Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal





by William Torbitt
NOTICE

This manuscript is the result of research and investigation
by the investigator and author. It is compiled for the sole
purpose of research and the statements and averments of fact
contained herein are the result of investigation and research of
agencies both private and public. The purpose of this document is
to place into perspective such research and investigative
findings and is to be used only at a time in the future when it
may be legally published and circulated as an historical
document. The name of the author is a cognomen and nom de plume.

CITATIONS

The following abbreviated form of citiation 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

CHAPTER
Number

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 Asso.i.CIA;tes

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
Index, bibliography & appendices
Chapter 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and that the right of the American people to know superseded any
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.


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 ammunitions 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 L.B.J. 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 travelled 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 not
sufficient 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 the
Cuban 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, Diaz
immediately 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 States
Embassy 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
Chapter II

J. Edgar Hoover, Ferenc Nagy, Clay Shaw, L.M. Bloomfield, and
Permindex

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 O.S.S.
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 travelled 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



Chapter 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 to
their 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 did
over 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 funnelled 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
funnelled. 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 Freemont 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.



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


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.


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 DeGaulle, 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 of
the 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 additional
information 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-owned 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 .I.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 close connection with Nazi Walter
Dornberger as fellow board member on Bell Aerospace Corporation,
has been active Director of U.S.I.A. and its subsidiary, Radio
Free Europe.

In any event, one may well rest assured that in the fall of
1969 and 1970, the Defense Industrial Security Command was
continuing its activities on East Broad Street in Columbus, Ohio
and at the George Marshall Space Center and Old Redstone Arsenal
along the Tennessee River in Northern Alabama.

When F. Lee Bailey was called to represent Captain Ernest L.
Medina in December of 1969, he was employed by DISC and he had
never seen Medina until both were flown to Columbus, Ohio. After
being together in Columbus a few days and after a number of
propaganda stories were ground out from there, Medina and Bailey
were flown to the Pentagon where they met the national press.

After Ross Perot had flown around the world with food for
North Vietnam prisoners of war as a propaganda venture, he flew
to Columbus, Ohio where new and effective news releases were
issued after several days there in January, 1970. The Columbus
group had earlier secured lawyers for James Earl Ray, Sirhan
Sirhan and others.

The Defense Industrial Security Command, the police agency
of the munitions manufacturers successors to the German cartels,
has many and varied functions.


Chapter VI

Permindex and Double-Chek Agents and their Activities

Double-Chek, a Florida corporation organized and operated by
the CIA and the American counterpart of Permindex and Centro
Mondiale Comerciale, was taken over by Division Five of the FBI
and was used as one of the principal funding agencies for
President Kennedy's death planners. Another was the Tolstoy
Foundation, the Russian Solidarist funding source with its
principal offices in New York City and Munich in Germany, and the
Kentfield Fund in Dallas.80

The Solidarist world network is connected through the old
Orthodox Catholic Church of North America and Synod of Bishops of
the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia which church connected
organization used one of its priests, David Ferrie, in New
Orleans as an agent in the planning of the Kennedy assassination.

Ferrie became a priest and agent for the Solidarists when he
dropped out of the Roman Catholic Seminary in Ohio and joined the
Byelorussian Liberation Front at 3308 West 43rd Street,
Cleveland, Ohio in 1946.81

Donald P. Norton told Jim Garrison he was impressed into the
agency's service in 1957 under threat of exposure as a
homosexual. In September, 1962, Norton was dispatched from
Atlanta to Mexico with $30,000 for an anti-Castro group. He said
he registered in the Yamajel Hotel in Monterrey, Mexico, per
instructions, when he was contacted by one Harvey Lee, an exact
duplicate of Oswald except that his hair seemed slightly thicker.82
In exchange for the money, Lee gave him a briefcase
containing documents in manila envelopes. According to plan,
Norton delivered the briefcase to an employee of an American oil
firm in Calgary, Alberta, who repeated the pass phrase, "The
weather is very warm in Tulsa."83 Breck Wall and Joe Patterson
were in close contact with a person who called himself Archison,
and Jack Wohl from Calgary.

Norton also told of how he met David Ferrie earlier in his
career. In early 1958, he was assigned a courier trip to Cuba and
told to meet his contact at the Eastern Air Lines counter at the
Atlanta airport. The contact was a man who called himself Hugh
Ferrie. "Here are your samples," Ferrie remarked, handing Norton
a phonograph record. "It is in the jacket." The jacket contained
$150,000.00, which Norton duly delivered to a Cuban television
performer in Havana. Norton asserts he went to Freeport, Grand
Bahama, on an Agency assignment late in 1966, and upon his return
to Miami, his contact instructed that "something was happening in
New Orleans and that Norton should take a long, quiet vacation."84
He did, and began to worry about the "people who have died
in recent months--like Ferrie." Then he contacted Garrison.
Norton was given a lie detector test, the result of which was
that he was telling the truth.85

