JFK Assassination System Date: 6/15/20] Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-90010-10143 RECORD SERIES: DL AGENCY FILENUMBER: — 100-9734-778 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: BROWN TO: DL TITLE: Peleased under the John Kennedy DATE: 06/12/1962 Lssassination Records PAGES: 2 ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). SUBJECTS : ase#: NU 54463 Date: AMERICAN G.I. FORUMAG= 12-201" [Restricted] DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 09/16/1997 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : MEMO eee v9.1 HW 54463 Docld: 32323139 719 Page 1
; ; OS SAC, DALLAS (134-1A-679A) 6/12/62 | Sa W. HARLAN BROWN ONTAINED | ae ALL Ott site | _ DL-6-8 : : HERE ea Du SDhp On 5/17/62, SA W. HARLAN BROWN received in person from DL-6=S a handwritten report, which report is dated 5/13/62, and has been serialized as 134-1A-679,. That report revealed that GILBERT c. GARCIA of Fort Worth was in contact with JOE LANDIN. GARCIA, according to informant, | is a former State Organizer for PASO, and in 1954 organized the American GI Forum in Dallas. More recently he campaigned for Senator JARRARD SECREST, according to informant. That report also revealed that GARCIA wanted to discuss the rally the PASO Dallas chapter had for SECREST on Thursday, 5/3/62, at El Napalito on Harry Hines Blvd, JOE LANDIN told GARCIA that he did not go, since he was notified 30 minutes before the rally was to take place. GARCIA, who, according to informant, was very emotional and very hurt, told JOE LANDIN that he had inno cently and unsuspectingly walked into a trap (with the Senator) for, he continued, TURMAN was-at the rally. TURMAN was SECREST's opponent. Those attending the rally were IDA MORENO, MARY LEE CASTRO, FRANKLIN GARCIA and MR. and MRS, ATILANO CALDERON , J, O, "PEPPER" GARCIA, GARCIA said, was not present, , The "Senator," GARCIA informed JOE LANDIN, had been subject to some idiotic questions and he had refused to answer them. GARCIA considered this a dirty trick and said he was through with IDA MORENO, MARY LEE CASTRO and "PEPPER" GARCIA, and he considered the Dallas PASO Chapter dead. He said he. would try to form a new chapter, even if JIMMY TRUJILLO headed it. He admitted that TRUJILLO was as bad as PEPPER. ee . we, GARCIA, according to informant, further advised, that DON: YARBOROUGH and the TURMAN people had approached him seeking his help, and that he was going to do it, as labor had mistreated him too much. He also advised that he on an individual basis was going | to work for CONNALLY. (GARCIA was alleged. to have used telephone in Connally Headquarters, Fort Worth.) GARCIA informed JOE LANDIN that he was doing his best to make PASO go “no “endorsement" on the gubernatorial election. He asked ‘JOE LANDIN to contact TRUJILLO and ask him af he wanted a Connally Headquarters in West Dallas (at Trujillo's store). GARCIA further remarked that he believed the "Labor boys" were trying. to get him; that they, had been trydne 1 = 134=1A-679A 1 = 100-671-8 (Political Acta ksed) feral - 100-9734 (G.I, Forum) ...1 = 100-8001 (J, Lantf Se enn 1 ~ 100-10695 (PASO) pew PRIALIZED... ro FIRED WHE; HM Fog Ne, JUN 2 962 — _ ee ~— AY ny . oe. oo ee _ TON HW 54463 Docld:32323139 Page 2?
Be OS to. get him’ since 1954. He said he was going to bill them. for a $200. debt he had incurred while. working: for them. , JOE. LANDIN told him that at one time he wanted to expose J. 0. "PEPPER" GARCIA, but after considering, the situation for a long time,. decided: to “wait until after the elections. He did not want to be accused of ...... hurting. J, 0.'s chances. of getting elected, GILBERT asked him not to write the. expose, but: wait a couple of weeks as he would’ really . have some information by then... He said: if: he: eriticized’ Je 0. now, he. would be, "vulnerable" to an attack.” oes, sey oe en ‘Informant ad no; additional Anfornation, \. | . DAY NOOSE HW 54463 Docld:32323139 Page 3