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& a UN..ED STATES DEPARTMENT OF. STICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Atlanta, Georgia March 28, 1967 /* ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, NOVEMBER 22, 1963, DALLAS, TEXAS MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING \ Z Staffer, March 27, 1967, Mr. Tes Dent’ ‘Ponder, International | (UPI), Atlanta, Georgia, advised On United Press et 9:20 p.n. the operator Jim Garrison Mr. he answered the telephone at UPI Office and said she had a call for anyone concerning the investigation, New Orleans. Tee Dent Ponder stated he asked for caller's name and the male voice stated “No, I am not going to give my name." Ponder inquired from caller what information he had and the caller answered "Kennedy assassination was. not through Jim Garrison or none of the people hevhes down there. President Kennedy was killed through thé’La Cosa _Nostra. It was hired but not by Clay Shaw but by the La_ Cose Nostra." The caller stated Shaw is a member of the La Cosa Nostra but was not. involved in the assassination of ‘Kennedy. The caller stated "Clay § aw never had nothing to do with it." The caller said "Ji rrison is strictly a liar and is tied up with the La Cosa Nostra." Ponder asked the caller if Garrison was in the La Cosa Nostra. The caller “stated "That’s right.: He has been tied up with the La Cosa Nostra for the’ past | two years. We don't go for what's going on down there. Ponder asked if the caller was an official in the La Cosa Nostra. The caller replied "Yes, I am an official.” Ponder then asked why had they hired to have Kennedy killed. ‘The caller answered "It was hired by the La Cosa Nostra. Let me telly one thing, if you can get this in print, Mrs. Jacqueline?Kennedy has been dating a member of the La Cosa Nostra for a long time." Ponder asked who this person was and the caller replied that it was Aristotle dy, 7 ; va -ohassis, the Greek freighter tycoon. — . _— Ponder then asked the caller if there was anything COPiLS Do waw th bD . a a: a ce 1073 f ; / so} / ; | | 44 JANLY ‘eae / foe fom \ roa