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for the football game and wou~d return around Tuesday or nelt week.

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who retired on 1-17-67 as CllleC ol Detectives, Los Angeles County SherlCf'• n';:~'.·:· .

I Office. McDonald ls a graduate ln good standing of the 67th Session of the FBI .. ~~:· .
National Academy. Dufiles Indicate Ulal news sources of 8-18-64 Indicated that:· ·
McDonald had been granted 90 days leave lo act as a security officer for the · _'.
Rep.iblican National Committee. His specific task was that of protecting Senator
Barry Goldwater during the Presidential campaign. McDonald has always sup- .. ·
porlcd the FBI and often expressed his great admiration for It and for the Director.

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He ls the inventor or U1e Identi-Kit, which ls a i>roccss for using a series or nega-
tiv~s of facial characteristics which may be placed on top or each other to Corm
a ~omposile picture. This process ls used lo approximate a picture of a criminal
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ur Dallas Office. He was a social acquaintance of Lee and Marina Oswald in
alias prior lo the assassination. Because o( his Russian background, considerable
spcqulation occurred during our investigation of the assassination that DeMohrens-
chil~t might have been lnvolv.e d. Nothing was ever developed Indicating this was
so. · In 1964 DeMohrenschlldt took up residence in Haiti where he worked as a
Consulting Engineer for the Government of Ulat country. He returned to Dalla.a
in November, 1966: DeMohrenschildt has been de scribed as an unprincipled
adventurer wllo has lived primarily by his wits. Married four times, he haa
been characterized as a braggart of poor moral character who has epgaged 1n a
number of illicit affairs. · .

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The Edward Cohen mentioned by Davidson may be identical with
Edw~rd St~~en who currently resides at 308 ·N Street, SouU1wcst, Washington,
D. Q. 1 He has never been the subject or an FBI investigation; however, our files
lndi(f'l~e that Cohen allegedly was in contact this year with "Ramparts" magazine
for th~ p.irpose of soliciting piblicalion of an "exp9sc" type or story on Overseaa
Nati~j¥ Airways (ONA) and President Jolmso.n •s alleged association with lt. . .
Cohcrl ·was alleged lo have indicated that many active and rct11·ed military officers
are connected with ONA and Cohen fell such a story would create a big "smell"
and would be most embarrassing to Mr. Johnson. In July, 1959, Edward Slone
Cohen advised the Slate Dc1xu·tment he planned lo attend the Seventh World Youth
Festival in Viem1a , Austria J during the Summer ' of 1959. Our flies furU1er reveal
that Wallace M. Cohen, Chevy Chase, Maryland, the taU1er of Edward Stone Cohen,
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he contacted currently is employed by anoU1er Government agency and he bcllevea
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including the Governments of Indonesia and Haiti. He has desc1ibed himself la
[ the v.a~t as a five percenler, out to make a fast buck." Bufiles reflect that he
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Outing yesterday's interview, he alleged his only concern was that

of prqtecti ng President Johnson from being "smeared," however, 1t is strongly
believed that his real motive was U1al of seeking information on DeMohrenschildt
l} and McDonald. In support o{ this, it is noted that p1ior to coming to Bureau
Headquarters he had already contacted Edward Cohen for background information.
on DeMohrenschildt and spent the previous weekend in Dallas, Texas, allegedly
for the purpose of attending a Yootl>all game. However, Dallas ls also the res~dence
of DeMohrensc:,hildt.

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DeMohrr-nschildt. On 4-3-67, William L. Oltmans, Dutch representative In the
U.S. of the Netherlands Television Company (NTC), contacted our New York Office
and ad~ sed that NTC had · received information fr.om an informant in Western
Europe ·u\at DeMohrenschildl was the principal organizer of the assassination of
Presidc.- nt Kennedy. It was alleged that DeMohrenschildt's brother, Dimitri, was
a parti<;lpant and ,possibly the second assassin who fired from the woods slmul- ·
taneous Iv with Oswald. According to Ollmans, NTC was making inquiries ln the
U. s. a11J planned to release a story lo the p.ibllc In. the rear future. Our files con-
tain no le r~alorl Information concerning Dimitri Von Mol\renschildt, brothe~ ·°!

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TIES OF NONDIPLOMATIO REPRESENTA.TIVES OF FOREIGN.
P.RlNC!PA.LS IN THE UNITED STATES

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1here The 0E:ATIU>fAN. Well, we a.ppreciat:e your cooperative attitude, l>fr: ... ·- - ·;;:-·------·--
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Will you state .for the record your full name, your business address,
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were l>fr-_ DAVIDSON. My name is Irving Davidson. My business address
Jd!ng is 1612K Street, Suite 306, Washington 6 D.O.
! fol- My Washing-ton home address i;; 2801 McK_inley Pl":ce 1'1'.W'., W a.sh-
ington 15, D.0.; my Pennsylvama address is 820 Highview Street,
Pittsburgh 6, Pa. . ·
The CHAIIULl.N. Would you give us, 1fr. Davidson.,.-]: believe you
:!lties did not choose to have a counsel present, is that correct!
} and - l>fr. DAVIDSON. No, that is correct, Mr. Chairman.
:i the • I • • . ::-..m:·. DAVIDSON'B BACKGRbUND . "

. Th~ O:ru.DillAN. Wo~d you gi~e us a v~i:y .bri~:f ~te~~nt for the
r~- record of vour career) I mean when you came to Washington and so on,
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used . work for the ·war Production Board. I was there approximately 3
years. Then I entered into the public relations field privately, ap-
proximately 1944. ·-. • ·~· ·· · _,:.,. ._._, ,,.
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ror Nicaragua. for gomg on .th~ ~ighthyear.... ,,.. ~'" '·'-· .: .-:; !.c _
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Ecuadoran sugar producers... ·. . . . · ·: . '. , ,:';~_, ~ :- -·- ..:·, .~ ._ ..
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man, that, well, let's pass that for a minute. I'am also presently reg-
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-'· istered for the Indonesian National Army, part of the Republic of
Indo~esia 1 and I am also re_gistered for the Israeli +.TI:era:ft Industries,~
a sem10fficial branch of the uovernmentof Israel.
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.·1•• tration statement, although there is a doubt in my mind whether I

l1 still represent Indonesia or not. But it presents no problem to file
these statements. .It is the easiest thin~ to do, and .i t worked no hard-
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··:: r. ragua., S. A. ; that is a private corporation 9 ._. · :..·:> - - ·~· ·· : . "::· • :.. · ·-.:
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that my: secretary be allowed to come in with nie because I am I!-Ot too
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was in A.ugust..1955." · · · .' · · ··' · ·· ·
-.-~_~:~..::;r:~-. :):.~ :-~~_.:.:.-- The ~N. What were .your duties .on behalf of"Nica~aua!
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with the.then one
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Senator Gun..LDMO LA.No, .. . . -. " . - . ··
Presa Secretary, : .. _· - · · · ··
Tke Presiden tial Palace, · ·. · -:" · ' · · · ·
Managua,Nf.caragu.a. " :",:;·: -- ' •: · . _ - · '.'."
DEAB B llOTXER LANO : Kindly deliver by hand the enclosed letter to President.
Luis and please inform General Somoza of its contents. My letter la self.
explanatory, bnt you can be snre that 1! it 1s not J ohnson it w lll be Nixon and we
will be with the winner. · · ·
Please alert the wire services to accept my cabl ed stories from Los Allgeles
which will be wired directly b> yon tor Noved.e.des. .•. . .. . _ ..
.. Sincerely yonrs, . . . .';. _.'.:. .~ ·; • · . ,. , .. . nc
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Luis and please inform General Somoza ot Its contents. My letter la eel!·
explanatory, but yon can be sure that 1! it i.8 not J ohnson it will be Nixon and
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Please a lert the wlre services to accept my cabled stories from Los Allgelee
which wfil be wired directly to you tor NovedadeS.
Sincerely yotl!s• .·
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..... Is this. letter that you referred tO, "the enclosed letter,'' is that not
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.Mr. DAVIDSON. I believe it is. I can't be sure, but to the he.st of my
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The CHAIRMAN. This is the cover letter. In other words, this was
to Ls.n,g enclosing the other letter, too! · .'.(
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The CHAJ:RMAN. You sa.y, ''We will be with the winner."
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. ··-~ • 1. M:r. Hillings cannot be reached as he is out of the country until early ~
tember, and is unable to respond to your inquiry in the _period of time as 0 ~.
lined in your correspondence.
····. Yon:r letter and enclosures will be brought to his attention imni.ediately Up(JD
. '•'.'" his return to Los Angeles. _ . · ·. . .
!£.there is any way that I can be of help in. this matter in the absence o! Mr.
Hillings, please :feel free to contact me. .·. · .· _. __ · .. . DE.IB
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M.ABTH.A. Hl..Im.A.W.A.Y, To th ....•.•.;
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·. DE.il SE:'\' ATOR Fur.BRIGHT: I won.Id like to take this opporln.nlty yon have &J
kindly afforded Die to make some minor re-vision.a in my. testimony .n.s given Q. STA~
before your committee on March 8, 1963. · . .. , ~.soN,J
The trip ot Messrs. Hunter and Hama.dy to Mana..gna, .Nicaragua., was noc
paid !or by either the U.S. Gova-nment or the F-eciernl Housing Ad.mlnlstratlw. . O': ·P~.
··- The tickets were provided by the Government ot Nicaragua after Messrs. Hunter · Durl
and Eamady informed me that their agency had appro..-ed their trip officially. L:r:ndo
With reference to the three checks I issued to Allan Oakley Hunter, please be Dav-id~
adTised that the check I issued on J"nly 29, 1958, for~ was to reimburse Mr. ·was in
Hunter for expenses he incurred regarding a Baleguard project for Nicaragil.1 David£
cin which he spent conslderable time, including 2 days in Washington, July Wasbi
24-25, 195R. 1n :&'ebruary 1959 I issued a cheek tor $1,000 to Mr. Hunter tor lili· · Witl
time, effort, and expenses on behal! ot the ~me Balegnard project, and his time retere;
and effort spent studying ways and means to :finance and develop trom •·1trlom I dit
sources a private housing project in J\ricaragna. In 1960, I issued a $1,500 check at the
to .Mr. Hunter on beha.lt of Allegheny Contracting Industries, of P1ttsburgh, Pa., any o1
·tor a housing study made on their behalt. This $1,500 was returned to me when his co
Mr. Hunter received his check from lJlegheny Contracting Industries. Som.e-- BO Inf
tlr:Je dnrlng this period, I received a bill !or approximately .$55 tor telephone As>
calls which 1Ir. Hunter made in my behal! and tor which I reimbursed him. andN
Thanking you again, I remain,. . . , .... · more;
· • Very truly yonrs, .. ··- ·~···~' ..,. .::· bear:t
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E. LETn:::R D..A.TI:D AUGUST ·26, 19£3, TO SEN.A.TOR Fm.BRIGHT F:RoM JACK ANDERSON eider .
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W AEHINGTON, D.0., A.u.pu.-'t £6, 196J. ·
Hon. J". W. FuLBRioRT,
Chairman, Ccnnmittee on Foreign Relatiom,
U.S. Senate, Wcuhington,D.0.
Dl:.AII: SE1'ATOR ~RIGHT: Drew Pearson is traveling overseas so I will :reply
f.or both o! ns. · '
"When we arrived at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, Drew and I
found that we had been assigned rooms in different part.a o! the city, whlch
would have made it highly inconvenient !or us to work together. I ran into
IrTing Davidson in Los Angeles and complained about our accommoda.tioM
He immediately o!l'ered to rent us two rooms of his suite. He explained that
he would be alone until his ta.mlly joined him after the convention.
To the best o! my recollection, Drew settled the bill wt th Mr. Davidson at the
end ot bis stay. It seems to me that I remained an extra day, paid tor the addl·
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Cordially, ·
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"Me? Why? Listen, you'tt with The iheosiscif wittiness and has man:igcd tore- ;~: ·. -:-~~
..-., ~·r· Post. Who•s )'Out man travelling with main SO throcgb :Umost five ~-nlliistt:a- ~;'.J..: ,;.~;~
1:-ving Imidson, the Handy Andy of Ford?' Ford's going to be s1opping over in - t~ It's ~is-scoc:~ in tr3dc: ~~g pre- ;[;-~-'.~
][ . behind-the-$Cenes WashinglOn, Indonesia, I'll-bet-you -didn't know th:u • . c~~"ieright lnsic!eSioryfoccvcrybody; ~ ·· ~t. ·-•·:"1
o wanted no profile written about Nobody knows trun yec. I'll be there coo. a- at le:lst :ippcarmg co. In-the ·~ ic was '.!:;. _ -
him. "In my business, publicity is no You tdJ your man co call me at thelnc:lon~ 'WOnh ::bout $70,000 a year co him. Hes:iys ·;;1 · ;.:"?i
good," he said. -You can"t function with · -sia Hoed if be n eeds anything. I h:rve · it sworthaqu:irtaofa~now.
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geiher. I work on a very personal level" M:ixine Che!hire? WbencvCf' she i;ittds to before that Drew Pe3r.;0n C'3!1ed him ln :-::.~· . :._:/:
We were sluing eown to lunch in the kr.ow sameth.ins3becalls me. Jack Andel-- fael-Pcacson .~-~e-rentedof ·. -- '. :F.:';,>5
.red-'1roc:>ded.- gilc-edg~-rwili<- G1Wii!Jc- -son. They all call me... · fice space from him and once, during. the ·:,! ·1!_.~
CJub. With us was the 24-)'C'lC-cld son cf Jxk Andefson ·:i.1d Mnine Cheshire 1960 Democratic ampaigns in Los hag& ;J
Indonesia's f-ottign minister, a guest cl we.re he:ivy company. Cocld I call him ioo? Jes when they couldn't find convenient ;:.; · . '·
DaVid.oo's until he .found an apartmenL I h:icl the definite feeling we I could-as lodg'ings, they even rented rooms in his ho- :;:-: : -~ ·~
D:ividson and I -were going t0 talk aver the . Jong as the profile was never written. • • tel suice. When T _ - - ~;:,.:: ·_. :,,.:.::::
profile. He winked at a waitres:J and • Hoffa dis:a Davidson was me
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sprcul his hands palms out. asked Rbout iL 'When ·• · ·f-:-::·:~:-:;.
"'Why write abouc me.? I'm not interest· Davids<>O's plain. white bminess card ew Orle21U M:ifia chieftain ~Joi ?cbr--· - --:g:~~
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ing." He could nor'resistsmiling at both of says • public rdations, which is as ' cello was reported to be back m the coun-
= close u you're going co gee to an of- cry airer d:por=ion 10 G~ it w:as .-;-~;" .::.~ •
Dnidson is very small ani:J quiclc. a 5S- fici:Jl c:icegory. One friend says he's the Invidson v.·ho . had his poone n·wmcr: -· :"( -'- ...
year-Old l!!f=Chaun with p;rl'cccly man;. grease that keep the imc:tinery running When Andersen wanc.N -co question. _ ::·
cured nails. He has·no shMp edgc:s: even smooth. Another c;ills him a hum:m y : .• · • .
his gold.cufilinks are rounded. He wears ·. switchbcard. Bur _if_thtte is anybody in acru:illy broug~t B:alcc:r to his cfficc. '"Your.· ·'< • .
gray .suits that match my b:>ckground Hi.s Washington :!"~gives the_"impression of _ first ~icn Qfj~is .thac hc"s a c~c::rp -· - .~!, . - -'~
alltg:iror ~ his rings are sharp bufliot - knowing the fu;&; S!Dr)':tlle story tk.t oper.itor,...-Andenon s:iys now. '13..n when - . <;; :_· <:~~
coo sh2rp. He is b:a1d on tap but lbe g:a7 -·. can never be ccm;>letely told but the mctt you get to know him you fim:thc's i;ot ·be~~ . -·..;;'." ··· · ._.,
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h:iir on the sides is uimmed ·regubtly ar · . knowing of v.:h~~peci3lly iri 't.bis city ter cone.acts than Cbrk O~ord or any · . . -~J ~ - :··
the Sutler Hilcon b:irbcr shop, where he is -sqxirares ~~n')OYc:ri.fiom c.'lc moved. it . other -~t. Louis 'moothic. In her hes scr . ~ -:::.. ~ .· · ·
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\ tbc G:1slight Och, a w:itcring ~e cl CK>- • Qark Qiffyrd mcst k:low a &ood piece of I've inv~r::..Sccd a lot ICI!te pcr:ecnt;;::.- ;. ·
backst:ain set, be is on a firsc n:>me basis it, but tlley are cco bis. solia~pe<"t> and promorers bur r ...-.: never -n:ir re:,,, . .~:
?>'ir.h the m:i1lre d'. ·With A long,. ~;. ble r.o cr.:lke it into all the com!:= _foe.?.~ . anybody lil<.e him. ".Besides his frjen6hips - , __, _
an's n05e th:tt al.mo5t biscclS h is smile and ample, Oiffotd 'Would look"out of place ~I with Hoffa, Marcello and &.ikc:r, D:rvKlico J ; :· ":?-'"
weti~k e yes"lhat rrove a.rouad your face the Gaslizht, w~ Davic!son n or cnly 112' rcpn=nted the Amqjcan ~tttestS ol - ;.
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-.ch ;, with• rm ~ 0. aial juC;re fond ..... _ . \Vbal t..p. TIFY na rusna os;
~ s~ the p - kor pale.' We'd fps, buc ic (Ibo judge .X..ied it, zod.?dco- pcocd sltrr Dneao'a piJtY PART'.DNJ" IN NOT ~O.
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ra:ad il>6=es his J.nr,on -n.:n
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and h.il friend Lea>ard B-6-
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MJCHAEL OeANGELO . /\NTHONY BESASE PfTE LICAVOll-- . . '-. JOSEPH ZERILLI for the Michig•n •Uorney general's
: . _ .·j ~. : , olfice/ ond curren tly worlclng with
• 4. • • ~ .; .• • . . .. · the lwtice Oepartmenrs org•nl1ed.. · -
<5c1 not end with the dismls..I of Pe•rson •imed •t · furthering re- porter: "I told him,.'Oo )'9U think .; •· crime strike force in Oetioil· IL . ·
W•rden Thoma>. Four ycon; f•ter; search on the-sociologial aspects I would do lh•ll Only. • domn t wos Piernnte who fru11u1ed the '
w,,den Junes C. Wood•rd lost of juvenile-delinqueriqi. Vonnie' s fool would agree in c,onviction and ' wish of Ohio offici•I> to hove Yon-
his jo& for f•vors. shown to LI· w ife, mothu .nd d•ughter w:ent then •>lc.-for th~ m>n to -be ser nie Licavoli paroled to Michigan. •'<··-··=····-·::
QYO!i ind oth..r welkonnected . • • to W.uhington to presenllhe check fn:er I became. quite disturbed, · p-,.,,...nte discovered IN! Michigan
(X)ltVictS. By this time Yonnie wn .Ill per'.on to the columnisL O•· •nd he saw that and got out of p•rcle authorities hlid mode only
...a awbli"""1 u the prison's "in- vidson wcceed.0 In persuoding ,. the.re in a . huny.H ' ~. • ~ ·;·· • . ·.A· "tursory inv~tig.tion · befor~
-<-,,.<. ,;de ha.... b•nking an interml P•ul Richm•n, exocutive secret•ry Judge Mcub. ..1d he t.>d nev- • agr~ing 10 accept Vonnie u • r..,
~~ . INl'T'lboen g.a~. M~ding a narcotics and co-Jouncier of the found:>tion, .. er menlloned the bribe •ttrrnpt " ide.nt. ·lhey p•id no heed. f.,. In-
ind liquor ring ond receiving spe- to visit Ohio •nd c!iA<CU>S the m.er-· to anyone because he belleYeS th"... >ta nee. to· the foe~ th•t son-in-low
ciol food. its of the Licovoli case with so- fact th11 a judge ls . even •P- J;icki,. Lucido, listed u living in
lo 19S8, an investig•tlon by the . key officials. Davidson imisted his prooched in this m•nner t•ints him . \he same Gro»e Pointe , _,. In
on;., Sl•te . highw•y potrol cfj,. role • in the miller was purely ·· to a d~grtt.
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. . Yt'._hich Vonnie would live, is him-
a..ed, once •s•in. th•t Yonni" one of sympathttic helper. though Now retired, the judge. has been self octive in Mob bu>iness. Pler-
""ttceiving special privileg.,. and he did odmi~ ~ submitted a bill cl0>ely followlng rec:•nt develop- s•nte t0ok his, cose to Michig•n
1'1W1thorlt•d visi1on;, this time at for SUlOO to the lic•volis in rnents: ""I w., upset When I heard Attorney General Frank Kelley. .
~ lie prison's Hocking' Honor C.mp 1 950. . • ·. wha.t Jim RhodM had done," ~e . _ '"This is no ordinary pris.oner/' .
~ M'.ii tog.an, whtre he spent th r~ There we-fe otherS e.Jge"r 10 prO- soid. "He had llcavoll all but out · said Pier>•nle. "The· Mob In this
~--~ .: t "'rs,
Now Jt was Ll Thomas niote Vonnie's . good qualtties--=.-- . of p1i1on; Licavoli d oesn' t belong . area. today _l)_eeds a shct In th• ....
' •;··~· . Ctowe, the camp suporintendent • W•rden R.tlph W. Alvi•, for one, out prison.". · o! ·. · arm. W~'ve been hitting them at ..
· ~, • •ho was forced to r.,.ign for "er- who protested in 1958 lhat Yon· ·'- ,the m•nagement level •nd thty're
~.~:c';: rot> in }udgrnenL" Prison ofncl•ls . nie wa> -pot being credited with · ·'f<>eling iL" (As a result of a strike
xl<nowledsed that Crowe h• d "re- the mony lin" things.he had .done _ . Plenty Of money · lorce·jnvestigalion. Pete Llcavoll"s
·"l~ riff, · c.i•td a few presents" from friend> .. specifically to spruce up the Hock- ·. floating around . ,• right-hand m•n. Mallhe,,; (Mike ·
.-dtr..J. af Yonnie. Thert w•sa
aood de>I Ing Honor C:.mp.. The w•rif•n ,v<• the fnforcerJ Rubino. was stn·
:. T~ 1nCn 10 It than th•L pl•lned that liavollliid purch•sed to set Vonnie r~~E! . tenced in M•rch to 10 yeors in pris-
For one thin&,. when Yonnie'J a le levi.sinn wt foe 1he· amp: .lnd
~sh•tr w» ~rrieO-the under· · · also h>d donated. • pool table, •
... - - .. . . · · on for inc;ome ~" cvuion.)
·1n 1957, longtime-. l~ Governor···~ .: *'We are besinning to get wit·· .. ~

