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a ew re re ee er ‘fort Smith showing the identity of Nash, and also showing that the Agents, 5 eae bd eects Eten arin ean Seas Agent Lackey asked the Police at Little Rock the road f to Joplin, Missouri, when leaving there, knowing that the same Highway leads to Joplin and Fort Smith from Little Rock for a distance of SO miles outside of Little Rock, It was intended to drive to Fort Smith, but the destination was not mentioned to anyone and Joplin, Missourl, only was mentioned to those officers. The Agents then drove on to Fort Smith, Arkansas, where they arrived at 6 Pell, June 16th. . . At Fort Smith, through official orders from the Attorney - General of the United States, issued through the Director of the United Statés Bureau of Investigetion, Agents Lackey and Smith, assisted by Police Officer Reed, boarded the Missouri Pacific Railroed train with prisoner Nash end left Fort Snith in that manner at 8:50 P.M. June 16th. Tickets were pur . chased at Fort Smith for the group for Kaneae City, Missouri, on a Governe ment Transportation Request. fhe Agents and Mr, Reed gave no indication to — ' anyone es to where they were taking the prisoner while et Fort Smith, and the Ticket Agent there was cautioned to tell no one to what point the tickets had been purchased. Bowever, 1¢ appears that there was a "leak® in the ti cket office as to the destination of the Agents ani prisoner. - 4 press report on the evening of June 16th was issudé at whose official identities were known, had proceeded from Fort Snith by way of the Missouri Pacifie Railroad for Kansas City, Missouri. Agent Lackey learned that thero was ea news reporter in the Missouri Pacific Railroad Station when he purchased the tickets and that individual saw the prisoner and the officers, and evidently learned from the ticket office the destination of the groupe A press dispatch dated June 16, 1953, at 10:06 P.M., Fort Smith, Arkansas, for the prese at Kansas City, Missouri, reads es follows: “FRANK NASH AND AGENTS ARE ON MISSOURI PACIFIC TRAIN ARRIVING KANSAS CITY MISSOURI AT 7:15 A.M.* It ie well known that the Hot Springs, Arkansas Police Department is intimately connected with Subject Galatas, and others, in this - ease, and that information is available to the Police Department of Hot Springs through the Associated Frese in edvance of publication. Evidently the cohorts of Galatas eecured information on the night of June 16th that the Agents and prisoner were bound for Kansas City, Missouri, on the train which they took as will later appear in connection with telephone calls and pieans of operations by the slayors.