ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000800140020-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2007
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: September 22, 1967
• Content Type: REPORT

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OGc &. 2--' F2..2,
Mr. Ramsey Clark
The Attorney General
Fred M. Vinson, Jr.
Assistant Attorney General
Criminal Division
September 22,
and j. Walter Yeagley
Assistant Attorney General
Internal Security Division
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Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
On Thursday, September 21, 1967, at 11:1S a. m., two of the
attorneys representing Clay L. Shaw, who has been indicted in New
Orleans, Louisiana, for conspiring to assassinate the late President
Kennedy, came to the Department of justice to confer with
Mr. Nathaniel E. Kossack, First Assistant, Criminal Division, about
procedural problems and their strategy in the forthcoming trial.
Mr. Kossack advised them that although their requests would be
received and considered, no assurances or commitments of coopera-
tion could be made at this time. In the course of their conversation,
the Messrs. Irvin Dymond and Edward F. Wegmann Indicated that they
desired assistance from the Department of justice In several matters:
1. To ascertain whatever contact existed prior to or on the
date of the assassination between the Central Intelligence Agency and
the following Individuals:
a. Donald P. Norton
b. David L. Ferrie
C, Lee Harvey Oswald
d. Clay L. Shaw
e. Gordon Dwane Novel
f. Burton Klein
g. Irvin Dymond
h. Edward F. Wegmann
I. William J. Wegmann
J. Lee Odom
k. Steven Plotkin
(Dymond and Wegmann stated that they might later submit the names of
other individuals about whom they had similar questions.)
cc: Mr. Houston, CIA
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2. To' learn whether Federal Bureau of Investigation "rap
sheets" would be available on named individuals.
3. To learn whether Parry Raymond Russo had ever been
interrogated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
4. To learn whether Clay L. Shaw had been investigated by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation in the course of the inquiry into the death
of President Kennedy.
S. To learn whether Clay L. Shaw had been investigated by the
Federal Bureau of investigation since larch 1, 1967, regarding the
strength and merit of #istrlct Attorney Garrison's charges against him.
More specifically, to learn whether an FBI agent visited and interviewed
Mrs. Artrel Kirk Trelford, of Houston. Texas, concerning her social
contacts with draw subsequent to her purchase of his property at
525 Dusphine Street, New Orleans.
6. To determine the whereabouts of Lee Odorn, who vanished
with the $3, 000 proceeds from a bullfight he had promoted for the July 4,
1967, CptImists' Club of Irving, Texas. Odom's last known address was
P. 0. Box 174, Irving. And to learn if the FBI had investigated Odom
after Garrison announced that he had found in Shaw's personal notebook
the same number as he claimed could be decoded from a number in
Oswald's notebo . Shaw has claimed that the number In his notebook
is t1hat of a post office box used by Odom for a business he previously
operated.
7. To determine the whereabouts of jack L., Ruby and Lee Harvey
Oswald during the period September 1 - September 5, 1963. More
specifically, to determine whether either of them could have been in the
Capitol House Hotel In Baton Rouge during that period,
S. To determine the financial situation of Lee Harvey Oswald
during the month of September,1963: I.e., when and where he cashed
his regular unemployment checks.
9. T+o determine the whereabouts of George Se .tor, who was
ack Ruby's roommate in Noverrbea;, 1963.;
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10. To ascertain the FBI's willingness to conduct ars iAVeatlgation
of perry Raymond Russo for Its psychological effect alone--i. e., to "shale up"
Russo so that he would repudiate his allegedly perjuriic test; mony given
the preliminary e min tion March 14-17, 1967.
Mr. Kossack made direct answers to only two of these requests:
he stated that the "rap sheets" referred to in paragraph 2 are covered by
a statutory restriction, and may be distributed only to persons associated
with law enforcement agencies; and he advised that Russo would be
interrogated (paragraph 9) only in connection with an investigation of a
violation of Federal law within the k-1's investigative jurisdiction.
Messrs. Dymond and %Ief rnann specualted that they might file a
complaint with United States Attorney Louis LaCour stati ; that Shaw's
civil rights have been violated, through a conspiracy by Garrison,
Dr. Esmond Fatter and Perry Raymond Russo, to present false testimony
at Shaw's preliminary examinatbn, and through such a complaint draw the
FBI Into the matter and prompt an i:nterro tion of Russo. Mr. Kossack
referred them to 1,%MIr. John Door, Assistant Attorney Genx ral, or Mr. Robert
Owen, First Assistant, Civil Rights Livision, for further comment on the
Viral civil rights statutes.
After speculating that they might seeka chaose of venue to
another Louisiana parish, and commmcating on the alleged chronic
intoxication of judge laerty and the apparent liaison between
judge O'Hara and the Teamsters, the two attorneys left a 1215 p. rn.
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