In his early 1990s book, First Hand Knowledge: How I Participated In The CIA-Mafia Murder Of President Kennedy, former CIA operative Robert Morrow stated that on July 1, 1963 he was told to purchase four Mannlicher rifles in Baltimore by a CIA official named Tracy Barnes and, on July 15, 1963, Barnes instructed him to hand "the very weapons responsible for the death of the President of the United States [on November 22, 1963]" over to David Ferrie during the first week of August 1963. The then-45-year-old Ferrie was apparently a well-educated, highly-skilled right-wing political fanatic in August 1963. As volume 10 of the March 1979 Report of the House Select Committee on Assassinations revealed:
"Ferrie was born in 1918 in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of James Howard Ferrie, a police captain...Several of Ferrie's associates indicate he was...a misogynist...In 1941, he received a bachelor of arts degree from Baldwin-Wallace College, majoring in philosophy. He also received through a correspondence course, a doctorate degree in psychology from...Phoenix University, Bari, Italy. In August 1957, he traveled to Italy to take the final board exams...
"Ferrie...was rabidly anti-Communist...and frequently critical of each presidential administration for what he perceived to be sell-outs to communism.
"Ferrie often spoke to business and civic groups about politics...
"Ferrie was asked to discontinue his remarks in July 1961 before the New Orleans chapter of the Military Order of World Wars. His topic was the presidential administration and the Bay of Pigs fiasco. The organization put a stop to Ferrie's remarks when he became too critical of President Kennedy...
"Ferrie's major avocation and occupation was flying...He took lessons at Sky Tech Airway Service in Cleveland, Ohio between 1942 and 1945. He then worked asa a pilot for an oil drilling firm which had jobs in South America...
"In 1950, Ferrie...joined the Army Reserve for a three-year stint, leaving with an honorable discharge in 1953...In 1951...Eastern Airlines hired him in Miami and soon transferred him to New Orleans.
"Ferrie had always been engrossed in activities related to flying, including the Civil Air Patrol...
"Ferrie's job and ownership of an airplane enabled him to travel around the country with relative ease. He told officials he frequently traveled to Texas and other parts of the South, including Miami...
""Ferrie's vacation in April 1961 coincides with the Bay of Pigs invasion...
"Ferrie's account of his travels between November 22 and November 25 [1963] contains some contradictions...
"Ferrie later admitted that after the Bay of Pigs invasion, he severly criticized President John F. Kennedy, both in public and in private. He said he had also been critical of any President riding in an open car and had made the statement that anyone could hide in the bushes and shoot a president..."
(Downtown 9/1/93)
Did CIA Violate 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act In 1993?
In August 1993, Assassination Archives and Research Center [AARC] President James Lesar and other AARC researchers "accused the CIA of [at that time] withholding more than 160,000 pages of assassination documents in spite of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, which called for the disclosure of virtually all of the government's files relevant to the investigation." (Syracuse Post-Standard 8/24/93)
The New York Times (8/24/93) also noted in the early 1990s that many of the JFK Assassination documents released by the National Archives in Washington in August 1993 just "consisted of newspaper clippings stamped secretly by the CIA and multiple copies of the same report from different files" and "researchers noted the continuing classification of files on a CIA plan code-named ZR Rifle, which contemplated the assassination of foreign leaders."
AARC research co-ordinator Jonathan Myers also "said one withheld series of documents marked `top secret' apparently deals with the CIA's connections with organized crime in covert operations against Castro." (Syracuse Post-Standard 8/24/93)
(Downtown 9/15/93)
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