cr a TT AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE: CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : a v9.1 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-901 18-10185 HQ 92-2897-92 Document Information FBI DL HQ 08/19/1959 e) HARRY RAYMOND POPE PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 08/17/1998 INDEFINITE AT HW 45922 DocId:32334826 Page 1 Date: 6/17/201
FD-36 (Rev- 12-13-56) + a ? ~ Date: 8/19/59 Transmit the following in —— PLAIN TEXT — (Type in plain text or code) \ Via AIRTEL Priority or Method of Mailing) ( \ | \ | \ ; | FBI \ | \ \ | | TO : DIRECTOR, FBI (92-2897 ) FROM : SAC, DALLAS (88-2749 ) SUBJECT: HARRY RAYMOND POPE, aka. - FUGITIVE, 1.0. # 3285, W- F. # 229 UFAP - BURGLARY , ADW PEGGY ANN FRYE, aka. ~ FUGITIVE UFAP - BURGLARY , ADW - HARBORING Re Dallas airtel to Bureau, 8/18/59 - in the location of POPE'S present wife, PEGGY GAFFORD return of GAFFORD to Las Vegas. whereabouts of FRYE. FRYE's sister, MARGORIE LOFTICE, to ascertain if a from these phones to the Oklahoma City PCL office upon obtaining any pertinent anformation. - Bureau 2 - Oklahoma City 2 - Dallas REC. 4g Approved: t Special Agent in Charge HW 45922 DocId:32334826 Page 2 - nn en joe ee ooo By airtel 8/17/59 the Salt Lake City office advised that investigation at Las Vegas;s Nevada, had been unproductive Arrange- ments have been made by Salt Lake City to be advised upon the By airtel 8/17/59 the Miami Office advised that there were no houses of prostitution operating in the West Palm Beach, Florida, area but that appropriate coverage of suspected call operations nad been made in an effort to locate the present on 8/18 and 8/19/59 Mr. R. Xh. BURROW, Chief Special Agent, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company > Dallas (PROTECT IDENTITY ) advised that his office was making 2 complete check aii toil calls from the phones of FRYE'S mother, RUBY JELSEN, and BURROW stated the check was not complete as Tt entailed @ & deal of book work but that he would immediately notify the / EX-124 2 2. o97- I OTHER 4 reat/} Dallas | p I
DL 88-2749 On 8/18/59 FRYE's sister, MARGORIE LOFTICE, was reinterviewed as a matter of routine and in order to allay any suspicions by her. LOFTICE denied any contact with any known persons or with FRYE or POPE since last interviewed. She stated that about two weeks ago she got a call from an unidentified man who stated he wanted to talk to FRYE. LOFTICE stated she had forgot to contact the FBI concerning this call as she had previously promised. Sheriff BILL DECKER, Dallas SO, on ha bop advised he had received an anonymous tip that on 8/17/59 POPE and/or FRYE had contacted Fort Worth police character ANGELO THOMAS CASTEN requesting financial assistance. CASTEN has been inter- viewed on numerous occasions by Bureau Agents and has been most uncooperative. On 8/18/59 BILL ALEXANDER, Dallas County Assistant District Attorney, advised he had information from a police character whom he described as a reliable source, as follows: When questioned by ALEXANDER concerning the whereabouts of POPE, source stated he had not seen POPE but that a friend of his (the source) had seen POPE about a week ago at a trailer lot operated by FLOYD VINCENT's widow (LOIS VINCENT) near Richland Hills, a suburb of Fort Worth. The source stated it was his understanding that POPE had been in contact on numerous occasions with LOIS VINCENT during the past two or three months and that while POPE was "partying with LOIS" PEGGY FRYE was "partying" with police character, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN NEWMAN. The source had no information that POPE and FRYE had split up. Investigation to verify this information is presently being conducted by Dallas at Fort Worth. On 8/18/59 Detective H. M. HART, Dallas PD, Criminal Intelligence Section, advised he had information that the bail bond money, $15,000, recently put up for the release of LILA JO BENTLEY, POPE's ex-wife, consisted of $10,000 on a property bond Signed by LILLY IRBY, BENTLEY's aunt, and $5,000 put up by POPE, HART stated his informant told him that POPE makes contact with IRBY for relay to BENTLEY through IRBY's brother in Lewisville, Texas. LILLY IRBY has been previously interviewed on two occasions by Bureau agents concerning this bond and contacts with POPE and has vigorously denied the above allegation. Oklahoma City at Midwest City through telephone company “ _immediate ly ascertain any long distance calls made by PCI[_] 7 - If information developed » VSL 50 nek sutel Dallas in view olf arrangements being made for 21/59 concerning coverage of[ fat Dallas. ° ° HW 45922 DocId:32334826 Page 3