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templated” making contact with Oswald prior to the assassi- nation. Further FOI releases show that the CIA did make contact with him. in police custody; David Ferrie (CIA operative and hypnotist, under whom Oswald had served in a Civil Air Patrol (CAP) group in 1956) died while under independent JFK murder in- vestigation by New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison. Testimony before the Commission shows that Ferrie and Oswald had discussed an assassination attempt in which diversionary tactics were to be used, in Ferrie’s apartment in the sum- mer of 1963. Perry Russo told a grand jury (and, under sodium pen- tothal, Jim Garrison) that Ferrie had said “there would haveto bea minimum of three people involved. Two of the persons would shoot diversionary shots and the third ... shoot the “good’ shot.” Ferrie said one would have to be a scapegoat who would give the other two time to escape Ferrie confided to one of his CAP cadets that he was training five-member small-weapons units in “guerrilla war- fare tactics under the auspices of the US Marines for action in Cuba.” Ferrie worked for W. Guy Bannister, right wing front- man, who also employed Oswald to infiltrate left wing pro- Castro groups. The day before he died, Ferrie was subpoenaed by Jim Garrison. That evening he told George Lardner of the Wash- ington Post: “A President is no better than anyone else... If I were killed, I’d expect my death to be investigated just as thor- oughly.” Forensic pathologists concluded he may have been killed by a blow to the base of the skull some time during the next seven hours; he was found in bed with a sheet pulled over his face, The suicide note was left on the dining room table. June 7, 1964: Jack Ruby was questioned in jail in Dallas, Texas, by Earl Warren and Gerald Ford. Ruby repeatedly asked for a lie- detector test or sodium pentothal to prove his honesty before the Warren Commission. He asked that the Sherriff and law enforcement personnel leave the room and said to Justice Warren, “I would like to see you in private.” Warren replied, “You may do that when you finish your story. You may tell me that phase of it.” Ruby said, “Gentlemen, my life is in danger here. Not with my guilty plea of execution...” A fter attempting in vain to gain access to Justice Warren alone, he continued: “I wish that our beloved President, Lyndon Johnson, would have delved deeper into the situ- ation, hear me, not to accept just circumstantial facts about my guilt or innocence, and would have questioned to find out the truth about me before he relinquished certain powers to these certain people... Consequently, a whole new form of govern- ment is going to takeover our country, and1know1 won’tlive to see you another time. Do I sound sort of screwy in telling you these things?” “No,” Warren answered, “I think that is what you believe or you wouldn’t tell it under oath.” “But it isa very serious situation,” said Ruby. “T guess it is too late to stop it, isn’t it? Now maybe something can be saved. It may not be too late, whatever happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me... But if I am elimi- nated, there won’t be any way of knowing. “Right now, when I leave your presence now, 1am the only one that can bring out the truth to our President ... but he has been told, | am certain, that I was part of a plot to assassinate the President. 1 know your hands are tied; you are helpless... But in all fairness to everyone, maybeallI want to dois beg that if they found out I was telling the truth, maybe they can succeed in what their motivesare, but maybe my people won't be tortured and mutilated...” An aide in the room asked, “Who do you think is going to eliminate you, Jack?” “Thave been used fora purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrance happening if you don’t take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don’t suffer because of what | have done...” Ruby’s subsequent polygraph test proved inconclusive due to high stress levels. 1965: Dorothy Kilgallen, syndicated columnist, gained the only major interview with Ruby in his Dallas cell. She told friends that Ruby’s evidence would “blow the JFK case sky high.” A few days later she died of a massive barbiturate and alcohol overdose. Her apartment had been ransacked and her Ruby transcripts were missing. Early 1967: Jack Ruby, claiming he js being poisoned in jail, is diagnosed as having cancer. However, he dies a few weeks later, not of cancer, but a ‘stroke’ similar to that which killed David Ferrie. Te | CIA Lies to Warren Commission Jack Ruby’s Testimony