“URGENT.” “41-30-63 5-07 - To DIRECTOR AND SAC, DALLAS FROM: SAC, .CHICAGO ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN Fe KENNEDY, NOVEMBER TWENTYTWO 62~ ~6115 LAST. DALLAS, TEXAS. (A | AM . 2 PEO OC DENTIAL ‘RE FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE aLLecation. 0 . ON .NOV. TWENTYEIGHT LAST, COLe JACK REILLY, DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EVENTS, OFFICE OF MAYOR, CITY OF CHICAGO, ADVISED SA HUBERT Me HART THAT AFTER -HIS RETURN FROM. PRESIDENT KENNEDY/S FUNERAL HE HAD: RECEIVED INFO FROM. TONY PEREZ, WHO IS A RELIABLE, WELL INFORMED, ANTI CASTRO ‘CUBAN, WHO HAD IN PAST ASSISTED MAYOR DALEY/S OFFICE RE CUBAN MATTERS. THESE MEETINGS HAD LASTED UNTIL THREE OR FOUR IN MORNING. “REILLY: : DESIRED FBI DIRECTLY INTERVIEW PEREZ BECAUSE OF NATURE OF INTO Ave - PEREZ: ‘INTERVIEWED ELEVEN TWENTYNINE SIXTYTHREE BY SAS HERBERT Ke : STALLINGS AND ROBERT Re. GLENDON. i FIRSTHAND. KNOWLEDGE. OF ALLEGED FPCC MEETINGS. WITH /ROSSENe, HOWEVER: DATE OF REVIEW REILLY ADVISED PERE” TOLD HIM JOHN ROSSEN HAD BEEN MEETING WITH FPCC IN ROSSEN/S THEATER IN PERIOD IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT AND THAT PEREZ ADVISED. ‘HE: DID NOT HAVE : FBI - Hie
PAGE TWO | x AND KEDZIE, CHICAGO. PEREZ ADVISED THAT ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO HE HAD DEBATED ROSSEN AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AND THAT HE, PEREZ, REPRESENTED CHICAGO COUNCIL FOR A DEMOCRATIC CUBA WHICH HAS OPPOSED FPCC LINE AS APOLOGISTS FOR CASTRO. PEREZ HAD NO SPECIFIC ALLEGATIONS RE ASSASSINATION BUT ADVISED HE HAD APPRISED. REILLY OF FPCC MEETINGS BECAUSE OF ITS POSSIBLE NATIONAL IMPORTANCE.(¢'! PEREZ WAS MOST COOPERATIVE BUT UNABLE TO PROVIDE SOURCES OF - | 7B INFO ON ROSSEN/S ACTIVITIES WITH EXCEPTION THAT HE GAVE NAME OF A PERSON IDENTICAL WITH C¢ SIX FIVE TWO NINE DASH C AS PERSON WHO WOULD BEST KNOW ACTIVITIES OF ROSSEN. CG SIX FIVE TWO NINE DASY S HAS BEEN INTERVIEWED PREVIOUSLY RE ACTIVITIES OF ROSSEN AND ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS THIS REGARD. THIS INFORMANT HAS FURNISHED INFO ON ROSSEN, HIS THEATER BUSINESS IN CHICAGO AND HIS ACTIVITIES AS CHAIRMAN OF FPCC IN eurcaco. (A(U| NO FURTHER INQUIRY WILL BE CONDUCTED AT THIS TIME RE ALLEGA- TION AS REPORTED By REILLY ENDV ACK AND HOLD WA 4-36 AM OK FBI WA JS DL 3-34 AM CST OK FBI DL HOLDING | f | HW 53130 Docld:32185867 Page 3
