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    "ocrText": "As Member of Warren Commission,\nThen-Congressman Ford Edited Out\nInformation Linking Oswald to FBI\nPresident Gerald Ford played a key role in hushing the truth\nabout the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.\nPRESIDENT FORD ... As a\nFor his book, \"Portrait of an Assassin,\" Ford faked damaging\ncongressman and member of\nmaterial to disprove connections of accused assassin Lee Harvey\nthe Warren Commission, he\nOswald and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central\nplayed key role in hushing up\nIntelligence Agency.\nvital information about JFK's\nWorking from a transcript of a \"Top Secret\" closed door\nassassination. Working from a\nsession of the Warren Commission, Ford, a member of the panel,\ntranscript of a 'top secret'\n\"edited\" out controversial material that discussed links between\nclosed door session of the com-\nOswald and the intelligence community.\nmission, Rep. Ford 'edited'\nout controversial material that\nThis would never have been known had\nwhether or not there still existed a tran-\nnot government lawyers lost their decade-\nscript of the executive session Russell had\nlinked Oswald with the FBI.\nlong battle to block declassification of the\nforced on Sept. 18, 1964, just before\nJan. 27, 1964, session. Aurhor-researcher\npublication of the Warren Report, which\nHarold Weisberg, after years of courtroom\nwent to press less than a week later and\nmaneuvering, finally gained access to the\nthen was in page proof.'\ndocument in the National Archives. He\nAFTER WEISBERG gave Russell proof\nanalyzes his findings in his new book,\na transcript of the meeting didn't exist,\n'Whitewash IV, JFK Assassination\nthat the commission had destroyed\nTranscript.'\nrecords of the senator's disbelief, Russell\nHe also charges that a senator on the\nresigned his chairmanship of the Military\nHAROLD WEISBERG Af-\nWarren Commission disagreed with its\nAffairs Committee, divesting himself of\nter years of courtroom ma-\nlone-assassin theory, but documents were\n\"oversight\" responsibilities over the CIA.\nfaked to show the decision of the seven\nOnly short daily press notices referred to\nneuvering, he gained access to\ncommission members as being\nthe severed friendship of Russell to\nthe document then-Rep. Ford\nunanimous.\nPresident Lyndon B. Johnson, who suc-\nhad 'doctored' in the National\nWeisberg also reveals in his fourth book\nceeded Kennedy and appointed Russell to\nArchives. In addition, Weis-\nchallenging the commission findings that:\nthe commission.\n\"What did not appear is that to his dying\nberg said that a senator on the\nCOMMISSION MEMBERS expressed\nday Russell, the most conservative of the\nWarren Commission disagreed\nconsiderable reservations about pursuing\ncommissioners, continued to urge me to\nwith its lone-assassin theory,\nan investigation of reports accused\ndisprove the report he had been tricked\nbut documents were faked to\nassassin Lee Harvey Oswald was an in-\ninto agreeing to sign.'\nAccording to Weisberg, Russell had told\nshow the decision of the com-\ntelligence agent or informer. They ob-\nviously were afraid FBI director J. Edgar\nChief Justice Earl Warren:\nmission was unanimous.\nHoover might get angry at them.\n'Just put a little footnote in there at the\nFormer CIA director Allen Dulles, a\nbottom of the page saying 'Senator Russell\nmember of the commission, said it would\ndissents.\nbe agent to\nWarren declined, insisting an\nan\nmembers sign the report. A change was\nsaid in effect Oswald could have been\nagreed on to entice Russell to sign,\nCIA informer without him knowing about\nWeisberg said. but the specific\nit.\nlanguage and the thrust of the Report\nThis is revealed in a \"Top Secret'\nremained unchanged. It says exactly what\ntranscript of a Jan. 27, 1964, commission\nRussell would not agree to, what Russell\nexecutive session. Weisberg went\nto\ndid not believe about the shooting and the\nfederal court under the \"Freedom of In-\nwounds.'\nformation Act\" to win its declassification.