Sovereignty Commission Files

[Thomas H. Purvis]

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Since at least june 1961, Gen Birdsong of the Mississippi Highway Patrol, was keeping an eye on the FPCC.

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1. It helps to be from the area, as well as having served in the MS National Guard, which holds Summer Camp at Camp Shelby, MS, which is just South of Hattiesburg.

"Colonel Birdsong" was also once at Camp Shelby, which has quite a history.

http://uboat.net/men/pow/recreation.htm

submitted in a report by Colonel T. B. Birdsong, Command-ing Officer of POW Camp Shelby, Mississippi, as of August 31, 1944, was as follows:

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Tom

P.S. General/Colonel T.B. Birdsong's mother was born in New Orleans, LA if that is of any help.

May be of Interest:

http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/features/featur...onersofwar.html

If one looks up "Mississippi Post" with Camp Shelby, MS, considerable information relative to the German POW Camp at Camp Shelby can be found.

In fact, Camp Shelby has quite a museum, and it is also where the NG troops sent to Iraq are going for their pre-deployment training.

[John Dolva]

Thank you Tom.. It's an interesting view. I am beginning to think you are right about it being all there...

Colonel Birdsong and George Hendricks, pilot for Mississippi Highway patrol bought guns in '62 from a source that didn't cere if 'joe blow' put his name down. This was at a KKK stronghold and the gun shop was behind his house in Selma, Alabama. 303's for sale at $20 for 5 or more. 50 were bought at the time of Ole Miss, Oxford (october 62) insurrection led by Barnett and Walker.

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...5|5|1|1|19466|A

Edited February 1, 2006 by John Dolva

[David Boylan]

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)

-

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:

-

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)

-

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.

-

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)

-

On the evening of November 22, 1963, Ken Elliot reported the

following to the FBI in New Orleans:

-

[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)

-

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. "

Edited February 1, 2006 by David Boylan

[Thomas H. Purvis]

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It would appear that the name of a person assigned by the MSC. to investigate the FPCC in 1961 was A.L. Hopkins.

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Andrew Hopkins was one of Mississippi's first Highway Patrolmen, and as such was a close friend of T.B. Birdsong.

In fact, Andrew (Andy) was the first Mississippi Law Enforcement Officer to attend the FBI Training Course when Hoover opened it up to the States to send individuals to the FBI Schooling.

And of course when Birdsong moved on and up, Andy moved with him.

Andrew Hopkins used to patrol in what is known as the Mt. Olive, MS which is north of Hattiesburg & just North of Collins, MS. on Highway 49 between Hattiesburg & Jackson.

There are still some old timer's there who claim to have known him.

An individual who married into the family (Purvis side) and was with the Highway Patrol, covered this area some years later------saved me several speeding tickets.

[Thomas H. Purvis]

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Since at least june 1961, Gen Birdsong of theMississippi Highway Patrol, was keeping an eye on the FPCC.

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Perhaps he should have been keeping a closer watch on his mother's cousin.

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P.S. General/Colonel T.B. Birdsong's mother was born in New Orleans, LA if that is of any help.

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She was born in New Orleans, but was a actually a native of Mississippi.

She was also a distant cousin to Byron De La Beckwith.

Tom

P.S. You won't find that in the Soverignty Commission Files.

[Thomas H. Purvis]

Thomas Butler Birdsong (Sr.)

Birth: 21 Aug 1859 in Preston, Webster Co., Ga Death: 9 Mar 1940 in Mississippi Burial: Clarksdale,Coahoma Co,

Marriage 1 Elizabeth Posey Purnell b: 6 Mar 1860 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Married: 22 Nov 1882 in Hazlehurst, Copiah Co, MS

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Thomas Butler (T.B.) Birdsong (Jr.)------------Director, MS Highway Patrol & MS Soverignty Commission

Thomas Butler Birdsong Jr

Thomas Butler Birdsong 31 Oct 1892* W Hazelhurst MS Coahoma MS

*Listed as 1894 in some places.

Birdsong Family Genealogy

WWI Civilian Draft Registrations

Thomas Butler Birdsong 31 Oct 1892 W Hazelhurst MS Coahoma MS

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Mother of T.B. Birdsong (Jr.) was: Elizabeth Posey Purnell. Her father was Dr. George Washington Purnell, who practiced medicine in New Orleans, and this is the reason for Elizabeth Posey Purnell having been born there.

Dr. George Washington Purnell died in New Orleans, but was buried in Mississippi.

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Byron De La Beckwith (Jr.) Birth: 9 Nov 1920 in Sacramento, Sacramento, California

Father: Byron D BECKWITH b: Abt 1885 in California

Mother: Susie Southworth YERGER b: Abt 1889 in Mississippi

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Susie Southworth YERGER b: 1888

Mother: Susie Fisher SOUTHWORTH b: 1859

Father: Lemuel Purnell YERGER b: 15 Nov 1846

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Lemuel Purnell YERGER

Father: John Kemp YERGER

Mother: Exerine Henry PURNELL

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Great grandmother of Byron De La Beckwith was Exerine Henry Purnell

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Exerine Henry Purnell, Great Grandmother of Byron De La Beckwith, and Elizabeth Posey Purnell, Mother of TB Birdsong, were distant cousins.

