Speaking of Dodd....
http://ctka.net/2015/JosephsRiflePart1.pdf
Waldman, VP of Kleins, had "Senator Dodd's committee on my back" in recent days, but did not elaborate (and we sure as heck wasn't going to ask him...)
The connections and implications of the Dodd investigation related to mail order gun shops, specifically Klein's and Seaport, is one that requires an entire essay of its own. Suffice to say there is evidence offered which claims that Dodd's senate sub-committee investigation included ordering rifles from Klein's, as well as weapons from Seaport. And that the patterns of Oswald's behavior suggests he may have been used to generate evidence.
From a chapter in progress
And We Are Still All Mortal about halfway down the page, Michael Evica makes this argument which, when added to the hounding Waldman seems to have experienced at the hands of Dodd's committee points directly at the reason the name Hidell comes into use related to Oswald.)
"Why was Lee Harvey Oswald, dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines as a known defector to the Soviet Union, reading rifle magazines at Alba's Garage in New Orleans? And why was he collecting coupons for mail-order weapons?(16)
The Dodd connection was the answer.
Senator Thomas Dodd commanded the Senate's Juvenile Delinquency subcommittee and its interest in "gun control," specifically mail-order weapons control.
Beginning in January, 1963, Dodd held committee hearings on the unrestricted delivery of weapons through the U.S. mails. One of the companies Dodd was interested in was
Klein's of Chicago, and one of the weapons about whose unregulated traffic the Senate in 1963 was agitated was
the Italian Mannlicher-Carcano. "Hidell," of course, allegedly ordered a Mannlicher-Carcano from Klein's of Chicago, reportedly found in the Texas School Book Depository on November 22nd, 1963, becoming a major part of the FBI/Warren Commission lone-assassin theory in the JFK killing. (17)
Seaport Traders of California was still another mail-order weapons' distributor the Dodd Committee was examining, the very company from which "Hidell" ordered the revolver reported to have been used in the Tippet (sic) murder on November 22nd, 1963.(18)"