Now Has Come the Time for Action' On Oct, 30, 1963 -- some 22 "'l believe in an America that is credo then and that is my credo "Now has come the time for action; days before he vOas assassinated-- on the march, an America respected now... Clear away all thought of faction President John F. Kennedy said: "In the words which concluded Out from vacillating shame, by all nations, friends and foe alike, a historic address to our party by, every man no lie contain "May I repeat the words with an America that is moving, doing, the great American Claude Bowers, Let him answer to his name. which I summarized my view of working, trying, a strong America some 35 years ago, in the '28 Call the roll." America three years ago: in a world of peace.' That was campaign:" r 5. HALL, NAGELL, DEAN AUGUSTINOVICH. These- To Unlock JFK •sotrt:
• Sen. Frank Church's Senate Intelligence Committee can now solve the John F. Kennedy murder mystery and put the nations's minds to rest by rounding up a half dozen former Central In- VI telligence Agency operatives and getting their testimony. An extensive, comprehensive investigation by TATTLER makes this possible. Their testimony will show that the CIA, in league 'with other • government intelligence agencies, was involved in the assassination of America's 35th President. v The information they can supply under oath will implicate a former U.S. Senator and a former very high ranking ArMy officer as being in the upper echelon of the Kennedy murder conspiracy. Irregardless, the Kennedy assassination has been solved "as to who did what On a lower level," as one prominent assassination investigator. puts it. Or, as a former CIA officer says, "we were involved as part of a periphial intelligence operation.". . TATTLER suggests the committee . By JOHN MOULDER • headed by Sen. Church (D-Idaho), if it is Spatial to WO iietiond Tower interested in gdtting to the bottom of the matter, subpoena, as starters, the following persons: prosecution, to reveal under oath details of LORAN EUGENE HALL. Like E. what happened in Dealey Plaza on Nov. XI, Howard Hunt, Hall helped train the anti- 1963, when President Kennedy was shot to Castro Cubans who were annihilated in the death. Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961. Hall, an HARRY DEAN, also known as Dean adventurer, fled the country after TAT- Fallon, now a private detective in TLER identified him in the JFK con- Alhambra, Calif. A former Secretary of spiracy, in a special edition July 13. the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in RICHARD CASE NAGELL. A former Chicago, Dean says he was a CIA agent at Korean War hero and former CIA agent, the same time accused presidential Nagel now lives in a Northwestern city, assassin Lee Harvey °Mild was also a drawing a $2,000 monthly CIA "pension" CIA agent and was, in fact, Oswald's for his silence. Through an intermediary, partner. Dean feels Oswald was a "patsy" he's offered, in return for immunity from and has annually traveled to Fort Worth to 4
Popkin; professor of philosophy . at the place floweret; on Oswald's grave in Rose Washington University at St. Louis, author Hill Cemetery on the anniversary of his of "The Second Oswald" and, one of the death. nation's most respected of, the Warren RONALD LEE AUGUSTINOVICH, 37, Commission critics. now a private investigator in a South- Popkin notified TATTLER recently that western-city. Augustinovich is a former •Nagell is ready to testify before the Church CIA operative. Augustinovich has claimed Committee, which is investigating that Oswald, as a CIA agent, was assigned domestic and foreign wrongdoing by the to him and operated under the cover name CIA, in return for immunity. of "Torn Kane." Informants who have been connected in NAGELL CAN, POPKIN told TAT- various ways to government intelligence, TLER, lay bare the entire details of the private or official investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy from •Kennedy assassination, or to individuals the way it happened "on a lower level." involved have provided TATTLER with Popkin also has available, If the com- data that could lead to a final public mittee is interested, the transcript of a 90- • resolvement of the most haunting issue of hour interview under hypnosis, some 3,000 the second bail of the 211th Century — Who pages transcribed, with Luis Angel Castillo, a native of Puerto Rico who is killing off the Kennedys, and why? . claims to have been one of the "Hit men" Nagel], one of the more interesting of the in Dealey Plaza when President Ken- figures now making himself available for nedy's head was blown away. testimony, is working through Richard H. According to Popkin, Castillo made his statement under hypnosis in 1968 when he was arrested in Manila in the Philippines as a suspect in a su.spected CIA ti S.` $% • • I assassination plot against Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos. However, the Phillippine National Bureau of Investigation claims Castillo was under truth serum when he said he took part in an assassination plot against. President Kennedy. At the time, Castillo was 24 years old. According to Filipino authorities he was n Cuban-trained Communist agent sent to the Philippines to contact Communist guerillas. According to authorities in the Philip- pines, Castillo said under-truth serum and hypnotic grilling that he was in Dallas on Nov. 22,1963, "and had been giiren a rifle by an unidentified man and told to shoot a man in an open car during a motorcade." • • THE AUTHORITIES said Castillo said he actually didn't use the rifle beCause "he heard that somebody else had already shot the man in the open car." Castillo said the man who actually had fired the shot was known to him as only
JIM BRADEN ... or Eugene Hale Brading - his name keeps cropping up in Kennedy con- spiracy investigations, but he has denied to TATTLER any role in the assassination.
Joe, • • LORAN HALL ... when TAT- Castillo told authorities there were 15 • TLER identified him in the other men stationed along Remedy's route from Dallas" Love Field to the Trade Mart, JFK conspiracy in its July 13 ready to kill the president edition, Hall fled the country. • Popkin describes Castillo as "a Man- be Lee Harvey Oswald. churian candidate" who is still working "I would rather be arrested than commit somewhere in the world, "walking around murder and treason," Nagell reportedly like a robot" and waiting for his next declared. assignment. On Sept. 20, 1963, Nagell sent a The professor claims Nage11,. the former registered letter to FBI director J. Edgar CIA man, has insured. himself against Hoover ( now dead) and told him of the being murdered by the CIA through in- pending assassination plot. The plan then, tricate_ cloak-and-dagger means. „ according to Nagell, was to kill Kennedy Nagell, Popkin insists, was hoisted away on Sept. 26. and put into a federal mental institution Miami and Mexico City had been for three years to get him out of the way discussed as possible sites to assassinate and remove his credibility. President Kennedy before the murder Nagell, as a CIA agent, had operated actually occurred. under the names of "Joseph Kramer" and After mailing the letter to Hoover, "Robert Nolan," he has said. Be said he Nagell walked into an El Paso bank, pulled had investigated an anti-Castro out a pistol and fired a shot into the ceiling. assassination plot to kill President Ken- nedy. . He then walked outside and waited to be arrested. NAGELL SAID HE verified that the plot was authentic and that his instructions AFTER HIS ARREST, he said he were to kill the "patsy," who turned out to wanted to be in custody, under federal protection, when the assassination took place. Under grilling by authorities in El worked as a private detective for Paso, Nagell conceded it was "a desperate Louisiana Mafia boss Carlos Marcella, alibi attempt." was the first person accused by Garrison The much-criticized Warren Com- in the Kennedy conspiracy. mission does note that Nagell had met After Garrison's investigation was Oswald in Mexico. publicized, Ferrie was found dead in his Continued on Page 3 apartment in New Orleans. After his death, ruled a suicide, Garrison called Ferrie "one of the most important in- (continued from page 2) dividuals of the 20th Century." Medical Oswald, whom the Warren Commission authorities said a karate chop to the back named as the lone assassin of President of Ferrie's neck could have caused his Kennedy, went to Mexico in September of death. 1963. While there he visited the Cuban and Hall in 1964 told the FBI he had been in Russian embassies presumably to Dallas in September 1963 in connection arrapge passage back' to Russia to where with his anti-Castro activities and had he had defected in 1959. visited Mrs Sylvia Odio. Mrs. Odio, a The Church Committee gave no initial Cuban refugee, testified before the Warren response to Poplin's telegram, similar to Commission that a "Leon Oswald" had the reaction from previous com- attended a meeting in her home. Later she munications. identified the "Leon Oswald" as Lee On June 10, Popkin and Dick Gregory, Harvey Oswald, the man the Warren comedian and civil rights activist, wired Commission eventually designated the the White House that they-were ready to lone assassin of President Kennedy. hand over to President Ford or Attorney Oswald was slain by Jack Ruby two days ' General Edward Levi "vital information after Kennedy was killed. documenting conspiracy in domestic On Nov. 23, 1963, one day after the political assassinations including assassination, the FBI filed a report telling documentation of CIA and FBI in- of an informant reporting Loran Hall had volvement." redeemed a 30.06 rifle from a Los Angeles pawn shop. GREGORY AND Popidn also claimed, "We have in hand'information which in our THE 'FBI REPORT concluded view '-'directly.,.. -;unequivically astonishingly, at least for the timing: documents :!.- cOniPtracy in - the "No further investigation was con- assassinatiOni iifJohn F. Kennedy, Robert ducted, as It is obvious that the rifle F. Kennedy and Mialin Luther King, in- . mentioned above was not used in con- cluding:,doelnentation bf. CIA and FBI nection with the assassination of President involvement." Kennedy." This information, they said, "did not get In 1968 Garrison began efforts to get into the findings . of the Rockefeller California judges to extradite Hall to New CoMmislion both :because of an Orleans. At first, Hall successfully nuresponsiveness on the part of the' resisted, the efforts. _• Commission stiff members and the late boar hi *eh some of the most alarming items were uncovered." . - Loran Hall, one of the most colorful and shadowy figures involved in the -Kennedy conspiracy_ investigation, has admitted at times making speeches against President Kennedy, but has denied taking part in Kennedy4 murder. Hall has taken part in many activities against Cuban rebel government dictator Fidel Castro. In 1963,. Hall was an organizer for an anti-Castro cot mando group led by David Ferrie. Hall was arrested that year in Florida by authorities who confiscated a large cache of guns, ammunition and drugs. BOTH HALL AND Ferrie were figures in former New Orleans Dist Atty. Jim Garrison's controversial investigation of the John Kennedy murder case. • Ferrie, a former airlines pilot who had Hall at first argued that he had been in retnuxung me of persons I was in contact DaHai,' soliciting aid for anti-Castro ac- with in 1963 before the assassination." tivities and had visited a' Mrs. Odio. He He supplied Meese with names, in- said he was accompanied by Lawrence cluding that of Edgar Eugene Bradley, Howard, a Mexican American from East whom he had met while raising funds for Los Angeles, Calif. and William Seymour anti-Castro activities in the Los Angeles of Arizona. • area. Hall said Seymour is similar in ap- "On almost every occasion after I pearance to Lee • Harvey. Oswald. Later finished talking at one of.these meetings," Hall changed his story again, saying he had visited Mrs. Odio himself and not with said Hall, "I'd overhear some people there Seymour and Lawrence. discuss the possibility of assassinating Kennedy — and how it might be done. HIS STORY ABOUT the Odio visit "Not just Kennedy, but also Earl changed again on March 12, 1968, when Warren and other government officials - Hall was interviewed at the Hollywood how they could be gotten rid of." . Hills Hotel in Hollywood, Calif., by Hall, who had once been a prisoner of Stephen Jaffe, a Garrison investigator. Fidel Castro, claims to have spoken at Jaffe, in his report to Garrison, said: more than 50 meetings in Southern "Hall stated that he knew he had never California in the early 1960s seeking aid for seen Sylvia Odio because he has seen a anti-Castro guerrillas. photograph .of her with ber four children He acknowledged "expressing disap- pointment" at Kennedy's failure to add While in Dallas in September 1963 Hall U.S. military backing to the Bay of ,Pigs was arrested on a gun charge. Hill told the invasion of Castrots*Cuba, bid denied he FBI that a Dallas resident had 'made • personally advocated harming the available $5,000 which Hall used to put up President. _ bail. .. • W.R. Morris, a prominent author from BRADLEY, ONE OF those named by Lorretto, Tenn., who is working closely • Hall, was charged by Garrison with with ex-CIA agent Harry Dean (Dean conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination, Fallon) has told TATTLER he is trying to but Bradley was never fried. establish whether Hall's bail bond money Since TATTLER's July 13 story in which was put up by a fornier high-ranking Hall is again linked to the Kennedy military officer who has been linked by assassination, Hall his. left the country. Dean to the Kennedy conspiracy. • TATTLER learned that Hall first went to Mexico, then fiew ha a private plane to WHEN 'INTERVIEWED by investigator another country. Jaffe in March 1968, a few weeks after Ronald Lee Augustinovich's name Hall's discharge from the Veterans Ad- surfaced briefly • in Garrison's in- ministration Hospital in Los Angeles, he vestigation and his possible role in events . said he had a change of heart about surrounding the assassination was ap- cooperating in Garrison's investigation. parently not pursued to great lengths, Jaffe, in his confidential report to according to Wffiiam Wood, (aka Bill Garrison, wrote: Boidey) a former CIA agent and a special "Hall stated in regard to his willingness investigator for. -Jim Garrison for 19 to go to New Orleans to talk to ... Garrison, months.. ' this was now, perfectly agreeable to him ... like Nagell, reportedly He said he wanted to testify, under oath, had information about the Kennedy and that he would cooperate in any way assassination before it happened. possible." - ' • It was at this meeting that Hall first told AUGUSTINOVICH is discussed at about a meeting in the Los Angeles home length in an affidavit, witnessed by far of Clinton Wheat in 1963 where, Hall said, persons, given in Garrison's investigation several people with right-wing connections by Calvin Barton Bull, a witnees in the plotted the assassination of President Garrison probe. Kennedy. - Bull, in the affidavit, said it was based Two months later, in a dramatic ap- on a 160-page report that Augustinovich pearance before EdWin Meese, California kept under his mattress until it was stolen Gov. Ronald Reagan's legal affairs and - conversations among Bull, secretary, Hall made a dramatic reversal AugustinOvich and Garrison investigator of his former position that he knew nothing Gary Sanders. of a Kennedy conspiracy. Bull's affidavit tells of an allegiance among Communists, the CIA and the John HALL SAID HIS memory had been Birch Society in plotting the death of "jogged" by "certain individuals President Kennedy. - "Three Communists agents, one CIA unuereover agent mane contact with tive affidavit, the two assassins took .a nus to men," Bull said in the notorized New York .City to brief Oswald with false statement. information because they knew hi worked "The five men all belong to or support for the CIA. the John Birch Society. 9250,000 in $20 bills The CIA, according to .tie exchanged hands as a retainer to kill allowed the assassination pink President Kennedy in retaliation for his According to Bull: under-the-table payment of $1 million to "Augusdnovich said he was Irotkine the CIA for anyone who could successfully the CIA at the time of the Kennedy kill both Raoul and Fidel Castro. This was assassination. Augustinovich did some also in retaliation for Kennedy's backing investigating for the. CIA in .enatection of the and-Castro groups. with the Kennedy investigation and has "Several close attempts against Castro told me that the results of his investigation failed. Contact was further established did not jive with the results of the. Warren through an unknown Russian agent Report." working at the Russian consulate in New That Oswald was a "patsy" and a CIA York City." agent is dramatically backed up by Dean- Bull's statement goes on to say that, Fallon, who is working closely With "They furnished the patsy Oswald, who Morris, the Tennessee author who wrote they knew was working for the CIA, spying "The Twelfth of August," the biography of on them." Buford Pusser, the hero-sheriff of the Without elaboration, Bull's affidavit lists movie "Walking Tall." as "an assassin" a nhomas _Kane Dean-Fallon, who has had several ( alias)" described as having been born in telephone conversations with TATTLER, the U.S., having once lived In New York claims he was Oswald's partner in the City, of medium height with black hair. CIA. Other sources say that Oswald, while he Dean has visited Oswald's grave in Fort worked for the CIA,was given the code Worth's Rose Hill Cemetery every year on name "Tom Kane." the anniversary of the accused assassin's death. ...THE OTHER "ASSASSIN". named in the MORRIS FIRST MET Dean in 1966 in Bull affidavit was described as "Tony," Rose Hill Cemetery when the former CIA • American-born lieutenant under Castro agent was placing a vase of large yellow who was known in Cuba as "The Butcher." mums on Oswald's grave. "Both of the above were picked up in Dean was interviewed anonymously for Miami by persons driving a light blue or the Tom Snyder "Tommorrow" show at light green Rambler with Texas plates," NBC headquarters in New York City Bull said in the affidatit. "The car recently, but the interview was never proceeded to New Orleans and stayed two, days.”. broadcast. ' While in New York, registered under the !It is interesting to note that after leaving' name "Dean Fallon," his hotel room was the Texas School Book Depository in burglarized and a suit of clothing was Dealey Plaza in Dallas a few minutes after taken. Dean suspects the burglary was a the Kennedy assassination, Oswald was cover for searching his room. seen getting into a light green Sambler The former CIA agent flew to Chicago station wagon driven by another man, recently for an interview with TATTLER according to eye witnesses ignored by the representatives, but while at O'Hare Warren CommissiOn. The Rambler pulled Airport, "was frightened by something" away toward Oak Cliff, Where a few and immediately flew back to California. minutes later, Oswald was arrested attire Morris' own investigation, as well as the Texas Theater after allegedly gunning probes of other researchers, has shown down Dallas Policeman J.D. Tippitt involvement of Eugene Hale Brading, also . , known as Jim Braden, in the Kennedy THE WITNESS TO the Rainbler in conspiracy. Brading has denied this to Dealey Plaza was fernier honori-siiMiing TATTLER. Dallas County Sheriffs Deputy Roger Dean Brading, named by authorities as a Craig, whose testimony was discounted by Member of a California Mafia family, was the Warren Connidesion. A decade later, a arrested in Dealey Plaza minutes after the statement by another itness, who assassination under the name "Jim documented Craig's Bradden" and slipped-through the hands of testimony, turned up in the Natianat Ar- Dallas authorities without his underworld chives. connections being known. Craig was recently found shot . Dallas. His death ruled a FIVE YEARS LATER, Brading _From New Orleans, according Bull's (Continued on Page 19) (continued from page 3)
Kennedy was assassinated June 5, 1968, at up in Los Angeles when Sen. Robert the Ambassador Hotel.
