Lt. Francis Martello Fingers SCEF
From: jpshinley@my-deja.com
Date: 5/28/99 8:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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After the assassination, Lt Francis Martello of NOPD, tried to point
a suspicious finger at the three SCEF defendants, James Dobrowski,
Ben Smith and Bruce Waltzer:
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CE 3119 26 H 762-773
Secret Service Memo of 12/3/63
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SA's A.G. Vial; Anthony F. Gerrets; Roger Counts, SAIC John Rice
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Lt. [Francis] Martello said that at the time of Oswald's arrest,
he had various pamphlets in his possession and those had been kept
by Lt. Martello. He said he would turn them over to this office
if we so desired. He also stated that before being transferred to
the First District, he had been assigned to the Intelligence Division,
NOPD, for about two years and that during this time he bacame familiar
with various Communist front organizations.
He said that an address in the 1100 block of Pine St., New Orleans
seemed to be the center of activity in New Orleans for various
Communistic type front organizations. He said that a Dr. Reissmann,
a professor at Tulane University, lives at the Pine St. address where
numerous meetings were held. He said he had learned from one of his
sources that Dr. James Dombrowski had been seen on numerous occasions
at the home of Dr. Reissmann and at the home of a neighbor of Dr.
Reissmann, name unknown, who is also supposed to be a professor at
Tulane University. Dr. Reissmann, the unknown professor, and Dr.
Dombrowski were all said to be active in the integration movement
in New Orleans.
Dr. Dombrowski is said to have migrated to the United States from
Poland. In 1956 [sic; 1954] Senator Eastland held hearings in New
Orleans and during those a person named Paul Crouch allegedly
identified Dr. Dombrowski as a top member of the Communist party in
the South, along with Miles [sic; Myles] Horton, Mt. Eagle Folk School,
Mt. Eagle, Tenn. [sic; Monteagle]
Lt. Martello said he asked Oswald where meetings for members of the
Fair Play for Cuba Committee were held and Oswald had replied at
various places in New Orleans. He said he asked him if any of the
meetings were held on Pine St. and Oswald had replied in the
affirmative. He said he had asked Oswald if he was acquainted with
Dr. Reissmann and Oswald replied he was. He said he had also asked
him if he knew Dr. Dombrowski and Oswald evaded the question and never
did answer it.
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Lt. Martello said there was a group in New Orleans organized under
the name of the New Orleans Council for Peaceful Alternatives, and
that Reissmann was affiliated with this group, as were two attorneys,
Ben E. Smith and Bruce C. Waltzer, Waltzer being a law partner of Smith.
Futher, that when Dr. Dombrowski appeared before the Eastland Committee
in 1956 [1954], Bruce C. Waltzer represented Dombrowski. [actually, it
was Smith.]
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[...]
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[...] Lt. Martello said it was his information that Waltzer made
frequent trips to Mexico City, supposedly for the purpose of obtaining
the finances from the Castro government to keep the NOCPA and other
organizations favorable to the Castro government going.
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Jerry Shinley
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