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The House Select Committee On Assassinations (HSCA) was called to session to review, and in some cases investigate, what the Warren Commission (WC) did and didn’t do in regards to the John F. Kennedy (JFK) assassination.
One of the key groups involved in the WC’s “investigation” was the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). We have seen previously in this series testimony from one member of the FBI in the form of James H. Gale. Now it is time to look at another key member of the FBI and his involvement in the investigation.
The HSCA Says … James R. Malley.
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James R. Malley was an inspector in the General Investigative Division of the FBI at the time of the assassination of JFK.
Mr. McDONALD. What was your position in November 1963?
Mr. MALLEY. I had been designated as inspector at the time and was working as an assistant or No. 1 man, you might say, to Assistant Director Alex Rosen, in charge of the General Investigative Division.
Mr. McDONALD. What did your duties entail?
Mr. MALLEY. My actual duties were very broad. I was supposed to try to keep track of everything going on in the General Investigative Division, handle routine matters I did not feel was necessary to send into the Assistant Director, also see all mail that was going to him and, in general, to double check on things that were going on in four different sections in the Bureau's General Investigative Division.
Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Malley, let me direct your attention to November 22, 1963. You were employed then as the inspector for Mr. Rosen?
Mr. MALLEY. That is right.
Mr. McDONALD. That was a Friday. Were you working that day?
Mr. MALLEY. I was working that day.
This testimony shows that on November 22, 1963, Mr. Malley was on duty and was part of the General Investigative Division of the FBI. He will the testify to something many WC defenders have denied for many years regarding the jurisdiction of the FBI.
Mr. MCDONALD. And what did you do in an official capacity?
Mr. MALLEY. Before I had any opportunities to do anything, and I can't recall the exact time, I was contacted by Associate Director Al Belmont…Mr. Belmont was in the same position that everyone else was in. He knew, I knew, that we had no actual jurisdiction. He did indicate to me that he had been in touch with Mr. Shanklin, who was the Special Agent in charge of Dallas, and that he would be back in touch with me as soon as there was more definite information available. That was about it for the time being.
Later in the day, and I presume it must have been close to 3 o'clock, I was either told be telephone or asked to come down to Belmont's office, I cannot recall which, at which time he informed me that the General Investigative Division would be handling the assassination case of President Kennedy.
Following that, and still not having many details to go on, I started lining up personnel that would be available on a round-the clock basis to handle whatever might develop.
Mr. McDONALD. Were you given any specific instructions as to what your role would be?
Mr. MALLEY. Not at that time.
This is just another official source who confirmed that the FBI did NOT have jurisdiction for the murder of JFK on November 22, 1963 (i.e. WCR, J. Edgar Hoover, etc…). Why do WC defenders continue to claim that the FBI did have jurisdiction and that they had the right to take the evidence from the Dallas Police Department (DPD) in the early hours of November 23, 1963?
Mr. Malley again says that the issue of the jurisdiction limited his actions in the afternoon and evening of the day of the assassination.
Mr. McDONALD. What were the next set of instructions you received on Friday afternoon?
Mr. MALLEY. I don't recall that I received any instructions on that particular afternoon. In reading this statement, Mr. Blakey has mentioned that there was a lot of confusion. There was. Because up until around 7 o'clock, if my memory is correct, there was a definite uncertainty as to what jurisdiction the Bureau had.
As I understand it, Belmont had instructed the Dallas office to be certain that they stayed in a position where they would know exactly what was going on and what the Dallas police were doing so that possibly nothing would be interfered with in the way of evidence and nothing lost.
Mr. Malley states that as of 7 p.m. his group had done basically nothing because of “uncertainty as to what jurisdiction the Bureau” had. I am not sure what was causing this uncertainty as the law was pretty clear in 1963 as to who had jurisdiction. The killing of a president was not covered by any federal law, thus, the jurisdiction was strictly with the state of Texas and the city of Dallas.
Notice the concern that Alan Belmont had regarding the evidence in terms of nothing interfering with its validity, but that is exactly what happened when the FBI illegally seized it in the early hours of November 23, 1963.
