WELL AWARE ODOM EXISTS, GARRISON SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600150022-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: May 17, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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List.:1tty. Jim Garrison said today that he is well aware
c' d ,,e existence of a person by the name of Lee Odom, the
', IoSa mate appeared with the address P. 0. Box 19106,
Tex., in Clay Shaw's address book.
said Friday that the same P. 0. number also
ca: d in the notebook of accused presidential assassin
Harvey Oswald and that the two numbers, decoded,
were tae unpublishcd 1963 telephone number of Jack Ruby,
;e man who shot Oswald.
Cdom was found in a Dallas suburb and interviewed.
He confirmed Clay S'hay's story that he and Odom had
known each other only briefly in 1966.
each other. We also
knew that these two men
Le :. Oswald was working for
uie CIA here.
Garrison issued the following statement:
"WE Ali.E WELL AWARE THAT T-E:RE is a Mr. Lee
Odorn. As a matter of fact, he lives in Irving, Tex., just
outside of Dallas. This is the suburb in which Ruth Paine
and Marina Oswald lived while Lee Oswald was working at
the book depository in Dallas. ivr. Odour's post office box
number there new is P. 0. 174.
"The fact that there is a real Lee 0dom, however, is
not the point. The point. is that Clay Shaw and Lee Oswald
have the same post office box number in their address
books and this is in coded form, the unpublished phone
number of Jack Ruby in 1963. The fact that someone ac-
quired the post office box when it came into existence
in late 1965 does not change .the 'oddity of, that circumstance
at all.,
"We are very interested in knowing who introduced
NMr. Odom to Mr. Shaw, how many bulii'ights Mr. Odom has
actually produced and a few other things. We are particu-
larly interested in clarifying now why there is also coded
in Lee Oswald's, address book, the local phone number of
he Central Intelligence Agency.
:'e 1 ave. had evidence tar-
,.ow ie time that in Dallas, '
Jack Ruby was working
Deily Plaza who was an
i ploye of, the CIA and now..:'
N e have. found the phone'y'
n:iraber of the CIA in the
front of Lee Oswald's address
"Since it is obvious that it
is no longer possible to get" ,he ~ truth in any form from
0idcia:ds of the CIA agency in
no matter how,
,-placed, we are looking
forward to talking to this busi
nesaman from Irving, Tex.,
I acoi.it somer of, these co-
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