•orid soci•I ev•nt of the- s...on · ash register 1IJd •dd;ng machine, . Jolm 8'°"!" .ervtd .u . governot nesseS,- gid Pieninte, " even somc-
it Dttro;L whid• Yonni1t h>d - · aspholt tile for the dining room for 11 doys bttween the time that from the Mob's own communiry.
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btf;>ed plan vi• prison telephon,.._ · Ooor, venetl•n blinds and d raperies · . Frank husd1e: WU 1worn iri as If Vonnie comes oUt it wm be a
f the llO\lten•nt Crowe wos •mong tl>e for the windows ond a sondbox U.S. sen•lor •nd the time' his sue;· le•ther in the ap ~f every Don ·
lir:le Fl"Sts. for children visiUng tfie;r father> c"'sor took the o•th of offic~ in Oetroit~•lly Petr. who
/ ithin In Ms spare t;me during his bu>'( and grandfathen... Brown •cknowledged to LIFE ~ . is alrudy too strong. And Yonniet
• the !Dy •t comp. Licovoll m•n•ged lo porters that ~overtures were made Vonnie Licavol i hu nowhere to
Yonnie~s wdl-wi~rs in the 0f-
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7 bad rollect a SlS,llOO debt owed him
...o•d "'lhe outside. Even In the Hjo lnt.H
:r,. hi> Yoonie is known u one who col-·
.,.1 ~ Tm>on time; . . .
.,,,,,._.. Amon; licavoli"> p•rade of vls-
:!IT'.or bis:, acco,ding 10 witnnses, was
.;. >.nd. Tum>ttr Pre.ldent Jame> Rlddle
. who- Hoff>. Yonnie's •Wnlty for Tum•
'· ~ em hu b~n • rtcurrent phe-
.n or- · nomenof"!. Hi$ chief counser over
'" 10-. , t.. ye• rs ~as been a Te•mster l•w·
..;u•nc
:woli.
,.... Moses Kri•lov of Cleveland.
1ht Licavolls' Detroit •nd northcm
' ~Ir Ohio range is he•vily org•nlred
·• the · Te•mster territory.
• had A Wa1hlngton Te.amster-cor>-
i'>•d 111<ced lobbyist and wide-swing·
r fed- (ig pvblic rebtioM m1:n named I.
:: was lnirti; o..vidMJn made a brief but
c--..ame l:nvt' lry at " rrpreien ling'* Vonn;e
...1th " 1949 •nd 1950. D••idson In·
.>t be · &.ced Vonnie to donate $5.000
!>the I. !dgor Hoover found•tion,
r,,,..,~.. : ~pet proittt of Columni1t o~
ganiud underworld hove been try-
ing for ye.,, to •ccomplish whlir
Governor Rhodes did with a sim-
ple announcemtnt on Jon. 27. lhe
previously mentioned $250,000
" spring YonnieH fund hos been
known lo enforcement offir;b)J for - ency for liC'lvoli twice during his
more lhon a decade. Substanti•I
portions of it, LIFE has le.,ned,
hive more than once bee,; openly
offered to offtcl•b.
One w.. John M. Mccabe, the
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judge who h•d presided at the LI·
cavoll tri•I in Toltdo in 1934. When
Frank l•usche w•• governor. Judge
McC• be w.,
>pproochtd by •
sw~rlhy m•n who i~tifi~d him ..
ulf •s being ""from Cltvel•nd.'"
H• olftred lht judge 5100,ll()() if
he W04Jld w rite a letter to the gov·
emor urging parole or pudon ror
Vonnie Lica.voli,
· The- judge recalled f0< • UR: re---- bribe •tlempt might be forthco,.,... . ln- Ohio; some ~socfat~~- . : ... ~;"'.:=, ::.=:.. :.:.
to me to con1ider UcavoWs use, go but the Mob. He wouldn"t want ,
and they were flatly refused.'" He togoanywhereei.e.~ .. ; -~~;; ::. - •
W®ld not elaborate. ·
Another who wu approached - Highest in the minds of ihoM who
wu former Governor Mlch•el Di· watch Ohio politics these d•ys is
S.lle, himself a Toledo•n of hali•n not whether Vonnie licavoti stayt
parentagr. who had rdused clem- or comes out from behind ban;,
but what the whole Linvoli affoif' · --·-· :..;_ • •
term of office. He h•d just been will do to Jim Rhodes. · :' ,,:
bea ten In the eloctlon. Appuently Though not woll· known to non-- •
It w•s felt that OiS•lle. now a lame Ohioans. the bluff. h•nd..,me 'gov-
duck. might h••• soflentd his rni- ernor is one o( the most sptt-
tude. On a fall day in 1 962. Mike lacularly successful p o liticl•ns In .
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OeAngelo appurtd with another the country •nd unquestioned
man at the executive mansion. The leader of the Ropublic•n p•rty in
offer wH $100.000, with the lmpli- the si•lh most populous st.itc.
e>Uon lh•t It could be bargained Sought out for counsel and sup-
upward, If the out1oing governor port by Republican c•ndid•tn up
woukf t•ke: a(·t lon 1,vor•bte 10 LI· to and induding: Richard Nl"on,
uvoH before the govemor-elea, Rhodes w . . e•ptcled by many to
Jim Rhodes, took office. wind up on lhe na1ionaf tide.et
OISallt, who h•d been for.. l•st fall or. failing thot. >1 lull to
wornod by feder• I •gtnts 1hli1 • l>nd • top cabine t post. He sta1-ed

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Fl ow of the Skim
of1he loo1 was transported to Bcl-
•ium by a courier who dropped 11
into a [!russcls bank. The Bcli:ion
banke rs then were somehow In·
duccJ 10 send the stolen s<euritlcs
back 10 this country for sale.
O:hcr securities from other rob-
beries arc known to have been sold
by the Colombo Mob to banks In
West Germany. Fr.inc• a nd Af.
rica. Arrani:ements foe many o(
!he sales were mode by a London
fence-another improbable c~r­
•cter: Abn Cooper, J6, an u-01
"·ho scr-cd a prison term for a ·. ·:·.
bank robbery in Germany.
Colombo"s ?np1<rs manoie
even bi;gcr pr >fits-ihough at
vc-itec risk-when they c:in in-
duce a U.S. banker 10 octtpt sto-
len stocks as collater•I for a loan.
The mol>sters then put the money
bcrro.•ed on the hot securities
into quick-p rofit loan-sharking.
whkh enobln the Mob to pay
. back th: banks so soon as to cost .
practic:illy noth ing in intertst. The
gan.iSltrs retrieve the stolen stocks
ond bonds. and then- if 1U works
well-po .t the hot s<euritiN for a
seco nd loa n from ye t anothu
bonk. Ail the time thi ~ is goins
on. uylo:kins fees urc Slill piling
up f.om hapless borrow<rs who
got money from the orisinal loans.
Colo.nbo has been known 10 dou-
ble hl; money in less llun t,.·o
mor.t ~s throu&h this repeated C)'·
clc. The key. 01· course, is a ban.leer
dc,i ous <nouah to aettpt the no-
len coll•teraJ. Federal officials
h.--. identified a doz.en such honk·
<r1 in ll e New Yori:. area who
ho>-. issued loan• 10 Colombo"s
men on stolen sccuritiN. All of
them are "hooked" by 1,. Mob
ia some way, lhroug.lt. phy>ic•I
fear or blackmail.

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TO: JACK ANDERSON

FROM: I. IRVING DAVIDSON

SUBJECT: Your suygestion c oncern1n9 my new Indonesian Ncsttona 1 hmy

representation \vith rogard to the proposi:!d trip of Attorney
General Robert Kennedy to Indonesia.

Since I um le1.1vln9 the country for approxim~te l y two weeks,

I wou ld oppre·ciate it if you \'.·ouid convey the followinQ information to
John Seigenthaler, v..ho ls handling the arrangements for the Attorney
Goneral' s propos~d trip t<J Indonasia. I think th, t a meet1n9 with Sultc1n
Hamengku Buwono, o f Jocjakact.;,, and Major Genera l Ac hmad Jdni wou ld
ena blt:: the Attorney Generai to get a better p icture of the entire situation
~n Indonesia, if such a meeting could be c3rTdnged diplomatically during
the Attorney Ganer al• s visit.

Maj e r General Jdni Ls well known to our mi1itd1y people, as

well as to of1icla13 in our State Department and CIA. Ho received most of
his miHt~ry educ..iti0n h~ro in tha United St;;ites und he definitely luons
toward the U.S.A. und i/iestern powers .. During his recent visit to V..'ashington
I ..:.onferred with him at length. Out of our ccnferenc~ came my appointme nt
a s thoir agent in this country. A ·.::opy of this agreement is <~ttd .:. hod. I a ~ so
lectrned during my meeting v..ith Mdjor General J.:mi that Sult-.tn Buwono .?J cr~es
""'1th Jani, as de a numbe r of top mi lltary offh..: iafs in Indonesia.

You understund, of cours~, that this inforrndtion is h19hl y

:.:onfidential and not for publlc.:ition. My purpose in pa ssing this inform.:i-
tio n 111onq to tho Atturney General is solclly for the reaeon that 1 feal it is
definit~ly in the best interest c f the United St3tes Government.

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Memorandum to Mr. Gallagher

Re: ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT
- -JOHN F. KENNEDY

the book. SA was the case A ent on the assa ~

of President enne y investigat on and has continued to handle
the case over the years. ·

SYNOPSIS: General Investigative Division (GID) details the basic

plot of the book, Bureau file reviews of the author and characters,
as well as an overall ·analysis of the book. GIO observes that
, as early as 1967, an "Eastern group• put up a lot of money to
j~i~
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l learn the truth about .the assassination. The group was working
through McDonald, who allegedly knew that President Johnson had
~ prior knowledge
·TEiM. and that
f the plans to assassinate President Kennedy
De Mohrenschildt was part of the conspiracy.
#iitan There has een muc specu a ion in the past that De Mohrenschildt,
--~r.;::~ho · was friendl~ with Lee Harvey Oswald, was involved, but the
f_a \ ·5 warren. Commission concluded otherwise. From an analysis of the
;-~,~ · ... book, i t appears that McDonald has cleverly taken many of the
\~t;;1jost questioned conclusions of the Warren Commission and conveniently
fitted them into his allegedly true story. He leaves himself .
an out in case his story is disproved by leaving the impression
he has taken the word of an old friend (Herman Kimsey, formerly
of the CIA, who is now deceased) and of the alleged assassin,

"...
in .good faith. An article from the 1/19/76 _edition of "The
Sacramento Bee,• Sacramento, California, describes the book as
one in a recent deluge of moneymaking stories claiming
[I
l the truth behind JFK's murder. It is sloppily written, illogical
in parts, filled with holes and riddled with typographical errors,
as if i t were produced in a hurry, which i t was." . ~

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RECOMMENDATION: ...GlQ_ recommends that no investigative attention

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his cq_ntacti_ ljerman · JSimss;y, on 4/27 /~l, in --Washi "9!''°, D ~
(WDC). An individual b rst into the office and complained vio-
lently to Kimsey about the Bay of P~gs invasion failure! i~­
dicating he was there. Kimsey later told McDonald the in4ividual
was one of the best assassins there is.

