The President's Commission reconvened at 2:45 p.m.
(The Chairman and Mr. Dulles being present.)
The CHAIRMAN. The Commission will be in order. You may proceed.
Mr. JENNER. Thank you. Mr. Chief Justice.
Whereupon, Bernard Weissman was recalled as a witness and having been
previously duly sworn, testified further as follows:
Mr. JENNER. Mr. Chief Justice, during the luncheon hour Mr. Weissman
has afforded us an opportunity to examine some of this correspondence,
to which he made reference this morning. I have selected a few of these
pieces of correspondence as rounding out the genesis of CUSA and its
affiliate, AMBUS, and the infiltration of the rightist organizations in
Dallas that the witness described.
I will identify these without reading from them, as some of them are
rather lengthy.
The CHAIRMAN. Very well.
Mr. JENNER. First, Mr. Weissman, I have a letter on the letterhead
of National Indignation Convention, the top of which has scrawled in
ink longhand "Top Secret." It is a five-page longhand letter. At the
bottom of each is written the word "Destroy." I have marked an envelope
postmarked Dallas, Tex., on November 5, 1962 as Commission Exhibit No.
1048, the first exhibit being identified as Commission Exhibit No. 1047.
(The documents referred to were marked respectively Commission Exhibits
Nos. 1047 and 1048 for identification.)
Mr. JENNER. The envelope is addressed to SP-4 Larry Jones, APO Station
407, New York, N.Y.
Mr. WEISSMAN. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Do you recognize the handwriting on the envelope?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Yes; that is Larrie's.
Mr. JENNER. And the Larry Jones is the man to whom you made reference
in your testimony?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. The document Commission Exhibit No. 1047, do you recognize
that handwriting?
Mr. WEISSMAN. It appears to be Larrie's.
Mr. JENNER. Do you recognize it?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And was document Commission Exhibit No. 1047, enclosed in
the envelope marked Commission Exhibit No. 1048?
Mr. DULLES. Is there any signature on those documents?
Mr. WEISSMAN. This page should be last.
Mr. JENNER. On the page which is marked with a circle 7, there appears
to be a signature L-a-r-r-i-e. Do you recognize that signature?
Mr. WEISSMAN. That is Larrie Schmidt's signature.
Mr. JENNER. How did you come into possession of the documents now
identified, one of which was addressed to Larry Jones rather than you?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Larry Jones gave it to me.
Mr. JENNER. Where?
Mr. WEISSMAN. In Munich, Germany.
Mr. JENNER. And when he handed the document to you was Exhibit No. 1047
enclosed in Exhibit No. 1048?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Next is a three-page letter dated Dallas, Tex., January 4,
1963, typewritten, addressed to "Dear Bernie." Is that you?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Marked as Commission Exhibit No. 1040.
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 1040 for
identification.)