MissSovComm laundered funds from Draper to Weyher

[John Bevilaqua]

Hmmm... why would Harry Weyher receive the proceeds laundered through the Mississippi Sov Comm from Draper his fearless leader at The Pioneer Fund and in June of 1965 no less? More later.

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So, these payments (part payments?) are for 'services rendered' in the murder of Medgar Evers? Grease to stop the wheels of intergration from moving forward?

A few names that can be found in the files (or could a few years ago):

Hunt, Lamar
Hunt, H.L.
Ferrie, David W.
Surrey, Robert - Warren Commission conducted an investigation into the
circumstances surrounding "the appearance of the 'Wanted for Treason'
handbill on the streets of Dallas 1 to 2 days before President Kennedy's
arrival. These handbills bore a reproduction of a front and profile
photograph of the President and set forth a series of inflammatory charges
against him. Efforts to locate the author and the lithography printer of the
handbill at first met with evasive responses and refusals to furnish
information. Robert A. Surrey was eventually identified as the author of the
handbill. Surrey, a 38-year old printing salesman employed by Johnson
Printing Co. of Dallas, Tex. has been closely associated with General [Edwin
A.] Walker for several years in his political and business activities."
(Warren Commision Report, GPO edition, p. 298)
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A Federal Bureau of Investigation monograph, dated June, 1965, on the
American Nazi Party (ANP) of George Lincoln Rockwell reports the following
concerning the organization of the ANP in Texas:
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There are reportedly two ANP groups operating in Dallas, Texas. One,
headed by a printing salesman named Robert A. Surrey, is made up of people
who do not want their affiliation with the ANP to become publicly known. It
is alleged that about 30 persons attend weekly meetings of this group in
Surrey's home. The other group, whose meetings reportedly are attended by
four persons, is headed by Jerald Thomas Walraven and openly participates in
various demonstrations. Surrey is alleged to be the Dallas leader of the
ANP, while Walraven is merely a "group commander." (p. 42)

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To my knowledge, the Warren Commission was not aware of Surrey's link to the
ANP, which may not have developed until after the assassination.
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Another indication of Nazi activity in Dallas was reported in the
Dallas Morning News for April 16, 1963, section 1, page 5. "Decals of the
black Nazi swastika on a flaming red background and the words 'We Are Back'
were found plastered on windows of about a dozen downtown Dallas stores [of
Jewish merchants] Monday morning." General Walker suggested to the Dallas
police that there might be a connection between the swastika incident and
the shot fired at him on April 10. (CE 2001, 24 H 42)
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On the evening of November 22, 1963, Ken Elliot reported the
following to the FBI in New Orleans:
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[Elliot] said he had learned from an unrecalled source that General WALKER
of Dallas, Texas, has been visiting in the New Orleans area in the past few
days and that General Walker is a close associate of a ... radio announcer,
CHARLES RAY. He said ... that RAY is considered by him to be a rabid
segregationist and also an advocate of GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL. He said he
"had heard" from an unrecalled source that ROCKWELL was supposed to be in
the New Orleans area in the last few days. (FBI New Orleans Field Office
File on the ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY, serial 89-69-56)

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A New Orleans FBI report, dated December 31, 1962, on the topic of
the American Nazi Party, indicates that a Dan Campbell, an employee of Guy
Banister, claimed to be knowledgeable about certain activities of George
Lincoln Rockwell and his New Orleans associates. (Serial 105-70374-1749)
Banister was an object of interest in the Garrison probe, and has been
alleged to have been personally acquainted with Lee Harvey Oswald. Dan
Campbell identified Colonel Bluford Balter and "Ray J. Leahardt" as New
Orleans associates of Rockwell. The New Orleans Field Office file on Lee
Harvey Oswald, contains an interview with "Ray James Leahart" dated December
16, 1963, which I have not yet reviewed. The New Orleans Times-Picayune for
May 25, 1961, section 1, page 10, reports that a "Ray L. Leahart" was
arrested along with George Lincoln Rockwell and nine ANP members from
Arlington, Virginia. Among those arrested were Roy James, who would
criminally assault Martin Luther King in 1962, and John Patler, who would be
convicted of shooting Rockwell himself in 1967.

