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    "ocrText": "A Message for Sen. Church's Committee:\nThese Men Hold Key to Conspiracy Probe\nBull affidavit was described as \"Tony,'\n(continued from page 2)\nONE OF MEN CHARGED By\nAmerican-born lieutenant under Castro\nOswald, whom the Warren Commission\nnamed as the lone assassin of President\nNew Orleans District Attor-\nwho was known in Cuba as \"The Butcher.\n\"Both of the above were picked up in\nKennedy, went to Mexico in September of\nney Jim Garrison in his con-\n1963. While there he visited the Cuban and\nMiami by persons driving a light blue or\nRussian embassies, presumably to\nspiracy investigation was Ed-\nlight green Rambler with Texas plates,\"\narrange passage back to Russia to where\ngar Eugene Bradley, Califor-\nBull said in the affidavit. \"The car\nnia representative of religious\nproceeded to New Orleans and stayed two\nhe had defected in 1959.\nThe Church Committee gave no initial\ndays.\"\nbroadcaster Dr. Carl Mcintire.\nresponse to Popkin's telegram, similar to\nIt interesting to note that after leaving\nthe Texas School Book Depository in\nthe reaction from previous com-\nDealey Plaza in Dallas a few minutes after\nmunications.\nOn, June 10, Popkin and Dick Gregory,\nsaid Hall, \"I'd overhear some people there\nthe Kennedy assassination, Oswald was\ncomedian and civil rights activist, wired\ndiscuss the possibility of assassinating\nseen getting into a light green Rambler\nthe White House that they were ready to\nKennedy - and how it might be done.\nstation wagon driven by another man,\nhand over to President Ford or Attorney\n\"Not just Kennedy, but also Earl\naccording to eye witnesses ignored by the\nGeneral Edward Levi \"vital information\nWarren and other government officials -\nWarren Commission. The Rambler pulled\ndocumenting conspiracy in domestic\nhow they could be gotten rid of.\naway toward Oak Cliff, where a few\npolitical assassinations including\nHall, who had once been a prisoner of\nminutes later, Oswald was arrested at the\ndocumentation of CIA and FBI in-\nFidel Castro, claims to have spoken at\nTexas Theater after allegedly gunning\nmore than 50 meetings in Southern\ndown Dallas Policeman J.D. Tippitt.\nvolvement.'\nCalifornia in the early 1960s seeking aid for\nGREGORY AND Popkin also claimed,\nanti-Castro guerrillas.\nTHE WITNESS TO the Rambler in\n\"We have in hand information which in our\nHe acknowledged \"expressing disap-\nDealey Plaza was former honors-winning\nview directly and unequivically\npointment\" at Kennedy's failure to add\nDallas County Sheriffs Deputy Roger Dean\ndocuments conspiracy in\nthe\nHall at first argued that he had been in\nU.S, military backing to the Bay of Pigs\nCraig, whose testimony was discounted by\nassassinations of John F Kennedy, Robert\nDallas, soliciting aid for anti-Castro ac-\ninvasion of Castro's Cuba, but denied he\nthe Warren Commission. A decade later, a\nF. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, in-\ntivities and had visited a Mrs. Odio. He\npersonally advocated harming the\nstatement by another witness, who\ncluding documentation of CIA and FBI\nsaid he was accompanied by Lawrence\nPresident.\ndocumented Craig's eye-witness\ninvolvement.'\nHoward, a Mexican American from East\ntestimony, turned up in the National Ar-\nThis information, they said, \"did not get\nLos Angeles, Calif. and William Seymour\nBRADLEY, ONE OF those named by\nchives.\ninto the findings of the Rockefeller\nof Arizona.\nHall, was charged by Garrison with\nCraig was recently found shot to death in\nCommission both because of an\nHall said Seymour is similar in ap-\nconspiracy in the Kennedy assassination,\nDallas. His death ruled a suicide.\nunresponsiveness on the part of the\npearance to Lee Harvey Oswald. Later\nbut Bradley was never tried.\nFrom New Orleans, according to Bull's\nCommission staff members and the late\nHall changed his story again, saying he\nSince TATTLER's July 13 story in which\naffidavit, the two assassins took a bus to\nhour in which some of the most alarming\nhad visited Mrs. Odio himself and not with\nHall is again linked to the Kennedy\nNew York City to brief Oswald with false\nitems were uncovered.\"\nSeymour and Lawrence.\nassassination, Hall has left the country.\ninformation because they knew he worked\nLoran Hall, one of the most colorful and\nTATTLER learned that Hall fi went to\nfor the CIA.