tye OPTIONAL,"ORM NO. 10 MAY--4962 EDITION et GSa GEN, REG. NO. 27 5010-106 * UNITED STATES Ge.) ERNMENT ; 1 _ Memorandum 1 = DeLoach SECRETS oh 1 - Callahan To +: We Sullivam |. 24- 7 DATE: 1-25-64 ~ spt W. A. Bradigan |” \, MATION GOST AMABEY OSWALD” aad t roy tet Stokes , : views an article concerning the assassination of President Kennedy in the March, 1964, issue of "Saga" magazine by former Special Agent Willian W. Turner (E.0.D. 2<-5-51 - Dismissed %-19-61 ) who is presently appealing his dismissal before the Circui Court in the District. Turner's self-centered, embittered, illogical attitude is well known to us and his article is what we might expect Turner attempts to argue that the bla -ghould be laid to FBI bungling by way of not prewarn -of Oswald's. potential as an assass “lack of cooperation and communication between the Bureau and the Secret Service. In the lead paragraph of the article, Turner claims that he went to Dallas "just a few hours" after the assassination to - conduct a. personal FBI-type inquiry as he sensed that "there were too many questions unanswered, too much information concealed." This is patently crystal-ball nonsense and at the outset shows his true motivation. In light of his stated conviction that Oswald was indeed the assassin and that he acted on his own without left wing, right /wing or crime syndicate plotting, the article is particularly -victous ; its [suggestion that someone other than Oswald is basically to be bl for the deed. Turner's case is pure sophistry the “4naccuracies of /which are hereinafter reviewed point by point. His argument consistslof part fact, largely inaccurate and irresponsible newspaper reports: and outright falsehoods. He endeavors to lend credence to his argument by trading on his past experience as a Bureau Agent and it is in this realm that he clearly lies in discussing Bureau investigative techniques in this case. He concludes his article with a four-point appeal to effect that 1. Presidential appearances henceforth not be in open cars and that the President be required to wear a bullet-proof vest when -lappearing in public. *2. That an attempt on the President's life be made a Federal offense. 3. That President's route in amiout of city not be publicized and 4. That a permanent Federal Commission be established to insure proper cooperation and communication between agencies’ such as Bureau and Secret Service and that t ommission be empowered to override the Bureau when necessary rs tee proper 105-82555 Gar JCS/WMG: pdb/pa “ag TEROR be 35 FES AL R964 0 Ln in and that the cause of this was a HW 55355%" Dobla: 33124698. “ -ASSIMEGRNAL “SECURITY - nlissit | beg a“ lo jE SHOWR - ’ heey This re 7 osen ‘ Trotter - ullivan Tere. Room ———— Malley Holmes —————— Gandy Branigan Gheesling a r the ssassination ~. ing the Secret Service- %, “ng IN “oe €
fer a Gy oa ~ Pa . —— a oy the . . 8 . Memorandum to Mr. Sullivan Re: LEE HARVEY OSWALD 105-82555 pu eee : ii ste Statement ;/Oswald prudently transferred his political activities to New Orleans (date not indicated) as Dallas is a city that leans to the right and because of local Dallas police vigilance against communist-type activity. Fact: jOswald left Dallas and traveled to New Orleans in late April, - 1963, as he was out of work and at the urging of his wife due to his having attempted to assassinate General Walker on April 10, 1963. The inference that Oswald feared Dallas police vigilance is nonsense for he returned to the Dallas area five months later to live. Statement: nn ecret Service but there is historical evidence that proper issemination is not always made at the Washington level. | In support he :cites: that in 1945 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) told the Bureau about Klaus Fuchs who they suspected was a Soviet agent, however, the FBI took no action. He also -cites: that in 1960 the FBI collected damaging information about Bernon F. Mitchell and William H. Martin, National Security Agency (NSA) employees, and again failed to alert anyone after which Mitchell and Martin fled to Cuba thence to Russia where they compromised U. S. \Secret codes throughout the world. Es is FBI responsibility to make dissemination to Fact3|The name of Fuchs and his British address came to attention of RCMP after arrest of Israel Halperin in February, 1946, as a result of the disclosures of Igor Gouzenko, Soviet Code Clerk who defected in Canada in 1945. Halperin, a Canadian, was mamed by Gouzenko asa member of a Soviet military intelligence network in Canada. Fuchs’ name and his address in England were in n address book and diary in Halperin's possession. The book -'\nd diary were furnished to the Bureau on_3-12-46 and names and ddresses of ‘Americans appearing in the documents were furnished Qo. the field. The documents were furnished by the Canadians to the British and no action was ken by the Bureau with respect to individuals living abroad.. chs first became an espionage suspect in 1949 on the basis of (Bureau Source 5|information (notC>) to be disseminated). We, however, advised the”British and in e January, 1950, Fuchs’ confessed in England to his espionage activities. When Mitchell and Martin defected to the Soviets in June, 1960, we had never conducted any investigation $ ‘them nor had we received any allégations Concerning them — HW 55355 Docld:32124688 Page 3