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 : v9.1 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-901 18-10101 HQ 92-2897-27 Document Information FBI DL HQ 09/24/1958 14 HARRY RAYMOND POPE PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 08/17/1998 INDEFINITE RPT HW 45922 DocId:32334742 Page 1 Date: 6/17/201
—— FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION iV . —_——_—__—______ Ff 75225235) R y , ING OFFICE OFFICE OF ORIGIN DATE sere ui ; 13 / 8 21,22 5 14,18 DALLAS 24 iy REPORT MADE BY 12 ; 18 58 ROBERT M. BARRETT CHARACTER OF CASE FD-72 (5-12-85) oe: Pal HARRY RAYMOND POPE | a ANTI-RACKETEERING SYNOPSIS: POPE pleaded guilty 7/31/58, to narcotics possession charge in Dallas court, received 3 years sentence. Conviction result of information to Dallas SO by FBI, Dallas, originally obtained from T-1, Subject released on appeal bond pending disposition of » iy: Mississippi burglary charge for which POPE arrested by Dallas PD} Ai 7/16/58. Information later developed that POPE riot involved in burglary. POPE presently closelyjassociating with PEGGY ANN? FRY, seen waS,, FBI #176630B, MARION ROBERT/RAIF,. was... EBL, #2650268, “JARRELL... _ LEE WARTER, was., FBI #1476686, HORACE ODELL+4SH, wa., FBI #2208366, PATSY ANNNYOBLE, was., FBI #153742A and residing with mother, Dallas: POPE arrested by Fort Worth PD 8/22/58, on information furnished by FBI and arrested by Dallas SO 9/8/58. SUBJECT HAS BEEN KNOWN TO USE A KNIFE IN A FIGHT, CARRIES A_ .38 SNUB-NOSE REVOLVER ON PERSON, WAS ns . . SE s SRL RES HAS we ALi ne Lone DETAILS: APPROVED SPECIAL AGENT . ; IN CHARGE OO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW 2 OCT 2 1958 COPIES MADE: See Page la DALLAS (92-34) ‘ PROPERTY OF FBI.—This report is loaned to you by the FBI, and neither it nor its contents are to be distributed outside the agency to which! HW 45922 Docld:32334742 Page 2
on O DL 92-34 A. PERSONAL HISTORY AND BACKGROUND On July 30, 1958, the New Orleans Office furnished the following information: On June 23, 1958, Chief of Police R. H. O'NEAL, Spring- hill, Louisiana, advised SA DONALD L, BELMONT that Health Department birth records for Springhill would be maintained at Parish Headquarters in Minden, Louisiana, On July 18, 1958, VERA D, MATTHEWS, Webster Parish Health Department, advised that there are no birth records on file with that department for births prior to 1930, and that anything prior to that time would have to be obtained through records at New Orleans, On July 23, 1958, EILEEN A, RICCA, Clerk, Louisiana State Bureau of Vital Statistics, Civil Court Building, New Orleans, advised SA ERNEST M, SMITH that a check of the records of that office failed to reflect any birth record of the Subject. AT DALLAS, TEXAS On August 18, 1958, SA ROBERT “. BARRETT observed POPE at the residence of his mother, Mrs, ETHA POPE at 9430 Newhall Street, Dallas, (The name of the street has been recently changed from Bosque to Newhall. ) On August 11, 1958, Dallas Confidential Informant T-2, who has furnished reliable information in the past, advised that POPE's girl friend, DOROTHY ONEITA LANGDON, had recently returned to her home in Moberly, Missouri, but was maintaining contact with POPE through T-2's phone, T-2 had ascertained that LANGDON was contacting POPE from Moberly phone 37463, The above information was furnished the St. Louis Office by Dallas on August 22, 1958, On August 11, 1958, T-2 also advised that POPE is continuing to reside with his mother on Newhall Street and had not acquired an automobile, preferring to use associates' automobiles. On September 8, 1958, Dallas Confidential Informant T-3, who has furnished relieble information jin the past, advised that POPE continues to reside at his mother's place and is associating with a prostitute, ex-convict and narcotics addict PEGGY ANN FRY, FBI #1766308. -2. HW 45922 Docld:32334742 Page 3 _
OC — OC DL 92-34 bald, heavily built man, got out of the Pontiac and went into the weeds nearby. He apparently picked up something, unwapped it and threw the wrappings away. After this he got back into the car and the two men drove off, The kids followed them a Short distance and observed that the Pontiac had a 1958 Texas a cense with the prefix MR and believed to contain the numerals and 6, A search was made of the area where one of these men was observed to throw something down and officers found a road map of Texas on which was stuck a quantity of a gray friction- type tape as though it had been wrapped around something. Near it was a plastic laundry bag with the words '"Cannon-Hale Cleanres, Henderson, Texas", Contact by the Natchez Police Department with the Sheriff at Henderson and the Ranger at Sherman developed as suspects WALTER MACK BARNES, a safe man with a Pontiac believed identical, and an ex-convict with whom he has been friends, SEAPERNE JAMES "BALDY" WHATLEY. Warrants were issued by city authorities at. Natchez andthe Dallas Police Department requested to arrest these subjects. Instead, POPE was arrested as it was established that he was-a narcotics addict as well as a safe man, had. been friends with BARNES and . \ had a large quantity of morphine stolen in instant burglary: ‘, Tools left at the scene of the burglary consisted of a large German-made sledge, painted blue with a handle bound in gray friction-type tape, assorted punches, chisels and drills. All of these were new. This-material, along with the road map, laundry bag and money wrappers from change taken from BARNES at the time of his arrest in Dallas, have been sent to the FBI Laboratory. On August 19, 1958, Sheriff BILL DECKER advised that he had received information from Natchez, Mississippi authorities that the burglary process against POPE and BARNES had been dismissed because of lack: of’ evidence, Sheriff DECKER stated he. had also received information from his reliable*informants that © POPE had n&@ been involved in this burglary but that BARNES was. On August 21, 1958, Dallas T-2 advised that he had obtained information that POPE was definitely not involved in this burglary, but from conversation that T=2 had heard between POPE, BARNES and CARTER, that CARTER was the possible accomplice of BARNES at Natchez. POPE had told T-2 that BARNES was involved ~8- HW 45922 Docld:32334742 Page 4 a
DL 92-34 INFORMANT PAGE T-1 is DL-90-C. T-2 is DL-95-C. t-3 is PeIL___ OTHER 4 T-4 is M, S, ROBINSON, landlord at Eagle Mountain Lake, Texas, who has requested his name be kept confidential. - 12 - HW 45922 DocId:32334742 Page 5 ;