by William Torbitt ©
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CITATIONS
The following abbreviated form of citation is used in this
work:
References to the testimony in the 26 Volumes of the Hearings
Before the President's Commission on the Assassination of President
Kennedy are cited as follows:
C.H. for Commission Hearings, the volume numbers in Roman numerals
and the page numbers in Arabic (e.g. C.H. XV, 315)
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTERS
I. Permindex and Its Five Subsidiaries.
II. J. Edgar Hoover, Ferenc Nagy, Clay Shaw, L.M. Bloomfield,
and Permindex.
III. Roy Cohn, General John Medaris, Joe Bonanno, L.M. Bloomfield,
The Syndicate and the Mafia.
IV. The Assassination Attempt on DeGaulle.
V. In 1961, European and U.S. Publications Revealed the Defense
Intelligence Agency's Support of the Revolting French Generals.
VI. Permindex and Double-Chek Agents and Their Activities.
VII. Albert Osborne, Missionary for the A.C.C.C. and the Cabal.
VIII. Jean De Menil, OSWALD;, Gordon Novel and Their Activities
and Associates.
IX. Hungarian Prime Minister, Ferenc Nagy's Chronological Activities
and Werner Von Braun.
X. Tryall Club in Jamaica and World Commerce Corporation Successor
to the German Munitions Cartels.
XI. Clay Shaw, Permindex Director, Plans a Murder.
XII. William Seymour, Agent for the Defense Industrial Security
Command, Participates in a Murder.
XIII. Conclusion.
About the Author.
Bibliography
Appendices
Index
Footnotes
I. Permindex and Its Five Subsidiaries
When Jim Garrison, the New Orleans District Attorney, began
to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy, he took
the position that regardless of who was behind the assassination,
the American people could take the truth, should have the facts,
and that the right of the American people to know superseded
an damage that might be done to the image of the United States
by the revelation of respected government leaders' involvement
in the crime.
Chief Justice Warren and other members of the Commission charged
to investigate the assassination took another position: that
is, to reveal the assassination scheme would do great harm and
damage to the image of the United States in the eyes of the
world, and therefore, it would be to the best interests of the
Nation that their findings be as were reported by them.
Enough evidence has now been uncovered by the Warren Commission,
other investigative agencies here and in Europe, and Jim Garrison
to reveal an almost total working knowledge of how the assassination
was carried out and by whom.
The killing of President Kennedy was planned and supervised
by Division Five of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a relatively
small department within the FBI whose usual duties are espionage
and counter-espionage activities.
Actually, Division Five acted dually with the Defense Intelligence
Agency which was acting on behalf of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
in the Pentagon. Directly under the two-pronged leadership of
Division Five and the DIA was the Control Group, their highly
secret policy agency - the Defense Industrial Security Command.
The Defense Industrial Security Command has always been kept
secret because it acts, in addition to its two official control
organizations, on behalf of NASA, the Atomic Energy Commission,
the U.S. Information Agency, and the arms, equipment, ammunition,
munitions and related miscellaneous supply manufacturing corporations
contracting with NASA, the AEC, USIA, and the Pentagon. One
can readily observe that DISC is not compatible with an open
Democracy and the U.S. Constitution. Consequently, the top secret
arms manufacturers' police agency has been kept from the knowledge
of even most U.S. officials and Congressmen.
The Defense Industrial Security Command had its beginnings
when J. Edgar Hoover in the early 1930's organized the police
force of the fledgling Tennessee Valley Authority at the request
of David Lillienthal. The police force covered the entire TVA
from Knoxville, Tennessee through Huntsville and Florence, Alabama
into Kentucky and back through the eastern portion of Tennessee
into southern Kentucky. This was one of the first federal agencies
with a separate police force. This force grew and Lillienthal
took it forward to cover the Atomic Energy Commission, thus
tying it into the Army Intelligence Service.
L.M. Bloomfield, a Montreal, CANADA lawyer bearing the reputation
as a sex deviate, the direct supervisor of all contractual agents
with J. Edgar Hoover's Division Five, was the top co-ordinator
for the network planning the execution. A Swiss corporation,
Permindex, was used to head five front organizations responsible
for furnishing personnel and supervisors to carry out assigned
duties.
The five groups under Permindex and their supervisors were:
1. The Czarist Russian, Eastern European and Middle East exile
organization called SOLIDARISTS, headed by Ferenc Nagy, ex-Hungarian
Premier, and John DeMenil, Russian exile from Houston, Texas,
a close friend and supporter of Lyndon Johnson for over thirty
years.
2. A section of the AMERICAN COUNCIL OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES
headed by H.L. Hunt of Dallas, Texas.
3. A Cuban exile group called FREE CUBA COMMITTEE headed by
Carlos Prio Socarras, ex-Cuban President.
4. An organization of United States, Caribbean, and Havana,
Cuba gamblers called the Syndicate headed by Clifford Jones,
ex-Lieutenant Governor of Nevada and Democratic National Committeeman,
and Bobby Baker of Washington, D.C. This group worked closely
with a Mafia family headed by Joe Bonnano.
5. The SECURITY DIVISION of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) headed by Wernher Von Braun, head of the
German Nazi rocket program from 1932 through 1945. Headquarters
for this group was the DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL SECURITY COMMAND at
Muscle Shoals Redstone Arsenal in Alabama and on East Broad
Street in Columbus, Ohio.
The Defense Industrial Security Command is the police and espionage
agency for the U.S. munitions makers. DISC was organized by
J. Edgar Hoover; William Sullivan, his chief assistant, is in
direct command. We shall later examine the involvement of a
large number of the DISC agents including Clay Shaw, Guy Bannister,
David Ferrie, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby and others with Permindex's
Louis Mortimer Bloomfield of Montreal, Canada in charge.
As it must be, all of the preceding facts are established and
documented by overwhelming evidence beyond a reasonable doubt
on the following pages. Gordon Novel obtained the aid of the
Columbus office in 1967 when Jim Garrison was attempting to
get him back to Louisiana from Ohio. Personnel of the Defense
Intelligence Agency were subject to assignment with the Defense
Industrial Security Command.
Back to Table of Contents.
II. J. Edgar Hoover, Ferenc Nagy, Clay Shaw, L.M. Bloomfield,
and Permindex.
The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was in
charge of NASA's Security Division and the Defense Industrial
Security Command in his position as head of counter-espionage
activities in the United States. His agents investigated every
employee of the space agency as well as the employees of the
pertinent contractors doing business with NASA and also prospective
employees of every arms and munitions manufacturer.
The Defense Intelligence Agency is headed by Lt. General Joseph
F. Carroll, a former assistant Director of the FBI. Carroll
worked closely with Sullivan, Hoover and L.M. Bloomfield in
directing activities of the munition-makers' police agency,
the Defense Industrial Security Command. Walter Sheridan, whose
activities are covered later, was the direct liaison man between
Carroll and Robert F. Kennedy during the pertinent period. The
address for DISC is 3990 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio.
The Field office for the Command was located at the old Redstone
Arsenal in Huntsville and Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
Von Braun had been decorated more than any other Nazi during
World War II. Hoover had worked directly with Von Braun in connection
with NASA's security since his arrival in the United States
in December 1945.
Lyndon Johnson, as Vice-President, was Chairman of NASA, and
he, Von Braun, Bobby Baker, [and] Fred Black had worked diligently
to obtain the nine billion dollar Apollo contract for North
American Aviation in 1961. NASA awarded this contract to North
American despite the fact that it went against the recommendation
of its own source evaluation board.1 Each of the NASA security
personnel who were assigned duties in connection with the assassination
were employees or contractees for Division Five of the FBI and
many were connected with the other four groups. It must be born
in mind that this was a relatively small group within all of
these agencies. It was not official, and it was not an American
operation, but was simply the independent action taken by these
men, some of whom happened to hold official positions.
J. Edgar Hoover was named first Director of the FBI in 1924,
and he immediately organized the anti-communist Division Five
for espionage and counter-espionage work which President Roosevelt
made official in 1936. Actually, Division Five was in existence
as the General Intelligence Division of the Justice Department
since 1919. Hoover, an Assistant Attorney General and head of
the GID, had used the Czarist Russians in tracing the Bolsheviks
during the Red Scare and Palmer raids of that period.2
1924 was the year the Communists finally took complete control
of Russia after five years of resistance by the imperial Czarists.
From 1918 to 1923, the leaders of the Czarists were leaving
Russia with vast fortunes by the tens of thousands. One of those
escaping Russians was John DeMenil, presently of Houston, Texas,
who fled to France, married into the Schlumberger family, moved
to Caracas, Venezuela and then to Houston, Texas before World
War II. He is presently the Chairman of the Board of Schlumberger
Corporation, a world-wide oil well service company.
The forerunners of the Solidarists have been described by James
Wechsler of the New York Post and other writers, before and
during World War II, as the Ukrainian Fascists. The Solidarists
expanded this group to include all East European exiles, including
those of various religious denominations. Of course, these Russian
exiles in all countries of the world were violently anti-communist
and considered themselves as a government in exile with headquarters
in Munich, Germany.3 One has only to glance at Czarist Russian
history to learn that these people are the most proficient dealers
in assassination the world has ever known.
George DeMohrenschildt, a Russian emigre who refused to join
the Solidarists and who was familiar with the workings of espionage
groups and had worked with them in the past, testified that
J. Edgar Hoover, using Division Five of the FBI, was the planner
of the assassination of President Kennedy. Through DeMohrenschildt's
testimony before the Commission and his documentation, the connection
of the espionage section of the FBI and the Assassination has
been established.4
The public records of the Corporate Records Department of Italy
and Switzerland, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1963,
1964, The Invisible Government, The Espionage Establishment
by Wise and Ross, Buddy Floyd murder files, Alice Texas, Warren
Commission 26 volumes., the Grand Jury records of New Orleans
Parish, New Orleans Louisiana, all further substantiate, bolster,
and corroborate the testimony of DeMohrenschildt concerning
the FBI's Division Five's involvement.
