: | ve 3628 (pare 666 stow) HOS not ‘passing to LNGOLD but wilh ‘aavise i Hy : } | i | | ! | | S| S — - | 670. 21 Dec 67 pascroa Seer - | | | 671. 21 Dec 67 ome ews GARRISGN Names dna Man in Plot ~ Charges of L conspiring to assassinated Pres. K Edgar Eugene BRADLEY « early contact | 672. 27 Dee 61 a ' were fiiga against a freckle-faced man, Bdgar Bugene BRADLEY. ‘THE NEWS - FBI Knew of, Plot: GARRISON ~| Tipped off by OSWALD - _ GARRISON said he believed i the FBI, |ineluding its chief J. | Edgar Hoover, had. been warned in Nov 63 that. an attempt would ‘be made on Pres K,"s life when he visited Dallas.| / GARRISON was basing his infomation on ia telegram that OSWALD had jsent to the FBI before. the | ‘slaying. f GARRISON contacted Western Union officials in Dalls who took the telegram from OSWALD and ‘kept: @ copy of it on file. / |GARRISON ‘said if he: could get a copy of the telegram "at would ‘break the case wide open" | Does WOFIRM ine about this velegran? : because it would prove| that OSWALD worked with the FBI. / however, the Western Union agent : ‘would not reveal the file copy because he feared for his life. v In Washington, the FBI : i ‘had ho comment... . -GARRISON claims extreme right wing, not: Communists, were involved. | | | (NOE: 0S wrote | "This fellow has really 'flipped'!") 673. 28 Dec 67 THE NEWS | '- GARRISON probe: | BRADLEY |Arraigned in Los Angeles - Edgar Eugene BRADLEY, 49, | West Coast representative of a radio evangelist, was arraigned ‘in municipal court in connection with! a Louisiana warrant..... and was released oni his own recognizance without being required | : ‘to post bail. / BRADLEY, who has denied any involvement in: the | assassination, made @ pre-arranged ‘surrender to Sherrif Pitchess, and was then taken before Judge ‘Adsenson ‘for the arraignment. : ; i ' | i : ; | i i : i i t 674. 30 Dee 6 -_ | ‘THE NEWS - Probe Gathers Stean:| GARRISON Subpoenas Three . = Material witnesses - Loran A. L@ran A. HALL | early, contact, ‘HALL, Thomas BECKHAM and Lawrence J, HOWARD Jr. Subpoena for HALL said GARRISON had infor- Thomas BECKHAM |mation that HALL checked into the Dallas YMCA in October 63 and remained in Dallas until | Lawrence J. HOWARD Jr. | ” ithe time of K's deather on (22 Nov 63. HALL wes in Dalles with RUBY "and other individuals believed ito be involved in| the assagsination" including OSWALD. HALL was active in the "Free Cuba" movement | in Florida, Louisiana and Texas! and "he was previously engaged in CIA-sponsored guerrilla training in Fla. for raids on Cuba." / BECKHAM, associated with FERRIE ‘in New Orleans idurihg 63 and: both were o: ainedl priests! in the E Orthodox Catholic Church of North America," (rteane ex a8 spen in if Nov 63..../ HOWARD with 1 RRIE in 63 during visits to N | ied pare ‘gated i dci‘chonsore 2 si THE EW YORK beneed ~ Rducator Seornd "Prot" da Kennedy ~J ohnson Aide is Critical of Conspiracy Theorists - by Anthony) Lewis - John | iP. ROCHE, special consultant to Pres Johnson, has dismissed | las “ima. marginal paranoids” the proponents of conspiracy theories in the assassination..... : / A witel argument against | ithe existence of a conspiracy, ROCH maintains, is. the fact that _~-—-Sen~Rebexb—-F--Kentiedy-would-ne n-Robost--Kenedy—has_done-nothing-to-pussue-1t-—-end-vould-sureiy- have-ected-4f-there-hadr—— conspiracy ofan if he were pert been any any ground for suppicicn. | . of it, elithe | i i i He training ia Fla for raids on Cutis. i 675. 3 Jan 68 i i | i i 1 i i i | ‘ PEEL Voter fb ay H i | i H | ! i ' t \