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Memorandum to Mr. Gallagher

Re: ASSASSINArr:IoN OF PRES IDEN~ ~
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- - JOHN F. KENNEDY

In September, 1964, when McDonald was security chief

for Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater, Kimsey took him
to Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, which is where the assassination
of President Kennedy occurred. Kimsey told him Lee Harvey Oswald
was not the true assassin of President Kennedy; he was a "patsy."
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The true assassin was the person McDonald had seen in Ki.msey's
office in 1961. He fired from the second floor of the County
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Records Building (which is directly behind the location of the
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tion. He said a private group with strong Government connections
. I hired the assassin. The assassin first met the person who sub-
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.·.:.,.;j the Bay of Pigs invasion in Guatemala, where it was thought the
...... •, person had a connection with the U.S. Government. The assassin
I next met this person in Haiti, where the assassination plan was
.,~ first told to him •
Kimsey told McDonald that if he ever told the story,
he (Kimsey) ·would deny it _He also told McDonald that if any-
thing happened to him, ~fl:.'Davi£9!', a..-., associate o~ ~is, would
have his notes and papers. lr - . . · ; . :. . , · - - I ,
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McDonald states he thereafter studied the Warren Com-
mission Report and was startled to see that the person in photo-
graphic Commission Exhibit #237 was the same person he had seeA .. ·1 u
• in Kimsey's office in 1961. (This exhibit is a photograph of~
·1 an individual [;.ken by CIA in Mexico City near the Soviet Embass ,
who was originally thought to be Oswald, but who has never been
identified.) McDonald decided he had to track this pers~n-down.
He gave the assassin a code name -- "Saul." { &x J/.AJt_CIA
'L1~ f. sit.·
Beginning in 1968, while on CIA contract rips to ll ?/lo
Europe, he put out feelers with an organization he had been in ai,';c.
touch with since his days in military intelligence. He calls
this organizatio~ ~lue Fgx," He says its sole purpose is to
observe, analyze, ·~nd report on Russia's activities. Although
....
.. - they make their information available ·from time to time to many
of the intelligence agencies of the major western countries,
McDonald says they are not funded by the U.S., nor to his
"":,·.·· · knowledge are they connected to any Government.

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Memorandum to Mr. Gallagher

Re: ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT ~ ·.
- ...,. JOHN F. KENNEDY

111~x,r1
. · -'~~ter three trips to Europe, he was finally put i
eueeu touch wi t~Saul" in London, Enqlapd, in June of 197 2 •. The
' talked for an hour and 40 minu.J:es in the lobby of the Westb y
Hotel. -
"Saul" said while he was training in G for
American ~'!ent. "Saul" gave this person the code name.-woit," -=';ifPiiiPii"f ' ~·~
the Bay of Pigs invas~on, he met a man he thought to ~i!Jl

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In the Spring of 1963, "Saul" .began to get word from. several ! .:
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sources asking if he was available. In May, 1963, he met 1_ .
"Trait" at a residence in Port Au Prince, Haiti. "Trait" asked ~... .
him if he could be hired to kill President Kennedy. He was '
given $2,000 to think it over. They next met in Guatemala 1
days later, and "Saul" told "Troit" the price would be $50,000.
He was given $25,000 a~vance money and was told the assassination
would take place in Texa·s and had to be in 1963. ~
"Troit" told "Saul" he had a friend who had recently ~
returned from the Soviet Union who was crazy enough to do any-
thing "Troit" told him to do. "Trait" said he had convinced the
friend that he ("Trait") was working for the Government and wanted
someone to shoot close to the President to scare him and cause
him to make better use of his Secret Service protection. "Trait"
said that as a test of the friend he had him fire some shots 'at
General Walker in April, 1963.
The next day "Troit" identified the friend to "Saul"
as Harvey Oswald. He said Oswald would fire several shots from
a rifle close to the President, but would have no knowledge of
the assassination plot. He would be told he was in the pay of ·
the CIA. "Saul" would fire his shots under the cover of the
noise of Oswald's shots. It was expected that the Secret Service
agents would fire at Oswald believing that he was trying to
assassinate the President. "Saul" was then to shoot . Oswald
under the cover of the noise of the Secret Se~vice shots.
"Troit• said the plan cailed for planting a bullet
from Oswald's gun in a place which would tie the killing to
Oswald. (This would be the so-called "pristine" bullet.)
"Saul" was to fire bullets which disintegrate. "Trait" agreed
to have Oswald go to Mexico City, Mexico, so "Saul" could
observe him prior to the assassination.

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Re: ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT
- - JOHN F. KENNEDY

On 9/10 or 11/63, "Saul" met "Troit" in Guatemala,

where he was told the assassination would take place in Dallas,
Texas, between 11/18 and 22/63.
"Saul" then went to Mexico City, where he observed
Oswald extensively from 9/26/63, to 10/3/63. (The Warren
Commission Report shows Oswald entered Mexico on 9/26/63, and
_returned to the U.S. on 10/3/63, on his trip to Mexico City.) I
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"Saul" thereafter came to Dallas on 11/20/63, and took
a room at a small hotel within walking distance of the assassina-
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tion location. He then sent a messenger for a prearranged package
containing maps and the time of the assassination, which was set
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"Saul" went to the .county Records Building on that
morning at approximately 11:40 a.m. He carried his weapon
strapped to his upper body under the right armpit, with the
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barrel extending down into his pants leg. He described his
ammunition as being very high velocity, not explosive, which
shattered into fragments -w hen it hit a hard object, thus
denying any possible ballistics comparisons.
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"Saul" said that about 8 minutes l~ter he saw Oswald
in position in the window of the Texas School ' Book Depository
(TSBD).
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As the President passed, Oswald fired and "Saul" fired.

"Saul's" shot struck the President on the right shoulder to ·the
right of the middle of his back, drove straight through, exited
the President's throat, then hit Governor Connally. "Saul" and
Oswald then fired again, with "Saul's" shot blowing out the
right side of the President's head. •saul" claims he saw
Oswald's second shot hit the right hand curb of the street.
Oswald then fired again. "Saul" swung his rifle towards Oswald
but the Secret Service did not shoot· and "Saul" was unable to
shoot Oswald as he had no cover for his shots.
"Saul" says there was a back- up plan providing for
Jack Ruby to kill Oswald .

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JOHN F. KENNEDY

FILE REVIEWS
(1) Hugh c. McDonald
In addition to the normal material relating to
McDonald's attendance at the NA and other law enforcement
contacts, Bureau files tain an 11/1/67 memorandum concerning
w ·D<-ze!- visit of an I. Irvin 'dson to FBIHQ on 10/31/67
-- (62-109060-583 Davi son sai he had been approached by
Leonard Davidov, whom he described as a business acquaintance
who was president of Security Associates, a WDC closed-circuit
and . burglar alarm company. Davidov had told Davidson that an
"Eastern group" was ·p utting up a lot of money to learn the truth
about the assassination of President Kennedy. The group was
working through McDonald, who allegedly knew that President
Lyndon Johnson had prior knowledge. of the plans to assassinate
President Kennedy and th~t a George De Mohrenschildt was part
of the conspiracy and supposedly was instrumental in the training
of Oswald for the actual murder. Davidson said McDonald at the
time was associated with Howard Hughes in the sale of he+icopters
to law enf orcernent agencies and McDonald had promised a share of
the police helicopter business to Davidov if he would help
McDonald.
No indication was found in Bureau files of . any
connection of McDonald with CIA.
(2) I. Irving Davidson
Davidson is described as a registered agent for severai ·~}
foreign governments, including the Governments of Haiti and '~
Indonesia. · / ~
(3) Leonar*vidov s:I4- fr/tJ)._ Wlli'
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oavidov is listed as o~of- the- persons- Hired by
McDonald to assist him in security of the Goldwater campaign
in 1964. He is also the person in the book Kimsey had told
McDonald to go see to get his records if anything happened to him.
In the book·, McDonald. claims that after Kimsey' s death he went
to Davidov for the records, but was told that the CIA, FBI, and
other intelligence agenci es had taken over the records immed~ately
of the FBI obtaini~g such records. c·
after Kimsey·• s death. No indication has~been found in the files

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Davidov's firm, Securities Associates, is listed in

the files at two addresses in 1965 -- 6900 Wisco.n sin Avenue,
woe, and 4846 Cordell Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland.
' The current Maryland suburban telephone book lists
Leonard and Eleanor Davidov as livi~g at 8002 Whittier Boulevard,
Bethesda, Maryland.
( 4) Herman Kimsey

De Mohrenschildt was born in Poland of Russian parents

and is a naturalized citizen. He was a social acquaintance of
Lee and Marina Oswald in Dallas prior to the assassination.
There was considerable speculation during the investigation of
the assassination that De Mohrenschildt might have been involved,
but no evidence was ever developed indicating this to be so.
In 1964, he took up residence in Haiti where he worked as a
consulting engineer for the government of that country. He has
been described as an unprincipled adventurer who has lived
primarily by his wits. He has been characterized as a braggart
of poor moral character who has engaged in a number of illicit
affairs.
On 5/3/67, a representative of the Netherlands
Television Company (NTC) contacted the New York Office to advise
the NTC had received information from an informant in Western
Europe that De Mohrenschildt was the principal organizer of the
assassination of President Kennedy and that his brother, Dimitri,
was a participant and possibly the second assassin who fired
from the woods simultaneously with Oswald. NTC planned to
release a story regarding this.
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JOHN F. KENNEDY \) L-\J

The Warren Commission Report on pages 282-3 states that.

De Mohrenschildt and his wife took an eight-month hike beginning
in 1961 from the U.S. - Mexican border to Panama. The report
says that by happenstance they were in Guatemala at the time
of the Bay of Pigs invasion. They kept a log and took pictures
and made a report to the U.S. Government upon their return.
The ~gency to which they reported is not identified.
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(1) No less than 17 pages of the book are devoted
to self-aggrandizement by the author. He constantly praises
his investigative abilities, contacts, experience, and plugs
his "Identl.-Kit." · ·
(1) The author tries to prove his self-thought ~
fantastic ability for making identifications. He claims to
have recognized "Saul" from 40 feet away in 197.2, after havinq.
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seen him. only hJ_iefly J11961. j · _ j ; ",--: ... ., .
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1 mentions . the ~:'a~t c::h~~ p~r:ons,
such as dla ' and ~ames~grrestal stating they may F~
have been ac omp is e by use of a7r propeifed needle capsules
and subliminal suggestion. He offers no real facts regarding
these deaths, but in raising questions, may be laying· the
groundwork for future books.
(4) Much material is devoted to demonstrating .....
McDonald's "super sleuth• image -- his vast contacts with the ·:
so-called "Blue Fox" intelligence network in Europe, his 1·
persistency in sticking with the search for •sau1• in spite ~1
of the personal expense and danger involved and the setbacks
(dead-end leads to various parts of the world).
. (5) The ~uthor's search for "Saul" began at the
Westbury Hotel in London, ~ngland, and ended there several years
later. This appears to be fantastic considering the time and
travel that elapsed in the interim.

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C6r The author claims he interviewed · "Sau1• in the

lobby of the Westbury Hotel. This appears strange for an
experienced law enforcement officer to track a person for so
many years and then interview him in a public place about a
matter of such magnitude.
(7) The author says that "Troit• had told •sau1•
that Lee Harvey Oswald was paid $1,000 for shooting at General ;j
Walker. Detailed investigation of Oswald in 1963 and 1964 did
not reveal any indication of his having an extra $1,000. :f.-
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Additionally, a letter was found in Oswald's room by his wife
on 5/10/63, which indicated he expected to _be killed or imprisoned
for shooting General Walker. This was on the same date as the
actual shooting at General Walker. ·
(8) McDonald claims "Saul" fired from the second
floor of the County Records Building, which is to the left rear
of the point where President Kennedy was hit. Several studies,
including one reported on the 11/25/75 CBS Television documentary
regarding the assassination, have concluded the shots came from
the r~ght rear, which is where Oswaid was in the TSBD.
(9)"Saul• told McDonald that on the night of 11/21/63,
he went to his hotel restaurant and had one gin and tonic. It
is noted that in 1963, liquor by the drink sales was·not per-
mitted in Dallas, Texas, except in private clubs. To have a
drink in a hotel restaurant, "Saul• would have to ha~e brought
his own bottle.
{10) "Saul" indicated that after assuming his firing
position in the County Records Building at 11:40 a.m., he saw
Oswald in the 6th floor window of the TSBD at 11:48 a.m. The
first report of shots being fired at the President was at 12:35
p.m. This would indicate ' that "Saul" spent approximately 50
minutes in an office area of the County Records Building, where ·
numerous of.fice workers were viewi~g the motorcade.

(11) "Saul• indicated he fired two shots and Oswald

fired three. The odds of two people firing from different
locations, endeavoring to make the shots sound as if they are
coming from one location, is remote.
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(12). McDonald indicates Oswald's trip to Mexico had

to have something to do with the President. Considerable
information was· reported during the investigation of the
assassination indicating the purpose of Oswald's trip .was to
find a way to . get to CUba.
(13) McDonald indicates in the book he has some . -~
reservations about putting his reputation on the line by saying "-
he believes •sau1• told him the truth. This appears to be a self-
serving statement for McDonald in the event the contents of the
book are questioned or disproven. He can always say he believed
:.f
what "Saul" told him and published it in
good faith.
The .second floor of the County Records Building
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(from where "Saul" claims he fired) has four .windows overlooking
Dealey Plaza. In 1963, the rooms containing these four windows
consisted of courtrooms, judge's offices, and judge's secretaries'
offices. The availability of any of these offices for approximately
50 minutes ' by anyone with a rifle is highly unlikely.
(15) McDonald claims to have done contract work for
the CIA on numerous occasions av.e r the. years, receiving his
assigrunents from Herman Kimsey. Bureau files contain no informa-
tion regarding such a connection.
( 16) "Saul" allegedly met ''Troi t • in Guatemala at
a staging camp for the Bay' of Pigs Invasion·. The Warren
Commission Report states that De Mohrenschildt was in Guatemala
City just prior .to the Bay of Pigs invasion, a convenient piece
of information for McDonald to fit into his story.
( 17) "Saul" next met "·T roi t • in Hai ti in the middle
of May, 1963. The meeting · took place in a house that Kimsey
told McDonald could have been U.S. Government property or had
some sort of official connection. Bureau files state De
Mohrenschildt was under contract to the government of Haiti in
1963, conducting a geological survey. The warren Commission
Report says he . was· engaged in a government-oriented business
venture in Haiti in 1963, another convenient piece of information
for McDonald.

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ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT
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.JOHN F. KENNEDY

(18) "Trait," according to the book, had Oswald shoot

at General Walker. In Marina Oswald's testimony before the
Warren Commission, she said that shortly after the General Walker
incident, De Mohrenschildt asked Lee Harvey Oswald how could he
have missed. Oswald later asked his wife if she had told
De Mohrenschildt that he shot at General Walker , She said no,
and Oswald said, "How did he guess it." This exchange raises
possible doubts and is also convenient for McDonald's use.

(19) McDonald claims that the Caucasian male in

~~en Commission Photographic Exhi ' t Number 237 is "
~is photograph was taken by a CIA
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b3 to the F~ There was much speculation about the photograph I
re.,.50 during the assassination investigation. CIA mistakenly identified ~
',~1 the phot~graph as being Oswald. Oswald's mother said it was
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Jack Ruby. Quite. obviously, the person in the pho~ograph is
n e ither Oswald nor Ruby. The person was never identified.
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C:.l~ ~/>,~ ~l, · ../1t,,t/Sa
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(20) McDonald states Herman Kimsey told him that
Leonard Davidov would have his notes and papers regarding
"Saul" if anything ever happened to him. McDonald claims that
after K.imsey's death he was told by Davidov that the · CIA, the
FBI, and every other intelligence agency in town had been by
and had taken the notes and papers away in a medium-size brief-
case. FBIHQ files contai n no information indicati ng the FBI
obtained such papers or even had an interest in them.

(21) Noting that he interviewed "Saul• in 1972, but

did nothing with his information until he wrote this book,
McDonald indicates that he never furnished the information to
the FBI, as he felt the FBI was subj ec_t to serious political
p ressures. He mentions Wate!gate, which was occurring at the
time of his d ecision . Th is seems like a very drastic change
of opinion for a person who had been in law enforcement for so
many years, and who, by his own admission, had been so close
to the FBI over the years.

