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dialogue would be used against me. I decided to wait first
for some legal advice and, second, to talk to Ward in a public
and unwired place.
That juncture occurred two days prior to the States-
Item's first break on the story (approximately Feb. 17) in the
anteroom of the District Attorney's office complex and in the
presence of S-I reporter Rosemary James. I told Ward then I
had been advised that his use of the Grand Jury subpoena to
question me was an abuse of Grand Jury powers. I told him
that if I ever again heard of such misuse of the Grand Jury
subpoena by him or his office I would endeavor to bring the
whole record of grand jury subpoenas before the empaneling
Judge (Shea) with attendant publicity. To my knowledge it
was after that conversation that the DA's office shifted from
using Grand Jury subpoenas for their interrogations to a law
empowering DA's subpoenas which had become effective January
1, 1967.
At the time the above mentioned memo was written, it
was my opinion the DA's office was attempting to intimidate me
from asking questions embarrassing to Jim Garrison. That opinion
remains at this writing.
On the evening of January 24, Max Gonzales and De-
tective Louis Ivon of the District Attorney's office came to
meet Pelham and myself in the Richelieu Hotel. Mostly, Pelham
talked to Gonzales and I talked to Ivon. Ivon gave me a copy
of the November 25 report on the raid on Ferrie's apartment.
I studied it and asked Ivon if he had heard of any passports
being found in the apartment. I told him I had heard this in-
formation a couple of years ago from Sgt. Raymond Comstock, who
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