8/29/2014 «+ National Archives and Records Administration JFK Full Results Kennedy Assassination Collection Full Results Released under the John Kennedy Assassination Records Ollection Act of 1992 ' Hits 1-1 of 1 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#: NW 53025 Date: Ho-22-2017 Hit 1 of l AGENCY RECORD NUMBER RECORDS SERIES AGENCY FILE NUMBER ORIGINATOR FROM TO TITLE ‘DATE PAGES DOCUMENT TYPE SUBJECTS CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTIONS CURRENT STATUS DATE OF LAST REVIEW OPENING CRITERIA AGENCY INFORMATION FBI 124-10031-10293 HQ 62-109060-5186 DOCUMENT INFORMATION FBI SAC, CG . DIRECTOR, FBI [No Title] ) 05/03/1967 5 PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT JFK, SUSPECT, DEAN, HARRY UNCLASSIFIED 4 RELEASED WITH DELETIONS 05/01/1997 INDEFINITE Audit history for this Record Identification Form Hits 1-1 of 1 National Archives and Records Administration webmaster@nara.gov BW SSeps yw. paieaaycgy Dindeteolinger | Bisel yew. bt uw
OPTIONAL FORM NC:.16 we MAY 1962 EDITION, 7 eae _ GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 , UNITED STATES~3(  IRNMENT Memorandum — | : TO DIRECTOR, FBI eT ONFIOEN DATE: 5/3/67°— ' | vba CHICAGO (62-6115) (C) ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT @uass. & ext\/sy Lo2G/ weak , JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Sy Ween MBASON-FCIN AY, 1-2.4,2 a. | DASE OF RE DALLAS, TEXAS / - ee ag v Re Bureau letter to Chicago, 4/17/67, Koen 2 Enclosed herewith is one photograph of HARRY/ DEAN . a believed to be taken in 1960 and furnished to the Indianapolis 41 Office by Captain EDWARD GRABOVAC, Detective Bureau, Whiting, pus Indiana Police Department on March 6, 1961. DEAN first called the Chicago Office in August, 1960, YP fo report that he had been elected Recording Secretary, Chicago ‘By Mehapter, Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC). He did not | Meaiivulge his name and address at this time. Later in the same Month he called this office, stating his name and advising he avas reSiding at 1540 Central Avenue, Whiting, Indiana, and hat he owned his own buSiness, the Whiting Plastering . MCompany. He told of his connections with the FPCC, furnished Meinformation concerning the leadership of this organization, mand said that he would be amenable to an interview with an meagent of the FBI. 7 The Indianapolis Office conducted an inquiry in mae Whiting, Indiana, in September, 1960. Detective Capfain. i: Mm EDWARD GRABOVAC, Whiting, Indiana, Police Departmeny,- advised. a | Methat DEAN, whose real name he Foaxen, to be GORDOY| HUNT and + § Sewho had used the name GEORGE RJ BAKER, had Skipped own and- “e M@ethe Whiting Police Department fad a warrant for his arrest.on bad of Bcheck charges. GRABOVAC said DEAN was a self-employed plasterer. Lo ‘The Whiting,Indiana Police Department procured an identification... ‘record from the Detroit, Michigan, Police Department under. FBI 9MN4657880. This record revealed that DEAN had been committed as. "a mental patient in Canada in 1948 and was sentenced at Chatam, - Ontario, for breaking and entering to "one year indefénite.": °° Q/- Bureau’ 2h jige |) 1 - chicags* GAY/43 ag * occas nn DWS: MMC. exc osue 5010-108 HW 53025 Docld:32127956 Page 2?
= 7 ts > SR RE La RE RE TAS RS RE RE EY ESE SL REE “SNE al SRS TR, PR TRS TE ST ° ° CG 62-6115 an : oo At this time DEAN had one arrest by the Detroit Police Department for disturbing a religious meeting and two arrests for using indecent and obscene language, He was also AWOL fnom Fort Knox, Kentucky, in 1949. 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 connected with the 26th of July Movement and on local persons connected with the FPCC, 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, Former CG 6403-S advised in August, 1960, that DEAN was a white male, age about 25 (in 1960), stocky build, and black hair, 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. , 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 i 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 th@ Way SWABECK talked it is his belief that this group is trying to out due other groups re the FPCC and i 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 FPFCC, CoN CNTIAL + a HW 53025 Docld:32127956 Page 3
IF I A RS FOR oP SEIS ETE GR ET EE ET LI GEER 8 BIL SEDI REED ATI TET TG aT EERE TC A ~~ CG 62-6115 On December 20, 1960 CG .6403-S advised SA RAYMOND E, 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 ho of WARD SWABECK, 1716 St. Michaét's ‘Street, Chicago. This 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 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. i) ele ed A) MARCIA STARR will collect dues from new members. During this LAW , 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 neta EDtSWABECK onmthe 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 sympathies toward the CASTRO révodlution t6AN ‘Dr. FERRIER, He said that Dr, FERRIER knew of and worked with the 26th of July Movement in Chicago, and he also knew - of the formation of the FPCC, According to DEAN, Dr. FERRIER X Te r ] R\- Ae 3 HW 53025 Docld:32127956 Page 4
TIKI : i Kerem SL Sheet Sane ree rt ome AGENCY INFORMATION Released under the John F. Kennedy Lesassination Records Collection AGENCY: FBI bet of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). RECORD NUMBER: _— 124-10031-10293 rase#:NW 53025 Date: 05-22-2017 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-109060-5186 ORIGINATOR: FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECT: DOCUMENT TYPE: ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW_DATE: STATUS COMMENTS: DOCUMENT INFORMATION FBI SAC, CG DIRECTOR, FBI 05/03/1967 5 JFK, SUSPECT, DEAN, HARRY PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified CLASSIFICATION: 05/01/1997 UPDATE DATE: — 06/01/2001 Redact ~ RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) HW 53025 Docld:32127956 Page 5