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  1. "Abt" is indeed the correct spelling of a highly visible New York lawyer during the early 60s. He was closely associated with CPUSA-related actions and activities. It is no surprise that he did not rush to Oswald's aid. Also, the FPCC pretty much closed their doors on 11-22-63. The venerable ACLU, however, really had no reason to be involved in Oswald's case; they do not act as defense lawyers in murder cases, which I'm sure Ruth Paine knew. Maybe you had to be there to appreciate how completely the left was running scared that weekend. Most of us thought the witch hunt was on, especially those of us in the FPCC.
  2. The more I think about this Don Morgan business, the more it gnaws at me. What are the odds that two guys unknown to each other are both at the same time, the same month, "selling" Richard Nagell to Garrison's people, while coincidentally using the same invented alias? I don't buy it. That's just too goddamn unlikely. In March of 1967 there were probably only fifty people in America who knew Richard Nagell's name in association with the JFK murder. Consider your agitation over the "Morgan/Gordon" business in Dick Russell's book. What was simply an editing favor done for a silly mistake I made twenty-five years earlier, when I hastily wrote a letter to Jim Garrison and mistakenly signed a boyhood friend's somewhat similar name to one I used on occasion, becomes something darker, almost sinister. You are not to be blamed for raising an eyebrow at that astounding coincidence. So I've got to conclude that Kroman somehow got the name by way of or from Garrison's people. Richard Popkin told me that when my letter came in to the New Orleans office in 1967 nobody knew what to do with it. So it went unanswered for months, and by the time they attempted to contact me I had moved on and closed out my drop. The ONLY people who could have known I used that mistaken alias were people from Garrison's investigation, because — I repeat — I had NEVER used it before. I suspect that omebody's timeline is wrong. If Kroman cannot be shown using the Don Morgan alias before March 1967, then we definitely know where he got it. Unless the world needs another outrageous coincidence. Dick Russell was fair and accurate in his pages that dealt with me. Even then it caused some concern among my friends and family, who feared that there were those who would misinterpret my peripheral role as somehow connecting me to the assassination. But my decision to cooperate with Dick Russell's effort to unravel the mystery of Nagell's role and knowledge was based solely on my desire to see the assassination issue resolved and the crime of the century solved. I wrote the 1967 letter to Garrison in the same spirit. I have never lied about what little I know, if for no other reason than I know so little. And I am not lying about the "Don Morgan" mistake I foolishly made on that day. Since the Morgan/Gordon incident is solely of my making, I suppose I better try to get what information I can on Kroman's pre-Springfield assassination investigation history. What I'll be looking for, of course, is PROOF that Kroman was "Don Morgan" before I was.
  3. I have no knowledge of David Kroman whatsoever. This is the first time I have heard about him. "Don Gordon" was a name I used on a few occasions in Los Angeles, one that Nagell obviously knew about since he cited it in an explanatory note he added to a photo copy of a "coded" telegram I sent him. I imagine it was through a contact he had with the FPCC, although I can't recall using that pseudonym with any of its members. I know I never used it with him. Same with "John Miller," although I did sign the telegram "John M." (His other FPCC connections, however, were unknown to me; I never discussed him with any other member, and neither his name nor alias never came up in conversation.) When I wrote the letter to Garrison I mistakenly signed it "Don Morgan" instead of "Don Gordon." Don Morgan is a childhood friend and neighbor of mine that I have not seen or spoken to for fifty years. It was an unintentional slip and I asked Russell to correct it in his book because I didn't want Don, wherever he is today, to somehow be told that his name pops up in a book on the JFK assassination. That would be embarrassing for both of us. I have never known another Don Morgan.
  4. Lee Forman, I assume you mean Robert Nagell, Richard's son? No, I haven't tried to contact him. I see no purpose. I understand he's a veterinarian in the Los Angeles area. If Nagell was as crazy as some think he was, how did he ever win custody? Either the judge got a character reference from a hell of a convincing and impressive source or his wife was stark raving mad. Do you have copies of any of these records? It took me five years to get my F.B.I. file and the CIA "never heard of [me]." -Vaughn
  5. Larry, Thanks for responding to my post/query. I'll just have to plod along in my search for that most enigmatic man's substance.
  6. Sorry, but I know nothig of Tony Cuesta beyond what little I've read. Leopoldo and Angel, if they in fact existed, are also a mystery to me. There were many hispanic customers that visited my modest bookstore; none stand out in my memory, except those I knew from past association.
  7. My interest in the JFK forum has to do with my forty-year-old questions with Richard Nagell's authenticity. I just don't know if he was the real thing; if he was, then a lot of people have been wasting much of their lives traveling wrong roads of inquiry; if he was a lunatic, then my powers of perception were and are absurdly deficient, and no man wants to admit to that. In short, I'm looking for documents that link Nagell with the CIA. I don't mean anything he wrote or said or alleged or swore to, but something the CIA wrote, said, etc. If I can find that, then I'll have a pretty good idea how it all went down, the whole bloody tragic mess. If I can satisfy myself as to Nagell's bona fides, I can settle a number of nagging ideas that lead to a somewhat deflating but singular explanation for Nov. 22, 1963. With or without that confirmation, I can submit that the greatest cover-up of the century was the pell mell rush to deny any connection to Lee Harvey Oswald. Even I, a mere peripheral bystander, have done that.
  8. After serving in the United States Army during the Korean War, Vaughn Marlowe moved to the west coast and ran a bookstore in Venice. During this period he was a supporter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC). The story of Marlowe’s relationship with Richard Case Nagell appears in Dick Russell’s book, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1992). He is currently a playwright. His produced plays include Doc Holliday and the Angel of Mercy.
  9. After serving in the United States Army during the Korean War, Vaughn Marlowe moved to the west coast and ran a bookstore in Venice. During this period he was a supporter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC). The story of Marlowe’s relationship with Richard Case Nagell appears in Dick Russell’s book, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1992). He is currently a playwright. His produced plays include Doc Holliday and the Angel of Mercy.
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