BL 89-43 - RPG/jtt - ae Sais 2a 7 = On June 23, 1964, a letter was ‘@irected to Ramis - fo1 et awe SRS by the confidential source abroad | oeking: fer further © at oy information from hin. cow oe ae On Suly 6, 1964, the following iaforpation = received by the confidential source abroad from RAWLES s - "cK (8) Ravles. P/062354. 3  «MLMLSM. ASTUTE .  e/e G.P.0. "In referance to your letter ef 23rd June 64." nee “I will try to explain as well as possibile in | a writing, all that I suspect. I will give you the facts as clearly as possible, eithouga some of the details ce are rather confused now. we ee *I went to Paris in September 63 an must admit” that I was A.W.0.L. at the time). After a few days ZI ran out of money & was looking around for a job of | Mee, some description. My hotel was in St. Michel at the ; s>.).)”””™”*”~”~”:*C« ROG] de la Gare in Rue de la Hoope. IX went back ** mee there one day after an unsuccessful days‘. fobhunting. hol... ¢ .. | Shere was an American gentleman in the lobby with 25 : ay rc. 0 pheces of luggage, which had been delivered to the 4 wrong hotel, & he was looking around for a porter. I. a : - wolunteered for the Job, for wVaich I was auly paid. “ES ~ ce a i. RS *During this, we got talking, « z summed him pe ccen a " {umediately ag some sort of an eccentric millionaire; & I must admit, I tried, successfully, to latch en te ~ hin. Over the next week, we became quite firm friends HW 50529 DBocld:322763603 Page 29
vegett HW 50529 BL 69-43 BPG/jtt & ate out at his expense, & played chess a ‘det. me an ie Skee was & very interesting talker & told me a lot about =>” himself. One night, we were sitting in an expensive. ae restaurant (I forget the name) & he began telling me... his life story. Se explained that he was an engineer - by trade, & a writer by instinct. He showed me some . ef his work, a great deal ef it being letters which “ a had been published in the American papers, criticising the government. He then got very worked up & gaid that | he ba@ been throw into prison, & beaten up, & had had | to flee'the country. I will now | quote 8 as near as SEES ; ®*y will have everyone who ever layed a finger = on me, Gone away with. Within three weeks. I will | have President Kennedy (& other names which escape my mind; I think Connelly was apongst them) Killed:: 2Z a have the power to do it, & it. shall be done’. hos 7 *py this time he was so worked up, that the head” waiter had to ask him te be quiet. He saw me laughing at what he said, & said ‘You may laugh, but you'll see whether or not I moan what I say within s few weeks’. "That's my story. ZI forgot the matter entirely. re When I heard that the terrible thing had happened, yi ght cut of the blue, I was at a loss to what to do. I told ~ my parents, & they advised me to leave well alone. goed | egne man's pane was Th HARVEY. 'E believe he | onl - comes from Penns - X have more particulars at. Docld::322963603 home in Br on, including a folder of his work. ee : . “ete “you realise that what I have told you is ‘pased « on. _ the fact that I asgume he told me the truth. He eR ee, ~. certainly had the power & money to do a  eeing Like | that, a a & was eccentric enough. a 2 ee Page 30
west ¢ ey ‘pope I's not wasting your tine, ¢ & maxing & a fool ef myself. : eu *3.A. Rawles® vo On July 13, 1964, RAWLES , who is a seaman, Anformed the confidential source abroad that he was shipping sut | moe - immediately for at least six weeks and would be unable to - furnish additional information until his return. It is | fxpected that RAWLES will contact the confidential source ) abroad “en his return from sea. s HW 50529 Mo ne ee etree eee ee en er tap tae ge ae pee eaters nti! ome neni tena ere aR ee mene ene een Docld: 32263603 Page 31
y a 5 a ' . Raney ae ; *, on ‘galy 31, 1964, the Pittsburgh Office of ‘the eee Federal Bureau of Investigation advised the indices of that office 414 not contain any fnformetica sAentifiadle with he . mame THOMAS HARVEY. . . rene veel On August 3, 1964, the Philadelphia Office st te “ane oe Vederal Bureau of Investigation advised the indices of that § -. “ effice 414 not contain any information identifiable with the name THOMAS HARVEY. HW 50529 DBocld:322763603 Page 32