Many examiners of the case have concluded that George DeMohrenschildt
was a part of the conspiracy because of his close association
with Oswald during the fall of 1962, and winter and early spring
of 1963, but a close reading of the Russian exile's testimony
before the Warren Commission shows that DeMohrenschildt was
being used by the Solidarists the same as Oswald was being used,
and was to have been tied in with Oswald; in connection with
the assassination. However, DeMohrenschildt, a highly polished
professional geologist, saved himself by moving to Haiti in
April of 1963 in connection with a contract with the government
of Haiti, where he still resided on the day of the assassination
of President Kennedy.
DeMohrenschildt, in retrospect, knew that Division Five of
the FBI and the Solidarists had intended to use him as a scapegoat
along with Oswald, and he did not hesitate to name the small
group within the Federal Bureau of Investigation as the instigators
of the assassination of President Kennedy.5
Concerning the Solidarists, Jack Ruby was a second generation
immigrant from the White Russian area of Poland and his brother,
Hyman Rubenstein, was born there. Ralph Paul, Ruby's Dallas
partner in the Carousel Club, was a Russian immigrant having
been born in Kiev, Russia.6
While in confinement, Jack Ruby said in letters later authenticated
by Hamilton Autographs, New York City, that pogroms against
the Jews in this country were a real threat. He repeated over
and over the words "pogroms against the Jews" in these
letters and in a number of habeas corpus hearings in Federal
District Court in Dallas, and at the same time, he testified
that Lyndon Johnson was the head of the organization carrying
out the assassination plans. Ruby's testimony is acceptable
in every court as an accomplice witness needing only corroboration
in so far as his naming Lyndon Johnson as one of the accomplices.
This has been done.
Ruby's constant use of the words "pogroms against the
Jews" reveal his close affiliation with and his deeply
ingrained awareness of his family's Russian Czarist background.
Everyone even slightly conversant with Russian history knows
that the words "pogroms against the Jews" are exclusively
descriptive of the Czarist Russian Cossacks pillaging and killing
of Jews in their villages and neighborhoods in Russia during
the centuries under the Czars. But to return to J. Edgar Hoover's
connection with the Czarist Russians in exile.
With the Solidarists' vast number of agents within Russia and
the common anti- communist objectives with J. Edgar Hoover,
these two groups immediately merged and have continually worked
almost as one since that time. In 1960, when it was determined
that Castro was a Communist, he too was considered an occupying
force, and the Cuban exiles with the common cause worked quite
naturally into the Solidarist and Division Five organizations.
Another organization participating with Division Five was a
religious group called the American Council of Christian Churches.
A.C.C.C.'s West Coast representative, E.E. Bradley, was indicted
by the New Orleans Grand Jury for complicity in the assassination.
A.C.C.C. launched a campaign in 1964, at J. Edgar Hoover's request,
to elect him President of the United States.7
In 1941, J. Edgar Hoover had his good friend and agent, Carl
McIntire, organize the espionage and intelligence unit under
the cover name "American Council of Christian Churches"
with the headquarters in New York City. This group was able
to take in many innocent religious groups who did not know they
were connected with a spy and propaganda agency. However, Hoover
and McIntire through this guise were able to place agents posing
as ministers and missionaries throughout the United States and
most Latin American countries. We will examine the involvement
of this group's agents later.8
HOOVER was joined in the cabal to murder President Kennedy
by LYNDON JOHNSON, WALTER JENKINS, Johnson's assistant, FRED
KORTH (whom Kennedy had fired as Secretary of the Navy some
two weeks before November 22), H.L. HUNT of A.C.C.C, JEAN DEMENIL,
Houston multi-millionaire, head of Schlumberger, and a director
of the Russian exile Solidarists, CARLOS PRIO SOCARRAS, ex-Cuban
president and long time gambling partner of Jack Ruby and director
of the anti-Castro Cubans, BOBBY BAKER, ex-Senate Secretary,
ROY M. COHEN, New York attorney and head of the Jewish League
Against Communism, CLIFFORD JONES, ex-Lieutenant Governor of
Nevada, Democratic National Committeeman, and business partner
with Bobby Baker and L.J. McWillie, L.J. MCWILLIE, of Las Vegas,
Nevada a partner in Havana gambling with Ruby and Jones, L.M.
BLOOMFIELD of Montreal, a long time friend and agent of J. Edgar
Hoover, FERENC NAGY, ex-Premier of Hungary, WERNHER VON BRAUN,
German Nazi rocket engineer whom Hitler personally decorated
for his work in slaughtering over 7,000 Allies during World
War II, JOHN CONNALLY and CLINT MURCHISON, SR.9
L.J. McWillie, who earlier had been a partner in the Havana,
Cuba gambling casino with Jack Ruby, Clifford Jones and ex-Cuban
President, Carlos Prio Socarras, in 1962 entered a new business
arrangement with Clifford Jones and Bobby Baker at the Thunderbird
Hotel Casino in Las Vegas.10 The Warren Commission uncovered
incontrovertible evidence that Ruby and McWillie were the closest
friends and business associates for over fifteen years. Ruby
and Ray Brantly of Dallas, the Warren Commission discovered,
had sent a number of Cobra guns to McWillie in Havana in 1958,
but Ruby and McWillie had been gun runners for years.11
The complicity of Carlos Prio Socarras, President of Cuba from
1948 to 1952, with the assassination group was documented and
authenticated in the official volumes of the Warren Commission
Hearings in volume XXVI at page 634:
December 1, 1963
AT T-2 advised on November 29, 1963, . . . . stated that in
the . . . 1950's, Jack Ruby held interest in the Colonial Inn,
a nightclub and gambling house in Hollandale, Florida. He stated
that Jack Ruby, known then as Rubenstein, was active in arranging
illegal flights of weapons from Miami to the Castro organization
in Cuba. According to T-2, Ruby was reportedly part owner of
two planes used for these purposes.
T-2 further stated that Ruby subsequently left Miami and purchased
a substantial share in a Havana gambling house in which one
Carlos Prio. . . . was principal owner. T-2 stated that Carlos
Prio was within favor of former Cuban leader Batista, but was
instrumental in financing and managing accumulation of arms
by pro-Castro forces . . .
On page 650 of the same volume, a revealing document is found
connecting Prio, Ruby, and Robert Ray McKeown, the gun-runner
who was to work with Ruby in shipping the surplus jeeps to Cuba
in 1959, T. Gonzales, who rode the bus into Mexico with Oswald,
and Ramos, who stayed at the Hotel Commercia in Mexico City
with Oswald. The document follows:
Information concerning reported contact between Jack L. Ruby
and Robert Ray McKeown was furnished by President's Commission
on March 2, 1964. . . .
Files reveal that McKeown was one of the subjects in an extensive
investigation . . concerning the activities of Carlos Prio.
. . . Prio, a former President of Cuba . . . was engaged with
others, including McKeown, in attempting to assist Castro in
his revolutionary action against the Batista regime in Cuba.
. . .
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Unit, Bureau of Internal Revenue,
continued the investigation in this matter and charged various
individuals, including McKeown, with conspiracy to smuggle guns
and related equipment to Cuba. The defendants in this action
were as follows: Dr. Carlos Prio Socarras, also known as Carlos
Prio, age unknown, male, resident of Miami, Florida, citizen
of Cuba. . . .
Orlando Garcia Vasquez, also known as Orlando Vasquez, F.
Valdez, Ramos, age unknown, male, resident of Miami, Florida,
citizen of Cuba.12
Angel Banos, age unknown, male, resident of Miami, Florida,
citizen of the United States.
Robert R. McKeown, also known as Dick McKeown, Max, J. T.
Brown, H.J. McAllister, age 47, male, resident of Galena Park,
Texas, citizen of the United States. . . .
Manuel Arques, also known as Manny, age 23, male, resident
of Miami, Florida, citizen of the United States.
Evelyn Eleanor Archer, also known as Mrs. Manuel Arques,
Ruby, age 36, female, resident of Keyport, New Jersey, citizen
of the United States.
Pedro Luis Chaviano Reyes, also known as Luis Chaviano, F.
Castillo, Gilbert Pawtoja, age 44, male resident of Miami,
Florida, citizen of Cuba.
Abelardo Pujol Barrera, also known as Joe Sanco, Jose Sauco,
Jose Alonzo, age 42, male, resident of Miami, Florida, citizen
of Cuba.
Francisco Gonzales Obregon, also known as T. Gonzales.13
Mrs. Ethel Jane McKeown, age unknown, female, resident of
Galena Park, Texas, citizen of the United States.
The arms and ammunition being smuggled to Castro at the time
and later to anti-Castro Cubans by McKeown, Ruby, Prio, and
their New Orleans associates were obtained principally from
the Redstone Arsenal in the Florence, Muscle Shoals, and Huntsville
area of Alabama, and to a lesser extent from the Pine Bluff,
Arkansas arsenal. The orders for these men and direction for
their activities came from the office of the Defense Industrial
Security Command, the munitions makers secret police agency
at Redstone..14
McKeown, Ruby, Prio, and their New Orleans associates, David
Ferrie, Clay Shaw, Maurice Brooks Gatlin, Guy Bannister, Sergio
Arcacha Smith, and the others all followed the orders of Jean
DeMenil in Houston and Wernher Von Braun of Redstone. Clay Shaw
and Walter Jenkins, only two of the large number of sex deviates
at command and lower level in the cabal were together almost
constantly, pushing LBJ during the 1960 Democratic Convention
in Los Angeles, according to delegates present there. Shaw and
Jenkins will be covered later and their close relationship established.
Prio had met with John DeMenil and Fidel Castro in Houston,
Texas in 1956 and furnished Castro with the funds to purchase
the ship which transported Castro and his men back to Cuba after
their Mexican stay. This is documented in all accounts of Castro's
rise to power.
