Robert Surrey and the ANP
From: jpshinley@my-dejanews.com
Date: 2/24/99 8:04 AM Eastern Standard Time
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The 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)
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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:
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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.
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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)
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On the evening of November 22, 1963, Ken Elliot reported the following to the FBI in New Orleans:
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[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.
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Jerry Shinley
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