From: bhart@cyberramp.net (Michael Parks)
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First Reports, Between The Lines, 3/8/77

All emphasis is my own.........Michael Parks

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   In an exclusive interview granted to Valley Publications, former undercover
operative for the  FBI, Harry Dean, has stated that the John Birch 
Society had a heavily armed network of citizen soldiers ready to take to 
the streets in late 1963 and early 1964, if President Johnson and 
Chief Justice Warren did not quickly find Lee Harvey Oswald (a supposed 
communist sympathizer)  guilty of the murder of President Kennedy.  The 
threat was delivered to Johnson and Warren, within a few days after the 
assassination, by intelligence sources and by agents of the power 
structure that eliminated the President.  LBJ had the choice - nation-wide 
internal strife or knuckling under to the threat and thereby giving this 
minority force a position of recognition. 
   Johnson opted for the second choice.
   Dean, an undercover operative for the FBI from 1960 to 1965, had been 
assigned by the FBI to infiltrate the Birch Society.  In that role, he 
was active in the Covina, (Calif.) chapter of  the JBS from 1962 through 
1964.  During Dean's tour with the Society he states they planned 
three major activities against John Kennedy: a planned assassination in 
Mexico City in 1962 that  was called off: the assassination in Dallas; 
and the threat against a thorough investigation.  In each case, according 
to Harry Dean, Congressman John Rousselot (R-San Marino) was involved in 
the planning.  Rousselot was Western Director of the John Birch Society 
during the first half of the '60s.
   During the years when Harry Dean had been acting as an active member 
of the Covina Birch Society, the main meeting place for all the anti-Kennedy 
activities was at a residence on San Pierre Street in El Monte.  The 
Birchers were connected with anti-Castro Cubans, often mentioned 
as assassination suspects, through the Drive Against Communist Aggression 
(DACA).  The DACA was  an anti-Communist organization directed by members 
of the JBS, which had attracted certain  Cubans who were in the Los 
Angeles area during 1962-63, trying to enlist support for another 
invasion of Castro controlled Cuba.  The DACA operated in Mexico as well as the U.S..  According 
to Dean, World War II hero Guy (Gabby) Gabaldon was the Mexican Director, while Ray Flieshman of 
Whittier was the U.S. Director.  Another active member of DACA and the Covina JBS, who had a 
close relationship with Gabaldon, was Dave Robbins, who at the time (‘62-63), was a high ranking 
employee of the Fluor Corporation.  (J. Robert Fluor and John Rousselot had been known to be 
close political allies.)  In a number of different circumstances, Dean was able to determine 
that Gabaldon, Robbins, Flieshman, and Rousselot had been involved in planning the aborted 
assassination of JFK in Mexico City, June 1962.
   Harry Dean had many occasions to observe and relate with much publicized Cuban-American Loran 
Eugene Hall-aka Lorenzo Pacillo-aka Ship Hall and Laurence Howard-aka Alonzo Escuirdo.  Hall and 
Howard had a close association with former General Edwin Walker, of Texas, whenever Walker 
visited the Covina JBS.  Dean recalls specific meetings where Walker, Rousselot, Hall, Howard, 
Gabaldon and himself (Dean) laid the plans to frame Lee Harvey Oswald, who they thought was a 
communist, as the assassin.  Per Dean, Hall and Howard left the San Pierre Street house in 
October 1963, with arms and medicines, and the plans to implicate Oswald.
   The subject of eliminating President Kennedy was never discussed as a subject of the 
Society’s meetings, but Harry Dean claims the plans for the assassination were conceived in 
small group meetings.  At one time or another Harry Dean was witness to the plans of the 
assassination of JFK by different combinations of John Rousselot, Loran Hall, Laurance Howard, 
Guy Gabaldon, Edwin Walker, Dave Robbins, Ray Fleishman, and not previously mentioned Covina JBS 
members Ed Peters and Ed Butler.
   According to Dean, the directions taken by John Kennedy were directly in opposition to the 
John Birch Society’s ultimate goals and they, in conjunction with DACA, took matters into their 
own hands.  To protect exposure through an investigation, the Society sent threats of 
nation-wide street warfare, to the administration via secret agents, who they were sure had 
infiltrated the various radical and reactionary organizations throughout the U.S., if a speedy 
and simple verdict was not the action.

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