Prio, DeMenil and their group all turned violently against
Castro in 1960 when Castro made public his Communist connections.
After this time, DeMenil and Prio, through Schlumberger, furnished
agents, arms, transportation and organization for the overthrow
of Castro. As a matter of fact, Artime, who was in charge of
the Bay of Pigs Cuban Revolutionary Council, had been Cuba's
Premier under Prio's rule.
Jack Ruby's complicity with ex-President Prio in the running
of guns to Cuba, both before and after Castro took charge in
January 1959, is documented by well over 150 credible witnesses
in the twenty-six volumes of evidence taken before the Warren
Commission. A large group of these witnesses testified concerning
Jack Ruby's presence and gun running activities in Islamorada,
Florida in 1958. Islamorada is located on the Florida Keys,
which DeMenil and Schlumberger have for a long time used as
a shipping point for arms due to its proximity to Cuba.
We quote from the testimony of the witnesses:
MRS. MARY THOMPSON, 1155 Dupont, Kalamazoo, Michigan, states
as follows:
On about May 30, 1958, she traveled to Islamorada, Florida,
accompanied by her daughter and son-in-law, DOLORES and RICHARD
RHOADS. They visited her brother and sister-in-law, JAMES and
MARY LOU 'BUTCH' WOODARD, who resided in a cottage, address
not known, which was located behind the cottage of TED WILLIAMS,
well-known professional baseball player. While there, they met
JACK and ISABEL (last name unknown), acquaintances of the WOODARDS.
There was notsufficient room in the WOODARD cottage and JACK
and ISABEL suggested that DOLORES and RICHARD spend the night
at their home. The offer was accepted and it was determined
that JACK and ISABEL lived in a small motel situated on a white
coral pier, which was reached by crossing an old bridge.
. . . . . MARY LOU said that JACK was originally from Chicago,
Illinois, and reportedly had killed a couple of men. He later
ran a drinking place in Dallas, Texas, where he became acquainted
with JAMES WOODARD, who was a member of the Dallas, Texas Police
Department for a short time in 1954. . . . . . . .
MARY LOU said that JACK had a trunk full of guns and ... that
JACK was going to supply them to the Cubans. MRS. THOMPSON stated
that she was told that there were supplies of guns hidden in
the marshes. . . .15
Mary Thompson and six members of her family identified Jack
Ruby as being the person involved in the gun running in Florida
in 1958. But the Warren Commission had already uncovered one
hundred fifty unimpeached witnesses who put Jack Ruby in theCuban
gun running business for over twelve years preceding 1963. Let
us return to the involvement of Carlos Prio Socarras. On November
20, 1963, Salvador Diaz Verson proceeded to Mexico City at the
direction of Carlos Prio. In Mexico City, Diazimmediately after
the assassination fed the following story to the world news
media:
Dr. Angel Fernandez Varela stated that when Diaz Verson returned
to Miami from Mexico City in the latter part of November 1963,
Diaz Verson advised him that while in Mexico City he had had
contact with other newspapermen there and had learned that the
Mexican Federal Police had arrested a Mexican citizen, Sylvia
Duran, an employee of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City, because
of her connection between Oswald and the Cuban Embassy.16
Dr. Fernandez said Diaz Verson also told him that Oswald had
stayed at the home of Duran, and subsequently met with the Cuban
Ambassador in Mexico City at a restaurant called Caballo Bayo,
accompanied by Sylvia Duran. Dr. Fernandez said he understood
from Diaz Verson that Duran, the Cuban Ambassador to Mexico,
whose name Fernandez did not know, and Oswald, reportedly went
for a ride together in a car. Dr. Fernandez said that the federal
police in Mexico City reportedly had turned over the information
concerning these incidents involving Oswald; to the United StatesEmbassy
in Mexico City.17
Salvador Diaz Verson had been Prio's Chief of Military Intelligence
Service during the Cuban presidency of Prio from 1948 through
1952. Diaz and Prio together had worked for the Defense Industrial
Security Command since coming to the U.S. after Castro embraced
Communism.18
The anti-Castro Cuban part of the plan was to tie the Castro
regime into the murder of Kennedy and thus to have the U. S.
military give all service to the overthrow of Castro.
Another connection of Carlos Prio Socarras and the assassination
unit was uncovered by the Warren Commission. This evidence concerned
Dr. Cesar Fernandez, Prio's Minister of Information during his
presidency of Cuba. Prio and Fernandez in addition had been
close lifetime friends and Prio obtained Fernandez employment
with the Defense Industrial Security Command.
The following was confirmed by the daughter of the witness
in all respects, she having been shown the documents of Mrs.
Hoover in October, 1963. Here is the story of Prio's friend,
Fernandez.
On November 27, 1963, Corporal Theodore La Zar, Pennsylvania
State Police, Hollidaysburg, Pa., advised that at approximately
10:00 pm on November 27, 1963, Robert Steele, 316 Brayton Avenue,
Altoona, Pa., stopped at the Pennsylvania State Police Barracks
and advised that he was the brother of Margaret Kathryn Hoover,
105 S. Walnut St., Martinsburg, Pa., and had the following information
to offer concerning the assassination of President Kennedy which
he had received from her.19
During the third week in October, 1963, Mrs. Hoover who lives
in a second-story apartment, 105 S. Walnut St., Martinsburg,
Pa., located three items in the dry leaves immediately below
her upstairs porch. This porch and Mrs. Hoover's residence are
located at the rear of a lot containing two homes. The home
at the rear is occupied by Mrs. Hoover and the home in the front
of the lot, which was formerly occupied by Mrs. Hoover, is known
as 400 E. Allegheny St., Martinsburg, Pa., and for the past
two months has been occupied by Dr. Julio Fernandez, a Cuban
refugee, who is presently teaching at the Morrison Cove Junior
High School, Martinsburg.20
These items consisted of an envelope used for tickets from
the Seaboard Airline Railroad Company, Miami, Fla.; a used ticket
which was enclosed therein indicating the holder had a coach
reservation on the railroad, seat number 48, car number 3E,
on a train leaving Miami, Fla., at 12:40 pm on September 25,
1963, and arriving in Washington, D.C., the following date.
This ticket bore the number, D-214332. Also in the leaves was
a throw-away advertisement, commonly used in advertising trailers,
which was found by Mrs. Hoover. Penciled on the back of this
throw-away, which contained no handwriting, were the following
notations:
The upper left hand corner contained the name of a club, unrecalled
by Mrs. Hoover, and a six digit number thereunder which contained
either an address or a telephone number.21 In the top middle
of the page was the name, Lee Oswald.22
On the right top of the page was the word, Rubenstein.23 In
the middle of the page were the words "Jack Ruby".24
On the bottom of the page, toward the center, were the words,
Dallas, Texas.25
Clay Shaw, the defendant in the New Orleans assassination case
and L.M. Bloomfield of Montreal, Canada, were the only North
American members of both the Board of Directors of Permindex
and Centro-Mondiale Comerciale. Shaw had been one of the incorporators
of the Swiss corporation, Permindex.26 The other members of
the Board include a publisher of the Fascist National-Zeitung
in West Germany, an Italian industrialist who married into the
family of Adolph Hitler's finance minister, and a Rome lawyer,
the Secretary of the Fascist Party.27
Also on the Board of Permindex was Ferenc Nagy, a Solidarist
and Prime Minister of Hungary from 1946 to 1947; George Mandel,
alias Mantello, a Hungarian Fascist who supervised attempts
to purchase national monuments for real estate development in
Italy, and Munir Chourbagi, an uncle of King Farouk. Chourbagi
was the victim in a recent murder in Italy. 28
The ruling clique of Permindex and its two subsidiaries, the
Italo American Hotel Corporation and Centro Mondiale Comerciale,
in addition to the sophisticated Nazis and Fascists heretofore
named, were Gutierez di Spadafora, who was Under- Secretary
of Agriculture in Mussolini's Fascist regime and who was also
a ruling lord in the Mafia with Italy and Southern Europe as
his land area; Enrico Mantello (Henry Mandel, brother of George
Mandel); Guiseppee Zigiotti, the head of the Italian political
party, Fascist Nationalist Association for Militia Arms; and
Hungarian emigre and former Nazi, H. Simonfay.29
On December 1, 1962, the representative of the publication,
Who's Who in the South and Southwest, was told by Clay Shaw
in New Orleans that he was a director for the Swiss Corporation,
Permindex. Shaw was also one of the directors for Centro Mondiale
Comerciale of Rome. As we shall see later, one purpose of Permindex
was the funding of the 1961 and 1962 assassination attempts
on DeGaulle.
Both firms being directed by the same men, the stated corporate
purpose was to encourage trade between nations. Their actual
purpose was fourfold:
1.To fund and direct assassination of European, Mid-East and
world leaders considered threats to the Western World and to
petroleum interests of the backers.
2.To furnish couriers, agents, and management in transporting,
depositing and re-channeling funds through Swiss banks for Las
Vegas, Miami, Havana and international gambling syndicate.
3.To co-ordinate the espionage activities of the Solidarists
and Division Five of the FBI with groups in sympathy with their
objectives and to receive and channel funds from the financiers
to the action groups.
4.To build, acquire and operate hotels and gambling casinos
in the Caribbean, Italy and other tourist areas.30
The principal financiers of Permindex were a number of U. S.
oil companies, H. L. Hunt of Dallas, Clint Murchison of Dallas,
John DeMenil, Solidarist director of Houston, John Connally
as executor of the Sid Richardson estate, Haliburton Oil Co.,
Senator Robert Kerr of Oklahoma, Troy Post of Dallas, Lloyd
Cobb of New Orleans, Dr. Oschner of New Orleans, George and
Herman Brown of Brown and Root, Houston, Attorney Roy M. Cohn,
Chairman of the Board for Lionel Corporation, New York City,
Schenley Industries of New York City, Walter Dohrnberger, ex-Nazi
General and his company, Bell Aerospace, Pan American World
Airways, its subsidiary, Intercontinental Hotel Corporation,
Paul Raigorodsky of Dallas through his company, Claiborne Oil
of New Orleans, Credit Suisse of Canada, Heineken's Brewery
of Canada and a host of other munition makers and NASA contractors
directed by the Defense Industrial Security Command.