\nshadowy figures involved in the Kennedy\nHIS STORY ABOUT the Odio visit\nMexico, then flew in a private\naccording to the affidavit.\nconspiracy investigation, has admitted at\nchanged again on March 12, 1968, when\nanother country.\nallowed the assassination plan to continue.\nHall was interviewed at the Hollywood\nRonald Lee Augustinovich's name\nAccording to Bull:\ntimes making speeches against President\nHills Hotel in Hollywood, Calif., by\nsurfaced briefly in Garrison's in-\n\"Augustinovich said he was working for\nKennedy, but has denied taking part in\nthe CIA at the time of the Kennedy\nStephen Jaffe, a Garrison investigator.\nvestigation and his possible role in events\nKennedy's murder.\nsurrounding the assassination was ap-\nassassination. Augustinovich did some\nHall has taken part in many activities\nJaffe, in his report to Garrison, said:\nagainst Cuban rebel government dictator\n\"Hall stated that he knew he had never\nparently not pursued to great lengths,\ninvestigating for the CIA in connection\naccording to William Wood, (aka Bill\nwith the Kennedy investigation and has\nFidel Castro. In 1963, Hall was an\nseen Sylvia Odio because he has seen a\nphotograph of her with her four children\nBoxley) a former CIA agent and a special\ntold me that the results of his investigation\norganizer for an anti-Castro commando\ninvestigator for Jim. Garrison for 19\ndid not jive with the results of the Warren\ngroup led by David Ferrie. Hall\narrested that year in Florida way\nWhile in Dallas in September 1963 Hall\nmonths.\nReport.'\nauthorities who confiscated a large cache\nwas arrested on a gun charge. Hall told the\nAugustinovich, like Nagell, reportedly\nThat Oswald was a \"patsy\" and a CIA\nof guns, ammunition and drugs.\nFBI that a Dallas resident had made\nhad information about the Kennedy\nagent is dramatically backed up by Dean-\navailable $5,000 which Hall used to put up\nassassination before it happened.\nFallon, who is working closely with\nBOTH HALL AND Ferrie were figures\nbail.\nMorris, the Tennessee author who wrote\nin former New Orleans Dist. Atty. Jim\nW.R. Morris, a prominent author from\nAUGUSTINOVICH is discussed at\n\"The Twelfth of August,' the biography of\nGarrison's controversial investigation of\nLorretto, Tenn., who is working closely\nlength in an affidavit, witnessed by four\nBuford Pusser, the hero-sheriff of the\nthe John Kennedy murder case.\nwith ex-CIA agent Harry Dean (Dean\npersons, given in Garrison's investigation\nmovie \"Walking Tall.\"\nFerrie, a former airlines pilot who had\nFallon) has told TATTLER he is trying to\nby Calvin Barton Bull, a witness in the\nDean-Fallon, who has had several\nworked as a private detective for\nestablish whether Hall's bail bond money\nGarrison probe.\ntelephone conversations with TATTLER,\nLouisiana Mafia boss Carlos Marcello,\nwas put up by a former high-ranking\nBull, in the affidavit, said it was based\nclaims he was Oswald's partner in the\nwas the first person accused by Garrison\nmilitary officer who has been linked by\non a 160-page report that Augustinovich\nCIA.\nin the Kennedy conspiracy.\nDean to the Kennedy conspiracy.\nkept under his mattress until it was stolen\nDean has visited Oswald's grave in Fort\nAfter Garrison's investigation was\nand conversations among Bull,\nWorth's Rose Hill Cemetery every year on\npublicized, Ferrie was found dead in his\nWHEN INTERVIEWED by investigator\nAugustinovich and Garrison investigator\nthe anniversary of the accused assassin's\napartment in New Orleans. After his\nJaffe in March 1968, a few weeks after\nGary Sanders.\ndeath.\ndeath, ruled a suicide, Garrison called\nHall's discharge from the Veterans Ad-\nBull's affidavit tells of an allegiance\nFerrie \"one of the most important in-\nministration Hospital in Los Angeles, he\namong Communists, the CIA and the John\nMORRIS FIRST MET Dean in 1966 in\ndividuals of the 20th Century.' Medical\nsaid he had a change of heart about\nBirch Society in plotting the death of\nRose Hill Cemetery when the former CIA\nauthorities said a karate chop to the back\ncooperating in Garrison's investigation.\nPresident Kennedy.\nagent was placing a vase of large yellow\nof Ferrie's neck could have caused his\nJaffe, in his confidential report to\n\"Three Communists agents, one CIA\nmums on Oswald's grave.\ndeath.