Mr. Malley wouldn’t travel to Dallas until November 24, 1963, after Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) was already shot dead by Jack Ruby. Notice what he was ordered to do soon after arriving in Dallas.
Mr. MCDONALD. Did you receive any instructions when you got to Dallas?
Mr. MALLEY. I did. As I recall, I arrived in the Dallas office somewhere near 8 o'clock, possibly a little later, and was immediately told to get in touch with Mr. Belmont, which I did. Mr. Belmont informed me that the Director had been in touch with President Johnson, that the President was very upset about the number of comments being made by certain individuals in Dallas, mainly the district attorney, the chief of police, and the sheriffs office. He requested that I contact each one of them and see if I couldn't put a stop to miscellaneous statements they were making relating to the assassination and what investigation was going on.
Mr. MCDONALD. Did Mr. Belmont relate to you anything specific as far as what President Johnson wished to have told to these individuals?
Mr. MALLEY. To the best of my recollection, it was simply a statement that the President was extremely unhappy and desired that the individuals be requested to stop talking about the assassination.
Mr. MCDONALD. And did you in fact relay those instructions?
Mr. MALLEY. As soon as I was able to contact each one of them by telephone I did so. I was unable to reach the District Attorney for some time because about 2 minutes before an agent tried to reach him in his office, he had left to appear on television, and again for some time related different things that he felt were important to the assassination.
So let me get this straight. The President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ), has it relayed to Mr. Malley to tell the people with the jurisdiction in the murder of JFK to shut up about it. That seems normal, right?
Special Agent Gordon Shanklin was the agent in Dallas working with the Dallas Police Department (DPD), but Mr. Malley was in overall charge and was tasked with overseeing the FBI’s activities as well as looking out for the FBI’s “interests”.
He spoke with DPD Chief Jesse Curry and Sheriff Bill Decker about the president’s request, and they were both amenable to this. District Attorney Henry Wade was another story. He had been a FBI agent before, and now he was the District Attorney so he felt he knew what he could say or not say.
This statement by Mr. Malley is very interesting.
Mr. MCDONALD. Prior to your going to Dallas, what was your perspective as to the case itself.
Mr. MALLEY. I hadn't formed any ideas of any kind. The President had been shot on Friday; Oswald was shot on Sunday; it was much too early to form any ideas.
Obviously he had not spoken with his Director, J. Edgar Hoover (JEH), because he had the case solved by Sunday night. It was Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) and only LHO who was involved.
The memorandum that JEH sent to Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach on November 24, 1963, in which he wrote that they needed to convince the public that LHO “was the real assassin” was brought to Mr. Malley’s attention at this point to illustrate that his director had already reached a conclusion just two days after the assassination. He simply dodged this by saying nothing could be determined from one sentence.
Another memorandum was cited next. It was sent by Mr. Evans to Mr. Belmont on November 26, 1963, just FOUR days after the assassination. In this memorandum it states, "From the facts disclosed in our investigation, there is no question that we can submit in our report convincing evidence, beyond any doubt, showing Oswald was the man who killed President Kennedy."
When Mr. Evans stated that an investigation of this kind cannot be decided in a week’s time JEH wrote that they “had the basic facts now” as in November 26. Just four days after the assassination! Let’s look at Mr. Malley’s response to this information.
Mr. MALLEY. I don't recall that I was asked by anyone how long it was going to take. If I had been I would have told them I had no idea because of the magnitude of what needed to be done in Dallas alone, not counting anything that might go on elsewhere. The volume of work was such that no one could estimate the time.
If I recall correctly, it was either Tuesday or Wednesday following the assassination that I was asked if we had sufficient personnel, and I requested that 40 more agents along with clerical help, stenographic help, be sent into Dallas to assist those who were already there. So certainly I did not feel it was going to be completed within any week.
Mr. McDONALD. You were asking for additional agent personnel, and as reflected in these memos, at the top level, at least there was an opinion being formed that the case essentially was wrapped up.
