "assas- admitted CIA-contract employee, as • No one knows what, if anything, sination buff." When he picked up on having been the foreman who super- the federal authorities have done about the Newsweek story about the "Os- vised assassination teams in Dealey the "Hunt-Oswald" note. wald-Mr. Hunt note," he was looking Plaza. Morrow made this charge in a • According to the information for two things: (1) verification of the book published in hardcover in 1976 Penn Jones received in July of 1975, existence of the "Oswald-Mr. Hunt" called Betrayal. Morrow names more the person who sent the note to the story that appeared in Newsweek, than a dozen people who were involved federal authorities (namely FBI Direc- and (2) confirmation that the note was in the conspiracy to assassinate the tor Clarence Kelley) is in fear of his or real, that it might have been written President. All of them are dead. He her life. by Lee Harvey Oswald. Meskil did his gives pseudonyms to another half • If someone in Mexico City were to job in spades. dozen or so people he says were in- have sent what he or she believed was

To Mr. Hunt in Delta flight 44 by the FBI. If they drove, the Hunt party stayed down in Mexico until Christmas day, 1963, at which Lime they returned to Did Oswald Write To Dallas. Billionaire H.L. Hunt? * 'P t HE richest man in the world - by right-winger General Edwin A. Anti-Castro Cuban Sergio Arcaha worth nearly 55 billion when Walker. Smith was wanted badly by District TPresident Kennedy was as- The other account is that both Hunt Attorney Jim Garrison. sassinated — watched the presidential and his wife were spirited out of Dallas Garrison wanted to drag Smith be- limousine wind its way toward Dealey fore a grand jury and probably indict Plaza. him for conspiring to assassinate Pres- At age 74, Haroldson Lafayette ident Kennedy. Hunt peered out of his office window By the time Garrison got his investi- on the seventh floor of the Mercantile gation underway, Smith was living in Building. The moment "Lancer" (the Texas. code name the Secret Service had Gov. John Connally blocked Garri- choosen for Kennedy's open-top Lin- son's efforts to have Smith extradicted. coln) passed out of H.L. Hunt's view, Smith was a former employee of Kennedy had only seven minutes to live. H.L. Hunt. After the deadly shots rang out in Dealey Plaza, H.L. Hunt left the Mer- cantile Building with six men, all of whom got into two cars. Paul Rothermel had an interesting Accounts vary after that as to exact- job. ly where the Hunt party went. A FBI agent until 1959, Rothermel According to Farewell America (a became H.L. Hunt's "chief of security." book published In Liechtenstein, which But Paul Rothermel did much more has no libel laws), the two cars carrying than check the locks on H.L. Hunt's the Hunt party drove directly south doors. Rothermel ran a right-wing from Dallas across the Mexican border intelligence network for Hunt, There are to a hideaway where Hunt was joined Gen. Edwin A. Walker solid indications that, as in the case of

PAGE 28 KENNEDY NEINSREAL SERIE Howard Hughes, HI. Hunt allowed two men left the room. When Rother- his oil interests. And no small amount some of his vast holdings to be used by mel returned, he looked perplexed. the CIA as fronts for foreign operations. of that money received special tax All he could remember about Andy breaks through oil depletion allowances, Rothermel would have been Hunt's Anderson, Rothermel said, was that he which President Kennedy wanted to tie to the CIA. But, just as Hunt's chief used to manage the Adolphus Hotel. abolish. of security, Rothermel knew who was Why didn't H.L. Hunt want Rother- Doing away with the oil depletion doing what to whom in Dallas •- and mel to tell what he knew about Andy allowance was strongly opposed by much of the rest of the country and the Anderson and Anderson's connections H.L. Hunt. He called the idea "a cri- world. with Clay Shaw, Jack Ruby, Lee Odom minal offense" against "the American — and maybe even Lee Harvey Oswald? * * • system." * * * In the course of his investigation, A slanderous ad appeared in the New Orleans District Attorney Jim Gar- Dallas Morning News It was not until relatively late in life rison discovered a post office box November 22, 1963, aimed at President Kennedy. It that H.L. Hunt, a registered Democrat, number in the personal effects of Clay was a right-wing hate ad. became politically active. When he did, Shaw, a prominent New Orleans busi- According to a man who placed the he explored new boundaries of the nessman who performed jobs for the ad, Nelson Bunker Hunt contributed political right. Spending more than CIA and was acquitted of charges by between $300 and $400 to have the ad $2 million, he funded a. radio and TV Garrison that he conspired to kill the published. show called "Facts Forum," and an- president. That post office box matched other radio show called "Life Line." a number in Lee Harvey Oswald's telephone book. The number was He also supported the champions of the right, including Roy Cohn, counsel 19106. Shaw's note read: "Lee Odom, to the McCarthy committee, and Sen. P.O. Box 19106." Joe McCarthy himself, as well as Robert At first Garrison's investigators sus- A. Surrey, Gen. Edwin A. Walker's pect that "Lee Odom" might have been right hand man. another name Oswald used to conduct H.L. Hunt once said: "We should do his "business." It was not, Lee Odom, everything our generals tell us to." it turned out, was a promoter, and he This made him popular among military came to New Orleans to meet and do hawks, such as Gen. George C. Kenney, business with Andy Anderson, a man Bircherite Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, well known to Paul Rothermel, H. L. and Adm. James Van Fleet. President Hunt's chief of security. Kennedy planned to pull out of Viet Anderson had been the manager of Nam. the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, which is Before he died, H.L. Hunt was this located just a stone's throw away from nation's biggest farmer -- both in terms where Jack Ruby's stripjoint was of land to plow and his understanding located. He later became the manager of the 20th century. of the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, He believed, for example, that in- which is where Lee Odorn came to see come taxes should be limited to 25 per Anderson. Jack Ruby cent of a person's Income and be levied Odom needed an introduction to on a "straight" instead of "graduated" Andy Anderson, apparently, so he went On November 2!, 1963, Jack Ruby basis. But, in his philosophy, money to Clay Shaw to get one. How Odom volunteered to drive one of his strippers, should mean power, and he therefore, knew Shaw is an unanswered question. Connie Trammell, to the Merchantile advocated that individuals should be al- Anderson was a close friend of Jack Building. Connie was going for a job toted votes on election day according to Ruby. In fact, after Ruby shot Oswald, interview with Hunt's operation in that the amount of taxes paid. Statistically, Anderson showed friends a photo of building. that would mean the Hunt could have himself with his buddy, Jack Ruby, picked the man who would serve as apparently to prove that he knew a man According to Ruby, while Connie President of the United States. who was in the eye of this historic was going through the interview, he attended to other "business" in the same tornado. (Eva Grant, Ruby's sister, * * • confirmed that Anderson and Ruby building. were extremely close.) * * * In 1973, two of H.L. Hunt's sons Rothermel also knew Andy Ander- were indicted on federal charges of son. He knew, in fact, that Anderson On the same morning that Jack Ruby wiretapping and obstruction of justice. lived at 3116 Harlandale in Dallas just was attending to "business" in H.L. Bunker and Herbert Hunt were accused a few doors away from 3128 Harlan- Hunt's building, Eugene Hale Brading of wiretapping top employees at Hunt dale, where Oswald met with anti- (a.k.a., "Jim Braden") and his partner Oil Co. The brothers' admitted they Castro Cubans. showed up for a meeting with one of ordered the taps; they contended they Rothermel knew a lot about Ander- Hunt's sons on "an oil deal." did so to catch an embezzler. They also son, but H.L. Hunt didn't want Ro- The next day, Brading was arrested said they were being prosecuted because thermel to tell. in Dealey Plaza following the assassination. He was questioned and re- they refused to cooperate with the Asked about Anderson one day in "government" (read: CIA). his office, Rothermel said he knew leased. They were acquitted. Anderson used to manage the Adolphus * * • Hotel. Rothermel was about to ela- By the way, one of the people who was wiretapped was Paul Rothermel, borate when H.L. Hunt walked into Estimates are that H.L. Hunt earned the former FBI agent who became H.L. the office. Hunt asked Rothermel if he $150,000 income every day. The could speak to him in private and the Hunt's chief of security and Hunt's largest part of that money came from tie to the CIA. NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 29 Was E. Howard Hunt The 114r.Hunt' To Whom Oswald Wrote Before The Murder?

F you are more than 25 years men. All three, according to the old, you remember where knew where they were when President Warren Commission and all records you were when President Kennedy was shot: They weren't with I kept by the Dallas Police Department, John F. Kennedy was shot. Right? E. Howard Hunt. Wrong, if you are E. Howard Hunt. were questioned and immediately released. No record was kept on their Faced with that reality, E. Howard E. Howard Hunt -- the mystery Hunt told the Rockefeller Commission names. The speculation was that E. writer, the former CIA Agent and that he must have been at home with Howard Hunt was the eldest of the Watergate figure — has a lot more miles his wife and family. bunch. (See accompanying photos.) on him than just 25 years. Yet E. The Rockefeller Commission then • Second, it was speculated that Howard Hunt has trouble remember- asked the CIA, E. Howard Hunt's Hunt acted as a Secret Service agent ing where he was when the President employer at that time, where E. How- and picked up what appeared to be of the United States was shot. E. How- ard Hunt had been the day John Ken- some bullet fragments on the day of ard Hunt has to scratch his head and nedy was shot. The CIA checked its the assassination. (See accompanying rack his brain. files and reported that E. Howard photos.) Called before the Rockefeller Corn- Hunt was "absent" the day John • Third, it was reported that E. mission, which supposedly investigated Kennedy was killed, apparently on Howard Hunt met with Richard the potential of the Central Intelli- Nixon, Charles Colson, John Ehr- "sick leave." The Rockefeller Com- gence Agency involvement in the as- lichrnan and others the day of the mission must have been relieved. It sassination of John Kennedy, E. How- assassination at Love Field, an air- concluded that, apparently, E. Howard ard Hunt had to do some thinking: He port in Dallas. A woman from an Hunt was home with his wife and scratched his head and racked his upper-middle-class suburb of Dallas family the day John Kennedy was brain. He couldn't remember. shot. swore that she saw Hunt, Nixon, Col- At first, E. Howard Hunt told the son and Ehrlichman meet at the Rockefeller Commission that he surely *1* airport after all four had become wasn't in Dallas the day President household names because of Water. E. Howard Hunt had a very bad Kennedy was shot. That probably memory about where gate. he was ort would have been fine for the milk- November 22, 1963, the day Presi- Because of those three things, the toast Rockefeller Commission except Rockefeller Commission pressed Hunt dent Kennedy was shot. for three things: as to exactly where he was the day So did Richard Nixon. • First, it had been widely specu- Kennedy was shot. Richard Nixon, when first ques- lated that E. Howard Hunt, following tioned by the FBI about where he was E. Howard Hunt scratched his head his infamy as one of the Watergate the day President Kennedy was killed, and racked his brain. burglars, had been identified as one of said he was in New York City. the men in the mystery photos called Since he wasn't in Dallas, Hunt told the Rockefeller Commission, then he But, by golly, wouldn't you know "The Tramps." These photos show must have been having lunch with it: Nixon wasn't exactly in New York three men who were arrested in Dealey friends in the CIA and the Pentagon. City. He was in Dallas the morning of Plaza shortly after President Kennedy the day Kennedy was shot. A reporter The Rockefeller Commission was shot. The photos are of three men from the checked with E. Howard Hunt's CIA Dallas Times Herald alleges who are handcuffed and led by police- that he woke Nixon on November 22, and Pentagon friends and they all 1963 (the day Kennedy was shot), to PAGE 30 KENNEDY NEWSREAL SERIES interview him about world affairs. was shot. Nixon reportedly learned of Nixon was, after all, the former Vice Vice President Richard Nixon. President of the United States. the killing from a portable radio that He he heard while at a stop light in the was the White House "Action Office" And, yes sir, Richard Milhouse on the invasion. Nixon later admitted to the FBI cab. He then, reportedly, went to his When Kennedy took over as Presi- he was in Dallas the day John Ken- New York apartment where he invited dent, he wasn't exactly pleased with nedy was shot. He flew out of Love friends over to have drinks while they the Cuban invasion plans. But he ap- Field (that Dallas airport) about watched the developments concerning proved them, with important reser- 10:00 to 10:30 A.M. the assassination on television. Re- portedly, one of the guests that Nixon vations: He would not approve air By golly, Richard Milhouse Nixon support coverage of the Bay of Pigs later admitted that (to make it "per- had in was John Mitchell, the man he invasion. That sealed the fate of the fectly clear") he had been in Dallas the later named as his attorney general and invaders, an odd lot to be sure: CIA night before the assassination to then his campaign manager for the agents, right-wing Cubans, soldiers of attend a convention of the Pepsi Cola Committee To Re-Elect The President, fortune, criminals who had Mafia company, the producer of soft drinks. during the peirod that E. Howard connections and right-wing Minute- (That checks out: Nixon, a partner Hunt and his cohorts broke into the watergate complex that then- men-types. (In 1974, former CIA agent Victor Marchetti revealed that Clay Shaw -- the man New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison tried to convict for the conspiracy to kill President Kennedy -- David Ferric -- also a target of the Garrison investigation -- E. Howard Hunt, and Water- gate burglars Frank Sturgis and Bernard Baker were all working on the Bay of Pigs invasion. Marchetti confirmed what Garrison could not: that Clay Shaw worked for the CIA.) There is ample reason to believe that E. Howard Hunt knows a lot more about the intrigues of the Bay of Pigs than he has admitted so far. Horace Sutton, writing in the Satur- day Review/World, quotes an anti• Castro Cuban leader recalling that "Eduardo," which was one of Hunt's code names, "was well known and very popular. He was the link with the power force (read: CIA) that represented victory over Castro. When Eduardo called somebody, it was important, and it was reliable." President Kennedy told Tad Szulc, a reporter then working for the New York Times, that he opposed any attempt to assassinate Castro. Despite the president's position, assassination plots went forward. The man who first suggested that Castro should be assassinated was E. Howard Hunt. And Hunt was active in pushing for Castro's murder. One of the men who has admitted E. Howard Hunt: He couldn't remember where he was the day John Kennedy he worked for the CIA plan to assas- was shot. sinate Castro was Frank Sturgis, another figure in the Watergate caper. Sturgis claimed that he was associated in a New York law firm at the time of with a hit squad called "Operation the assassination, represented the cola housed the National Democratic Corn- mitteee.) 40." According to Jack Anderson, the bottler, and he was in Dallas for the first attempt to kill Castro took place convention so that the soft drink • 4, R about the last of February or the first people could say that Richard Nixon of March in 1963. The assassination was their "lawyer, and, by the way, It should be assumed that Presi- squad was arrested on a rooftop before the former Vice President of the they could shoot Castro. This being United States.") dent Kennedy was in full control of the activities of the Central Intelli- the case, it is obvious that the CIA, in (The accepted story is that Nixon plotting or approving the assassination did leave Dallas from Love Field about gence Agency, but if one makes that assumption, he or she is dead wrong. of Castro, was operating in directly 10:20 A.M. (prior to the assassination) the opposite manner that President and flew to New York City, where he Shortly before President Kennedy came to office, the Eisenhower Ad- Kennedy expressly wanted. And, of learned, during his cab ride from the course, the man behind airport to his apartment, that Kennedy ministration decided to invade Cuba. the suggestion The main advocate of the invasion was that Castro be killed was none other than E. Howard Hunt. NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 31 RESIDENT John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, pJr. — both of whose deaths are the target of a House of Represen- tatives committee probe -- were murdered by members of an organized Kennedy and King'' crime cartel, according to a signed statement by a convicted narcotics dealer. Lee Harvey Oswald, said by the Warren Commission to have assassinated Kennedy alone, and James Earl Ray, who confessed to having murdered Dr. King, were framed for the killings, the narcotics dealer charges. The statement, which is replete with names, dates and places, partially checks out. The ringleader of the alleged plot against Dr. King, according to the narcotics dealer's statement, is quoted as saying "in a very clear voice that he was going to shoot that damn nigger bastard King in the head and frame a jailbird just as they had Kennedy." Sources in the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation have indicated that the ringleader named in the narcotics dealer's statement is a known mobster who deals in drugs, guns and other illegal activities. The statement, written by Robert Byron Watson and his mother and signed by Watson, has been in the hands of federal and police authorities since 1971, but it has been roundly "ignored" as without foundation, with no explanation why. Civil rights leader Dr. Ralph Aber- nathy, Dr. King's successor, and black activist Dick Gregory have joined Georgia state legislator Hosea Williams in telling former President Gerald Ford of the existence of the Watson statement last year. The three black leaders contend that a man named C.H. An- drews is willing to support Watson's statement and tell of his role in the assassination of Dr. King if he is granted immunity from prosecution. After Coretta King, widow of the slain civil rights leader, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of Operation PUSH in Chicago, joined Abernathy, Gregory became involved in the traffic of drugs. and Williams in their call for a new in- Ga., and it was at that art gallery that His father, Robert Willard Watson, vestigation into Dr. King's murder, U.S. Watson claims he overheard the plot worked for the Fulton (Georgia) being hatched to assassinate Dr. King. Attorney General Edward Levi ordered County Sheriff's Department for nearly a review of the FBI evidence in the case. Watson contends that the owners of 20 years and was killed in the line of No results concerning the Watson state- the art gallery approached him because duty on the last day of 1966. In 1967, "I was so knowledgable on ancient art ... ment or C.H. Andrews were disclosed a year before Dr. King's death, Watson as a part of that FBI review; however, They said they knew very little about became associated with the men he says the Attorney General did reveal that the ancient coins compared to my know- plotted and killed Dr. King. At that ledge ... and that I would be needed FBI conducted an illegal seven-year time, Watson was only campaign to discredit Dr. King prior to 14 years old. rather badly to grade and price the coins "Being a severe asthmatic," the Wat- his assassination. Shortly before the as well as identify them. They offered son statement begins, "thus spending 1976 presidential election, the House of to pay me in either money, coins, relics all my time indoors as a child, I devoted Representatives voted to reopen the or whatever the business had for sale. most of my time to the study of arch- Kennedy and King assassination inves- Since I was so young, my mother took aeology, anthropology, paleontology, tigations. me to (the art gallery) two or three history, art history and geology." This The statement by Robert Byron Wat- times a week after school to work there. interest, he claims, brought him into son is admittedly highly self-serving in 1 was paid very well for my services and contact with a group of men who ran that it "explains" how young Watson usually desired to be paid in either coins an art and coin gallery in Buchhead, or artifacts since 1 had money."