\nGarrison, wrote:\nundercover agent made contact with five\nDean was interviewed anonymously for\nHall in 1964 told the FBI he had been in\n\"Hall stated in regard to his willingness\nmen,\" Bull said in the notorized\nthe Tom Snyder \"Tommorrow\" show at\nDallas in September 1963 in connection\nto go to New Orleans to talk to Garrison,\nNBC headquarters in New York City\nstatement.\nwith his anti-Castro activities and had\nthis was now, perfectly agreeable to him\n\"The five men all belong to or support\nrecently, but the interview was never\nvisited Mrs Sylvia Odio. Mrs. Odio, a\nHe said he wanted to testify, under oath,\nthe John Birch Society. $250,000 in $20 bills\nbroadcast.\nCuban refugee, testified before the Warren\nand that he would cooperate in any way\nexchanged hands as a retainer to kill\nWhile in New York, registered under the\nCommission that a \"Leon Oswald\" had\npossible.\"\nPresident Kennedy in retaliation for his\nname \"Dean Fallon,\" his hotel room was\nattended a meeting in her home. Later she\nIt was at this meeting that Hall first told\nunder-the-table payment of $1 million to\nburglarized and a suit of clothing was\nidentified the \"Leon Oswald\" as Lee\nabout a meeting in the Los Angeles home\nthe CIA for anyone who could successfully\ntaken. Dean suspects the burglary was a\nHarvey Oswald, the man the Warren\nof Clinton Wheat in 1963 where, Hall said,\nkill both Raoul and Fidel Castro. This was\ncover for searching his room.\nCommission eventually designated the\nseveral people with right-wing connections\nalso in retaliation for Kennedy's backing\nThe former CIA agent flew to Chicago\nlone assassin of President Kennedy.\nplotted the assassination of President\nof the anti-Castro groups.\nrecently for an interview with TATTLER\nOswald was slain by Jack Ruby two days\nKennedy.\n\"Several close attempts against Castro\nrepresentatives, but while at O'Hare\nTwo months later, in a dramatic ap-\nfailed. Contact was further established\nAirport, \"was frightened by something\"\nafter Kennedy was killed.\nOn Nov. 23, 1963, one day after the\npearance before Edwin Meese, California\nthrough an unknown Russian agent\nand immediately flew back to California.\nassassination, the FBI filed a report telling\nGov. Ronald Reagan's legal affairs\nworking at the Russian consulate in New\nMorris' own investigation, as well as the\nof an informant reporting Loran Hall had\nsecretary, Hall made a dramatic reversal\nYork City.\"\nprobes of other researchers, has shown\nredeemed a 30.06 rifle from a Los Angeles\nof his former position that he knew nothing\nBull's statement goes on to say that,\ninvolvement of Eugene Hale Brading, also\nof a Kennedy conspiracy.\n'They furnished the patsy Oswald, who\nknown as Jim Braden, in the Kennedy\npawn shop.\nthey knew was working for the CIA, spying\nconspiracy. Brading has denied this to\nHALL SAID HIS memory had been\non them.\"\nTATTLER.\nTHE FBI REPORT concluded\nastonishingly, at least for the timing:\n\"jogged\" by \"certain individuals\nWithout elaboration, Bull's affidavit lists\nBrading, named by authorities as a\nreminding me of persons I was in contact\nas \"an assassin\" a \"Thomas Kane\nmember of a California Mafia family, was\n\"No further investigation was con-\nducted, as it is obvious that the rifle\nwith in 1963 before the assassination.\"\n(alias)\" described as having been born in\narrested in Dealey Plaza minutes after the\nthe U.S., having once lived in New York\nassassination under the name 'Jim\nmentioned above was not used in con-\nHe supplied Meese with names, in-\nnection with the assassination of President\ncluding that of Edgar Eugene Bradley,\nCity, of medium height with black hair.\nBradden\" and slipped through the hands of\nKennedy.\"\nwhom he had met while raising funds for\nOther sources say that Oswald, while he\nDallas authorities without his underworld\nIn 1968 Garrison began efforts to get\nanti-Castro activities in the Los Angeles\nworked for the CIA, was given the code\nconnections being known.\nCalifornia judges to extradite Hall to New\narea.\nname \"Tom Kane.\"\nOrleans. At first, Hall successfully\n\"On almost every occasion after\nI\nFIVE YEARS LATER, Brading turned\nresisted the efforts.\nfinished talking at one of these meetings,\"\nTHE OTHER \"ASSASSIN\" named in the\n(Continued on Page 19)\nTATTLER INVESTIGATIVE SPECIAL\nSeptember, 1975\nPage 3"
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