Mr. MALLEY. I won't agree with you because I don't know what they were doing in Washington. I know where I was and I know what had been done, and I think you may be interpreting remarks about wanting to get something out to the public to let them know what had been developed up to that time as a misinterpretation of what the Bureau intended to do later.
Please. The HSCA cited three reports showing that the top level of the FBI, i.e. JEH, was saying that the case was wrapped up in a matter of days.
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But Mr. Malley is claiming to not know anything about it? He was asked about investigating the possibility of a conspiracy.
Mr. MCDONALD. When you were in Dallas, Mr. Malley, was active consideration being given to investigating the possibility of a conspiracy?
Mr. MALLEY. That existed from the minute it happened. I can't say that I saw a memorandum to this effect or a memorandum to that effect or a telephone call, but I do know that it was on everybody's mind, was there somebody else involved. It was an essential part of the investigation to find out.
So the idea of conspiracy was on everyone’s mind according to him. It was an essential part of the investigation he said, but how much time was committed to the idea? Furthermore, JEH was the ruler of the FBI, but we are being asked to believe that despite his pronouncements that LHO acted alone he allowed an in depth investigation into the idea of a conspiracy. Sure.
Mr. Malley used the passage of time as a means of circumvention in this matter. He just couldn’t remember. He was the “No. 1 man” in the General Investigative Division, and he finally informs the HSCA that he was the liaison man to the WC. We also learn that he was the top man in regards to the investigation of the assassination.
Mr. MCDONALD. Which person was primarily responsible at the top to begin with?
Mr. MALLEY. Well, because of what happened when I got back from Dallas I would say that I had to be.
What happened upon his return from Dallas was his assignment as liaison to the WC. Here is what he did in this role.
Mr. MCDONALD. What duties were you to do? What were your duties going to be?
Mr. MALLEY. Well, very generally, I was to handle all contacts by telephone or in person with the Warren Commission. I was also to see that every piece of mail that went to the Warren Commission was personally delivered and in that respect I was not only liaison but I was the mailman, and I had specific instructions that nothing was to go to the Warren Commission that I hadn't seen and reviewed thoroughly.
So he read and reviewed everything that went to the WC. Keep in mind too that he was not appointed to this position until December 12, 1963, and by then the FBI Summary Report finding LHO to be solely responsible for the murder of JFK, J.D. Tippit (JDT) and the wounding of Governor John B. Connally (JBC) had been completed.
Mr. MCDONALD. Now, prior to December 12, the Bureau released its report on the assassination?
Mr. MALLEY. Yes, sir.
Mr. MCDONALD. Did you play a role in the preparation of that report?
Mr. MALLEY. In that report I have to say no…
This shows that his two memorandums on his involvement in the investigation were ignored and not part of the “LHO did it all alone” conclusion that JEH came to within days of the assassination. So in essence his supposed open mind regarding a conspiracy was worthless because the top level of the FBI wasn’t interested in that line of thought. Ditto LBJ.
Look at this nugget.
Mr. MCDONALD. Prior to the creation of the Commission, the Bureau was handling the case on its own. The directives were coming out from Washington or Dallas, or wherever, to cover leads. Did this change after the Warren Commission was established?
Mr. MALLEY. Not for quite a long, long time. After the Warren Commission had had an opportunity to review the large number of reports that had been sent to them, they eventually started asking a few questions and in many instances, their questions were answered by saying, if you will look at the report of so and so on a certain page, the information is there and you haven't located it yet. In a few instances, they sent us letters or made telephone calls and said we have checked into this aspect; we feel that maybe it would be well to conduct a little further investigation and they would outline what they wanted.
As far as directing the investigation, they did not attempt to take over what we were doing. We continued to do our own investigation on everything we thought was necessary the entire time that they were in existence and up until the time I retired in 1971.
Mr. MCDONALD. And you are saying that the Bureau continued its own investigation, you did not respond only to leads from the Warren Commission; is that what you are saying?
Mr. MALLEY. That's what I'm saying. We did our own work. Whenever they had any questions, we tried to answer them for them. They did not give us directives, you do this, you do that, you do this. When they had specific items they wanted to check on, they did tell us.