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(22) McDonald states in his book that Kimsey's CIA bl

territory was Cuba. Information regarding Kimsey in ~B b3
~ he was primarily involved in research, _1 ~
. . _ _ . . . _ . , a n d other technical areas.LC.J~~ .2(~ G11n~-'-J
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(23) McDonald states "Equally obvious was the fact Sec fi,oY\.
that both the CIA and the FBI were compromised at the very top, 'j(/31if .:_ ,.1*
since both agencies h~d denied any knowledge of 'saui.•• Here ...J -~
he is referri~g to affidavits submitted by FBI and CIA personnel f!Jlr
regarding not knowing the identity of the person in Commission
Exhibit. Number 237. · This is an absurd overstatement. ~person (
with McDonald's alleged expertise in the fields of inte"l'l.igence
w enforcement w know that many photographs are taken
d . all are not identified, especially
n foreiJn countries · w ere follow-up investigations are undoubtedly
limited. N-)_~
'-124) McDonald makes mention of "Saul" allegedly ob-
serving Oswald leaving the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City with a
person who walked with him several blocks trying to explain something
to him. During the assassination investigation, Pedro Gutierrez
Valencia, a credit investigator for a Mexico City department store,
advised that on 9/30/63, or 10/1/63, he observed a Cuban and an
individual later believed by him to be Oswald leaving the Cuban
Embassy. They were engaged in a heated conversation involving
"Castro, Cuba, and Kennedy." The Cuban handed some money to the
person believed to be Oswald. They both entered an automobile
and left the area. Although extensive investigation was conducted
regarding this, the Cuban was never identified, nor was it confirmed
that the other person was Oswald; another area of exploitation
for McDonald.
(25) McDonald says •sau1• claimed he used very high
velocity ammunition, which was a disintegrating type, not explosive.
"Saul• explained this to be a type which shatters into fragments
when it strikes a hard object, such as a human skull. Thus i t
denies the possibility of ballistics comparison to match a weapon
with the bullet. "Saul" said his · first shot hit President Kennedy ·
on the right shoulder and exited from his throat. It did not
disintegrate since it did not hit bone. The bullet then hit
Governor John Connally's ribs, disintegrated, and did severe damage
to his lung cavity. Fragments of it exited, struck the Governor's
wrist and penetrated his thigh. The questions which have been
raised over the years by critics about the shots fired are easily
and conveniently answer''~~cDonald's ~xplanation.

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_- JOHN P. KENNEDY

(26) •sau1• allegedly told McDonald that Oswald's

first shot struck the street behind and to the left of the
President's car. He claims his ("Saul's•) second shot blew
out the right side of the President's head. He said Oswald's
second shot struck the r~ght hand curb side and he c•sau!•) says
he saw it hit. Oswald fired a third shot. "Saul• said he did
not know where it hit. •sau1• then swunq around and aimed at
Oswald, but was unable . to shoot him since the Secret Service
agents did not start shooting at Oswald and give him a cover for . ,·.·.ii,
his . gunfire. ·
"Saul• claimed he was firing a European semiautomatic
rifie with a German-built scope. He describes the time between
his shots as be~g minute.
It does not seem reasonable that a person taking aim
and shooting a rifle with a scope would be able to observe
where another person's bullets were hitti~g • .
(27) By "Saul's" account, two of Oswald's bullets
hit outside the President's car and he doesn •.t know where the
third ·hit. Search of the President's car revealed two bullet
fragments which were identified as being from Oswald's rifle. ,........
of· course, McDonald could say ·these fragments came from Oswald's
third shot since "Saul" did not know where it hit. ~~
Overall it would appear that McDonald has eleverly and
conveniently taken certain aspects of the Warreri Commission
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Report which in and of themselves are not fully explained (or
are even explainable), and tailored his confession from "Saul"
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to include them. In any major investigation, where volumes of
information are dealt with, such areas will develop and will
quite possibly be left hanging. McDonald makes the same mistake
as do many of the assassination investigation critics; failure
to take into account the totality of evidence. This book would
appe~r to be the first overt act of the previously aentioned
"Eastern group• which was planning as long ago as 1967 to show
that De Mohrenschildt was part of an assassination conspiracy.
Their next step could conceivably be to publish another book
containing convenient "facts• to li~k President Lyndon B. Johnson
to the assassination, as was another of their 1967 . goals.

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.JOHN F. KENNEDY

Several newspaper articles about McDonald's book have

been received from field offices in different parts of the
country. Most place little stock in McDonald's allegations.
An article from the 1/19/76 edition of "The Sacramento Bee,•
Sacramento, Californi~, describes the book as "· • • one in
a recent deluge of moneymaking stories claiming the truth
behind JFK's. murder. It is sloppily written, illogical in
parts, filled with holes and riddled with typoqraphical errors,
as if it were produced in a hurry, which it was."

· The subject of this book came up recently in a. b7 G.

conversation with - Staff Member, U.S. Senate pe,,r-
Select Committee T~nmental Operations With Respect yt;J/
To Intelligence Activities. tllllllllllllllremarked that some staff
members had read the book an~not recommend it for reading
by anyone else, much less recommend it for the attention of
that committee. II
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I lmowledged that FBI inform- been living with their father, Carmine G. DeSapio. ~,.~ " ;:
.. -~ Herbert Itkm· worked as Frederic Hersh, in Peekskill ·
He is expected to testify IJE .,· ·
· a CIA undercover agent in since 1966. Mrs. Itkin was fn dozens of pending cases
England five years ago. ordered then by a court to involving num~rous Mafia
Thls is only the second give them up because she figures.
, time in the history of the · had deprived Hersh of his Itkin has insisted that he
·' . cloak-and-dagger agency that_ visitation rights by taking was an unpaid informer fir~t ~ - ·.··
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ment o! a covert agent. The
· first was U-2 pilot Francis
for the CIA and late.1· for the. ~
FBi. Until now only the FBI
The Itkins.clalmed they had
had ackrlowledged his role. "
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Gary Powers, a decade ago. been "secretly assi~ed" to Itkin surfaced in the.midst .. ·
The disclosure of Itkin's England by the CIA m 1965. h M dal l .
.t M Itk.
of t e arcus scan severa ,.· ')
role was made in a .sealed . In her affi daVI rs. years ago. He reve~led that. ~""' :~
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affidavit flied by t he CIA said she went to England he had provided th~ CIA with ·. .'/
yesterday in State Supreme with h er children "to es~b- political ~nformation on Hait! ,
• :.. .i·.-.Court in White Plains. and the Dominican R~p.ublic·· ;¥\.
lish a home in England which
· ·-·-'· --·-;-··Itkin· and h is second .wife, was necessary for a cover." under the code prune of ~t~
' · Adah, are fighting for cus- : ·"I was also informed by "Portia." But he,..: 'yas bes t - -~-~-· :,
my husband's suj>erlor thatknown for his infiltration of -~ · ~
.- the Mafia for the FBI, wryich
his. 'shop' would take care of '.)~
code-named him '.'Mr. Jerry." ~t:.+~
the [custocty] matter for us,"
she added. Itkin and his wif~·· pave JK"J~
been living on an Army reser..:-.......·.-1.,::
Mrs. Itkin described her
vation under th e protection Sha.
husband's undercover work of the government for more ' thr<·
as "dedicated patriotism." than two years. lie•
Hersh won cus tody of the
boys in an uncontested suit
after Mrs. Itkin said she was
told to stay in England by her
husband's CIA superior. 2 Killed
Itkin claims that nothing Conti11u.ed from Pag_e 1 ·
was done by the CIA to pre-
vent the loss of his wife's the area. Others said . .·... ... ....
children to Hersh. had heen triggered w •
., At the request of the gov- a young white man p·
ernment, J.ustice Leonard out leaflets and
Supple sealed the CIA affi- demonstrations
davit. and reserved decision the actio.n by .
·on the Itkin suit to regain
in Cambodia. st·
custody of the youngsters. . students had r
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conceded Itkln's former sta- being sent to
tus with the hush-hush diately after,
agency. By midi?'·
The 43-year-old labOr law- cades had
yer has Peen a key witness east and
in four successful federal campus r
prosecutions in the last two lane m
years. His testimony helped which df
to convict such prominent from t;
HERBERT ITKIN figures as former city Water Abo·'
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II. Summary of Contact:

. Mike Ewin Salerno and I "interviewed Davidson about his

contacts in Haiti and his relationshi to Carlos Marcello ..

Davidson stated that his American business interests first took

him to Haiti. He believes the first contact was made in 1962 or

1963 through Sam Ferber, a New York import-e xport dealer. Davidso

sai~ he registered dur ing that period as an agent of the Haitian

government. He said the business deals brought him inot contact

with President Duvalier of Haiti and that he "hit i t off well"

with Duvalier. Davidson said he cannot remember the details of

his Haitian contacts, but_ that h~ h?-S a Haitian file at his

Davidson said . Duvalier ne ver had the money to make any arms

He ~aid that he never made any arms deals, but that i t was

traffic during : tha~ period.

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Davidson said that he may ha~e known the name, but

that he was not acquainted with De Mohrenschildt ln either the

United States or Haiti.

Davidson said that he maintained contact with Duvalier

over the years, and that they sometimes spoke on the phone. He

said, however, that he had no contact with Duvalier in 1963

after the assassination concerning any of the events in Dallas.

He said Duvalier was pro-United States and that he was not

aware of any anti -Kennedy feeling on the part of Duvalier.

Davidson said that he met Clemard Joseph Charles once

in Duvalier's presence when Charles was attempting to explain

to a Haitian woman what had become of a relative who was in

prison. He said that was his only meeting with Charles and
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Churles in the United States.

Davidson said he knew Clint Murchison of Texas and that

Murchison owned a large flour mill in Haiti.

Davidson said he did not know the name Jacqueline Lancelot

or her restaurant in Petionville in Haiti. He s a id he doesn't

think . he has e ve r b e en in Petionville.

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D.C. He met him through Jack Armand of Pittsburgh. He said
he was very friendly with Hoffa but never on his payroll.
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They had contact several times a week. Davi~son said he
wanted to borrow money from the Teamsters in exchange for
his public relations help. He said he was a Hoffa loyalist
in the Hoffa-Fitzsimmons dispute. He said he still has con-
tacts several times a week with aoffa 1 s family.

Davidson said he went to Murray Chotiner to work out

a pardon for Hoffa. Daivdison said he had been very close to

Chotiner. He said he had helped Chotiner get legal business for

his law practice. He said, however, that Chotiner interceded

on Hoffa's behalf out of "fairness."

Davidson said he believes the Teamsters set him up in

his legal problems. He said h~ is deposing Colson and Ehrlich- ·

man. He said they saw him as .a threat because he was ,;orking

to get Hoffa out. He said the Teamsters at first wanted to

work to help Hoffa, but after Fitzsimmons decided he wanted

to stay in control of the Teamsters, the Teamster effort

to get Hoffa out of jail stopped.

Davidson said his indictment has been "wiped _out;" he said

.... · ·the judge ·in the case sensed that some thing was wrong with

the way the case was brought. Davidson said that at on~ time
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Hof fa out of jail. ··

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Davidson was asked if he knew of an allegation by

.Bureau sources that Davidson had gone to the Bureau to

get information about George De Mohrenschildt. Davidson .

denied the allegation and said that he· first heard the .

name De Mohrenschildt a few months ago when Jeremiah

O'Leary's article appeared about that allegation. Davidson

said he never met with the Bureau men mentioned in the

article. Davidson explained that he had gone to the

Bureau to discuss information he had been given from a

man name~ Davidov, who was working with Hugh Mac Donald

on assassination theories. He said Davidov and Mac Donald

approached him and said that De Mohrenschildt might have

been involved in the assassination. He said he called

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Edward Cohen and Hoover's aide Tolson about the allegation .

He also called O'Leary; O'Leary told Davidson he had gotten

the information that Davidson approached the Bureau about

De Mohrenschildt from FOIA materials.

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John~o~ = ~idn't ~e~6-enough tq him that . he would have I
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information which he thought would be of use to the government.
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Davidson said that he was not a friend of Trujillo's,

but that he is.a friend of Trujillo's daughter. He said the

United States government wanted his he~p in getting Balan-

guer out.

Davidson said he heard stories that Nixon knew

Norman Rothman and that Nixon had lost money gambling in

the Caribbean.

Davidson said he knows G. Gordon Liddy and that he

,,r. saw him at a party at Donald Santarelli's house when Liddy

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campaign.

Davidson said he met Orlando Masf errer in the sur.ur.er

of 1963. He met him through a Dominican named Enrique

Garcia. Davidson said he has been friendly with all of

the anti-Castro groups here. He knew Masferrer as a big

"fighter" in Miami. He said Garcia has a drinking problem.

Davidson said that during his contacts in Haiti,

he ne v er knew of any anti-Castro groups which were using

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Hai_ti as any type of planning base. -

Davidson . said that a man named Bonhomme had put out

stori!=S that Davidson was· involved in arms deals. ·.

 MLtchell told Davidson that when Mitchell signed the papers

for Hoffa's release from prison, that there were ·no

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said he believes that Charles Colson later added the

restrictions-to prevent Hoffa from assuming control of

the Teamsters. Davidson said also that he believes Colson

is still blackmailing Richard Nixon, but he doesn't know

over which issue.

Davidson said he never heard Hoffa threaten the life

of either John or Robert Kennedy.

Marcello
Davidson said he first met Carlos Marcello more than

20 years ago in New Orleans. Marcello wanted Loyola University

to move its campus to his property; he would then donate

500 acres to the school in return. Davidson said he has

never has business dealin gs with Marcello, but that he hopes

to intercede to sell Churchill Farms, Marcello's property, to

an embassy. Davidson said he does not believe that Marcello

is involved in narcotics traffic.

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Sam Saia ~iom New Orleans. · When asked · about the -name · Emile ·
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the New Orleans Police Conunission.

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1. Interview FBI agents who wrote memo that. has allegat i on

that Davidson was feeling out Bure au for information about

De Mohrenschildt

2. Talk to Edward Cohen about extent of Davidson's interest ··~

in De Mohrenschildt <
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3. Interview Clemard Joseph Charles for information about

Davidson and De Mohrenschildt's activities in Haiti.

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Irving Davidson is currently viewed by Justice Department

officials as Carlos Marcello's key Washington contact man,
along with Wasserman. A reporter who sought an interview
with Marcello early this year was told to arrange i t thru
Davidson, the first interview Marcello has given in years.

Davidson's rise to political prominence in o.c. was accomplished

through his close association with James Hoffa from 1959 on.
Davidson served as a key adviser to Hoffa - more or less as
Hoffa's top lobbyist and politica1 manipulator in D.C. By
the early 1960's, Davidson was serV"ing the same functions for
Marcello as well.

Various involvements:

In the early 1960's, Davidson served as a registered lobbyist

for the Ni caracruan (Somoza) croverrunent, and has maintained
.·. :...:: ': close links wit~ Somoza to this day .

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In 1963, Davidson was a key target of the Fulbright Senate
Committee investigation of foreign lobbyists, particularly
the Trujillo lobbyinq abuses, which Davidson was also involved
in. The Committee (and later Life magazine) found various
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lobbying connections between Davidson, the Teamsters, the r.1 afia
(Licavoli) and Tr~jillo's acents.

In 1962-1963, Davidson was also involved in the Bobbv Baker

scandal, serving as the go-between in one of the documented
payoffs to Baker from various oil interests.

In 1963, Davidson was revealed to have been the middle man

on a cash payment from the Murchison oil farnilv to Bobbv Baker.
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loan from Hoffa to the Murchisons during this period.
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an oil company once, which was owned by the Murchisons, Three
States Oil and Gas{ see 9H202).
In 1960, Davidson paid for the hotel suite used by Jack Anderson
and Drew Pearson at the Democratic convention. Anderson and David
are still very ciose, with Dav idson being Anderson's key· source
for information on organized crime. Davidson was Anderson's sourc
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and .had -questicined.Marcello.
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In 1960, Davidson served . as the go-betWeen on at least

two negotiations between Hoffa and the Nixon campaign,
setting up two meetings between Nixon aide Oakley Hunter
and Hoffa. Hoffa was seeking an end to prosecutions in return
for campaign cash. Davidson handled the dealings.

Also in the early 1960's, Davidson was serving as a lobbyist

and fundraiser for Israel, a cause in which he has been quite
instrumental in (fundraising) over the years.

In his service as a Hoffa adviser, Davidson was acquainted

with Allen Dorfman, Ed Partin, Frank Chavez, and Chuckie O'Brien.

At the 1960 Republi can convention, Davidson personally

introduced Hoffa to John Connallv, who was then LBJ's
cam?aign manager. Hoffa and Connally discussed the then
burgeoning stop-JFK ~ovement at . the . ~orivention.

According to Ed Partin, Davidson also witnessed a secret

meeting bet<.veen .Marcello and Hoffa in late 1960 during which
a ~500,000 payment to t~e Nixon campaign was made. This is
.about the only allegation whic~ has ever placed Hoffa and
Marcello in a face to face meeting .
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by Hof fa and .Marcello to bribe Partin into changing his
testimony against Hoffa, as well as efforts to subvert
the continuing Hoffa prosecution. Davidson was involved
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k~ to the Washington Post alleging that the Judge in the

Hoffa case was a sex pervert involved with numerous prostitutes .