Jules Rocco Kimble said that on the day after David Ferrie
died, he drove a top KKK official, Jack Helm, to Ferrie's
apartment. Helm came out with a satchel of papers which he placed
in a bank safe deposit box. Kimble said that in 1962, he had
flown to Montreal, Canada with Ferrie on business. He promised
the District Attorney's investigators that he would gather more
information and report back to them.86

Shortly afterward, he phoned his wife from Atlanta, saying
he had met an Intelligence contact. "They'll never get me back to
New Orleans," he said. A few days after that, he called from
Montreal, Canada. Kimble came back to Tampa, Florida, where he
was arrested by the city police. Interviewed by Garrison;'s men,
he said that he had once worked special assignments for U.S.
intelligence agencies, and in verification named his Agency
contacts and the box number at the Layafette Street station they
assigned him.87

He averred he had recontacted the Intelligence agency after
Walter Sheridan had counseled him to say nothing to the District
Attorney and go to Montreal where he named some contacts.
Sheridan was the liaison man with Bobby Kennedy for Joe Carroll
of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Sheridan was subsequently
indicted by a New Orleans grand jury for public bribery for
attempting to induce witnesses to make false statements against
Garrison.88

David Ferrie was in Dallas, Texas on the night of November
24, 1963. Ferrie talked to Bob Mulholland, an NBC news man from
the Chicago office, in Dallas the night of the 24th and admitted
that he was connected with Jack Ruby's Carousel Club. Ferrie even
knew the emcee at the club and spoke freely exhibiting a
friendship with Jack Ruby and a knowledge of an number of Jack
Ruby's associates in Dallas.89

We shall return to Ruby, Ferrie and their activities, but
now is as good a time as any to add one more piece of evidence to
the mountain of such inculpating the Defense Industrial Security
Command.

Gary Underhill, a CIA agent with Walter Kostow and Harold R.
Isaacs at the Center for International Studies at MIT, told
friends in early 1964 in New York that a group within the U.S.
Intelligence agencies had planned and brought about the death of
John Kennedy and that he was going to expose them. A few days
later he was found dead in his apartment in Washington, D.C., a
bullet in his head behind his left ear - but Underhill was right
handed.

Harold R. Isaacs, ex-Newsweek Magazine editor, was the
subject of a suppressed Warren Commission document.

David Ferrie, Maurice Brooks Gatlin, Guy Bannister and Mike
McLaney of New Orleans, Robert Ray McKeown of Houston, Jack Ruby
of Dallas and L.J. McWillie of Las Vegas began a partnership in
1953 with Carlos Prio Socarras, Cuba's President from 1948 to
1952, before Batista. Prio and his group were working well with
Batista in operating all of the Cuban gambling houses until about
1957 when Batista began to shake Prio's group down for more than
they felt was reasonable.90

Ex-President Prio, Ruby, McWillie, McKeown and the gambling
partnership in 1957 contacted Castro who was then in the
mountains and secretly began supporting him on Castro's promise
of a more reasonable government tax on the gambling profits.
Prio's partner, Jack Ruby, spent a good part of 1958 directing
the smuggling of arms to Cuba from the Keys in Florida with James
Woodard, an ex-Dallas policeman.91 The arms, ammunitions and
supplies were furnished until the Castro takeover of Cuba in
January, 1959. As had been promised, Prio, McWillie, Ruby,
McKeown and the other partners continued to run the Havana
gambling casinos until 1961 when Castro evicted McWillie, the
last one to leave.92

McKeown, McWillie, Ruby, Prio, McLaney, Gatlin, Bannister
and Ferrie immediately began working with other anti-Castro
exiles, Division Five of the FBI and the CIA to overthrow Castro.93

After the Bay of Pigs disaster, the Prio-Ruby group under
Bannister's direction continued to work with the Cuban exiles
toward an invasion of the Cuban mainland. Bannister, as a free
agent. worked with Warren DeBrueys, Division Five of the FBI's
resident agent in New Orleans. DeBrueys was also a White Russian
and a member of the Solidarists.