Wow. Mr. Malley is saying that the investigation of the assassination continued up to the time he left in 1971. It is not farfetched to think that it continued after his retirement too. Why would they keep investigating if JEH had been correct that LHO was the only assassin? Clearly the truth is that JEH gave the public a cover story. This cover story has been used by quite a number of public figures over the years too. As it was pointed out during the 2016 elections in regards to Hillary Clinton – public figures have a public and private versions of events.
The official narrative is simply the public version, but it is incorrect. If it was correct then there would have been no need to continue the investigation for years after the end of the WC.
He reiterates this point later in his testimony.
Mr. FORD. Mr. Kelly said yesterday that the Secret Service considered the case practically closed when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. I think you said earlier that the FBI did not feel that way, and so I am asking at this point what steps or how did you continue the investigation?
Mr. MALLEY. We never changed our position one way or the other. Just because Secret Service was dropping out of it we went right ahead with everything that we could possibly do to definitely establish not only the information we thought was correct, namely, Oswald was probably involved, but to firmly show it and see if there was anyone else involved, which we had in mind constantly.
This is proof positive that the conclusion of the FBI Summary Report was incorrect, thus, by extension the conclusion of the WC was incorrect too. Why? If the conclusion of LHO acting alone one was correct, why were they still investigating after the Secret Service (SS) and the FBI said that LHO was the sole assassin?
What about the SS’s decision about the case being closed as soon as LHO was arrested? How ridiculous is that? Given the performance of the SS during the assassination no wonder they wanted this case closed pronto, huh?
This testimony by the man who led the investigation in Dallas for the FBI shows that the official narrative is not correct. The evidence simply doesn’t support it. That is why the FBI kept investigating this case long after the WC closed shop. They knew that there was much more to this story than we were told publicly. Mr. Malley adds more pieces to the puzzle.
Will we see what they found one day? What do you think?
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The House Select Committee On Assassinations (HSCA) was called to session to review, and in some cases investigate, what the Warren Commission (WC) did and didn’t do in regards to the John F. Kennedy (JFK) assassination.
One of the key groups involved in the WC’s “investigation” was the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). We have seen previously in this series testimony from one member of the FBI in the form of James H. Gale. Now it is time to look at another key member of the FBI and his involvement in the investigation.
The HSCA Says … James R. Malley.
**************************************************************
James R. Malley was an inspector in the General Investigative Division of the FBI at the time of the assassination of JFK.
Mr. McDONALD. What was your position in November 1963?
Mr. MALLEY. I had been designated as inspector at the time and was working as an assistant or No. 1 man, you might say, to Assistant Director Alex Rosen, in charge of the General Investigative Division.
Mr. McDONALD. What did your duties entail?
Mr. MALLEY. My actual duties were very broad. I was supposed to try to keep track of everything going on in the General Investigative Division, handle routine matters I did not feel was necessary to send into the Assistant Director, also see all mail that was going to him and, in general, to double check on things that were going on in four different sections in the Bureau's General Investigative Division.
Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Malley, let me direct your attention to November 22, 1963. You were employed then as the inspector for Mr. Rosen?
Mr. MALLEY. That is right.
Mr. McDONALD. That was a Friday. Were you working that day?
Mr. MALLEY. I was working that day.
This testimony shows that on November 22, 1963, Mr. Malley was on duty and was part of the General Investigative Division of the FBI. He will the testify to something many WC defenders have denied for many years regarding the jurisdiction of the FBI.
Mr. MCDONALD. And what did you do in an official capacity?
Mr. MALLEY. Before I had any opportunities to do anything, and I can't recall the exact time, I was contacted by Associate Director Al Belmont…Mr. Belmont was in the same position that everyone else was in. He knew, I knew, that we had no actual jurisdiction. He did indicate to me that he had been in touch with Mr. Shanklin, who was the Special Agent in charge of Dallas, and that he would be back in touch with me as soon as there was more definite information available. That was about it for the time being.
Later in the day, and I presume it must have been close to 3 o'clock, I was either told be telephone or asked to come down to Belmont's office, I cannot recall which, at which time he informed me that the General Investigative Division would be handling the assassination case of President Kennedy.