676. 5 Jan 68 : . rege NEWS ~: GARRISON Subpoenas bth Man | ~ . «GARRISON eubpognaed os federal civil service | employes ; - he said "may have special knowledge of the assassination. ." 8 HICKS, a civilian employee James HICKS - early contact 7?) at Vance Air Force Base in Enid, ‘Okla, HICKS was at the sosms th a Kennedy was | shot, and may have special knowledge concerning details of the as sassination with rrspegt toi its : planning and execution. as well as | Personnel employed in) the sssagsing fon}. HICKS said, | "E saw everything." : | | | : : | | : i | 677. 10 Jan 68 . REW NWQA - GARRISON Begins to Attract Attention - by Paul Scott wee ‘| Attention of. these congressional probers centers around GARRISON's interest in and in of (1) an, official | of the Ku Klux ‘Klan and (2) @ former congressional committee employe who has given secret | testimony before the New Orleans grand jury... / The KKK official involved in GARRISON 'p investigation is Jack M. HELM, former exalted cyclops of the! New Orleans unit of tk United | Klans ‘of America, and now head of an independent KKK group which he organized. Summoned before the House Un-American’ Activities Committee in Jan 66 during the committee's | probe of) the KKK, he was an uncooperative witness..... / GARRISON began his probe of HELM on 8 tip from Jules ‘Rocco KIMBLE, a self-avowed member of the KKK, who also claimed he once worked special Jules Rocco KIMBLE - CIA involvement ? assignments for the CIA. The the CIA: denies and GARRISON claims | he will prove. KIMELE, reported that on the day after the death of David FERRIE, he drove HELM to FERRIE's apartment, Jack M HELM - early contact 25 What was in the safe deposit box ( to be _ HELM then came out with a satchel full of papers which, KIMBLE, says, the fi KKK official then revealed during next month's trial of Clay placed in a pank safe deposit box, KIMBLE said that Walter SHERIDAN, former Justice Depart- SHAW - GARRISON has key to box) - ment trouble shooter for the then Attorney Gené ral Robert Kennedy, once counseled: him not to Who is Walter SHERIDAN ~ why did Robert K, talk to anyone and to go to Canada. ,./ The former congressional employee whose furnishing | counsel him not to talk & to go to Canada? of information to GARRISON has interested congressional’ probers is Harold’ / WEISBERG, author o . _ of books on the assassination, attacking the Warren Comm, the FBI and cIA..../ WEISBERG is the same man who testified in 1940! before a House committee that he bought forged documents ; Harold WEISBERG - early contact ? in an attempt to link the Dies committee to the Silver Shirts. (at that time the Silver Shirts . : . was a militant ‘right-wing organization on the attorney general's subversive list. ‘The documents were used in an abortive attempt by | Michigan: congressman to smear the Dies committee, forerunner of the present House Commjttee on Un-American Activities. ) Rec cords. of the Senate : Internal Security Subcommittee also show that WEISBERG was dropped from the staff of the late ; _ Senator LaFoliette's Special: Investigating Subcommittes ‘for leaking subcommittee confidential | ainformation. / ...In WEISBERG's book on the assassination, he contends that OSWALD, Was | — | framed by an impersonator. Congressié al probers are now check ag WEISBERG 's long-time, contacts in the CIA and State Dept, including several pérsons who transferred to those agencies from the Office of Strategic. Services (08s) after World. ‘War ii. 678. 13 Jan 68 THE NEWS - “NEWs' Pearl Gets Letter on: GARRISON ~ by Pearl GONZALEZ ~ "| GARRISON will be proven accurate in his plot. charges," _predicted Jeane Dixon, noted Wash . ’ De C.. seeress who L _— a pre i ‘what I’ pick up psychically” xon Turpher Perhaps we should query Jeane DIXON 27772? enlarged on her GARRISON predict ion by saying that @ woman was a key ‘bteure. in the | jassassination, She might be revealed by the | investigation going on in New Orleans some time this year. She | also said GARRISON will be thwarted in his probe by "a lot of power and money from’ outside SECRET the U.S. and inside" » however, the mystery woman's involvement will come out in any event,