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aed HW 50529 On by ’ Sa LEONARD F, _JOINSON/ong ee | PD-203 Mev. 3-85-60) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION | - ERNEST Mea 9460 Old Town Road, Bridgeport, Cane 2 necticut | employed as a cost accountant ~: the H, B. Ives © ompany of New Haven, Connecticut, fure. saed the 'toltowing GARRICK advised that as a stockholder in the Rutland Railway Corporation, Rutland, Vermont, he attended a stockholders meeting of that corporation at Rutland, Vernont, in April of | 1961, He advised that among others present at that mooting were ghe Jeypowins described individuals; ee Of) SERRE Re ¢. ar GRANGE, who he advised is the owner of La Grange a & Company, 61 Broadway, New York City, and whom he further =~. - described as,an investment broker, financier and a menber of the Board Directors of the Nev York, Central Railroad; — DANIEL BRUNO, whom he described as a railr securities analys r the Wall Street Journal; L. JAME MPERT whon he described as a retired former Vice Presidént of Bon-Ami Corporation, presertiy Vice President of the B, T. Babbit |. Company and also a member of the Board of Directors of the e Rutland Railway Corporation. =... oe freee ory GARRICK advised that following this meeting of the Board of . Directors of the Ratland Railway Corporation held in April ; of 1961 he had lunch on the same date with the above three © mentioned individuals at a small restaurant, name unrecalled, located across from the freight yard on a side street opposite a large parking lot which had formerly been the location of ... the railroad station in Rutland. GARRICK stated that during - conversation at this luncheon LA GRANGE while in the midst of _ a tirade against labor unions and the Government, made a «| Statement “mark my words President Kennedy will not finish his first term", GARRICK stated that he asked LA GRANGE --:: to amplify his statenent. He stated that LA GRANGE then ~ said that Mr. KENNEDY was not favorable towards business and ° that Mr. JORNSON was favorable towards business and that there was a group with a lot of money who wanted to put Mr. JOHNSON in the President's position but he stated that he could not go into the identities of the individuals in the group. GARRICK further .. stated that he then asked LA GRANGE what he meant by stating » 7 AE A. Parron waa ee ee Thie document contains netther fecommenéations nor conclusions of the FBI. It ts the property of the rer ‘ena ts loaned to Your egency; M ead ite contests are not to be distributed outside your agency. .. DoclId: 322763603 Page 34
—?) - .) LO WH 1000-18158 -2- that President KENNEDY would not finish his first term. At. Lo this point GARRICK was quite vague and reports LA GRANGE as © pe having stated either that Mr. KENNEDY would be “bumped off". or would be killed or would meet a violent end or had used some words to that effect. en Tas GARRICK was unable to furnish any further information con- __. wad cerning this incident other than to state that the remarks = — : which he attributed to LA GRANGE had been made also in the ny presence of BRUNO and GUMPERT. a ~%, . ‘, a creas sie prem pepe ng mee ae Aa ne eR ERNE AR LE CT REN RTT FOE I A ARE Hg HW 50529 DocId: 32263603 Page 35
50529 DL 89-43 WY 89-75 DoclId: 32263603 Page 36 Inquiry at The LaGrange Company, 61 Breadway, York, New York, revealed that Mr. FRA died _ gm June-13,1964., SR ae Semen at ea ge Stee aren eae eng eta meme fa mgeE cee tes meinen wenn a WK C. IA GRANGE had
2 - The following investigation supplements that contained on pages 96 through 103 of the report of 2 Special Agent Robert P. Gemberling dated August 28, 1964, at Dallas, Texas, concerning EMERSON VARNER PRICE, JR. na te et eee Fe re tee sk etm ee ee my ep en ee meee Whee tag ne ng nets etre regener amg anmpmenpegs | mere tame meen cette a HW 50529 DBocld:322763603 Page 36
PD-908 eve HBb6O)  _iERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION “~”. « =, - "Mal, JAMES A, WASH, Stax “Route, Provencal, | Louisiana, furnished the following information: — sont 4 Se ’ “MASH stated that he has known EMERSON VARNER “PRICE, IR., Since October of 1963, -Aroiind Christmas of 1963, while riding in PRICE's car, he saw on the seat an Orange or yellow notebook (could not recall for sure the fact color) with the name LEE HARVEY OSWALD written on °° the cover, along with some other writing which appeared to im be written by the same individual that wrote the name. =e a was unable to recall the other writing. He asked PRICE —.. about the name, and PRICE said something about picking up .~ a - OSWALD hitchhiking on the road. WASH was unable to recall cet any further details of PRICE'’s explanation.. He was also os unable to recall whether he and PRICE had discussed the . matter subsequently. es . ott ; NASH stated that he last saw PRICE somctine in : April, 1964, and PRICE at that time still had the notebook in the car. However, he was unable to recall the location ~.- of the notebook in the car. Creo NASH could furnish no further information in this ~ A KENYON D. BOWES: man | tustons of the PBI. It ts the property of the PBI it; This docoment contatas neither recommendations nor cone i ‘Your agency; # and ite contests are not to be distributed outside your agency. en te Lowe. : \& ee ce ween pte eee we cere eye ingen HW 50529 Docld:32263603 Page 39