The gambling syndicate and Mafia contracting agents who handled
the transactions with Permindex were ex-President Carlos Prio
Socarras of Havana, Miami and Houston, Clifford Jones of Las
Vegas, Morris Dalitz of Las Vegas, Detroit, Cleveland and Havana,
former head of the Cleveland mob and close friend of Hunt, Hoover
and Roy Cohn, L.J. McWillie of Las Vegas, a gambling partner
with Cliff Jones, Bobby Baker of Washington, D.C., Ed Levinson
of Las Vegas, Benny Seigelbaum of Miami, Henry Crown of Chicago,
associate of the Mafia, Patrick Hoy of the controlling clique
in General Dynamics and Joe Bonanno of Lionel Corporation of
New York.31
It should be pointed out here that John Connally, Paul Raigorodsky
and Jean DeMenil were close friends and business associates.
The were members of an exclusive club in Northern Jamaica. The
name of the club was Tryall located on Montego Bay.
Bill Stephenson, former head of British Intelligence in the
U.S., started in the club in 1946. Connally, DeMenil and Raigorodsky
owned and still own palatial retreats within the tightly guarded
Tryall compound. L.M. Bloomfield met with the three on numerous
occasions at Tryall in Jamaica.32
Among Connally's assigned duties was the keeping of Texas police
agencies in line after the murder. John Connally was an active
participant in the assassination plans, but he was one of the
agents whose over-all knowledge was limited by the "need
to know basis".
One of the banks through which the American backers channeled
funds to Permindex was Astaldo Vaduz in Miami, Florida. As a
matter of fact, the Miami bank was owned and controlled by the
Permindex financiers and board members. The European banks handling
the accounts were De Famaco Vaduz, Liechtenstein, Credit Bank
of Geneva, Switzerland, (Credit Bank and Credit Suisse are one
and the same), Banca Nazionale del Lavoro of Italy, De Famaco
Astalde Vaduz, Switzerland and Seligman Bank of Basal, Switzerland.
The attorney for the transactions through the Miami bank was
Alex Carlson, Double-Chek's Miami Springs manager.33
Alex Carlson turned the entire CIA Double-Chek organization
and personnel over to Division Five of the FBI to work for Permindex
in executing the assassination thus causing many astute observers
to mistakenly believe the CIA carried out the affair.
L.M. Bloomfield, a lawyer of Montreal, Canada and a long time
friend and confidant of J. Edgar Hoover, has been Hoover's contract
supervisor of Division Five since his days in the OSS before
World War II. Bloomfield held one-half of the shares of Permindex
and was in total command of its operation in Europe and Africa
as well as the North and South American continents. He was the
co-ordinator of all activities responsible only to Hoover and
Johnson in carrying out the plans for John Kennedy's assassination.34
Bloomfield ordered Permindex's Ferenc Nagy and George Mandel,
alias Giorgio Mantello, to the United States in 1962 where they
helped to supervise the plans. Mandell was assigned to the Los
Angeles, California area. Ferenc Nagy, former Premier of Hungary
in 1946 and 1947, settled in Dallas, Texas, where he contacted
H.L. Hunt, Igor Voshinin, George Bouhe, Peter Gregory of Fort
Worth, Paul Raigorodsky and other members of the Solidarists
and took command of actual planning in the Southwest. It should
be pointed out that although the White Russians were dominant
in the Solidarists, it contained East Europeans, Jewish and
Orthodox Christians and even Arabic nationals whose countries
had been taken over by Communism. 35
Nagy in Dallas over the months before November 22, 1963, worked
with Carlos Prio Socarras and Alex Carlson in Miami, Clay Shaw
in New Orleans, John DeMenil in Houston, Clifford Jones and
L.J. McWillie in Las Vegas, Bobby Baker and Fred Korth in Washington,
D.C., Albert Osborne, alias J.H. Bowen, of Laredo, Texas and
Mexico, Roy Cohn in New York City, and others all under the
direction of L.M. Bloomfield in making the plans and preparations.36
Albert Osborne, the missionary supervisor of the professional
assassins, met Nagy in Laredo, Texas a short time before the
November date. The details of the movement of the professionals
were worked out and Osborne then traveled to Montreal where
he conferred with his direct boss of over twenty years, L.M.
Bloomfield.37
On November 22, Osborne and about ten of his riflemen were
living at 3126 Harlendale in Oak Cliff, a section of Dallas.
Three of his professionals were at Tammie True's house in Fort
Worth and Leon Oswald, alias William Seymour, had been at the
Oak Cliff address for about four weeks. Before dark on November
23, l963, Osborne, Seymour, Gonzales and the other riflemen
were out of Dallas.38
This is the nomenclature of the assassination team. That is
the way John F. Kennedy met his death in Dallas.
At the top was JOHNSON, HOOVER, BLOOMFIELD, NAGY, DeMENIL,
PRIO, JENKINS, HUNT, BAKER, JONES, McWILLIE, VON BRAUN, COHN,
KORTH, CONNALLY and MURCHISON.
L.M. Bloomfield was in overall charge responsible only to Hoover
and Johnson.
The second layer of participants with supervisory and working
assignments under Bloomfield and the first group were Walter
Dornberger, ex-Nazi General, Guy Bannister, Albert Osborne of
A.C.C.C., E.E. Bradley of A.C.C.C., Morris Dalitz of Las Vegas,
Major General John B. Medaris, Robert McKeown, Igor Voshinin,
George Bouhe, Peter Gregory, Maurice Gatlin, Sergio Arcacha
Smith, Lee Harvey Oswald, William Seymour, David Ferrie, T.
Gonzales, Manuel Garcia Gonzales, Layton Martens, Gordon Novel,
Walter Sheridan, William Dalzell, Paul Raigorodsky, Joe Bonanno,
Dimitri Royster of A.C.C.C., Alex Carlson, George Mandel, Breck
Wall, Clay Shaw, Joe Cody, Jake Kosloff, Mike McLaney, Ruth
and Mike Paine, Igor Vagonov, Jack Bowen, Mike Ryan, Tammie
True, Max Cherry, Patrick Hoy, David Hoy, James Powell and a
number of others with limited assignments informed only enough
to carry out the assignments with dispatch.
There were others involved also, but the published evidence
up to 1969 is such that it would be unfair to name them.
Substantially the same management under Bloomfield of Montreal
and J. Edgar Hoover planned and carried out the execution of
Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. Albert Osborne had
his riflemen in Memphis and one of his professionals fired the
fatal shot at King. Ray was used as Oswald had earlier been
used.
The book, The Strange Case of James Earl Ray reveals that Ray
was a persistent visitor to the International Trade Mart in
New Orleans39 just prior to the killing40 and that the real
assassin of King entered the naval base near Memphis, Tennessee,
where Division Five maintains a headquarters, only minutes after
King's assassination. He was in the white Mustang involved in
the mysterious chase described on police radio immediately after
the killing.41
On August 4,1969, James Earl Ray confirmed that Division Five
of the FBI was used in the slaying of Martin Luther King, Jr.
He stated on that date that Dr. King was killed by federal agents
and that they used him to be a fall guy.42
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III - Roy Cohn, General John Medaris, Joe Bonanno, L.M. Bloomfield,
the Syndicate and the Mafia.
Roy M. Cohn, using a representative of Intercontinental Company
of Garland, Texas, a subsidiary of Lionel Corporation, provided
a Dallas located agent to work with Ferenc Nagy. This agent
was Ramon Buenrostro Cortez. Others with Cortez in Texas were
Lorenzo Saunders and a Cuban exile, Ignacio Hernandez Garcia,
alias Fernandez Feito.43
In the September 5, 1969 issue of LIFE Magazine, it was reported
that J. Edgar Hoover punished three of his FBI agents in New
York for cooperating with the United States District Attorney
in New York, Robert Morgenthau, in his prosecution against Roy
M. Cohn on a number of felony charges. The LIFE report has this
to say:
During the McCarthy inquisitions of the early 1950's, Cohn,
as Senator McCarthy's chief counsel, had worked closely with
(Louis B.) Nichols and the FBI in developing cases against suspected
Communists. Agents spent weeks screening FBI security files
and extracting them in memos for Cohn during the prolonged hearings.
Through these years Cohn's friendship with Director Hoover also
developed, and this was further cemented by their mutual regard
for the multimillionaire boss of the huge Schenley distillery
complex, Lewis Rosenstiel. (Cohn to this day addresses Rosenstiel
variously as "commander-in-chief" or "supreme
commander" and Rosenstiel refers to his younger friend
as "field commander" or "sergeant major").
When Nichols decided to retire from the FBI in 1957, Cohn
set out to land him a job with Schenley. He had the willing
support of another Rosenstiel friend, the late conservative
columnist George Sokolsky, for whom Nichols represented 100%
anti-Communist Americanism. At a social evening in August, 1967,
Cohn and Sokolsky agreed to try to sell Nichols to Rosenstiel
as prime executive timber.
The next night they made their pitch to Rosenstiel. Nichols,
Cohn contended, was a genius, truly "one of the greatest
men in America", whereupon Rosenstiel dispatched the Schenley
private plane to Washington to fly Nichols and his wife to a
conference at Rosenstiel's Greenwich, Conn. estate. Under Cohn's
continued urging, Rosenstiel agreed to give Nichols a 10-year
contract at $100,000 a year, plus stock options, in addition
to arranging for Schenley's to buy and furnish a Manhattan apartment
for Nichols. The whole package had to be an impressive introduction
to corporate business for a middle-aged FBI man who had spent
most of his adult life as a modestly paid public servant. Nichols
later became executive vice president in charge of corporate
development and public affairs and was elected to the Schenley
board.
