mg toe Wore ee Wake eget eeu nee Re: Contact v with Jack Ruby: Shortly aft er Castro took over in Cuba, RM had just op ened a new lounge, J & M Drive-In, in Harris County, Texas, ‘when one day a deputy sheriff came over and said some guy in Dallas was trying to reach him hy telephone, said it was a case "of . life and death." Asked if it was atl right to aqive the caller RM'ts phone number. Within about 30 minutes a call came from Dallas from a quy who said his name was Rubinstein. [Some , " a €éontusion here aabout when the Ruby contact was, his memory appears. jumbled,- but tater he waa corroborates initial FRI contact " report, CE 1689, that it took place in January, 1959, after che... was arrested for gun running but before Castro, Visited. him ini Houston, which he says xm was in the middle of '59.)) When Ruby first contacted him, Puby said he thought his name was Davis. ~Noesn!t know why. (asked nin about Rudolph Davis?) | think. was the one who told me whe | could get about a thousand blanke in Beaumont, Texas. This was when we were shipping stuff .to. Castro and side two- -fape < one --~ When Ruby first contacted him by telephone, he told: he “had. some people over in Cuba. Knew Ruby was g calling from ‘Dallas becatise - operator said so. He remembers him as kind of an arrogant GUY sees and when he met him later he distinctly remembers Ruby had a fittte raund Bahd-Aid patch on his nose.. ..Ruby told him he had some jeeps and stot machines he y wanted: to qet over to Cuba...he wanted to get in touch with Castros. --he said he had some jeeps in Shrevesport, La. "And he said: he had access to a whole lot of slot machiaes that. were in a mountain in New Mexico, in a cave over there...’ No, didn't sav that during his first telephone call; just said he had some’ . neonte aver there and he would like to know if 1 could help hime” qet them out of there. Then he said he would come down to see me. " and we'd qo over the details. He did come down and that's -wak’ when he talked umkm ahout the feeps and sfot machines. Ruby. did ; mention that he knew a few people in Cuba, members of the’ Mafia. 5 . "That's what.he calted it, the Mafia, but he never did mention. te no names,” 1 asked him if he had ever heen to Cuba, He said’ «4 Yeah, he'd been over kw there for pleasure Didn't stay for. a. éoup |; days and come back. | asked where he stayed at over there.and~9,"" ** he said he stayed at the Nationcia! Hotel.! Ruby qave na: indiéatiei ‘ he » had heen in Cuba more than onee... [iong discussion here about date when Ruby visited himy. a newspaper clip dated January 3, 1959 headlined: "Gunrunner Halts Castro Victory" which may have be een the impetus for the initfal ys 7 Ruby call. Hubert Memo says it was April, [959, protably a. mistake. 3 Ruby didn't mention when he called who the five "“triends of his" were he wanted to get out of Cuba who were being theld" there... > ..durina conversation with him on visit talked abott Maimi ‘with Bubys "He asked me about the Clover Club, think, at least mentioned poe it. He asked me if | knew that place, used to be over on Biscayne. e a bia niahteluh. He said, well, you know it's got a hack room. in. 3 there, it's called the Ponce Room , that's where Latin's used to. hang cut, do a tittie aambling.. oS HW 56829 Docld:32262501 Page 8 a a - ee a fr,
ailiaamtrve 1. Malaneamoveruidh aie hud oot (This former Senator you metthioned as being involved in supplying wt al arms, is he #xma dead or alive?) "i don't know if he's dead ER or ative. (A former Senator?) "One of them is still fiving." “ yl (There was more than one?) Yeah. tf you didn't know them you te couldn't aet no arms. But I!m not going to name them. It's all behind them. . Ruby wanted a letter of introduction from him for Castro. He told Ruby he wanted $5000m up front. "Hell, he never did give me ed. no money, all he wanted to do was pick me.! co He mentioned two or three Jewish names. He mentioned a Zorott. fe} Zochoff or something like that...and he meknu-mentioned a Gol'dber who was’ supnosed to be the one who had all the jeeps over: Rin’ Shrevesport, La. Mentioned a guy in Las Vegas on his telephone call who wanted those people out of Cuba... b ut no special name mentioned... Lo, Rhby suagested that he @pamexxa open a gambling place in the: back room of the new lounge that RM had just opened...told: hi he'd make a lot of money out of it... RM turned down idode cho because he was afraid, he was still on probation... later,, he did run a little ba blackjack some time... aye [Shown a bunch of photos and picked out two who "kinda looked, fike" the guy who was with Oswald; did not pick out any of Tnose whose name was Rernandez, nor was either very “Latin looking"; | picked out Paulino Rodriquess | Barrios and -.Abelardo Montes _ De Oca Lopez from group of photos Supplied by Dick Russell,’ eae ere en ee 4 a fl gotten from Robert Morrow who described them as Bastistai tes’) connected to the Mob. Questionable. ]  ¥*¥* Sam Neal called him immediately after the assassination and told. tte he had recognized Oswald as the guy who had .come to his. haves: Talked about all! the bad fuck he's had since his- arrest; opty ge marriages gone bad, his lost jobs, his hidden stock of. dash burned up when the cache house burned up... oe oer, Talked about the money that Batista had gotten out ‘of Cuba, money ie mx that Batista was selling before Castro changed the size and. made., oe it worthless... says the guy who had the farm next to Eisenhower! S " *  (22?) came to him to get $3-1/2 million of that money, promised him. he'd give him hal f percent...deal was going through wm when Castro. changed money... guy's name was Greenspahn?? -not sure...Wanted, RM ‘contact Castro and Not change the money... _.({ Shown Bishop sketch, says he! sure he knows the aquy; but Ke gb8s ‘ot alt over place ax and says nothing definite or cr ediptesced Savs he may have been contacted by the CIA in Miami when=two guys<. 02% called him and met him in the Mavflover Hote! restaurant, told himow © they were with "U.S. Government Intelligence” and wanted. him to! a ao to work for them. Thinks one auy's name was Gracie [Grayson?]}. Said they would aet him off probation, give him a £1000 to ao’ to. Houston and check out a Mexican quy there. He checked with his on Probation officer wha told him they couldn't eet him off -probation,” - a don't beliave what they sav. bt ‘HW 56829: Docld: 32262501: Page 9° oe a. eer
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