On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison

Author:Jim Garrison [Garrison, Jim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: nonfiction
ISBN: 9780985765477
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2012-06-01T21:00:00+00:00

Meanwhile, relatives of Richard Case Nagell, a federal intelligence agent, had been in touch with me. They said that in mid-1963 he had discovered an operation to assassinate President Kennedy. His attempt to warn the government of this, they explained, had resulted in his being sent to the federal penitentiary for three years. He was in the process of being released and wanted to meet with me in another city. If I could not go see him, the family would visit me.

I agreed, and two members of his family flew from New York down to New Orleans to set up the meeting. Their confirmation of the story—although lacking in the background which only he could provide—was convincing. However, he refused to travel outside of New York City, where he recently had arrived following his release from federal prison. I agreed with his family to discuss the matter further the next day.

At home that night I went through the Warren Commission material. According to the hearings index, the name of Nagell had never come up. It did not seem to be in the Commission exhibits either. Nevertheless, I was curious about this unusual story and determined to find whatever I could about Nagell. If he had been close enough to the assassination planning to have learned about it in advance, I reasoned, then the federal bureaucracy would have produced a report on Nagell. Even if it had been altered to point in the wrong direction, somewhere there had to be a report.

Then, in the Commission documents, I finally stumbled across it. The F.B.I. report said, in full:

For the record he would like to say that his association with Oswald (meaning Lee Harvey Oswald) was purely social and that he had met him in Mexico City and in Texas.

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