PAGE 32 KENNEDY NEWSREAL SERIES ringleader) closed the door, though he left it cracked as he stood there and asked me to go get him some cigarettes Deaths Linked and gave me extra money to buy something for myself to eat. "I didn't want anything to eat so I bought the cigarettes and went back. The front door was ajar so I went in. Since the foyer was carpeted and the TV was still on, no one seemed to hear me. 1 stopped suddenly (as I was just about to enter the den to the right where the men were). I heard (the ringleader) saying in a very clear voice that he was going to shoot that damn nigger bastard King In the head and frame a jailbird just as they had Ken- nedy. The TV was on the news at that time which was telling of Dr. King's leading the strike by the garbage workers in Memphis that day. (Mr. Z's) voice said that they would kill Dr. King exactly one week from then to the day and about the same time of day. "After hearing that I decided it was best if I went and had something to eat as (the ringleader) had suggested earlier. This I did and in about a couple of hours I returned to the (art gallery) and attempted to appear as normal as possible. About this time, my mother picked me up. No one appeared to suspect that I knew anything about what was said in the den by them. "When I got into the car with my mother, I told her that Dr. King was going to be killed. She asked me how I knew but 1 would not tell her until Dr. King had been murdered. She told me that I didn't know that, but I told her that I did. I told her the place, day and time Dr. King would be murdered as well as how he would be murdered. Just as I had said, he was shot in the head." Immediately after the assassination of Dr. King, the mobster and his associates "left the country," telling Watson that they might "never come back." They did return to Georgia after Watson says that the business began James Earl Ray was apprehended in to hit some troubled waters by Christ- the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther London. According to Watson's state- mas of 1967, and that the mobster then King on April 4, 1968, I was going to ment, "My mother and I believed that if threw out the legitimate partner he had. work (at the art gallery) after school. they knew that I had overheard the con- That partner, according to Watson, My mother dropped me off there and became upset "over the tremendously left as she usually did ... spiracy, they would have killed us. We large amount of valuables which had "As I walked into the foyer I could decided that the best thing for us to do r been stolen or 'lost.' " hear the TV on and men talking in the if they came back was to go back to (the art gallery) and act as if we knew In any event, Watson says that he room which was adjacent to the small observed the mobster and several foyer. (The mobster) came out of this nothing. associates "cleaning or otherwise work- room and met me before I could walk "When (the gangster and his asso- ing on their guns. On another occasion in, almost immediately after I first ciates) returned, we went back to visit when I was at (the art gallery), just walked into the front door. He seemed them at (the art gallery). (Mr. Y) came about two weeks prior to the murder of overly nervous for some reason, almost to the front door which they always Dr. Martin Luther King, (the mobster) as if he didn't want me to be there. kept locked and took us down to the was examining the site on another rifle. (Mr. X, Mr. Y, Mr. Z and the mobster) basement where (the other men) and a He oftentimes would brag about being and several other men whom I didn't man they referred to as 'Bannister' an expert marksman. know were in the room which was (were). They told me they had just the "On Thursday, the week just prior to den to the right of the foyer. I only gotten back into town ... glanced upon them once before (the "(The mobster) was acting as if he was re-arranging some Pre-Columbian EWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 33 1 relics as soon as I stepped into the Shortly after that Watson claims that the time that the package came to him room. I believe that they had been he was threatened and blackmailed into "trying to hide out from the gangsters doing something else in the basement as working on a heroin smuggling opera- as I was completely unnerved by every- all conversation stopped as soon as I tion out of Southeast Asia. thing at this point." entered the room as there was nothing "After we turned the information in, His mother phoned him when the there but a few pieces of worthless it evidently got back to the wrong package arrived, but Watson says in his broken pottery. people as 'the syndicate' approached me statement that he did not go to her "(Mr. Y) asked me if I would come and told me that it had been decided home to pick it up. Both he and his upstairs for a few minutes. Later, after that my mother and I would be killed. mother claim they knew nothing of the we left, my mother asked me what (Mr. The people who contacted me were contents of the package. Y) had wanted. I told her that he said (the mobster and two associates). These With the heroin package at his that 'bad things happen to people who people told me that it would do no mother's house, "dozens of narcotic overhear the wrong things and tell the good for me to inform on them to the agents surrounded our home and came authorities.' He said their car could be government as they had people in the in on her ... with drawn guns ... The blown up, they could get shot, their government — high in the government. agents later raided the apartment where house could catch on fire. He said that They told me that if I would cooperate I was staying and took me to jail for they could even get into trouble with with them they would not kill my importation of heroin from Bangkok, the authorities and all sorts of accidents mother and me. (Mr. W) said that since Thailand, through the mails." could happen to people. We didn't go I could not harm them by informing on From that point on, Watson claims, back out there after that." them, they would allow us to live if he was involved in gun running, wit- For approximately a year, Watson we would maintain close contact with nessed a machine-gun assassination of a and his mother made no attempt to them so they could keep an eye on us. man by one of the gangsters and was contact anyone concerning their infor- He said that we should do this by further involved in the traffic of drugs. mation about the Kennedy and King opening another art gallery with them One of the gangsters, according to murders. and that I should go overseas with the statement, "was flying from Atlanta "We later decided that the only right with Thompson 45 submachine guns and proper thing for us to do was to get that the syndicate was getting from the this information to the proper people in Robert Watson: military here in the States and flying spite of the risk to our life. In June, through the Southern United States, 1970, we flew to Washington, D.C. at 'TM through Mexico and down to Columbia our own expense to try to see President Secret Service where he would land at Carta Hoena, Nixon. We were unable to see him, and (sic.) Columbia. He would leave the we spent several hours being interro- Told Us TO Forest machine guns there and pick up a load gated by Secret Service agents. During of cocaine or pot." my questioning by Secret Service agents, Th8 Whole Thing.' Watson says that he left the U.S. in I was asked if I had seen a psychologist 1974 and travelled to Chile, where he as I must be crazy." (Mr. W2) who would be going around was befriended by a high official in the Watson claims that he was likewise the world very shortly." Chilean government who arranged for threatened by the Secret Service and According to Watson's statement, the the cocaine shipment that were picked told that if he didn't take their advice mobster and his associates used the art up in Cara Hoena, (sic.) Columbia. and "forget the whole thing, I would gallery as a front for their drug running According to Watson, this Chilean probably end up in an institution of operation out of Asia. Watson was sent government official was paid through some sort. The Secret Service agents had on a buying trip to Asia, where the his New York lawyer, who was a per- been sent to the guard station of the mobsters forced him to spend 525,000 sonal friend of Richard Helms, the White House by President Nixon, whom of his father's life insurance money, and former director of the Central Intelli- the guard said he had called. they used the goods he purchased in gence Agency during the Watergate "After being treated very rudely by which to hide the heroin. period. The CIA helped overthrow Secret Service agents, one guard at the "Before leaving for the U.S. from Salvador Allende's democratic govern- guard house there suggested we, perhaps, Asia, I did learn one valuable piece of ment in Chile. should see the FBI in Atlanta. Upon our information from (Mr. W2) as he told When he returned to Georgia from return to Atlanta, we did just that. We me that President Kennedy was killed Chile, Watson claims he worked as a went over our story with the FBI in because he was conspiring with the paid informant for the Federal Drug Atlanta and while doing so one FBI Communists." Enforcement Administration (DEA), agent said, 'Oh (the mobster previously Upon his return, Watson said that but that he was "set up" and busted for mentioned), the gangster, yes, we know four armed masked men broke into his selling dope to agents of the DEA. him.' Well, if they knew him and they mother's home and threatened to mur- To date, no one has confirmed or knew he's a gangster, why isn't he in der Watson if he informed on the denied Robert Byron Watson's state- prison? Neither Washington or the FBI "syndicate operation" that was running ment. here accepted our story." heroin out of Asia. Watson and his The only statement from federal From there, Watson turned to an mother were saved, he said, because a authorities came from James B. O'Keefe, attorney, who eventually got Watson in high school friend knocked on the back assistant to the special agent in charge contact with attorney Bernard Fenster- door and scared away the masked men. of the Atlanta office of the FBI. Said wald, the lawyer who defended and ad- "We reported this to the police, but the O'Keefe: "It (the statement) was re- vised Watergate figure James McCord men were never caught," Watson says ferred to the Justice Department, and and has long been interested in the Ken- in the statement. we have not been advised to investigate nedy and King assassinations. Shortly after that, a package arrived it further since that time (1971)." "Mr. Fensterwald," Watson's state- from Thailand for Watson. It contained The position of the Atlanta police ment continues, "has done extensive a magazine wrapped in brown paper department is that they had "not been investigation on these people and has from Bangkok, in which a shipment of able to verify that there was a con- substantiated evidence to support my heroin was placed. spiracy, nor to prove that there wasn't story." Watson lived in Chamblee, Ga., at one."

PAGE 34 KENNEDY NEWSREAL SERIES Watson's Story Can Be Checked Out ESIDES writing a feature news story about Robert Byron Wat- enough, don't seem to put much faith in his statement. I got the distinct impres- Lucian Conien, with whom WerBell Bson's statement concerning the helped design assassination devices to sion that they thought the statement assassinations of President Kennedy and use against marijuana importers. Martin Luther King Jr., I feel I owe was a smoke screen to cover his guilt in the drug busts. WerBell was charged with having NEWSREAL readers a little explanation. masterminded - a 1975 Colombia-to- The statement -- which is 37 pages of I secured a copy of Watson's state- Florida pot shipment in which he and ment from a man who told me that If single-spaced copy — contained some very interesting names of people from his friends hoped to bank $100,000 Oswald hadn't shot Kennedy he would each. have. Detroit. As a native of Motown, I was able to connect with a couple' of ex- Besides WerBell, those named in the I never had the opportunity to talk indictment include Cleveland Teamster to Watson myself, although Ma Bell and tremely "heavy" names mentioned and I can only say that I would have been Union official John Nardi, 61; North I gave it a college try. Carolina businessman William Bell, 52; I talked to several people whose more welcomed if I had been a carrier of swine flu. The mere mention of the Cleveland insurance man Morton Frank- names are mentioned in Watson's state- lin, 49; and Florida weapons designer ment, and through FBI and CIA sources, name Robert Byron Watson closed doors faster than Lee Harvey Oswald Gerald Cunningham, 49. checked out other names. The case against the five centered My FBI sources confirmed — but supposedly fired his rifle at JFK. So, going largely on the theory that largely on the testimony of under- only off the record and not for attribu- cover agent Kenneth Gordon Burn- tion to anyone in the bureau directly - smoke can lead to fire, I think the Watson statement is worthy of more stifle. Burnstine, unfortunately, met that the ringleader Watson mentioned in with an untimely death before he could his statement is indeed a member of investigation, particularly by the House of Representatives committee now testify — his P-51 plane crashed in the organized crime. Mojave Desert. Oddly, the official explanation I got probing the Kennedy and King assassinations. Yet WerBell provided a unique de- about Watson's statement was that it fense, contending that he was actually had been around a long time (since The other Issue that requires some explanation is the strange world of drug working for the Nixon White House 1971 and kept alive largely by his on a super secret war to wipe our mother's efforts). It was also felt that dealing. It is, I think, as incredible as Robert Watson claims it is, and to prove marijuana traffic. the statement would be extremely dif- Subpoenas were issued for former ficult to check out and then develop that point, one need only examine the record of the acquittal of another At- President Nixon and his aides John into a case that could be brought before Ehrlichman and Egil Krogh, but only a grand jury. (I'm not sure I buy that. lantan, Mitchell WerBell III, and four of his associates. Krogh took the stand. He denied any I was able to learn quite a bit by phon- knowledge of WerBell's activities on ing various people mentioned in the WerBell, 56, a known arms dealer, is the son of a colonel in the Russian behalf of the White House or any so- statement, and I certainly don't have called war against pot dealers. any power to force people to answer my cavalry. Testimony indicates that he worked with Federal Drug Enforce- Maybe -- just maybe -- Robert By- questions.) ron Watson and his mother aren't half Watson's attorneys, interestingly ment Adminstration intelligence officials, including former CIA agent crazy at all. -- Tom Lutz A Strange Confession NE lead the House Com- "a man in an open car during a motor- mittee to Investigate Assas- cade." inations should look into 0 The NBI said that Castillo told involves Luis Angel Castillo. About three years after the assas- them he did not use the rifle because sination of President Kennedy, the "he heard that someone else had al- Philippine National Bureau of Inves- ready shot the man in the open car ... tigation said that it had arrested an (and that) he tried to remember the American who claimed under truth man who shot the President and he serum that he took part in the assas- knew him just as Joe." sination of the President. The NBI said that Castillo claimed The Philippine NBI identified the that 15 men were involved in the assassination scheme, stationed man as 24-year-old Luis Angel Castillo, at a native of Puerto Rico. The NBI said various locations along the motorcade Castillo was a Cuban-trained com- route. munist spy sent to the Philippines to Questioned by newsmen about his work with other communists. role in the assassination, Castillo was The NBI further said that Castillo evasive. He said, "I don't want to admitted while under truth serum and answer that question." during hypnotic questioning that he He did, however, say that he did was in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, and not know anyone named Lee Harvey that he had been given a rifle by an Oswald but that he was in Dallas the unidentified man and told to shoot day of the assassination. Luis Angel Castillo NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 35 Conspiracy Looms In JFK, MLK, RFK and the Wallace Shootings