\nJIM LESAR An attorney,\nA decade later, in confirmation hearings\nTHE MAIN POINT Russell objected to\nhe worked hand-in-hand with\non his nomination as Vice President to\nabout the report was its contention that\nsucceed Spiro Agnew, Ford would deny\nLee Harvey Oswald fired shots that killed\nWeisberg to declassify the 'top\nthat he placed in his book any material\nPresident Kennedy and wounded Gov.\nsecret' transcript which Weis-\nexcept what was contained in the 26\nJohn Connally.\nberg said Ford 'edited. The in-\nvolumes of Warren Commission material\nThe declassified transcript of the Jan.\nformation Weisberg and Lesar\nthe government sold to the public.\n27, 1964, executive session, opens with\nuncovered is contained in the\nBut it took Weisberg years of legal\ncommission general counsel J. Lee Rankin\nmaneuvering, assisted by Washington\nexplaining he had received a call from the\nformer's latest book, 'White-\nattorney Jim Lesar, before the National\nthen Texas attorney general who \"was\nwash IV, JFK Assassination\nArchives would declassify and surrender\nquite excited.\" Carr said he had received\nTranscript. which contains\nthe transcript President Ford quoted from\ninformation that \"the FBI had an un-\nother commission coverups.\nin his book published in 1965.\ndercover agent who was Oswald...\"\nWEISBERG, AN indefatigable in-\nThis was apparently based on never-\nvestigator, used all of his skills as an in-\nconfirmed reports sweeping Dallas at the\nvestigative reporter, former Senate in-\ntime that Oswald was FBI informant No.\nvestigator and onetime loss man, in his 10-\n179 and had been employed by the FBI at\nyear effort to prove a conspiracy in the\n$200 per month from September of 1962\nshooting of Kennedy on the streets of\nuntil the assassination 14 months later.\nDallas on Nov. 22, 1963. (The OSS stands\nAfter the briefing by Rankin on the\nfor Office of Strategic Serives, which was\nreports Oswald was an intelligence agent,\nthe World War II forerunner of the CIA.)\nRankin suggested he should personally\nIn \"Whitewash IV,\" Weisberg discloses\nconfront Hoover and ask for proof the\nfor the first time the relationship he had\nreports were not true.\nwith Sen. Richard Bissell Russell, the late\nThen Rep. Hale Boggs, a commission\nGeorgia Democrat and conservative\nmember who died in an Alaskan airplane\nleader who served on the Warren Com-\ncrash in 1972, asked: \"What other alter-\nnatives are there?\"\nLATE SEN. RUSSELL He\nmission.\nWeisberg learned from private sources\nwas the lone member of the\nthat Russell had disagreed with the basic\nCOMMISSION MEMBERS then\ndiscussed interviewing Lonnie Hudkins, a\nseven-man Warren Commission\nconclusions of the commission's report.\nThe author said he obtained \"irrefutable\nHouston newspaper reporter who wrote a\nto express doubts about the\nproof\" that the record of Russell's ob-\nstory speculating Oswald might be an\nlone-assassin theory. Weisberg\njections had been destroyed. He wrote the\nintelligence agent; a Dallas deputy sheriff\nsays he obtained 'irrefutable\nsenator and began a series of meetings\nHudkins attributed as source of the in-\nproof' that the record of Rus-\nwith him.\nformation, and Dallas FBI agent James\nsell's objections had been de-\nWeisberg writes that Russell \"was\nHosty.\nsatisfied there had been a conspiracy, that\nHosty's name, address, telephone\nstroyed. Russell was 'satisfied'\nno one man could have done the known\nnumber and license number of his auto\nthere had been a conspiracy to\nshooting and that 'we have not been told\nwere found in Oswald's notebook after his\nkill Kennedy.\nthe truth about Oswald by the federal\narrest in the Kennedy death probe.\nBut in a report furnished by the Warren\nagencies.'\n'He was shaken by the proof that he had\nCommission, the Hosty listing in Oswald's\nbeen imposed upon and history per-\nnotebook had been omitted.\nverted,\" Weisberg said. \"He asked me to\nDuring the Jan. 27 meeting, con-\n(Continued on Page 8)\nconduct a further investigation to prove\nTATTLER INVESTIGATIVE SPECIAL\nSeptember, 1975\nPage 7"
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