Following that, and still not having many details to go on, I started lining up personnel that would be available on a round-the clock basis to handle whatever might develop.
Mr. McDONALD. Were you given any specific instructions as to what your role would be?
Mr. MALLEY. Not at that time.
This is just another official source who confirmed that the FBI did NOT have jurisdiction for the murder of JFK on November 22, 1963 (i.e. WCR, J. Edgar Hoover, etc…). Why do WC defenders continue to claim that the FBI did have jurisdiction and that they had the right to take the evidence from the Dallas Police Department (DPD) in the early hours of November 23, 1963?
Mr. Malley again says that the issue of the jurisdiction limited his actions in the afternoon and evening of the day of the assassination.
Mr. McDONALD. What were the next set of instructions you received on Friday afternoon?
Mr. MALLEY. I don't recall that I received any instructions on that particular afternoon. In reading this statement, Mr. Blakey has mentioned that there was a lot of confusion. There was. Because up until around 7 o'clock, if my memory is correct, there was a definite uncertainty as to what jurisdiction the Bureau had.
As I understand it, Belmont had instructed the Dallas office to be certain that they stayed in a position where they would know exactly what was going on and what the Dallas police were doing so that possibly nothing would be interfered with in the way of evidence and nothing lost.
Mr. Malley states that as of 7 p.m. his group had done basically nothing because of “uncertainty as to what jurisdiction the Bureau” had. I am not sure what was causing this uncertainty as the law was pretty clear in 1963 as to who had jurisdiction. The killing of a president was not covered by any federal law, thus, the jurisdiction was strictly with the state of Texas and the city of Dallas.
Notice the concern that Alan Belmont had regarding the evidence in terms of nothing interfering with its validity, but that is exactly what happened when the FBI illegally seized it in the early hours of November 23, 1963.
Mr. Malley wouldn’t travel to Dallas until November 24, 1963, after Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) was already shot dead by Jack Ruby. Notice what he was ordered to do soon after arriving in Dallas.
Mr. MCDONALD. Did you receive any instructions when you got to Dallas?
Mr. MALLEY. I did. As I recall, I arrived in the Dallas office somewhere near 8 o'clock, possibly a little later, and was immediately told to get in touch with Mr. Belmont, which I did. Mr. Belmont informed me that the Director had been in touch with President Johnson, that the President was very upset about the number of comments being made by certain individuals in Dallas, mainly the district attorney, the chief of police, and the sheriffs office. He requested that I contact each one of them and see if I couldn't put a stop to miscellaneous statements they were making relating to the assassination and what investigation was going on.
Mr. MCDONALD. Did Mr. Belmont relate to you anything specific as far as what President Johnson wished to have told to these individuals?
Mr. MALLEY. To the best of my recollection, it was simply a statement that the President was extremely unhappy and desired that the individuals be requested to stop talking about the assassination.
Mr. MCDONALD. And did you in fact relay those instructions?
Mr. MALLEY. As soon as I was able to contact each one of them by telephone I did so. I was unable to reach the District Attorney for some time because about 2 minutes before an agent tried to reach him in his office, he had left to appear on television, and again for some time related different things that he felt were important to the assassination.
So let me get this straight. The President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ), has it relayed to Mr. Malley to tell the people with the jurisdiction in the murder of JFK to shut up about it. That seems normal, right?
Special Agent Gordon Shanklin was the agent in Dallas working with the Dallas Police Department (DPD), but Mr. Malley was in overall charge and was tasked with overseeing the FBI’s activities as well as looking out for the FBI’s “interests”.
He spoke with DPD Chief Jesse Curry and Sheriff Bill Decker about the president’s request, and they were both amenable to this. District Attorney Henry Wade was another story. He had been a FBI agent before, and now he was the District Attorney so he felt he knew what he could say or not say.
This statement by Mr. Malley is very interesting.
Mr. MCDONALD. Prior to your going to Dallas, what was your perspective as to the case itself.