. . . Hoover personally ordered the three agents transferred
out of New York. On May 2, each received a letter of censure
and was given 30 days to report to his new post - (Donald) Jones
to go to St. Louis, (Russell) Sullivan to Louisville, and (Jack)
Knox to Pittsburgh.
Bureau men are accustomed to being ordered around in a fairly
peremptory way, but such disciplinary transfers usually have
a gloss of logic. This time the men were being moved for doing
what in essence they were paid to do -- helping a U.S. Attorney
protect his case. The ensuing rumble of protest was so loud
that it could be heard even outside the Bureau, which virtually
never happens. Morgenthau was furious. He confronted Assistant
FBI Director John F. Malone, the top man in the New York field
office, and Malone promptly reported the confrontation to Washington.
The next day Hoover personally directed the New York field office
to inform the three wayward agents that they now had until midnight
the following day - 36 hours in all - to report totheir new
stations, which they did.
LIFE went on to say:
"Cohn has cultivated a long friendship with Edwin Weisl,
President Johnson's handpicked ambassador to New York's Democratic
party. Weisl .... is a frequent Cohn luncheon companion."
Weisl was a long time friend of Johnson. As a matter of fact,
during the 1950's, Weisl was the general counsel to the Senate
Space Committee and he and Johnson were constantly together
along with General John B. Medaris, then head of the Army Space
Program. Among other groups, Medaris, during this program, had
been in charge of Wernher Von Braun and the other Nazi space
scientists at Huntsville, Alabama.44
From 1960 to 1963, the ruling hierarchy of Lionel Corporation
was General John B. Medaris, Roy Cohn and Joe Bonanno (Joe Bananas),
a top Mafia man from New York, Las Vegas, Tucson and Montreal,
Canada. Lionel Corporation during this period didover ninety
percent of their business with the space agency and army ordnance
furnishing such items as electronic equipment, rocket parts,
chemical warfare agents and flame throwers. Also, during this
period, General Medaris, though having retired in 1960, remained
on active duty as special advisor to Army Intelligence in the
Pentagon.45
The Lionel Corporation management was in direct contact with
Louis Mortimer Bloomfield who, among other things, was a lawyer
with offices in Tangiers, Morocco and Paris, France. Bloomfield
was also the president of Heineken's Brewers, Ltd., Canada.
General Medaris was a director of one of the land speculation
companies of Bobby Baker and Senator George Smathers in Florida.
Joe Bonanno (Joe Bananas) in his capacity as a Mafia leader,
was associated in the Havana and Las Vegas gambling with L.J.
McWillie, Clifford Jones and others.46
In addition to J. Edgar Hoover's close association with Roy
Cohn, he was also a long time friend of General Medaris. Joe
Bonanno (Joe Bananas) had been a personal informer for J. Edgar
Hoover for over a decade during 1963.47
Grant Stockdale, ex-United States Ambassador to Ireland and
former George Smathers Administrative Assistant and a stock
holder and officer in Bobby Baker's vending machine and Florida
land transactions, knew and was closely associated with almost
all of the top figures in the cabal.48
Shortly after President Kennedy's assassination on November
22, 1963, Grant Stockdale was pushed, shoved or fell from the
fourteenth story of a Miami building and was killed immediately
in the fall. As an officer in the Bobby Baker enterprises, Grant
Stockdale had particular knowledge of a good part of the workings
of the cabal and his death was one of a series made necessary
to protect the group from public exposure.
A number of the conspirators' connections in the early 1960's
and the various connections, organizations and financial conduits
were revealed in books published in 1969.
Donald R. Cressey revealed in his work, Theft of a Nation,
that a "Lelow" was the top guy of the Joseph L. Bonanno
group in Montreal, Canada. The name was overheard on a telephone
tap and it is believed to be Lazlo Nagy, a close relative of
Ferenc Nagy.
There, it is also revealed, "the Bonanno family has for
decades had other interests in Montreal which is a bet taking
lay-off center for U.S. bookmakers and lay-off men re-insure
their bets."
All of the investigators looking into Louis Mortimer Bloomfield's
activities in connection with Permindex, the Swiss corporation,
reported him as a banker in Montreal, Canada. He is not a banker
as such, but a bet lay-off man is always referred to as a banker
and this is where the confusion came. In fact, Bloomfield, as
has been shown before, was the contract agent in charge of Division
Five, the espionage agency of J. Edgar Hoover, and was a Montreal
lawyer with offices in Paris, France, and Tangiers, Morocco.49
Among the large number of suppressed Warren Commission Documents
were two which are of interest here. Their titles are:
1.Allegation Oswald was in Tangiers, Morocco
Document Number 1188
2.Allegation Oswald in Montreal, Summer 1963
Document Number 729
Poor's Register for 1963 lists the corporations and dummy corporations
through which Bloomfield funneled the funds into and away from
the Swiss banks. They are:
Credit Suisse (Canada), Ltd. (a subsidiary of CREDIT SUISSE
of Berne, Switzerland)
Manoir Industries, Ltd.
British Controlled Oil Fields, Ltd.
Grimaldi Siosa Lines (Canada), Ltd.
Berkeley Property Corp., Ltd.
Canscot Realty Investments, Ltd.
Canscot Building, Ltd.
Beaver Hall Investments, Ltd.
Israel Continental Oil Co., Ltd.
Lenzing Pulp and Paper Corp., Ltd.
Leviton Mfg. of Can., Ltd.
Mirelia Investments, Ltd.
Progress Luminaire, Ltd.
Protrade Commercial Devel., Ltd.
Heineken's Breweries (Can.), Ltd.
Ed Reid, in The Grim Reapers, reveals one of the other subsidiaries
of CREDIT SUISSE and conduits through funds were funneled. There
the connection of Bobby Baker, Morris Dalitz, Cliff Jones and
others in the conspiracy and their connections with the conduits
are shown. The principle funding agency for Permindex was the
Credit Bank of Geneva, also known as Credit Suisse.50
The Syndicate Caribbean money structure is partially represented
by the Bank of World Commerce, Ltd., which was incorporated
in 1961 under British law in Nassau, Bahamas. Nevada's Cliff
Jones and Ed Levinson were listed as stockholders.
Tied into the whole structure was a firm known in 1961 as Allied
Empire, Inc., formerly Allied Television Films, Inc., of Beverly
Hills, California. At that time Allied Empire was listed as
a corporate stockholder with ten thousand shares of Bank of
World Commerce stock, and was the holding company for the bank.51
The financial structure has myriad connections. A score of
Las Vegas gamblers and state and federal politicians were involved
in the setup through Anjon Savings and Loan, account Number
804, and Merritt Savings and Loan of Baltimore, Maryland, which
was bought out by Anjon Account Number 804. By means of a network
of American and British corporate laws, Account Number 804's
list of depositor-stockholders includes not only the Bank of
World Commerce - $23,000 - but also a number of Las Vegans.
When all the records are put together, we find that the names
of a number of individuals involved show up again and again
in the complex web of gambling operations in various places
on the North American continent and form compass points which
chart a course to the truth of the operation.
Account Number 804 listed among its stockholders: Irving Devine,
Las Vegas gambler whose wife was named by LIFE as a mob courier,
Clifford Jones, Edward Levinson, John Pullman, one time president,
Bank of World Commerce, M.A. Riddle, B.E. Seigelbaum and Sav-Way
Investment Company.
The persons holding office and stock in the Bank of World Commerce
at the time of its inception were: John Pullman, president and
director; Edward Dawson Roberts, vice-president and director;
Gerald Nelson Capps, secretary and treasurer; N. Roberts, director;
Alvin I. Malnic, director, and Philip J. Mathew, director. Among
the stockholders were; Leon C. Bloom, Jr., Clifford A. Jones,
John Pullman, Irving Devine, Edward Levinson and Allied Empire,
Inc.
On September 8, 1967, two of the individuals involved with
the Bank of World Commerce and Anjon Savings and Loan, Account
Number 804, were named by LIFE as "bagmen" for Meyer
Lansky in the syndicate's far-flung gambling kingdom. A third,
an alleged "bagwoman", is the wife of one of the Bank
of World Commerce stockholders. Cash was carried by these people
and others, the article stated, via the Bank of World Commerce
into the financial arteries of an organization in the Bahamas
known as the Atlas Bank, a working subsidiary of the CREDIT
SUISSE in Berne, Switzerland. All three of the boards of directors
and staffs of these money entities were what LIFE described
as "studded with both skimmers and couriers" for the
mob.52
Among the fund couriers listed was Ben Sigelbaum (Seigelbaum),
sixty-five years old, political advisor and a long time associate
of Ed Levinson in many of his business endeavors. Sigelbaum
was also a business associate and confidant of Bobby Baker when
the latter was Secretary of the Democratic Majority in the U.S.
Senate. Also named was John Pullman, sixty-seven years old,
original president of the Bank of World Commerce who once served
a prison term for violating U.S. liquor laws and gave up his
American citizenship in 1954 to become a Canadian. He now lives
in Switzerland. Another courier was Sylvain Ferdmann, a thirty-three
year old Swiss citizen described as in international banker
and economist and, by U.S. authorities, as a fugitive accused
of interfering with federal inquiries into the skimming racket
in Las Vegas and elsewhere.53
Ida Devine, wife of Las Vegas gambler Irving (Niggy) Devine,
traveled with Sigelbaum from Las Vegas to Miami with skimmed
money for Lansky; Ferdmann is said to have carried the skim
from the Bahamas to Lansky; and Lansky counted the money in
Miami, took his own cut and dispensed other sums, via different
couriers, to a few syndicate chieftains in the United States.
At that point, the story went on, Ferdmann and Pullman carried
the remainder of the funds to the CREDIT SUISSE in Berne, Switzerland
and deposited them in numbered accounts in the Swiss haven for
secret-money banking.54
An active part in the whole affair was carried out by Ferdmann,
who organized the Atlas Bank as the Bahamas subsidiary of the
CREDIT SUISSE of Berne, Switzerland.
