Originator: FBI
From: DL
To: HQ
Document date: 07/16/1958
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/17/201

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90118-10097

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-2897-24

64578 Date: 12:14-2022

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

DL

TO:

HQ

TITLE :

DATE :

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

07/16/1958

9

HARRY RAYMOND POPE

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 08/17/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

RPT

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Repor

T(5-12-55.)

Reporting Office

DALLAS

TITLE OF CASE

FEDERAL BUREAU

OF INVESTIGATION

Office of!

Origin

DALLAS

Date

7/16/58

Report made by

ROBERT M.

BARRETT

CHARACTER OF CASE

Investigative Period

5/26:6/2,9,10,11,

18,19,24;7/3,8-10/58

Typed By:

JH

HARRY RAYMOND POPE

ANTI- RACKETEERING

Syñopsis:

No Information developed that subject engaged in any specific

11legal activities while awaiting local prosecutive action at

ballas, other than continued assoclation with Dallas police

character EDWARD DANIEL, DAY, WaS:, EBI#1400012•

POPE

scheduled to plead guilty 7/25/58, in Dallas court to

narcotics possession charge and receive 3 years sentence.

SUBJECT HAS BEEN KNOWN TO USE A KNIFE IN A FIGHT, CARRIES A

SO SNUE NOSE REVOLVER ON PERSON, WAS IN POSSESSION OF: •45

CAN BAL AUTO MIC DURING RECENT ARREST, HAS SAWED-OFF SHOTGUN

AND SHOULD BE CONSTDERED ARNED AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.

POPE

HAS MADE STATEMENTS THATT HE WOULD KILL ANY OFFICER WHO ATTEMPTED

TO ARREST HIM.

DETAILS:

C ASSOCIATES

ATTORS WORTH, TEXAS

Special Agent:

Win Charge.

Bureau (92-2897)

10 New Orleans (92-37 Info)

3 - Dallas (92-34) 0057

Do not write in spaces below

93-2897+24

13 JUL 21 1958

REC- 8

EX-124

028

nastroye 8a859

STAR

Of FBI.

This report is

looned to you'by the FBI, and neither it nor its contents are to be distributed outside the agency to which loaned.

78 JUL 30 1958

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DL 92-34

On July 8, 1958, it was determined that 2930 Forest

Avenue, Dallas, was

the past three years.

LEMMON both advised that they knew of no white female named

say aed that oney

L Negro rooming house and has been so fo

'enants JESSIE SHELTON and BERTHA JEAI

Mrs. J. B. HUDSON having resided at that address for the past

three years.

From the above it appears that Mrs. HUDSON used

a false address when she registered at the St. Angelus Hotel,

San Angelo, Texas, In November, 1957•

(3) Gangland Killings

On June 18, 1958, Dallas Confidential Informant T-7,

who has furnished reliable information in the past, advised

she was a very close friend of Dallas-Fort police character

EUGENE TOWNLEY.

T-7 stated TONNLEY was a known narcotics

pusher and addict who was dealing in narcotics with ANGELO

THOMAS CASTEN, when TOWNLEY and TOWNLEY's wife mysteriously

disappeared from the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

TOWNLEY at that time was obtaining pure heroin from CASTEN and

that based on her knowledge and

characters in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, I-T was of the

opinion that TOWNLEY and TOWNLEY's wife were murdered by

h he bat i ran pod 10m.

T-T stated

association with police

ANGELO CASTEN, HARRY POPE, and a third unknown individual

believed to have been GENE

PAUL NORRIS, over a narcotics

argument.

T-7 stated she

had no definite proof concerning

the above but that it was merely an opinion.

(4.) Miscellaneous Criminal Activities Information

On June 9, 1958, Assistant District Attorney CHARLES

CABINASS advised SA

ROBERT M. BARRETT that prosecutive action

against Pofe on charges of narcotics possession would take

place on July 9, 1958, in the Dallas District Court of Juage

FRANK B. WILSON.

On July 9, 1958, CABINASS advised POPE's attorney,

CHARLES TESSMER, had on July 9, 1958, made a motion to have

POPE's case passed until July 25, 1958, at which time POPE has

agreed to enter a guilty plea and will accept a three year

sentence. (Information leading to the arrest and indictment

of POPE on the narcotics possession charge was originally.

furnished the Dallas Sheriff's Office by the Dallas FBI Office.)

E. PLACES OF AMUSEMENT AND HANGOUTS FREQUENTED

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DI 92-34

INFORMANT PAGE

T-1 1s Mr. R. W. BURROW, Chief Special Agent,

Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, Dallas.

T-2 is DL-95-C.

T-3 1s DL- 90-C.

T-4 is PCI JACQUELYN ANN DAVIS.

T-5 1s DI- 83-C.

T-6 is El Paso PCI WILLIAM HENRY TAYLOR of Odessa,

Texas.

T-T 18 PCI MARILYN MILLER.

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