Brading said he was in Dallas on oil
business and had gone into the Dal-Tex
Building, across the street from the School
his "family." Book Depository, to use a telephone to call
death, FBI agents
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vestigated as a courier for laundering
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1964 to be unfamiliar with Dallas, was
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Miami on the same day David Ferrie died
assassins in
Cuban congressman under Batista, as
crushed and he had been shot three times. having been involved as one of the actual allegedly involved in the assassination of Garrison in the conspiracy, tried and President Kennedy extend to both Ferrie volvement of Elaido del Valle, a former and Clay Shaw, who was charged by
acquitted. in New Orleans. His skull had been
last year under Mysterious cir- cumstances. "The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence," and author of the government-Censored has revealed that both Shaw and Ferrie
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involved, that he had positive information was convinced that- Carlos Marcella was Marcell° had told certain individuals what now common knowledge — the result of indicating that prior to the assassination the assassination. Castro, and some speculate that Ken- report of what his staff had learned of Church Committee. possible organized crime connections with evidence that is coining out now before the was going to happen," Garrison said in a nedy's murder may have been a grim
Castro, who was to have been the "hitman" to kill in reprisal.
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believe it but it is so. Running guns to
Cuba, intrigues ... A very strong tie. But Mafia and the CIA. People don't want to Boxley knew what he was talking about.
people say we are only paranoid about it."
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like "elimination with extreme Prejudice" and "executive action" to describe murder plots against foreign leaders. in the 1950a. murder.
says March.
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To Our Readers: The story of ed to agree with the station chief. Wood As the shrink examined hiM, Wood About the CIA, Wood says, "They William C. Wood — who was assigned a didn't. apologized for his condition. "It's not were good to me," only moments later CIA code name at one time and called "YOu're not going to murder ;your fault it's ours, " the doctor re- detailing how the agency could have "Bill Boxley" by Jim Garrison — is at ---," Wood told his fellow sponded. stuck him in a mental hospital to rot for least as intriguing as his 19-month em- officers. "Not while I'm here. I'll blow - From then on Wood experienced the rest of his life. ployment as Garrison's JFK investiga- the whistle on you if you try id" a series of blackouts, "something like a As for his drinking, Wood proudly points out that by the time he carne to tor. Soon after Wood was shipped back temporary but strange state of UnCOn- Wood had been running Mafia to the states, never to learn what hap- sciousness," he recalled. the Garrison investigation, he had not id a drink in some ten years — and he characters into jail as a reporter for the pened to his interperter. "I thought it was my drinking," he He was assigned to train case Denver Post — just by exposing them and said. "But I don't know now. Doctors . didn't touch a drop all during the 19 cooperating with authorities — when he officers at the old CIA center near the could find nothing wrong with me. And months that he worked for Big Jim. was first approached by the Central Lincoln Memorial. believe me — I've got evidence that I And the blackouts discontinued Intelligence Agency to become a "spook." Arriving in Washington, Wood be- sought medical help." until today doctors now find his condi- After playing James Bond to se- gan to drink. All of his drinking, he said, It was about this time that the CIA tion normal. cure the job, Wood was made an opera- took place in a bar called the "Keyhole began to experiment on its personnel with WOOD'S INTEREST in the Ken- tions officer, assigned to train CIA agents' Cafe," a hang out for CIA agents and LSD. nedy assassination was nearly an immedi- to infiltrate foreign powers and perform other intelligence officers. . His blackouts led him from one ate one. certain programs. The more than tWo SOMETIME DURING December of problem to another. Finally, a security He recalls that he was, being fitted years he worked for the CIA area dark 1952, after a day's work in a secured officer whom Wood believes was James for glasses in Florida when news of the period in his life, one that he is careful building, Wood was walking along the McCord of Watergate fame came to his killing was first broadcast by radio. in making reference to "because many reflecting pool leading up to the Lincoln assistance and Wood off-handedly sug- By the time Ruby murdered Oswald, of those operations are still underway." Memorial. He doesn't recall what hap- gested: "For two cents, I'd get out of he was convinced that something was awry. Wood described his job as teaching pened; all he knows is that suddenly two this mess." "It was a classic gangland execution, but classes in what an upstanding citizen men were at his side. His clothes were McCORD — OR WHOEVER he with a twist As more and more-informa- wouldn't want to know. For example, covered with blood, and the two men was — jumped at the remark, and in less don' came out about the assassination, he taught foreign agents one course in told Wood that he had fallen on his face. than a week — "one of the fastest pro- I read intelligence,"' he said, meaning "defense against police investigations." He had bitten a hole through his cessings I've ever seen" — Wood was typical of the covert operations he taught - In a nutshell, that bit of eductational up- tongue. once again .a citizen. while in CIA. lifting informed the spook students Wood needed a rest. He took a The night before he was scheduled Wood believes that all of the opera- • how to pull off a job and leave no traces leave and returned to his family in Texas, to make his permanent parting with the tives involved in the murder of JFK are for police to begin investigating. whereupon he came down with pneu- CIA, Wood went to his hotel• room and probably dead today. MANY OF THE revelations concern- monia. His leave was extended and by ordered a bottle of whiskey. Wood drank "Taking Oswald out (killing him) ing the CIA that have surfaced in recent the time he had returned to Washington, from the bottle and left it on his dresser. was just the beginning. It was a casebook months are what Wood lived with for the CIA built a new training center in . He then laid down in bed, only to ob- . study. in intelligence operations, and if I those more than two years in the early Virginia. The center was code named . serve, by and by, a thin shaft of light know those boys, they wouldn't have 1950s. "Isolation," although the men dubbed it- strike the wall opposite his door. He left anyone around to point fingers." At one of his foreign training loca- "Desolation," primarily,because it was so • turned and watched as a hand reached But he hasn't given'up on the tions, for example, Wood's chief inter- remote to civilization. in the door, took the bottle and then case. Something some group -- made perter fell ill. Wood balked at making the move. moments later replaced it. What, if any- it happen, he's convinced. The head of Wood's statiorrcalled One morning in January of 1953 he was thing, was slipped into the bottle Wood THE MORNING after he complet- ed his bylined story below, he tele- a meeting of the operations officers to to travel with another officer to "Isola- doesn't know. He has no proof that he phoned to say he just got a new lead. discuss what should be done with the tion," but he remained in bed, more was drugged with LSD or any, other "If we can only get this guy to sit , interperter. It was the station chief's idea than a bit hung over. chemical, and he has no regret about still for a polygraph test " that the poor man should be told he was • While asleep, several CIA super- having served in the CIA. But he does going to a hospital and then disposed 'visory personnel came into his room, recall not having touched that bottle --The Editor. • of — i.e., thrown out of anairplane. trying to find out what troubled him. again — and getting out of town as fast The other operations officers tend- One was a doctor — a shrink• as he could.
