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"Trick Or Treat?" Harold (Hal) Hendrix
By Raymond Gallagher 5/11
Seth Kantor was a Dallas reporter on November 22, 1963, who knew Jack Ruby and exchanged small talk with him at Parkland Hospital one hour after Kennedy was shot. But Ruby denied he was there. The Warren Commission couldn't afford to question Ruby's credibility -- their whole "lone nut" theory was at stake -- so they decided Kantor was mistaken. Burt W. Griffin, the Commission's man on this issue, has reversed himself since reading this book (which first appeared in 1978), and the House Committee in 1979 backed Kantor's version also.
This is the best and most comprehensive treatment of the life and associations of Jack Ruby that is currently available. It provides the broad CIA-Mafia background in considerable detail, as well as treating issues such as how Ruby got into the Dallas police basement.
One event described by Kantor seems suspicious to many researchers. In 1963 Harold (Hal) Hendrix was a Scripps-Howard reporter in Miami with good CIA connections; he wrote about the September 25 coup in the Dominican Republic the day BEFORE it happened. Hendrix had information about Oswald's Fair Play for Cuba activities and his defection to the USSR a mere three hours after Oswald's name was on the wires, and gave this information to Kantor. Three years later Hendrix went to work for ITT, and his name became well-known during the CIA-ITT-Chile scandal of the early 1970s. (Kantor, Seth. The Ruby Cover-Up. New York: Zebra Books, 1992. 450 pages. ISBN 0-8217-3920-4)
Harold (Hal) Hendrix worked for The Miami News. He specialized in Latin American affairs. Other journalists nicknamed him the "Spook" because they suspected he was being provided with information from the.Central Intelligence Agency. Some years later, the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations discovered that Hendrix was used by the CIA during the late 1950s and early 1960s to write "black propaganda" against Fidel Castro.
In October, 1962, Hendrix reported on the Cuban Missile Crisis. According to William Pawley, Hendrix was fed information by Ted Shackley, the CIA chief in Miami (quoted by David Corn in his book, Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA's Crusades). As a result Hendrix wrote a number of articles on the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. The following year he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism as a result of his reports on Cuba.
In September, 1963, Hendrix joined Scripps-Howard News Service as a Latin American specialist. Instead of moving to Washington he remained in Miami "where his contacts were". In an article on 24th September, 1963, Hendrix was able to describe and justify the coup that overthrew Juan Bosch, the president of Dominican Republic. The only problem was the coup took place on the 25th September. Some journalists claimed that Hendrix must have got this information from the CIA.
A few hours after John F. Kennedy had been killed, Hendrix provided background information to colleague, Seth Kantor, about Lee Harvey Oswald. This included details of his defection to the Soviet Union and his work for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. This surprised Kantor because he had this information before it was released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation later that evening.
Hendrix left the Scripps-Howard News Service in 1966 and went to work for the International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, as director of inter-American relations in Buenos Aires. Officially, Hendrix worked in public relations but according to Thomas Powers, "he was something in the way of being a secret operative for the company". Later Hendrix moved to ITT's world headquarters in New York City.
In 1970 ITT sent Hendrix to represent the company in Chile. On 4th September, 1970, Salvador Allende was elected as president of Chile. Hendrix was disturbed by this development as Allende had threatened to nationalize $150 million worth of ITT assets in Chile if he won the election. It later emerged that Hendrix worked with the CIA in the overthrow of Allende. His CIA contact during the Chile operation was David Atlee Phillips.
On 20th March, 1973, Hendrix gave evidence before Frank Church and his Multinational Corporations Subcommittee. He denied ever being a paid agent of the CIA. However, an investigation by Justice Department lawyer Walter May discovered documents that showed that Hendrix had lied when interviewed by Church's committee.
Hendrix was allowed to plead guilty to lying under oath (which cost him a $100 fine and a one-month suspended sentence) in return for his cooperation with the Justice Department in its pursuit of perjury charges against higher-ranking ITT and CIA officials in the Chile matter.