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Beckwith/Yerger Family

[John Dolva]

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents/er/sovcom/

the Mississippi Sovereignty Commisssion files site here has just updated their site and introduced a searchable photo section

[John Dolva]

Sovereignty Commission Online

http://mdah.state.ms.us/bugle/sovcom/

The names of persons are derived from documents, and therefore are often nicknames, misspellings etc, so for easier searches using the first few letters in a name plus known aka's and intitials yield more results.

The ''folder search'' (for example ''Tocsin'') yields results, as does a perusal by first letter.

Also by iterating the docs per cd's URL's yields results.

[John Bevilaqua]

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)

-

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:

-

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)

-

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.

-

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)

-

On the evening of November 22, 1963, Ken Elliot reported the

following to the FBI in New Orleans:

-

[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)

-

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. "

Wow, this is one very important find, Dave. Billy James Hargis from Willoughby's Anti-Communist Liaison Committee of Correspondence and Robert J. Morris

who was Chief Counsel for the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, plus Joseph A. Milteer and Edwin A. Walker all rolled into one ball of wax.

Remember it was The Constitution Party or The Constitutional Party of the USA which met in Wichita, Kansas in both 1963 and 1965 according to Epstein and Forster at the Town & Country Hotel (was it?) and that meeting was theoretically tied into the Winnipeg Airport Incident as a hypothesis for the payoff meeting discussed there.

And Wesley Swift was once the personal bodyguard of Rev. Gerald L K Smith from The Christian Defense League where both were members. Plus GLK Smith was

postulated by me, as an attendee at the Winnipeg Airport Incident, too, as a dead ringer for the person Giesbrecht mis-identified as David Ferrie.

And yet another reference to Guy Banister, whom I believe ran the satellite office for the MissSovComm out of New Orleans. Banister applied for that job in a letter posted by Dave Boylan earlier this year.

And the reference to "the Patriot Organizations over the country" is in synch with the Milteer statement "...the Patriots are in the clear on this, it will be blamed on the Communist group..." and the Dick Russell informant statement: "EVEN PATRIOTS CAN NOT TAKE THE LAW INTO THEIR OWN HANDS."

These White Christian KKK Patriots did the deed and they were paid by Wickliffe Preston Draper himself.

End of story.

[John Bevilaqua]

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)

-

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:

-

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)

-

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.

-

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)

-

On the evening of November 22, 1963, Ken Elliot reported the

following to the FBI in New Orleans:

-

[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)

-

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. "

Here are some article clips from the Robert Morris file... most relate to anti-MLK articles.

MORRIS, ROBERT - [1-85-0-5-1-1-1]

MORRIS, ROBERT - [1-85-0-9-1-1-1]

MORRIS, ROBERT - [1-85-0-70-11-1-1]

MORRIS, ROBERT - [1-86-0-9-1-1-1]

MORRIS, ROBERT - [3-16A-2-76-2-1-1]

MORRIS, ROBERT - [6-0-0-27-5-1-1]

MORRIS, ROBERT - [13-59-0-53-2-1-1]

[John Dolva]

You, I, and others have incependently found data amongst these files, and the inferences as you sum up are clear, though I see Drapers direct connections as merely inferrable. The money that he gave, less so.

I found the Banister docs and mentioned them on the forum a couple of years ago, further research shows a connection to the head of the Louisiana Commission, appearing to be the guiding force behind the councils, ( with perhaps the MSC being the propaganda dissemination arm, and Alabama the armed wing. ) being the person behind the Banister ''promotion'' into the MSC.

[John Dolva]

The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States' Rights

By Yasuhiro Katagiri : (page148 on might be interesting) ;

http://books.google....n%20fbi&f=false

edit:add backtrack from there paying attention to Barnett and Johnson.

edit typo

Edited July 5, 2010 by John Dolva

[John Dolva]

Kennedy was complicit in ''burying'' the ole' miss insurrection. Maintaining a Union while fighting the enemy of the system he was the leader of necessitated a to be seen to clear up things at home while being a dove in relation to winning the hearts of people. This is a fundamental mistake. I don''t think Kennedy was a bad man. He undrestood that agrarian reform in all its allied spheres was the key. However, this would expose the fundamental flaw of a profit driven society. Who owns what and who creates it. I think calling Kennedy a ''commie'' may not be so crazy at all. However you cannot be a commie and be a president of the USofA.

It's about holding the reigns.

It always has been but it does not have to always be so.

[John Dolva]

One thing about the MSC is the voluminous details they kept on any CORE and its contact, anyone who appeared to have anything to do with desegredation activities. If the Jackson Louisiana event occurred it is most telling that there is no reference to it in the MSC files as available. Has the Louisiana Sovereignty Files been released yet and if so do they also redact this event from history?

[John Dolva]

Rebel Undergorund :

MSC Oxford file