Ex-CIA Agent Tells His Role In Garrison's Conspiracy Probe Aging newspaper reporters — even if they've worked for the CIA — usually carry two dreams with them into retirement. One is they fantasize editing their own newspaper, able to write — within reason — whatever they'd. like. They also dream of uncovering the big one — "The Story of the Century" — the blockbuster that brings Pulitzer Prize fame and the bridesmaids of riches. I lived one of those dreams — as editor and executive 'vice president of The Houston Tribune, a metropolitan weeky in a booming, seam-bursting .city covering what seemed like half of southern Texas. Then, "along came Jones" — the reporter's second big dream —. in the person of Jim Garrison, who had just announced that he had solved the killing of John F. Kennedy and that arrests were im- minent. The Story of the Century was Waiting just acrosi'the border in New Orleans like a succulent Gulf oyster on the half shell. I made contact with Garrison's office through a mutual acquaintance in the Louisiana' State Police who had been to Houston to check out leads in a. case. I likewise managed to disengage myself from a final four months of an employment contract with. the Tribune (much to the relief of its more con- servative stockholders, as it turned out) and by mid-April, 1967, was undergoing a two-hour interview with the Jolly Green Giant himself. GARRISON LISTENED to my here-and-• there history like a cartoon character • By WILLIAM WOOD watching a table-tennis match — sports Special to the National Tattler writer, infantry officer in World War II, investigative reporter on both daily years as an operations officer for- the newspapers in Denver, more than two Central Intelligence Agency( where I WILLIAM WOOD, aka Bill Boxley, a former CIA agent, worked for 19 months as a chief aide to New Orleans District Attorney Jim • Garrison in the latter's investigation of the JFK assassination conspiracy. served overseas and in Washington as an using an alias for operational purposes?" instructor in covert operations), then - Garrison asked. private investigator, polygraph examiner, "How about the first of May and what and newspaper editor. would you like to call me?" "When can you start, and do you mind (Continued on Page 5) (Continued from Page 4) U at organization or anyone on its behalf to • "May first will be fine. What name this day — at least not to my knowledge. would you like to use?" •To rehash the firing would be "counter- "How about 'Ward'? It's close enough to productive," to use one .'of Garrison's my true name that if I should run into an favorite expression& It is the 19-month acquaintance in the field, his calling me ride I had on the runaway merry-go-round 'Wood' might not blow it to womever I was - that Counts, and here are a few of the ups interviewing at the lime." and downs:
"WE HAVE A WARD already," . GARRISON INITIALLY assigned me Garrison mused ( and later I learned that it those volumes of the Warren Commission was fortunate for the DA's- office that he report testimony concerning the White did for Charles R. Ward, Big Jim's chief Russian emigre circles in Dallas — the assistant, knew how to tend to the store ethnic group into which Lee Harvey and while Jim was trying to crack the big one). Marina Oswald were almost immediately.- - "Let's" make it Bosley," he said as if swept upon the arrival from Russia, to struck by some special notion. which Oswald had fled earlier, denouncing the United States. . From private investigation cases during the earlier sixties, I had a few contacts in 'For the _next 19 Dallas with businessmen, including an acquaintance with Paul Rothermel, then months I whirled security chief for the late billionaire H.L. into the wildest Hunt and who, until 1957, worked for the FBI. • ride of my life' When the name "Lee Odom, P.O. Box 19106, ,Dallas,„,Tex," in a Clay Shaw notebook came to Garrison's attention after he had indicted Shaw for conspiring That's all there was to it — or so it to kill President Kennedy, and he seemed at the time. But, what I was hearing were the first low notes, of the calliope as that merry-go-round began (Garrison) remembered an identical grinding into gear. For the next 19 months number in Oswald's notebook (preceded it whirled at an ever-increasing speed into by what some claimed were Russian the wildest ride of my life. (Better I should language symbols, but also bore a strong have tried to beat Evel Knievel to the resemblance to slightly altered English Snake River jump—) initials of P.O.), Garrison sent me off to Fifteen months after he hired me Jim Dallas like a Nike missle. Thereafter I Garrison was introducing me to Peter criss-crossed the country from San Kihass of the New York Times as a man he Francisco to Miami, Los Angeles to New had found "while looking for someone who York on special investigations of leads, had been with the CIA, but still cared rumors, theories, and, upon occasion, about the United States." rantings of lunatics. And four months after that, Jim From June or July of 1967 until Dec. 8, Garrison was explaining to a national 1968, I averaged approximately 20 days media press conference that he had fired per month on field investigation outside of me on charges of 'infiltrating' his office for New Orleans, returning every week or two the Central Intelligence Agency. for three- or four-day debriefings by ' Garrison and reassignment into the field "HE WAS NOT ONLY A CIA agent," again. Garrison characteristically entoned to the I began with liaison among two or three throng of media representatives. "He was Dallas assassination researchers, on a very high level!" developed covert informants for Garrison If Garrison possesses one twit greater ' who were to "penetrate" various political, than his tremendous sense of humor, it has social and business circles in Dallas and a to be his ego. He never could have few other major cities across the nation, stomached the thought of having been and conducted interviews. penetrated by a mere GS-11, which was the Unlike the Nixon administration, which highest level I reached in the CIA. kept an "enemies" list, Garrison compiled It probably doesn't matter to the CIA one a "friends" list, composect mainly of well- way or another; present CIA director Mr. wishers around the country who had Colby is having other problems at the written his office and offered to assist his moment. But, In fairness to truth, it should investigation. Many of them contributed be stated for the record that I resigned worthwhile information and performed from the agency in 1953, never to be re- valuable services. employed, re-assigned, or re-contacted by AFTER THE PERJURY conv iction. . of Dean Andrews (a coiortui assistant district. attorney of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, charged- with perjury in con- 9,1968, Garrison still held a top priority list nection with his knowledge about Clay of unworked or unfinished leads culled Shaw and "Clay Bertrand"), Garrison from the thousands that had poured into turned the normal district attorney's office the office since the probe became public functions over to his no-nonsense chief knowledge. executive assistant, Charles Ward, and Die-hard supporters of the Warren devoted himself wholeheartedly and Commission continue to sing the same old almost exclusively to dismantling the nine-word, stanza: "No one has come up Warren report. with any new evidence." He regularly spent 20-hour days, turning But evidence is like a prism. Its colors like a cougar pursued by hounds to snap depend upon the angle from which it is back at his detractors and critics, while viewed. still lunging toward the safety of a solu- As surely as testimony constitutes tion to the assassination conspiracy. -evidence, the cross examination of wit- Few men in American political history nesses in an adversary hearing would have drawn the firepower that bombarded produce new evidence. Answers to Jim Garrismithroughout his investigation questions left unasked would be new —. and since: evidence. On the other hand, he seemed to have a proclivity for inviting more. He seldom GARRISON'S INVESTIGATION missed 'an opportunity to insult, and produced filing cabinets full of new whenever possible, subpoena or file evidence by reinterviewed witnesses who chines against members of the nation's had testified or whose statements had been news media. taken without their having been called • But, Unlike the jury' that acquitted the before the commission. It also revealed an late-Clay Shaw in less tban'an hour, history endless stream of contradictions between is more ponderous in rendering its ver- dicts. When historians finally agree on a conclusion to the assassination of 'Garrison was like President Kennedy, ••Jim Garrison may well be in its foreword instead of in a a cougar, snapping footnote: back at his critics DESPITE.THE TOTAL cratering of his case against Clay Shaw, Garrison's and detractors.: assault upon the. Warren Commission's report and its nonsupporting 26 volumes of testimony and exhibits may yet form the what their statements contained in the • foundation upon . which a joint Warren Commission volumes and what congressional committee could begin. they told Garrison , investigators they actually had said to government agentit. Witnesses were„discovered from whom no 'tf Garrison has statements had been taken. • - None of this was procedurally ad- one trait greater - missible in the trial of'Clay Shaw, because the statements concerned the murders of than his sense of John Kennedy and J.D. TMpit, neither of which crimes were basically at issue in the humor, it's his ego' Shaw trial. But, between whirls to fight off attacks from government and media critics, Garrison sent me into new areas, some of The task facing Garrison was humanly which involved: impossible. His "special investigation team" of only six assistant district at- . • LARRIE SCHMIDT and Bernard torneys compared with 6,000 federal Weisman's ties to 'ultra-conservative agents who worked the case originally. Dallas political. circles, which produced When ordered to trial on the Shaw charges connections for them into anti-Castro by the U.S. Supreme Court decision of Dec. Cuban exile areas of. Dallas with elements of organized crime, which had an overall tie to the conspiracy and the assassination itself. Spin-off evidence from the Lee Odom. JIM GARRISON ... 'when his- post office bOX matt leo w unanswered torians finally agree on a con- questions involving persons in the Hunt oil empire, with Jack Ruby's close friend who clusion to the assassination of managed the Adolphus Hotel at the time of President Kennedy, he (Garri- the assassination and later the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans during the Garrison . son) may well be in its fore- investigation. ward instead of M a footnote." • Close ties between right-wing political extremists and Mafia figures In Dallas, all night to Isaacs home, where the door "super patriots" in the words -of the slain finally was opened and we found ourselves President, with mutual admiration for the'i: staring down the twin barrels of a sawed- American free enterprise system. off shotgun. • An in-depth study of the "Winnipeg Isaacs was hospitable enough to ask us Airport Incident," in which a Canadian in, and to discuss his former residence in- citizen reported to the Royal Canadian Dallas, as well as that of his cousin, whose Mounted Police fragments of an early 1964 name appeared in. Jack Ruby's notebook. Conversation at the. Winnipeg terminal He told us much more than I'd hoped to between two men = one of whom he learn and agreed to see me again with repeatedly identified as the late David more, specific information in 10 days. Ferrie. The fragmented conversation "You know, I maybe should hive said - included fears of the two men as to how something to him about that sawed-off much Marina 0Swald might know about shotgun," the police chief reflected as we the assassination and mention of a man walked away. named Isaacs, who had. failed to dispose Perhaps he should haVe, because, within properly of an autornobile after the JFK- a week, Isaacs had sold-his 'business in Tippit slayings: Houston, abandoned the home where we talked, and vanished into the chemical fog PURSUIT .OF LSAACS took me into a that enshrouds Houston and its environs. darkened suburb of Houston, where a • DISCOVERY OF a FRanklin-exchange - cooperative and somewhat inexperienced telephone number recorded by Oswald police chief located Isaacs through his twice in the last pages in his notebook, municipal water meter registration. The which had apparently been ignored by chief went with me' shortly before mid- commission investigators and subsequent research critics. The number led to the home of a bus driver of 15 years service exclusively on the Dallas-to-Shreveport run, who shared his home and telephone during the fall of 1963 with a Close relative - - Detective Joe Cody of the Dallas police department. Cody appeared to be the only Dallas policeman to file a gratuitous statement in the Commission exhibits explaining why he was away from Dallas at the time of the • assassination: he had been detained in a ne-injury light aircraft mishap near Shreveport. Joe Cody also- owned a marine and scuba-diving business in Dallas named "Aqualand," and we couldn't restrain a curiosity as to whether that might have been a place where Loran Hall could have left an oxygen tank and face mask with which he had once departed Los Angeles for Miami, but which never reached- its Miami destination. (For more. on Loran Hall, see several stories in this issue concerning him.) The curiosity persists, as does that over why Oswald had made note of the number twice — particularly on successive pages.
• UNSUCCESSFUL EFFORTS to trace persons living at 1026 North Beckley with Oswald at the time of the assassination. A list supplied our office by the Dallas research underground identified the roomers as: Buddy Joe Palmer; C.C. Leh- mann; Roy Samuel Cleghorn; Floyd Degraffenred or De Graffenred; Hugh (Continued on Page 19) (Continued from Page 5) official and then private police career in • New Orleans, which he used as cover for Slough; Jack ' Cody; George Gibboney; operation of an underground intelligence Donald Green; John Carter; James network. Watson; and Herbert Lee. . Witnesses placed Oswald with Bannister It's interesting to note that O.H. Lee does on numerous occasions. Some of Oswald's_ not appear on this document nor have Fair • Play for Cuba Committee leaflets Dallas researchers been able to locate any were stamped With an addresi adjacent to of the above names at that address in the Bannister's office. 1963 or 1964 directories. Apparently no Sonie of • Bannister's files apparently' effort was made to interview any of were microfilmed and forwarded. to a Oswald's co-roommates by the FBI or branch of his network in Atlanta; others other law enforcement agencies. were burned by his wife in an irate mood; Investigation did uncover that a Bobby the remainder were combed by • in- Palmer was a Dallas city policeman in vestigators from the FBI, the Louisiana 1963 and a James Watson was a detective. State Police and Garrison's office — in that During the Garrison investigation,' we order. were able to find only a photograph and But enough remained to prove con- brief interview with John Carter among elusively that Bannister was using a post those names, which appeared in an early office box mail drop under the names of edition of the Fort Worth-Star Telegram cover organizations, recruiting informants following the assassination. One other for the Office of-Naval Intelligence in New name on the list has been located; but Orleans, running deep penetrations into. remains uncontacted to dates If any of the Latin and South American countries — all others would make- their whereabouts strongly suggesting that his FBI known to The National 'TATTIER, they ' "retirement" and entry. into police work will be guaranteed anonymity and com- were merely stages of "sanitizing". him plete confidentiality.if they will consent to from • government affiliations and an interview concerning the conditions and estahlistunents of an operational cover for life4tyle in the Oswald rooming house at newer and much broader-ranging duties the time of the assassination. than those offered a Special Agent in o ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATION into Charge of the Chicago FBI office. the late columnist Drew Pearson's story that is being resurrected in various • ACCOMPANYDi& Jim Garrison on quarters of today's renewed interest in the two major "incidents" of his in- JFK case. The story concerned an aborted vestigation: • • .. plot against Fidel Castro by the Kennedy The first involving a trip destined for Administration and CIA officials through rest and brainstorming in Palm Springs, Mafia intermediariet. Pearson's original Calif., which never 'never came about column was long, but vague as to in- 'because he paused en. route for a week in -- dividual identites. Los Angeles where he exploded another With the recent murder of Sam Gan- miniature hydrogen bomb in the form of canna, his widely reported connections conspiracy-to-murder-President-John-F.-. with the CIA and a plot against Castro, Kennedy charges against Edgar Eugene more names are surfacing before Sen. Bradley, an enigmatic .man whose past • Frank Church's subcommittee in- indicated U.S. Intelligence work in Latin vestigation of the CIA. America during World War II, and went.on Garrison, like Ted Sorenson, was in- to include spear-heading a short-lived clined to discount the rumor's authen- California campaign to nominate J. Edgar ticity, but we probed far enough to come Hoover for President in 1964 — as well as up with four high-level administration much longer and more extensive in- names, including the late Robert Kennedy, ternational travels on behalf of a New who allegedly met secretly at the Guan- Jersey evangelist. tanamo Naval Base and the names of U.S. As if that week was not busy enough, Military personnel and anti-Castro Cubans Garrison charged through it under the who were said to constitute the operating cloud of a rumored "Mafia contract" on level of the plot. his life,. which had been tipped to Harold Weisberg, an original Warren Report • A LENGTHY STUDY of the life and critic, assassination writer, who happened • times of Guy W. Bannister, one of J. Edgar to be in New Orleans at that time. In the Hoover's favorite special agents, who left long run, the week's events seemed to the choice assignment of Special Agent in work out about evenly: Charge for Chicago in 1957 to begin an The Mafia apparently cancelled its "hit contract" on Garrison and Garrison reporter for the Miami News who had dropped the charges against Bradley - accompanied me on all contacts with although the two actions were totally Mays, that the reason he couldn't take a unrelated. polygraph test Monday was that he just The second Garrison-Boxley trip in- happened to be States Attorney Gerstein's . volved me preceding him to Miami for "key witness" in a gangland slaying trial interrogation of an equally enigmatic man that opened that Monday. — one James T. Mays, who had contacted the New Orleans office of the DA through THAT LEFT BILL BOXLEY and Bill attorne4rMark Lane with an offer to tell us Barry staring at each other across a toff the name and location of Oniald's•• table, and it wasn't even p shooting companion of Nov. 72, 1963 — all HoteL for a mere $25,000. • We did say good-bye, however, and Barry flew to the Virgin Islands to try to GARRISON WAS A big spender when he identify a man there as one of the tramps had it — but he always liked to inspect the in a Dealy Plaza photograph that was menu first. I put Mays through the rickets taken the day John Kennedy was killed. I for two days of decreasingly optimistic flew back to New Orleans to ask Garrison interrogation, while Garrison . waited . a question, which had been bugging me for patiently at the Doral Hotel with his good a long while: friend, Richard Gerstein, States. Attorney "Jim, how did you ever happen to decide for the City of Miami. upon the name `Maley' for my operational Mays' story began springing leaks and alias?" I asked him. by Sunday night, March 3, 1968, he decided He swirled his favorite drink — a bull- to abandon ship rather than support his shot around in its old-fashion glass for story with a lie detector .examination. a moment. Then he told me: On Monday morning, Mays was nowhere "Well, Box, I can best answer your to be found, which was good news for question with a little story. St. Peter once Garrison's office fund — but pretty asked God how He happened to name an disheartening for States Attorney Richard elephant 'elephant,' and God replied, Gerstein. • 'Well, St. Peter, the elephant just looked Mays had told me and Bill Barry, a like an 'elephant' to Me.' "
JAMES T. MAYS ... he had agreed to givei Garrison the name and location of Oswald's shooting companion. Congressional Leaders -- Rally Behind the Cry: Ted Kennedy Included-- 'Give Us All the Facts'
The hydra-headed probe of Central Intelligence Agency in- volvement in the John Kennedy assassination contains so many . obfuscations and distortions only an act of Congress might resolve the issue. Three government investigatory agencies have launched new probes of CIA involvement in domestic and foreign assassinations and the. American public has met the initial results with astonish- ment and disbelief. • Investigating CIA activity in assassination plots are the Rockefeller Commission and the House and Senate intelligence . committees. And broadly-supported legislation has been introduced in the House of Representatives to create a select committee to launch new investigations into the assassinations of President Kennedy, his brother.Sen. Robert Kennedy, Nobel Peace winner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the attempted assassination of Alabama Gov. George Wallace. The legislation was introduced by Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez, a Texas Democrat who was in the 'motorcade with Kennedy when the President was killed. His resolution has already been en- dorsed by more than 50 Congressmen.