"Trick Or Treat?" Harold (Hal) Hendrix
By Raymond Gallagher 5/11
Seth Kantor was a Dallas reporter on November 22, 1963, who knew Jack Ruby and exchanged small talk with him at Parkland Hospital one hour after Kennedy was shot. But Ruby denied he was there. The Warren Commission couldn't afford to question Ruby's credibility -- their whole "lone nut" theory was at stake -- so they decided Kantor was mistaken. Burt W. Griffin, the Commission's man on this issue, has reversed himself since reading this book (which first appeared in 1978), and the House Committee in 1979 backed Kantor's version also.
This is the best and most comprehensive treatment of the life and associations of Jack Ruby that is currently available. It provides the broad CIA-Mafia background in considerable detail, as well as treating issues such as how Ruby got into the Dallas police basement.
One event described by Kantor seems suspicious to many researchers. In 1963 Harold (Hal) Hendrix was a Scripps-Howard reporter in Miami with good CIA connections; he wrote about the September 25 coup in the Dominican Republic the day BEFORE it happened. Hendrix had information about Oswald's Fair Play for Cuba activities and his defection to the USSR a mere three hours after Oswald's name was on the wires, and gave this information to Kantor. Three years later Hendrix went to work for ITT, and his name became well-known during the CIA-ITT-Chile scandal of the early 1970s. (Kantor, Seth. The Ruby Cover-Up. New York: Zebra Books, 1992. 450 pages. ISBN 0-8217-3920-4)
Harold (Hal) Hendrix worked for The Miami News. He specialized in Latin American affairs. Other journalists nicknamed him the "Spook" because they suspected he was being provided with information from the.Central Intelligence Agency. Some years later, the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations discovered that Hendrix was used by the CIA during the late 1950s and early 1960s to write "black propaganda" against Fidel Castro.
In October, 1962, Hendrix reported on the Cuban Missile Crisis. According to William Pawley, Hendrix was fed information by Ted Shackley, the CIA chief in Miami (quoted by David Corn in his book, Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA's Crusades). As a result Hendrix wrote a number of articles on the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. The following year he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism as a result of his reports on Cuba.
In September, 1963, Hendrix joined Scripps-Howard News Service as a Latin American specialist. Instead of moving to Washington he remained in Miami "where his contacts were". In an article on 24th September, 1963, Hendrix was able to describe and justify the coup that overthrew Juan Bosch, the president of Dominican Republic. The only problem was the coup took place on the 25th September. Some journalists claimed that Hendrix must have got this information from the CIA.
A few hours after John F. Kennedy had been killed, Hendrix provided background information to colleague, Seth Kantor, about Lee Harvey Oswald. This included details of his defection to the Soviet Union and his work for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. This surprised Kantor because he had this information before it was released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation later that evening.
Hendrix left the Scripps-Howard News Service in 1966 and went to work for the International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, as director of inter-American relations in Buenos Aires. Officially, Hendrix worked in public relations but according to Thomas Powers, "he was something in the way of being a secret operative for the company". Later Hendrix moved to ITT's world headquarters in New York City.
In 1970 ITT sent Hendrix to represent the company in Chile. On 4th September, 1970, Salvador Allende was elected as president of Chile. Hendrix was disturbed by this development as Allende had threatened to nationalize $150 million worth of ITT assets in Chile if he won the election. It later emerged that Hendrix worked with the CIA in the overthrow of Allende. His CIA contact during the Chile operation was David Atlee Phillips.
On 20th March, 1973, Hendrix gave evidence before Frank Church and his Multinational Corporations Subcommittee. He denied ever being a paid agent of the CIA. However, an investigation by Justice Department lawyer Walter May discovered documents that showed that Hendrix had lied when interviewed by Church's committee.
Hendrix was allowed to plead guilty to lying under oath (which cost him a $100 fine and a one-month suspended sentence) in return for his cooperation with the Justice Department in its pursuit of perjury charges against higher-ranking ITT and CIA officials in the Chile matter.