Mr. MALLEY. I hadn't formed any ideas of any kind. The President had been shot on Friday; Oswald was shot on Sunday; it was much too early to form any ideas.
Obviously he had not spoken with his Director, J. Edgar Hoover (JEH), because he had the case solved by Sunday night. It was Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) and only LHO who was involved.
The memorandum that JEH sent to Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach on November 24, 1963, in which he wrote that they needed to convince the public that LHO “was the real assassin” was brought to Mr. Malley’s attention at this point to illustrate that his director had already reached a conclusion just two days after the assassination. He simply dodged this by saying nothing could be determined from one sentence.
Another memorandum was cited next. It was sent by Mr. Evans to Mr. Belmont on November 26, 1963, just FOUR days after the assassination. In this memorandum it states, "From the facts disclosed in our investigation, there is no question that we can submit in our report convincing evidence, beyond any doubt, showing Oswald was the man who killed President Kennedy."
When Mr. Evans stated that an investigation of this kind cannot be decided in a week’s time JEH wrote that they “had the basic facts now” as in November 26. Just four days after the assassination! Let’s look at Mr. Malley’s response to this information.
Mr. MALLEY. I don't recall that I was asked by anyone how long it was going to take. If I had been I would have told them I had no idea because of the magnitude of what needed to be done in Dallas alone, not counting anything that might go on elsewhere. The volume of work was such that no one could estimate the time.
If I recall correctly, it was either Tuesday or Wednesday following the assassination that I was asked if we had sufficient personnel, and I requested that 40 more agents along with clerical help, stenographic help, be sent into Dallas to assist those who were already there. So certainly I did not feel it was going to be completed within any week.
Mr. McDONALD. You were asking for additional agent personnel, and as reflected in these memos, at the top level, at least there was an opinion being formed that the case essentially was wrapped up.
Mr. MALLEY. I won't agree with you because I don't know what they were doing in Washington. I know where I was and I know what had been done, and I think you may be interpreting remarks about wanting to get something out to the public to let them know what had been developed up to that time as a misinterpretation of what the Bureau intended to do later.
Please. The HSCA cited three reports showing that the top level of the FBI, i.e. JEH, was saying that the case was wrapped up in a matter of days.
JFK Exhibit - F-457: historymatters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/reportvols/vol3/pages/HSCA_Vol3_0236b.gif
JFK Exhibit – F-458: historymatters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/reportvols/vol3/pages/HSCA_Vol3_0239b.gif
JFK Exhibit – F-459: historymatters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/reportvols/vol3/pages/HSCA_Vol3_0240b.gif
But Mr. Malley is claiming to not know anything about it? He was asked about investigating the possibility of a conspiracy.
Mr. MCDONALD. When you were in Dallas, Mr. Malley, was active consideration being given to investigating the possibility of a conspiracy?
Mr. MALLEY. That existed from the minute it happened. I can't say that I saw a memorandum to this effect or a memorandum to that effect or a telephone call, but I do know that it was on everybody's mind, was there somebody else involved. It was an essential part of the investigation to find out.
So the idea of conspiracy was on everyone’s mind according to him. It was an essential part of the investigation he said, but how much time was committed to the idea? Furthermore, JEH was the ruler of the FBI, but we are being asked to believe that despite his pronouncements that LHO acted alone he allowed an in depth investigation into the idea of a conspiracy. Sure.
Mr. Malley used the passage of time as a means of circumvention in this matter. He just couldn’t remember. He was the “No. 1 man” in the General Investigative Division, and he finally informs the HSCA that he was the liaison man to the WC. We also learn that he was the top man in regards to the investigation of the assassination.
Mr. MCDONALD. Which person was primarily responsible at the top to begin with?
Mr. MALLEY. Well, because of what happened when I got back from Dallas I would say that I had to be.
What happened upon his return from Dallas was his assignment as liaison to the WC. Here is what he did in this role.
Mr. MCDONALD. What duties were you to do? What were your duties going to be?