BUT TILE MAJOR KEY to whether a ordered the complete files of the Warren new and serious official investigation is Commission made of the assassinations of the Ken- investigation of the John Kennedy assassination sealed until the - nedys is the Kennedy family itself. year 2039. Now, for the first time, Sen. Edward Kennedy, the last surviving son of the Kennedy political dynasty, has relaxed his 'JACK RUBY GAVE AS his notive for position on whether he wants the old killing accused John Kennedy assassin wounds opened. Lee Harvey Oswald that he wanted to . spare Jacqueline Kennedy the trauma of a Ted Kennedy says he wants a new public trial. governmental probe' of the assassinations of his two brothers if new evidence is Critics of the Warren Commission available. conclusions have flooded the investigating -"Obviously it is painful for the family," agencies with testimony contradicting the he said to a reporter at a tiny airport at "lone assassin" conclusion. • Keene, N.H., recently.' "But the first One of the country's leading medical consideration ought to be on the basis of experts claims that the Rockefeller what new evidence is available." Commission, in its final report on the The consideration for the Kennedy domestic operations of the CIA, changed family was the major reason given by and falsified his testimony. President Lyndon B. Johnson when he The expert, Dr. Cyril Wecht, the county two.gunmen were involved in the Kennedy assassination. He • said he thinks one gunman fired a shot from the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza in front of the limousine in Which Kennedy was riding. Numerous other private Kennedy death researchers, interviewed by TATTLER, have presented evidence to the Rockefeller Commission or to staff members of the House and Senate com- mittees. ONE SUCH RESEARCHER claims to have the details of what happened In Dealey Plaza during the noon hour on Nova" 22, 1963. He is Richard H. Popkin, professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis and author of "The Second Oswald," Popkln is . considered among the most respected and academic of the assassination researchers. Popkin notified government officials that he has a document naming the actual • killers of President Kennedy and how the death conspiracy was arranged' by the Central Intelligence Agency. 'Popkin told TATTLER., he has 3,000 pages of documents to support his fin- More evidence that the Warren Com- . mision's `lone assassin" conclusion was a REP. HENRY B. GONZALEZ cover-up was reported recently in the he introduced legislation ' Chicago Tribune a fortrets of con- which has been endorsed by servative journidem, 50 congressmen. Gonzalez said: - What we need to know The Tribune reported, attributing the more than anything else is why information to a CIA liaison officer, that they (the assassinations of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, now dead, JFK, his brother. Robert and or one of his key men instructed two close aides to John Kennedy to change their eye- Martin Luther. King) happen- witness testimony about what happened in ed, and how we can prevent Dealey Plaza. such events from happening TRIBUNE COLUMNIST Bob Wiedrich
again." • quoted the CIA man as saying Kennedy -aides Kenneth O'Donnell and . David coroner at Pittsburg, Penn., said the Powers told investigators shortly after statements attributed to him . in the Kennedy was killed that they believed they Rockefeller Commission report were had seen shots coming from a location "reprehensible and an insult." . other than the Texas School Book Wecht was the first layman to be allowed Depository Building where Oswald to examine the John Kennedy autopsy allegedly fired three shots. . evidence in the National Archives. He The Tribune's information was that the concluded that the Warren Commission FBI asked O'Donnell and Powers to was wrong when it said two bullets from change their testimony to conform with the rear • struck and killed President the official version for the sake of world Kennedy. peace and national tranquility. . As the Rockefeller Commission and the THE ROCKEFELLER COMMISSION House and Senate intelligence committees report indicated Dr. Wecht had changed • pushed their probes, Congressman Gon- his mind and quoted the coroner as saying zalez rallied heavy support for his House "available evidence all points to the resolution that would create a seven- President being struck by two bullets member select committee to study cir- coming from the rear, and that no Support:I, cumstances surrounding the deaths of can be found for theories-which postulate President Kennedy, Sen. Robert Kennedy, gunmen to the front or right front of the Dr. Martin Luther King and the attempted presidential car." ' murder of Governor Wallace. On the contrary, Wecht said he told the Three monts after he initially presented commission he still is convinced at least the resolution, Gonzalez re-introduced the legislation after gaining the quick support of 28 other congressional co-sponsors. In addition to the co-sponsors of the legislation, numerous other members of both the House and Senate are eager for new investigations into the assassinations. IN RE-INTRODUCING his resolution, Gonzalez told Congress: "It is time that the circinnstances surrounding these assassinations and the near-murder of Wallace be thoroughly investigated, and that they be assessed in terms of what effects they had on the history and the national political life of this country. "It is not just a matter of finding out who, if anyone else, was involved in these killifigs, although this would certainly be important. "WHAT WE NEED to know more than anything else is why they happened, and how we can prevent such events from happening again." Noting the widespread interest in restudying the assassination of President
Kennedy, Gonzalez said it is important that the other cases be investigated. "It is time," Gonzalez said, "that the' Congress took action to try to find the answers to the many unresolved questions, and what these• assassinations were really all about." Though the official versions of the assassinations were first dissected and SEN. TED KENNEDY ... 'obviously it is painful for the family. But challenged by private researchers, many 'of the points have gained the backing of the first consideration ought to be on the basis of what new evidence some of the nation's leading medical ex- is available.' perts., SEN. ROBERT F. KENNEDY was the assassination probe, which has yet to killed by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, acting be acted upon by Speaker Carl Alber, alone, claimed the Los Angeles Police Include: Dept. But some of the nation's top George Brown, Yvonne Brathwaite criminologists and medical experts Burke, William M. Ketchum, Edward R. dispute the official version and contend Roybal and Charles H. Wilson, all of that more than one gunman was involved. California; DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, the Stuart McKinney and Anthony Toby Nobel Prize winning civil rights leader, Moffett of Connecticut, Walter E. Faun- was murdered by James Earl Ray, acting troy of Washington D.C., Antonio Borja alone, the FBI contended. But Ray's at- Won Pat of Guam, Andrew Young of torneys now claim Ray was framed by a Georgia, Robert Carr of Michigan, Bela man named "Raoul." Abzug, Mario Biaggi, Herman Badillo, Shirley Chisholm, Thomas J. Downey, GEORGE WALLACE was shot and Edward I. Koch, John M. Murphy, paralyzed by Arthur Bremer, acting alone, Richard L. Ottinger and Benjamin S. authorities claim. But Wallace himself is Rosenthal, all of New York; convinced a conspiracy was involved and Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts, James has raised many valid questions about how J. Florio and Henry Helstoski of New Bremer could have traveled in luxury with Jersey, Stephen L. Neal of North Carolina, no obvious sources of income as he Louis Stokes of Ohio, Larry Pressler of planned the shooting. South Dakota, Harold Ford of Tennessee Co-sponsors of the legislation to reopen and Parren Mitchell of Maryland. As Member of Warren Commission, Then-Congressman Ford Edited Out Information Linking Oswald to FBI
on his nonunauon as vice rresittent President Gerald Ford played a key. role. in - hushing the truth succeed Spiro Agnew, Ford would deny about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. that he placed in his book any material For his book, "Portrait of an Assassin," FOrd faked damaging except what was contained in the 28 volumes of Warren Commission material material to disprove connections of accused assassin Lee Harvey the government sold to the public. Oswald and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central But it took Weisberg years of legal• 'Intelligence • Agency. maneuvering, assisted by Washington • Working from a • • attorney Jim Lesar, before the National -transeriPt of • a . "Top Secret" .closed door Archives would declassify and surrender session of the Warren Commission; Ford, a member of the panel, the transcript President Ford quoted from "edited" out controversial material that discussed links between in his book published in 1965. WEISBERG, AN indefatigable in- Oswald and the intelligence community. vestigator, used all of his skills as an in- This would never have been known had vestigative reporter, former Senate in- not government lawyers lost their decade- vestigator and onetime OSS man, in his 10- long battle to block declassification of the yean.effort to prove a conspiracy in the Jan. 27, 1964, session. Aurhor-researcher shooting of Kennedy on the streets of Harold Weisberg, after years of courtroom Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. (The OSS stands maneuvering, finally gained access to the for Office of Strategic Serives, which was •document in the National: Archives. He the World War- II forerunner of the CIA.) analyzes his . findings in his new book, • In "Whitewash IV," Weisberg discloses "Whitewash IV, JFK Assassination for the first time the relationship he had Transcript." • with Sen. Richard Bissell Russell, the late • He also charges that a senator on the Georgia Democrat and. conservative Warren Commission disagreed with its leader who served on the Warren Com-. 1one-assassin theory, but documents' were mission. faked to show the decision. of the seven Weisberg learned from private amities commission members. as being that Raise!! had disagreed with the basic unanimous. conclusions of the commission's report. • Weisberg also reveals in his fourth book The author said he obtained "irrefutable challenging the commission findings. that: proof" that the record of Russell's ob.' jectioni had been deitroyed. He wrote the* COMMISSION MEMBERS expressed . senator and began a series of meetings: considerable reservations about pursuing • with him.. an investigation of reports accused. Weisberg writes that Russell "was assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was an in- satisfied there had been a conspiracy,-Uut telligence agent or informer. They ob- no one man could have done the known viously were afraid FBI director J. Edgar shooting and that 'we have not been' told Hoover might get angry at them. the truth about OsWald by the federal Former CIA director Allen Dulles, a agencies.' " member of the commission, .said it Would "He was.shaken by the proof that he had , be impossible for an intelligence agent to been imposed upon and history. per- disprove Oswald was an informer. Dulles . yerted," Weisberg said. "He asked me to * said in effect Oswald could have been a conduct a further investigation to prove CIA informer without him knowing about it whether or not there still existed a tran- This is revealed in a "Top Seerer". - script of the executive session Russell had transcript of a Jan. 27, 1964; commission forced on' Sept. 18, 1964, just • before executive session. Weisberg went to publication' of the Warren. Report, which federal' court under the "Freedom of In- went to press lessthan a week later and formation Act" to win its declassification. then was in page proof." A dedade later, in confirmation hearings AFTER WEISBERG gave Russell Proof • — _ _ •77 ••• • • a transcript of the meeting didn't exist, that the commission had destroyed Hosty. records of the senator's disbelief, Russell Hosty's name, address, telephone • resigned his chairmanship of the Military number and license number of his auto Affairs Committee, divesting himself of were found in Oswald's notebook after his "oversight" responsibilities over, the CIA. arrest in the Kennedy death probe. Only short daily press notices referred to But in a report furnished by the Warren the severed friendship of Russell to Commission, the Hosty listing in Oswald's President Lyndon B. Johnson, who suc- notebook had been omitted. ceeded Kennedy and appointed Russell to During the Jan. 27 meeting, con- the commission. - (Continued on Page 8) "What did not appear is that to his dying day Russell, the most conservative of the commissioners, continued to urge me to disprove the report he had been tricked into agreeing to sign." According to Weisberg, Russell had told Chief Justice. Earl Warren: "Just put a little footnote in there at the bottom of the page saying 'Senator Russell dissents.' " Warren declined, insisting ' all seven members sign the report. A change was PRESIDENT FORD ... As a agreed on to entice Russell to sign, congressman and member of Weisberg said. "..:but the specific language and • the thrust of the Report the Warren Commission, he - remained, unchanged. It says exactly what • played key role M hushing up Russell would not agree to, what Russell vital information about JFK's did' not believe about the shooting and the assassination. Working from a . wounds." transcript of a 'top - secret' THE MAIN POINT Russell objected to closed door session of the com- about the report was its contention that mission, Rep. Ford 'edited' - Lee Harvey Oswald fired shots that killed out controversial material that President Kennedy and wounded Gov. linked Oswald with the FBI. John Connally. The declassified transcript of the Jan. 27, 1964, executive session, opens with commission general counsel J. Lee Ranldn explaining be had received a call from the then Texas attorney general who "was quite excited." Carr said he had received information that "the FBI had an un- dercover agent who was Oswald..." This was apparently based on never- confirmed reports sweeping Dallas at the HAROLD WEISBERG ... Af- time that Oswald was FBI Informant No. 179 and had been employed by the FBI at ter years , of courtroom ma- $200 per month from September of 1962 neuirering,.he gained access to until the assassination 14 months later. the document then-Rep. Ford After the briefing by,. Rankin on the had 'doctored' in the National reports Oswald was an intelligence agent, . - Rankin suggested he should personally Archives. In addition, Weis- confront Hoover and ask for proof the berg said that a senator on the reports were not true. Warren Commission disagreed Then Rep. Hale Boggs, a commission with its lone-assassin theory, member who died in an Alaskan airplane crash in 1972, asked: "What other alter- but' documents were faked to natives are there?" show the decision of the com- mission was Unanimous. . COMMISSION MEMBERS' then discus.sed interviewing Lonnie Hudkins, a Houston newspaper reporter who wrote a story speculating Oswald might be an intelligence agent; a Dallas deputy sheriff Hudkins attributed as source of the in- formation, and Dallas FBI agent James JIM LESAR ... An attorney, he worked hand-in-hand with Weisberg to declassify the 'top secret' transcript which Weis- berg said Ford 'edited.' The in- formation Weisberg and Lesar . uncovered is contained in the former's latest book, White- wash IV, JFK Assassination' Transcript. which contains other commission coverups.
LATE SEN. RUSSELL ... He was the lone member of the seven-man Warren Commission to express doubts about the lone-assassin theory. Weisberg says he obtained 'irrefutable proof' that the record of Rus- Sell's objections had been de- stroyed. Russell was 'satisfied' there had been a conspiracy to kill Kennedy.