The foregoing further confirms, Bloomfield, Permindex, Double-Chek
and the connections with the same group as was connected earlier
in Credit Bank of Geneva which is one and the same as CREDIT
SUISSE, Miami Astaldo Vaduz, Double-Chek, Alex Carlson and the
other Swiss and Liechtenstein Banks.
Fred Black of Washington, D.C. was a lobbyist for North American
Aircraft and business associate with Bobby Baker and Clifford
Jones. Black has confirmed the connection between Jones, McWillie,
Baker, Ruby and ex-Cuban President, Prio.55
After November 22, l963, Black publicly told many people in
Washington, D.C. he had informed J. Edgar Hoover that an income
tax conviction against him must be reversed or he would blow
the lid off Washington with revelations of the assassination
conspirators.56
Lobbyist Black prevailed upon J. Edgar Hoover to admit error
before the Supreme Court where his case was reversed in 1966.57
Hoover did well to rescue Black from the conviction. Fred Black,
while socially drinking with acquaintances in Washington has,
on numerous occasions, been reported to have told of J. Edgar
Hoover's and Bobby Baker's involvement in the assassination
through Las Vegas, Miami and Havana gamblers. He named some
of these as the Fox Brothers of Miami, McLaney of Las Vegas,
New Orleans, Havana and Bahamas, Cliff Jones of Las Vegas, Carlos
Prio Socarras of Havana, Bobby Baker and others. He stated there
was also a connection in that some of the gamblers were Russian
emigres.58
Don Reynolds, Washington, D.C. businessman and associate of
Bobby Baker and who had a number of questionable business transactions
with Walter Jenkins on behalf of Lyndon Johnson, also gave testimony
concerning Bobby Baker's involvement with the principals and
he has stated on numerous public occasions that this group was
behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.59
Black was a stockholder with Baker in the Waikiki Savings &
Loan Association in Honolulu. The other members were Clifford
Jones and his law partner, Louis Weiner. There was the Farmers
and Merchants State Bank in Tulsa where Jones joined Baker and
Black in a stock deal and brought in a Miami pal by the name
of Benny Sigelbaum, a courier of funds and documents to the
Swiss banks for Permindex and the Syndicate.60
Of all the enterprises, none could compare with the controversial
Serv-U Corp., a Baker-Black controlled vending-machine firm.
Ed Levinson, president of the Fremont Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada,
was also a partner. Grant Stockdale, President of Serv-U and
his money is covered later.61
Formed late in 1961, Serve-U Corporation provided vending machines
for the automatic dispensing of food and drink in companies
working on government contracts. In the next two years, Serv-U
was awarded the lion-share of the vending business at three
major aerospace firms - North American Aviation, Northrop Corporation
and Thompson Ramo Wooldridge's Space Technology Laboratories.62
Baker and Black each bought stock in the company for $1 a share,
while the others paid approximately $16 a share. Early in 1963
when Baker's Carousel Motel in Ocean City, Md. ran into financial
difficulties, it was bought by Ser-U for $1 million.63
McWillie, Baker and Jones were involved in numerous transactions
together, one of which was the incorporation of Greatamerica,
the conglomerate company. The incorporating papers in Carson
City, Nevada dated April 27, 1962 lists Abe Fortas as vice-president,
general counsel and director. There is not sufficient evidence
made public yet to connect Fortas with the assassination conspiracy.
One of the incorporators of Greatamerica was Clifford A. Jones,
Nevada Lieutenant Governor from 1945-54 and a part owner and
officer of the Thunderbird Hotel in Las Vegas. The gambling
license issued to Jones and a partner in the hotel was revoked
by the Nevada Tax Commission in 1955 on grounds that underworld
figures had interests in the hotel. The decision was later overturned
by the Nevada Supreme Court.64
On January 5, 1966, Clifford Jones was indicted for perjury
in connection with the grand jury investigation of Bobby Baker,
former secretary to Senate Democrats.65
Baker was indicted the same day for conspiracy, tax evasion
and fraudulently converting to his own use nearly $100,000 from
California savings and loan executives who thought they were
making political contributions.66
Clifford Jones was named a co-conspirator in that indictment.
Baker was later convicted of failing to pay tax on the $100,000.
Jones' case had not come to trial as of the summer of 1969.67
Abe Fortas was Baker's attorney until Johnson became President
in 1963. At that time he withdrew from the case.68
The two other incorporators of Greatamerica were Helen Irving
and Katherine Waldman, both of Las Vegas, and both also listed
as directors of a Las Vegas concern which got a gambling license
in June, 1964. The same three incorporators - Jones and the
two women - were listed as incorporators when Greatamerica filed
to do business in Texas on January 29, 1963, records in the
Texas Secretary of State's Office in Austin showed.69
Troy Post of Dallas, Texas was the originator of Greatamerica.
It was Troy Post working with Bobby Baker and Clifford Jones
who put the conglomerate together. Edward Levinson of the Fremont
Hotel in Las Vegas was associated with Bobby Baker, Clifford
Jones and L.J. McWillie in the plans for the assassination of
President Kennedy. Levinson refused to answer any questions
before the Senate Committee investigating the Bobby Baker case
in 1964. Levinson took the Fifth Amendment seventy-five times.
Levinson and Morris Dalitz of the Desert Inn and Stardust in
Las Vegas were also connected with Carlos Prio Socarras, ex-Cuban
President, and Cliff Jones in all Havana gambling before and
after Castro took control. Morris Dalitz, Roy M. Cohn, H.L.
Hunt and J. Edgar Hoover had worked together for years in the
anti-Communist movement. They had been active as a group for
the Joe McCarthy investigations during the early 1950's.70
Morris Dalitz, for years had been the head of the Cleveland,
Ohio underworld and as such had been a business partner of Joe
Bonanno of the Mafia and Lionel Corporation. Dalitz and Bonanno
had been a constant target of Robert Kennedy in his organized
crime fight. We shall later look into Bonanno's activities and
connections.
Ed Reid in his 1969 book, The Grim Reapers, published a picture
of Lyndon Johnson at Morris Dalitz' Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas,
Nevada, taken when Johnson and Bobby Baker met with Dalitz prior
to the assassination. Johnson and Dalitz were photographed together
a number of times during the important Las Vegas meeting. Also
at the meeting with Johnson, Baker and Dalitz, the host, were
Ed Levinson, Clifford Jones and Roy Cohn.
The great majority of FBI agents knew nothing about Hoover's
actions and capable agents made a conspiracy case against Clifford
Jones along with Bobby Baker in connection with their various
financial transactions. Jones was indicted in 1964 for the conspiracy
and a second indictment was made against him for perjury, that
is for lying under oath when testifying for Baker.
J. Edgar Hoover pressured the Justice Department and Jones
has not been brought to trial for more than five years after
the charges. Hoover and Jones were personally close friends
as well as a members of the assassination cabal.
Because of the wide publicity and public pressure, Hoover could
not quash the Baker case without a trial. However, he worked
through Abe Fortas on the Supreme Court and Baker's appeals
were handled in such a way as to block any final decree and
to bring questions on the case lasting into late 1969.
Hoover's adroit handling of the Baker case has made it questionable
whether Baker will ever serve a day of his sentence.
History has recorded at least as early as World War II the
definite working together of the Mafia and J. Edgar Hoover through
his espionage department. From 1943 to 1946, Lucky Luciano and
selected Mafia members throughout the United States worked on
the docks of the various ports in the United States and in other
areas with J. Edgar Hoover and the military intelligence agencies
in preventing sabotage. Lucky Luciano's prison sentence was
suspended in 1946 and he was allowed to leave the country to
take up residence in Sicily.71
Vito Genovese and his select Mafia group worked with Mussolini
in Italy before and during World War II and were a part of Mussolini's
Fascist governing regime. However, in 1943, as the American
Forces worked their way up the Italian peninsula, the same Vito
Genovese and his group became active agents for the United States
intelligence agencies and a number of American officials wrote
flowery recommendations for Mr. Genovese citing his American
patriotism, intelligence and ingenuity in carrying out his assigned
duties for the U.S. espionage agencies.72
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Chapter IV - The Assassination Attempt on DeGaulle.
A group of Fascist French generals dedicated to keeping Algeria
as a French colony were the middle group in the 1961 and 1962
assassination attempts on French General DeGaulle.
A French colonel, Bastien Thiery, commanded the 1962 group
of professional assassins who made the actual assassination
attempt on DeGaulle. Colonel Thiery set his group of assassins
up at an intersection in the suburbs of Paris in this final
attempt in 1962 to kill DeGaulle. The gunmen fired more than
one hundred rounds in the 1962 Colonel Thiery assassination
attempt. But General DeGaulle, traveling in his bullet proof
car, evaded being hit, although all of the tires were shot out.
The driver increased his speed and the General was saved.
Colonel Bastien Thiery was arrested, tried and executed for
the attempt on DeGaulle's life but he was the breaking point
between the operating level of that assassination attempt and
the people financing and planning it and he went to his death
without revealing the connection. General DeGaulle's intelligence,
however traced the financing of his attempted assassination
into the FBI's Permindex in Switzerland and Centro Mondiale
Comerciale in Rome, and he complained to both the governments
of Switzerland and Italy causing Permindex to lose its charter
and Centro Mondiale Comerciale to be forced to move to Johannesburg,
South Africa.
General DeGaulle was furious at the assassination plots and
attempted assassination upon himself. He called in his most
trusted officers with the French Intelligence Agency and they
advised him that they were already working on the investigation
to ferret out who was behind DeGaulle's attempted assassination.
The French Intelligence Agency in a very short while completely
traced the assassination attempt through Permindex, the Swiss
corporation, to the Solidarists, the Fascist White Russian emigre
intelligence organization and Division Five, the espionage section
of the FBI, into the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization in Brussels, Belgium.
