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Memorandum 89-69 entitled,

TO : SAC (Assassination of President John Fitzgerald DATE: December 1041971 Kennedy,Dallas,Texas,11/22/63,Miscellaneous-Information Concerning).

FROM : Jean B. Hearn, Clerk

SUBJECT: Lt. RAYMOND COMSTOCK Information concerning

IT IS NOTED BY THE WRITER THAT RAYMOND COMSTOCK SERVED AS INVESTIGATOR IN THE OFFICE OF District Attorney JIM GARRISON, beginning May, 1962.

The following is a summary of the pertinent details found in tbs. New Orleans Office files re. subject, Lt. RAYMOND COMSTOCK, NW. Orleans Police Department.

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80-267-1376. Is clipping from THE TIMES PICAYUNE, New Orleans, dated 5/6/62, entitled, "EIGHT POLICEMEN GET NEW POSTS." (Xerox copy follows.)

100-16601 (Bufile /105-82555) (002Dallas file /100-10461). Is file entitledN "LEE HARM OSWALD,

aka., LS-R-CUBA.' 100-16601-98 page #196. Is report SA WARREN C. DE BRUEIS, Dallas, dated

12/2/63, entitled,"LEE HARVEY OSWAD),aka.,L.H. Oswald, Lee Oswald, Lee H. Oswald, Leslie Oswald, A. Ridell, Ridell, Lick J. Hidell, Alek James Hidell, 0. H. Lee, IS-R-CUBA." Contact with former `neighbors, employers, co-employees of subject OSWALD set forth in report. rage 11196, is CC FD-302, RAYMOND COMSTOCK, on 11/27/63 at New Orleans, La.,

by SA REGIS L. KENNEDY. (Xerox copy follows).

89-69-742. Is original copy of FD -302, RAYMOND 0)MSTOCK on 11/27/63 at New Orleans, La., by Si REGIS L. LEMMA. (Xerox copy follows).

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Eight Policemen Get New Posts

Police Supt. 4,,seph I. Gha-t-G..0 ha• t-ir•ferred elzht Nevu Orleans police patrolmen to the ell - • rIt : sttorney's wi-nce. elf-elite Sunda.. • At the same lime faarrosais

htutouncect the transfer of six officers from the Dt's office fa other assIznments. • . Ponce transferred ti serve In the office of D ti 411-‘1;arri-/WA are: Creorze\;:eLert.klrorn Third Da•trIct ; (,nut.11,1%.-(m. I 1 Tips: DistteLi: l'rilt:cric rr-\ I. illIsmA, front First Dis- trict: Jw.t ph r. Giardina, from First District. WilJiam 1:, h, from harecties dttIsion he.. ',varier.; II-0. mon., stock, Irma start our, do ion headquarter.: Thorn•-o, Dulf3s i [men narcotics dish . in rad- \ qtia.rters, and Clem Niederls Meier. I r • on bead anent clrataieur.

Those transferred from the *Mrs loclu4rd Det.....d.nl-C tta, to detertVe bureau: Sgt. Arth.t.knntg. ta • ervicea driwrInicar: Sit. Charle. \;:ueldner. I. Third 1-11,1r14.t • 1-7 LT-77:712 to 141 tbd4uarrr-.: Pm. lamar4 Frr4 -n. to sth rjr;:t Het and Ftn. I ..-11, r••ll ILaf to bead- quarters 11...t. s de tii0a.. Several tzlirr-rrrrf:lop trans-fer t *err also announced by

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rn-sol I-15411) DERAL. BUREAU OF INVESTIGAT() AYMOND CCKSTOCK (continued).

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RAYMOND COMSTOCK, Investigator, District Attorney's Office, advised that DEAN ANDREWS, attorney-tt-lsw, had contacted him, attempting to identify CLAY BERTM1YD. COMSTOCK advised he was familiar with a number of homosenals in the New Orleans French Quarter but has - been'unable in identify this individual. •

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89-69 (Bufile 162-109060) (00:Dallaa file #89-43). Is file entitled as follame• 89-69-2076. Is CC airtel to the Director from New Orleans, dated 5/6/67, au- titled, "ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN Fin :MALI) KENNEDY, DALLAS, TEXAS, November 22, 1963, Miscellaneous Inforamdlon Concerning.* Reflects following information.