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that Davidson was feeling out Bureau for information about

De Mohrenschildt
2. Talk to Edward Cohen about extent of Davidson's interest

in De Mohrenschildt
3. Interview Clernard Joseph Charles for inf.orrnation about

Davidson and De Mohrenschildt's activities in Haiti.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF I N \'ESTIGATION

Dallas, Texas
In R,pfr , Pleal# R'fcr !o
File Sv. - - December 31, 1975

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ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDcNT
JOHN FITZGERALD K~DY
NOVEMBER 22, 1963
DALLAS , TEXAS
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"Appoint~ent in Dallas: The Final Solution to
the 1;.ssassination of JF!<" by Hugh C. l1cDonald, as told to
Geoffrey Becca, was published by The .Hugh McDonald Publish-
ing Ccrporation, 380 Madison Avenue, New York, New York,
in October, 1975.
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On April 27, 1961, while attending the FBI

National Academy, Hugh C. McD ald pays a visit to his

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days after the unsuccessful
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While McDonald is visiting with Kimsey, a man burs-ts into
the rcom and in a violent manner, expresses displeasure
with Kimsey about the Bay of Pigs failure. This man
'glanced once piercingly at McDonald, and then ignored him
completely." Kimsey identified this man as an assassin,
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"maybe one of the best there is."

This document contains neither recommendations nor

conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the
FBI and is loaned to your agency: it and its con-
tents are not to be distrihuted outside yo~r agency.

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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
DALLAS, TEXAS

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In July, 1964, McDonald assumes direction of .
Security Control for Senator Barry Goldwater, and his ..
running mate, Congressman William Miller, for the duration
of the 1964 presidential campaign. McDonald hires his ;1
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McDonald and Kimsey find themselves in Dallas, Texas, in
September, 1964, at which time Kimsey takes McDonald to
Dealey Plaza. Kimsey, at this time, tells McDonald
that President Kennedy was shot from a second floor window
of the Records Building, across the street from the Texas
School Book Depository (TSBD), and not from the famous
window of TSBD from which Lee Harvey Oswald fired. Kimsey
tells McDonald that the assassin told him the story him-
self, and that Lee Harvey Oswald was set up as the patsy.
Kimsey relates that the man McDonald saw in Kirnsey's office
on April 27, · 1961, after the Bay of Pigs invasion, was the
actual assassin, and described him as a "top assassin."
Kimsey also related to McDonald that if McDonald ever told
the story, Kimsey would deny it. Kimsey continued - that
someone hired this assassin, and that the CIA was not' in-
volved, but that the assassin felt there might have been
a Government connection. Kimsey said the assassin was
working for a private group, who had strong Government
connections. He continued that this assassin said he
first met the man who hired him to kill President Kennedy
in 1961 at a staging camp in Guat~mala for t~e Bay of Pigs
invasion, and that the assassin felt this man had a connection
with the u. S. Government. The assassin next saw the man
in Haiti, and the meeting took place in a house that could
have been u. s. Government property, at which meeting the
man told the assassin he was not representing any Government.
The assassin came to believe that a private group was behind
it.

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Kimsey tells McDonald that if an~ing happens

to him (Kimsey), McD6nald should go to Le~vidoye. W~ ~\)­
another CIA associate, who would have Kiffisey's notes and
files con:::erniog the assassination. After the release ~ ~ 1~ ·"'
of the Warren Report in September, 1964, McDonald spends
many hours analyzing it, and is startled to see Co!'IU'Clission
Exhibit #237, the photograph of an uni,dentified man, who
is identical to the man he saw in Herman Kirnsey's office
on ~27, 1961. This unidentified man is given the
nam Sau by McDonald. In· late 1964, McDonald reaches
C, the conclusion that Saul would have to be tracked down.
t) '<-~.D?~ald is convinced there was a massive conspiracy to
~ ,~~~up the truth about John F. Kennedy's assassina~ion.

'j ~ After Robert F. Kennedy was killed in 1968,

/ · McDonald becarn·e convinced . he would have to find Saul and
· prove or disprove Herman Kirnsey's story. After three
trips to Europe and visits to several European cities,
McDonald is finally put in contact with Saul at the
Westbury Hotel in London, England, and Saul provides
him with a detailed admission of his part in the assassina-
tion of President John F. Kennedy.

Saul says he was trained in Guatamala~or the

Bay of Pigs invasion, where he saw a man who d'ecasionally
appeared at the · training camp, who was thought to be an
American agent. Saul refe rred to this individual ~

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NO'JEHBER 22, 1963
DALLAS, TEXAS

Troit sought out Saul from time to time, drinking beer

together on several occasions, and Troit seemed particularly
'interested in the various methods used by modern assassins. ,

Troit was not identical to Kimsey. '·-..,·1... .

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In the spring of 1963, Saul began to get word
from various sources asking if Saul was available. Saul
had traveled to southern Europe, South America and Australia,
as well as the Unite~ States and Mexico since the Bay of
Pigs. · In the middle of May, 1963, Saul met with Trait at
a residence in Port au Prince, Haiti, where he was asked
if ~e could be hired to kill the President of the United
States. After some discussion on this occasion, Saul was
given $2,000 in twenty $100 bills and told to think about
the offer. Saul next met with Trait in Guatamala . 13 days
later, at which time he told Troit his price was $50,000. r-1
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On this occasion, Troit said President Kennedy had to be
killed in 1963. Saul received $25,000 and was tol~ by ~ I
Troit the assassination would take place in Texas.

On this occasion, Troit indicated he had a

"fri end" , a young man who had :I"ecently returned from
the Soviet Union, and that this "friend" was crazy
enough to believe anything Troit told him. Troit indi-
cated he had convinced this "friend" that he (Troit) was
working for the Government and wanted someone reliable
to shoot shots close to th ~ President at some specified
time and place, so it would scare the President into
realizing how much he needed the Secret Service and
better protective devices. Troit mentioned that this
"friend" had fired some warning shots at General Walker
on April 10, 1963, at the request of Troit, to test him.

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on the fol·lowing morning, at another meeting

between Troit and Saul, Troit said this "friend" would
fire several shots from a rifle, aiming the gun close
to the President, but that this "friend" would have no
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he was in the pay of the CIA. Saul was to wait for the
"friend's" shots, then fire under them, and if Saul fired
quickly enough, no one would hear Saul's shots.
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Trait told Saul that tpis "friend" had recently
returned from the Soviet Union with a Russian wife, had ?J
been a defector, was something of a psychopath, and that
his 'entire background made him the n a tural person to become
a target, meaning that he would draw return or p~otective .
fire from the Secret Service. Saul was told by Trait
that he (Saul) wou;t.d kill the "friend" , because the
"friend" firing the shots near the President would believe
that Secret Service personnel were in on the arrangement
and would not try to kill him in retaliation. Therefore,
after the warning shots, the "friend" would not be in any
hurry to disappear. According to Saul, the Secret Service
had no idea of the plot, but would believ e the shots re-
presented an unsuccessful attempt at assassination and
retu·r n the fire toward the "friend". Undercover of the
fire, Saul was ' to swing his rifle toward the friend and
kill him. Troi t told Saul that whe n the patsy ("friend")
falls dead, the Secret Service wili get the credit for
killing him, and the c as e will be closed. Troit indica~ed
that the plan c alled for planting a bullet from the patsy's
rifle somewhere on the scene of the assassination, in
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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
DALLAS TEXAS

order to tie his gun; not Saul's, to the case. Saul was
to be firing a bullet ~hat disintegrates on contact, so
there would be no sign of a second weapon. Troit identified
the patsy as Harvey Oswald, and agreed to get hirn to Hexico
C~ty, where Saul could observe him.

After several months, on Septc'\1.ber 10 or 11,

1963, Saul proceeded to Guatamala from Panama, and met
with Troit again. on this occasion, he found Troit with
a woman of Mexican or S~anish descent, who Saul thought
had probably spent the night with Troit, and when Troit
wanted to speak in the presence of this woman, Saul became
enraged, and after the woman left, he struck Troit on the
side of the face with a d e rringer pistol, bringing blood
to his mouth and side of his face, and causing one eye to
swell.

On this occasion, Troit told Saul the assassina-

tion was planned to take place in Dallas between November
18 and 22, 1963. Troit outlined that Saul would be able
to pick up a map any time after November 15, 1963, from a
box at a postal station, close to, but not in, Dallas,
which would give the exact location where Harvey Oswald
would fire the cover shots and where Saul wou·la kill him
after Saul had killed the President. At this time,
ar.r:angemen ts were made with .. Troi t to put the other $25. 000
of the fee in a Haiti bank to be claimed after the job
was complete.

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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
DALLAS TEX.l\S
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Thereafter, Saul proceeded to Mexico City,

where he viewed Oswald extensively between September
26, 1963, and October 3, 1963. Saul arrived in Dallas
on November 20, 1963, from Mexico, and took a room in a l·.-'.;
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small hotel within walking distance of the assassination ...
site. He sends a messenger to pick up a package at a .'. .

certain location outside Dallas, which will reveal to

him the route of the motorcade and the window in which ....
he could spot Oswald. The package was delivered to
him at 11:00 a.m. on November 21~ 1963, revealing the J
hit day was November 22, 1963, in the ·late morning. Saul
went to the Dealey Plaza area on the afternoon of :ucve!Tlber
21, l963, and located the 6th flooi window where Oswald
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would be stationed.

Saul went to Dealey Plaza on the morning of

November 22, 1963, with his weapon strapped to his upper
body under the right armpit, the barrel extending down
into the right p a nts leg. The ammunition he used was
very high velocity, not explosive, but rather a disintegrat-
ing type, so that when the bullet struck any hard object,
it shattered into fragments and denies any possible
ballistic comparison.

At about 11:40 a.m., Saul was in his firing posi-

tion, stating he would not describe the exact location he
took up, and saw Oswald eight minutes later in the window
of the TSBD. As the President passed in the motorcade,

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NOVEMBER 2~, 19G3
DALLAS, TEXAS

Oswald fired and Saul almost instantaneously also fired.

Saul's shot stru~~ the President on the right shoulder
and to the rig ht of the middle of . his back, and d~ove
straight through, exiting at the President's throat.
This same bullet, according to Saul, then hit Governor
Connall y. Saul then fired a second shot which blew out
the right side of the President's head, end almost instan-
taneously Oswald fired again. Saul saw Oswald's second
shot hit the right hand curb of the street. At this time,
. Saul s-vmng his rifle t0\·:2 rd oswa ld, at which time· he h c:::-ard
Oswald's last ~nd third s hot , but did not see where it
"--:"? struck. The Secret Service did not return fire, and Saul
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provided for Jack Ruby to kill Oswald, and that Ruby was
undoubtedly pai~ a substantial amo~nt of money •

ANALYSIS ...:. COM!-lISSION EXHIBIT #237

On November 23, 1963, the Dallas FBI Office

received three different photographs of· an unidentified(Uk h~
..-1 male §ken by crfil
outsicJe the Soviet Embassy in Mexico[~ iSi~'.:i/'7..:>
City during 1963. ·These three pho·tographs were made /..,,._ C '~~ ·
available i.mmed~ately after the assassination of President ~f'yY
f.J Kennedy, for the purpose of oete~ining if this unidentified-"' . ~
individual was Lee Harvey Oswald. Dallas files contain 1rJ1Jf~

.J' copies of each of the photographs of this unidentified

male, who is referred to as Saul by Hugh McDonald. These
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ree photographs appear on pages 53, 55, and 57 of

Donald's book. Copies of each of these three photo-
·aphs were furnished FBI H~adquarters on Novemb9r 23,
63. To the knowledge of the Dallas FBI Office, this
~ividual has never been identified.

A corranunication dated February 24, 1964, at

1shington, D. C., under the Lee Harvey Oswald caption,
!fleets that CIA made available on February 19, . 1964,
1ree photographs of the unidentified possible white
1le American, which are identical to the three photo-
~aphs made available to the Dallas FBI Office on
>Vemb e r 23, 196,3. These three photographs are des-
~ibed on page 4 of this conununication as follows:

1. Attired in a white shirt and tan trousers

>lding what appea ~ s to be a courier-type pouch under
.s left arm, and examining a wallet type folder, which
: appears may contain one or two documents resembling
assports. (This appears to be identical to the photo-
:aph on page 57 of the book.)
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2. Attired in same dress described above, and
)lding his wallet type folder in his left hand, and
1serting this folder into the courier-type pouch held
l his right hand. (This appears to be identical to
1e photograph on page SS of the book.)
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3. Attir e d in a dark sh i rt with white collar

butto ;13 an0 ?. pr:2 rently ':!alking ~ long ·with th e thumb of
hi s l c>.:t h<mc:' h o o J:ea in ·to the top of hi:: lef t hand trouser
po c~'-£-.: . (Th is a pp e a r s to be id en tical to the photog raph
on p ag e 53 of . the book.)

According to a communication dated July 27,

1964, from FBI rre a d~uarters, the photograph of an un-
id e ntified individu a l which was displayed to Mrs. Marguerite
OsKa l c:i on No v emb er 23, 1963, by Special Agent Bardwell ~-,[0\ /~
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oau;,,, ,... a s a photog ;:a~1~ E r-.'Ken cy of an uniaentifi e a r~~f'.S-j
'ino iv::.clt;~ 1 CJ10 v i s i tee the So\·iet Er:1bassYl in Mexico Ci t~z~'~
durinCJ SepL. e:r.b c;:-, 19 63 , a n d CI A felt sudfi' individual might ~>~
be L:=e Ha r v ey Os'.'1a lo or 2.11 asEoci a. te of Oswald. This :;~/'if! -~
photoc; r t::;;h \·;3 5 the sc:.me photogri:!ph as described in number r;)j
3 abo v e. t·:rs. Via rgueri te Oswald could not identify th2
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Jack Ru:-)y. The photograph was neither Oswald nor Ruby.

It appears tha t only the nu~ber 3 described photo-

grap h a b o?e, which appe a rs on page 53 of the cook, was
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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
DALLAS, TEXAS

ANALYSIS - GENER.~L OBSERVATIONS

· There are approximately a total of 17 pages in

this book at the beginning and end which relate the back-
ground of Hugh C. McDonald. He rnukes sure the reader is
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plislunent he has achieved. Throughout the book, he is

constantly praising his own investigative abilities as
they relate to having numerous contacts throughout the
world, and his abilities to analyze information and
individuals. Throughout the book he tends to try to
prove his fantastic ability for making identifications
of i,ndividuals, namely Saul in 1972, after having seen
him only once on April 27, 1961, for a very short time.

In several portions of the book, McDonald

makes statements of personal opinion without any proof
whatsoever. It appears possible he plans to write
several more books with plots as ridiculous as thi?
one. For example, on page 66, he discusses air propelled
needle capsules used to kill individua and states "There
is still official suspicion about Adlei who
dropped dead on a London street. have happened
the way I 1 ve described." He does not say anything further
regarding the official suspicion about Adlei Stevenson.
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DALLAS, TEXAS

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On page 67·, he mentions the suicide of ~amt~•
orrestal, Secretary of Defense on May 22, 1949, and
ndicates that many believe Forrestal was the victim of
a carefully covered professional assassination. He
states that the profile of Forrestal indicates he was
not the ·kind of man· who would take his own life under
any circumstances. McDonald then continues to describe
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subliminal suggestion, and. states he thinks Forrestal
was subliminall~ controlled and compelled to leap to
his death.

Such statements of thou ghts and opinions of

McDonald about the deaths of A.dlei Stevenson and James
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Forrestal without any real facts to back such statements

up, certainly raise questions as to the veracity of the
text of this book.

McDonald's mention of his contacts with a

network of de ted agents in Europe ref erred to by
the code name blue fox"" on page 71, provides him with -
much dialogu or the future pages in this book relating
to his travels to locate Saul. _ The knowledge of Saul's
reputation by many of these contacts raises considerable
question.

On pages 69 to 76, McDonald discusses the

Island o f Vozroz aenya in .,__ ll.r"'L
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A:r:et:e, wh ere Russians
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germ warfare installation in 1970, and thereafter re-
lates his blue fox contacts in locating the "guinea pig"

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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
DALLAS, TEXAS

patient from the · isl~nd of Vozrozdenya, who when located,

gives McDonald a complete statemi:nt about the exper im~ nts
and treatment on the island of Vozrozdenya, and identifies
the Russian doctors involyed. This patient dies immediately
after giving McDonald the statement.

