180-10443-10224 “er... hk ied CLAY SHAW 4 OBy 201-813493 PLUGS CI FBI Confidential - NO #100-13988 2/26/51 Indicates Shaw, manager of Int 1 Trade Mart, New Orleans, advised that during 1949 and 1950 Harry Kahn employed as mgr of Czechoslovakian In-ustrial Exhibit at Int] 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 filé 1/14/75 Indicates Shaw categorized as"all others" -- Memo for record 3/10/69 As of this date all press and other mdeia coverage of events concern 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 MEMOs re: Implication in Kennedy Assassination: -- 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 convictidns. 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 - TWX #0002 to contacts/Washington, 10/13/67 “We have never remunerated him." Contacts with Shaw resulted in eight reports. Contact was Huner Lea Relationship was discontinued as shotgun approa-h to collection effec waved and it became obvious that Shaw was becoming more and more interested in his private ventures and Jess and les s in the activit of the Int] Trade Mart. Resigned as Mgr of Intl Trade Mart 10/1/65. -- QGC 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 7a / 80 ~101Y3-/082 (
SHAW, page 3 -~ Application for passport 11/5/ pd2092 7 : CIA HAS NO OnTo To travel to Colombia DECLASSI j ed RELEASE OF DH oct -- Application for passport 6/1/49 a To travel to Peru, Chile, Argentine, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico oy -- Memo 3/24/67 AX 3474 Trace results on persons connected withCentro Mondiale Commerciale News article accounts trying to establish links between [tn] Trade Mart with World Trade Center (Centro Mondiale Commerciale Persons involved with World Trade Center: Carlos D'Amelio; Ferenc Nagy; Mandel-Mantello, Heinrich; George Mandel; Nikolaus Fischer. TN 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 Nagy is a fully cleared contact of the office. Report - 00-A03153706 Nagy former prime minister of Hungary. Excellent but unscrupulou 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 Calvin Thomas 3/8/67 Indicates Thomas had been with DRE, then left for assignment in Yugoslavia. took over as case officer. Believed DRE could have had animus towards Kennedy. Luis Fernand Rocha spoke bitterly of Kennedy in 1961. | -- 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 hand 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 Va