French intelligence thus determined that the attempts on General
DeGaulle's life were being directed from NATO in Brussels through
its various intelligence organizations and specifically, Permindex
in Switzerland, basically a NATO intelligence front using the
remnants of Adolph Hitler's intelligence units in West Germany
and also, the intelligence unit of the Solidarists headquartered
in Munich, Germany. The overall command of the DeGaulle assassination
unit was directed by Division Five of the FBI.
Upon learning that the intelligence groups controlled by the
Division Five of the FBI in the headquarters of the NATO organization
had planned all of the attempts of his life, DeGaulle was inflamed
and ordered all NATO units off of French soils. Under the contract
between France and NATO, General DeGaulle could not force them
to move for a period of time somewhat exceeding one year; yet,
he told NATO to get off the soil of France and put the machinery
in operation to remove them within the treaty agreements with
the organization.
The Defense Intelligence Agency, the intelligence arm of all
armed forces in the United States and Division Five, the counter-espionage
agency for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, were both found
to have been the controlling agencies in NATO directing the
assassination attempts on DeGaulle's life. DIA and Division
Five of the FBI were working hand in glove with the White Russian
emigre intelligence arm, the Solidarists, and many of the Western
European intelligence agencies were not aware of the assassination
plan worked directly through NATO headquarters.
Even the high echelons of the United States CIA were not aware
of the DIA, FBI and Solidarist directed activities.
Jerry Milton Brooks, a close associate of Maurice Brooks Gatlin,
Sr., testified in New Orleans that Gatlin was a transporter
for the CIA and Division Five of the FBI. Gatlin in 1962 left
New Orleans of behalf of Permindex with $100,000.00 in cash
of the FBI's money and delivered the cash on behalf of Division
Five and Permindex to the group of Fascist French generals planning
the assassination of General DeGaulle. Gatlin flew from New
Orleans directly to Paris, France and made the delivery.73
Gatlin was the general counsel to the Anti-Communist League
of the Caribbean, and he worked directly under Guy Bannister.
In 1964 Gatlin was thrown, pushed, or fell from the sixth floor
of the El Panama Hotel in Panama during the middle of the night
and was killed instantly.
Guy Bannister had been in charge of the Midwestern FBI Division
Five operation with headquarters in Chicago up until 1955. At
this time, J. Edgar Hoover shifted Bannister from an official
basis with Division Five to a retainer and contractual basis
with the espionage section of the agency and moved him to New
Orleans where Bannister worked with the New Orleans police department
and later from a private office at 544 Camp Street.
In his contractual capacity with Division Five, Bannister had
close contacts with all of the armed service intelligence agencies
and worked closely with them on the espionage section of the
FBI's various projects. Bannister was the officer in charge
who dispatched Gatlin with the $100,000.00 cash to Paris for
the DeGaulle assassination group.74
We outline the DeGaulle assassination attempt with President
Kennedy's assassination because the same organization carried
out both operations.
Back to Table of Contents.
Chapter V - In 1961, European and U.S. Publications Revealed
the Defense Intelligence Agency's Support of the Revolting French
Generals.
Before the attempted assassination on DeGaulle by Thiery of
Permindex and even before Maurice Gatlin, the New Orleans business
associate of Guy Bannister, had acted as courier of assassination
funds for Permindex between New Orleans and Europe, a large
hassle had developed publicly over the Pentagon and the Defense
Intelligence Agency acting in concert with the revolting French
generals in Algeria. These were the same French generals who
were working with the Defense Intelligence Agency and Division
Five of the FBI through Permindex, Centro Mondiale Comerciale
(World Trade Center) and Italo American Hotel Corporation in
the attempted assassination of DeGaulle in March of 1962. At
the time these facts were put into general circulation, neither
Permindex, Centro Mondiale Comerciale (World Trade Center) nor
Italo American Hotel Corporation had been brought to public
light, although we now know their operations, connections and
purposes.
The story was considered important enough in May, 1961, to
be the subject of the lead editorial in Le Monde, the most respected
and influential newspaper in France:
It now seems established that some American agents more or
less encouraged Maurice Challe, whose experience in NATO should
have put him on guard against the dealings of these irresponsible
people and their Spanish and German colleagues. Kennedy obviously
had nothing to do with this affair. To make this plain he considered
it necessary to offer aid to General De Gaulle, well-intentioned
certainly but inopportune.
Columnist Marquis Childs noted that some people at the top
were aware of the Defense Intelligence Agency's involvement.
Childs wrote:
As one of the highest officials of France put it: "Of
course your government, neither your State Department nor your
President, had anything to do with this. But when you have so
many hundreds of agents in every part of the world it is not
to be wondered at that some of them should have got in touch
with the generals in Algiers."
And l'Express devoted two full pages to Challe and the DIA
in a report the content of which obviously bore the imprint
of high officialdom. Among other things, l'Express affirmed
that:
Knowing the sobriety, the prudence and the ambition of General
Challe, all of his close friends are convinced today that he
was encouraged by his companions (at NATO). In the course of
the final conversations which he had in Paris certain American
agents have told him "succeed quickly - in less than forty-eight
hours - in a technical coup d'etat and we will support you."
When the first stories of DIA and NATO involvement in the revolt
were being published on April 22, 1961, some of them were launched
cautiously "by officials at the Elysee Palace itself"
according to Crosby S. Noyes in the Washington Star.
At least a half dozen foreign newsmen were given privately
to understand that the generals' plot was backed by strongly
anti-Communist elements in the United States Government and
military services. The leader of the revolt, General Maurice
Challe, was reported to have received assurances that any move
to keep Algeria under permanent French domination and out of
Algerian hands would be in the interests of the United States.
There also was a strong implication that a change in the NATO
policies of General DeGaulle would be welcome as one of the
results of a successful coup d'etat.
Paul Ghali of the Chicago Daily News reported that:
French army circles in the French capital made it known that
they had 'irrefutable' documents proving that Pentagon agents
in Paris and Algiers promised General Challe full U. S. support
if the coup succeeded. Simultaneously, the Polish Ambassador
in Paris, Stanislaw Gajewski, volunteered the same information
with even more precision to colleagues and social acquaintances.
Said Il Paese in Rome:
It is not by chance that some people in Paris are accusing
the American secret service headed by Allen Dulles of having
participated in the plot of the four 'ultra' generals . . .
Franco, Salazar, Allen Dulles are the figures who hide themselves
behind the pronunciamentos of the 'ultras'; they are the pillars
of an international conspiracy that, basing itself on the Iberian
dictatorships, on the residue of the most fierce and blind colonialism,
on the intrigues of the CIA . . . reacts furiously to the advance
of progress and democracy. . . .
Pravda reported that:
Taking part in the war against the Algerian people is not
only the France of the arms manufacturers.. The war in Algeria
is a war of NATO. This was openly and cynically stated by American
General Norstad, Commander in Chief ofthe Armed Forces of the
Atlantic Bloc. U.S. reactionary quarters are helping the French
colonialists. . . . The traces of the plotters lead to Madrid
and Lisbon, these hotbeds of fascism preserved intact with the
money of American reactionaries and with direct assistance of
top NATO circles. The traces from Spain and Portugal lead across
the ocean to the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency
of the U.S. . . .
A version with a new twist appeared in a non-Communist Paris
newspaper. It was written by Genevieve Tabouis. Madame Tabouis
assured her readers that "the fact that the effort of Challes
was encouraged, if not supported, by the most Atlantic of American
services, is from now on a secret everyone knows.
About this time, General James M. Gavin, United States Ambassador
to France, attended a luncheon of the French American Press
Association. Also on hand was Pierre Baraduc. Ambassador Gavin
stood up to answer questions from the guests. One of the guests
was Sam White, an Australian and Paris correspondent for the
irreverent London Evening Standard. White, a man of blunt and
simple Anglo-Saxon words, handed Ambassador Gavin a bombshell
of a question: "Now that the story that the Pentagon played
a part in the Algerian mutiny has received the blessing of the
Quai d'Orsey, what steps does the American Ambassador propose
to take to kill it?"
By this time, the Defense Intelligence Agency, Division Five
of the FBI and the NATO generals' involvement with the French
Algerian generals was so well established that General Gavin
declined to make any form of denial.
Digressing somewhat but expanding further, it is desirable
to document further the connection between the Defense Intelligence
Agency, Division Five of the FBI, the Defense Industrial Security
Command, the members of the Kennedy assassination cabal, it's
employees and their common, connecting links and objectives.
The Defense Industrial Security Command is a direct subsidiary
of the Defense Intelligence Agency under the command of Lt.
Gen. Joseph Carroll, who was a long time friend of Hoover and
former Assistant Director of the FBI. The Defense Industrial
Security Command was in operation before the Defense Intelligence
Agency was formed in early 1961. However, before that time,
it had worked with the separate armed forces intelligence agencies
which were all brought together under General Carroll. The DISC
was a police, security, investigative, intelligence and employee
clearance arm of the sprawling military industrial complex consisting
of the Atomic Energy Commission, NASA, the munitions makers
and suppliers of the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps
and the employees of all of those agencies and those companies
who held contracts with them.
It is not in the least surprising that the syndicate and the
Mafia worked well into the Defense Industrial Security Command
because of their members' ownership in many of the huge corporations
manufacturing munitions and supplies for the Pentagon, Atomic
Energy Commission and NASA.
Henry Crown's and Patrick Hoy's ownership of the controlling
block in General Dynamics between 1960 and 1966 is well known
by the few who bother to keep up with such things. Henry Crown's
close association with the Chicago Mafia figures has been well
documented in Captive City by Demaris.
Joe Bonanno's (the New York, Tucson and Montreal Mafia head)
connection with the munition manufacturing corporation, Lionel,
is also well known. Roy Cohn of Lionel, Ed Levinson, Clifford
Jones and Cleveland mobster, Morris Dalitz, and their business
connections are also totally established.