'Re New Orleans letter to the Director, March 11,1964, and March 21, 1964, in the case entitled,'CARLOS MARCELLO,Aka.;JOSEPH MA10EILO; FAG -CONSPIRACY;PERJURY, Bufile: 46-42600,New Orleans file h6-1731.' PRAYMoND COMSTOCK, Patrolman, New Orleans Police Department, on 5/5/67, requested that the material found in the possession of DAVID FERRIS, copies of which COMSTOCK made available to SA REGIS L. KENNEDY, be returned. "Mr. COMSTOCK advised that he is attempting to locate this material for LOUIS IVON, Investigator for District Attorney JIM GARRISON. Mr. COMSTOCK was advised that a check would have to be made to see if this material was still available. It is noted that copies are available in the Office of the USA, MLA. • *Bureau is requested to advise if the copies of Qs material made available by Mr. COMSTOCK :should be returned to him."

80-267-2513 Is clipping from STATES ITEM,New Orleans, dated 5/2/68 entitled, "ON THE POLICE BEAT 'EYE' WAS Kum SUSPECT NABBED.* By:Jack Dempsey. (Xerox copy follows).

76-3600 (00:Dallas file #76-4261). . TI 'd file entitled, Mint b7C '.q -,. aka.-Fik..° 76-3600-12. Is CC letter to Mr. JOSE• . IARRUSSO,Swerintendent of Police, NOPD, dated 2/5/69., (Xerox copy follows.) from the New Orleans Office.

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By JACK DEMPSEY Leave it to William Gurvich, veteran private eye, to be, as they say in the police vernacular, "where the action is- CurNich who heads a detective agency, was in Baton Rouge last week for the annual Louisiana Peace Officers Association convention, and nabbed a suspect in a theft case. He aided Baton Rouge officers in arresting a 46-year- old woman who was subsequently booked r for theft of antiques from Nell Fetus's Interiors, 342 Lafayette, in the state capital.

Gurvich said he became suspicious of the woman when he first saw her in a drug store shortly before the report of -the theft became known. * He noticed that the woman appeared quite nervous and he got the feeling she was "casing the place.- After he left the store he went for a ride 10th Lafourche Parish Sheriff Eddie Ste. Marie and Baton Rouge police officers L D. An-drepont and Eduard Pierce.

Then they received the description of a woman wanted for the antique theft, and Gurvich realized the description fit the woman he had seen in the drug store a short while earlier. Her arrest quickly followed. The arresting officers found two of the antiques allegedly stolen in the woman's purse a minature owl and a miniature set of dice. SHORT SHOTS: Pretty Claire Olsen. one of the "ring-ing belles" of the police department showed her high heels to the rest of her male colleagues in the recent depart-inert-wide examinaLon for the rank of Lieutenant, scoring the highest grade in the testirtg • the winsome police gal is an identification spec! ist, shooting crime photos and dusting for fingerprints . . the nest 24 in line for pro-niotion to Lieutenant are E

n L Perrot. Roland Fp. n:er. CYril Laga. 1.irran. -to.?.er b:con, L_Ect!1-,114 01111)LmelCE:7;---1Th;'.1ing Lay.r->nr--;—Hand. J3;Ne .nap Jour Cos- tello, J n—T iii. rely Cr-tries T,-rd :;4.1.-tri 1.;*-711 erne;; .Lehi Line and 11Q. ert Lfuli . :.ase been made for the dedica- tion of the new po' -e Adinirustratinn Building which be- kins at 9,-, l3 a. miThursday . two judge's got a real clo.!..-un look at th current crime fitualien recently. Judge F-dAarti A. flagierly jr. lost a suit and a turtle neck vorvocrlta a sneak thief who broke into his amminatile

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at Common and Bayonne April 13, and two daysbter soak-on; kriccr open the trunk of .t.fderal Jud_gejarity. Wissitan's car. which was ari.el in front of his anace. and

