Various newspaper and magazine clippings of articles relating to JFK, Jim Garrison, individuals under investigation, Martin Luther King, and other topics that interested Garrison. Also, includes excerpts from books regarding the JFK assassination and some

HALL GOES INTO HIDING (Continued from Page 9) working for at least the CIA if not the FBI, too. Oswald was able to leap in and out of assassination that will be receiving more Russia in a single bound, able to sojourn and more currency as renewed interest in this country from New Orleans to Dallas at the JFK case builds. It aptly illustrates will, and capable of associating himself what the "misinformation" theory is all with both right and left wing extremist about. groups. Indeed, there is ample evidence, backed up by sworn testimony in the ACCORDING TO the theory, unpopular possession of this publication, that Oswald politicians can gain popularity by having a was the CIA eyes and ears - the inside crisis confront them that clearly indicates man - on the rumored right-wing plot to they are faced with some evil force. assassinate the President. For example, when Richard Nixon and In fact, prior to the assassination, his wife Pat went to Venezuela and his car Oswald ate breakfast in code, telling CIA was stoned in a street riot, Nixon's contacts in the restaurant what the popularity shot up in the polls. Many progress of the assassination plans were at that moment. The code was: Scrambled eggs: "Assassination called Oswald ate his off." One egg: "One additional assassin in breakfast in code Dealey Plaza." Two eggs: "Two additional assassins in telling agents of Dealey Plaza." And so on. piot's progress (By the time the assassination plans were completed, Oswald was probably down to one meal a day.) political observers contend that had it not Now, switch to the scene of the been for the Venezuelan riot, Nixon would assassination and recall the statements of never have been able to overcome his the witnesses: The first shots fired Checkers" image and be nominated for sounded like "firecrackers." According to most rational expert belief (and that ex- President. Because of the fortunate political side- cludes the Warren Commission Report), effects of the Venezuelan incident, cynical the first shot fired hit JFK in the back, observers have suggested that perhaps it barely penetrating his skin. The second GARY PATRICK HEMMING, the leader of the commando was a planned riot, orchestrated by the shot flew over the open-topped car and forces at No Name Key. In a letter to supporters, he admitted that the struck the curb (apparently with so little CIA. men were being trained in "assassination.' Conversely, John Kennedy found force that it did not go on to injure anyone himself in low political esteem at the time in the crowd). These first two shots could of the Texas fence-mending trip. The trip very well have been "down loaded" shells following his arrest, statements that have to Hall and many other Cubans who fought itself had all the overtones of the pelitical bullets that had a major portion of their been confirmed by former CIA agent with Castro. barnstorming. gun powder removed. And those shots George O'Toole to have been truthful, in Castro's Communist takeover of Cuba would have been fired by the gunman - or that stress evaluation of them indicate led to the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion, Assume the worst: The plot to kill Kennedy was a "fake" assassination plot, "sniper team' that believed it was in- Oswald wasn't lying. which had been planned during the one that was infiltrated and became real. volved in a "fake" assassination Then the Oswald said he hadn t murdered anyone. Eisenhower administration by the security Is there anything to support such an fatal shots were fired from in front of (Indeed, had he been on the sniper team committee led by Richard M. Nixon, then assumption? Kennedy's car. that was firing underloaded bullets, he Vice President. There is, if you recognize that Lee The theory makes a lot of sense when could make such a statement with a clear Kennedy went through with the Harvey Oswald was a government agent, you consider Oswald's statements conscience. disasterous Bay of Pigs affair - but he didn't supply the air cover the Cuban OSWALD ALSO TOLD his brother that exiles who were trained in Florida by the he had been made the "patsy, and that CIA felt he should have. everything would be straightened out in Thus, the Cuban exiles felt Kennedy had due time. (Interestingly enough, the betrayed them. concept of a "pasty" is perfectly in line 'Hall was violently opposed to the U.S. with intelligence operations. An in- policy in Cuba and felt that Kennedy was telligence operation that would plan and working against Cuban freedom rather perform such a job would have three than for it," an informant wrote to elements: A source, which would direct authorities after the Warren Commission and fund the operation; a "cut out, which investigation that tied Hall and two would deliver the message and the money associates to an apartment meeting at to the proper sources; and a "team" or Mrs. Sylvia Odio, at which a "Leon "teams" that would actually perform the Oswald" and the other men present operation. A "pasty" would be used to discussed the assassination of JFK in 1963. allow the "team" or "teams" to make an With the failure of the Bay of Pigs, Hall escape, and then the "cut out" if not the "team" or "teams" would be "disposed of, or murdered, thus accounting for the Hall said that statistically impossible number of mysterious deaths of people connected Kennedy 'was a with the assassination and the in- vestigation.) traitor' to the Consequently, the entire concept of an infiltrated "fake" assassination plot is Cuban cause very much in keeping with the facts, and such a "fake" assassination plot would joined Alpha 66 and Operation 40, two of have depended on one key element: the many Cuban exile training camps in Providing the CIA through Oswald with Florida and near New Orleans. "misinformation.' Thus it is that we come to the role of WHILE HIS ASSOCIATE, Gary Patrick Loran Hall. It is entirely conceivable to (a.k.a., Gary Patrick Hemming), trained several former intelligence agents from troups on Big Pine Key and No Name Key several branches of government that have in Florida, Hall travelled from California been interviewed by TATTLER that Hall to Florida, through both Dallas and New is the constant source of "misin- Orleans, trying to drum up support for formation.' another invasion of Cuba. Consider Hall's shadowy background: (Another close associate of Loran Hall's, Hall was arrested in 1959 and placed in Lawrence Howard Jr. believed to be the prison with one Louis Santo Trafficante, burly Latin man who attended the meeting Miami's Mafia boss who was kicked out of at Mrs. Odio's apartment - said in a 1968 the U.S., went to Italy, got a forged French interview with investigators that the passport, travelled to Argentina, and then property on No Name Key and Big Pine picked up another forged passport and Key had originally been leased by the CIA came to Cuba, where he was arrested for from Mrs. Wilma Weldon and W.R. illegal gambling. Robbinson, but that when the CIA aban- doned the Cuban invasion idea, Howard HALL SUBSEQUENTLY fought for and Rolando Masfeerer - brother of a Fidel Castro to liberate Cuba, unaware Florida dentist named Kiki Ferror - that Castro would make Cuba a Com- arranged for the lease of the land. The link munist country once the revolution was LAWRENCE HOWARD JR., close associate of Loran Hall. won, which was a severe disappointment (Continued on Page 17) TATTLER INVESTIGATIVE SPECIAL September, 1975 Page 12