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    "ocrText": "Despite Testimony by J. Edgar Hoover, Warren\nGroup Ignored Fact Jack Ruby Worked for FBI\nPhoto Puzzle\nNightclub owner Jack Ruby was an informant for the Federal\ninformer for the Dallas police department\n\"The warren Commission in violation of\nBureau of Investigation and the Warren Commission kept this\nand other area law enforcement agencies.\nits purpose, of its trust, did protect at least\nUltimately the Identity of 'The Tramps'\nfrom the American public.\ntwo agencies of the federal government -\nRUBY WAS A police buff. He liked to\nRuby was working with the FBI during the period when he\nhang around police stations, be close\nthe FBI and the CIA,\" Staples, a popular\nDallas radio celebrity, told TATTLER.\ntraveled to Cuba, which was then controlled by the Mafia.\nfriends with policemen. He knew Dallas\nThe feisty little hoodlum ceased to feed the FBI information the\nDist. Atty. Henry Wade, who prosecuted\nRuby died of cancer in January 1967,\nMay Lead to Reopening the Kennedy Case\nRuby, on a first name basis.\nsoon after an appellate court overturned\nsame month that Lee Harvey Oswald defected to Russia, cursed\nAnd after he killed Oswald, he expressed\nhis death penalty sentence for Oswald's\nthe United States, and offered aid and comfort to the enemy.\nthe opinion several times that a conspiracy\nmurder and granted him a new trial.\nOfficially, Warren Commission members have constantly\nwas behind the assassination of President\nSome Warren Commission critics\ndenied that Oswald and Ruby had connections with U.S. in-\nKennedy. And Ruby felt that he, too, was\nbelieve that cancer cells were injected in\nthe victim of a conpsoracy and that he had\nRuby to bring about his death.\ntelligence agencies.\nbeen \"set up\" that morning he killed\nHE EXPRESSED the opinion that he\nHOWEVER, A previously-classified\nOswald while the assassin was surrounded\njurisdiction in criminal matters, ac-\nwas being injected with poison only three\nWarren Commission documented has\nby policemen.\ncording to director Hoover, \"he expressed\ndays before he died.\nsurfaced that proves that Ruby was an\na willingness to furnish information.\nFBI informer in 1959. The source is no less\nthan J. Edgar Hoover, the late director of\nA personal description of Ruby was\nthe FBI.\nobtained by Special Agent Flynn on the\nFour years later, Ruby walked through a\noccasion of this contact on March 11, 1959,\nbut no information or other results were\ncordon of policementen in the basement of the\nobtained.\nDallas City Hall and fired one shot that\nforever silenced Lee Harvey Oswald, the\nBetween March 11, 1959 and Oct. 2, 1959,\nRuby was contacted on eight other 00-\naccused assassin of President Kennedy\n\"The day before Oswald teld newsmen\ncasions by the FBI. But, according to\n\"I didn't kill anybody, no sir,\" but the\nHoover, Ruby furnished no information.\nWarren Commission members were\nWarren Commission 10 months later\ninterested in notation in one FBI report\nnamed Oswald as the sole assassin, acting\nthat Ruby was a 'known Dallas criminal.'\nalone.\nA letter confirming that Ruby was an\nFBI informant was found in the National\nArchives by private researchers and made\nTHAT PARTICULAR remark, ac-\navailable to TATTLER by Lou Staples, a\ncording to Hoover, was added to the\nprominent Dallas newsman who has spent\ndescription by Special Agent Louis M.\nfour years researching the assassination\nKelley in a report prepared with Special\nAgent Manning C Clements at Dallas Nov.\nJ. EDGAR HOOVER sent a three-page\n30, 1963 six days after Ruby gunned\nOswald down before millions of television\nletter telling of Ruby's FBI connection to\nviewers.\nJ. Lee Rankin, general counsel for the\nIn a related declassified Commission\nWarren Commission, on June 9, 1964.\ndocument Agent Kelley explained that he\nThe letter, Commission Document 1052,\nreferred to Ruby as \"known Dallas area\nwas left out of the 26 volumes of the\ncriminal\" because he had been arrested\nWarren Commission Report.\nseveral times.\nRuby was one of 10 names that Rankin\nRuby's intelligence background possibly\nhad requested that Hoover provide\ndates back to the 1940s when Richard\nsummaries of FBI reports.