Yee' "They would be the first to deny it. Your agents would have done the same thing," said Russell. (Continned from Page 7) "Exactly," Dulles replied. siderable discussion is given to the role of Later during the meeting banker John J. a U.S. intelligence agency in whether a McCloy, a commission member, said he person was an intelligence agent. had received inquiries about the Oswald- "If Oswald never had assassinated the agent report and asked, "What is there to President or at least been charged with this story?" • • assassinating the President and bad been "This is a terribly hard thing to in the employ of the FBI and somebody disprove, yOu know," Dulles replied. "How bad gone to the FBI they would have do you disprove a fellow was not your denied he was an agent," Senator Russell agent? How do you disprove it?" said ••~toq could 4,,P)ukhet YAn?" Dulles, the ex-CIA chief, replied: "Oh, asked Rep. Boggs. "No," Dulles said "I know, ask questions about some Dulles: "He ought not tell it under oath. in the Houston Post about the rumors Maybe not tell it to his own joie:eminent, Oswald was an FBI informer. • ' "I never knew hoW ' to disprove. it." but Wouldn't tell it any other way." Jaworsld, less than four months after "So I will ask you," said Boggs. "Did Answering a question from McCloy, the January executive session, wrote you have agents about whom you had no Dulles said a CIA operative might not tell Rankin that Hudkins was no longer with record whatsoever?" the truth to his own Chief. • the newspaper. Noting that, the com- "The record might not be of paper," '"What you do," said Boggs, "is You mission had the FBI statements on the Dulles replied. "But on paper would have make out a problem if this be trite, make matter, as well as statements from hieroglyphics that only two people knew .our problem utterly impossible because Oswald's mother, "...I am wondering if it what they meant, and nobody outside of you say this rumor can't be dissipated is really worth your effort to follow up on the agency would know and yea could say under any circumstances." Bodkins." , this meant the agent• and somebody die "I don't think it can," Dulles replied, It obviously wasn't 'worth- the com- could say it meant another agent." "Unless, you believe Mr. Hoover, and so inisiion's efforts. Commission members then discussed U- forth and soon, which probably most of the Commission members expressed fear of 2 pilot Gary Powers, shot down in a spy people will." ' - • officially interrogating Bodkins and others plane over Russia.'Dulles explained that about the claim Oswald was 'a secret Powers had a signed contract with. the THE COMMISSION did, after receiving government agent for fear publicity mbout CIA. •letters 'from Hoover outlining the FBI's the official action would add fuel to various contacts with *Oswald since "doubting Thomasa.s" around the. World. REP. BOGGS "Let may Powers did Oswald's return from. Russia.Hoover not have a Mgned contract but ,he denied in the comthunications Oswald had SO 'ffIE PEOPLE were to' acceif or recruited by someone in CIA. The ever been employed by the FBI., • disbelieve the word of. J. Edgar Hoover who recruited him would know, wouldn' Lean Jaworsld, to beconte . special -liven in a note to Rankin the day of the he1. ,,4 . Watergate prosecutor during thellidtard Jan. 27 secret meeting: "Yeirbut he wouldn't.tell." Nixon Administration scandals, was an - `.‘Lee Haivoy Oswald was neit1 Warren: "Would he tell it under oath" aide to Texas Attorney General Carr after this. Bureau in an informant. :...thtles:7117tailautthink lsel!i it -.-the. assassination: was never ' paid-eny-emns y•lor under ocil;nii:"' The • Warren Commission ' asisigned furnishing infortnethin*and hit4nist= ems Warren: "Why." Jaworski to check out the Hudkins report tainly never was an informantof the FBI." •
--the United States, and offered aid.and comfort to the enemy. enemy. the to comfort aid.and offered and States, United --the
denied. that Oiwald and Ruby had connections with U.S. in- U.S. with connections had Ruby and Oiwald that denied.
telligence agencies. agencies. telligence
same month that Lee Harvey Oswald defected to Russia, cursed cursed Russia, to defected Oswald Harvey Lee that month same
from the American public. public. American the from four years researching the assassination. assassination. the researching years four
prominent Dallas newsman who has spent spent has who newsman Dallas prominent
traveled to Cuba, which was then‘controlled by the Mafia. Mafia. the by then‘controlled was which Cuba, to traveled
available to TATTLER by Lou Staples, a a Staples, Lou by TATTLER to available Archives by private researchers and made made and researchers private by Archives
FBI informant was found in the National National the in found was informant FBI
alone. ' ' alone.
named Oswald as the sole assassin, acting acting assassin, sole the as Oswald named
Bureau of Investigation and the Warren Commission kept this this kept Commission Warren the and Investigation of Bureau
Warren Commission 10 months later later months 10 Commission Warren
"I didn't kill anybody, no sir," but the the but sir," no anybody, kill didn't "I
accused assassin of President Kennedy. Kennedy. President of assassin accused forever silenced Lee Harvey Oswald, the the Oswald, Harvey Lee silenced forever
Dallas City Hall and fired one shot that that shot one fired and Hall City Dallas
cordon of policemen in the basement of the the of basement the in policemen of cordon
the FBI. FBI. the
than J. Edgar Hoover, the late director of of director late the Hoover, Edgar J. than
FBI informer in 1959. The source is no less less no is source The 1959. in informer FBI
surfaced that -proves that Ruby was an an was Ruby that -proves that surfaced
Warren Commission documented has has documented Commission Warren
J. EDGAR HOOVER sent a three-page three-page a sent HOOVER EDGAR J.
A letter confirming that Ruby was an an was Ruby that confirming letter A
Officially, Warren Commission members have_ constantly constantly have_ members Commission Warren Officially,
"The day before Oswald told newsmen newsmen told Oswald before day "The
The feisty little hoodlum ceased to feed the FBI information the the information FBI the feed to ceased hoodlum little feisty The
Four years later, Ruby walked through a a through walked Ruby later, years Four
Ruby was working with the FBI dUring the period when he he when period the dUring FBI the with working was Ruby
HOWEVER, A HOWEVER, Nightclub owner Jack ROby was an informant for the' Federal Federal the' for informant an was ROby Jack owner Nightclub
Despite Testimony by J. Edgar Hoover, Warren Warren Hoover, Edgar J. by Testimony Despite
Group Ignored Fact jack Ruby Worked for FBI FBI for Worked Ruby jack Fact Ignored Group
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bureau." bureau."
willing to furnish information to this this to information furnish to willing
such knowledge, and if so, if he would be be would he if so, if and knowledge, such
determine whether or not Ruby did have have did Ruby not or whether determine
element in Dallas," Hoover continued. continued. Hoover Dallas," in element
who might have knowledge of the criminal criminal the of knowledge have might who
vimw of his position as a nightclub operator operator nightclub a as position his of vimw
Dallas FBI office, contacted Ruby "in "in Ruby contacted office, FBI Dallas
herewith acknowledged." acknowledged." herewith
with Jack L. Ruby on March 11, 1959, is is 1959, 11, March on Ruby L. Jack with
contact of Special agent Charles W. Flynn Flynn W. Charles agent Special of contact
summaries of FBI reports. reports. FBI of summaries
had requested that Hoover provide provide Hoover that requested had
Warren Commission Report. Report. Commission Warren
was left out of the 26 volumes of the the of volumes 26 the of out left was
Warren Commission, on June 9, 1964. 1964. 9, June on Commission, Warren
J. Lee Rankin, general counsel for. the the for. counsel general Rankin, Lee J.
letter telling of Ruby's FBI connection to to connection FBI Ruby's of telling letter
After Flynn advised Ruby of the FBI's FBI's the of Ruby advised Flynn After
. .
"THE PURPOSE OF this contact was to to was contact this OF PURPOSE "THE
Agent Flynn, who operated out of the the of out operated who Flynn, Agent
"Certain information regarding the the regarding information "Certain
Ruby was one of 10 names that Rankin Rankin that names 10 of one was Ruby
The letter, Commission Document 1052, 1052, Document Commission letter, The
with Nixon's efforts to fight communism, communism, fight to efforts Nixon's with
informer for Richard Nixon in connection connection in Nixon Richard for informer
Committee. Committee.
of the House Un-American Activities Activities Un-American House the of
Nixon was making headlines as a member member a as headlines making was Nixon
dates back to the 1940s when Richard Richard when 1940s the to back dates
several times. times. several
criminal" because he had been arrested arrested been had he because criminal"
referred to Ruby as a "known Dallas area area Dallas "known a as Ruby to referred
document, Agent Kelley explained that he he that explained Kelley Agent document,
Oswald down before millions of television television of millions before down Oswald
viewers. viewers.
30, 1963 — six days after days six — 1963 30,
Agent Manning C. Clements at Dallas Nov. Nov. Dallas at Clements C. Manning Agent
Kelley in a report prepared with Special Special with prepared report a in Kelley
description by Special Agent Louis M. M. Louis Agent Special by description
cording to Hoover, was added to the the to added was Hoover, to cording
A Jack Rubenstein of Chicago was an an was Chicago of Rubenstein Jack A
that Ruby.was a "known Dallas criminal." criminal." Dallas "known a Ruby.was that
Ruby's intelligence background possibly possibly background intelligence Ruby's interested in a notation in one FBI report report FBI one in notation a in interested
Hoover, Hoover,
casions by the FBI. But, according to to according But, FBI. the by casions
Ruby was contacted on eight other oc- other eight on contacted was Ruby
In a related declassified Commission Commission declassified related a In
obtained." obtained."
but no information or other results were were results other or information no but
occasion of this contact on March 11,1959, 11,1959, March on contact this of occasion
Obtained by Special Agent Flynn on the the on Flynn Agent Special by Obtained
a willingness to furnish information. information. furnish to willingness a
THAT PARTICULAR remark, ac- remark, PARTICULAR THAT cording to director Hoover, "he expressed expressed "he Hoover, director to cording
jurisdiction in criminal matters, ac- matters, criminal in jurisdiction
Warren Commission members were were members Commission Warren
Between March 11,1959 and Oct. 2, 1959, 1959, 2, Oct. and 11,1959 March Between
"A personal description of Ruby was was Ruby of description personal "A
Ruby Ruby
furnished no information. information. no furnished
. . Ruby gunned gunned Ruby according to Justice Dept. recoras. informer for the Dallas police department Strip joint owner Ruby lived in Chicago and other area law enforcement agencies. under the name, "Jack Rubenstein" before he moved to Dallas. RUBY WAS A police buff. He liked to Some assassination researchers are hang around police stations, be close convinced the Nixon informer was the friends with policemen. He knew Dallas Jack Ruby that assassinated Oswald. Dist. Atty. Henry Wade, who prosecuted Other private researchers believe the Ruby, on a first name basis. Nixon informer was another "Jack And after he killed Oswald, he expressed Rubenstein." the opinion several times that a conspiracy . Ruby had also undoubtedly been an was behind the assassination of President Kennedy. And Ruby felt that he, too, was the victim of a conpsoracy and that he had been "set up" that morning he killed !:,.swald while the assassin was surrounded by policemen. — - "The warren Commission in violation of its purpose, of its trust, did protect at least two agencies of the federal government -- the FBI and the CIA," Staples, a popular Dallas radio celebrity, told TATI'LER. Ruby died of cancer in January 1967, soon after an appellate court overturned his death penalty sentence for Oswald's murder and granted him a new trial. Some Warren Commission critics believe that cancer cells were injected in Ruby to bring about his death. HE EXPRESSED the opinion that he was being injected with poison only three days before he died.
