John McAdams part 1

[Tracy Riddle]

Jim,

I don't have any strongly formed opinions about this one way or the other, but I was just wondering if I could solicit your thoughts. Do you think that there is any reason to believe there was recruitment of (selected) members of the DPD into the plot before the fact (e.g., through Ruby perhaps?). You, Tracy and Magda are certainly right to point out what the DPD was like at the time, but I'm just wondering what evidence there is (if any) to suggest it went beyond that.

Certainly -- whatever else Tippit may or may not have been involved in -- I would imagine that the pinning of his murder on Oswald virtually guaranteed the cooperation of the DPD.

Besides M.W. Stevenson, I have suspicions about Patrick Gannaway, who was the head of the DPD intelligence unit. If he was doing his job, he would certainly have known about a local "subversive" like Oswald. He and some of his people could have been well positioned to help frame Oswald.