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    "ocrText": "-6-\nThey trusted me because I was a friend of Mary's; because\nI gave\na\nsuperb (b) acting job of the average,radical,right-\nwing, young republican, student from the nut-world or California\npolitics. Mostly, they trusted me because they wanted to know what\nI'd discovered. By the way, this was the meeting with Larry F.\nI am aware that Gary S. would like this assignment in Dallas\nand I am convinced he would do an extremely good job. I ask only\nthis. If I have built this rapport and you have any desire to use it\nfor more penetration ofothis bizarre group (investigation on a plot\nthat leads most probably to their own back door) wouldn 't it be\nto our advantage to divulge my name in the Ramparts article? This\nwould further establish my interest and my work on the case and\nsolidify my base as U.C.L.A. diverting my affiliation from the\npossibility of my having connections with your office. or would this\nbe a mistake since these people most assuredly feel Ramparts is\na Communist Journal. or if you plan to send Gary to penetrate this\ngroup, or no one at all, would it be best that I keep my name a\nsecret. Whatever you décide I will do.\nOne further point having to do with this subject. While in\nDallas I made some photographs duplicating some of those photos\nin the Volumes attributed to Oswald. The ones he took down a lonely\nrailroad tracks just happened to be about twenty feet from the back\nporch of Harry oisen's apartment. Turning on that point about 90 de-\ngrees toward the East one sees the turn that the motorcade made onto\nTurtle Creek Rd. Considering that there is an abundance of shrubbery\nbetween this point on the tracks and the right turn from Lemmon Ave.\n(I think) onto Turtle Creek, this very possibly, could have been an\nearlier possible location! from which an assassin could fire. There\nis every indication that this would have been an adequate location\nfor the *Triangulation\" and especially for a speedy escape. I think\nthe only drawbacks are that this is not more than one block from\nGeneral Walker's mansion on Turtle Oreek Rd., and that from these\npositions there could be only minimal elevation for aiming.\nI also took some photos of the back of Walker's residence\nas Oswald was to have done. I took two of the front of his house\none of the side from an alley, and two from the alley in back. The\nview is unmistakably what is printed in the volumes where the myster-\nious \"exploding license plate\" is shown. Unfortunately, General Walker\nhimself, decided as he watched me (and two boys who were assisting\nme - one of them Mary's son) that I was not doing the best thing for\nmy country. He came out of his back door and walked to us standing in\nthe alley behind his house. Realizing the danger of this type of en-\ncounter I walked to him aggressively and told him how pround I was to\nhave the opportunity to meet him. \"General Walker, I certainly never\nthought I would have the chance to meet you, (true). He asked me\nwhat I was doing and I quickly volunteered that I was writing a\nstory about him for the U.C.L. newspaper ( I thought that was a\nlot better than the FREE PRESS) and that I had wanted a picture of\nhis house. I also told him my name and shook his hand. My misfortune.\nHe looked at me totally suspicious but unable to really disbelieve me\nand the fact that I had two teenage boys with me supportéd my osten-\nsible harmlessness. I asked him if he had written anything lately,"
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