Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DL
To: HQ
Document date: 11/30/1970
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

6/1/2015

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-90091-10058

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : CR 166-5219-2

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

DL

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE:

11/30/1970

PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

EDDIE HAMPTON WALSH

RUSSELL DOUGLAS MATTHEWS

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/16/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

RPT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (14 USC 2107 Hote) .

DATE: 11-14-2017

DI 166-1077>

AT IRVING, TEXAS

AT FORT WORTH, TEXAS

TED COURT, Intelligence, DPS.

252-5801, 259-3452

1.

Will contact

2. Will contact DL 202-C.

3. Will recontact Southwestern Bell Telphone

Company.

4. Will recontact Lieutenant BOB PARSONS,

Arlington PD.

ADMINISTRATIVE

DL 202-C-TE was contacted on 9/29/70,

10/4/70, 11/2/70, and 11/18/70.

Informant advised

SAM BENSON had been operating with EDDIE WALSH of

Dallas. They had an apartment in Arlington, telephone

261-9896 and operated there for several months.

aparte to

In

September they changed their number and moved to

another apartment in Arlington.

BENSON and WALSH

operated at this location in Arlington until about

the middle of October, 1970, when the Arlington PD

and DPS men raided the apartment.

WALSH was caught

in the raid but SAMKBENSON had left 15 or 20 minutes

before the raid as he got a call from a customer to

go pick up some money. Informant does not know EDDIE

WALSH personally but understands he has worked and been

associated with R. D. MATTHEWS,a well-known Dallas

bookmaker. MATTHEWS is reported to have baked BENSON

and WALSH

financially.

TEXAS

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