In discussing his many travels and contacts

to locate Saul on page 8 1 , he relates that a contact at
Augsburg, West Germany, to whom he shows the photograph
of Saul, tells him that Saul is dead: that he came from
Russia: was a displaced person that the conta ct had met
in 1949 in Augsbu~g: and that the contact heard two years
previous that Sau l had bee n killed in Mexico_. This type
of statement is one of many which appears to exhibit self-
aggrandizement on the part of McDonald to demonstrate to
the reader how this persistent "super sleuth" continued
his search for Saul e ven though he is told his prey is
dead. subsequently, ho~ever, on pages 98 to 100, McDonald
discusses showing the photograph of Saul to a contact
called Ernst at Munich, West Germany, and Ernst relates
he saw Saul at Oslo, Norway about a year previously, and
therefore, McDonald now believes Saul is alive. McDonald
in this instance believes the contact who says he is
alive, rather than the trusted word of the one who says
he is dead. This, of course, is necessary to provide
McDonald a reason to continue his search, · and McDonald
asks Ernst to help him locate Saul.

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DALLAS, TEXAS

On pages 85 and 86, McDonald inserts the

personal danger he is enduring in his search for Saul,
by describing an attempt on his life at the Mark Platz
Hotel in Garmisch, \·: est Germany, where he receives a
cut from his ear to his ada.'1'\s apple. He attributes •
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On pages . 103 an~ 104, it is suggested that

McDonald may ha lso had something to d~~ith another
book called "Th our of the Blue Fox" bY;ffetramid
="PUEfications i 1975. · NO ,._ 0 c:._
On pages 105 to 110, McDona ld reveals Kimsey,
who ~old him the story about Saul in 1964, is now in bad
health and wants .McDonald to forget about Saul. This
appears to be in late 1970, and McDonald demonstrates his
investigati v e persistence by continuing his search for
Saul. Kimsey dies three weeks later, but McDonald relates
that Kimsey had told · him before he died that he could con-
firm his story about Saul from Kimsey's personal effects
which Leona rd Davidove would have after his death. Contact
with Davidove, howe ve r, ascertains that the CIA, FBI, and
other intelligence agencies had taken over Kimsey's personal
effects immediately after Kimsey's death.

On page 111, McDonald reveals he has a typescript

of Herman Kimsey' s s tatemer:·!:.s on Saul, which he takes from
a safe deposit box before departing ' for Zurich, Switzerland,

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DALLAS, TEXAS

in the winter of 1972. He does not indicate whether

this typescript was prepared by him from information
furnished by Kimsey or was given to him by Kimsey. On
page 115, McDonald says he meets with John Du Rose,
retired Deputy Assistant Conunissioner of Crime, Scotland
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Saul.
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McDonald then relates on pag~s 111 to 123 about ·-.
his trip to London, England, and Zurich, Switzerland, in
the winter of 1972, apparently referring to the early
months of 1972, and on page 122 agrees to meet a woman
contact at the Piccadilly . Hotel in London at 4:00 p.m.
on May 15, 1972.

In the spring of 1972, McDonald travels to

London, England, then to Oslo, Not."Ylay, where arrangements ~
are made for him to view another man, who might be. Saul,
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but is not (page 124). He then goes to Helsinki, Finland,
and views another man who is not Saul·, and returns to
London, England (page 125). At London in the Dorchester ··:....
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Hotel, the woman contact from Zurich, SWitzerland, has

McDonald observe another individual believed to be Saul,
but who is not. This woman contact indicates that this
is the last possibility, and the conversation indicates
that just about all possibilities of locating Saul are
exhausted. This woman contact, however, indicates she
will contact McDonald should she get any information . · ,'

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before he leaves London in a few days. That same
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evening, McDonald is . told by this wc~an in a telephone : . ~
call that he should be in the Westbury Hotel lobby
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On page 132, McDonald makes another remark ~· ;
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without substantiation, when he say s he is "convinced .·-.:..:. ,

that William Bremer, the 21 year ·old attempted assassin
of Governor Wallace of Alabama in 1972, was hired by
the Algiers· group." Again, this may be the basis for a _ :·~1
subsequent book by McDonald. Pages 129 through 133 / are
really unrelated to the seqt.i.ence of events, and appear --
to be isolated, insofar as they relate to the search for
Saul, other than for McDon a ld to point out to his read~r
that "International conspiracy is one of the facts of
McDonald's life. If he does not find it, i t tends to
find him." This is another stater:1ent of self-aggrandize-
ment. On page 134, while waiting in the Westbury aotel
lobby, his long sought assassin Saul appears with another
man, who immediately disappears from the scene. McDonald
states he immediately recognizes Saul from a distance of
40 feet away. This was in June, 1972, more than ele v en
years after he saw Saul for the first and only previous
time. This is a display of McDonald's fantastic ability
of recognition. -·

Thereafter, Saul talks very openly about his

part in the assassination. The footnote on page 137 is
another example of McDonald trying to display the high
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DALLAS, TEXAS

este~m in which he is held in his profession, by stating

that Saul remarked "I told Kimsey because he knew the
rules of the game, and you know the rules ..of the game
too." It appears that McDonald may realize that readers
will question why Saul, with his reputation as a top
assassin, would immediately tell everything to McDonald,
who he has never met, and only saw one time eleven years
previously. Also on page 137, McDonald plugs his book
"the psychology of police interrogation."

On pages 137 and 138, McDonald indicates he be-

lieves Saul has discussed his shooting of President Kennedy
with. others in detail over the years, but does not identify
any of such persons.

On page 138, McDonald says he showed Saul the

typescript of Kimsey's story, and that Saul said tjle
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only change was that instead of a "mauser", jt was a
"European rifle". Starting on page 140, Saul's admission
to McDonald in the lobby of the Westbury Hotel in London
is described. It appears strange that an outstanding
law man as McDonald would sit in the lobby of a hotel
in view of other persons, while getting a statement of
such magnitude. -· Saul, in his admission, mentions that
he was hired to assassinate President Kennedy by an in-
dividual called Trait, who represented a private group.

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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
DALLAS, TEXAS

His contacts with Troit .prior

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su:nmarized as follcws:

Early 1961 - During training for Bay of Pigs

invasion in Guatamala, he had contact with Troit, who
he . thought was an American Agent (pages 140 to 141).

May, 1963 - While staying at the Hotel Ibolele,

Port au Prince, Haiti, Saul was directed -to a private
residence, 'where he met with a gray haired man, Troit,
and was given $2,000 to think about the offer (page 144.
to 149}. Saul then went to Buenos Aires and c:iecked into
the Hotel Continental. He thereafter returned to Guatamala,
and met with Trait 13 days after his Haiti meeting with
him (page 150). He again meets with Troit the following
day (page 154), and receives more details on the assassina-
tion, and the fact that the patsy (Oswald) will also be
killed (page 157). on this occasion, Troit identifies
Oswald as the patsy (page 160), and said their next meeting
would be their last.

September 10 or 11. 1963 At Guata.~ala, Saul,

upon meeting Trait, found him with a woman. and after the
woman was told to leave, Saul and Trait engaged in an
altercation, in -which Troit's face was hit with a gun,
which brought blood to his mouth and one eye was swollen
shut (page 162 and 163). · A f9otnote on .page 163 indicates
that even McDonald doubts anyone would believe this. This
was the last meeting with Troit.

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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
DALLAS I TEY.AS

In his admission, Saul does not give an actual

description of Trait. Throughout ~he adl!d.ssion, the quoted
portions attributed to Saul sound ve~y Ttuch like McDonald
talk ing. On page 147, McDonald portrays an Identi-Kit
C6t>! •• re
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Model II QO~~sit of Saul, co~pi~ed from memory of the
1972 meeting with him. This ~effi~esf~bears little resem-
blance to the thr~e photographs of Saul on pages 53, 55,
and 57, and it is very difficult to believe that McDonald
would i~e~iately recognize the individual depicted in
the ~~~9s~t-as Saul from 40 feet away as being the same
person in either of the three photographs shown on pages 53
55 and 57. Perhaps this may be possible, but it certainly
is not probable. By put t ing to use the Identi-Kit in his
identifying Saul, McDonald is again able to achieve some
additional self-aggrandizement.

Starting on page 152, Troit describes his "friend",

who later is identified as Lee Harvy Oswald, and relates
that he has put this "friend" to a test by having him fire
some warning shots at a man who was emb~?J?ssing the
Government, for which Oswald was paid -$1,.000. This refers
to Oswald's attempted assassination of Major General
Walker at Dallas, Texas 1 on April 10, 1963.

A report of Special Agent Robert P. Gemberling

dated December 23, 19 63, bearing the Lee Harvey Oswald
caption, on pages 166 and 167, contains a translation of-
a letter written in the Russian language by Lee Harvey

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DALLAS TEXAS

Oswald, found in Oswald's room on the night of April 10,

1963, by his wife, Marina Oswald. This letter indicates
os•:rald e:cpected to be killed or imprisoned for the shoot- ·-i~
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summary.
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The report of Gemberling dated Decemb.er 23,

1963, on pages 733 and 734, contains an interview with
Marina oswald on December 11, 1963, wherein she mentions
Oswald told her about his attempt to assassinate General
Walker when he returned to the residence on the evening of
Apri'l 10, 1963. She also relates that a few days after
this assassination attempt, George De !1ohrenschildt was
at their home and made a joking remark to Oswald to the
effect "How is it that you missed General Walker?" Accord-
ing to Marina, when De Mohrenschildt asked. Oswald this,
he paled and looked at Marina as if she might have' told
De Mohrenschildt.
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$100Q
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On page 163, it is revealed that Troit tells
Saul during the September 10 and 11, 1963, meeting that
the assassination will take place in Dallas sometime
between November 18 and 22, 1963. Arrangements are made '
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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
DALLAS, TEXAS

for the other $25,000 payment. Saul's statement con-

tinues that he views Oswald in Mexico City between
Septerr~er 26, 1963, and October 3, l963, with Trait
having arranged for Oswald to go to Mexico City at that
time. He indicates a man in the Soviet Embassy at
Mexico City points out Oswald to him.

Starting on page 167, Saul arrives in Dallas

from Mexico on November 20, 1963, and takes a room in a
small pleasant hotel, but the name of the hotel is not
revealed. On page 170 he mentions that the Records
Building, from where he is to fire the assassination
shot·s , is across the street from the building where
Oswald will be. Actually, the Records Building is
diagonally across the street from the TSBD. The TSBD
is on the northwest corner of the intersection of
Houston and Elm Streets, whereas the Records Building
is on the southeast corner of this intersection. On
page 170, the remarks attributed to Saul again sound
exactly like McDonald speaking in referring to having
read e v erything about the assassination, and the dis-
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could not possibly have fired them from where he was. . ..,_
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the CBS television documentary on November 25, 1975, L-~
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that the fatal shots were fired from the rear and to
the right of the President. On page 179, there is a
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diagram reflecting the general direction from which
Saul fired, and this woul~ have made the fatal shots come
from the rear and slightly to the left of the President.
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On page 171, Saul's statement says · that on the .
night of November 21, 1963, he went to his hotel restaurant
and had a good meal and "just one vodka and tonic." It
shou~d be noted that in 1963, liquor by the drink sales
were not permitted · in Dallas, Texas, except in private
clubs, and if one wanted a drink in a hotel restaurant,
he would have had to bring his own bottle.

On page 174, Saul indicates he views Oswald in

...r! the 6th floor window of the TSBD at 11:48 a.m., November
~ 22, 1963, after having assumed his firing position in the
'·' Records Building at 11:40 a.m., November 22, 1963. It
should be noted that the first report of shots being
fired at the President was at 12:35 p.m. This would
indicate Saul spent cpproxirnately 50 minutes at least, ·
in an office area in the Records Building, where numerous
".. office workers were viewing the motorcade as i t passed
on Houston Street and proceeded down the Elm Street under-
pass. Furthermore, Saul indicates he fired two shots
and Oswald fired three shots , for a total of five shots.
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DALI.J\S, TEXAS

The odds on two people being able to fire two shots each
from these two locations, endeavoring to make .them sound
li~e only two shots fired by one person from one location,
with a mass of witnesses in the area, are extremely remote.

On page 178, Saul indicates he is out of the

United States in two hours after the assassination, but
does not give any -d etails in his sta:ement as to how he
made his getaway. This appears unlikely, and one must
question McDonald's interrogation ability when he leaves
out the details of Saul's getaway.

It is further pointe d out that the examination

of the Abraham Zapruder film shortly after the assassina-
tion, and the most recent analysis revealed in the CBS
television documentary of November 25, 1975, would not
substantiate the direction of the shots as described by ~
Saul, but rather established that · the shots came from
the right and to the rear of the President. Starting
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studies the Warren Report after rec~iving Saul's confession;
McDonald indicates on page 184 that Oswald's trip to Mexico
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able information was reported during the investigation of
the assassination indicating one purpose of Oswald's trip
to Mexico was that he was t _rying to· find a way to get to
Cuba.

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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
DALLAS, TEXAS

on page 185, McDonald appears to have some

reservations about publishing his book when he says
"The material we have just gone over seems somehow to
relieve me of _ total responsibility in publishing Saul's
story and putting my life -long reputation on the line
by saying I believe the man told me the truth." This
ap.p ears to be a self-serving statement for McDonald in
the event the contents of his book are questioned and
disproven. He can always say he just believed what
Saul told him and published it in his book in good faith.

On page 190, .McDonald makes the statement that

Jack Ruby was undoubtedly paid a substantial sum of m:mey
for his shooting of Oswald. Investigation into the
financial background of Ruby did not reveal any information
to back this statement up, and McDonald does not substantiate
his statement in this regard.
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of Oswald's actions are those of a man who has knowingly
just committed a murder" is a most ridiculous remark for
any experienced law officer. How many presidential
assassins has McDonald dealt with?

From pages 181 to 197, where McDonald discusses

the Warren Report, one can readily get the imp~ession
,. that McDonald may feel somewhat slighted because he was
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the assassination.
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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
DALLAS, TEXAS

This book places McDonald at the following

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September 26, 1970, Westbury Hotel, London, . .
England - Meets with male contact (page 73).

October, · 1970, Continental Hotel, Zurich,

Switzerland - Meets attractive woman contact (page 77).

October, 1970, Weiss Lamb Hotel, Augsburg,

West Ge rmany - Met small stocky male contact with well
cut clothes (page 79 and 80).

October, 1970, Mark Platz Hote~, Garrnisch, ""'Y

West Germany - Attempt made on McDonald's life in hotel
room, in which he receives cut from ear to adams apple
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contact with individual identified as Ernst (pages 98 · "l
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via Amsterdam and London, and checks in at Statler Hilton
Hotel, Washington, D. C. , to prepare report (page 102).

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an individual posing as a cab driver, who tried to pick
him up as a sale,.and believes this had something to do :j
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Switzerland - Heets with attractive woman contact he
saw previously in October, 1970 (page 116). She
arranges for McDonald to observe an ~ndividual who
might be Saul at airport, but individual was not Saul.
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Helsinki, Finland - not indicated where he stayed in
these cities (pages 124 and 125).

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gone to London (page 125).

June·, 1972, Westbury Hotel, London, England

I He is put in contact ~.ith ::·aul (page 134), and gets
admission from Saul (page 140 to 179).

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DALLAS, TEXAS

It should be noted that McDonald's search

started in September, 1970, at the Westbury Hotel in ·~
London, England, and ended in the same spot in June, j
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by Special Agent Robert P •. Gemberling of t he Records
Bui·lding as pictured on page 179 of McDonald • s book~-
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was made. This particular building is referred to -
:"·..a
Records Building Annex, and was erected in 1955. Each ;..:..;m.
floor of this building contains four wincows on the west
. side, which would afford a view of Houston Street and
Elm 'Street as it proceeds to the Elm Street underpass.
The first floor of this Records Building in 1963 was
occupied by the Tax Assessor - Collectors Office, and
numerous employees viewed the motorcade as it passed on
Houston Street and proceeded down Elm .S treet. The.
second floor of this building in 1963 consisted of
courtrooms, judge's offices, and judge's secretary's
offices. The trees currently in existence on the west
side of Houston Street .in what is referred to as Dealey
Plaza would now obstruct the view of a motorcade, but .1
in 1963, one could possibly have viewed the motorcade
from the second . floor windows of the judge's offices
and could ha~~ a.1:Jo viewed the 6th floor window where
Os~ald was lfdj(/{~. The availability of any of these ..
offices where the windows were located for approximately
50 minutes by anyone with a rifle is highly unlikely.

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JOHN. FITZGERALD KENNEDY
NOVEMBER 22, 1963
DALLAS, TEXAS

Had Saul shot Oswald as planned, i t is

difficult to believe that the Secret Service would
think they had k.ined Oswald, and would have especially

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become suspicious when they would not find any bullets
that killed Oswald, since Saul was allegedly shooting
bullets which would disintegrate . :f . _!J
It should be noted that at no time in Saul's
statement does he indicate that he ever checks out the
location in the Records Building from which he will
fire his shots.

