Jim Hargrove Wrote:Ms. Mellen called Warren de Brueys "Oswald's FBI handler" in New Orleans. Was that an educated guess, because Oswald asked to see him, or is there more evidence?

It's a significant question for a number of reasons, because the summer of '63 in New Orleans is obviously the time and place where the patsy-to-be was first sheep-dipped so the blame for the assassination could be put at Castro's feet. This is the first solid evidence I can think of that the plot was unfolding. But it also MAY also have been the time when Oswald was put on the FBI payroll, perhaps as part of the plan to force Hoover to shut down a real investigation after the hit.

I had always assumed Shaw (for the Agency) and Bannister (for the FBI) were the principals in this transaction, but perhaps de Brueys was more involved than I thought. Garrison said this in his old Playboy interview:

I'd like to find out the exact nature of De Brueys' relationship with Lee Oswald. As long as Oswald was in New Orleans, so was De Brueys. When Oswald moved to Dallas, De Brueys followed him. After the assassination, De Brueys returned to New Orleans. This may all be coincidence, but I find it interesting that De Brueys refuses to cooperate with our office significant and frustrating, because I feel he could shed considerable light on Oswald's ties to antiCastro groups.

Quote:[size=12]When William Walter opened the locked filing cabinets in the office of the special agent in charge,
he found a file folder marked de Brueyes-Oswald. I asked Mr. Brueyes about this. He did not deny it. He did not confirm it either, although you would not expect that.

Don't forget that all are connected. Mr. Brueyes, for example, was close to David Smith of US Customs. All this is in A Farewell To Justice.

Error above, De Brueys did not "follow" Oswald to Dallas. He was assigned there on the Saturday after the assassination. - Joan Mellen[/SIZE]

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Joan Mellen on her Investigation of Garrison Investigation - Jim Hargrove - 28-10-2015

According to William Davy, Brueys was a member of the Metropolitan Crime Commission, along with such persons of interest as Alton Ochsner, Aaron Kohn (ex-FBI from Banister's Chicago office) and Eustis Reily (of Reily Coffee). Shaw's fingerprints were apparently all over this outfit. All are connected indeed!

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Joan Mellen on her Investigation of Garrison Investigation - Jim Hargrove - 28-10-2015

Jim DiEugenio Wrote:Finally, when the FBI opened its inquiry to make a report to Hoover to give to the WC, DeBreuys was the liaison from this committee to the DPD. And it was he who first proposed that Oswald shot Walker.

Why? Because he said that since Oswald fired at Kennedy in the head, and Walker was shot at in the head, it must have been the same man.

That is what he told me, no joke.

Oh, man.... I just wanted to see the above posted again. Sheesh!

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Joan Mellen on her Investigation of Garrison Investigation - Jim DiEugenio - 29-10-2015

Me and Bill Davy spent about two hours with DeBrueys at this home in Metaire.

Once, he said, he did not read any JFK assassination books.

During a break, I wandered into his den. There must have been a about 15 Kennedy assassination books on his shelf.

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Joan Mellen on her Investigation of Garrison Investigation - Peter Lemkin - 29-10-2015

Jim DiEugenio Wrote:Me and Bill Davy spent about two hours with DeBrueys at this home in Metaire.

Once, he said, he did not read any JFK assassination books.

During a break, I wandered into his den. There must have been a about 15 Kennedy assassination books on his shelf.

Obviously, a man of his word, such that one could bank on anything he said. ::

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Joan Mellen on her Investigation of Garrison Investigation - Jim Hargrove - 29-10-2015

It's hardly surprising that some of the FBI agents would have a fascination with the case that was sort of kept secret. My understanding from John A. is that the way Hoover ran the "investigation," as a general rule agents were forbidden to follow-up on their own reports or even compare notes with their coworkers. Those are pretty strange marching orders, and it must have made more than a few wonder what was REALLY going on.

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Joan Mellen on her Investigation of Garrison Investigation - Jim DiEugenio - 01-11-2015

This is why Bill Turner once said to me that the JFK case marked the begining of the end of Hoover's image among the Washington insiders.

He said that to him, as he started reading the memos, it became clear the fix was in.

Because, as he told me, there were three major steps in any FBI inquiry:

1.) The collection of all pertinent leads

2.) The following out of those leads to their ultimate ends

3.) The collation of all relevant information garnered into a cohesive report that did not assign guilt but just enumerated all the important information about the crime.

He then told me that you could not get to point three without doing point 2. And that was the most important step. To him it was obvious that step 2 was not carried out with any rigor. Therefore, step three was completely dubious in the JFK case.

This is what convinced him that someone upstairs had made it clear that they did not want a real inquiry. They wanted the FBI to come to the same conclusion that Henry Wade had.

And BTW, this is one of the worst parts of Bugliosi's book. Its a complete cover up of the FBI's performance.

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