AGENCY INFORMATION \ AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10250-10229 RECORD SERIES: CG | AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-6115-900 Released under the John . Eennedy Wssasgsaination Records ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note}. ases#: NW S3025 Date: 5-16-2017 DOCUMENT INFORMATION i ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: TO: TITLE: SAC. CG DIRECTOR. FBI DATE: 05/03/1967 PAGES: SUBJECT: DOCUMENT TYPE: ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW_DATE: STATUS COMMENTS: 5) SEE FBI 62-109060-5186 PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 05/01/1997 Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) HW 53025 DBocld:32189519 Page 1 NEW CLASSIFICATION: | UPDATE DATE: 02/14/2001
DIRECTOR, FBI (62-109060) . 5/3/67 SAC, CHICAGO (62-6115) (C) ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY 11/22/63 DALLAS , TEXAS d AGENCIES Re Bureau letter to Chicago, 4/17/67. => fa) Cz oO. Enclosed herewith is one photograph of HARRY DEAN 2 wWO= N believed to be taken in 1960 and furnished to the Indianapolig€ = 20 uf Office by Captain EDWARD GRABOVAC, Detective Bureau, Whiting, 2 S255 \ Indiana Police Department on March 6, 1961. x<aaqna DEAN first called the Chicago Office in August, 1960, so report that he had been elected Recording Secretary, Chicago Chapter, Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC). He did not divulge his name and address at this time. Later in the same onth he called this office, stating his. name and advising he & was residing at 1540 Central Avenue, Whiting, Indiana, and ‘1! that he owned his own business, the Whiting Plastering an y Company. He told of his connections with the FPCC, furnished ~ information concerning the leadership of this organization, | and said that he would be amenable to an interview with. an agent of the FBI. The ‘Indianapolis. Office conducted an inquiry in |. Whiting, Indiana, in September, 1960. Detective Captain . EDWARD GRABOVAC, Whiting, Indiana, Police Department, advised | that DEAN, whose real name he believed to be GORDON HUNT and — who had used the name GEORGE R, BAKER, had skipped town and the Whiting Police Department had a warrant for his arrest on bad check charges. GRABOVAC said DEAN was a self-employed plasterer. The Whiting,Indiana Police Department procured an identification record from the Detroit, Michigan, Police Department under FBI #4657880. This record revealed that DEAN had been committed as a mental patient in Canada in 1948 and was sentenced at Chatan, Ontario, for breaking and entering to “one year indefénite." Bureau te (3) nfl - @ gee. CLASS got an , BENS og BEN mL peso) UM HW 53025 DBocld:32189519 Page 2?
ce 62-6115. a as oO CONN iam At this ‘time DEAN had one arrest by the. Detroit: pouied Wee _ for: disturbing a religious meeting and - two arrests for. uSing ~ 7 . indecent and obscene language. ‘He was, also AWOL from Fort i Knox , Kentucky , in. 1949. a vo In December, 1960, DEAN again . called this office to report that he had been residing in Detroit for the. past two months, At that time he said he was living in ‘Chicago but he. | refused to divulge his. local address, He continued to = telephonically contact this office on several. occasions: until ‘June, £961. He furnished. information concerning Cuban nationals - eonnected with the 26th of. July Movembnt and on local persons - connected with the FPCC.. Lal. _ ; a He was last contacted ‘by. two agents’ of the Chicago . Office on June 7, 1961, at which time he was told that this office did not: desire his. assistance. - i Former CG 6403-8. advised ib August, - 1960, that DEAN ‘was a white male, age about 25 Ga 1960) ,. stocky: build, and black: hair. - . ne While DEAN voluntarily. furnished information to ‘the Chicago Office over a.period of nearly a year; he was never considered a PSI or. informant by this. office. mn On December 7, 1960, HARRY DEAN telephonically contacted this ‘office, He advised that he had been in contact with a .. ED SWABECK, 1716 St... Michaels, Chicago, Illinois, telephone ... number Wh 4 ~6445, He stated that he had originally met SWABECK | in Cuba this past summer. He said that SWABECk. invited him to. | “a meeting in his home on the evening of December 7, 1960 at 7 p.m. DEAN stated that ‘this is a meeting of a Fair Play For Cuba Committee (FPCC) group and that he intended to attend. He said that from the way SWABECK talked it is his belief that - this group is trying. to out due ‘other groups re the FPCC and ‘thus cause a split in the group, He also said that ‘SWABECK: made mention of. a letter. that he received from TABER. which | Stated that EDDIE SHAW of Detroit had been moved into a position Similar to that of a regional director of the FPECC, HM 53025 ,DocId:32189519 Page’3 °°‘
iP. on : 7 On: December 20, “1960 cG 6403-8" advised ‘BA RAYMOND - "BS: MOONEY of a: meeting’ of: a group of persons interested in) forming a North Side Branch of the Chicago Chapter of the -. Fair Play: for Cuba Committee which meeting’ was held on _., December. 7, 1960 at the home of EDWARD SWABECK, 1716 St. Michael" 8 ‘Street, Chicago.” LY) Br ~@his - ‘group ‘decided “that an organizational meeting: _ should” be held on January 6, 1961,.at the home of -MIMI HARRIS. ' BARNETT was selected to. be in: charge of the program, ED _ SWABECK - was assigned the duty to have the announcements ‘printed ‘by DICK CRILEY. and mailed, and HARRY DEAN ‘was ‘to call: ANGUS .. oo SUMNER and JOHN. ROSSEN to obtain reading material that can — either. be sold or _passed out: free of ‘charge. Temporary _ . Branch Officers, i.e.,.Chairman,. Secretary. and. Educational. _ - Director are’'to’ be e eted and. “MARCIA STARR will collect dues “ £tom new memers. JACQ) a iz ees Lee - . ‘During this OF ee HARRY DEAN was : overheard to state ‘that. just.before he left Whiting, Indiana, ‘he had been _ beaten, a rock. had been thrown through his. window and he was. |: ‘given a."hard time" by ‘the townspeople. ‘He said'that he. . is presently, a sheet, metal. worker in Chicago. :.DEAN also stated that he was in Cuba in June; 1960, and while en route. - het: ED“SWABECK onthe, plane, . He and SWABECK were in Cuba -at. the same time. and-were together in Cuba at least part of . the. time,. DEAN said his first contact with the. Cubans" was - when he donated money to the Cuban cause on- ‘two occasions when they. held parades. on, State Street in/1958:° At-: that. time, . he . -mentioned that he was working for the ‘Curtis Publishing. : '.Company.. DEAN: Said he then went to the Cuban Consulate, — . Chicago, and met Dr. FERRIER, -a Consulate official, DEAN expressed his. sympatiiies. toward the CASTRO. révolution tot Dr. FERRIER, He said that. Dr; FERRIER - knew of and worked . . with the 26th of July Movement . in. Chicago, and he also knew nt of the formation oF". ‘the FPCC. - According to DEAN, Dr. FERRIER” NW 53025. Docld:32169519 ‘Page '4”