\nNixon was making headlines as a member\n\"Certain information regarding the\nof the House Un-American Activities\ncontact of Special agent Charles W. Flynn\nCommittee\nwith Jack L. Ruby on March 11, 1959, is\nA Jack Rubenstein of Chicago was an\nherewith acknowledged.\ninformer for Richard Nixon in connection\nAgent Flynn, who operated out of the\nwith Nixon's efforts to fight communism,\nDallas FBI office, contacted Ruby \"In\naccording to Justice Dept. records.\nview of his position : as nightclub operator\nStrip joint owner Ruby lived in Chicago\nwho might have knowledge of the criminal\nunder the name, \"Jack Rubenstein'\nelement in Dallas,\" Hoover continued.\nbefore he moved to Dallas.\nSome assassination researchers are\n\"THE PURPOSE OF this contact was to\nconvinced the Nixon informer was the\ndetermine whether or not Ruby did have\nJack Ruby that assassinated Oswald.\nsuch knowledge, and if so, if he would be\nOther private researchers believe the\nwilling to furnish information to this\nNixon informer was another \"Jack\nJACK RUBY forever silences Lee Harvey Oswald. The Warren Com-\nbureau.\"\nRubenstein.\nAfter Flynn advised Ruby of the FBI's\nRuby had also undoubtedly been an\nmission brushed aside Ruby's role in any conspiracy despite being\ntold by J. Edgar Hoover himself that Ruby worked for FBI.\nFord \"Doctored' Top Secret Information On Oswald\n(Continued from Page 7)\n\"I know, ask questions about some-\nsiderable discussion is given to the role of\nthing\nDulles: \"He ought not tell it under eath.\nin the Houston Post about the rumors\na U.S. intelligence agency in whether a\n\"I never knew how to disprove it.\"\nMaybe not tell it to his own government,\nOswald was an FBI informer.\nbut wouldn't tell it any other way.\nperson was an intelligence agent.\n\"So 1 will ask you,\" said Beggs. \"Did\nJaworski, less than four months after\nAnswering a question from McCloy\n\"If Oswald never had assassinated the\nyou have agents about whom you had no\nthe January executive session, wrote\nDulles said CIA operative might not tell\nRankin that Hudkins was no longer with\n\"unidentified man,\" commission exhibit\nCIA to get back at the FBI was com-\nSturgis and The Walking Man is E.\nPresident or at least been charged with\nrecord whatsoever?'\nThe photós seen on this page are among\nthe truth to his own Chief\n237\nmission exhibit 237. The drawing was that\nHoward Hunt, the CIA spooks who tried to\nassassinating the President and had been\n\"The record might not be on paper,'\nthe newspaper. Noting that the com-\nmost puzzling of those gathered con-\n\"What you do, said Boggs, \"is you\nThe entire 237 exhibit affair was an\nof Martin Luther King's assassin, which\npull off the Watergate caper That seems\nin the employ of the FBI and somebody\nDulles replied. 'But on paper would have\nmission had the FBI statements on the\ncerning the assassination of President\nmake out problem if this be true, make\nto the CIA, for the man in\ncompared closely with a photo of\nhighly unlikely and was rejected by the\nhad gone to the FBI they would have\nhieroglyphies that only two people knew\nmatter, as well as statements from\nour problem utterly impossible because\nJohn F. Kennedy\nPhoto one is a picture published in\nthe picture is actually Oswald's CIA \"baby\n\"Frenchie\" the \"tramp\" who was picked\nrecent Rockefeller Commission.\ndenied he was an agent,\" Senater Russell\nwhat they meant, and nobody outside of\nOswald's mother, \"...I am wondering if it\nyou say this rumor can't be dissipated\nsaid.\nthe agency would know and you could say\nis really worth your effort to follow up on\nsitter.\nup in Dealey Plaza the day JFK was killed.\nvolume 16 of the Warren Commission\nunder any circumstances.'\nHudkins.'\nreport. It is entitled \"photograph of an\nPhoto two is a picture of a man so far\nWhen the drawing was published, inquiry\nACCORDING TO A confidential com-\nDulles, the ex-CIA chief, replied: \"Oh,\nthis meant the agent and somebody else\n\"I don't think it can,' Dulles replied,\nunidentified man. How that photo got into\nonly identified as \"Ramirez, CIA agent\nwas made of the FBI about the identity of\nmunication from Gary Patrick Hemming,\nIt obviously wasn't worth the com-\nthe sketch. The FBI would not repudiate\nLoran Hall's Cuban training instructor,\nyes.\ncould say it meant another agent.\n\"unless you believe Mr. Hoover, and so\nCommission members then discussed U-\nmision's efforts.\n\"They would be the first to deny it. Your\nforth and so on, which probably most of the\nthe commission's report is interesting.