2 John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (442 USC Zi07 Hotey. AGENCY INFORMATION | AGENCY: FBI _RECORD_NUMBER: — 124-10105-10290 RECORD. SERIES: WMFO AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 44-520-114 _ DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: SAC, WMFO TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: = 12/16/1963 PAGES: 3 SUBJECT: SEE FBI 44-24016-737 DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Secret NEW CLASSIFICATION: _ CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: 05/07/1996 UPDATE DATE: 01/23/2001 STATUS Redact . | | RESTRICTIONS: _ JEK Act 6 (1)(B) JFK Act 6 (1)(C) . COMMENTS: “Docld: 327154663 Page 1
(Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 7i0v7 Hitey. DATE: 11-14-2617 | 7 - . © | e fon e WFO 44~520 _ aik i On 12/13/63, (wr 568-8" ‘advised that on same date Cs) HUGO! MORATT , Labor Counselor, Embassy of Israel, Washington, . S.C.) contacted BENNY ELAN (Phonetic) of theJiHistadrut, ~_ Israeli Labor ‘or anization, in New ‘York, CityAand discussed with niaftist drug sponsored trip to ‘Israel an 1955. (@ Conant 5) stated had talked to JAKE CLEMMON (Phonetic), not further . identified, about an unnamed person! (context clearly indicated . weference to JACK RUBY) who may have made this trip to Israel _ _- and attached himself to HAROLD GIBBONS. CLEMMON indicated . .. ‘he had recently contacted Mr. WILLIAMS, National Director, \ AFL-CIG, Louisiana, about this ‘possibility. ist During ano her discussion on 12/13/63 with an uniden- , tified pera anaines Secs GREGG BARDAKI (Phonetic) , not. “ further identified, had indicated thd “nan in question who Shade the trip. te Israel went by° ‘the name of NATE or NAT Seen (Phonetic), a public relations man from Los Angeles, The . unidentified person coumented that: “af there was any possibility STEIN was identical with "the guy" in Texas (context again _ - dndicates reference to RUBY), BARDAKI probably would have _ a ... ‘heard from the FBI because WILLIAMS had told the FBI about >. - / | above possibility (RUBY having taken a trip to Israel in 195 ye. dg The informant further retaveaL etait 2eer disclosed -.. SOLMORATT (he had talked to BARDAKI,, who knows NATE\STEIN. —' ” _sBARDART stated STEIN is not ‘identical with "that soe (RUBY)... _°- whom BARBAKI had seen on TV. BARDAKT stated STEIN is a close ° friend of JAMES HOFFA, Teamster official d leader. BARDAKI. vadded, in later explaining this matter to{MORATT|that STEIN 3 ss was) on trial about six months: ago and HOFFA camé to his | defense. It was ag greed that theré was no basis whatsoever | for rumor that this person who took the trip. te israel. in meg 41955 is identical with RUBY. . - | 7 - CyorarifZase contacted AL, “ACK (Phonetic) not further - . identified, to assure. him that therk was no basis for the above rumor. ZACK, apparently referring to FBI interview of WILLIAMS, remarked that "the man” told the FBI about two. weeks. ago, adding "If nobody has heard from it in tee weeks it is obviously not so.” Docld: 327154863 Page 3
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Cotteestion Act of 1992 (44 USC Fi0T Hotes. DATE: 11-14-7017 => 2 oD 2 O © WFO 44-520 Above is being furnished for the info of the Bureau and recipient offices. and for whatever. assistance it may be to New Orleans relative to the interview of E. H. WILLIAMS. In the event any of above info is set out in form ‘suitable for dissemination, the identity of the informant must be protected and infermatien appropriately paraphrased. The information should be classified “pnt idential” since it reflects an FBI investigatiée “fae KX Sreign diplomatic C 5] establishment] and since infermation from the informant could reasonably result in the identification of asconfidential informant of continuing value and ‘compromise’ the future effectiveness thereof, . Docld: 327154863 Page 4