13-00000 | ae Pot ar po | | | | en ‘sometime | in history, — : | 4 | po : | | 679. 15 Jan 68 | “THE NEWS - by Pearl GONZALEZ - the Face is Familiar - ‘Perl interviewing Gordon B, SEAVEY of | | Belmont, ‘Mass, oné of the members of the, National Newspaper Association | visiting Mexico. | | ! | ‘Some of them (the: Association’ sg members and wives) asked who GARRISON was. wale : | 680. 16 Jan 68 THE NEWS, - Witness Agrees to Make GARRISON Probe - by | Jerry Cohen -' “Lawrence “HOWARD, bsg of | ‘El Monte, Calif, accepted & GARRISON subpoena as a material witness, but said that the | ‘assertion of GARRISON that: ‘he knows about an | |assassination conspiracy is so much malay and | the only! reason he is willing to testi ty is because "IT want toiclear my name. I've got | | | ! ‘nothing to be ashamed of."' HOWARD, an unemployed welder had been on a three week trip to) |Mexico, a combination hunting and mining venture .: HOWARD freely admitted he trained aban HOWARD | | ‘anti-Castro guerrillas in Fla in early 1960s but denied any acquaintance with men named by | | ‘GARRISON as conspirators. / GARRISON is: interested in HOWARD and Loran Eugene HALL, 38, HALL : because of a story told by Mrs. Sylvia ODIO, a Cuban refugee, about a pre-assassination visit (oo fa fom three men, one of whom resembled OSWALD. / Both ‘HOWARD and HALL have said they cannot Sylvia ODIO; PoE | Bo remember meeting with Mrs. OSWALD... | : po | —— | | | | | ‘also - Saw Man With Gun in Trunk (with picture) =~ | James HICKS of Enid, Okla said: whe was in James HICKS (saw man w/gun in trunk of car) Dealy Plaza during the assassination and saw'a man with a gun in the trunk of a car on the jimell from which fone say shots were fired. : | ! 681% e0Jen 68 ‘THE NEWS - Marina “OSWALD Subpoenaed -0 he gove ment subpoenagd Marina ‘OSWALD PORTER an | | io in connection with two suits totaling $5.5 million over possessions: of OSWALD. One suit, ‘filed by Jack KING of Denver, seeks | $5 million for the value of the rifle that killed) Pres -K and the pistol that killed Tippit: / .../'Mrs. Porter's suit of $500,000 is to recover i ; ‘the value of some 348 items, including her husband! 8 diary, clothing, correspondence and gtke r | i to ‘Personal ftepte. | ! | | | | 21 Jan ee ee rae is <a PoLs.raTeKEG - by wy Popo donzates 1 se) yan 68 tana teous of Ramparts imagaline | po usual cover. «|. "iho appointed Ramsey Clark, who has done his best to torpedo the case’ | | ‘ino controls ithe CIA? | Who controls the FBI? ‘Who controls the Archives where’ this evidence iis locked up for $0 long that it is unlikely that) there is anybody in this room who will be jalive when it is rele ed? This is: really ye property and the property of! the people of | ‘this country. Who has: the | ‘arrogance and the brass to iprevent the people from seeing that ; | | ‘evidence? Who indeed? / The one man who has: profited | most, from the: assassination - your ee RAP TRAS Tater st H i i —_ - opr ena ly President, JonnBon "= ‘said GARRISON 1 we asked ‘members of the U.S. - National News-" ee ee ee ee ‘paper Association, here on ia, recent | visit "What ip your opinion of the abover" Opinions are | |etven of ‘Six people. A | | | | 1