Mr. MALLEY. Well, very generally, I was to handle all contacts by telephone or in person with the Warren Commission. I was also to see that every piece of mail that went to the Warren Commission was personally delivered and in that respect I was not only liaison but I was the mailman, and I had specific instructions that nothing was to go to the Warren Commission that I hadn't seen and reviewed thoroughly.
So he read and reviewed everything that went to the WC. Keep in mind too that he was not appointed to this position until December 12, 1963, and by then the FBI Summary Report finding LHO to be solely responsible for the murder of JFK, J.D. Tippit (JDT) and the wounding of Governor John B. Connally (JBC) had been completed.
Mr. MCDONALD. Now, prior to December 12, the Bureau released its report on the assassination?
Mr. MALLEY. Yes, sir.
Mr. MCDONALD. Did you play a role in the preparation of that report?
Mr. MALLEY. In that report I have to say no…
This shows that his two memorandums on his involvement in the investigation were ignored and not part of the “LHO did it all alone” conclusion that JEH came to within days of the assassination. So in essence his supposed open mind regarding a conspiracy was worthless because the top level of the FBI wasn’t interested in that line of thought. Ditto LBJ.
Look at this nugget.
Mr. MCDONALD. Prior to the creation of the Commission, the Bureau was handling the case on its own. The directives were coming out from Washington or Dallas, or wherever, to cover leads. Did this change after the Warren Commission was established?
Mr. MALLEY. Not for quite a long, long time. After the Warren Commission had had an opportunity to review the large number of reports that had been sent to them, they eventually started asking a few questions and in many instances, their questions were answered by saying, if you will look at the report of so and so on a certain page, the information is there and you haven't located it yet. In a few instances, they sent us letters or made telephone calls and said we have checked into this aspect; we feel that maybe it would be well to conduct a little further investigation and they would outline what they wanted.
As far as directing the investigation, they did not attempt to take over what we were doing. We continued to do our own investigation on everything we thought was necessary the entire time that they were in existence and up until the time I retired in 1971.
Mr. MCDONALD. And you are saying that the Bureau continued its own investigation, you did not respond only to leads from the Warren Commission; is that what you are saying?
Mr. MALLEY. That's what I'm saying. We did our own work. Whenever they had any questions, we tried to answer them for them. They did not give us directives, you do this, you do that, you do this. When they had specific items they wanted to check on, they did tell us.
Wow. Mr. Malley is saying that the investigation of the assassination continued up to the time he left in 1971. It is not farfetched to think that it continued after his retirement too. Why would they keep investigating if JEH had been correct that LHO was the only assassin? Clearly the truth is that JEH gave the public a cover story. This cover story has been used by quite a number of public figures over the years too. As it was pointed out during the 2016 elections in regards to Hillary Clinton – public figures have a public and private versions of events.
The official narrative is simply the public version, but it is incorrect. If it was correct then there would have been no need to continue the investigation for years after the end of the WC.
He reiterates this point later in his testimony.
Mr. FORD. Mr. Kelly said yesterday that the Secret Service considered the case practically closed when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. I think you said earlier that the FBI did not feel that way, and so I am asking at this point what steps or how did you continue the investigation?
Mr. MALLEY. We never changed our position one way or the other. Just because Secret Service was dropping out of it we went right ahead with everything that we could possibly do to definitely establish not only the information we thought was correct, namely, Oswald was probably involved, but to firmly show it and see if there was anyone else involved, which we had in mind constantly.
This is proof positive that the conclusion of the FBI Summary Report was incorrect, thus, by extension the conclusion of the WC was incorrect too. Why? If the conclusion of LHO acting alone one was correct, why were they still investigating after the Secret Service (SS) and the FBI said that LHO was the sole assassin?
What about the SS’s decision about the case being closed as soon as LHO was arrested? How ridiculous is that? Given the performance of the SS during the assassination no wonder they wanted this case closed pronto, huh?
This testimony by the man who led the investigation in Dallas for the FBI shows that the official narrative is not correct. The evidence simply doesn’t support it. That is why the FBI kept investigating this case long after the WC closed shop. They knew that there was much more to this story than we were told publicly. Mr. Malley adds more pieces to the puzzle.
Will we see what they found one day? What do you think?