From a knowledge of the overall scope of the

assassination inv estigation, it would appear that
McDopald obtained the character Troit mentioned in his
book, by having read about George De Mohrenschildt and
his wife, Jeanne, who were individuals in the Russian
cornmu~ity in Dallas, Texas, in 1962, who befriended
Lee Harvey Oswald and his ·wife, Marina.
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FBI Headquarters and Dallas FBI Office files

contain considerable information _c oncerning Geqrge De
Mohrenschildt and his wife, Jeanne. Their last . known
residence in December,· 196 7, was 3615 Gillespie, Dallas,
Texas, at which time he was a part-time Russian language
instructor at t~e University of Texas at Arlington, Texas.

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JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
NOVEMBER 22, 196"3
DALLAS, TEXAS
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George De Mohrenschildt testified before the
Warren Commission on April 22 and 23, 1964, and his
testimony is contained on pages 166 to 284 of Volume IX
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of tl'}e Warren Report. His wife, Jeanne, testified be-
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fore the Warren Cornmission on April 23, 1964, and her .. -~·
testimony is contained on pages 285 to 331 of Volume IX . .-_.;..
of the Warren Report. Extensive background on George
and Jean De Mohrenschildt is contained in the Warren
commission testimony, including his extensive travels
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and locations at specific times. It appears he was in
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Central America at the time of the Bay of Pigs invasion. .
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He made a trip to New York, Phil:?clelphia, and Washington,
D. c., in the first part of May,· 1963, prior to leaving
for Haiti in the end of May, 1963.

By communication dated April 3, 1967, the New

York Office of the FBI advised that William L. Ol~ans,
a Dutch correspondent in the United States representing
Netherlands Television Company (NTS) in Holland, had
advised on that date that infonnation had been received ...
at NTS from an informant in western Europe that George
De Mohrenschildt was the principle organizer of the
assassination of President Kennedy. George's brother,
Dimitri, was allegedly a participant in the plot and
was possibly th~ second assassin who fired from the
woods simultaneously with Oswald. An unknown individual
was second in command to G.::.)rge De Mohrenschildt, and
was in the Hotel Baker, 4th floor, corner room; for several
days prior to November 22, 1963, and directed the assassina-
tion. This individual was described as a white male, short,

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JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
NOVEMBER 22, 1963
DALLAS, TEXAS

fat, dark balding h~ir, who continually smoked cigars.

This communication continued that Carel Ankellaar, Chief
of Programs, NTS, Holland, had instructed Oltmans. to
proceed to Dallas to verify certain aspects of the story.
oltmans arranged in Dallas under pretext for a television
interview of George De Mohrenschildt on April 12 or 14,
1967.

Ace.a rcing to Oltmans, Ankellaar on April 3, 1967,

pointed out to Oltrnans that interviews in Dallas wquld . be
pote ntia11y dangerous to him, and suggestea· he eS!iit:~~tid
senator Kennedy for protection. Oltmans indicated he did
not .anticipate that this matter would be referred to the
FBI by Senator Kennedy's Offic e, as i t was, since he was
apprehensive about the p'remature disclosure of the. facts
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before the release of a story by NTS. Oltmans aske~ for
protection by the FBI while in Dallas, and indicated he
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would like the FBI to assist him in his investigation in d.
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Dallas. Oltmans was advised that the FBI could offer him
no protection, and it was suggested that he obtain protection
from the local Police Department or from a private body
guard if he felt such · was warranted. Oltmans was unwilling
to divulge any additional information, and indicated that
he had sufficient information to release his stori ..to the
public via television in two or three weeks, but~ inter-
view with him did not indicate that he had any evidence
to .. corrobo rate the information supplied by the informant
in Europe.

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ASSASSINATION OF. PRESIDENT
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
NOVEMBER 22, 1963
DALLAS, TEXAS

The foregoing analysis of Hugh McDonald's book

by one familiar with the overall scope and magnitude of
the assassination investigation, results in the conclusion
that McDonald is a 62 year old retired investigator, who
ha9 a most adventurous career, and .who in retirement is
endeavoring to achieve additional recognition and financial
gain.

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JOHN. FITZGERALD KENNEDY
NOVEMBER 22, 1963
DALLAS, TEXAS

Had Saul shot Oswald as planned, i t is

difficult to believe that the Secret Service would
think they had killed Oswald, and would have especially
become suspicious when they would not find any bullets
that killed Oswald, since Saul was allegedly shooting
bullets which would disintegrate.

It should be noted that at no time in Saul's

statement does he indicate that he ·ever checks out the
location in the Records Building from which he will
fire his shots.

From a knowledge of the overall scope of the

assassination investigation, i t would appear that
McDopald obtained the character Trait mentioned in his
book, by having read about George De Mohrenschildt and
his wife, Jeanne, who were individuals in the Russian ·~
community in Dallas, Texas, in 1962, who befriended ~7-
Lee Harvey Oswald and his 'wife, :Marina.

FBI Headquarters and Dallas FBI Office files

contain considerable information .c oncerning Ge9rge De
Mohrenschildt and his wife, Jeanne. Their last . known
residence in December,· 1967, was 3615 ·Gillespie, Dallas,
Texas, at which time he was a part-time Russian language
instructor at the University of Texas at Arlington, Texas.

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JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
NOVEMBER 22, 1963
DALLAS, TEXAS
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George De Mohrenschildt testified before the

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Warren Commission on April 22 and 23, 1964, and his
testimony is contained on pages 166 to 284 of Volume IX
of tl').e Warren R~port. His wife, Jeanne, testified be- ~~

fore the Warren Conunission on April 23, 1964, and her -. .3a:
testimony is contained on pages 285 to 331 of Volume IX ...·-...f
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o~ the Warren Report. Extensive background on George

and Jean De Mohrenschildt is contained in ._th~ Warren .
Commission testimony, including his extensive travels .
and locations at specific times. It appears he was in
.
Central America ·at the time of the Bay of Pigs invasion. .
He made a trip to New York, Phil3.delphia, and Washington,
D. c., in the first part of May, 1963, prior to leaving
for Haiti in the end of May, 1963.

By conununicatibn dated April 3, 1967, the New ~

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York Office of the FBI advised that William L. Ol~ans, ·~
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a Dutch correspondent in the United States representing
Netherlands Television Company (NTS) in Holland, had
advised on that date that information had been receive d •·
at NTS from an informant in western Europe that George
De Mohrenschildt was the principle organizer of the
assassination of President Kennedy. Ge orge's brother,
Dimitri, was allegedly a participant in the plot and
was possibly the second assassin who fired from the
woods simultaneously with Oswald. An unknown individual
was second in command to G(.·.)rge De Moht:enschildt. and
was in the Hotel Baker, 4th floor, corner room; for several
days prior to November 22, 1963, and directed the ass a ssina-
tion. This individual was described as a white male, short,

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ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
NOVEMBER 22. 1963
DALLAS, TEXAS

fat, dark balding h~ir, who continually smoked cigars.

This com.~unication continued that Curel Ankellaar, Chief
of Programs, NTS, Holland, had instructed Oltmans. to
proceed to Dallas to verify certain aspects of the story.
Oltmans arranged in Dallas under pretext for a television
interview of George De Mohrenschildt on April 12 or 14,
1967.

Acc.o rding to oltmans, Ankellaar on April 3, 1967,

pointed out to Oltrnans that interviews in Dallas would be
potentially dangerous to him, and suggested he e~h\~ie~
Senator Kennedy for protection. Oltmans indicated he did
not .anticipate that this matter would be referred to the
FBI by Senator Kennedy's Office, as i t was, since he was
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apprehensive about the p remature disclosure of the facts

before the release of a story by NTS. Oltrnans aske~ for
protection by the FBI while in Dallas, and indicated he
would like the FBI to assist him in his investiga~ion in
Dallas. Oltmans was advised that the FBI could offer him
no protection, and it was suggested that he obtain protection
from the local Police Department or from a private body
guard if he felt such· was warranted. oltmans was unwilling
to divulge any additional information, and indicated that
he had sufficient information to release his storft to the
public via television in two or three weeks, but ~ inter-
view with him did not indicate that he had any evidence
to .. corroborate the information supplied by the informant
in Europe.

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ASSASSINATION OF. PRESIDENT
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
NOVEMBER 22, 1963
DALLAS, TEXAS
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The foregoing analysis of Hugh McDonald's book

by one familiar with the overall scope and magnitude of
the assassination investigation, result s in the conclusion
that McDonald is a 62 year old retired investigator, who
ha9 a most adventurous career, and who in retirement is
endeav oring to achieve additional recogn it~on and financial
gain .

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CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM

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Yester~ay Rep. .wright Pat- an was security . 1cer

m(!n, D.-Tex., said the ABC had r attr Go!dwater d~m.g the
given the institute a "grant" of 1964 presidential campaign. Two
$1Q,500, which the institute then rears ago he was one of two
returned to the ABC as a mem- instructors who introduced a
bership fee. composite picture identification
The disclosure came during system to the Metropolitan Po-
the second day of hearings of the lie~ Departmenl--;-a s ~ s l e mi
Patman's Small Business sul>- which IS now Ill WJde use
committee on foundations. throughout the country.
Director of the institute-and He said his f o u n d a t i o n
presently its sole member-is researches ways to give police
!f;rman E. Kimsey, who ex- positive ways of solving crimes
pral..llea the gdt yeSterday: and identifying criminals: For
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doctors is only opinion-even
Navy Extends though expert In contrast, fin.
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of service of 610 o·f ers, includ- provable evidence."
ing 60 Marines, w had planned He received an initial $5,000
to retire or r 1gn during the grant. in addition to the $10.500
first six mon of 1968. · membership fee, fro m the ABC,
'l/i/1c1
The order ade public yester- he said.
day, app · to experienced men " We hope in the future to re-
who ca fill billets at sea or in ceive more grants from ABC
Vietn ," with only medical of· and others," he added.
ficer exempted. Most of the He said the foundation avcr-
M es being extended are ages about $500 a month in·
a ators or engineers. spending. · I
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: Hugh Chisholm McDonald CIA fliSJORiCAL REVIEW FROCR.4M/~::~J.
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1. Sinc(j tho fall of 1975 with the publication ·of t~e ·'· -~ ~~"~
book• Appointcent in Dallas: . !!!!. Final Solution to the ,_ ... ~- . •• 1 ·=-; ::·.~--~~~-: .·
_;. . .,--, Assassination of JPr. tho author, Hu!!h C~onald» has · :·· ·': :: ~. ,
· :: :.:' recelvod consiai'ril>re attantion from the .modi a. :.. This attention ":· .::f}~~~- ·' j
· . · ~:~;:_; is mainly. genoratod by ).fr. McDonald• s clai!ls that .he had a .-. · ·· : ·-..: :;:-•···::.
" ~; ·1ong-tim~ clandestine relationship with this Agency and that · ·.~ : · . :'~ . · 1
Mr. McDonald knows the roal assassin of President Kennedy. _.., · ·,: _~,;... ~~·:· · I.
Mr. ~lcDonald claillJ.!I ho iaet: tho assassin-to·bo in the offices . . :"·.·: ' ·
of now deceased Agency staff employeo Herman Kimsey on · . ~ _"·:
27 April 1961 and that Hr. 1Cil11Soy much later, and after the . ~: :~~-
·. fact, told Mr~ McDon·ald of ·the coB1plicity of this individual, ...
-· ·.,.:; .. Saul~" · in the Kennedy as5assination~ . Mr~ McDonald claim that . . :·:~.~--~: . I
... -~ ..: in the late 1960' s he located "Saul .. and obtained a "confession." ~~·~:~
. According to Mr. McDonald, . during this . ..confession" 0 Saul" said ..- . . <'J':r-
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he was acting at the behest. of the Agency. .. ~-.:.~ > ::: . ,:: . ,. . '·h/~~~~;~ .
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· 2. Office of Socurity records do not support Mr. McDonald's ;;;;-:;:
cl:llm.s to Agency em.ploylilent or involvement in claudostine · ·. '·':
oporAtions. From 1955 to circa 1961 Mr. McDonald, as an inde· :·: · .~:
pendent contractor, assisted Technical Service Division/ ., ... :.:~ -;~:-
. ·. : ." _;_; Authentication Division/DDP in · the development of the ."Idcntikit -,"_ :ii~~y-.
- ~ -..~ - ::. ;· a . sys~om for the graphic reproduction . of the likeness of the . ._ .. . -.~·..~:. ·.
~ .: ~~ facial features of o.n . individual. During this period.:·.·..~;·~;~., '""--:~·,..:~-- · ..~::·~-'~~..
Mr. McDonald did have contacts with Herma.n .Kil!lSey who was . .·· ~" _, Z ~:~':.~ -~.
terminated in July 1962 and died in January 1971. During tno!j. · ·. ~...._.-;(
R8ti~~o 0 n1~ls1SR~tM~tM!nollKlat~gHslli~elft~~ B~¥i~!ii~~fU . the ·. : ··f >··
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.... Offico in 1967 and by ·r.iay 1969 h·a d formed World Associates, Inc., · _:t:;"· ··
, ·· .. , Santa ·Monica, California • . In June 19.6 9 _Central ~vez: :.S.t a f 4,:.. · . -:~;~~~-~-
_- ~. · evidenced inte.rest in .Nrt:·· McDonald under P_r ojectL .. . ~- .. ~- -.~ '. :.~~~:~'.:~
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tho Agency that he claims in his book. Rolative to -....;
Mr. McDonald 1 s claim that Mr. Ximsey identified President
· .·x.ennody's assassin to McDonald all that can be said is th~~
•. ~·,:··· Mr. Kim.5oy is deceased but he Is known to havo exaggeratod j .,J ...
·.. :.:. 'f11bricatod considorably at· times~ Furthermore t · to . the . kno·.,-; ~
;. -~~·edge . of . this . Offico • ..Mr.;· McDonald.; did .not.- officially .~:repon · ~
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'. '-·.~.:i ·conccrniit.g the Kennedy assassination before ' the publication .
· . ·~.· of his book. an action that · would be ··expected .. if tho .i nfor- ,
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~IHIORANDU~t FOR: Di rector of Security CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM
SUBJECT KIMSEY, Herman Edward
#71 129

1. As you are aware, the Office of Security file of

Herman Edward KIMSEY contains an envelope, the contents of
which show the recei~t by KIMSEY of $380,000 cash from
Colonel Sheffield Edwards on 22 ~lay p61, which was....a~par­
ently sent to Headquarters from the _;J The :
e_n_ve.l ope ..also . contains a. receipt :f qr
S1., SQ O, . th~-· s ~_i-1511 ·.
numbers· of ..\{hi ch· a·re . recorded . . The·. file does . no·t ·contain . ·. - · . .. - -..
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2. After discussions with Mr. David CROKX, TSD Ques-

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22 ~lay 1961- -on 1 December 1975 ~Ir. CROW'~ delivered to the
writer the attached copies of documents from TSD/QDL files,
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which satisfactorily explain the transfer of the funds to
KIMSEY for examination and the· subsequent transfer of the
money to C.V.S. ROOSEVELT on 23 August 1961.

Jerry G. Brown
Deputy Chief
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CI/TRCO/ GT Stanton
10 August 1970

C/Cl/R&A INFO
Mr. Donovan E. Pratt
,-. .-if TSD just ~old m.e
4n the CO!-Jrse ~ visit that Herman
E; KIMSEY of BEvlSION fame,
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Czarevich Case
by
Heiman E. Kimsey

June 3, 1965

. STATE OF NEW YORK

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HERMAN KIMSEY. being duly eworn, · deposes and says:

l. I reside at the Vivian Hotel, 1723 °G" Street,

Washington, D. C.
· 2. I have personally read a number of times and am familiar
with 11 certain article which appeared in the "New York Journal American"
on Tuesday, ·- January 19. -1965, the main headline of whic h reads, "CIA
Challenged to Bare Data on Czarevich Case". a copy of which is attached
hereto and initialed by me.
3. Every statement attributed to me in that article is correctly
attributed and the quotation of my statement in that article is correctly
quoted as 11uch. No implications are to be drawn beyond the exact text of
the article.
4. I was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency in the
following capacities for the respective dates indicated:

Chief, Research• Analysis. 1954-1962

Analyst, Research le Analy11is 0 1953-1954

5. I terminated my relationship with the CIA on September ZO,

1962.
6 . As stated in the article referred to, I am convinced the
tests proved the individual known as Col. Goleniewski is the Tsarevich
and Grand Duke Alek11ei Nicholaevich of Russia. the son of Emperor
Nicholas ll. The tests and the affirmative results thereof were as follows
.acC:.9Jfding._ to ,l!~bject individual:
A. Fingerprint comparison with those of the Tsarevich
taken during his visit in London in 1909 and later from other source• in
possession of British Government .
B . Sole prints comparisons with those of birth records
and later medical re c ords in possession of British Government, German
Government and Synod of Russian Ortbodox Church in New York City.