OLLOWING the murder of mysterious man he called "Raoul." critically questioned, including their President Kennedy, two other Moments after his guilty plea, Ray re- authorships. Fmajor Americans were assas- peated that he was innocent and that he • In all four cases, the accused assassinated and an attempt was made on the was merely a dupe controlled by sins were highly mobile individuals who life of yet a third. It has been the official "Raoul." travelled far beyond their known means position that, as in the case of President Ballistics evidence shows that Sirhan of support. Kennedy, lone assassins were involved in Bishara Sirhan was never close enough • In all four cases, the investigating all three crimes. to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy to inflict the agencies involved in the murders have James Earl Ray, the accused assassin fatal wound. Last year, an official in- been called into serious question, both of Dr. Martin Luther King, with no ap- quiry into that ballistics evidence failed concerning the assassinations and other parent motive, no violent record and no to dispel] the charges that a "second unrelated matters that could reflect on visible means of support (other than gun" actually killed Senator Kennedy. their investigative integrity. that of a part-time dishwasher) spent Governor George Wallace, supposed- • In all four, the political motiva- nearly $12,000 in three countries just ly the victim of another lone assassin, tions of the accused assassins are ex- prior to the murder of Dr. King and exploded the case against conspiracy in tremely weak, at best, if not (as is sug- then spent thousands more with false the attempted murder of himself when gested in the case of Lee Harvey Os- identifications fleeing to Europe after he said: "You think one fellow can fol- wald) trumpted up. the assassination. Apprehended in Lon- low you around all over the country, • In all four, the politics of the vic- don's Heathrow Airport, Ray contended hardly never made $30 a week in his tims were anything but "safe" for the until the moment he pleaded guilty to life? How can he buy an automobile, "establishment," and none of the four the murder that he did not kill Dr. King. buy two guns? Stay at the Waldorf- victims could be counted upon to act He said that he had been funded by and Astoria, go to massage parlors, rent in an accepted "establishment" manner. was following the instructions of a limousines, go to Canada, went all over Likewise, all four men had widespread Michigan, followed me around?" It is difficult to judge which of the four cases most strongly suggests a conspiracy; evidence exists in each case that is persuasive. In each case, however, some common threads run: • In all four, the accused assassins are inept people who are officially painted as loners. • In all four, there are the trappings of an intelligence operation, complete with phony names, drop boxes, shadowy characters and the use of "doubles." • In three of the four cases, the accused assassins conveniently kept "diaries"; in the fourth case, the case against James Earl Ray, one was quickly constructed by author William Bradford Huie, who bought Ray's exclusive 20,000-word story detailing his 131,- month journey from his 1967 prison President Kennedy escape to his capture in London in Lee Harvey Oswald 1968. All of those "diaries" have been

PAGE 36 KENNEDY NEWSREAL SERIES followings: They had the potential, if it they had not been assassinated or badly Inn-Rivermont. When violence erupted during the March 28th march, Dr. King Missouri State Prison (where he was injured, of changing the direction of serving time for armed robbery), Ray this country. and his aides sought safety at the River- mont; they had not planned to register acquired, supposedly on his own, four aliases that corresponded with men who The King Killing at that hotel, although it is believed that one of the reasons the King party may lived near Toronto: Eric Starvo Galt, John Willard, Paul Bridgman and Less than a month before he was have shifted from the Rivermont to the Lorraine motel is that the FBI planned Raymond Sneyd. (According to Jeff murdered, Dr. King was labeled "the Cohen and David S. Lifton, investigative most dangerous man in America" and to "leak" the story to the press that King was patronizing an all-white hotel reporters, three of those four men ac- "a national security threat" by the tually looked like Ray) Reader's Digest, while the blacks he lead stayed in the easily the most power- Ray, who earned no more than $94 ful monthly magazine in America and Memphis ghetto. U.N. Ambassador sador Andrew Young, however, denied a week following his escape from prison, the voice of conservatism. was able to travel the country from Los The Senate select committee on that the FBI potential "leak" was the reason for the switch in accomodations. Angeles to New Orleans to Chicago to intelligence (the Church Committee) Atlanta to Canada to Alabama to Mem- revealed last year that the FBI, under Young, then an aide to Dr. King, says that it was "natural" for the King party phis without the slightest problem. the direct supervision of J. Edgar (Even Attorney General. Griffin Bell, Hoover, conducted one of the vilest and to pick the Lorraine motel because Dr. King normally stayed in black owned was perplexed by Ray's travel and ex- most illegal and unrelenting campaigns penses. The FBI was unable to find any to discredit Dr. King in the Bureau's motels or with friends in the black community. unsolved robberies along the way that Ray might have committed to support Clearly, however, the FBI had main- his sometimes lavish living.) tained a constant surveillance of Dr. King up to April 4, 1968, when he was Because Ray pleaded guilty, there was no case presented with normal murdered. Where the FBI was that fateful day is unknown. examination and cross examination. But, what evidence the state did have According to the official account, against Ray is worth looking at: Ray arrived in Memphis only a few short hours before the assassination. • They had his rifle with his finger Judge W. Preston Battle, who accepted prints on it and the box in which the gun came. Ray has never disputed that Ray's guilty plea, was bothered by he bought that gun. that. Judge Battle told Associated Press reporters: "I would surely like to know • They had Charles Q. Stephens, how Ray actually found the spot from supposedly an eyewitness who changed which to fire. How did Ray know where his story several times, making it fit Ray Rev. King would be? How did he deter- only after he was a suspect. Stephens mine the type of weapon to be used? said he saw Ray fleeing from the Was he alone in surveillance of the rooming house, and the state spent Lorraine Hotel? Most puzzling of all is $31,000 keeping him a star witness. his escape from Memphis. To me, it However, James McCraw, a cab driver, seems miraculous that he was able to said that Stephens was drunk the day flee to Atlanta despite the all-points of the assassination and could not have bulletins, without his white Mustang properly identified Ray. Grace Walden, Dr. Martin Luther King being spotted on the highway." who was living with Stephens, disagreed The State of Tennessee and the FBI with Stephens' potential testimony; she contend that Ray fired a 30.06 rifle said that the man she and Stephens saw running from the rooming house was history. One of the most outrageous from the bathroom window of the younger, balding, dark-complexioned acts of the campaign was an anonymous rooming house across the street from with a long pointed nose. (On the basis note sent to Dr. King just 34 days be- the Lorraine motel, went to a room he of that description, the FBI released a fore he received the Nobel Peace Prize. had rented under the alias of "John police sketch of the alleged assassin. It suggested that King should kill him- Willard" where he threw the gun, which That sketch, many people have felt, self, or at least that is what the Chruch he had replaced in its box, onto a bed- looks remarkably like "Frenchie," one committee interpreted it to say. spread, and then fled the rooming house with the bedspread bundle. While of the tramps picked up in the railroad Thus, perhaps even more so than in cars near Dealey Plaza the day President the cases of assassination, the climate running to his car, Ray then threw the Kennedy was shot. Only after Ray's was right in this country for the murder bundle into the doorway of the Canipe prints were lifted from his rifle did he of Dr. King by some conspiracy. (The Amusement Company, which was one become suspected.) question must be asked: If the FBI was door down from the rooming house. And that's it. willing to suggest Dr. King kill himself, He got into his white Mustang and sped why then wouldn't the same bureau be out of town. In the following two willing to murder him?) months, Ray, supposedly acting alone, Ray's Defense Dr. King was in Memphis leading a travelled through the U.S., to Canada, If Ray were ever granted a new trial garbage pickers strike. Originally, he had on to Portugal and then landed in and his guilty plea thrown out, this is stayed at the all-white owned Holiday England, where he was captured. A convict who had escaped from the some of the evidence that the defense EWSREAL SERIES might present: KENNEDY PAGE 37 • Proper testing of the bullet re- the day Dr. King was assassinated. The beaten to the front door of the Canipe covered from Dr. King's body could moment of the shooting, Ray says, he Amusement Company by that police- have matched the bullet with Ray's gun was waiting in his car outside the room- man. (if indeed it had come from that gun). ing house, and once he heard the shot, • Someone appeared at the Lorraine The FBI was unable to make such a Raoul emerged, tossing the gun into the motel the day before Dr. King was match up because, according to FBI doorway of the Canipe Amusement scheduled to return to Memphis from firearms expert Robert Fraizer, the Company before getting into the car. Atlanta. The owners of the Lorraine bullet was mutilated. Ballistics expert William Bradford Fluie, the author to motel, great admirers of Dr. King, had Herbert McDonnell disagreed with whom Ray sold his story, spent many made the best suite available to him Fraizer. McDonnell also points out that months investigating the Raoul story. In on the first floor. The man who visited testimony before a Memphis grand jury, the motel the day before said he was an Huie said: "It is my opinion that Jerry "advance man" for Dr. King and de- Ray (James Earl's brother) had fore- manded that the King room be switched knowledge of the crime and was in con- to the second floor overlooking the tact with his brother at every strategic swimming pool in the rear. Dr. King's moment before and after the crime." people were unaware of any "advance New Times recently revealed that man." James Earl Ray said he was going hunt- • Harry Locke. Locke told author- ing with his brother when he bought ities that he saw three men in the room the 30.06 rifle. The Justice Department Ray supposedly rented in the rooming task force, which recently reviewed the house under the name "John Willard" Ray case, had this to say about Jerry just two hours before Dr. King was shot.. Ray: "He confirmed the fact that he Locke did not identify any of them as had lied to the Bureau and had seen his being James Earl Ray. (This, and the brother on several occasions. Jerry last three items, while widely reported denied knowing anything about James' in the assassination literature, were most travels or his source of funds. However, recently printed in Rolling Stone.) the task force found the credibility of • The strange story of "the eggs and Jerry's denials to be suspect ... we con- sausage man" and Jack Youngblood. cluded that the FBI abandoned a sig- Largely because of the work of investi- nificant opportunity to obtain answers gative reporter Wayne Chastain and from family members concerning some Robert Livingston, one of James Earl James Earl Ray of the important questions about James Ray's attorneys, Jack Youngblood has Earl Ray which still remain." been accused of being a possible con- • When the white Mustang in which spirator in the death of Dr. King. Ray made his getaway was recovered, An hour and a half before the assas- "to get the proper angle, the rifle would - clothes were found in the car that were sination, a sharply dressed man ap- have stuck six inches into the wall" of too small to fit Ray. Also found in the peared at Jim's Cafe, a greasy spoon the rooming house bathroom, from car were cigarette and cigar butts. James near the Lorraine motel. The sharply which window Ray supposedly fired. Earl Ray does not smoke, but he con- dressed man ordered "eggs and sausage" • On April 4, 1968 — the day Dr. tended that Raoul did. Jerry Ray does and left a half hour later. Lloyd lowers King was assassinated — the view from smoke. Cigarette butts were also found and his black waitress recalled the ap- that bathroom window was blocked by in the room that "John Willard" -- the pearance of the sharply dressed man and trees -- which, for no explainable reason, name Ray supposedly used — rented reported it to the police after the assas- were cut down a few days later. across the street from the Lorraine sination. The police told lowers to • Solomon Jones, Dr. King's chauf- motel. report immediately if the sharply feur, was on the ground below Dr. King • Guy Canipe, the owner of the dressed man came back. He did, and when he was struck. Jones has told re- Canipe Amusement Company, told Jowers called the cops. The police porters that he saw a man with a white one of Ray's attorneys that the bundle arrested the "eggs and sausage" man sheet over his head and a rifle in his containing the rifle Ray supposedly who made one phone call and was re- hands located in the bushes behind the used to kill Dr. King was thrown in the leased. There is no record of his arrest. rooming house moments after the fatal doorway of the Canipe business at least Five days after the assassination, a bullet was fired. Three other witnesses five minutes before the police arrived to man of similar appearance called and are known who will testify to the same retrive it. The problem there is that the then visisted Russell X. Thompson, a location of the assassin. police had been watching Dr. King from Memphis attorney. The man identified • Ray's "Raoul" story. Ray claims a fire house with binoculars. When the himself as "Tony Benavides," and said he met Raoul (whom he has never shot was fired, one of the policemen ran he wanted Thompson to represent him physically described in any detail) in immediately toward the rooming house in the event he was charged in 'connec- 1967 in a bar in Montreal. Raoul, ac- and discovered the bundle along the tion with the assassination. He said that cording to Ray, engaged Ray's services way. Seemingly, it would have been im- he had been picked up for questioning in smuggling schemes and instructed possible for Ray to have left the bath- the day the police arrested the "eggs him to move South, buy a gun and lay room of the rooming house, put his gun and sausage" man and that he knew low. Raoul, says Ray, was the source of in its box, put the box and other be- who did shoot Dr. King -- his Denver his finances. Then, on Raoul's instruc- longings in the bedspread and then left roommate named "Pete." Pete accord- tions, Ray took his weapon to Memphis the rooming house without having been ing to Benavides, shot from the bushes

PAGE 38 KENNEDY NEWSREAL SERIES behind the rooming house and escaped A gunrunner soldier of fortune who by motorcycle. When "Benavides" left claims to have fought in many bananna the lawyer's office, he said that he was republic revolutions, including Castro's going to visit the Grand Dragon of the overthrow of Batista, Youngblood has Ku Klux Klan, who lived in Browns- been closely associated with the CIA ville, Tenn. and the FBI or some part of the Defense Shortly after that rather strange Intelligence Agency. His name appears visit, two Presbyterian ministers met a in the Warren Report. man who said he wanted "spiritual" Within the last year or so, Young- assistance or he might just kill himself. blood met with a New York publisher This man called himself "J. Christ to sell his story about his knowledge Bonnevecche" and said he, too, was on of the JFK and King killings. The,pub- his way to Brownsville, where a convict lisher said that he turned Youngblood friend of his was going to provide him down because he wanted "way too with assistance. "Bonnevecche" said he much money." But the publisher re- knew who killed Dr. King, a motorcycle called that it was a wild meeting in a riding man of Spanish decent who New York hotel. Originally, they were disguised himself as a black. "Bonne- to meet at one hotel, but Youngblood vecche" volunteered that the next phoned and made the publisher rent a important public figure to be killed room at another hotel. Youngblood would be Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. came armed with his pistol holder in the Now, both lowers, the owner of the small of his back, which is where the greasy spoon where the "eggs and man who met lawyer Thompson and the sausage" man was arrested, and one of two ministers carried his gun. Sirhan Sirhan the ministers have tentatively identified Many people consider Youngblood a the man in question as Jack Young- prime suspect in the series of assassina- blood. Moreover, according to investiga- tions, but just as many others consider tive reporter Chastain, James Earl Ray claims that he was carrying a .38 and him a con artist who is spreading has identified Youngblood as a man not his .22. However, other witnesses "misinformation." Getting to the bot- who was following him in two Memphis claim that a security guard did fire a tom of the Youngblood story would, it pistol. bars. Further, according to the Village seems certain, be one thing a new trial Voice, assassination researcher and for James Earl Ray would accomplish. Since making his documentary, author Donald Freed has placed Young- Charach has traced the .22-caliber gun blood, Ray and a black man in the Los Sen. Kennedy's Killing that Ceasar owned all over the country Angeles area roughly two weeks after and believes that he now knows its the King assassination. location. Largely' through the efforts of free- Youngblood's past is a murky one, lance journalist Theodore Charach, It was largely because of Charach's and therein hangs a tale that leads back work that Superior Court Judge Robert there is strong evidence that a "second to the assassination of President John F. A. Wenke ordered Sirhan's gun to be gun" may have been involved in the Kennedy. refired to see if the bullets from that murder of Bobby Kennedy. gun could be matched up with those In a film entitled "The Second Gun," taken from Sen. Kennedy's body. Con- Charach traces the shots that supposed- trary to widely published reports, the ly came from Sirhan Sirhan's .22-caliber experts who performed the test firing Iver Johnson pistol. Among the many were unable to say conclusively that things that documentary shows are: the bullets matched. • According to witnesses, Sirhan's gun was no closer than l' feet to Sen. Kennedy when he opened fire. However, The Wallace Shooting Los Angeles County coroner Dr. The shooting of Gov. George Wal- Thomas Noguchi testified that the fatal lace, like that of Sen. Kennedy, seems, bullet that struck the senator came from on the face of the evidence, to be the the rear and was fired no further than work of a single gunman. The question 3 inches away from his head. here, though, is whether or not that • Forensic experts indicate that the gunman could have been involved in a fatal bullets that struck the senator and conspiracy. injured five others could not have come from the same gun. The best investigation of the shooting of George Wallace was conducted • There was a security guard named by William W. Turner, Thane Eugene Ceasar in back of Sen. a former FBI agent, and published last year in Kennedy the moment Sirhan began to Govern- ment By Gunplay: Assassination Con- fire who owned a .22 pistol similar spiracy Theories from Dallas to Today to Sirhan's. Although Ceasar has (Signet, pages 57-67). Jerry Ray changed his story in various interviews, he told investigator Charach that he Turner set about to determine if Gov. Wallace's suspicions about Arthur drew his gun but did not fire. He also Bremer's finances, diary and his status NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 39 J the day Wallace announced for the race, estimates that Bremer's travels could and subsequent to that purchased have cost no less than $4,200. "Con- another when his first gun was taken sidering that Bremer lost money in the from him by police outside the Congre- failed button business and that his gation Shalom, a Jewish synagogue. mother withheld part of his income, it Bremer worked for Wallace's cam- appears that he received at least $1,500 paign in Wisconsin and attended and perhaps substantially more from a primary celebration party the night of some mysterious source. The Milwau- the primary. kee police checked on the possibility The next day, Bremer's strange od- that he committed a robbery or burg- dessy began, an oddessy for which, ac- lary, but found no indication of it," cording to Turner's calculations, Bremer Turner writes. couldn't possibly afford without some Turner notes that, far from being a loner, Bremer met with a large man the day he took a ferry across Lake Michi- gan from Milwaukee to Michigan. In Bremer's car, at that time, was yet a third person. Moreover, Bremer, according to Tur ner's investigation, was involved with rightwing Jesus freaks. Turner feels there are still many un- Gov. George Wallace answered questions concerning Arthur Bremer, not the least of which involves rumors that Republican Congressman William 0. Mills of Maryland, who com- as a loner were correct. mitted suicide in 1973, is rumored to Turner learned that instructors and have had illegal Nixon campaign contri- classmates at the Milwaukee Area Tech- butions in his war chest and that nical College, which Bremer attended, $15,000 of it was paid to Bremer to said Bremer was a Vietnam War hawk, spy on Wallace. a position that is the opposite of the political views he expressed to a woman hitchhiker he picked up, who said he Conclusion "had a peace symbol inked on his right Thus, when the assassinations of hand." Bremer is also supposed to have John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and written to Congressman Henry Reuss Arthur Bremer Robert Kennedy along with the at- that the congress should "cut the god- tempted assassination of George Wallace dam military spending." outside assistance. Turner estimates that are put together, there appears to be On the issue of the probable author- Bremer had $500 in a savings account much that we do not know. ship of Bremer's diary, Turner notes and earned roughly $3,100 during 1971. Worse yet, there are nagging implica- that it is filled with misspelled words. Turner found that late in 1971, Bremer tions that, somehow, all four could be Bremer had sent a letter perfect letter lost money in a scheme to make cam- tied together. They have that much in to Congressman Reuss and received an paign buttons, and that he owed $500 common. "A" on a 1968 composition. in bills from that venture. He was living According to that diary, Bremer at home during that period and his Portions of "The Shooting of George originally wanted to shoot Richard mother took his pay checks and gave Wallace" by William Turner from Nixon but was thwarted at that attempt him spending money. Then in October because of the tight security around Government By Gunplay: Assassina- of 1971, he moved to an apartment that tion Conspiracy Theories from Dallas Nixon. It was then that Bremer his mother thought he couldn't afford to Today (Signet: New American Lib- switched to Wallace, or so says his diary. to live in. rary, 1976) Actually, Bremer bought his first gun were condensed here with However, Turner conservatively the permission of the publisher. PAGE 40 KENNEDY NEWSREAL SERIES

