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that the guy did not talk to him and when he asked the roommate
where he was from, the roommate said "Everywhere". He said
FERRIE had told him that his roommate did not like to talk to
people and did not even get along with his (FERRIE'S) Cuban
friends
I then asked him if he knew CLAY SHAW. He said that he did not
know CLAY SHAW. I then asked him if he knew CLAY BERTRAND and
he said that he did know a BERTRAND and he is a queer. RUSSO
said that FERRIE had introduced him to BERTRAND while he was at
FERRIE'S apartment on Louisiana Avenue Parkway. I then asked
him to describe CLAY BERTRAND and he said that CLAY BERTRAND
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was a tall man with white kinky hair, sort of slender and that
he had seen BERTRAND on two other occasions. One occasion when
his car had some trouble and he pulled into FERRIE'S service
station on the Veterans Highway and on another occasion when
he went to see President Kennedy speak at the Nashville Street
Wharf. He said that he remembered BERTRAND because BERTRAND
was hawking some kid who was not too far from him at Kennedy's
speech.
I then asked him if he could remember any of the details about
CLAY BERTRAND being up in FERRIE'S apartment and he told me that
he was in FERRIE'S apartment with CLAY BERTRAND and FERRIE and
the roommate and he remembers FERRIE telling him that "We are
going to kill John F. Kennedy" and that "it won't be long"
He
said FERRIE again repeated his earlier statement that he could
plan the perfect assassination of the President because he could
fly anything that had wings on it and he had perfect availability
of exit out of the country. When I asked him who FERRIE was
referring to when he said "we", he said "I guess he was referring
to the people in the room". He said this was not the first time
that FERRIE had talked to him about how easy it would be to
assassinate the President. He said that FERRIE, in September
and October of 1963, became obsessed with the idea that he could
pull off a perfect assassination.
He also repeated the previous story about FERRIE telling him
that he knew more about drugs and autopsies than any doctor in
the world. Also that FERRIE had told him of how he had given
this drug, which was similar to an aphrodisiac, to his roommate
and his roommate became very aggressive and had sexual relations
with him. He said that he had also used this drug on AL LANDRY
before.
My last question to RUSSO was something to this effect, "Is all
that you are telling us true and to the best of your knowledge?"
He said, "Yes, it is, as much as I can remember".
Dr. Chetta then informed us that he had been under sodium pento-
thal for over a half-hour and the administration of sodium
pentothal was concluded at 4:10 p.m.
ANDREW J. SCIAMBRA
2/28/67
AJS:lcs
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