J. Edgar Hoover Told Warren Commission That Oswald's Killer Referred to Ruby As a "Known Dallas Area Criminal" Because He Had Been Arrested Several Limes

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Oswald and Ruby had connections with U.S. intelligence agencies.

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as the sole assassin, acting alone.

Commission Report TATTLER by Lou Staples, a prominent didn't kill anybody, no sir," but the Warren that proves that Ruby was an FBI informer in Hoover, the late director of the FBI. Commission, on June 9, 1964. cordon of policemen in the basement of the letter telling of Ruby's FBI 'connection to J. informant was found in the National Archives Dallas City Hall and fired one shot that Lee Rankin, general counsel for the Warren accused assassin bf President Kennedy.

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The letter, Commission Document 1052,

Four years later, Ruby walked through a HOWEVER, A previously-classified Nightclub owner. Jack Ruby was an informant for the Federal Bureau The day before Oswald told newsmen "I

A letter confirming that Ruby was an FBI

Ruby was working with the FBI during the period when he traveled to

Ruby was one of 10 names that Rankin had

The feisty little hoodlum ceased to feed the FBI information the same

Officially, Warren Commission members have constantly denied that

EDGAR HOOVER sent a three-page JACK RUBY WORKED FOR FBI!

Was an Informer for the Bureau, But Information Was Ignored

J. Edgar Hoover Told Warren Commission That Oswald's Killer referred to Ruby as a "known Dallas area criminal" because he had been arrested several limes. ' . Ruby's intelligence background possibly dates back to the 1940s when Richard Nixon was making headlines as a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee. A Jack Rubensteht of Chicago' was an In- former for Richard Nixon in connection with Nixon's efforts to fight communism, according to Justice Dept. records. Strip joint owner Ruby lived M Chicago under the name "Jack Rubenstein" before he Agent Flynn, who operated out of the Dallas moved to Dallas. FBI office, contacted Ruby "In view of his Some assassination researchers Are con- position as a nightclub operator who might vinced the Nixon Informer was the Jack Ruby have knowledge of the criminal element in that assassinated Oswald. Other private Dallas," Hoover continued. • researchers believe the Blinn informer was another "Jack Rubenstein." . "THE PURPOSE OF thir; contact was to determine whether or not Ruby did have such LATE FBI director J. Edon. Hoover knowledge, anli if se, if he would be willing to confirmed rumors that Jack Ruby did furnish information to this bureau." Indeed work for the FBI. Hoover's testi- After Flynn advised Ruby of the . FBI's mony. was Included In &letter he sent to jurisdiction in criminal matters, according te'' . the Warren Commission, but the letter, director Hoover,'"he expressed a willingness like many other Important data sub- to furnish information. mitted to the Commission, was Ignor- "A personal description of Raby was obtained by Special Agent Flynn on the occasion ed. Hoover's statement that Lee Harvey of this contact on March 11, 1959, but no in- Oswald's filler was an FBI Informer formation or other results were obtained." was uncovered by investigative report- • Between March 11, 1959 and Oct: 2, 1959, ers In the National Archives. Ruby was contacted on eight other occasions by the FBI. But, according to Hoover, Ruby Ruby had also undoubtedly been an In- "The Warren Commission in violation of its furnished no information. former for the Dallas police department and purpose, of its trust, did protect at least two Warren Commission members were In- other area law enforcement agencies. agencies of the federal government — the FBI terested in a notation in one FBI report that • RUBY WAS A police buff. He liked to hang and the CIA," Staples, a popular Dallas radio Ruby was a "knoWn Dallas criminal." around police stations, be 'close friends with celebrity, told TATTLER. policemen. He knew Dallas Dist Atty. Henry Ruby died of cancer in January 1967, soon THAT PARTICULAR remark, according to Wade, who prosecuted Ruby, on a first name after an appellate court overturned his death Hoover, was added to the description by bases. . penalty sentence for Oswald's murder and Special Agent Louis M. Kelley in a report And after he killed OsWald, he expressed granted him a new trial. requested that Hoover provide summaries of prepared with Special Agent Manning the opinion several times that a conspiracy Some Warren CoMmission critics believe FBI reports. C. Clements at Dallas Nov. 30, 1963 — six days was behind the assassination of President that cancer cells were injected in Ruby to i "Certain information regarding the contact after Ruby gunned Oswald down. befcee Kennedy. And Ruby felt that he, too, was the bring about his death. of Special agent Charles W. Flynn with Jack millions of television viewers.. victim of a' conspiracy and that he had been HE EXPRESSED the opinion that he was Ruby ea Mitch 11, 1959, is herewith In a related declassified Commission "set up" that morning he killed Oswald while being Injected with poison only three days nehaewiedged." document Agent Kelley explained that be the assassin was surrounded by policemen. before be died.