European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 was member of Warren commission Fri files say Ford offered to inform Washington a Gerald As a member of the Warren commission investigating the assassination of John told an Fri official that he would keep the Bureau confidentially informed about the commissions according to Fri Ford also was critical of chief Justice Earl Warrens chairmanship of the com the files other files show the Bureau investigated eventually cleared Ford As the source of news leaks in 19m about the Warren the leaks included stories on the diary of Kennedy Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and a commission interview with Oswalds Jack according to documents released after Clearing the Fri said the most Likely source of at least one leak was William an assistant District attorney in the material was released wednesday by the Fri in response to requests under the Freedom of information views were related to Fri official Cartha Deloach at a meeting in Fords at the Ford was a congressman from Michigan and a Republican Leader in the Deloache memo recites that Ford asked him to come to his upon arriving he told me he wanted to talk in the strictest of the memo their discussion entered on the work of the commission in the two weeks it had been in at one Ford indicated he would keep me thoroughly advised As to the activities of the Deloach he stated this would have to be on a confidential basis he thought it should be he also asked if he could Call me from time to time and straighten out questions in his mind concerning our i told him by All Means he should do he reiterated that our relationship of remain among the other Points revealed in the material were the Fri file on Oswald prior to Ken Nedys assassination goes Back to 1959 and contains 69 beginning with a news paper clipping from the Corpus Christ times dated about Oswalds defection to the soviet then in chronological the inventory of the Bis file has another news account about Oswald going to a notation that Fri files at the time had no information on him but there was a Mili tary service fingerprint card apparently related to and a state department Telegram saying Oswald had appeared at the embassy in Moscow to renounce his american Oswalds interrogation just 11 min utes before he was shot1 to and the postal inspector who conducted the probe concluded Oswald never would have con fessed to killing Oswald at no time appeared confused or in doubt As to whether or not he should answer a postal inspector Holmes said in a report dated on the he was quite Alert and showed no hesitancy in answering those questions which he wanted to and was quite skillful in parrying those questions which he did not want to one of Many government offbeat items litter Fri files on Juk Washington up Here is a col Lection of offbeat items from the Fri documents released by the Fri on the Kennedy assassination in june 1964 Edgar Hoover read a newspaper report that famed philosopher Jean Paul Sartre had joined the French who killed Kennedy the clipping identified Sartre Only As an Hoover promptly scribbled a sent to his Cartha Deloach find out who Sartre the Fri files Are unbelievably com plete and take the Guy who wrote Hoover a Rou Tine complimentary note shortly after the Warren commission report came out in Hoover replied with a than you and on his private file copy it was noted the bureaus records showed the Man had toured the Fri More than 20 years earlier in 1944 and fired the Thompson Summa Chine gun during his the Fri wrapped up the cardboard Cartons on which Lee Harvey Oswald rested his Rifle in the Texas school Book depository and sent them to Washington for Tab investigators found 20 fingerprints on the Cartons including one of Oswalds and five from the Fri agent who wrapped the one of the first procedures in the investigation of the John Kennedy assassination was to determine the exact movements of Oswald in Mexico a few months through the Legal attache in the embassy an Fri Man the Bureau tried to track Down those who entered and left Mexico at the same times and places As the Atlanta Fri office sent the office a memo that one such person Worth interviewing was Hilda mirth Al qua in two Days later came this urgent memo from hoovers office do not interview Hilda Quezada aged there were at least spent Rifle Cartridge cases scattered around Dallas after the assassination of John Ken allocation to reported Brussels a the belgian govern Matt has decided to allocate f to the United nations for Aid to the victims of the foreign ministry an Mey were found on Street Rifle in private Homes and at gun the Fri rounded them All carted them to Washington and tested them they concluded that Only three came from the gun the Warren commission concluded was used to kill those three were found near the gun on the sixth floor of the Texas school Book de one 10page Section of the Fri files on the assassination of John Kennedy is a letter from a Man who claimed numbers could Clear up any questions on the he proceeded from a discussion of the numerical values in the word Kennedy to the numerical values in Hydrogen bomb and the Fri dismissed the Man with two words written across the Bottom of his letter appears after Hoover criticized Warren com Mission findings he said were unfairly Crit ical of the Fri role in dealing with the assassination of John he got this letter in our English we Are using the Warren commission i dont have much since you dont like could i have it it came from Beverly Wilcox of York town a Hoover Secretary re plied on that the Fri did not have a copy of the report to Send the reply bears a notation that the Fri did not have any records on the girl Cor respondent is not identifiable in Cross eyed Tiger agents brought in to help with that massive said Oswald emphatically denied having any knowledge of the Ken Nedy and said he was taken into custody just because he had popped a policeman in the nose in a theater on Jeffer son Avenue during his he denied that he had Ever ordered any Rifle by mail order or bought any Money order for the purpose of paying for such a Holmes How could i afford to order a Rifle on my salary of hour when i cant hardly feed myself on what i made Holmes said Oswald Hoover told Warren commission Chiel counsel Lee Rankin the bureaus invest plus a Complete search of Fri files on Oswalds activities prior to the Assassin found he was never a member of or associated with the communist the socialist workers party or any other extreme leftist organization he has never associated with any representative or sympathizer of the Castro government he never had any contacts with persons or organizations Active in underground activities directed against the Castro chief Justice Earl Warren was reluctant to head the Kennedy commission once he he operated under a Shadow of suspicion by who was angered b Warrens description of the preliminary Fri report on the slaying As being in Skeleton form and suspected the chief Justice was its contents to the an Fri dated re ported attorney general Nicholas Katzen Bach had informed the Fri that the Chiel Justice has declined the the files also exposed hoovers personal in the Bureau appeared preoccupied with charges that Oswald had been in its thousands of pages of the documents reported on worldwide news accounts linking Oswald to either the buryat or the these were wild and ridiculous allegations planted by comm the Bureau in a letter to William Manchester about his the death of a Hoover wrote your Lack of re search and irresponsible reporting in Ink instance Are most and i have no alternative but to believe you have set Forth a deliberate falsehood specifically designed to malign my the goods of time Scarlett a rare White Bengal will undergo surgery in an Atlan Hospital to Correct crossed she is the Only survivor of triplets born eight months ago in an 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