JACK RUBY forever silences Lee Harvey Oswald. The Warren Com- mission brushed aside RubYs role in any conspiracy despite being told by J. Edgar Hoover himself that Ruby worked for FBI. had to seek it out at the bar. According to informants, Hall suddenly had a wallet-full of cash — several bills of which were in the The flush/ $100 denomination. Between the time Hall checked' into room 17 and until he switched over to room 24, a mysterious man in a blue car with Colorado license plates arrived at the hotel and visited Hall in his room. Hall allegedly arrived at the hotel in a white car, and Mr. Hall informants who have been "Come out, come out wherever you are." for years say Hall does not owntracking such a Hallcar. Hall left Ensenada on July 14, drove to the local airport and waited1975. for He a —A line from "Hide And Seek?' white Lear jet to touch down and pick him Loran Eugene Hall — Cuban cover name: Lorenzo Eugenio up. The plane was still moving when Hall jumped aboard. Observers described Hall Pascillo — doesn't live here anymore. as a man wearing a white suit coat, white Last April, Hall was told an investigative journalism article would soon be published that would link him directly to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. and black checked trousers who had a beard. ( As will become apparent further The source of Hall's information, according to TATTLER in- on in this article, Hall has a tendency to go formants, was one R.K. Brown (probably Robert K. Brown), a "grubby" when going underground or man who allegedly has ties to the CIA or other intelligence operational.) Dramatically, and romantically, Hall is organizations and was once the publisher of Tight-wing literature now said to be in Rhodesia. in Boulder, Colo. If Brown was the source of. Hall's information, Brown was right. It was about that time that TATTLER received IF THOSE OBSERVATIONS are correct, there are three conclusions that confirmation from a third source that Hall was involved in JFK's might be drawn from this situation: death. 1) There are fewer and fewer "safe" Ultimately, that confirmation led to an article that was places for people like Loran Hill to hide • published in the July 13, 1975, regular issue of TATTLER. Hall these days. Reason says that if you can't take the heat in West Covina and it's too would have been able to buy a copy of that issue about July 7 in his warm in Ensenada, why Rhodesia? former hometown of West Covina, Calif. 2) Charges that Hall was implicated in the JFK assassination are wrong and Hall But what Hall did back in April when he got wind of what was up is simply getting out of the country to is at least as important as the fact that he is no longer in the avoid the bad publicity. That is un- doubtedly what Hall would counter-charge United States. against this publication — but he hasn't so According to ' informants, Hall made far. Hall's wife, It contact with the Sultant of Oman, whose is believed, may have 3) This publication — like hundreds of tiny nation is on the tip of the peninsula at visited a divorce attorney. groups before it — has been fed "misin- the mouth of the After Hall,had left the country, a neigh- formation," to lead it and its readers . Persian Gulf. Hall con- bor said she tacted the good suit:Int because he wanted was glad he was gone and astray. a job. He offered accused him of being cruel to cats and That third point is an interesting to train the sultant's dogs one — a army, but was turned down because he in the neighborhood. proposition that pops up throughout the While some of the foregoing is solid' assassination itself and the subsequent was "overly qualified" whatever that,. might mean. Hall abandoned that letter in conjecture, it is confirmed that Hill left investigations that have followed it. , West Covina and landed in Ensenada, There is a little-known theory about the his garbage, from which it was and read by informants. plucked Mexico, just about the time that TAT- role of Lee Harvey Oswald in the TLER's July 13 issue went on sale in . (Continued on Page 12) CREDIT CARD receipts from gasoline California. Hall checked into room 17 at stations show that Hall then drove from the Santa ,Isabella Hotel, apparently West Covina to Dallas — or at least was without adequate cash to buy a drink in the headed directly that way, according to the bar, for he asked hotel personnel if the hotel would accept his BankAmericard: route on which he was driving. • Upon his return to California, Hall met THE HOTEL his son, Michael, who, according to in- CLERK told TATTLER formants, hitchhiked from Wichita, Kap., that Hall arrived on July 11. On July 12th, to West Covina. he checked out of room 17 (a relatively ..small room) and into room 24 (a much The son, the informants believe, came to help his father dispose of his California larger one), paying for his overnight stay holdings — said to be three pieces of real in 17 with a $100 bill. Hotel personnel recall estate. the incident because the desk clerk didn't have adequate change for the $100 bill and
Joe Garman. Garman. Joe
lieved to be Roy Harrgraves Harrgraves Roy be to lieved
(or Bill Dempsey) and Little Little and Dempsey) Bill (or
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The two in the front are be- are front the in two The
Howard, Cookos Arce and per- and Arce Cookos Howard,
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be (from left to right, back back right, to left (from be
shot after being raided by by raided being after shot
local authorities. Excluding the the Excluding authorities. local
police, the men are believed to to believed are men the police,
dos gathered for this group group this for gathered dos THE CUBAN comman- CUBAN THE LORAN EUGENE HALL -grubby with his beard. - - political observers contend that had it not been for the Venezuelan riot, Nixon would never have been able to overcome his "Checkers" image and be nominated for President. Because of the fortunate political side- effects of the Venezuelan incident, cynical observers have suggested that perhaps it was a planned riot, orchestrated by the CIA. Conversely, John Kennedy found himself in low political esteem at the time of the Texas fence-mending trip. The trip itself had all the overtones of the political barnstorming. Assume the worst: The plot to kill Kennedy was a "fake" assassination plot, one that was infiltrated and became real. Is there anything to support such an assumption? There is, if yo.1( recognize that Lee Harvey Oswald war government agent,
working for at least the CIA if not the FBI, too. Oswald was able to leap in and out of Russia in a single bound, able to sojourn this country from New Orleans to Dallas at will, and capable of associating himself with both right and left wing extremist groups. Indeed, there is ample evidence, backed up by sworn testimony in the possession of this publication, that Oswald was the CIA eyes and ears — the inside man — on the rumored right-wing plot to assassinate the President. In fact, prior to the assassination, Oswald ate breakfast in code, telling CIA contacts in the restaurant what the progress .of the assassination plans were at that moment_ The code was: Scrambled eggs: "Assassination called off." One egg: "One additional assassin in Dealey Plaza." Two eggs: "Two additional assassins in Dealey Plaza." And so on. (By the time the assassination plans were. completed, Oswald was probably LAWRENCE HOWARD JR., close associate of Loran Hall. down to one meal a day.) Now, switch to the scene of the assassination and recall the statements of assassination that will be receiving more the witnesses: The first shots fired and more currency as renewed interest in sounded like "firecrackers." According to the JFK case builds. It aptly illustrates most rational expert belief (and that ex- what the "misinformation" theory is all cludes the Warren Commission Report), about. the first shot fired hit JFK in the back, barely penetrating his skin. The second ACCORDING TO the theory, unpopular shot flew over the open-topped car and politicians can gain popularity by having a struck the curb (apparently with so little crisis confront them that clearly indicates force that it did not go on to injure anyone they are faced with some evil force. in the crowd). These first two shots could For example, when Richard Nixon and very well have been "down loaded" shells - his wife Pat went to Venezuela and his car - bullets that had a major portion of their was stoned in a street riot, - Nixon's gun powder removed. And those shots popularity shot up in the polls. Many would have been fired by the gunman — or "sniper team" — that believed it was in- volved in a "fake" assassination.,Then the fatal shots were fired from in front of Kennedy's car. The theory makes a lot of sense when you, consider Oswald's.- statements
following his arrest, statements that have to Hall and many other Cubans who fought been confirmed by former CIA agent with Castro. •George O'Toole to have been truthful, in Castro's Communist takeover of Cuba that stress evaluation of them indicate led to the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion, Oswald wasn't lying. which had been planned during the Oswald said he hadn't murdered anyone. Eisenhower administration by the security (Indeed, had he been on the sniper team committee led by Richard M. Nixon, then that was firing underloaded bullets, he Vice President. '` could Make such a statement with a 'clear Kennedy went through with the conscience. disasterous Bay of Pigs affair — but he didn't supply the air cover the Cuban OSWALD ALSO TOLD his brother that exiles who were trained in Florida by the he had been made the "patsy," and that CIA felt he should have. everything would be straightened out in Thus, the Cuban exiles felt Kennedy had due time. (Interestingly enough, the betrayed them. concept of a "pasty" is perfectly in line "Hall,was violently opposed to the U.S. with intelligence operations. An in- policy in Cuba and felt that Kennedy was telligence operation that would plan and working against Cuban freedom rather perform such a job would have three than for it," an informant wrote to elements: A source, which would direct authorities after the Warren Commission and fund the operation; a "cut out," which investigation that tied Hall and two would deliver the message and the money associates to an apartment meeting at to the proper sources; and a "team" or Mrs. Sylvia Odio, at which a "Leon "teams" that would actually perform the Oswald" and the other men present operation. A "pasty" would be used to discussed the assassination of JFK in 1963. allow the "team" or "teams" to make an With the failure of the Bay of Pigs, Hall escape, and then the "cut out if not the "team" or "teams" would be "disposed of," or murdered, thus accountinglor the Hall said that statistically impossible number of mysterious deaths of people connected Kennedy 'was a with the assassination and the in- vestigation.) traitor' to the Consequently, the entire concept of an infiltrated "fake" assassination plot is Cuban cause very much in keeping with the facts, and such a "fake" assassination plot would joined Alpha 66 and Operation 40, two of have depended. on one key element: the many Cuban exile training camps in Providing the CIA through Oswald with Florida and near New Orleans. "misinformation." Thus it is that we come to the role of WHILE HIS ASSOCIATE, Gary Patrick Loran Hall. It is entirely conceivable to (a.k.a., Gary Patrick Hemming), trained 'several former intelligence agents from troups on Big Pine Key and No Name Key several branches of government that'have in Florida, Hall travelled from California been interviewed by TATTLER that Hall to Florida, through both Dallas and New is the constant source of "misin- Orleans, trying to drum up support for formation." another invasion of Cuba. Consider Hall's shadowy background: (Another close associate of Loran Hall's, Hall was arrested in 1959 and placed in Lawrence Howard Jr. — believed to be the prison with one Louis Santo Trafficante, burly Latin man who attended the meeting Miami's Mafia boss who was kicked out of at Mrs. Odio's apartment — said in a 1968 the U.S., went to Italy, got a forged French interview with investigators that the passport, travelled to Argentina, and then property on No Name Key and Big Pine picked up another forged, passport and Key had originally been leased by the CIA came to Cuba, where he was arrested for from Mrs. Wilma Weldon and W.R. illegal gambling. Robbinson, but that when the CIA aban- doned the Cuban invasion idea, Howard HALL SUBSEQUENTLY fought for and Rolando Masfeerer — brother of a Fidel Castro to liberate Cuba, unaware . Florida dentist named Kild Ferror - that Castro would make Cuba a Com- arranged for the lease of the land. The link munist country once the revolution was won, which was a severe disappointment (Continued on Page 17) GARY PATRICK HEMMING, 'the leader of the commando forces at No Name Key. In a letter to supporters, he admitted that the men were being trained in "assassination." Groves, that also mentionea a lianas supporter, one Wally Welch. federal authorities were cracking down on Yates contacted Welch, who eventually, his gun-running activities. (Hall was in May or June, introduced Yates to the arrested in Dallas about this time with legendary Loran Hall. various arms.) At that first meeting, Hall told Yates (If William Seymour was with Hall and about the plans for another invasion and possibly Lawrence and passing himself off showed him some navigational maps as "Leon Oswald," this is further in- showing the harbors of Cuba. Hall said the dication of the intelligence operation maps had been stolen from a federal of- "multiple Oswald" theory.) fice. Yates noted, upon his return home and meeting with Hall, that all three men were HALL ALSO TOLD Yates that he was "grubby," with beards. General Edwin A. Walker met bitter about the betrayal by the CIA of the Again in October, Hall visited Yates. with both Hall and Gary Patrick Cuban exiles and said Kennedy was "a This time he was accompanied by a man traitor" to the cause of Cuba's freedom. Hemming. who "much more closely resembled Again, in September of 1963, Hall Oswald." Hall wanted some ammunition (Continued from Page 12) returned to Yates' home. The dates of that and medical supplies that Yates had meeting are pinpointed by Yates as bet- stored at his home, which Yates refused between government intelligence people ween the 23rd and 28th, which Yates Hall. and the right-wing Cuban groups was clear remembered because his wife gave birth from the day Castro declared Cuba to their fourth child on.Sept. 15, 1963. Yates SWITCH NOW TO Gary Patrick Coinmunist.) was not home. But his wife recalls that. Hemming, the operations man in No Name One man who became interested In the Hall suddenly appeared at their door with Key, instructing the troups. activities of the Cuban exiles is William a large burly, Latin-appearing man Wrote Hemming to a supporter: Yates, who was living in a suburb of Dallas ( perhaps Lawrence Howard Jr.) and Training involved "sabotage, demolition, about the time of the assassination. another, slight man (maybe William receptions committee, assassination, Yates read about Gary Patrick's Seymour, who could pass for a "Leon propaganda, and counter propaganda." training of exiles in the Dallas Morning Oswald" in terms of his build and facial Assassination!!!! News in 1963 an article, written by Larry features). Hall had painted his car a shiny (Hemming, it must be noted, com- black, because, he told Yates' wife, the supposecuy warrant nau mat an article would be published some time after April,' 1975, which may have caused Hall to leave the country). Hemming further observed that he "spent time with Gen. Edwin Walker both- of these days. Appears he plans to become involved in the Cuban fight." (Gen. Walker, it may be recalled, ran an unsuccessful ultra-conservative campaign for governor in Texas, and a close friend to right-wing billionaire H.L. Hunt. The Warren Commission falsely concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald tried to kill . Walker, which was probably part of the "pasty" build up the intelligence operation conspirators designed for the eventual "lone assassin" theory developed by. the Warren Commission.) Regarding Hall's role as the purveyor of "misinformation," consider these points: • HALL HAD TOLD Yates that he was - in Dallas to raise funds. Yates invited Hall • to stay at his home (this was 'after their first meeting in May or June of 1963). Instead of moving around Dallas visiting those who might help him, Hall laid around the house watching television. • AFTER THE REPORT by Sylvia Odio that a "Leon Oswald" ( whom she iden- tified as Lee Harvey Oswald) and two ,
CUBAN EXILE LEADER Lawrence Howard Jr. helped train' commando forces in Big Pine Key and No Name Key. While the Dallas YMCA register showed that Hall and Howard checked in on Oct. 17, 1963 and left five days later -- during the time three men visited Mrs. Sylvia Odio -- Howard denies he was in Dallas at that time. Howard does fit the description of a 'large burly Latin appearing man," a description given by Mrs. Odio and William Yates. plained to his fellow Cuban supporter that other men discussed the assassination of the Cuban exiles were depressed when JFK in her apartment, Hall was in- governmental , authorities went around terviewed by the FBI. Hall was questioned cutting off the welfare checks to their by one Leon F. Brown, a special agent families when it was. discovered that dad whose name should or should not be was off playing illegal war games.) confused with the name R.K. (Robert K.) Brown, depending upon what the facts HEMMING FURTHER noted that the really are. . cause had been getting good press lately, Hall told Special Agent Brown that it particularly from one Bob 'Brown, a was "posiible" that he met a Mrs. Odio, reporter for AP, UPI, Life-Time and the but that he didn't specially recall meeting Cuban correspondent for Guns Magazine. her. He also said that it was "possible" HeMming describes Brown as a former that he had been at Magellen Circle, special agent for the U.S. Army Counter apartment A (Mrs. Odio's address at that Intelligence Corps (who .just happened to time), but that he didn't recall that for have . the same name as the man who certain. One line of the FBI report in- dicated that Hall "stated that this Cuban, woman lived ..." The FBI report, now Commission . (coatieued fiam Page 17) In that interview, Hall said he had never laid eyes on Sylvia Odio, even though he admitted to the FBI on Sept. 23,1964, that such a meeting had been "possible." While be had told the FBI agent that it Might have been "possible" that he had gone to Mrs:, WO'S...aPartnialt, Hall recanted that to the Garrisottinvestigatorr In ihort, Hall said that the FBI report was inaccurate in many ways —*and,' of course, he hadn't said what the FBI agent. wrote down. - • "- (In an interview with Robert K. Brown, mentioned in the beginning of this article, • Brown stated that Loran Hall is a "psychological liar.") ? • By May of 1968, Hall did another about turn. He visited Edwin Mesie, Gov. Ronald Reagan's legal affairs secretary, and announced that he had information about a conspiracy involved in the Ken- nedy assassination.
