Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: NO
To: HQ
Document date: 05/17/1967
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/15/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10369-10050

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 62-117290-ADMIN FOLDER-M9

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

ussassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:Nd 54462 Date:

10-04-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: NO

TO:

HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 05/17/1967

'PAGES: 298

SUBJECTS :

HSCA ADMINISTRATIVE FOLDER, LEE HARVEY OSWALD

INCOMING COMMUNICATIONS VOLUME IV

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 03/20/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INC FOLDER, MEMO, A/T, TTY, NOTE, NEWS ARTICLES, COVER PAGE, LHM, RPT, FD-302,

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DIRECTOR, FBI (62-109060)

5/3/67

SAC, CHICAGO (62-6115) (C)

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT

JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY

11/22/63 in

DALLAS, TEXAS

Re Bureau letter to Chicago, 4/17/67.

Enclosed herewith is one photograph of HARRY DEAN

believed to be taken in 1960 and furnished to the Indianapolis

Office by Captain EDWARD GRABOVAC, Detective Bureau, Whiting,

Indiana Police Department on March 6, 1961.

DEAN

first called the Chicago Office in August, 1960,

to report that he had been elected Recording Secretary, Chicago

Chapter, Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) •

He did not

divulge his name and address at this time. Later in the same

month he called this office, stating his name and advising he

was residing at 1540 Central

Avenue, Whiting, Indiana, and

that he owned his own business, the Whiting Plastering

Company.

He told of his connections with the FPCC, furnished

information concerning the leadership of this organization,

and said that he would be amenable to an interview with an

agent of the FBI.

Whiting,

The Indianapolis Office conducted an inquiry in

Indiana, in September, 1960.

Detective Captain

EDWARD GRABOVAC,

Whiting, Indiana, Police Department, advised

that DEAN, whose real name he believed to be GORDON HUNT and

who had used the name GEORGE R. BAKER, had skipped town and

the Whiting Police Department had a warrant for his arrest on bad

check charges, GRABOVAC said DEAN was a self-employed plasterer.

The Whiting, Indiana Police Department procured an identification

record

from

the Detroit, Michigan, Police Department under FBI

#4657830.

This

record revealed that DEAN had been committed as

a mental

patient in Canada in 1948 and was sentenced at Chatam,

Ontario, for

breaking and entering to "one year indefinite."

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CG 62-6115

At this time DEAN had one arrest by the Detroit Police Department

for disturbing a religious meeting and two arrests for using

indecent and obscene language. He was also AwOL fmom Fort

Knox, Kentucky, in 1949.

In December; 1960, DEAN again called this office to

report that he had been residing in Detroit for the past two

months.

At that time he said he was living in Chicago but he

refused to divulge his local address.

He continued to

telephonically contact this office on several occasions until

June, 1961.

He furnished information concerning Cuban nationals

connected with the 26th of July Movement and on local persons

connected with the FFCC.

'He was last contacted by two agents of the Chicago

Office on June 7, 1961, at which time he was told that this

office did

not desire his assistance.

Former CG 6403-S advised in August, 1960, that DEAN

was a white male, age about 25 (in 1960), stocky build, and

black hair

While DEAN voluntarily furnished information to the

Chicago Office over a period of nearly a year, he was never

considered

I a PSI or informant by this office:

On December 7, 1960, HARRY DEAN telephonically contacted

this office.

He advised

he had been in contact with a

ED SWABECK, 1716 St. Michaels, Chicago, Illinois, telephone

number Wh 4-6445.

He stated that he had originally met SWABECK

in Cuba this past summer.

He said that SWABECk invited him to

a meeting in his home on

the evening of December 7, 1960 at

7 p.m.

DEAN stated that this is a meeting of a Fair Play For

Cuba Committee (FPCC) group and that he intended to attend.

He said that from the my SwABECK talked it is his belief that

this group is trying to out due other groups re the FFCC and

made mention of a letter that he received from TABER which

similar to that of a regional director of the FPFCC.

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CG 62-6115

On

• December 20, 1960 CG 6403-s advised SA RAYMOND

E. MOONEY Of & meeting of a group of persons interested in

forming a North Side Branch of the Chicago Chapter of the

Fair Play for Cuba Committee which meeting was held on

December, 1960 at the home of EDWARD SWABECK, 1716 St.

Michael's Street, Chicago.

This group decided that

an organizational meeting

Should be him cancan to at the come of MIMI HARRIS,

BARNETT was selected to be in charge of the

program,

EID

SWABECK was assigned the duty to have the announcements printed

by DICK CRILEY and mailed, and HARRY DEAN was to call ANGUS

SUMNER and JOHN ROSSEN to obtain reading material that can

either be sold or passed out free of charge.

Temporary

Branch Officers, i,e., Chairman, Secretary and Educational

Director are to

be elected

and MARCIA STARR will collect dues

from new members.

During this meeting,

HARRY. DEAN was overheard to

state that just before he left whiting, Indiana, he had

been

beaten, a rock had been thrown through his window and he was

given a "hard time" by the townspeople.

He said that he

is presently a sheet metal worker in Chicago.

DEAN also

stated that he was in Cuba in June, 1960, and while en route

RetSED SWABECK onnthe plane, He and SWABECK were in Cuba

at the same time and were together in Cuba at least part of

the time. DEAN said his first contact with the Cubans was

when he donated money to the Cuban

cause on two occasions wher

they held parades on State Street in 1958.

At that time, he

mentioned that he was working for the Curtis Publishing

Company. DEAN said he then went to the Cuban Consulate,

Chicago,

and met DI. FERRIER, a Consulate official.

DEAN

expressed: his sympathies

toward the CASTRo revolution toN

Dr. FEikIAR. he said that Dr.

FERRIER, knew of and worked

with the 26th of July Movement in Chicago,

and he also knew.

of the formation of the FPCC.

According to DEAN, DI. FERRIER

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