C. Dental charts comparisons with those on file with the

late Dr. Kostrycki of Paris, France and formerly the Dentist of the
Rus11ian Imperi al Family .
D . Anthropometrical test compared with material from
sister and other relatives.
E. Face Print test comparison with photos taken in child-
hood. and parents and 'grandpare.n ta.
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F. Blood tests compared with previous medi c al records
and those of famil y. (oven
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OUTSIDE CONTACT REPORT

DATE 11/2/78 TIME 1: 09-3: 45

I. Identifying Information:
I. Irving Davidson
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·· II. Suinmary of Contact:

. Mike Ewing, Ralph Salerno and I interviewed Davidson about his

contacts i~ Haiti and his relationship to ·carlos Marcello •.

Davidson stated that his American business interests first took

him to Haiti. He believes the first contact was made in 1962 or

1963 through Sam Ferber, a New York import-export dealer. Davidson

said he registered during that period as an agent of the Haitian

government. He said the business deals brought him inot contact

with President Duvalier of Haiti and that he "hit it off well"

with Duvalier. Davidson said he cannot remember the details of

his Hai tia·n contacts, but that he has a Haitian file at his office.

Davidson said Duvalier never had the money to make any arms sales.

He said that he never made any arms deals, but that it was common

traffic during that period.

III. Recommended Follow-up (if any):

Signature: ~ ~ ·Form j5

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Davidson said that he may have known the name, but

that he was not acquainted with De Mohrenschildt in either the

United States or Haiti.

Davidson said that he maintained contact with Duvalier

over the years, and that they sometimes spoke on the phone. He
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said, however, that he had no contact with Duvalier in 1963

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after the assassination concerning any of the events in Dallas.

He said Duvalier was pro-United States and that he was not

aware of any anti-Kennedy feeling on the part of Duvalier.

Davidson said that he met Clemard Joseph ChaE.les once

in Duvalier's presence when Charles was attempting to explain

to a Haitian woman what had become of a relative who was in

prison. He said that was his only meeting with Charles and

that they did not transact business together. He said he

was not aware of newspaper stories that he ~ravelled with

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or her restaurant in Petionville in Haiti. He said he doesn't

think he has ever been in Petionville.

Hoff a

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arms deals because of the nature of his relationship to Hoffa.

He never knew of any such deals by Hoffa. He said he first

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met Hoffa in 1958 or 1959 at a convention in Washington,

D.C. He met him through Jack Armand of Pittsburgh. He said

he was very friendly with Hoffa but never on his payroll.

They had contact several times a week. Davidson said he

wanted to borrow money from the Teamsters in exchange for

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in the Hoffa-Fitzsimmons dispute. He said he still has con-

tacts several times a week with Hoffa's family.

Davidson said he went to Murray Chotiner to work out

a pardon for Hoffa. Daivdison said he had been very close to

Chotiner. He said he had helped Chotiner get legal business for

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man. He said they saw him as a threat because he was working

to get Hoffa out. He said the Teamsters at first wanted to

work to help Hoffa, but after Fi t zsimmons decided he wanted

to stay in control of the Teamsters, the Teamster effort

to get Hoffa out of jail stopped.

Davidson said his indictment has been "wiped out;" he said

the judge in the case sensed that something was wrong with

the way the case was brought. Dav idson said that at one time

the re was a rumor that he had been paid off to assist getting

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Davidson said that former Attorney General John

Mitchell told Davidson that when Mitchell signed the papers

for Hoffa's release from prison, that there were ?no

restrictions attached as condition for the release. Davidson

said he believes that Charles Colson later added the

- .. '. restrictions to prevent Hoff a from assuming control of

the Teamsters. Davidson said also that he believes Colson

is still blackmailing Richard Nixon, but he doesn't know

over which issue.

Davidson said he never heard Hof fa threaten the life

of either John or Robert Kennedy .
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500 acres to the school in return. Davidson said he has

never has business dealings with Marcello, but that he hopes

to intercede to sell Churchill Farms, Marcello's property, to

an embassy. Davidson said he does not believe that Marcello

is involved in narcotics traffic.

Davidson said he does not know Charles Murret or

Sam Saia from New Orleans. When asked about the name Emile

Bruneaux, Davidson .·.said he knows a Bruneaux who works in

the New Orleans Police Commission .

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Davidson was asked if he knew of an allegation by

Bureau sources that Davidson had gone to the Bureau to

get information about George De Mohrenschildt. Davidson

denied the allegation and said that he first heard the

name De Mohrenschildt a few months ago when Jeremiah

. I O'Leary's article appeared about that allegation. Davidson
.. " said he neve~ met ' with the Bureau men mentioned in the

article. Davidson explained that he had gone to the

Bureau to discuss information he had been given from a

man named Davidov, who was working with Hugh Mac Donald

on assassination theories. He said Davidov and Mac Donald

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the information that Davidson approached the Bureau about
De Mohrenschildt from FOIA materials.

Davidson offered the FBI memo on the meeting to us

during the interivew. He stated again that he never met

with the agents mentioned in the article, but that they

had characterized him in their memo as seeking information

about De Mohrenschildt to increase their own importance

in the eyes of the Bureau. Davidson said that Lyndon

Johnson didn't mean enough to him that he would have

interceded to protect Johnson's reputation as suggested by

the memo and the article.

Davidson said he was not actually an FBI ' "informer"

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but that he would pass information along when he got

information which he thought would be of use to the government.

Davidson described himself as a "bug on law enforcement."

Davidson said that he was not a friend of Trujillo's,

but that he is a friend of Trujillo's daughter. He said the

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Davidson said he heard stories that Nixon knew

Norman Rothman and that Nixon had lost money gambl i ng in

the Caribbean.

Davidson said he knows G. Gordon Liddy and that he

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Davidson said he met Orlando Masferrer in the summer

of 1963. He met him through a Dominican named Enrique

Garcia. Davidson said he has been friendly with all of

the anti-Castro groups her e. He knew Masferrer as a big

"fighte r" in Miami. He said Garcia has a drinking problem.

Davidson said that during his contacts in Haiti,

he never kne w of any anti-Castro groups which were using

Haiti as any type of planning b a se.

Dav idson said tha t a man name d Bonhomme had put out

stories that Davidso n was invol ved ·in arms deals.

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l. ON 16 JUNE 65, ATON CONSTANZO PALAU TOLD THAT
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DAVIDSON LATTER'S OFFICE 15 JUNE. DURING Y,[ETIN~, DAVIDSON SAlD HE
HAD BEEN TO ocr.RE? AND HAD TALKED TO GENERAL ANTONIO IMBERT BARRERAS.
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FLORIDA FOR DOMREP IN ONE OR TWO WEEKS. (VAVE COMMENT: RE GROUP'S
DEPARTURE DOMREP, REPOnTED THAT RAr~N ESCARDA RUBIO ANO
FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ TAMAYO HAD HEARD HEMMI~G SAY ON 9 JUNE THAT
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FOR TEAM OF 49 CUBAN EXILES AND 11 AYiERICAN CITIZENS BE 'SENT oonREP,
IT DECIDED THA·T NO APIER !CANS TO BE INCLUDED ON TEAM>•
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as a~ gu~rd" lOrlJarry Goldwater during the last Presid~ntiatlan\~gn. ~ ~
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~.ort of business arrangement .with Howard Hughes, the Las Vegas, ~e.va~- ~ ,
m ultimillionaire bu~inessman, which concerns a sate or hetic6ptersJto law · ·---::. ~ ~
.enforcement agencies" McDonald ls alleged to kf:low that Predident Lyndon 6. ~ ~ ~
hnson ha<$ pHor knowledge of the plans to assassinate President Kennedy ind ft~ .
lhat one ~!"g~~~~fohr~'l~~.bllitt was !Xl'rt·ol~s conspiracy and supposedl7 P.
• was_ 1nst~menta9t ~the training of ~~~~~·~!fo; the actu~ ~~~-e~·- -.
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any attempt to "smear" President Johnson; however, he was unsuccessful v .:
because Davidov has been promised a share tn the police helicopters business g _

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~ of learning about De Mohr schJldt's background. Davidson admitted he has
already contacted one Edw~~!-- en wl1om he described as a former WashtngtoniJ
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Post reporter, for hetp:-Jlc ·explai ed that Cohen had once planned to write a "·.--,- ....
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A F F I DAV I T

~5:2 X St=~et, North~es~, Suite SG S , Washington, D. C.

~~blic relations consult~~t. cap a city I represent 2

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. I first met Joe ~a.user in la:e 1975 in W a shi~gtc~, D.C.

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·" -· C~~~les Marko, brought
Joe H&user by my office and introduced him to me .
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To the best of '-•j

with Hauser took place ~~Miami i~ JaTiuaty 1 976 . I was in

Miami to attend the Super Bowl fcotb&ll game. Hauser aria~g~d

dinner for ae at the Jockey Club i~ Miami Beach, Florida. I~

·was c~u:ring this visit :o ~iami ~hat ~ause r and I beca me f go c d

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:Z-:-i ends. It was also ~uring this v~sit that I first met Ge~~ge

~err e ra, a close asscci~te of Ha u se~ who · usually travele~ with

i1im.

During my earl y =eetings ~it~ Ha user I learned "- -- ....

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~ha ~ he w~s very strong in the buil~in g trades unions a n c £ close

iTicrrd of t~e late Pete r Fo s co, for~e r ~nternational Presic~ ~ t

oi th~ Laborers Union.

It is difficult ~o pinpoi~t th e tiree when Hauser first

brought to my attentio~ ~is probl 6D in obtaining th ~ ,Te~8~ ~ e~s

Central Stat es ins ur ance con tract . I remember Hause r sayi~g

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to ~c one d ay he wi shed ~y f rie nd 3~ ~ 2y Hoffa wa s arou~d tc ~e l ?

hi::1 with t.h e problem h e

co;:imon kno\·! lcdgc t ·hat. I
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a goo<! :=:rien<l of Jiri1r.:y Hoffa ar:c

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In examining ~y o~n diary a~d appointment 7ccords, i t

ap? e ars it ~&s around t~e e nd of ~ ~~c h 1976 that Ha u ser to:~ ~ e
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~c~ails about his probie~s wi t h ~~ e Ye amsters. He sai<l hi s
co n , ~ ny wa s low bidder c~ a bid co ~ t~act involving abou~ $ 2~

~ i~liorr a year in p r c ~i ~ ~s fr o ~ ~~ ~ 7e &msters C e ~t~ a l S~ates

E ~a l t h end ~ clfare F u~ d . H~~ scr ~~s hc s i2c himself bccaus ~ ~a

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:.. 0: 30 a. m ., -::·:c..s~1.ington tir:.e, a:l.c called ~i tzsir::.."!'.0.:15 in California.

It wc..s thr.e 2 hours earlier out trre:ce c:nd Fi-tzsi:r.,,"Tions '1.-ras stili

He ~c..s a house or apart~ent a~ LaCost~ . T!1e call ~·1as

S\·1i·tchboard. girl di.dr. 1 t \·1ant. to ·w ake

hir,1. Tor:i. s2:7s 1 • " wc.ke him up an~v-ay / Goddamn it. 11

Ton knows him
?it.zsir,u-1.ons <;Ot Oi1 the: :p:~one . O~ course, I hea~~

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o~ly one sice of the co~ve:csat io~: bu~ I heard Tom sc..y sor..et.;ti'1g
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like . . . nis ~ · _,is "C.en 1 there is a friend of mine , potential
you kno•.-1-- th.:::.t is beir.g hurt by you:::. '=f'-lYS out in Centra). . Stc..te::; :

c:.·::.d rr.y guy i.s low bidd0:c . We \·:a:::t t.o r. ;-1ke sur e tha-t:. Joe !!ause~
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d oeS::1 1 i:. get ch2ated . 11
~-Ieb:b tola ::~e afterwards that. ?itzs i rru"or.s

he ~entioned Joe Hauser ' s co~pa~y o~ Old Security . l~ccording

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With :::E:s9ect to the fee that Eause~ would pay if we w2re

successful i~ obtain i ng the award, Eau~er did not . mentio~ any

speci£ic art.v:.:.::-i.t 1 as I recal l. Ee.user d :Ld say to me , 11

r•:an, set

-c.~"lis for me.· you \·Iil l never reg r et :i..·t: you will make c. big fe-e.. 11

I sc:.icl, "'.!.'~:.c.::. is \vhat t.he h e ll I am <:loin g i t for ."

As I s~ ated e a rlier , I w0s not pr e sent when Webb placed

l1if; tel0?:.o:-_2 ca l l to l<l0i~di e :1s ·i:: s22:-d .ng his assistance _ B.ut

Wa bb ~old c2 a fee was not mcntio~ed at tha~ time _ Howeve::-,

Klci ~ dicnst k~ew . that Hause~ would be very cagn a nimous . }laUSE::!:'

had a reputation for being very lcose und v e ry good with a buck.

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The~i. !(leir.clienst tur:;:ed. to To:n l·,'-0 bb c:.nd I a~·.cl told us tc keep

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~elling ~eb~ a:Lle

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I to m~nd our c~~ busine ss.

:le said , ".:-\ow list2n, I C:.;J. ycu:- lz.~.\·ye:-, Yo-..:. c:.re going
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to do lvha t I te 11 you. 11 He then told Haus er to ge't c:: tf'.e p:1onc
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&nd ~all Allen Dorfraan right then . I objected . I said, 11
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i..Qi.a't the hcl l are you doing. 11 And he says l "Liste:i, Davidson, yo::.
stay the hell out of this t~ing, I are telling Hauser" , a:id : I
said, "You have told me you don't like us giving him so da'!ilned nuc:i
advice . He is.our friend , more than just a client.
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him in he r e and I don't want you to give him any advice like that".
Kleindienst turned &nd picked up the phone and yelled to
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his secr~tary. This is an historic moment as far as I a~ con-

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cerned. He says to his secretary, "Trixie, .-..get. - All en

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Trixie got Allen Dorfman on the pho;e. ·T1 e

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understand you had b_een_ ~ rying to r _each him . for -t.h e -last two

...--c,.r~fy's." I am only heari~g on2 side of the conversa·cion. Klein-

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di ens t said, "I am put ting hi;n on the phone right nm·! a::-id he wil 1

be in to see you tsimorrow." Jo e Hauser.. gets .on th e phone and

said , "Al len, I am sorry I couldn't pick your call up. I have
been very busy." HauseT then sa~d, "Wha t do you want to talk
about." He says , "I would like for you to cor.w in here anc!
s e e r.ie." This is what Joe t e lls r..e afterwards. Ha use:- saicl,
"I will b 0 t h e re t omor r oo.·r mo r nin g . I \·1.i.ll catch a 10:00 o"clcc~<

plane and f;lC et you at your off ic e . 11 Mr. Hauser hung U? the

pho-;--.e . I mi g ht add, Hauser picked up th e extension lin e in

Klcin<liens t 's office on his aesk and t a lked to Dorfman. Ha.user

didn't like doing it. Tom Webb a nd

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clay, Hauser f l ew to Chicago, s aw Dor:fmctr!. He returned the se:.r:~ e

day . After Hau s er returned, he cailcd me on the tele p hone and

said Dorfman had off e re d h i m s o ~o p ropo sition w~i c h c~ l:ed for
Do:: f:1~a • 1 to r e c e ive a tw o pc:-c c Et o v e rride. I don't k:lm·: K h at
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In closi::tg, Chai n.:ctr,, I wo~ltl like to relate my

invol verr.cnt \·Ti th respect to op t.: Jling a bank account at the

Diplomat 3sn~ here in WashiL~ton fo~ Eauser. Haus er told 2e

~e was going to opan an o~fica i~ Kashington .which was to be

headed by Terry O'Sullivan. I as~ecl H2u ser where he \·:as goir.g
~o do his b&nki~g. · He s&id he ~i~~·~ ~ave any preferences.
I then suggested to Hauser he use the Bank because a Di?lo~at
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:friend of :nine, Jack Anderson, Kas on th e Boar. ~ of Directors
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of the bank. My diary reflects on April 6, 1976, I went to the
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Diplomat Bank along w~th George Herrera, John Boden, and

Terry O'Sullivan to discuss op ening an accoun.t at the Diploli".at
Bank for th e Washington office that Hauser was openi~ g up.
After the bank account was opened George Herrera would
frequently come to Washington . and withdraw and deposit sub-
stantial sums of cash on behalf of Hauser.

I recall taking Herrera to the Diplomat Bank and intro-

. ducing him to an officer of the bank. The bank off icial was
either a Mr. · Wilson or Pau l BramQel. The rea so n I had initial~y

introduced him to the bank official was because Herrera would

deal in large su~s of ca sh with the bank. I do recall it ~as

Paul Bra~mel who told me he was unhappy about this situation.

He said this was a very unorthodox way to do business. I
re~ember on one occ asion Herr era showed ne a stack of bills
totaling $100,000 tha t he obtained from the bank. I h ave no idea
what Herrera did with th~ cash. I did mention it to Hause r at
one time but I received no response.
I h ave re a d the foregoing stateme nt and it 1s true to my
best recollection and belief.