DeBrueys' chief assignment in the summer and fall of 1963
was to maintain a close vigil over Lee Harvey Oswald in New
Orleans and Dallas. This he did, and after Oswald's death,
DeBrueys gathered all of Oswald's personal belongings and carried
them to J. Edgar Hoover in Washington, D.C.94

On November 22, before it was known that Kennedy was dead,
Warren Debrueys walked into Parkland Hospital and tried to force
his way into the room where President Kennedy was being attended.
Two Secret Service agents had a terrible fight with DeBrueys,
before he was subdued in the room just outside of Kennedy's. He
was held down by Secret Service agents until help arrived.95

L.J. McWillie, one of Jack Ruby's partners in the ex-
President Prio-Bannister-Ruby group, was a conservative dressing,
highly polished, international socialite who traveled with the
professional golfers in the U.S., Britain and Western Europe.
McWillie entered the partnership with Clifford Jones and Bobby
Baker in the Thunderbird gambling casino in Las Vegas, Nevada in
1962. The Dallas and Oklahoma City police who knew McWillie
thoroughly had him officially designated as a "murderer and
gambler" on his many-page arrest records.96 As all people of this
sort do, McWillie used a number of aliases. Some of these were
Lewis J. Martin, L.J. Chapman, Lewis Olney and others.97

Robert Ray McKeown of Baycliff, Texas, near Houston, another
of Ruby's partners in the President Prio-Bannister association,
also had a many-paged criminal record. McKeown's aliases included
J.T. Brown, H.J. McAllister, Max, Dick McKeown and others.98 Jerry
Brooks further confirmed the close relation between McKeown,
David Ferrie, L.J. McWillie and Ruby when he reported Maurice
Gatlin put a stop to their plan to sell jeeps to Castro in 1959.
Lee Harvey Oswald was recruited into Division Five of the
FBI by David Ferrie in 1956 before joining the USMC.99

Oswald was taken to Memphis, Tennessee, by Division Five of
the FBI while in the Marine Corps. There he received the highest
level of covert espionage activities training during June, July
and August of 1957 at the Naval Intelligence school located on
the Memphis Naval Base. The school is of such a highly secret
nature that Oswald's official Marine Corps records were doctored
so as not to reflect his training there.100

Lee Harvey Oswald was paid by J. Edgar Hoover through a
subterfuge account with the Department of Immigration and
Naturalization, a Division of the Justice Department, and
consequently, he could testify before the Warren Commission
without being technically guilty of perjury that Oswald was not
on the FBI payroll. Fred Cook in The FBI Nobody Knows reveals
this device which Hoover uses in paying covert agents through the
Department of Immigration and Naturalization. Oswald's pay slip
number, which was revealed by the Dallas Sheriff's office, was
the number assigned him out of the San Antonio office of the
Department. Oswald was paid at the Dallas office of the
Immigration Department and their address in the Rio Grande
Building was found in Oswald's notebook.

Oswald was tutored by the Solidarists on the Russian
language and his duties as an FBI espionage agent. The Russian
newspapers and literature which Oswald received were of
Solidarist origin. Just prior to going to Russia in 1959, Oswald
received a Solidarist agent in a long visit at Santa Ana,
California. In 1959 Oswald admitted his connections were "White
Russians".101

The agent came from the San Francisco office of the
Solidarists. The San Francisco office went under the cover name
"Federation of Russian Charitable Organizations," 376 Twentieth
Avenue.102 Oswald had always been a Solidarist and Division Five of
the FBI agent. He had never been employed by the CIA.103

Dallas Chief Deputy Allan Sweatt said in a Secret Service
document that Oswald was being paid $200.00 per month by the FBI
and he even furnished Oswald's informant number, S-172.104 Dallas
District Attorney, Henry Wade, and Texas Attorney General,
Waggoner Carr, in a secret meeting with the Commission on January
24, 1964, gave absolute confirmation of this.

George DeMohrenschildt with his long years of experience in
intelligence roles, testified to facts connecting Lee Harvey
Oswald and Max Clark and his wife, Gali, to Division Five of the
FBI and the Defense Industrial Security Command through the Henry
Crown, Patrick Hoy dominated General Dynamics. He further
revealed the name of the Division Five agent in charge in the
Dallas-Fort Worth area. Here is what DeMohrenschildt said:


Mr. DeMohrenschildt: . . . . . . . in my mind Max Clark
was in some way connected with the FBI, because he was chief
of security at Convair (General Dynamics) he had been a
chief of security. And either George Bouhe or someone else
told me that he is with the FBI to some extent. . . .

Mr. Jenner: Who is Walter Moore?

Mr. DeMohrenschildt: Walter Moore is the man who
interviewed me on behalf of the Government after I came back
from Yugoslavia - G. Walter Moore. He is a Government man -
FBI . . . A very nice fellow, exceedingly intelligent who
is, as far as I know - was some sort of an FBI man in
Dallas. Many people consider him head of FBI in Dallas. . .
.

It should be pointed out here that Albert Jenner, one of the
top lawyers on the Warren Commission staff, had been the personal
and corporate lawyer for Henry Crown, Mafia-connected head of
General Dynamics for a long number of years. Both live in
Chicago.105

Gali Clark is a White Russian who was born of royal blood in
exile in France. She was Princess Sherbatov. She and her husband,
Max, both Solidarists and close friends of John Connally, were
the first Defense Industrial Security Command contacts with Lee
and Marina Oswald when they got back from Russia in 1962. They
visited in each others homes and were closely connected until
after the assassination.