\nwho is believed to have been involved in\nCommission members expressed fear of\nthe assassination of Che Gueverra.\nthe sketch.\nthe man called Frenchie is actually one\nagents would have done the same thing,'\n2 pilot Gary Powers, shot down in a spy\npeople will.\"\nplane over Russia. Dulles explained that\nofficially interrogating Hudkins and others\nOswald went to Mexico in the fall of 1963\n\"Ramirez\" bears much resemblance to\nTed Slack, who, at that time, was full-\nsaid Russell.\nabout the claim Oswald was a secret\nin an effort to obtain a visa to travel to\nthe man in commission exhibit 237.\nAnd thus we come to the question of who\ntime Naval Intelligence officer assigned to\n\"Exactly,\" Dulles replied.\nPowers had a signed contract with the\nTHE COMMISSION did, after receiving\ngovernment agent for fear publicity about\nCuba. Because Mexico was, at that time,\nCynics believe that since there were\nwere the three \"tramps\" picked up in\nthe Miami, Fla., area, and thus deeply\nLater during the meeting banker John.J\nCIA.\nletters from Hoover outlining the FBI's\nthe official action would add fuel to\nthe only Latin American country that\nreports that Oswald was connected with\nDealey Plaza. See photos number five and\ninvolved in the Cuban exile activities.\nMcCloy, a commission member, said he\nvarious contacts with Oswald since\nsix above.\n\"doubting Thomasas\" around the world.\nrecognized Cuba and thus had a Cuban\nthe FBI (rumors that may have been\nThe Tall Man, according to Hemming, is\nhad received inquiries about the Oswald-\nREP. BOGGS: \"Let's say Powers did\nOswald's return from Russia. Hoover\nagent report and asked, \"What is there to\ndenied in the communications Oswald had\nembassy, the CIA had hidden movie\nstarted by the CIA), the FBI was getting\nFor discussion purposes, the short man\nJohn Bloomer of St. Louis, who was a\nnot have a signed contract but he was\nback at the CIA by passing along\nin front has become known as \"Frenchie\"\nMinute Man.\nso THE PEOPLE were to accept or\nrecruited by someone in CIA. The man\ncameras around the embassy to keep a\nthis story?\"\never been employed by the FBI.\ndisbelieve the word of J. Edgar Hoover\nwatch on who was making visits there.\n\"Ramirez' as Oswald. No one ever really\nbecause of the European cut of his\nOthers have said that one of the three\n\"This is\na terribly hard thing to\nwho recruited him would know, wouldn't\nLeon Jaworski, to become special\ngiven in a note to Rankin the day of the\nasked who the man was or they certainly\nclothing. The man directly behind him has\ntramps is Jack Youngblood\ndisprove, you know, Dulles replied. \"How\nhe?\"\nWatergate prosecutor during the Richard\nJan. 27 secret meeting:\nAWARE OF THIS, the Warren Com-\nweren't able to geta straight answer out\nbeen dubbed \"The Tall Man,' and the man\nWhoever they were, they weren't\ndo you disprove a fellow was not your\nDulles: \"Yes, but he wouldn't tell.\nNixon Administration scandals, was an\n'Lee Harvey Oswald was never used by\nmission asked the FBI- not\nthe CIA - and so the issue has been\nbehind him with the hat is known as \"The\ntramps. Their hair is too well groomed to\nagent? How do you disprove it?\"\nWarren: \"Would he tell it under oath?\"\naide to Texas Attorney General Carr after\nthis Bureau in an informant capacity. He\npicture of Oswald on the steps of the\nhanging fire until now.\nWalking Man.\nbe smeared as bums.\n\"You could disprove it, couldn't you?\"\nDulles: \"I wouldn't think he would tell it\nthe assassination\nwas never paid any sums of money for\nWhile Frenchie's identity has never been\nembassy\nDiscovering who they are may very well\nasked Rep. Boggs.\nunder oath, no.\nThe Warren Commission assigned\nfurnishing information and he most cer-\nBack from the FBI came photo one\nCYNICS ALSO believe that the drawing\nmade, many assassination buffs have\nbe the key that will reopen the Kennedy\n\"No,\" Dulles said.\nWarren: \"Why\nJaworski to check out the Hudkins report\ntainly never was an informant of the FBL\nshown above, which became the\nlabeled three above was an attempt by the\ncontended that The Tall Man is Frank\nassassination case\nTATTLER INVESTIGATIVE SPECIAL\nSeptember,\n1975\nPage\nTATTLERINVESTIGATIVE'SPECIAL*** Septimber, 1975 *** Page 8"
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