HE SAID THAT his -memo ry had been "jogged" by "certain Individuals reminding me of •persons I was iii contact with in 1963 before the assassination." Hall supplied Messe with names of WILLIAM SEYMORE "these certain persons I met while making accompanied Loran Hall and speeches in the Los Angeles • area when I possibly Lawrence Howard Jr. was raising. funds for anti-Castro ac- tivities. on one of Hall's many trips to "On almost every • occasion after I Dallas and may have gone with . finished talking at one of these meetings, Hall to the apartment of Mrs. I'd overhear some people there discuss the Sylvia Odio, where three men, possibility of assassinating-Kennedy — and how it might be done. including a "Leon Oswald," • "Not just Kennedy. But also ,(Chief . discussed assassinating Pres- Justice) Warren and other government ident John F. Kennedy. Many ' officials — how they could be gotten rid of." believe that Seymore resembles Hall went on to say that he was -giving serious consideration to honoring the Lee Harvey Oswald to some subpoena issued by Garrison. degree. The Los Angeles Times reported that "Hall.. denied knowing any of the alleged conspirators — including a North Hollywood man, Edgar Eugene Bradley — Document 1553, quotes Hall as having „e position he apparently now has retreated recalled that "the three of them, Hall, firom." Howard and SeyMour, had gone to the About the meeting with Mrs. Odio that apartment of a Cuban woman..." • the Warren Commission investigated, the By the time New Orleans District At- Los Angeles Times concluded that the FBI tornei Jim Garrison started to investigate had questioned Hall. • - the JFK case, the Odio incident became "The commission concluded that critically Important. Garrison subpoenaed because of the contradictions in what Hall Hall but he immediately and successfully told the FBI *and its own evidence that fought. extradition. Oswald was elsewhere on that — Oswald . • could not have been one of the three men THEN, IN A TURN about, Hall allowed who visited. Mrs. •Odio's apartment." one of Garrison's men to interview him about the FBI report filed by Special Agent to HALL FURTHER confused the Brown. (Continued on Page 18) • t",'• " • " ,
•.: •:140: situation only a few days later, when he Among lie people he said expressed submitted to further interviews with saCh feelings were Edgar Eugene Bradley, Garrison investigators. who Garrison had indicted but was usable Fir i man whi hat been described as a Hall suddenly remembered that there to extradite and who eventually bid those "psychologkal liar'," Loran Eugene Hall was a Leslie Bradley he knew during the charges dropped against him. has been in all the wring places at almost Cuban revolution. (Hall could recall that . „ precisely the , right time Leslie Bradley, whim he hati.mtit in 'the otnor interesting names Hall recalled That he may be, in Rhodesia at the late 1950e, bat he Previousli had not been frorn that period included. Lester: Ligue„ moment seems ,to confirm that. 'able: to remeinberiaiything Hunt (probably ,H.L.)„, Pike: Smoot. and What role he may have had in the death Edgar Eugene Bradley until his memory General Edwin AVOlker.,-Hill 'said that of president John ,F. Kennedy — or • had been "jogged.") ' • • John Rousselieu had gotten him approved knowledge about it—is still an unanswered by the John Birch Society to speak at right- Hall's new 'recall allowed him to question. wing meetings where assassination talk But One thing is certain: remember many precise events but didn't was running wild. go so far as to provide him with the ability Linen Eugene Hall better centime to •to implicate himself — or anyone elle. have wallets4ull of ON bills If he is going • SHORTLY THEREAFTER Hall to, stay on the run. ' Oddly enough, Hall -recalled, many bylined an article in a "national newspaper • According to receipts this publication people he met during 1963 felt that Ken- in which he confessed that he had been has obtained, Hall's BankAmericattl — nedy ought to be assassinated — and so offered 650,000 to kill JFK — but, naturally, number 4024473-718127 — expired as of the stated that. • he turned it down. end of July, 1975. Famous Zapruder Film: It
Proves Warren Commission
Was Wrong
Dallas dress manufacturer Abraham copies of the film to the public; soon Zapruder, a Russian immigrant now in his thereafter, ads for the film appeared in grave, became the one man who experts other publications, offerings from various now believe had significant evidence to individuals and groups. prove a conspiracy was involved in the . b April of this year, Tirae, Inc., an- assassination of . President John F. Ken- pounced that the original film had been nedy. returned to the family_ and heirs- of Using a Bell and Howell home movie Abraham Zapruder. camera, he Captured on 8 inm the actual shooting.. , Time, lac. spokesman Lou Slovinski As soon as • word, gpt out ahout oLo said that' several first generation ,Zapruder's 27-second MoVie, major news copies Of the movie and slides Were being organizations around the world started to-. deposited at the National Archives, and bid for the rights to publish- the BIM. that the Zapruder itself would keep its origbal print at the archives as welL • EVENTUALLY, ZAPRUDER struck a bargin with 'Thrie-Life, Inc., reportedly foi The frames from that home movie a sum between $150,000 • and 4350,000, published here come from a print of the althoUgh some estimates have run as high film believed to have been taken from the as $1 million. copy that was given:to the Warren Com- rune-Life gave the Warren Commission mission. That copy was then enlaiged to 18 a print from the film and the Warren mm, and the prints shown here are from report jiliblistied Lames from that priht in ' that 16 aim film. volume 18. WHILE THE QUALITY of the prints HOWEVER, ABOUT1955, bootleg prints. are poor and that situation is compoimded of the –film fell into the bands of when published on newsprint, they are assassination researchers around the presented here to demonstrate.. the in- country and private showings of the film correctness of the Warren report con- were' conducted; The •-'rexai- Observer, a clusion. liberal publication, was the first to offer —THE EDITORS
apparent that his hands are going in a protective action to his throat. THE FRAMES THAT FOLLOW are the ,criticalities. As Connally makes hls turn. Kennedy has his-arms tin to his throat and - begin to leantoward his wife-as she puts out her arms to catch l'hen Kennedy-. of a home Movie coldtultimately bring official - is hit again; or so it•seetha, for be shmips recognitiOn that a conspiracy involving cross fire murder ed jOhit forward and down. • • Fr.. Kennedy Something leas- than a second later Connally's theekiiiift out,, as if the wind ". The Zapruder film of the assassination-has now been on. Were- being knocked-aid-4 a lth, and his , network television late. night talk shows. The impact is un- - hair is . messed. Be- is Obithusbr going fOrtetabli: through sane violent :reaction far his image in this finale ii -Much' more -fussy But a frame-by-frame inspection It far more devastating to than_that, of Kennedy and his Wife. defender* of the Warren_Commission report and the psYche of ,the The most impoitint frame soon follows. average. American: - ' In single- jerking. motion • backward; Kennedy's head IS struck and his skull The Warren Commission concluded Oswald,fired three shots in - begins to explode. The notion is 5A seemids from the sixth flair of • the Book Depository, killing mistakable -his head, in a single frame, is Kennedy and wounding Connally. snapped front to back, as compared to the -*nylons frame. The action; of the skull THE rum mum-according to the The Zapruder flhn 'Shona something being blown away and a rather large commission, passed through the back of very much different. chuck of it landing on the trunk of the car is Kennedy's neck and exited out his throat. The 27-second movie begins as the limo completed in - the four to ,five 'frames The same slug then hit Connally in the carrying the Kennedys and the Connallys following that. back, broke his fifth rib, ripped through appears in the left,hand corner of the Lifelessly, -.1Kennedy then begins to that part of his body, crashed into his right screen at the top. slump into his wife's open arms. The ac- wrist bone, tore through it and then em-. Seated to Kennedy's left is his wife. tion is slow, taking-almost one second, and bedded itself in his right thigh. (bet slug, Immediately in front of him is Connally, then his wife starts to climb out onto the called the "magic bullet" •.by ,critics, was whose wife is Seated to the left at his side. truck of the car. discovered on a dtretcher in Parldand Directly in front of Connally Is Secret' Study of the conclusion of the film in- Hospital, where Kennedy and Connally Service Agent Roy Kellerman, and driving dicates that Mrs. Kennedy may have had were taken; The bullet was in near-perfect is Agent William Greer:- more in mind than getting out of harm's condition. In all, it went through almost • Kennedy begins to wave with his right way in climbing out on the trunk. In her five inches of bone and inflicted seven arm, then stops. While his arm is still In obviously, hysterical condition, she exits wounds, counting the entries and exits.) the air, the car passel behind a road sign. across the trunk of the car left to right. As As the car comes out froin behind the sign, she moves, it becomes apparent that she is The second bullet sailed over the car, Connally is looking to his right, starting his • reaching for the piece_ of the President's according to the commission, and the third turn around to see what hat happened to skull that was blown away: . blew off a. five-inch chunk of the the President. As the car advances to the Importantly enough, the car is still President's head and killed him. point at which you can see Kennedy, it is moving slow enough that Secret Service. 11 11 11 11 11 11 111 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11
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of this Is that in frame 313, Kennedy film reversed frames 314 and 315. (FBI splice. receives his fatal head wound. By Director J. Edgar Hoover admitted this was a "printing error"). The importance reversing frames 314 and 315, ft would appear that Kennedy _ might be moving came fro& in front of the car because the forward, instead of backward, meaning his car was behind the road sign. This shot that the shot could have come from the Book Depository (which it didn't) Instead entry point (just below his necktie) is of from in front of the
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dread CIk In alalyzing the intriguing pattern of how the paths of the individuals have crossed, during the most momentous America's events of the 20th Century, take a look at the participants. An eerie web of circumstantial evidence gives credence to once scoffed-at theories that an "invisible government" has been Richard controlling AmeriCa's deStiny for the past dozen years: Nixon If these theories — and they're just that — are correct, behind NIXON WAS IN Dallas on Nov. 22,. 1963, the scenes forces involving intelligence agents and perhaps the the day John F. Kennedy was shot. It was agencies themselves, have determined who would and who.would years after Nixon's clandestine plot with not be President of the United States during that period. - the CIA to overthrow the Castro govern- ment. The strange web of circumstances goes back to the Eisenhower Nixon, a New York lawyer, was in •Administration when then ViCe President Richard Nixon was Dallas for a bottlers' convention. At that placed in charge of the CIA planning of what would become the same moment, a supposed Castro sym- pathizer named-Lee Harvey Oswald was at Bay of Pigs Invasion in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro's rebel the Texas School Book Deppsitory govenunent of Cuba. Building a few blocks away._ Fifteen years later, a defected and Two hours before Kennedy landed at disgraced Richard Nixon paces the lonely Love Field, Nixon stepped' aboard a- New beach at San Clemente, Calif. — perhaps York-bound American Airlines plane at trying to size up himself what caused what the same airport. to happen during those chaotic years., Three momenta later, Nixon would be unable to remember he had been in Dallas DURING THAT period, gun barrel on the day Kennedy was shot, perhaps the politics removed a 'President from office. only sober adult that could not remember • Gunshots put another. presidential con- exactly what he was doing that historic tender out of the running- just at the day. - point that it looked like ,he was FBI agent John F. Malone-quizzed Nixon Gunfire cripPledanother:. candidate' — in New. York on Feb. IS, 1964. The agent knocking lira from the raca -7 just at the reported to J. Edgar Hoover. • point it appeared he was Whining. Campus "Mr. Nixon advised that the only the he . demonstrations placed a President in such was In Dallas, Texas, during 1113, was two • despair he chose • not to run. again. -A days prier to the assassination of bribery investigation* caused a Vice President- John F. Kennedy." President to resign. A bungled "third rate Five years later, two separate events biaglary" caused the resignation of .• a would cause. Richard Nixon to become- `..President — Richard Nixon, where the President of the United States. chain first started. Assassin bullets would remove John's And -evidence some actual, same brother; Robert F. Kennedy, from politics circumstantial- -- shows that government forever. He was shot down in Los Angeles intelligence agents were involved in every at the height of a race for the Democratic one of those momentous events. presidential nomination. A fascinating aspect of the entire chain is the emergency of many of the same • BOBBY KENNEDY had been a thorn in figures involved in the coverup of the John the side of the CIA, and had he become F. Kennedy • assassination' — if indeed President, undoubtedly would have there was a coverup — in the Watergate scuttled the agency. scandals of the Nixon Administration and The other event that insured Nixon's even now in the investigation of American election was the decision of President intelligence. operations — especially the Lyndon B. Johnson not to seek-re-election.
