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ted with the agreement to meet the next night at the Absinthe Juse. WHALEN spent that night at a motel on the Airline Highway. the does not remember the name of the motel or the name he registered under. WITALEN and FERRIE met at the Absinthe House the next night as planned. From there they went directly to SHAW'S ment in the 1300 block of Daunhing street WHALEN remembered the apartment was as the first Elaar but not the color of the front door. He did not remember the courtyard until specifically asked about it. He doés not recall any of the interior of the apartment except that it was very lavish. thank. DEAN ANDREWS AE first only SHAW, FERRIE and WHALEN werse in the apartment, and SHAW and FERRIE were trying to persuade WHALSH to go through with the plan. About one half hour after WHALEN'S and FERRIE's arrival, a short fat man wearing dark glasses arrived) This man was introduced to WHALEN by SHAW as DEAN ANDREWS, ANDREWS and SHAW had some conversation away from FERETE and and shortly thereafter ANDREWS left the apartment. SHAW then returned to WHALEN and continued to try to persuade him. SHAW said that he had done some checking on WHALEN and that he knew of WHALEN's crippled daughter - she suffered from Delio SHAW said that t If WHALEN would go through with the plan he would get WHALEN'S daughter the finest medical treatment money could buy, and also see to it that she was sent to college. However, WHALEN insisted that he would not KIII a District Attorney, and he and FERRIE left. Once outside, FERRIE told WHALEN that CLAY BERTRAND could do a lot for him and that he was making a mistake. Also at this time FERRIE spoke of LEE OSWALD. He said that SHAW (BERTRAND) had done a lot for OSWALD, and that it was only because OSWALD fouled up that he was killed. He intimated that SHAW had given OSWALD some financial support and had contacted some people in Cuba and Mexico for him. Avery in selit inmession with Damil Farmi! name for my with At this timé ha also mentioned the name of SENATOR JOHN TOWER of Texas and DANTE MAROCHINI FERRIE boasted thät he had set up the assassination of John Kennedy WHALEN stated that he did not believe these statements. He felt FERRIE was merely boasting and name-dropping in an attempt to get him to change his sharon mind. FERRIE also mentioned the meeting between SHAW JACK RUBY, and LEE HARVEY OSWALD in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. FERRIE stated tyo that OSWALD was an agent of the C.A. and received money from them is at one time. He seemed to take pleasure from the irony of the fact that OSWALD had worked for a United Staces Government agency at one time and that he later Killed the leader of that government, FERRIE also stated that they had been qiven "inside" information from (PEAN ANDREWS that Jim Garrison was about to start an investi 10) gation into the assassination of President John E Kennedy. WHALEN have insisted he wanted nothing to do with the plan and he left. go That night, the night before Mardi Gras 1965, WHALEN caught a plane for Atlanta, Georgia. That very month he committed an armed robbery of a Federal Savings and Loan Association in West Palm Beach, Florida, and was apprehended. He was convicted of that armed robbery and sentenced to twelve years at the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta, However, his conviction was reversed and Thi ft butstwas first in either 19650 funt 1266 that with DEAN with ANDREW regardite J - Thad this Devo -3- my Note: Fn all practical our mentionate personne me getting Aim Andreas to trimin him estinarily about Clay Pontact Can no longer reallyes Dr have 0. Beniford 's + gues