fe040146-10317] o - CLAY SHAW “201-813493 SE CRET i FOR RELEA 3 FBI Confidential - NO #100-13988 2/26/51 Indicates Shaw, manager of Int 1 Trade Mart, New Orleans, advised that during 1949 and 1959 Harry -Kahn employed as mgr of Czechoslovakian In-ustrial Exhibit at Intl Trade Mart, New Orleans. Resided at 1309 Bourbon St. Exhibit closed during 5/50. Can testify re Kahn's interest in Daily Worker. : ~~ Review of 201 file «1/14/75 DE Indicates Shaw categorized as"all others" AS ~~ Memo for record 3/10/69 As of this date all press and other mdeia coverage of events concerni arrest and trail of subject havesbeen removed from this 201. Files 3 thru 16 retired to records center; Vol 17-23 in CI/ICG vault for storage MEMGs re: Implication in Kennedy Assassination: p -- FBI reports re: Leslie Norman Bradley, licensed commercial pilot and self-declared adventurer who flew from Wichita, KS. ‘ to New Orleans on 11/23/63. Former prisoner at Isle of Pines until April 22,1962 . Bradley possibly Castro sympathizer. — Bradley had worked at New Orleans Lake front Airport for several years in 1950's. At time of assassiantion, Bradley at work at Flournoy Flying School. Believed assassination done by Cubans, so decided to go to Miami to confirm convictions. Went to New Olreans first. It had been alleged that Bradley told airport personnel that Clay Shaw had been helping him thru donations. Bradley denied this.. Bradley was questioned by the Garrison investigators. -- 2/10/69 f Twx/#0002 to contacts/Washington, 10/13/67 "We have never remunerated him." Contacts with Shaw resulted in eight reports. Contact was Huner Leak Relationship was discontinued as shotgun approa-h to collection effor waved and it became obvious that Shaw was becoming more and more interested in his private ventures and less and les s in the activiti of the Intl Trade Mart. Resigned as Mgr of Intl Trade Mart 10/1/65. -- OGC 57-1787 9/18/67 Internal memo Indicates considered contacting Shaw's lawyers who were interested in talking with Agency personnel who might be able to clear the “smoke screen Garriosn was raising." Snes RETURN TO CIA ckaround Use Oni “1OIN3 ~ az 1
_ SHAW, page 2 Doc X ref: SECRET 11116326 “== Memo for FBI from CIA’ 6/19/67 RE: Jack N. Rogers Rogers volunteered information: He is a Baton Rouge attorney for the joint legislative Committee on Un-American activities for the state of Louisiana. His funciton as counsel has cuase Him to link LHO and the FPCC with the Southern Conference Educational fund thru one Carl Braden. It is Mr. Rogeer's theory that Oswald was an organizer for the FPCC and a Moscow-trained agent. 6/10/67 OBB 82786 _ Martens censidered very important link. Martens believed have lived with Ferrie and Shaw. Shown Shaws address as his own while attending Iniv. of Southwestern OL in Lafyette. Memo Internal 4/18/67 NO-155-67 DCE 18261 RE; visit of Gen Cabell to Foreign Policy asscoaition meeting i n New Orleans at which Shaw introduced the General, 4/17/61 Memo re Casual contact with Shaw To clarify any discrepancies, agency had Hunter Leake explain his contacts with Shaw: Said Shaw was official source contacted on 30 occaisions. ; between 1949 and 1956. Did see Shaw socially on chance occasions in the downtown New Orelans area during which tme thre was little conversation other than “how are you,"etc. Did not see Shaw at al after 1965, presumably because Shaw had retired from Trade Mart and may not have been frequenting downtown restaurants. -~ Memo for record 4/3/67 RE: Oswald invoviement with DRE 03 CIA personnel who may have f DRE: [Paul Oberst] of CUban OPerations Group; of Cuban Operations Group; [Carl Trettin,“pepty Chief of Cuban Operations group who kneW-Bringuier, and was stationed in New Orleans at time of above incidents; alsocof Cuban desk, thorough] familiar with DR : as not funded by CIA but did have contact with some of it s members. Oswald not member of DRE; rejected by it. -- Application for passport 2/19/58 | To travel to Carribean area - Via Puerto Rico, possibly Colombia. -~ Application for passport 14/5/54 3/5 fu To visit Wsetern Euorpe = Belgium, Netherlands, France, 2-a>% Application for passport 9/21/65 | To visit W. Inidies, Mexico Vy , Mn
SHAW, page 3. _ ” . . 7A _ SECRET ws aha --+ Application for passport 11/5/51 1110927 To travel to Colombia -- Application for passport 6/1/49 —_ To travel to Peru, Chile, Argentine, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico =~ Memo 3/24/67 [axpa74 | Trace results on persons connected wit Centro Mondiale Commerciale News article accounts trying to establish links between Itn1 Trade Mart with World Trade Center (Centro Mondiale Commerciale Persons involved with World Trade Center: Carlos D'Amelio; Ferenc Nagy; Mandel-Mantello, Heinrtch; George Mandel; Nikolaus Fischer. IN 1959 Nagy asked if Permindex of Bael, Switzerland, could \ be used as cover for CIA. File doesn't indicate whether it was used. Permindex operating in Rome.in 1960. Memo - Exhibit B Ca. 1959 Indicates Fasy is a fully cleared contact of the office. a Report - oo-A03153706 Nagy former prime minister of Hungary. Excellent but unscrupulov businessman by reputation. Mantello drew Nagy into Permindex. Newsarticles were linking Shaw with the Trade=Center and Permindex in Rome and cliamed that the organiztion was fiercely anti- . Communist; closely connected with elements of the extreme right. -- Memo for the record frm 3/8/67 in YugoslaVia. [Ross CrozierStook over as case officer. Believed DRE could have had animus towards Kennedy. Luis Fernanc Rocha spoke bitterly of Kennedy in 1961. Indicates ad been este DRE, then left for assignment ~- FBI report 3/2/67 RE: Interview with Carl JOhn Stanley of Louisville, KY. Stanley familiar with John Martin AKA Jack Martin and David Ferrie thru church. On recommnedation of John MArtin Stanley consecrated David Ferrie as bishop. Ca. 1966 Martin told Stanley hérand Ferrie knew Oswald. and Ferrie involved in the assassinatio Claimed Ferrie, Jerry De Pugh, and George Augusitne Hyde all associates of Martin, connected with Cuban organization. Martin claims past association with CIA. LOOSE DOCUMENTS: Nothing of interest ae (WO
ie CLAY SHAW page 4 -- Memo no{98-76) 6/3/76 Internal from J. Walton Moore Indicates concern for response re: Shaw's connection with CIA. Can reconstruct contact by Leake, but “since we cannot determine the nature of DCD's relationship with . Shaw from our files, we ouwld wppreciate your summarizing it for us." Synopsis: File contains reports made by Clay Shaw pursuant to contacts: by CIA between 1949-1956; memoranda which followed the course of the Shaw trial and investigation because of alleged CIA. involvement. CIA tried to determine relationship between Shaw and Permindex or World Trade Center. There appears to be none.