FBI ee Date. 11/29/63 Transmit the following in PLAIN TEXT CONF WTHAL (Type in plain text or code) TELETYPE URGENT | Vie (Priority or Method of Mailing) | i ee A ee bo TO : DIRECTOR and SAC, DALLAS . FBZ: ,, ( / C FROM: SAC, CHICAGO (62-6115) ge ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F,. KENNEDY, NO € even LAST. DALLAS TEXAS. RE FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE ALLEGATION (W\ ON NOV. TWENTYEIGHT LAST, COL, JACK REILLY, DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EVENTS, OFFICE OF MAYOR, CITY OF CHICAGO, ADVISED SA HUBERT M, HART, THAT AFTER HIS RETURN FROM PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S FUNERAL HE KAD RECEIVED INFO FROM/ TONY PEREZ, WHO IS A RELIABLE, WELL INFORMED, ANTI CASTRO CUBAY, WHO HAD IN PAST ASSISTED MAYOR DALEY'S OFFICE RE CUBAN MATTERS. REILLY ADVISED PEREZ TOLD HIM " JOHN ROSSEN HAD BEEN MEETING WITH FPCC IN ROSSEN'S THEATER IN PERIOD IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT AND THAT THESE MEETINGS HAD LASTED UNTIL THREE OR FOUR IN MORNING. REILLY DESIRED FBI DIRECTLY INTERVIEW PEREZ BECAUSE OF “NATURE OF INFO.(AY™ ne Yat foe BEREZ INTERVIEWED BY SAS HERBERT K. STALLINGS AND ROBERT R. GLENDON. PEREZ ADVISED HE DID NOT HAVE FIRSTHAND KNOWLEDGE OF ALLEGED FPCC MEETINGS WITH ROSSEN; HOWEVER, HAD LEARNED THESE MEETINGS HAD TAKEN PLACE AT SENATE THEATER, MADISON 7 CLASS. & EXT.NB rt Oms ala ' REASON-POTM TINQ-2.4.2 (2 _ _ . RRG: me@sate™ 27 BY. Be ING 24~ Sy % [ Le 6) /> BK 4 ann i “ : Le LDF a ‘Approved: Zi he “ . pecial-Agent-in Charge HW 53130 DoclId: 32185867 | Page 4
€ FBI Date: “(Type in plain text or code) (Priority or Method of-Mailing) | CG 62-6115 PAGE TWO AND KEDZIE, CHICAGO. PEREZ ADVISED THAT ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO HE HAD DEBATED ROSSEN AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AND THAT HE, PEREZ, REPRESENTED CHICAGO COUNCIL FOR A DEMOCRATIC CUBA WHICH HAS \ | OPPOSED FPCC LINE AS APOLOGISTS FOR CASTRO. PEREZ HAD NO SPECIFIC ALLEGATIONS RE ASSASSINATION BUT ADVISED HE HAD APPRISED REILLY OF FPCC MEETINGS BECAUSE OF ITS POSSIBLE NATIONAL IMPORTANCE PEREZ WAS MOST COOPERATIVE BUT UNABLE TO PROVIDE SOURCES OF INFO ON ROSSEN'S ACTIVITIES WITH EXCEPTION THAT HE GAVE NAME OF A PERSON IDENTICAL WITH CG si FIVE 1h6 NENE DASH C AS PERSON WHO | WOULD BEST KNOW ACTIVITIES OF OSSEN. CG SIX FIVE-TWO NINE DASH S HAS BEEN INTERVIEWED, RE A VITIES OF ROSSEN AND ASSASSINATION oO OF PRESIDENT WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS THIS REGARD, THIS INFORMANT HAS FURNISHED INFO ON ROSSEN, HIS THEATER BUSINESS IN CHICAGO AND . HIS ACTIVITIES AS CHAIRMAN OF FPCC IN cxrcaco \(M\ NO FURTHER INQUIRY WILL BE CONDUCTED AT THIS TIME RE ALLEGATION AS REPORTED BY REILLY. YS 7 Tipe pie e ve soln Fredy. DE Wee Tae ; Approved: Special Agent in Charge HW 53130 DoclId:32185867 Page 5