13-00000 Fe ee ee ee ee 1 Po | ee SEURC | | 683. eJann68 j |. THE NEWS - Says Mexico City Was Base - _ GARRISON Subpoenas OSWALD 's Widow - GARRISON said that Mexico City was used asia base of operations prior to the 63 assassination. / Also . : Montreal. ./ He added that only Americans and @ few Latin Americans were involved in the plot : : to kill Pres K.: / GARRISON asked OSWALD's widow Mrs. Marina Porter, to testify. She said | oo she doubted she could help. / Grand Jury 8 Feb, / "I don't know if I could prove my innocence to him", Mrs. Porter said, "Mr. GARRISON is 80: ‘powerful. " The Subpoena called’ Marina OSWALD . : Porter “a material witness" see 3 | . ; | 1 | 1 i ! ! i i | 1 | 68h. e8gean68 ©. | OE NEWS - fJexas Judge Sarah Hughs Urges U.S. teave Vietnam - . ee cHugbes, | who swore in Pres” : Johnson 22 iNov 63 aboard an Air Force | ‘Plane. seas said “Everything in the Warren Report is . true," and", - GARRISON had no evidence ogninst it.? | 685. 3 Feb 68 , SUCESOR #1809 - “Executive Order No. 11,130 - by Jose A. ‘BENTIEZ. This article brings out : the fifteen persons. ‘directly | or indirectly involved! in the assassination, ‘who have died: Jim KOETHE murdered er myteriosly. l. Tippit 2. OSWALD 3. J im KOETHE, newspaperman,. who attended | William HUNTER . . : _ @ meeting with RUBY, prepared a book on the assassination, & was killed by a karate blow, — Tom HOWARD : and his notes have disappeared 4, William HUNTER, | newspaperman, attended the same meeting. Han KILLIAN He was cited for a declaration in a police station,’ but was killed by a gun shot off bya Earlene ROBERTS | : policeman who was absent-minded - bullet in the heart 5. Tom HOWARD, lawyer,’ also in the © Dorothy KILGALLEN méeting with RUBY. Died of unknown reasons. Taken to a hospital by a man who! knows nothing. William WHALEY - _ 6, Han KILLIAN: His wife, a stri-tease dancer in RUBY 's nightclub, was having an affair. with Nancy Jane MOONEY "one John CARTER, who lived in the same guest house as OSWALD. He fled Dallas at the beginning Lee BOWERS, Jr, | : of RUBY's trial. After finding work in Florida, he sent for his wife. Two days later he = K@ren Bennet CARLIN was found decapitated. 7. Earlene ROBERTS. Lived’ in the same guest: house as OSWALD. . Her Eddy BENAVIDES and Domingo BENAV IDES testimony was troublesome for the Dallas police and favorable to OSWALD. She died of a ; Warren REYNOLDS | ; supposed “cardiac orisis", after having lost all her previous jobs. No autopsy was performed. 8; Dorothy KILGALIEN, well known newspaperwonan, attended an interview between Warren and . RUBY. “Suicide” it was called, in her apartment. 9, William WHALEY, taxd driver who had | driven OSWALD, ‘His ‘testimony was: embarrassing ‘for the “official thesis", - He didd in an po unexplicable automobile accident. 10. Nancy Jane MOONEY, strip ‘tease dancer in RUBY's: ; nightclub. She! gave an alibi for: the person who shot at Warren Reynolds, witness to the es ee ee assassination of policeman Tippit. She hanged Herself irl a Dallas prison, | 11. Lee BOWERS, | : : JP. railroadman, one of’ the most. important witnesses who saw the shooting but not ‘from: where OSWALD was, His new automobile, going at B kilometers | ‘per hour ‘hit, : without reason, and without once applying the brakes, @wall, This "accident" was very suspicious. 12. Karen , Bennet CARLIN worked with RUBY. She spoke. before to tell him to go kill OSWALD. Assassinated by various bullets. Db. Boy BENAVITES , victim of: his ‘likeness to his brother, Domingo, = eS es pe 0 : father-in-law, who tried to investigate his death, Was a victim of an attempted house attack, but came out unhurt: 14, Jack RUBY, OSWALD's assassin, never taken toa Washington jail, — which he requested for security reasons. Died of cancer, spread out in his body, which, suddenly appeared. ab. SECR ERRIE. detained | immediately after the: assassination of | 132,
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