'3TT7::-T7= - .re7-t:la a . . . Firiaic:iter. Jae -biliari is now pririiri2, ' 1'!.e I-oar-Eleven." official publication of the Po liceland Firemen's Holy Name Society . . . did you kr)* that the average citizen's chance of becoming a victiin of some t■ pe of crir.-.e has increased by 14 per cent dur-ing the past 10 months in the U.S.? . . . I like the catchy slogan of the current Lock-Up-Your-Car drive ... "If You Become Care!ess. You May Become Carless!" How true . . . the oldast criminal district court minute deck, Alton Hurnphry, huddled with the oldest practicing attorney is the state (maybe the nation), 93-year-old Arthur Landry, on Law Day Coincidentally It was Alton's late Lather who defeated the then incumbent Judge Landry ir the post back in 1920.

. . • 7 * * * POE ICEMAN-SCHOLAR-AUTHOR: Pin. Irvis L. Magri Jr., a senior at Loyola University in the police department-sponsored Criminology course, has completed writing the book he's been worknig on for the past two years. It will be published soon and will bear tine title: "Major Problems of the American Police." Some of his chapter titles are quite topical. sucn as: -.Organized Revolt—Rioting," "Recent Supreme Court Decisions." "Narcotics Addiction." "Civir-ian Review Beards, Pro and Cor.," "Juvenile Deiinquency," "Offense Against Persons." and "A Possible Solution To The Crime Problem in the U.S." Author Magri cites from actual crime cases locally and has utilized chapings from the States-Item and The Times-Picayune. * * * BADGES OF THE WEEK: Pin. William Itteke*F-41,adt Plii!-ltiaral David made back-to-back captures of burglary susp.c.as on Thursday and Friday. On Thursday they cap-tured two suspects a short while after they allegedly broke into a Lake Vista residence, shot and wounded a maid in the house. On Friday they nabbed two suspects in posses-

'ion of apprt.imately $1200 in jewelry and wearing ap-parel which :hey allegedly stole in a•Gentilly area break-in . . Pia. William Boyer of Traffic teamed tap with Phi. Andrew PrIlev-in Jr. recently to effect the arrest of three Negroes shortly after they allegedly robbed a foonc.e com-pany of 1270.

* * KO M1OKE — NO FIRE: Understand tine was a fire drill a: uie Postallice [Le other day. One at the postal employes h: lest sat dowa to ea: arid did rot Set up with the others who fi;ed out a: the building. They /hided him *boat his rron;retemps but he was unyielding. wasn't abifflirttirkavt this cents heck Besides 1 amolie." Pacit nt memo Anti t.1 eri . 11R incur) nows'rocK:s..

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T-7013 Federal Building 701 Loyola Avenue

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Yr. Joseph I. Giarrusso Superintendent of Police New Orleans Police Department New Orleans, Louisiana 70119

Dear Superintendent Giarrusso:

I have been informed by Ageots of this office that during the eveninl of January 27, 1969\ and the early morning hours of January 26, 19C9, Lt. naymond Comstock aided FBI Agents of the New Orleans Office in thetpprehension ofeng brit. A Federal fugitive. .

Lt. Cor,stock was working in cooperation with Special Agent Richard L. Sloan of this office durirT the evening of January 27, 1.33. T.e t.-:3 r.-.T1 wore vorkic on a matter of mutual interest concerninAMMIIIIIMMIMIP a federal escapee, who had been sentenced at New Orleans, Louisiana, for a bank robbery. It was during this time that Agent Sloan and Lt. Comstock were contacted by another Agent of this office who requested assistance in the apprehension of CHNI. The investigation with reference to extended into the morning hours of January 28, Comstock unselfishly accompanied Agent Sloan during the period of timill1111pas being sought.

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was apprehended at approximately 5:30 a.m., wary , 1969, acd it was in no small measure through the devotion to duty and manner in which Lt. Comstock unhesitantly accompanied my Agents through the course of their investigation.

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As you know, it is through the alertness, dedication and ability of such officers as Lt. Raymond Comstock that such criminals are brought to justice, and the aims, as well as the objectives of both our agencies are met.

I wish to take this opportunity to congratulate you and your department, and to thank Lt. Comstock for the excellent cooperation afforded this Bureau.

Very truly yours,

R. R. RIGHTWER Special Agent in Chariot

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