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PAGE 42 KENNEDY NEWSREAL SERIES put in a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. When his office was contacted about whether or not he would make the Gonzalez bill an issue in his campaign, a spokesman for Udall said that he would not. Asked why, the spokesman said that any new investigation into the Kennedy and King killings was a nonpartisan issue, which doesn't make a lot of sense. If Udall was willing to cosponsor the bill, why wasn't he willing to push for its passage?) Favoring "some action" on the assassinations was rather like being for motherhood. No politican could afford not to have some positive stance on the issue. Even Sen. Edward Kennedy, whose family opposes re. opening the emotionally charged issue, and President Ford, who once sat on the Warren Commission, came down on the side of the angels: Both said they would favor a new investigation if "new evidence" could be produced to warrant a new probe. (Warren Com- mission critics answered them by asking: What's the matter with all the old evidence that indicates there was a conspiracy?) The issue came to a head when con- servative Virginia Democratic Con- gressman Thomas Downing came into the picture. An unlikely do-gooder, Former House Speaker Carl Albert and Majority Leader Thomas "Tip" O Weill Downing became convinced that INPFP forced to annrnve the Hau something was amiss in the Warren .re Accaccinntionc Committee . Commission conclusion when his son, a University of Virginia student, arranged to have his father see the famous Zapruder film, a home movie How The Assassinations taken by Abraham Zapruder, a Dallas dress maker, showing the actual killing of Kennedy. (The film was bought by Committee Came To Be Time-Life in 1963, and Time-Life executives decided not to make ROM all outward signs, it public until last year, when it wasit appeared that the House two weeks before the election, but shown on ABC and CBS TV.) The FAssassinations Committee -- it was precisely because of the election movie shows that the president's established just two weeks before the that the congressional leadership head snaps backward at the instant 1976 election to probe the killings choose to act. of the fatal wounding, seemingly in of John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin For nearly two years now, Texas total contradiction of the Warren Luther King, Jr. — was trying to Congressman Henry Gonzalez Commission findings, which were commit suicide. It was either that or first Mexican-American elected(D.), the to that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, someone or something was murdering congress from the lone star state, had killed the president by firing three it in full public view. a bill in the hopper that called for a shots in no more than 5.6 seconds The performance of the committee new investigation of not only the John from a rusty 6.5 mm rifle, shooting to date has been miserable with mem- Kennedy and Dr. King slayings, but from behind the president. Even a bers seeking more headlines than con- also Bobby Kennedy's and the at- cautious Downing could reason that a spirators, and the prospects for the tempted murder of Gov. George man firing a gun from behind would future aren't much better. But to Wallace. More than 40 congressmen not likely cause the president's head to understand why the committee has cosponsored the bill. Cosponsoring it snap backward. The congressman from acted the way it has, it is first neces- was politically smart since opinion Virginia got assassination religion and sary to understand why it came into polls have shown that nearly 80 per was off and running to save the coun- being in the first place. cent of the American public dis- try -- 12 years after the fact. The timing of the committee's agreed with the findings of the Warren Downing submitted his own bill on creation is a telling element. It seemed Commission. Doing something about assassination investigation and had It most unlikely that the Democratically passing the bill, however, was quite moved to the House Rules Committee controlled congress would have picked something different. (For example, in March of last year. There it was up such a political hot potato just Congressman Morris Udall (D., Ariz.) blocked by liberal Democrats who, was a cosponsor of the bill. He also while citing a multitude of other EWSREAL SERIES reasons, basically desired to comply KENNEDY PAGE 43

with the Kennedy family's wishes that prime mover. Everyone else was a side of the losers when everyone is the issue, like the fallen president, be "me too Charlie." The House leader- allowed to rest in peace. cheering for the underdog. ship appointed, instead, Congressman The committee's new chairman With Downing in check, the Black Downing. Gonzalez was miffed. But Caucus entered the arena. A roundly didn't help matters. Congressman Gon- Congressman Downing was retiring, zalez decided not to go along with ignored group of congressmen, the Gonzalez was assured, and he would Black Caucus brought pressure to bear Downing's promises to Sprague. be the new chairman once Downing (Downing had agreed to let Sprague at the right time on the right people. was gone. With the election a matter of weeks hire and fire staff, take whatever time Little is known about the interplay he needed in the probe, and not back away — and with the Democratic that took place next, but apparently leadership out to get every black down if he got into a fight with the Downing was persuaded to pick FBI or the CIA.) The new chairman. vote it could to recapture the White Richard Sprague as the chief investi- House — the Black Caucus invited Dr. Gonzalez, demanded some of the pie gator of the committee. back. But Sprague would not budge. King's widow, Coretta King, to visit Sprague came to the committee House Speaker Carl Albert and As a result, an open conflict developed. with excellent credentials. With more Ultimately, that led to an unpre- Majority Leader Tip O'Neill. Mrs. King than 15 years experience in the Phila- asked for a new investigation of her cidented resignation by Gonzalez as delphia district attorney's office, chairman, husband's murder. Sprague, at 51, looked like a winner: and in his departure, he Albert and O'Neill were opposed called his chief investigator "a rattle- He had 60 first degree murder cases snake." to a new investigation, particularly in in which he got death penalty 20 congress. But they were politically At that point, the committee was in times. He lost only one of those trials, deep trouble. House Republican leader "middled." On one side they had Con- and, in all, he had more than 20,000 gressman Thomas Downing's conserva- John Rhodes passed the word that the cases on his record. To boot, Sprague boys in the GOP would vote against tives pushing for a new probe of the was the man who sent United Mine JFK slaying. On the other side, the continuing the committee, and O'Neill Worker President W.A. "Tony" Boyle turned on Sprague. Black Caucus was pushing them up to the joint for the murder of UMW against the wall to probe Dr. King's To breathe some life back into the presidential challenger Jock Yablonski, committee, the remaining 11 members death. If they didn't go along with his wife and daughter. It took Sprague the program, it was likely that both met and decided that the best way to more than four years to complete that rally support was to go "public." the conservatives and the blacks would case. make the new assassinations probes a As a result, the committee called or- In many ways, Sprague was an ideal ganized crime boss Santa Trafficante, presidential campaign issue. choice as an "independent" chief in- Albert and O'Neill, perhaps wink- who promptly took the Fifth Amend- vestigator. He immediately pro- ment to every question he was asked. ing, gave their approval. The House nounced that he had no ax to grind Assassinations Committee was born. Next, the committee leaked testi- and he would pursue all possible leads. mony that one of Jack Ruby's (Viewing the Albert-O'Neill posi- Yet Sprague was no politican. He tion with a healthy amount of dis- strippers said that Ruby introduced knew little of the realities of Washing- trust, it is safe to say they either knew her to "Lee Oswald from the CIA." ton, or what he faced with_the new Then, in a move that actually back- something they didn't want others to committee. With the out-going Down- know, or they simply wanted to avoid fired, Dutch journalist Willen Oltmans, ing as his boss, Sprague set about to do political hot potatoes. O'Neill, who told whirling TV cameras that a friend his job, which, at first, amounted to represents an area in Boston, took of Lee Harvey Oswald, George De- coining up with a budget. the Kennedy family position: Let Mohrenschildt, told him that he told During the Christmas recess of con- the dead rest in peace. Albert ap- Oswald to shoot the President and that gress, Sprague announced that he oil billionaire H.L. Hunt paid for the parently opposed a new investigation wanted $6,530,050 to do the job for on the same grounds: Let sleeping assassination. one year. He knew that the Warren In the end, though, the committee dogs be. Albert retired in 1977 and Commission had a staff of 83 people, O'Neill took his slot as House Speaker. got new life only by cutting Sprague and used 150 FBI agents and 60 Secret from the probe. And its new life is But to placate the conservatives and Service men as well as 12 CIA agents. the Black Caucus, the out-going limited -- it can't sue other federal He determined that he would need agencies (such as the FBI or the CIA) Speaker and the Majority Leader made about 170 people working full time to a deal with the Republicans: The without permission of the entire do the job today. None of those House. It's budget is about one third Democrats wouldn't let the assassina- people would come from the existing of what Sprague proposed. tions investigation become an issue in federal agencies — because those Is there any hope for the House the presidential campaign — and thus agencies were suspect in both the mur- embarrass President Ford, who served Assassinations Committee? ders and their potential cover ups. There is always hope, but Richard on the Warren Commission — if the Re- Sprague's announcement put con- publicans voted for the bill.) Sprague — wiser from the experience -- gress in a tailspin. He was asking for doesn't think so. "If the Congress was On September 15, 1976, the House the largest sum ever to be budgeted Rules Committee approved a measure the responsible agency for investigat- to a committee of congress, and even ing crime in this country, we'd never to investigate the Kennedy and King Chairman Downing gulped. "It blew killings. On Sept. 17, the House voted get any crimes solved," he declared. off my hat," he told newsmen. "I hope they prove me wrong, that 280 to 65 to establish the House As- That was just what those opposed sassinations Committee (formally they will keep political influences out to the committee needed. The hue and of this and get the job done ... In a called the House Committee to In- cry was outrageous. Suddenly, though, vestigate Assassinations). criminal investigation, you need some- the new Speaker of the House, body in command. It can't be politi- That's when the trouble started. Thomas "Tip" O'Neill backed Sprague. With the committee created on cans who are thinking of what head- It was a neat bit of maneuvering. lines and votes they may garner." paper, Congressman Henry Gonzalez O'Neill knew full well that the com- Sprague now favors having Presi- wanted to be chairman. It was his mittee was headed to the showers, so "baby," his cause, and he was the dent Carter appoint a special prosecu- he joined them. Better to be on the tor to find the truth. PAGE 44 KENNEDY NEWSREAL SERIES who Beading came to Texas to visit, but he believes that Brading's stay was connected with some "oil business." How Jim Brading Got Logic would require that Brading visited Carroll sometime before the assassination. Brading's ex-wife, with whom he Arrested & Released was supposedly in bed at the Century By TOM LUTZ Dallas, which housed Carroll's office, Plaza Hotel the night Bobby Kennedy were released from their work to was assassinated, said she could not UGENE Hale Brading tells me watch President Kennedy's motorcade have been with him at the Century he had nothing to do with the pass by the building, which is some 12 Plaza. She said she separated from him E assassination of President blocks or so from the location in in February of 1968 and was either in John F. Kennedy or his brother, Sen. Dealey Plaza where the President was New York or Dallas in June of that Robert F. Kennedy. shot. year, at the time Bobby Kennedy was Brading, who also goes by the name Carroll said that the probation of- killed. Brading has been accused by Jim Braden, told me he has alibis for fices were closed about 15 or 20 reporters and writers as having been his whereabouts the moment both minutes before Kennedy's car passed. somehow involved in the assassination John and Robert Kennedy were Carroll himself boarded a bus after of Robert Kennedy. gunned down. Kennedy's car passed the Federal Brading says that the moment John building and the bus moved toward Kennedy was shot in Dealey Plaza, the scene of the assassination. It was he was in the office of his federal on that bus that Carroll learned that probation officer, Roger Carroll, in the President had been shot. A pas- Dallas, Tex. senger who boarded the bus told Car- Brading says that at the moment roll and the other riders. Robert Kennedy was shot in the While Carroll was firm in his con- kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in viction that he could not recall the Los Angeles, he was in bed with his exact time Brading visited the proba- wife at the Century Plaza in the same tion office, he said, "I think it would city. have been in the morning. If I were to The problem is that neither of guess, I'd say it was a short time Brading's alibis hold any water. before the assassination." Carroll said Roger Carroll, still a probation he did not believe Brading showed up officer in Dallas, said he could not at his office after the assassination deny or confirm Brading's story to because "everyone in Dallas was all up- me: set then." Brading was arrested in "He (Brading) reported to our Dealey Plaza after the assassination. office some time during the day of the He was questioned by police and re- assassination," Carroll said. "Our released. port shows that. As for the exact time Brading reported to Carroll in a he was here, I can't confirm or deny "casual visit" that was required of that." someone on probation or parole who However, pressed to be more had travelled from one state (Cali- Brading police mug shot. specific, Carroll did recall that em- fornia, in this case) to another (Texas). ployees at the Federal Building in Carroll could not recall specifically

Arrow points to Broiling. This photo was taken only moments after the assassination and conflicts with a statement Broiling gave to police after he was arrested.

NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 45 which was the route the Kennedy motorcade would have traveled the next day had Kennedy not been assassinated. The next day, Brading was picked up in Dealey Plaza after he entered the Dal-Tex Building, which was across the street from the Texas Book De- pository, and took a freight elevator to the third floor, ostensively to make a phone call to his "family" back in California. He said that he wanted to tell his family about the shooting of the President. When he was picked up, Brading gave as his name "Jim Braden," a name he had switched on his Califor- nia driver's license just two months previously. The Dallas Sheriffs police did not connect Jim Braden with Jim Brading, and three months later, when Brading was interviewed by the FBI, he again used the name Jim Braden and no connection was made to Jim Brading. The day of the assassination, Brading-Braden signed the following statement for Chief Deputy Sheriff Allan Sweatt: "Police cars were passing me coming down toward the triple underpass and I walked up among many other people and this building was surrounded by police officers with guns and we were all watching them. "I moved on up to the building (meaning the Dal-Tex Building) that was surrounded and asked one of the girls if there was a telephone that I could use and she said, 'Yes, there is one on the third floor of the building where I work. "I walked through a passage to the elevator they were all getting on Brading and one of his many wives. (freight elevator) and I got on the third floor with all the other people and there was a lady using the pay Whenever Brading visited Carroll's brothers, and if he didn't visit with telephone and 1 asked her if I could office, it is clear from the report that one of them, what was he really doing use it when she said it was out of order Carroll made that Brading told the in Dallas? and I tried to use it with no success ... probation officer he was in Dallas to Coincidental to Brading's visit to "I got on the elevator and returned see Lemar Hunt, one of oil billion- the Hunt Oil Co. was a visit that same to the ground floor and the colored aire H.L. Hunt's sons. morning to the same building by Jack man who ran the elevator said you are On Nov. 21 the day before the Ruby. Ruby shot and killed Lee Har- a stranger in this building and I was assassination — Brading, Morgan Brown vey Oswald, who allegedly killed not supposed to let you up and he ran and two other men went to Lemar John Kennedy. Ruby said that he gave outside to an officer and said to the Hunt's office. According to Dallas one of his girls a ride to the building officer that he had just taken me up newsman Earl Gotz, a former Hunt because she had a job interview with and down the elevator and the officer Oil Co. official recalls seeing Brading the Hunt company. Ruby owned a said for me to identify myself and I and the other men in the receptionist's Dallas stripjoint. Ruby contended that presented him with a credit card and office, waiting to see Nelson Bunker while the young woman underwent he said well we have to check out Hunt, one of Lemar's brothers. A her job interview, he attended to some everything and took me to his superior spokesman for the Hunt Oil Co. con- tax matters with his attorney in the and said for me to wait and we will tends that neither Brading nor the men same building. Moreover, that night -- check it out. I was then taken to the who accompanied him actually got an the night before the assassination -- sheriff's office and interrogated." audience with either of the Hunt Ruby had dinner with friends from According to Brading's statement, brothers because their (the Hunt Chicago at the Bon Vivant Club, which he did not move further West than the brothers') calendars indicate that they was located in the Cabana Hotel, the Dal-Tex building. However, a photo didn't. However, Brading indicated hotel in which Brading and Morgan taken about 10 minutes after the that the sole purpose for his trip to Brown stayed. Brading and Brown had assassination shows Brading having Dallas was to see one of the Hunt a suite facing the Stemmons Freeway,

PAGE 46 KENNEDY NEWSREAL SERIES passed the Dal-Tex and Book Deposi- selling gas rationing stamps on the tory buildings. and Robert Haldeman met to plot Brading was released. black market, the last of which arrests cost him a year's jail sentence. He was part of the Watergate cover up. Oddly, Brading's partner, Morgan Three months after the assassina- Brown, checked out of their hotel at also arrested in 1941 in Miami for running a gambling joint. tion, Brading pleaded guilty to a shop- 2:01 P.M. on the day of the assassina- • lifting charge in California. He was tion and left the city. He did not wait In 1948, Brading was arrested in Camden, N.J., as a material witness fined. for Brading to be released. In the late 1960's, Brading returned Years later, the FBI told newsman in a felony case. In 1951, together with Victor to Dallas and married the widow of a Earl Gotz: "We found absolutely man who founded a Cadillac car deal- nothing whatsoever that connects this Periera, he was sentenced to 12 years in jail for swindling a wealthy Roswell, ership. That marriage lasted as long as guy (Brading) with the assassination." her pocketbook had money and The last time he was interviewed by N.M., widow of $50,000. Both men appealed that conviction to the U.S. Brading then married a wealthy the FBI Brading said that he was "not Mexico City woman, who gifted him familar with Dallas," although the Supreme Court, which upheld the conviction in 1954. a Lear Jet in which to visit California, Dallas County Sheriffs Office would Spain and Mexico. Most recently, disagree. While on appeal in the early In 1959, after serving five of that I2-year sentence, Grading was again federal authorities were watching 1950's for a 12-year sentence for Brading as a possible courier who swindling a wealthy widow, Brading paroled. In 1960, he married the widow of a was laundering mob money in Holland was arrested in Dallas as a vagrant. and Switzerland. Brading denies having His partner at that time, Victor Periera, Teamster Union official who had accidentally shot himself twice with a any connection with organized crime. paid his $50 fine but the Sheriff gave Dallas newsman Earl Gotz, who in- them both 48 hours to get out of .45. She dissolved the marriage when she learned Brading was also married terviewed associates of Brading, says town. that friends describe him as complete- Brading's brushes with the law be- to another woman at the same time. Two months after the assassination, ly without morals. gan in 1934 when he was sentenced at Gotz quotes one associate as say- the age of 19 to jail in Kansas for bur- Brading became a charter member of the alleged mob-and-Teamster con- ing: "He'd be a perfect courier ... He's glary. Paroled in 1938, he was arrested a perfect cover man." three times during World War II for nected La Costa Country Club, which is where John Ehrlichman. John Dean

Later in his testimony, DeMohren- schildt said that he had actually George DeMohrenschildt: learned about the existence of the Os- walds through George Bouhe, and that he had asked Bouhe if it was Did He Control Oswald? "safe for us to help Oswald." DeMohrenschildt said that he ERHAPS the most electrify- sination thought Bouhe had checked the ing news to come from the investigation, Oltsmans' charges were no shock at all. matter out with the FBI and that the gasping House Assassinations p Even the Warren Commission was FBI had given him (Bouhe) assurances Committee before it was revived was that Oswald was of sound enough that a close friend of Lee Harvey Os- highly suspect of George DeMohren- schildt during its so-called probe of character with which to associate. wald, George DeMohrenschildt, Bouhe, DeMohrenschildt said, was planned the John F. Kennedy assas- John Kennedy's death. DeMohrenschildt, a petroleum in some way connected with the FBI sination and the late oil billionaire and he (DeMohrenschildt) might also H.L. Hunt funded it. engineer who traveled the world, was born Count Sergei DeMohrenschildt have checked out Oswald with Walter That charge came from a Dutch Moore, whom DeMohrenschildt journalist named Willem Oltsmans, in Russia and came to this country following the rise of Hitler in Ger- believed worked for the Central who said that he befreinded DeMoh- Intelligence Agency. In any case, Os- renschildt over a period of years and many. gained his confidence. A friend of the Bouviers, Jackie Oltsmans testified before the House Kennedy's parents, DeMohrenschildt Assassinations Committee just before was hardly the type of individual one the entire House decided whether the would expect to befriend Lee Harvey committee would have new life or go Oswald, a high school drop-out who the way of the Edsel. defected to the U.S.S.R. and brought The house voted to extend the back a Russian wife. committee's life, and the Oltsmans In his extended testimony before revelations no doubt played some role the Warren Commission, DeMohren- in the outcome of the vote. schildt said that Lawrence Orlov, an Yet the important question is American of Russian decent, first whether or not Oltsmans' charges are told him about Oswald and his wife. correct. Unfortunately, DeMohren- At that time, the Oswalds were living schildt committed suicide the day he in Ft. Worth. DeMohrenschildt and learned the House Assassinations Com- Orlov went to meet the Oswalds. mittee planned to call him as a wit- ... The two of us drove to this slum ness. area in Fort Worth and knocked at the Actually, for those who have fol- door," DeMohrenschildt told the com- lowed the developments of the assas- mission, "and here was Marina and the baby. Oswald was not there." George DeMohrenschildt NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 47 weld was given a clean bill of health, according to Voshinin, DeMohren- over to the House Assassinations and he and Oswald became close schildt repeatedly mentioned that he Committee. friends — so close, in fact, that DeMoh- had to make some trip to Houston. • Jack Ruby, the strip joint owner renschildt's former son-in-law, Larry One person, it is known, that De- in Dallas who shot Oswald after the Taylor, told the Commission that Mohrenschildt visited in Houston assassination, was "very much" in- "Whatever his (DeMohrenschildt's) profited well by the death of President volved in the plot to kill the president, suggestions were Lee grabbed them Kennedy. That man was George Oltsmans said that DeMohrenschildt and took them, whether it was what Brown of Brown and Root Consuuc- told him. time to go to bed or where to stay." lion. • An anti-Castro Cuban from The same son-in-law also told the com- Kennedy, it is believed, planned to Florida "supposedly took part" in the mission: "Well, the only thing that oc- pull out the advisor troops the U.S. actual assassination, Oltsmans said, curred to me was that -- uh -- and I had in Viet Nam. and Oltsmans turned over to the com- guess it was from the beginning President Johnson -- without telling mittee a picture of the man. that if there was any assistance or his attorney general, Robert Kennedy • According to Oltsmans, a "truck- plotters in the assassination that it — reversed President Kennedy's deci- ing executive" was in some way in- was, in my opinion, most probably sion and built up American troops in volved in the assassination. the DeMohrenschildts." Viet Nam. • On Feb. 23, 1977, DeMohren- DeMohrenschildt himself told In conjunction with that build up, schildt told Oltsmans that Oswald had another daughter and son-in-law that Brown and Root Construction built worked for him and that the two had he believed that the FBI was respons- airstrips and docks all over Viet Nam "discussed the assassination from A to ible for the assassination of President for the U.S. government. Z, and they knew they would kill Kennedy and that his friend, Oswald, Kennedy." was the patsy. Another charge made by Oltsmans Critics of the Warren Commission concerns Loran Eugene Hall, a man have long suspected that DeMohren- Because DeMohrenschildt com- who briefly was involved with Alpha schildt was some type of government mitted suicide, it will now be difficult 66 and for a more extended period of operative, probably working for the to confirm Oltsmans' charges about time the entire anti-Castro Cuban CIA. He admitted to the commission him. DeMohrenschildt, it is known, exile cause. that he had worked for the French suffered severe mental problems just According to Oltsmans, Hall told underground during World War II, was before he allegedly shot himself with him in a taped interview that he was suspected of being a German spy by a shotgun, and his daughter says that offered $50,000 to assassinate the the Americans and was also suspected Oltsmans intimidated DeMohren- president when he was in the office of by the Yugoslavian government of schildt. Moreover, more than one oilman Lester Logue. Hall, according being a U.S. spy. witness who testified before the War- to Oltsmans, said five or six other Dutch journalist .Oltsmans charges ren Commission said that DeMohren- people were also present. that DeMohrenschildt worked for schildt was not above telling tall Logue immediately responded, many governments, including the tales. calling the allegation "ridiculous" and U.S. Department of State and the CIA. This much is certain: A spokesman said that he would consult his attorney He gave the new House Assassinations for H.L. Hunt's estate flatly denied about suing Oltsmans for libel. Committee the names of several that the late billionaire knew DeMoh- However, the Hall story was hardly CIA and FBI agents who DeMohren- renschildt in any way. "Records of the a new one. While he had not previous- schildt said were a part of the assas- Hunt family bear evidence to this fact. ly identified anyone who had made sination plot. His name never appeared on any of the the offer, Hall has been telling the Clearly, as a world traveler, De- records. It has been publicly reported same story since shortly after the Mohrenschildt was in an ideal posi- that DeMohrenschildt had a history assassination, and, in fact, sold the tion to do spy work. For example, of mental problems. If in fact DeMoh- story to the National Enquirer, which, he and his wife just happened to be in renschildt ever claimed to have had in typical tabloid style, bannered a Gutamala City when the Cuban exile any relationship with H.L. Hunt, headline: "I Was Offered $50,000 to 2506 division launced its attack on the those claims must be viewed accord- Kill Kennedy." (See accompanying Bay of Pigs in Cuba. ingly." article concerning Hall.) DeMohrenschildt, however - According to DeMohrenschildt's Oltsmans is now in the process of despite the admission that he worked attorney, DeMohrenschildt was writing turning his material into a book. for the French underground and was a book about the assassination prior Understandably, the reaction to debriefed by the CIA from time to to his suicide. Oltsmans contends that Oltsmans' charges by the media was time on his return from foreign he was going to colaborate with De- a vicious attack. ABC-TV sent a travel — flatly denied that he was ever Mohrenschildt on the book. According camera crew to the Netherlands to an agent For the U.S. or any other to Oltsmans, the strongest material of find someone who would say that government. that book is in the hands of his attor- Oltsmans was a publicity seeker, and One area that has puzzled both the ney, Dallas lawyer Pat Russell. Olts- they found one. However, Oltsmans is Commission and its critics concerning man has other parts of the book and a respected journalist and works for DeMohrenschildt's testimony was his plans to turn those parts over to the the largest TV network in the Nether- travel to Houston just prior to the as- DeMohrenschildt estate. lands. sassination. Oltsmans also charged that: Time said Oltsmans charges were Apparently, according to testimony • DeMohrenschildt did not work "just another series of rumors that given by many of DeMohrenschildt's directly for the CIA but "he told me could not be corroborated." And friends, he was visiting some politically that in this manuscript he mentioned Newsweek called it "more tantalizing "unsavory character" in Houston. Igor names of CIA and FBI officials who, than substantial." Vladimir Voshinin noted that Houston according to him, are connected to the No news organization to date has was an unlikely place for DeMohren- Kennedy assassination." Those names made any attempt to check out what schildt to visit since most of his busi- he did know, from his discussions with DeMohrenschildt is suppose to have ness was of a foreign nature. Yet, DeMohrenschildt, Oltsmans turned said.

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ITH leaks as large as the ing the Soviet Embassy. The CIA lied Dallas the day President Kennedy was springs that feed the Great first when it said that the tape was brought there. That nurse, whose W Lakes, the House Assassina- destroyed before the assassination name has not been revealed yet, has tions Committee has let it be known it (when it supposedly, according to the given testimony to the committee that definitely has new leads in both the Hoover memo, asked the FBI to verify indicates that Warren Commission Kennedy and King assassinations. Oswald's voice after the assassination). Exhibit 399, a bullet, could not have According to Richard Sprague, the Secondly, the CIA lied to the Warren done what the Warren Commission ex-chief investigator of that body, the Commission when it told the members said it did. committee will probe whether or not that the phone conversation it had of a memo from the late FBI director, Commission Exhibit 399, common- Oswald and the Soviet Embassy, which ly called CE 399 or the "magic bul- J. Edgar Hoover, is correct when it the CIA said it destroyed before the let," was supposedly taken from implies that the CIA lied to the assassination, was actually the voice the stretcher upon which Texas Gov. Warren Commission about contacts it of the Lee Harvey Oswald who was John Connally, who was riding with had with Lee Harvey Oswald. arrested for shooting the President of Kennedy and was badly wounded Specifically, Sprague has said since the United States (when, if the Hoover that day, was wheeled into the Park- he resigned his post that Hoover wrote memo is correct, the CIA knew it was land Memorial Hospital. The Warren in a memo that the CIA asked FBI not the voice of the Lee Harvey Commission determined that "the agents who knew Oswald's voice to Oswald charged with Kennedy's mur- magic bullet" — a slug that could have listen to a tapped phone conversation der). been fired from a rifle Oswald owned Oswald supposedly had with officials Sprague has made the small jump in and was found where he supposedly at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City logic, which is that if the CIA was fired it in the Book Depository build- between Sept. 26 and Oct. 3, 1963, willing to lie to the Warren Commis- ing but when Oswald visited Mexico City. was in near perfect condition - sion twice on a critical matter concern- went through approximately 10 inches Hoover's memo says that the FBI ing the assassination of the President, of flesh and five inches of bone. Sup- agents determined that it was not then the CIA was lying for a pur- posedly, according to the Warren Oswald's voice. According to the pose, which Sprague feels must have Commission, this bullet was fired by memo, the FBI agents were requested been that the CIA had contact with Oswald from the sixth floor of the to listen to the tape after the assas- Oswald that the CIA didn't want the Book Depository, hit John Kennedy sination; however, the CIA has con- Warren Commission and the American in the back, exited through his throat tended that it destroyed that tape people to know. and then struck Gov. Connally, going before the assassination. Sprague also contends that the through his back and exiting his front, No mention of the phone bugs the House Assassinations Committee is then going through his wrist bone and CIA had on the Soviet Embassy is eager to investigate a lead supplied by finally lodging in his thigh. This made in the Warren Commission a nurse who was in the emergency "magic bullet" -- called that for good report. Apparently, the commission room in Parland Memorial Hospital in reason by Warren Commission critics -- determined that such information would compromise U.S. national security. The commission therefore apparently classified the information and stuck it in the National Archives. Classified material is not to be revealed until 2039. However, shortly after the Warren Commission issued its report, there was immediate press speculation that if Oswald visited and telephoned the Soviet Embassy, as the Warren Commission said he had, then the CIA obviously had tapped the Russian's phones. (AIL of which goes to prove that the Warren Commission, like so many government organizations, certainly had a low opinion of the intelligence of the American public.) Sprague contends that if the Hoover memo is correct, then the CIA lied twice about the telephone record- ing it has (or had) of Oswald contact-

President Kennedy shortly after the fatal bullet struck his head.

NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 49 wound up on Connally's stretcher. Another lead that House Assassina- mittee also uncovered evidence that (Tests show that firing the same tions Committee will be following up shortly before the assassination, slug into cotton produces more concerns the allegations made by Oswald wrote a threatening letter to damage to the bullet than the con- Dutch journalist Willem Oltsmans. FBI agent James Hosty, who had twice dition in which CE 399 — "the magic (See accompanying article.) Oltsmans attempted to interview Marina Oswald. bullet" — can be found today at the claims that a friend of Oswald, George According to a former FBI agent, National Archives.) According to the DeMohrenschildt, was a go-between Joseph L. Schoot, Oswald "threatened "mystery nurse" who testified before for Oswald and the late Texas oil to kill Hosty if Hosty tried to talk to the House Assassinations Committee, billionaire H.L. Hunt. According to his wife Marina again." When Oswald doctors at Parkland Memorial Hospital Oltsmans, DeMohrenschildt supplied was arrested, he had both Hosty's found "too much lead" in Connally's him with the names of FBI and CIA telephone number and his car license body to match up with "the magic agents and a trucking executive who plate number in his telephone book. bullet." (Incidentally, Connally has were involved in the plot shortly be- The House Assassinations Commit- always contended that he was not fore DeMohrenschildt committed sui- tee will also probe whether or not J. struck by "the magic bullet." He has cide in March of this year. Edgar Hoover might have lied to the not openly disagreed with the con- The committee will also investigate Warren Commission about any rela- clusions' of the Warren Commission possible connections with the CIA tionship that Oswald had with the report as a whole, but, according to ordered assassination plots against bureau. On Jan. 27, 1964, the Warren commission testimony, the moment Fidel Castro, particularly those involv- Commission met in executive session he was struck, Gov. Connally said, ing mob figures John Rosselli, Sam to discuss reports that Oswald was "They are going to kill us all!" Coin- (Momo) and Santos Trafficante. Traf- supposedly on a $200-monthly FBI cidentally, Jackie Kennedy, who was ficante was called before the commit- retainer. Allen Dulles, the former head sitting next to the President, sup- tee and took the fifth on all questions of the CIA and member of the Warren posedly exclaimed, the second she asked of him. Trafficante, according Commission, told the members ,that it realized that her husband was shot, to a Cuban exile, is quoted as saying would be impossible to determine if "They've killed my husband!" Abra- "that Kennedy was going to be hit." Oswald worked for either the FBI or ham Zapruder, who filmed the assas- According to testimony that Ros- the CIA and that bureau and the sination on a home movie camera, is selli gave to the Senate Intelligence agency would lie outright even if reported to have said, at the time Committee last year, the mob ordered Oswald had worked for either group. of the filming, "They've killed the Ruby to kill Oswald to prevent dis- The commission's chief counsel, J. Lee President!" Apparently, instantaneous- closure of the connection Trafficante Rankin, asked Hoover about the ly, the immediate observers of the had with the assassination. After his rumor and Hoover flatly denied Os- assassination felt that a conspiracy was testimony, Rosselli was found floating wald worked in any way with the FBI. involved in the killing.) in an oil drum off the coast of Florida. (Hoover said the same about Jack The same Senate Intelligence Corn- Ruby, and since then it has been discovered that Ruby was a paid snitch for the FBI on four different occasions.) Another probe target for the House Assassinations Committee will be the account of Cuban exile Sylvia Odio, whose father was imprisoned. in Cas- tro's Cuba for plotting to assassinate the dictator. Ms. Odio told the Warren Commission that Oswald and two other men came to her home shortly before the assassination and discussed assassinating President Kennedy. Ac- cording to information uncovered by the House Assassinations Committee, the FBI misrepresented Ms. Odio's story to the Warren Commission. The committee will also try to determine just who Oswald wrote to on Nov. 8, 1963, requesting "information concerning my position." The note was addressed to "Mr. Hunt," and

Lyndon Johnson is sworn in as Kennedy's successor.

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committee sources indicate that that Mr. Hunt may be E. Howard Hunt, the former CIA agent who was caught in the Watergate break-in. E. Howard WANTED iii"1 Hunt was closely associated with the CIVIL RIGHTS - CONSPIRACY anti-Castro forces, and the committee INTIRSTATI FLIGHT - ROBBERY has obtained photos of Oswald train- JAMES EARL RAY ing with a group called the "No Name Key Group," which became Alpha 66. "IN% 'ANN Members of that group were traced to Dallas before Kennedy was killed. On the new probe of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, the committee has an equal number of solid leads. Among them are: • Charges by the late journalist William Sartor that the mob accepted a $300,000 contract to kill Dr. King from a right-wing group from the West Coast. According to Sator, the mob 11...1..0 Kr* .6... 1164. 4 C., *or". $1 16.4.6. I--.6611r•so 066.666. WINN, -1. 6.•• brought James Earl Ray into the IgreM• *104'41 kA1i.14,011■4e - DESCRIPTION picture through a New Orleans con- .› 4 mizok 4,1481.1 *VP tact. Nr.6 rureen C•MIIII01.11• 0.444. • A witness has told the committee In. *VC 11/14•11.11t that Frank Liberto, a man with mob Ilsess.11S.•• .1,•• 1•11/11 NM float connections, was overheard on the ,ns ,1 P.III 64• •011 r •. or ■ • " •1 ,.el m•Oi.loa■ !DO •st. olk•rIof I.. LA... 6,71,o4•41 ao•oe telephone the day Dr. King was • I •.,1 r•ospIos.4 ,00roo lortwoOlog 01011011.116.: In Sr II I, 144 y.. It killed shouting: "Shoot the bastard. •. 11• 1.1 Do it this afternoon. Shoot him, even CRIMINAL RECORD 4,41. if you have to do it on the balcony, .,..• 4 le,gose i. ...I, 1,11.1 ux.ss nniAlle 1.1 just do it." Another witness told in- CAUTION 11.1 •4•I•:,1 vestigators that a gunshop owner in (ION •1111 1 ‘If 11R,FW •11I 5l('-1111 •1• •oor yOkIrs, 0411 .;11,1 ,.1 t■ A*,.UnIkrt,i. Birmingham, Ala. said, pointing to a 1 f ..thos/ . .., I • !, Ia.. ■ It 411,111 kit.(041 $1., *eh D•ir Sun,. cell *44.. ,1,1 .',1■1$1.sli...1 num rifle, "This gun is the gun that is going .;.11. . Mee, ■Till. 14 .1 . frhar,./ ..,,:n.w. Atli, DI, liOn .oe Irfiro,o• 1'1.• v., .,,14.44 DP, I to kill Martin Luther King." The wit- If P4111114111 {NV ISIOLOATIOS CDSCISIMIO TKO Prows 11-14111.071447 MI IN CINTICI roes ness said that he later saw the gunshop L OLL III 011141. TRIPODS" 11111011441 141 ISONITIIII Of &LI. 111 OPFICIII LIMO IN 1411. owner in the company of Ray and Lib- erto. • Sprague, the former chief investi- 1 ■•■■,,. • 10,1 VVV gator for the committee, has said that Poo, \0111 5.r, - 1,6• 6'sr.rell.vz VA.. I t*I.o.r..s. ry his interviews with James Earl Ray II r )•.,,,r. were producing information that would indicate that Ray had signifi- Above the wanted poster of James Earl Ray, wanted "in cant help between the time he escaped connection with a murder wherein the victim was shot." Be- from prison and the time he was ar- low, Lee Harvey Oswald tells reporters: "I didn't shoot any- rested in London at Heathrow airport. body, No, sir." • Ray opened a safe deposit box in a Birmingham bank in August of 1967 and it was closed four months later when Ray was living in Los Angeles. Allegedly, someone living in Baton Rouge closed the box and the committee is seeking that person. • The Memphis police had Dr. King under surveillance from a firehouse that overlooked the motel where King was shot. Mysteriously, that surveillance was called off shortly before the assassination. The committee will be seeking reasons why that was done. • Ray estimates that he spent $9,500 between the time he escaped from his Missouri penitentiary and the time he was captured. The committee wants to know the sources of those funds. In all, the House Assassinations Committee has abundant leads in both cases. But as ex-chief investigator Richard Sprague cautioned, these are only leads — but they must be pursued. NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 51 I. Edgar Hoover Picked Loran Hall To Explain Away An Obvious Conspiracy ORAN Eugene Hall, who claims he was offered L $150,000 to assassinate Presi- dent Kennedy, is living proof that the late J. Edgar Hoover lied to the War- ren Commission. Hall's name surfaced in the Warren Commission investigation in connection with testimony from Sylvia Odio, who claimed she was visited by two Latin-looking men and Lee Harvey Oswald. During that visit, one of the Latin-looking men bragged that Oswald was capable of assassinating the President. The Warren Commission was troubled by Ms. Odio's claim. They did what they could to discredit her, but her story held up. With her at the time of the visit was her sister, who told the same story. The Warren Com- mission thus asked the FBI to trace down the two men who might have been with Oswald at the Odio home in Dallas, On Sept. 21, 1964,1. Edgar Hoover wrote to the Commission: "Reference is made to your letter dated August 28, 1964, dealing with the claim of Sylvia Odio that Lee Har- vey Oswald and two other individuals visited at her apartment in Dallas, Texas, on September 26 or 27, 1963. Sylvia Odio in testifying before the commission stated that the man believed by her to be Lee Harvey Oswald was introduced to her as 'Leon Os- wald' ... " ... On September 16, 1964, we located one Loran Eugene Hall at Johnsondale, California. Hall has been identified as a participant in numerous anti-Castro activities. He advised that in September, 1963, he was at Dallas, Texas, soliciting aid in connection with an anti-Castro cause. He recalled meeting a Cuban woman, Mrs. Odio, who was living in a garden-type apartment at 1080 Magellan Circle, Dallas, Texas. He said that at the time of his visit he was accompanied by Lawrence J. Edgar Hoover intentionally misrepresented what this man, Howard, a Mexican American from Loran Eugene Hall, said about his meeting Sylvia Odio. PAGE 52 KENNEDY NEWSREAL SERIES East Los Angeles and William Seymour Welding and Supplies Company, Miami all along that the original report by the from Arizona. He denied that Lee Har- Beach, Florida, on September 22, FBI about his possible contact with vey Oswald was with him during his 1964, confirmed WILLIAM SEY- Sylvia Odio was "inaccurate." It was visit to Mrs. Odio's apartment in MOUR's employment with that com- that report, dated September 23, September, 1963. pany throughout the period Septem- 1964, that Hoover used as the basis of "Flail stated that William Seymour ber 5 to October 10, 1963. his letter to the commission. is similar in appearance to Lee Harvey "On September 24, 1964, CELLO Oswald and that Seymour speaks only SERGIO CASTRO ALBA, employed * * * a few words of Spanish. In connection at the South Florida Surgan Company, with the revelations of Hall, you will Belle Glade, Florida, stated he had Loran Hall was an unlikely man to note that the name Loran Hall bears traveled with LORAN HALL and be assisting J. Edgar Hoover. some phonetic resemblance to the LAWRENCE HOWARD from Cali- For a time, Hall fought with Castro name Leon Oswald fornia to Dallas, Texas to Miami, and the 26th July Movement in the At the time Hoover wrote to the Florida in September, 1963, but he overthrow of Batista. He was a captain Commission, the FBI had a second had not met any person at Dallas in the Cuban revolutionary govern- report from agents who interviewed named ODIO, nor had he heard the ment. Then, in June of 1959, Castro Hall, and in that second report, Hall name 01)10 mentiond by HALL or had Hall arrested "in connection with flatly stated that he did not visit an attempted armed expedition to Sylvia Odio. In addition, the FBI had Nicaragua." In jail, Hall met Santo interviewed William Seymour and Sey- Trafficante, Jr., and Henry Savaarda, mour said he did not know Sylvia a former employee of the mob-con- Odio. The bureau had also interviewed trolled Capri Hotel. On June 8, 1959, Lawrence John Howard, the Mexican- all three men were expelled from Cuba American, and Howard denied that he and Hall became a convert to the goals had visited the Cuban woman's apart- of the anti-Castro movement in the ment. (Since then, Ms. Odio has been United States. shown pictures of Hall, Seymour and Howard and she has denied that any of Twice during the fall of 1963, the three men were the ones who Hall made fund raising trips to Dallas visited her in September of 1963.) (probably for Frank Sturgis' Interna- The second FBI report states: tional Anti-Communist Brigade). ... During a second interview on During the second trip, he and William September 20, 1964, HALL stated Seymour were arrested on either a that during his visit in Dallas in Sep- drug or gun-running charge. tember, 1963, he was accompanied by Of that arrest, the FBI reported Lawrence HOWARD and a Cuban that $5,000 was given to Hall by a whom he knew as 'Wahito,' and was Dallas resident for him to post bail. not accompanied at that time by Wil- In 1968, however, Hall told investiga- liam SEYMOUR. He also said he re- tors that he knew nothing of any bail money at the time of his release. Hall merely thought that the charges against himself and Seymour had been Hall made two trips to Dallas dropped. After their release, they were during the fall of 1963. the last taken to the office of a young Dallas of which resulted in his arrest. attorney, whom Hall claimed he had According to the FBI, someone never met before. The attorney told posted $5,000 bail for him. Ye them to go directly to the YMCA knew nothing of it. where Lester Logue had arranged a room for them. Lester Logue is a Texas oilman of considerable wealth. According to Willem Oltsmans, the Dutch journa- called no contact with ODIO. HOWARD in Dallas ..." list who testified before the House "Upon interview at Los Angeles, Hoover must have had that second Assassinations Committee, Lester California, on September 20, 1964, report on Hall, Howard, Seymour and Logue offered Hall $150,000 to kill Lawrence John HOWARD advised that Alba at the time he wrote to the War- Kennedy. Logue has denied the he accompanied HALL to Dallas, ren Commission. Hoover wrote to the charge and threatened to sue Oltsmans. Texas, in September, 1963, with a commission with one purpose in mind: During the investigation conducted Cuban refugee named CELLIOS Putting to rest any rumor that Oswald by New Orleans District Attorney Jim ALBAS who was also known by the could have conspired with anyone in Garrison, Hall accused Edgar Eugene name 'Quarito.' HOWARD recalled no plotting the assassination. Bradley of being involved in the assas- contact with a Cuban woman named Even if Hoover did not have that se- sination. Hall said he was at a meeting ODIO at an apartment on Magellan cond FBI report when he wrote to the with Bradley when the murder was dis- Circle in Dallas. commission, he received it later and cussed. Garrison apparently believed "WILLIAM SEYMOUR of Phoenix, could have notified the commission of Hall and absolved him of any respon- Arizona, during an interview on the new developments in the Odio in- sibility in the assassination. September 18, 1964, stated he and cident. Rather, Hoover waited until Since then the National Tattler LAWRENCE HALL were in Dallas, the Warren Commission had published (now defunct) named Hall as being a Texas in October, 1963, rather than its report and then quietly sent the participant, and Hall filed suit against September, 1963, and SYLVIA ODIO second FBI report to the National the Tattler for $100 million. was unknown to him. Archives. To date, Hall has not been called by "Review of record of Beach What's worse, Hall has contended the House Assassinations Committee. NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 53 On Nov. 17, 1963, the FBI TWX from Washington notified all bureaus Protective Research Section that an attempt would be made on the President in Dallas. That TWK was T the time of the assassina- Twice before Dallas, assassins had destroyed and never revealed to the tion of President Kennedy, stalked the young chief executive. One Warren Commission. the Protective Research Sec- man, Richard P. Pavlick, waited out- On Nov. 21, 1963, Secret Service tion of the Secret Service had some side the Kennedys' Palm Beach home agents, in violation of regulation, went 32,000 items it had collected that year with seven sticks of dynamite. When drinking in Ft. Worth. about people who either threatened Jackie and Caroline came out of the On the morning of the assassina- the President or were otherwise home on their way to Sunday mass, tion, Dallas County Sheriff Bill Decker abusive in communicating with him. Pavlick decided he would not murder instructed his man to "take no part Also at the time of the assassina- the entire family. It was not until whatsoever in the security of the tion, the PRS was actively checking five days later, that the Secret Service Presidential motorcade." out 34 cases of people who lived in caught up with Pavlick and appre- With the Miami warning still fresh Texas. In all, 100 persons around the hended him. in their memory, the Secret Service country were considered a "significant In October of 1962, Vince Morelli approved an open-car motorcade, eli- danger" to the President. was arrested in Chicago after having minated bodyguards on the running A month before the murder, Am- aimed a pistol at the President. A boards of the car, failed to secure po- bassador Adlai Stevenson had been policeman disarmed Morelli. tential ambush sites, and approved a assulted by pickets in Dallas. Steven- No further information was ever route that called for the President's son sent word to the President urging released as to what fate Pavlick and car to come to a near stop before him not to go to Dallas. However, Morelli met. traveling beneath three office buildings there was no one in the entire Fort On Nov. 15, 1963, Joseph A Mil- and under an over pass. Worth-Dallas area that PRS was sus- teer was tape recorded making threats Shortly after 12:30 P.M., John pect of being any threat to Kennedy. to kill the President in Miami. Kennedy was dead.