Joe Bonanno keeps his personal lawyer on retainer (and has
for years) in order to handle the intricate high financial legal
moves in connection with his ownership of munitions, aerospace
and other corporations registered on Wall Street. Bonanno's
attorney is William Power Maloney who is also General Counsel
for the Securities and Exchange Commission, the regulatory agency
over the stock exchanges with headquarters in New York City.
And, J. Edgar Hoover until 1959 vehemently denied that the Mafia
even existed. He said there was no such organization as the
Mafia.
The Nazi rocket scientists are on management level also in
the munitions and aerospace industry. Walter Dornberger, the
Nazi general, left the space agency in the 1950's to become
a high official in Bell Aerospace Corporation and he was followed
by over thirty of the Nazi scientists to control level in the
corporations manufacturing munitions and aerospace material.
This still left well over sixty of the scientists at command
level in NASA.75
The Nazis, Mafia and gambling syndicate members were all brought
together under the large umbrella of the Defense Industrial
Security Command and even the larger joint umbrella of the Defense
Intelligence Agency and Division Five of the FBI. Of course,
General Joseph Carroll of DIA could not possibly participate
in any venture without the approval of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
sitting over him in the Pentagon.
The host of munitions and aerospace manufacturing companies
with Mafia Members in the leadership positions began to surface
during the 1960's and one of such connections surfaced as is
shown in the Associated Press Dispatch of October 28,1969, which
reads as follows:
A Pennsylvania manufacturing firm linked to the Mafia by a
Senate subcommittee has won millions of dollars in defense contracts
from the Pentagon. Medico Industries Inc. of Pittston, Pa.,
currently is working on a $4 million contract to produce parts
for rocket warheads used extensively in Vietnam. Since 1966,
the firm has received about $12 million in Army, Navy, and Air
Force contracts. Pentagon records indicate it has performed
well on all its defense work.
Medico Industries' present contracts do not involve classified
material. However, a Pentagon spokesman said the firm and its
principal officers had a security clearance from Jan. 28, 1968
to June 20, 1968. It was terminated at the company's request
- a request which Pentagon sources said came after security
officials asked for additionalinformation about its officers.
The company's name has cropped up in the organized crime investigations
of a Senate subcommittee headed by Sen. John L. McClellan, D
Ark. In 1964, McClellan's subcommittee listed Medico Electric
Motor Co., later to become known as Medico Industries, as a
principal hangout of Russell A. Bufalino, whom it described
as "one of the most ruthless and powerful leaders of the
Mafia in the United States."
William Medico, former president and now general manager of
Medico Industries, was listed in the same report as among the
"criminal associates" of Bufalino.
James A. Osticco, the firm's traffic manager, was present
in 1957 when New York State Police broke up the Apalachin Conference
- a meeting of top Mafia figures from throughout the United
States. The participants also included Bufalino and Vito Genevese,
once described as "king of the rackets."
Bufalino has been battling deportation since 1952. According
to the McClellan committee's 1964 report, the Sicilian-born
Mafia leader has been active in narcotics trafficking, labor
racketeering, and dealing in stolen jewels and furs. Last year,
Bufalino was charged with transporting stolen television sets
across state lines.
Investigators say Bufalino and Medico have been friends since
Bufalino moved to Pittston from Buffalo, N.Y. in 1938. A confidential
report in the files of state and federal law enforcement officials
refers to a company listed in the Senate report as being owned
by Bufalino and says: "One of the silent partners in this
enterprise is said to be William Medico . . . who is believed
to have money invested in a number of places where the subject
(Bufalino) acts as front man."
In a telephone interview, Medico said he has no business interests
with Bufalino. He said he has known Bufalino all his life.
As for the McClellan committee report that Bufalino frequents
the Medico plant, Medico said, "Sure he comes to see us.
We're selling his equipment; he's a customer. I can't tell him
to get the hell out."
The firm's record of getting government contracts goes back
to the 1950's. It has produced such items as maintenance platforms
for the Air Force and Navy, rebuilt generators for the Signal
Corps, rebuilt machine tools and hydraulic wing jacks for the
Army, Navy and Air Force. It also has had contracts from the
cities of New York and Detroit.
In 1963 it competed with eight other firms to take over management
of a government- ammunition plant in Scranton, Pa., but lost
out to a lower bidder.
In 1968 Medico Industries was one of the 166 companies from
which the Army sought bids to produce parts for 2.75-inch rocket
warheads. Ten firms, including Medico, responded and six got
contracts. Medico was not among them.
But in the summer of 1968, the Army announced it needed still
more warheads to fill Vietnam requirements. The four unsuccessful
bidders on the earlier round were invited to bid again. All
four, including Medico, got contracts. The Medico contract,
awarded September 19, 1968, called for supply of 510,000 parts
for $3,090,600.
Then, in December 1968, Medico was among the producers invited
to submit proposals for shifting to production of a different
and costlier type 2.75-inch warhead. The firm received a contract
on Dec. 31 to supply 380,000 parts at a cost of $4,012,800.
That contract is still in effect.
Under Defense Department regulations, a company can not be
cleared for work on classified projects until its key personnel
are given a National Agency check. This includes a search of
FBI name and fingerprint files.
If any derogatory information is found, it is up to the Defense
Industrial Security Command at Columbus, Ohio, to determine
if it is serious enough to warrant further investigation. If
such a determination is made the case is referred to a higher
level for review. No such reference was made when Medico's application
was processed.
In addition to security checks, all prospective defense contractors
also undergo a pre-award review to determine their ability to
produce. The personal background of company officials is not
a factor in such reviews.
Medico Industries' success in obtaining government contracts
has helped it expand from a small electrical company housed
in a former mule barn to a large modern plant on the outskirts
of Pittston. With a work force of about 400 during peak contract
periods, the firm is one of the largest employers in the coal
mining area.
William Medico and his four brothers, all officers in the
family firm, are often in the news as participants in civic
affairs, charity drives and occasionally politics, in the city
of 13,000 midway between Scranton and Wilkes-Barre.
To return momentarily to some of the employees of the DIA and
DISC involved in the DeGaulle assassination attempt, it needs
to be pointed out that Jerry Brooks and a number of other witnesses
confirmed to District Attorney Jim Garrison that Maurice Gatlin
had carried funds to Europe to finance the DeGaulle assassination
attempt. It was also confirmed that Jack Ruby was a close associate
of Maurice Gatlin and that Gatlin, Robert Ray McKeown of Baycliff,
Texas, (adjacent to the Houston NASA headquarters), and Jack
Ruby were all very closely associated over a period of at least
ten years. As a matter of fact, Jerry Brooks told Garrison that
Gatlin was the one who called Jack Ruby and Robert Ray McKeown
in and ordered them to drop their plans to ship surplus army
jeeps to Fidel Castro in the spring of 1959.
Ruby, of course, was also very closely connected with L. J.
McWillie of Havana and Las Vegas, the business partner of Clifford
Jones, Ed. Levinson, Morris Dalitz, Bobby Baker and Roy Cohn.
When questioned by the Warren Commission, Jack Ruby had this
to say about L.J. McWillie:
Mr. Ruby: . . . As a matter of fact, on the plane, if I recall,
I had an article he sent me, and I wanted to get it published
because I idolized McWillie. . . .
Mr. Ruby: A fellow whom I sort of idolized is of the Catholic
faith, and a gambler. Naturally in my business you meet people
of various backgrounds. And the thought came, we were very close,
and I always thought a lot of him, and I knew that Kennedy,
being Catholic, I knew how heartbroken he was, and even his
picture - of this Mr. McWillie - flashed across me, because
I have a great fondness for him.76
Also buried deep in the twenty-six volumes of the Warren Commission
report are the following statements which, of course, show that
Ruby had contact with McWillie, Jones, Dalitz of the Stardust
Motel and others in Las Vegas about two and one half weeks before
the assassination time:
GILBERT COSKEY, Casino Cashier, Stardust Hotel, advised that
about four weeks ago an individual from Dallas, Texas, believed
by the name RUBY approached the casino credit department and
attempted to have a check cashed. COSKEY recalled that the man
talked about owning the Vegas Club and another night club in
Dallas. COSKEY stated he took the check to JOHN TIHISTA, Credit
Manager, for approval informing TIHISTA that the customer reportedly
was from Dallas and owned night clubs in that city. COSKEY stated
that if he recalls correctly TIHISTA refused to cash this check
since the customer had no previous credit with the hotel. He
could recall nothing more concerning this incident, but after
seeing a photo of RUBY in the paper and reading about his background,
he was certain that RUBY and the person attempting to cash a
check at the Stardust were one and the same.77
JOHN TIHISTA, Credit Manager, Stardust Hotel, advised that
about one month ago GILBERT COSKEY, Cashier in the hotel casino
cage, came to TIHISTA with a check from a customer to determine
whether or not it should be cashed.
According to COSKEY, the customer wanting to cash the check
had no previous credit; however, COSKEY stated that the man
was from Dallas and owned a night club in that city. He believed
COSKEY had stated the man's name was RUBY. TIHISTA stated that
apparently this incident occurred on a weekend since they were
unable to contact the customer's bank, and therefore, did not
accept the check.
TIHISTA reviewed hotel registration recorded for the months
of September, October, and November (1963) but could not locate
a registration for the name RUBY or RUBENSTEIN.
TIHISTA stated there was no credit application for the name
RUBY or RUBENSTEIN at the Stardust.78
JOSEPH STEFAN, Caddymaster, Tropicana Golf Club . . . . advised
that when the news of RUBY'S killing of L. OSWALD; first appeared
on television, he had the impression that at one time RUBY might
have played golf at that course, since he is sure that at some
time during the past year, a player from Texas, had given him
a card from the Carousel Club in Dallas and told him to look
him up if he ever got to Dallas. . . .79
Ruby was simply being guided and advised by his superiors in
the gambling syndicate and Mafia section within the Defense
Industrial Security Command.
DISC also has within its group the secondary command level
of the U.S. Information Agency whose duties are propaganda.
Fred Korth, in addition to his clo