Lively, Earl -

To: W.C. Sullivan Date 1/20/64

From W. A. Branigan

Subject: Lee Harvey Oswald, IS –R-CUBA


By airtel 1-13-64, Dallas Office reported that on 1-4-64 William James Lowery, Jr. a former security informant of the Dallas Office, reported that he had been contacted by Earl Lively, Jr., of Dallas, Texas. Lowery stated Lively is reported writing an anticommunist book which will stress the Fair Play for Cuba Committee connections of Lee Harvey Oswald. Lively showed Lowery a letter from Herbert Philbrick, former Communist Party member who has testified on behalf of the Government concerning communist activities. According to Lively, Philbrick plans to be in Dallas soon and desires to meet Lowery.

Lively further informed Lowery that he desired Lowery’s assistance in writing his book. He stated that Dr. Robert Morris, former counsel to the Senate Internal Security Committee under Senator McCarthy, was assisting him and Lt. George Butler of the Dallas Police Department was also assisting him. Lively added that Lt. George Butler of the Dallas PD was going to try to get any information he could that the FBI turned over to the Dallas Police Department in connection with the Lee Harvey Oswald case.

In connection with Lowery mentioned above, ha was a member of and active in the Communist Party on a local and state basis from September 23, 1945 to September 23, 1963. He has also testified for the Government before the Subversive Activities Control Board.

Our indices indicate Earl Lively, Jr., probably is identical to Earl William Lively, Jr. In 1962, Office of Special Investigations, Air Force (OSI), furnished us information that Lively was a member of the Air National Guard and at that time was a student of the Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. He was investigated by OSI since a national agency check revealed he was a subscriber to “The Worker” and the “Midweek Worker,” both communist publications. Individuals interviewed by OSI reported Lively was extremely anticommunist and as being extremely rightist in his political views. They reported in their opinion Lively subscribed to communist publications only to obtain background information on the Communist Party line. They also reported Lively extremely anti-Fidel Castro.

OBSERVATIONS:

In view of the serious allegation that Lt. Butler of the Dallas Police Department is involved in scheme to furnish FBI data to Earl Lively, Jr., desirable we have SAC, Dallas personally discuss this allegation with the head of the Dallas Police Department and impress upon him the undesirability of Lt. Butler being involved with such a scheme as alleged by our source. Inasmuch as Lowery has testified for the Government before the Subversive Activities Control Board, and is no longer a security informant, we will not jeopardize an important informant situation by discussing his allegation with the head of the Dallas Police Department.

ACTION:

Attached is a teletype to SAC, Dallas, instructing the SAC, Dallas, to personally contact the head of Dallas Police Department and alert him to the information furnished by Lowery and impress upon him the undesirability of individuals in his department divulging to unauthorized individuals data furnished the Dallas Police Department by the FBI. We are also instructing SAC, Dallas, to request the that the head of the Dallas Police Department determine whether Lt. George Butler of the Dallas Police Department is involved in a scheme to furnish FBI data to Lively as alleged by Lowery.


Brown, Jack

Swift, Wesley - "Q: Do you think that he (Milteer) knows this Oswald personally, or knows anything about him?
Somersett: Well, I believe that he does, I believe that if he doesn't know Oswald person, he knows the people in Miami or New Orleans that was doing business with the group which he belonged to. And that is where the infiltration was made into it, into this man's group, it was either Miami or New Orleans.
Q: These are two separates groups are they not? They are separated widely in their beliefs so to speak. How do you think they would be coming together?
A: From the impression he give me, and what he told me, was that Oswald group was Pro- Castro, and that they were infiltrated, and their leaders, somebody close to them was given money to infiltrate their group, and pay them to kill Kennedy, and that would throw, if anybody did get caught, that would throw the entire case into the laps of the Communist.
Q: In other words you say that this Constitutional Party, that has not formed yet, or some party to that.....
(BREAKS IN) - Yes I believe what they call the Patriot Organizations over the country, now he talked very briefly about Billy Hargrave who is on the air every now and then, who had raised a lot of money, for the underground, and Swift, and Kenneth Golf [Kenneth Goff], and many others, he even spoke one time, you know uh, uh, Billy Estes had been persecuted very much by the Kennedy Administration. And that he was a man, who, was in a position to raise a lot of money, an that in Texas there were a lot of people who could raise a lot of money, and that they had a good underground in Texas and California. In fact, he says that Illinois is very strong, and he said that Kennedy didn't have a chance, to get away with what he had done, because the Patriots knew that he was in the stages of delivering the country over to the Communists.

Walker, Edwin

Davis, Roy E. "Somersett: The only man in Dallas that he mentioned that was a good patriot down in Texas, and engineering a lot of activity there was a Mr. Davis a reverend Dr. Davis, a preacher, head of the Klu Klux Klan. He was a man who didn't worry about human life, that he worried about his nation now. I know of Davis for several years. "