Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, DL
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 03/27/1962
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/27/201

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

FBI

124-10206-10117

HQ

62-9-12-308

Document Information,

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

SAC, DL

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 03/27/1962

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

CIP, FORT WORTH PDT, CORRUPTION, INVEST

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

10/06/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INC NOTE

v9.1

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF iNVESTIGATION

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATIONS SECIION

MAR 2

/ 1962

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COPIES

URGENT

8-27-62

1255

PM CST MH

TO DIRECTOR

1862-9-12

FROM SAC, DALLAS. 94-55A 3 P

CRIMINAL INTELLIGENGE PROGRAM, PALLAS DIVISION. RE DALLAS SEEMAREN

TWENTYTWO.

Patantral Cruminal Informant

BOB BAIN, PEF, DALLAS DIVISION, WHO IS REPORTER FOR FT WORTH STAR

special Agent

TELEGRAM AND WHO HAS FURNISHED RELIABLE INFO IN PAST, ADVISED SA

JOSEPH M. MYERS TODAY THAT FOLLOWING PERSONS 'ARE APPEARING BEFORE

TARRANT CO. GRAND JURY AT ET WORTH

TODAYAS FT WORTH CITY MANAGER L. P.

COOKINGHAM,

MAYOR JOHN JUSTIN, RICHARDE

NIKIRRAT

WHO IS FIRE AND

POLICE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER FOR FT WORTH, MARSHALL

TRENNADAY SEEN

AND

ED PHILIPS, LATTER IWO OF TARRANT COUNTY CRIME COMMISSION.

BAIN

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STATED HE DID NOT KNOW SIGNIFICANCE OF THEIR APPEARANCE BUT DID

TROYED

STATE THAT IT APPEARS AS INESITIGATION WAS WIDENING IN SCOPE.

STATED TARRANT CO. COMMISSIONER ISIBLE CURT JUDGE DAVE ME

64

GRE USO ENFANELED PRESENT GO ASKED FOR MONT TON/HIS BETTEN A TALLE

SUDAY BEFORE THE REPORT IS RELEASED TO THE PUBLIG LL STATED ME GEE FEELS

25 APR 3. 1962

JAN

IT WOULD BE ONLY FAIR TO HIM TO SEE THE REPORT, BEFORE IT IS RELEASED

67 APR 12

1962

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DL 94-55A

TEXAS

STATED LAST FRIDAY,

ET WORTH CHIEF OF POLICE CATOTHIGHTOWER TALKED

TO BAIN AND HIGHTOWER APPEARED VERY ANGRY AT BAIN. HIGHTOWER TOLD

BAIN THERE HAD BEEN A NUMBER OF PEOPLE, INCLUDING SEVERAL OFFICERS IN

Police Depti

THE PD, WHO WERE OUT TO SABOTAGE THE FT WORTH PD. HIGHTOWER. NAMED

TWO PATROLMEN LEONARD DORSETT AND-BERT EDMONDSON AND EX-PATROLIAN

JIMMY DEAN.

BAIN FEELS THAT HIGHTOWER IS OUT TO FIRE THESE OFFICERS.

STATED HIGHTOWER SAID THESE OFFICERS HAD BEEN FURNISHING INFO TO

Internal Revenue Service

IRS.

HIGHTOWER DID NOT MENTION THAT THEY HAD ALSO BEEN FURNISHING

INFO TO FBI. DEAN AND DORSETT BOTH HAVE BEEN INTERVIEWED BY AGENTS

OF INTERNAL REVENUE RE ALLEGATIONS OF PAYOFFS.

DORSETT HAS FURNISHED INFO TO FBI WHICH HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN

FURNISHED BUREAU, SOME OF WHICH WAS DISSEMINATED TO WILL WILSON,

TEXAS STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

BAIN STATED HIGHTOWER TOLD HIM THERE MIGHT BE SOME KILLINGS OVER

PRESENT PD SITUATION. WHEN BAIN ASKED HIGHTOWER RE THIS, HIGHTOWER

STATED AN UNNAMED POLICEMAN WHO IS A RANKING OFFICER HAS BEEN HAV-

ING AN AFFAIR WITH SOME LOCAL SECRETARY AND IF HER HUSBAND DISCOVERS

THIS THE HUSBAND MIGHT KILL THE OFFICER. BAIN HAS NO FURTHER KNOWL-

EDGE OF THIS INCIDENT OR THE IDENTITIES OF PERSONS HIGHTOWER SPOKE •

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