History From the Bay of Pigs to
NIXON AND JOWORSKI The former president was in- volved in a clandestine plot with the CIA to overthrow the • Watergate Castro government and years later turned • up in Dallas the day President Kenne0 was shot. Through a strange series of events, involving both the FBI and CIA, the assassination of Robert Kennedy and Lyn- don Johnson's decision not to seek reelection, Nixon was swept into the White House only tb be forced to resign be- case of Watergate -- which brings Jawortki into the pic- ture. As a • Houston attorney, Jaworski was assigned to head a Texas probe of the JFK as- sassination and years later figured prominently in prose- cuting the Watergate criminals. He made his announcement "with a heavy heart," influenced by the unrest, violence, assassination. Ruby, who murdered Lee and campus demonstrations of forces on Harvey Oswald, died soon after his request both the left and right. was denied. And recently it has been revealed — and .Ford hired a staff to assist him in his role confirmed — that government intelligence as a Warren Commission member. And agents, both from the CIA and the FBI, after the commission was dissolved after were the leaders of many of these its lone-assassin declaration, Ford came demonstrations. out with a book, "Portrait of an Assassin" Thus the intelligence' network -- either which tried to put down any connections between Oswald and the intelligence by accident or. design — definitely had a hand in changing the Administration of the community. most powerful country in the world. Then the next year — 1969 — a third IN HIS BOOK, Ford even "edited" out of Kennedy brother, Sen. Edward Kennedy, a "Top Secret" transcipt of a commission had his tragic accident at Chappaquiddick executive session damning testimony that resulted in the death of Mary Jo concerning speculation that Oswald was either an agent of the CIA or the FBI. Kopechne. Kennedy had done a fair, job himself of crippling his presidential If the-Warren Commission "report" on chances, but the Nixon Administration ..the Kennedy assassination was a cpvcrurit dispatched White House "plumbers" — drawn from. the intelligence ranks — to Ford must have been a part of it, Massachusetts to do what they, could to make sure the damage was permanent. knowingly or unwittingly.. • , When the intelligence branch- Of the IN 1972, assassin's bullets again decided Intental Revenue Service Made its case who would be President of the United against Viet President Spiro Agnew sad States, George Wallace was shoLdown at a -forced his bribery conviction and shopping center in MarYland. Wallace had resignation, Richard Nixon again hand- picked Gerald Ford -- this time to be Vice a good shot at getting the Democratic Presidential nomination. His crippling President of the United States. assured a nomination for the controversial And when Nixon was forced into George McGovern,. which assured a resigning, Gerald Ford became President. election victory for. Richard No longer was the obscure congressman . from Michigan handpicked lw Nixon to Two years later Nixon - Would resign and ' investigate the assassination of the . go into seclusion after theeevelationi of the crimes Of his adininisintion. President; he himself held the most' powerful office in the world. And the revelations were largely made by E. ,Heward Hunt and James McCord, who as CIA operatives had- long 'been -John •altering the course of world bi.story. Again, people drawn from • the intelligence Connally community had helped change the ad- CONNALLY RESIGNED as John ministration of the United States. Kennedy's Secretary of the Navy to , become governor of Texas. He was riding erald R. . in Kennedy's open-top limousine and was wounded in the barrage of gunfire that Ford killed the President. The governor's name was found in the FORD WAS HANDPICKED by Richard notebook of accused assassin Oswald. Nixon to be one of the seven members on Connally had routinely cerresponded with the commission chaired by Chief Justice Oswald concerning Oswald's Marine Earl Warren to investigate the Corps records. assassination of President Kennedy. Years later, after Nixon became President Lyndon B. Johnson asked President, Connally switched his Nixon to recommend a Republican to allegiance from. the Democratic Party to serve on the commission and Nixon the Nixon camp. recommended the obscure congressman. Connally became Nixon's Secretary of from Grand Rapids, Mich. - the Treasury. Connally was a top con- Ford played a dominant role on the tender for the Republican presidential commission — present for the testimony of nomination in 1976 until he was indicted for more witnesses than any other corn, accepting a $10,000 bribe from Texas at- mission member except Earl Warren torney Jake Jacobson to influence himself. legislation. Ford was prated with Warren the Many Connally observers asked: Why - only two actual commission members would a self-made multi-millionaire such there — when Jack Ruby pleaded with as Connally be interested in a mere $10,000 them to take him to Washington to get his full statement of what he knew about the bribe? The jury that found Connally innocent of the charge recently may have asked the same question. But one fact had no question mark: Another presidential candidate was tainted, and for whatever motive, would not be the next President of the United States. Fred Korth KORTH WAS ANOTHER Secretary of the Navy under John Kennedy. He quit the job shortly before Kennedy was killed during a nationally-publicized con- troversy, over awarding the $6.5 billion TFK — later known as the F-111 contract - - to General Dynamics in Texas. The Fort Worth-based plant got the contract through President Johnson's influence after he became President after Kennedy was killed. The fascinating fact about Korth was his connections with Lee Harvey Oswald. Korth's name also appeared in Oswald's address bootk. Korth acknowledged he had known the Oswald family for many years. He'd represented Edwin A. Ekdahl in a divorce suit against Margureite C. Ekdahl, now Marguerite Oswald, the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald, who has contended her son was a government intelligence agent. Korth now practices law in Washington. Leon Jaworski JAWORSKI WAS prominently involved in the investigation of the assassination of JOHN CONNOLLY ... Once President Kennedy's Secretary of the President Kennedy; he was equally prominently involved in the prosecution of Navy, he was riding with JFK as the Governor of Texas the day of the Watergate crimes that led to the the assassination. Connolly's name was found in accused assassin resignation of President Nixon. Lee Harvey Oswald's notebook and later, through another strange A Houston attorney, Jaworski had been switch of circumstances, Connolly became President Nixon's Secretary assigned by then Texas Attorney General of the Treasury. Waggoner Carr to head up a Texas ceurt of inquiry into the Kennedy assugsination. Carr has told TATTLER he was called off the investigation by Lyndon Johnson. But Jaworski misrepresented himself in a telephone call to H. Louis Nichols, then president of the Dallas Bar Assn., on the day after the assassination. Nichols visited Oswald in the Dallas city jail for a few minutes. He asked Oswald if he was being treated fairly and if he wanted the bar to appoint him as attorney. Oswald said he wanted to be represented by the American Civil Liberties Union. Jaworski, after Nichols' visit to Oswald, telephoned the lawyer and asked to know what Oswald had said. Jaworski, ac- cording to Nichols, said he had been asked to make a report on the Oswald matter to a Miami, Fla., meeting of the American Trial Lawyers Assn: Jaworski failed to mention he was representing the state ato- torney general in an investigation of the assassination. JAWORSKI CONTINUED to take a role scandal, but the appointment was never in the Warren Commission probe — or, made. Gordon coverup, if it was — of the Kennedy's _ Colson was the one who said he wouldn't tragedy. .... Novel He was present June 7, 1964, when Ruby THIS FASCINATING CIA agent was begged to be taken to Washington. hesitate to run over his own grandmother to get Nixon elected. probably the most elusive of the witnesses "Gentleman," the little nightclub owner New Orleans Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison said, "unless you get me to Washington, David sought to pin down before his grand jury you can't get a fair shake out of me. If you investigating a conspiracy in the death of understand my way of talking you have got Belin John Kennedy. to bring me to Washington to get the BELIN WAS A junior counsel on the Garrison was never able to secure testimony ..." Novel's testimony. Jaworski, Ford and Earl Warren, who Warren Commission. He took a depoisition from Dallas County Novel was a key figure in the Garrison were present at the meeting, ignored probe. When first subpoenaed March 16, Ruby's further plea addressed to Warren Sheriff's Deputy Roger Craig, who later claimed Henn" changed his testimony 14 1967, Novel admitted to reporters he knew personally: "If you want to hear any David Ferris, whom Garrison had accused further testimony, you will have to get me times in the version that appeared in the Warren Report. in the Kennedy conspiracy, and Sergio to Washington soon, because it has Arcacha Smith. Novel also admitted something to do with you, Chief Wprren." Warren • Commission critic Sylvia Meagher claimed Bella suborned the knowing the late ' Clay. Shaw, a • busiiesiman who was tried and acquitted JAWORSKI, WHO has had past.ties with perjury of witness Charles Givens. Givens • said after the assassination, he saw for conspiracy to kill the president. the CIA and once prosecuted the Nazi war Charged along with Ferrie in a criminals at Nuremberg, would surface a Oswald on the first floor of the Texas School Book Depoistory 30 minutes before munitions bunker burglary, Novel said: few years later to again take a role in "You will see that it was the most patriotic. history. the shooting. This would have given Oswald an alibi had he lived to stand burglary in history." He became Nixon's second choice as A few years later, Novel expressed some chief prosecutor in the Watergate crimes — trial. By the time Givens gave his story to interest in another matter involving a chosen after Nixon fired Archibald Cox burglary. • •for stepping on, too many toes. Belin, he had changed it to say he saw Oswald on the sixth floor of the Depository As special prosecutor, Jaworski was NOVEL, ACCORDING to syndicated importantly involved in what led to — the floor the Warren Commission claims Oswald.stood to fire the shot that killed the columnist Jack Anderson, conspired with changing the administrations of the United Chuck Colson . to erase electronic tape. States government. President. Belin is back in the news. now. He is recordings incriminating Nixon. executive director of the • commission • The plan, never carried out, was tafire a Men- Gerald Ford appointed Vice President laser beam from a Buck Rogers-type Specter Nelson Rockefeller to head to investigate cannon from a truck toward the White affairs of the CIA — including a possible 'House to erase the tapes: SPECTER WAS FOR a time a member role of the agency in the assassination of of Richard Nixon's defense,team in the President Kennedy.. Watergate • allegations smothering him during the Belin has since said repeatedly that Watergate scandals. there is absolutely no evidence to connect Gang . A White House aide said Specter's the CIA with the assassination. BOTH FRANK STURGIS and E. selection was "logical and inevitable." Specter was also involved in the Warren •Commission investigation — prominently. In fact, it was Specter who came up with the highly controversial "single" or "magic" bullet hypothesis in the Kennedy assassination. • . • • Specter proPounded the theory' after tests by leading sharpshooters showed the alleged murder weapon could not have been fired within the time period a film showed that both Kennedy and Connally were wounded. J. Lee Rankin RANKIN WAS CHIEF counsel for the Warren Commission and thus his role became one of the most controversial of all in the numerous and varied charges of a coverup. A decade later Rankin's name would surface again in the Watergate scandals. Rankin was the choice of Charles • (Chuck) Colson, the Nixon hatchet man, for special prosecutor in the Watergate Howard Hunt were longtime CIA operatives. Both have admitted par- ticipating in plots to assassinate foreign mission documents show that Canfield, on leaders. assignment from the FBI, investigated Both deny they were involved with a plot Lee Harvey Oswald and his Cuban con- to assassinate President Kennedy. nections both before and after the John But both, as CIA operatives, were highly Kennedy assassination. involved in anti-Castro operations. In fact, so was Eugenio Martinez, another of the Watergate burglars. Hunt himself was political officer of the It could go on and on — the list of abortive Bay of Pigs Invasion. He was also prominent and not so prominent station chief of the CIA in Mexico City the Americans who played roles in more than year Oswald went there to try to gain a one of the staggering events of the last visa to enter Cuba. decade that shaped the course of world history. NEW YORK DETECTIVE Jack The significance of it all? Future Caulfield was a Nixon secret policeman historians will ponder it for centuries. who testified about his super-spying before the Senate Watergate Committee. Recently-declassified Warren Corn-
Reenactment of the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion Craig's Escape Car Story Backed By Witness Who Commission nored The Warren Commission had an Depository and get into a light colored- - motorcade in Dealey Plaza. eyewitness who corroborated the station wagon, which drove away. The testimony of Dallas Count/ Sheriffs sheriffs deputy testified to the Warren AB HE CROSSED the intersection of Deputy Roger D. Craig — but chose to Commission that he later identified the- Elm and Houston he saw a white Nash ignore it. running man as Lee Harvey Oswald. station wagon stop. in the traffic near the The 'statement of the witness, Marvin C. depository. Robinson, who lived in the Oak Cliff sec- THIS '11411MONY, had it been ac- The witness said he saw a man come tion of Dallas, was not included in the 26 cepted by the Warren Commission, would down the grass-covered incline and get volume Warren Commission Report on the have been strong evidence that more than into the station wagon. - assassination of President John F. Ken- one person was involved in the The station wagon, • according to nedy. assassination — thus, a conspiracy. Robinson, then drove away in the direction But Craig's testimony was discounted by of the Oak Cliff section of Dallas — the area THE DOCUMENT revealing Robinson's Warren Conunisidon members, who in- where Oswald lived and where. Officer statement to. FBI agents John F. Almon sisted Oswald left the assassination scene Tippitt was killed. and J: Calvin Rice was found in, the on foot, then went to his Oak Cliff ap- Unlike, Craig, Robinson told the agents National Archives by RiChard Topkin, pertinent via city bus and taxicab, before he was unable to identify the man who philosophy professor at. Washington minutes later shooting Officer J.D. Tippitt. entered the station wagon. University in St. Louis and author of "The Now, through the suppressed Com- Craig, who never drifted from his initial Second Oswald." mission Document 70, Craig's statement is account of what happened in Dealey Plaza "It was the most hidden document in the finally backed' up. that day, claimed later he was threatened Warren Commission records," Poplin told On Nov. 23, 1963, one day after the and harrassed for years. TATTLER. assassination, Robinson told the FBI The former sheriff's deputy was found Craig said he saw a man run down the agents he was driving west on Elm shortly shot to death recently. The death was ruled grassy incline from'the Texas School Book after the shots were fired into the Kennedy a suicide. Becomes 30th Assassination-Linked Victim
With His Death, Ex-Deputy Sheriff Craig
assassination of President Kennedy has
died violently. sheriff's deputy Roger Dean Craig brings
to at least 30 the number of persons 15, apparently took his own life, authorities who have died unnatural deaths. directly connected with the investigation
said.
a June 8, 1975 TATTLER special report on assassinations, brought a mysterioUs end
to the ex-lawman's decade-long effort to that a conspiracy was involved in the prove through his eye-witness evidence slaying of President Kennedy.
latest attempt on his life. Craig said a stranger appeared at a Waxahachie, Texas, home and shot Craig as he an- swered a knock at the door.
events in Dealey Plaza just after Kennedy was shot and his testimony before the Warren Commission made Craig a con-
troversial national figure.
Garrison's probe of a Kennedy Another investigator into the testimony in New Orleans Dist Atty. Jim assassination conspiracy, Craig said he had been unable to hold a job and his life The death of former Dallas County had been threatened.
Craig, who died of a gunshot wound May
The death of Craig, who was featured in
Craig's death follows by six months the
HIS EYE-WITNESS account of the
Because of his contentions and his
In the years
following the assassination,
"
suicide victim, police claim — and with his death it brings ta,30 the
number of people connected with the assassination of President ROGER CRAIG, former Dallas County deputy sheriff, is dead — a Kennedy who have died mysteriously. Craig had been wounded and ins car ,nau been bombed. - Craig was a iheriff's deputy assigned to Dealey Plaza when President Kennedy's motorcade was-fired on in.Dallas. Fifteen minutes after the shots Were fired, Craig said he saw 7..ee, Harvey-7:- •<. directly across from me The man con- - 22-mdiber`riie Wu.siennenear Iiis OsWald, the accused, asiassia, run:froth Police said a suicide note was also found. the Texas School Book DeposlterY and get . tinued down the > and got in the station wagon. I wantectiolith-to both of them. Craig's father, K.A. Craig, said he found into a Rambler station wagon &limn by a his son lying in a back bedrooth when he man of.apparent Latin dement. But traffic was so heavy I couldn't get across the street. And• they were gone came in from mowing -the lawn. :: ciatmed before I could." THE WARREN Commission THE FATHER said he didn't hear the that Oswald acted . alone in the shot. , • assassination and that no evidence of a LATER, AFTER Oswald was arrested, Craig went to the Dallas police station and "I am tired of this pain," police said conspiracy was found. Craig wrote in the note. - - If Craig's testimony had been accepted identified Oswald as the man he saw en- tering the station wagon. He had been taking pain killing pills by the Commission, it would have proved since he received injuries in an auto ac- . The "Warren Commission contends at least a second person was involved with cident two years ago. Oswald that day - therefore, a conspiracy. Oswald left the book despository, got on a bus, rode a few blocks, transferredto a cab Craig said in the note that he was sorry Craig's testimony was not given for what he had to do, police reported. credibility by Commission, staffers even and later ended up in Dallas' Oak Cliff where he shot policeman J.D. rippett. though big bailiground as a lawman was THE FORMER lawman told of • his distinguished. Craig was &ed from the Dallas Sheriff's Department in 1967 after he became a personal hardships and- attempts "and the Year" in 1960 for capturing an in- threats against • his life in a, never- ternational jewel thief. witness in Gullies's New Orleans in- vestigation. --published book manuscript he wrote in Craig told the Warren Commission: .1971. • • • ' "The station wagon stopped almost Craig, 39, was shot in the upper chest. a