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Michael Ewing P.O. Box 218 St. Michaels, Maryland 21663

301-745-5229

July 14, 1979

Dear Harold:

Thank you for your brief note.

I just wanted to write today and let you know of some information relating to your distant relative. Willie Weisberg. Knowing of your sensitivity to this area (and of the potential for mischievous use of it by your would be detractors) I thought I would let you know of the information in question. It comes from some of our file material on Weisberg aril his organized crime colleagues which was not included in any of the Committee's published reports. Since I expect to discuss it with various people who have an interest in learning more about Willie Weisberg and his avowed wish to murder President Kennedy, I thought I would inform you of it directly; so that you won't jump to the conclusion that I am maliciously spreading information about Weisberg behind your back. As you know, I do think you have overreacted in believing as you do that any discussion of Willie Weisberg and his La Cosa Nostra associations is meant as an attack upon you in some way.

In any event, for whatever it's worth, federal organized crime files derived from the Philadelphia area establish that Weisberg was closely associating with David Yaras, the senior executioner of the Chicago Mafia, during the fall,of 1963. Yaras, the close associate of Santos Trafficante, Sam Giancana, and James Hoff a, was of course an acquaintance of Jack Ruby, and• is infamous in the annals of organized crime as a particularly inhuman torturer-executioner. (I'm enclosing a brief rundown on his career for your information). Federal files reflect that Yaras (who was also closely identified with several other associates of Jack Ruby) made various travel arrangements with his associate Willie Weisberg in late September of 1963; with Yaras and his wife socializing with Weisberg and his wife Annie during that period.

Additionally, federal files indicate that when Weisberg crudely spoke with Philadelphia Mafia leader Angelo Bruno about wanting to assassinate President Kennedy, he was speaking about a subject not entirely unknown to him; the files indicate Weisberg's familiarity or knowledge of various organized crime executions in the Pennsylvania region. (An account and analysis of the Weisberg remarks about the need to kill the President is contained in both the Committee's Final Report and supporting volume on organized crime. Additionally, our volumes contain a more detailed account of Dave Yaras's activities in a lengthy

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profile of his longtime partner Lenny Patrick, another brutal Chicago executioner and friend of Ruby. I'll send you the relevant excerpts once these reports are released if you wish).

I also wanted to write and correct you about a mistake you made in both of your recent notes. You stated that I had discussed the parole of Oswald in August of 1963 and the alleged mob association of those involved in this incident. I think you have got my conversation with you mixed up with some other recent conversation you had with another person. I did not discuss this with you, although I know it is a hot topic among various critics at the moment. In point of fact, I myself have been throwing cold water on such discussions and have been correcting various critics on what they have "heard" about it. In particular, I've been pointing out the totally erroneous reports about Nofio Pecora's alleged inVolvement in the parole; reports first printed by Oglesby in the A.I.B. newsletter and then repeated in the NBC-TV coverage a few weeks ago. Like I say, you're confusing me with someone else you've talked to; I'm in complete agreement with you about what some people are saying - inaccurately - about the Oswald jailing incident.

Lastly, I wanted to enclose one brief item I came across a couple weeks ago in regard to your continuing chastisement of those who disaUss the possibility of Oswald-Ferrie association through their respective "connections" to the small 544 Camp Street building in mid-1963. I enclose a page from your associate David Wrone's new book on your FOI work on the JFK case; a valuable book that I gather is the exclusive product of your work in this area. Recalling your association with Wrone (who I respect), and his continuing work with your files, I would tend to assume that you probably reviewed and approved his manuscript prior to publication. In any event, in reviewing your obtainment of the January 22, 1964 WC transcript, Wrone writes that Oswald's use of the 544 Camp Street address is noteworthy because he was using "the return address of a right-wing, anti-Castro organization located in a building housing. a Central Intelligence Agency office." (Underlining mine). This of course was and is news to me. I'd love to know his or your source for putting a CIA field office in the building. However much you may complain about those of us who attempt to draw some potential significance from Marcella operative Ferrie's work out of the small building during the same period in which Oswald used it for his return address,. at least there is documentary evidence supporting their respective connections (however limited) to the premises. However, I don't believe the same can be said for the Wrone claim about a CIA office being housed in the building.

But, as I have said before, we all have our biases, and some prefer chasing the CIA more than Marcello. In any event, I do hope you (and your associate) might at least acknowledge that 544 Camp Street is in fact a significant area to pursue, with at least as much cause for looking for signs of Marcella as signs of the,Agency.

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Whatever Wrone's or your sources are about the purported CIA office there, we do in fact know that at least three (and perhaps more) of the people who were working out of the Camp Street 1 -.ilding were being employed by Carlos Marcell°. And we also know that the Cuban exile (and CIA-funded) organization in the building had been expelled by the landlord in February of 1962, a year and a half before Oswald used the place as his return address.

Again, forgive me if I have sounded overly contentious.

Best wishes,

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Mike Ewing

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