(tog t0t81-10112] . oo, a ae ; . RETURN TO CIA z e Background Use Only ae, Deputy Chief, $25 \ U September 1957 Thru: Chief, FIOB M. D. Stevens Fx ZLeed- pal Ze - Too te meee neue on we ten nny i re eine ectmneninmer etiee F . The OSWALD Case z SHAW, Clay L. $402897-A » According to a Washinaton Star clipping dated 2 March 1967, Ciay L. SHAW, who wa3 arrested, indicted and is awaiting trial in connection with the charge that he conspired with Lee Harvey O5-/ALD and David W. FOABIE to assassinate President KENNEDY, was described by one Jesse CORE as a political Nberal who was “very admiring" of President KENNEDY. According to CORD, SMAW “talked of woting fox KENNEDY in 1960" and wore a KENNELY for President button. Jesse CORE worked with SHAW in 1963 at the International Trade Mart in New Orleans. ; dey Se ee Security indices reflect that one Jesse 2. CORZ, Chief Consul with USIS in the Ameri = in Madras, India, in 1950, was a friend off i 7408-22 (c), a former CLA covert agent who Was Separated trom the .\sency in October 1952, following a ATER of ! | serious security breach which involved a Mrs. Lillian BANT | Caleutta. India who also was known te CORE. Mrs. BAXTER who waa | believed to be an American with Indian citizeaship, had formerly been i married to an Anglo-Indian glanter in India and was said to have become | 2 prostitute and in 1951 to have been kept by a wealthy Marwari)")She | was believed to be controlled by Indian Intellizence and it was thought i | ] [ i I 7 9 ne ene Stamm ey entaaeeeeetenenenee chat she might be an arent for any of several rovernments including * England and Russia. She was an associate of "| oy and was suspected of stealiag security cccumcnts from him. rom There is insufficient informatioa rezardin«z Jesse CARE, Clay SHA ‘7's associate, to positively identify him as’ Ariend, Jesse &. CORE, but it seems quite probable that they are the same. oa 3 from New Orleans and it would appear that his friend CORE 8 ais0, in as much as he seems ia all Procubility to be the husband of a"Mra. Jess CORE’, nee: Lucy Ruggles, who 23 of 1956 was said to be ier married to a man in the State Department and to be somewhere overseas, 1 --  u} : . and as of 1957 was said to reside in New Orienas, Louisianzz. Thig i —f- a f . o 4 1 ar F} * a é fo. ig x , a KA: H . . A H oi 8/3 FG “3
° « ty & OrAaney osha Mrs. Jesse CORE was one of a suspect political group, Dallas County Volunteers for RAINEY, which wae of interest to the Sceurlty Office in 1956-1957 because of the fact that current CLA employee, Michael Charles PEARSON, #62991, ind his Iriend, John Max ROSINFICLD, §21044, ‘a farmer OSS man,” had beca members. The organization, which numbered about 25 persona moat of whom were said to have beea forracr students of the University of Texas from which Homer T. RAINEY, aformer liberal" president, had been dischorsed, waz of a Mberal/ radical persuasion. One member of the crozp (in which ifra. Jesse CORE, thes Lucy RUGGLES, the daughter of William RUGGLES, an editorial write? on the Dallas Mornin~ News, was particularly active) is said to have subsequeatly been arrested by the F2I for Communist activities and several others have been active in Comraunist organizations. M. D. Stevens MDS:ml ; | | | | | : i | | | cu) j 4 | i