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ANALYSIS: Did Watergate Grow Out Of The Kennedy Assassination?

HILE far from an official Again, given what we know about ality of the discovery of a conspiracy conclusion, doubts about Lee Watergate, it seems safe to say that the Harvey Oswald having been behind the JFK murder is what else W conspiracy that killed President Ken- that conspiracy might have been in- the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy nedy would involve government, and, volved in since the assassination. have long since turned into hard evi- most probably, government intelli- dence. According to the intelligence opera- gence. Today, we know that Richard tive who is the source of the main The case is not "solved" by any Helms, head of the CIA's covert opera- story in this issue, that conspiracy has stretch of the imagination, yet we are tions at the time of the Kennedy far closer to tracking down Kennedy's also been responsible for the deaths of assassination, lied to the Warren Com- Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert killers than we were 13 years ago. mission, just as Helms, later the direc- Presently a U.S. House of Repre- Kennedy as well as the entire Water- tor of the CIA, lied to the Senate gate Affair. sentatives Select Committee has com- Watergate Committee. We know the pleted nearly half a year's work on a Suppose he's right. Suppose this is consequences of the Watergate probe; what happened at the Watergate com- new JFK probe and it has many solid there is no way to tell where a com- leads it will be following over the plex June 17, 1972: plete JFK investigation will lead. Elements of the intelligence com- course of the next two years. We hope The second implication of eventu- that some of the new information munity wanted to eliminate Richard contained in this issue of NEWSREAL will benefit that effort. So while it may appear premature, consider the implications of what it will mean if some official body once decides -- as most rational people have — that there was a conspiracy in the killing of the President. Those implications are staggering, yet they may also help clear the way to solving the case in total. One obvious implication is that the conspiracy would have had to have been massive, as would the cover-up that followed it. The Watergate affair is instructive illustration on that point. Everyone from "third rate burglars" to the President of the United States was involved in either the criminal act or its cover up — although, contrary to popular opinion, many were not prosecuted. Or consider the claims of "Mr. X," who recently appeared on Tom Snyder's "Tomorrow Show." Mr. X claimed that through mobsters and people connected with the U.S. intelligence community, he was offered $100,000 to coordinate a CIA- approved assassination attempt of President Ferdinand Marcos of the Phillipines in 1972. Mr. X said that hundreds of people were involved in the assassination plot, including the Vice President and a senator of the Phillipines. The plot was uncovered, and Mr. X is now being tried in ab- sentia for the conspiracy. In all likelihood, any plot to assassinate President Kennedy would involve any number of people. Worse, since the plot succeeded, its cover-up would have been equally large, if not larger. And it continues yet today. E. Howard Hunt testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee.

EVVSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 55 -, IN J M. Nixon as President. Say, for ex- presently known about the Water- the 181/2-minute discussion Nixon had ample, those elements were angry that gate affair. with H.R. Haldeman that was erased Nixon broke the ice with the Chinese Many, many people have wondered from the White House tapes "five to communists, created an atmosphere of why the Nixon White House did not nine times," Nixon might have been detente with the Russians — angry at immediately recognize the Watergate explaining in depth "the Cuban thing" him for "selling out" in Viet Nam. burglars as having connections with and "the whole Bay of Pigs thing?" the Nixon re-election campaign, and Pick whatever reason you want. But Consider the backgrounds of those then suppose those elements within then cut off the losses that were in- caught in the Watergate break-in: the intelligence community decided to volved. The President and his top act. officials has "deniability," at that • G. Gordon Liddy. Liddy was a Suppose even further that the goal time, but the longer they waited, and man who had reason to dislike the of the Watergate plot was not the the more they paid off the burglars, FBI. After five years with the bureau, total elimination of Nixon. Suppose, the more they involved themselves in he was drummed out in 1962. An for example, it was simply blackmail. the plot and the cover up. attorney, he became a prosecutor for Such a series of suppositions tend to explain more rationally what we know are the facts. On June 23, 1970, President Nixon approved the creation Watergate Bugler Sturgis Says Ruby of the Houston Plan, the illegal intelligence agency operating out of the Plotted Kennedrs Death With Castro White House. From then and until the Watergate break-in, it is estimated that the White House burglars performed as Is the reason Nixon didn't immedi- Dutchess County, New York, where he many as 100 break-ins and countless ately act that he feared the Water- acquired a record as reckless and other illegal acts in the United States. gate burglars more for what they knew flamboyant. In 1968, he was defeated This question begs to be answered: about covert operations other than the as a Republican for congress in the If they were able to pull off as many Watergate break-in? Certainly there are primary, and then decided to enter the as 100 other jobs, why did they get matters of the other break-ins per- general election as an independent. His caught at the Watergate complex? formed by the burglars for the White wild charges and unorthodox Testimony before the Senate Water- House, yet there, too, Nixon and his campaign so troubled the Republicans gate Committee clearly indicates that top aides had "deniability" if they of Poughkeepsie that Gerald Ford, the break-in at the Watergate complex acted immediately. Seemingly, there then House Minority Leader, came to would not have qualified the burglars was something much deeper, much Poughkeepsie and helped Liddy get a for comic roles in a Walt Disney darker. job with the Treasury Department. production. It was totally "unpro- That the much deeper, much darker The Poughkeepsie Republicans feared fessional." For one thing, no one fear might have led right back to the that Liddy's campaign might cause needed to enter the building if the goal events that preceeded and caused the the election to go to a Democrat. was merely to bug two telephones. assassination of President Kennedy. • E. Howard Hunt. Hunt was an (And why was only Larry O'brien's On June 2.3, 1972, Nixon ordered the employee of the CIA from 1949 to and Spencer Oliver's phones tapped?) FBI to curtail its investigation into the 1970. During World War 11 — at least That could have been done much more Watergate break-in, noting, according acording to Who's Who 1972 - 73 — easily with taps on the outside wires. to the Watergate transcripts: he was a correspondent for Life It is also unknown why so many ... Just say (unintelligible) very bad magazine. A writer of cheap mystery burglars were needed in the break-in. to have this fellow Hunt, ah, he novels, he was deeply involved with There were enough people in on the knows too damned much, if he the anti-Castro Cuban campaigns, job that they could have carried off all was involved -- you happen to know having several times suggested that the records of the Democratic Na- that? If it gets out that this is all Castro be assassinated. He was the tional Committee and read them at involved, the Cuban thing, it would CIA political action officer for the Bay home and then returned them. be a fiasco. It would make the CIA of Pigs invasion, and the CIA's liason The fact is, despite all the official look bad, it's going to make Hunt man with the Cuban Revolutionary inquiry, no one really knows why the look bad, and it is likely to blow Council, helping, it is said, to form Watergate burglars were in the Demo- the whole Bay of Pigs thing which that group, which was the main mover cratic National Committee headquar- we think would be very unfor- in the Bay of Pigs invasion. To the ters -- except those who were involved tunate both for the CIA and for Cuban exiles, Hunt was known and in the conspiracy. the country, at this time, and for respected as "Eduardo." Among those Consider this, though: What if the American foreign policy, Just tell in the Cuban community who was burglars were suppose to be caught? him (L.Patrick Gray, FBI director) close to Hunt was Cuban Revolution- If that was the goal of the Watergate to lay off. ary Council leader Manuel F. Artime, burglars, then they did their job -- At first it was felt that Nixon on who was smuggled out of Castro's they taped the doors of the building, June 23, 1972, was fishing without Cuba by Bernard Barker, another got enough people involved in the sinkers for reasons to cut off the FBI Cuban Watergate burglar. Hunt and break-in to play basketball while Watergate probe. Yet further examina- Artime shared an apartment in Miami waiting around for the cops to show tion of what might have been "the in 1960, and Artime became a god- up, and used walkie talkies, just to Cuban thing" and "the whole Bay of father to one of Hunt's children. Ar- make sure the cops could find them. Pigs thing" and how they, once re- time also created a Watergate Defense Then, once caught, whoever was in vealed, would harm the CIA and Fund. Hunt introduced Artime to control of the conspiracy was in a American foreign policy shows that G. Gordon Liddy before the break-in. position to blackmail the White House Nixon might have been sincere, albiet While Hunt has denied it, his bio- -- and not merely for money, as has misdirected, in his desire to get the grapher claims that he was the Mexico been suggested officially. FBI off the Watergate case. And is it City station chief for the CIA during That, too, would fit with what is unreasonable to suggest that during late September and early October

PAGE 56 KENNEDY NEWSREAL SERIES of 1963 when Oswald made a visit to Sturgis admitted that he worked as tro, including attacks on Castro in Mexico City. (While there, the CIA a CIA double agent for Castro. After 1965 and 1968, the Second Naval reportedly taped a conversation the revolution, Sturgis held two posi- Guerrilla and the Secret Army Organi- between an "Oswald" and the Russian tions with the Castro government: one zation respectively. During the first of Embassy in Mexico City. According as air force security chief and the those, there was another attempt on to former chief investigator of the other as Castro's czar of the gambling the life of Castro, which was suggested House Assassinations Committee joints. When the CIA became dis- by E. Howard Hunt. Richard Sprague, that tape has since enchanted with Castro's communism, Bernard Barker recruited Sturgis for been destroyed. Sprague says that the Sturgis switched sides and joined the the Watergate caper. voice Identifying itself as Oswald was anti-Castro forces. He has admitted to not the Lee Harvey Oswald arrested • Eugenio Martinez. On a CIA re- having been involved in plots to as- tainer when arrested in the Watergate for the assassination of President sassinate Castro and was a member of complex, Martinez was a vice president Kennedy.) According to newspaper. "Operation 40," the assassination of Keyes Realty until 1971, at which man Penn Jones, Hunt operated some squad of the anti-Castro Cuban's time he joined Bernard Barker in of his Cuban Revolutionary Council Alpha 66. Sturgis now claims that activities out of 544 Camp St. in another real estate venture. Keyes documents exist within American "in- Realty, said to have underground con- New Orleans at the same time Oswald telligence service" which he admits is nections, sold both Richard Nixon and distributed pro-Castro literature in CIA detailing the assassination of New Orleans. That literature was his buddy, Bebe Rebozo, land in the President Kennedy. Sturgis says the Florida Keys. Among those connected stamped with the address of 544 Camp documents indicate that the plot was St. Both Hunt and Frank Sturgis, with Keyes Realty by federal authori- hatched by Castro. He claims that ties have been "Lucky" Luciana, another of the Watergate burglars, there were calls placed to the Soviet used the alias Edward Hamilton. Else- Meyer Lansky, Jimmy Hoffa and the Embassy in Mexico City about the Teamsters' Pension Fund and Agustin where on Nixon's June 23, 1972, time Oswald was there in Sept.-Oct., taped discussion with H.R. Haldeman, Batista (no relation to the former 1963, which were billed to Oswald Cuban dictator). With his brother Nixon says: "Of course, this Hunt, and Jack Ruby's room (apparently that will uncover a lot of things. You Laureano, Agustin employed Hans alleging that Ruby was also in Mexico Tanner in "Project 26," which was open that scab, there's a hell of a lot City at the time with Oswald), and of things and we just feel that it would another attempted assassination of that Ruby and Oswald had met at a Castro. "Project 26" was the brain- be very detrimental to have this thing New Orleans motel (which is congo any further. This involves these child of the Cuban Christian Demo- firmed by information that was col- cratic Movement, of which Mario Gar- Cubans, Hunt and a lot of hanky- lected during the investigation into the cia Kohly was the leader. Shortly panky that we have nothing to do with assassination conducted by New ourselves." before the assassination of President Orleans District Attorney Jim Garri- Kennedy, Kohly was arrested for • Bernard Barker. Cuban exile son). Sturgis further claims that both leader Reinaldo Pico told the Miami printing counterfiet Cuban currency. Ruby and Oswald were working for In 1965, one Richard M. Nixon, the HearId: "Barker was our contact for Castro and that, a few months before lawyer, came to Kohly's aid. CIA work for. Cuba (meaning anit- the assassination, Ruby met in Havana Castro activity) — and every time I • James W. McCord. A former CIA with Castro, Ramiro Valdez, Raul agent suspected of having been in- would see him on the street I would (Castro's brother), Om Guevara, ask if something was working, and for volved in the agency's LSD experi- Tanya (Guevara's secretary) and an ments on civilians and other agents, a few years he would say no. Sudden- American called "El Mexicano." At ly, last year (just before Watergate), he McCord was associated with the Bay that meeting, Ruby sold Castro arms, of Pigs invasion and also the use of the said that Eduardo (E. Howard Hunt) Sturgis says, and •that Ruby continued was in touch, and that at last we could CIA dummy company called to deal with Castro through an Ameri- CARAMAR, which was what the Cubans used in their B-26 invasion of the Congo in 1964. McCord, if any- The White House Tan ShOW one, seems to be the one who botched Nixon up the Watergate caper more than the rest. W88 Troubled By "The Cuban Thing" • Virgillo Gonzalez. Gonzalez was the Watergate lock expert who was work for Cuba." Barker worked for also Cuban. can named Samuel Pratt. Ruby got On the surface, anyway, it would Batista's secret police before Castro both drugs and money in return for seem that everyone involved in the overthrew the dictator, and when Cas- his arms. However, according to Stur- Watergate break-in, with the possible tro came to power, Barker moved to gis, it was at the meeting in Havana exception of G. Gordon Liddy, was Miami, where he became involved in that Castro broached the subject of Nixon's "Cuban thing." And if that the Cuban underground fight against killing Kennedy to Ruby. From then "the Cuban thing" meant information Castro. Just prior to the Watergate on, Sturgis gets vague. He says that concerning the assassination of Presi- affair, Barker joined another Watergate Cuban intelligence then actually ar- dent Kennedy — and if Nixon knew burglar, Eugenio Martinez, in a real ranged for the assassination. Moreover, that is what "the Cuban thing" meant estate business. Barker's daughter re- Sturgis claims that the information he — then it is reasonable to assume that calls having known Frank Sturgis since has seen was turned over to the FBI Nixon could have been forced into she was a child. and Dallas District Attorney Henry the cover-up that cost him the presi- • Frank Sturgis. Sturgis, who was Wade, who tried Ruby for shooting dency. It could even account for the also known as Frank Fiorini, joined Oswald. fact that Nixon did not destroy the Castro in the Sierra Maestra and, with Beyond Stugis' "theory" or infor- tapes, for the threat, the blackmail, other Americans, molded Castro's mation about the assassination, he has that hung over his head was not the forces into a lighting army. At that been closely associated with Cuban tapes, but rather "the Cuban thing" time, the CIA supported Castro, and guerrilla operations since he left Cas- and what that really meant.

NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 57 They Knew About JFK Murder Before It Happened

AVING written a letter to President was to attend the Army-Air license plate number on the off J. Edgar Hoover warning of Force football game at Soldiers Field chance that Thomas Vallee might have H the impending assassination in Chicago on Nov. 2. been Lee Harvey Oswald using another of the President, Captain Richard Case Vallee was arrested that day on the phony name. WNBC-TV reported back Nagell (ret.) walked into an El Paso, corner of Wilson and Damen in that the FBI had restricted all infor- Texas, bank, pulled a .45 and fired Chicago. He was driving a 1962 mation concering 1963 New York two shots into the ceiling of the bank. automobile with a New York license, license number 311-ORF. Nagel] then calmly walked out of the number of which was 311-ORF. Once the Warren Commission was the bank and waited for the police. Vallee was charged with a traffic formed, Secret Service Agent Abraham The FBI nabbed him and he was violation and with carrying a con- Bolden made repeated attempts to give prosecuted. In his defense, he said that cealed weapon and ammunition. He testimony. The commission gave him he shot up the bank so he would be in was taken to the 20th District lock up. the cold shoulder, and in 1964, the hands of the feds when the Presi- At first it was reported that Vallee had Bolden was arrested and charged with dent was shot. an M-1 rifle, but mysteriously that re- accepting a bribe. Since then it has Presently, Nagell is allegedly living port was changed to indicate the been proven that the testimony that on a government stipend said to weapon was a hunting knife. convicted Bolden was perjured. The amount to $25,000 a year. Writer After Kennedy was killed in Dallas, information he apparently had is in Richard Russell is suppose to be work- WMAQ-TV, the NBC station in the National Archives, "classified" ing with him on a book about the Chicago, asked its New York sister until 2039. Kennedy killing. station to check out the New York Nage11's background is interesting. He worked for Army Intelligence during the Korean War and also took assignments from the Central Intelli- gence Agency. According to Nagell, he worked for Army Intelligence during the late 1950s and early 1960s infiltrating dis- sident groups supporting Castro. It was in the course of that work that Nagell said he met Oswald. However, many assassination writers and investigators have been bothered by one aspect of Nagell's past: In 1954, he was in a plane crash and is said to have suffered organic Humphrey Fulbright brain damage. After his arrest for the Five leading Demo- El Paso bank shoot up, he was sent to crats advised President a federal mental institute. He was not Kennedy not to make released until 1967. his fatal trip to Dallas One assassination writer who found in November, 1963. and interviewed Nagell in 1975 came away completely convinced that Nagell had solved the assassination mystery "on the lower level," meaning the gunmen who shot the President.

Richard Case Nagell wasn't the only man who claimed he had foreknow- ledge of the assassination. Abraham Bolden, the first black to be appointed to the Secret Service, had been keeping a young litho- grapher supposedly named Thomas Vallee under surveillance in October and November of 1963 because it was believed that Vallee might pose a threat to President Kennedy. The

PAGE 58 KENNEDY NEWSREAL SEWS Thanks to the heroic efforts of assassination investigator and writer Harold Weisberg, we know that one Joseph Adams Milteer also had fore- knowledge of the assassination. About two weeks before the assassination, Milteer told an undercover cop that he was aware of plans to assassinate the President. Milteer was the organizer of the right-wing States Rights party. The exchange between Milteer and the undercover informant William A. Somersett rambles until the undercover informant suggest that Kennedy is coming to Miami. The informant says to Milteer: "I think Kennedy is coming here on the 18th or something like that to make some kind of speech, 1 don't know what it is, but I imagine it will be on the TV, and you can be on the look out for that, I think it is the 18th that he is suppose to be here. I don't know what it is suppose to be about." New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison had an investigator listen to the story of James Mays, who said his buddy received $70,000 for shooting the MILTEER: You can bet your bot- tom dollar he is going to have a lot President. to say about Cuba, there are so many worry about that. of them here. MILTEER: The more bodyguards MILTEER: The more bodyguards he has the more easier it is to get him. INFORMANT: Yeah, well he will he has, the easier it is to get him. have a thousand bodyguards, don't INFORMANT: Well how in the hell INFORMANT: What? do you figure would be the best way to get him? MILTEER: From an office building wih a high powered rifle, how many people (distortions in the tape) does he have going around who look just like him? Do you know about that? INFORMANT: No, I never heard that he had anybody. MILTEER: He has got them. INFORMANT: He has? MILTEER: He has about fifteen. Whenever he goes any place they (more distortion) he knows he is a marked man. Skelton Boas INFORMANT: You think he knows he is a marked man? MILTEER: Sure he does. INFORMANT: They are really going to try to kill him? MILTEER: Oh, yeah, it is in the working. Brown himself, Brown is just as likely to get him as anybody. He hasn't said so but he tried to get Martin Luther King. (The Brown Mil- teer refers to is believed to be Jack H. Brown, a man highly active during the early 1960s in ultra right-wing political affairs.) Later in the discussion, the informant asks Milteer: "I don't know how them Secret Service agents cover all them office buildings, or anywhere he is going, do you know whether they do that or not?" MILTEER: Well, if they have any suspicion they do that of course. But without suspicion chances are they wouldn't. You take there in Washing- ton, of course it is the wrong time of the year, but you take pleasant NEWSREAL SERIES KENNEDY PAGE 59 Oswald, Mays' buddy told him, offered the buddy $75,000 to help kill Kennedy. According to the buddy, Oswald was also looking for a back up gunman to shoot the President from behind the picket fence on top of the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza. That job paid $25,000, and the buddy offered Mays the job. Mays was told that he would be given a .357 magnum fitted with a sniperscope. He would fire only if Kennedy's car got to a predeter- mined point without the President having been killed. Mays considered the offer, but decided to turn it down. "The whole thing," Mays told the Garrison investigator, "looked like a bunch of junk to me. I couldn't figure anyone trying to knock off the President with such lousy plans. It didn't sound workable to me. I was supposed to shoot and then just run through the cars in the parking lot there, around the back of the Book Depository. My buddy was supposed to park his car on Commerce Street and I would just walk over there and meet him and we would drive back to Denton (Texas, where they James Mays lived) together as if nothing had hap- weather, he comes out on the veranda, knowledge." pened ... That place there (atop the and somebody could be in a hotel And for the FBI, that meant the grassy knoll) was so open, anyone room across the way there, and pick case against Joseph Adams Milteer him off just like (distortion). was closed. Permanently. Period. Mil- Because of the Milteer discussion, teer died in 1974. the President's motorcade through Miami was cancelled. After the assas- * • sination, Milteer told the informant: "Everything ran true to form. I guess James T. Mays says he was offered you thought I was kidding you when I $25,000 to assassinate President Ken- said he would be killed from a window nedy, he turned the offer down, but with a high-powered rifle." Asked if his buddy picked up $30,000 and was he had only been guessing about the the main gunman in the murder. After Controversial Kennedy assassination, Milteer replied: the assassination, his buddy picked up photo shows a "I don't do any guessing." another $40,000. man (circled) So, what, you might ask, did the Mays revealed his story in 1968 who resembles FBI do about this one? On December when he was subpoenaed by the Miami Lee Harvey Os- 1, 1963, the bureau got around to States Attorney as an eye witness to wald in the door- questioning Milteer, and this is what the gangland slaying of Mafia enforcer way of Book the FBI learned: Thomas Altumura. Depository. The "He (Milteer) stated during this At that time, New Orleans District official inter- meeting neither he nor anyone in his Attorney Jim Garrison was conducting pretation is that presence discussed the assassination of his own investigation of the Kennedy the man is Billy President KENNEDY ... MILTEER murder and Mays offered to sell his Lopelady, who emphatically denies ever making story and testimony to Garrison for bore some re- threats to assassinate President KEN- $25,000. semblances to NEDY or participating in any such as- An investigator for Garrison, Bill Oswald, sassination. He stated he has never ("Boxley") Wood met twice with heard anyone make such threats. He Mays and Bill Barry of the Miami also denied making threats against any- News. This is the story Mays told the one subsequent to the assassination of two men: President KENNEDY. He stated he A couple of weeks before the as- does not know, nor has he ever been sassination, Mays' buddy claimed he in the presence of LEE HARVEY met Oswald in a Dallas bar called It'll OSWALD or JACK RUBY to his Do.

PAGE 60 KENNEDY NEWSREAL SERIES could have seen me. l didn't know how many people would be standing around there. And then just running ... it scared me. I told my buddy I didn't want to do it. l°°.6°° According to Mays, Oswald hired a Cuban to shoot from the picket fence. 0fi The day of the assassination, Mays' 0 buddy returned to their appartment Ro44`5 \\°e`\0\ and was highly nervous. When Ruby Dc \N1 \es killed Oswald, his buddy told Mays: 0 "See, I told you it would be okay. 00 oc\6 You could have been in on it. You missed out. Now there's nobody to tie me to it. I'm in the clear. There's nobody left around to tell about it." Mays said that neither he nor his buddy knew Ruby and what connection Ruby had with the assassination. On November 24, Mays said, his buddy left the country. Asked why he was willing to turn his buddy in, Mays said that he wanted the money. "I think I ought to be paid the money I missed out on if what I say can do somebody else some good," Mays told investigator Boxley. The next day, when Mays was scheduled to testify against Tony Es- perti, Mays skipped town. Garrison determined that he would not pay Mays the 525,000 he was demanding.

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N NEWSREAL number 2 we It was ironic that Valentine fol- Some Factors Affecting Products from featured suppressed inven- lowed the irate citizen and presented Destructive Distillation of Oil Shales, tions that could well solve detailed, specific charges to the by L.C. Karrick, 1922. much of our national energy woes. panel, totally supporting what the 4. Report of Investigation 2456 - Not only did the NEWSREAL staff young man charged. Effects of Temperature and Time of make the facts available in the publica- The written summary of that meet- Reaction in Distilling Oil Shales on the tion, but editor Tom Valentine per- ing was received by NEWSREAL on Yields and Properties of the Crude sonally appeared before the President's the 15th of April. Although the Oils,by L.C. Karrick, 1923. Energy Policy Advisors at the Region summary included several irrational 5. Report of Investigation 2254 - 5 (Midwest) "Citizen's Town Meet- notions put forth by a number of Nature of Shale Oil Obtained from Oil- ing on Energy Policy," sponsored by crank inventors, it made no mention Shale Assay Retort Used by the the Federal Energy Administration. whatsoever of the NEWSREAL pre- Bureau of Mines, by L.C. Karrick and Valentine was speaker number 113 sentation. Hi. Gavin, 1921. at the day-long hearing held on the The young black man was correct! 6. Report of Investigation 2588 - campus of Illinois Institute of Tech- The hearing had been a waste of time. Fractional Education of Oil from Oil nology in Chicago. If the written summary held no men- Shale, by L.C. Karrick and M.J. Ga- On behalf of NEWSREAL and all tion of the suppressed methods of vin. 1924. its readers, Valentine introduced into converting coal to oil at minimal ex- 7. Extraction Method for Bitumens, evidence the article by Harlan Trott, pense, we may be sure it has not been with Extract-recovery and Solvent- formerly with the Christian Science passed along seriously to the Presi- Regeneration, Jour. Franklin Institute, Monitor, which told how certain dent or his advisors. by L.C. Karrick and Douglas Gould, government officials and major oil The NEWSREAL staff had antici- 1923. . company interests suppressed the pated the total inaction, but we are 8. Melting Point method for Waxes, Lewis Karrick "low temperature car- not about to let it pass unnoticed. Petrolatums, Shale Oils and Shale Oil bonization" methods, which produced Shortly after receiving the summary, Distillates, Ind. and Eng. Chem. 1924, oil and natural gas from coal as a by- NEWSREAL prepared a letter to the by L,C. Karrick and V.F. Parry. product with a smokeless coal the hearing panel and carbon copies were 9. Production of Shale Oil, Salt main product. distributed to the various news media. Lake Mining Review, 1921, by L.C. The panel from the Federal Energy In addition to the article already Karrick and I.J. Jakoski. Administration appeared to be listen- featured in the earlier NEWSREAL, 10. Properties of Domestic Smoke- ing intently to the presentation, which the following evidence of suppression less Fuel, American Gas Association, was in fact an indictment of the big is offered: 20-494, 1925, by L.C. Karrick and oil interests and certain government Lewis Karrick authored a total of J.D. Davis. officials. The audience greeted Valen- 17 scientific papers on his process; 11. Analysis and Evaluation of Oil tine's presentation enthusiastically and and was granted a total of 16 patents. Shales, American Chemical Society it was generally acknowledged that In 1948 the U.S. Bureau of Mines, for Monograph "Shale Oil," 1925, by L.C. for the first time in the lengthy meet- whom Karrick had worked when he Karrick and others. ing, someone had presented specifics developed the processes, struck all his 12. The Thermal Relations in the rather than vague charges that the big writings from the record. The list of Scottish Oil Shale Retort, Chemical oil interests have suppressed means of Karrick authored papers were actually and Metallurgical Engineering, Decem- overcoming energy problems. purged from the official bibliography ber 1926. By, L.C. Karrick. The panel was handed copies of the of the government agency in an 13. Hearing before subcommittee article and Valentine was informed attempt to make him and his work of the Committee on Public Lands and that a written summary of the meeting disappear. Surveys, U.S. Senate, 77 Congress, would be mailed to him. This kind of suppressive tactic is 1st Session. Synthetic Liquid Fuels, Just prior to the NEWSREAL pre- reminiscent of Nazism and cannot be Aug 9, 1943, by L.C. Karrick. sentation, a young black man (speaker tolerated by a free people. 15. Four publications in Ind. and number 112) charged the panel with NEWSREAL, on behalf of all its Eng. Chem., by Brown and Cooper, being a waste of time. readers, calls for a full-scale Con- Brown and Branting, Brown and Pol- "You people are in the pocket of gressional investigation into this mat- lock, and David and Dray, appeared in the oil companies, and I don't see ter with all hearings open to the 1926 - 29 on the oils and gases pro- why I should be forced to bust my public. duced in the studies of L.C. Karrick back to conserve fuel, when the oil For those who are interested in de- on the "Economic Factors Relating to interests could make gasoline from tailed information concerning the Kar- the Production of Smokeless Fuels, coal damn cheaply if they really rick process, his papers are available Oils and Gases from Utah Coals." wanted to." from the U.S. Bureau of Mines. What 1924 - 26. Though he offered no support for follows is a list of those articles: 16. Nine student theses on the pro- his charges that oil interests could 1. Bulletin 249 - Manual of Testing duction of oils, gases and smokeless solve the fuel shortage with a little Methods for Oil Shale and Shale Oil fuels from Utah coals were completed effort, the young man remained by L.C. Karrick, 1926. in 1931 - 37, by research students at emphatic that the panel would not 2. Report of Investigation 2229 - A the University of Utah, in the Civil, really pay attention to what was being Convenient and Reliable Retort for Mechanical, Chemical Engineering and said by the people at the hearing, nor Assaying Oil Shales for Oil Field, by Economics Departments, all under would anything of merit come from L.C. Karrick, 1921. supervision of L.C. Karrick. such a sham operation. 3. Report of Investigation 2324 -

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