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Melvin Belli — Part 5
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DATE:
8-9-65
2 “APPEARANCE OF: F MiLYIN BELLI .
_,, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ATTORNE a
-ONT THE B LESCRANE TELEVISION SHOWs GHTLIFE"’ Bix
2 STDS 1 re Qu mmme om reat ogee me rarrer!
oe captioned. program: is an n interview and: discussion. ‘type sh
presented nationally over the American Broadcasting Company network.
: ¥ il he ‘New. York Offic ce has provided a tape reflecting Melvin Be
antes’ 7 ® appearing on this program on-7-20-65. Belli is, of course, the
attorney who acted as defense counsel for Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas. He i
yan irresponsible individual who has made a number of ' scurrilous attacks on.
aE ‘Director. and. the FBI." : :
"He was interviewed by Les Cr ane, a well-known TV personalit
12who acts as master of ceremonies on "Nightlife. " A transcript of this intervif :
12 =ig attached. ; cae
To summarize the tr anscript. briefly., Belli, as expected, made 4£
; [several nasty remarks concerning the Director and the FBI He le alleged thet ;
5 ‘FBI Agents aré inclined to shade their. testimony in court.in the interest of
, 29° maintaining a 90 ‘percent record of convictions."' He compared the Director t
| 10 -| Chief Parker of the Los Angeles Police Department claiming that Parker has B: ee
i 41° | "brochures on most of the people in the West and that Mr. Hoover has "brochur méd Si
; 12 Jon most of the people in the United States. He states "that Chief Parker. brochiged x
| M4 to Mr. Hoover' S position which, I think, Mr. Hoover has held much too long.""-
SAL ag: Belli further_states. that Mr. Hoover “gives. graduation addresses and tells: whe-ze :
46: | all the criminals are, -what they're dothg- now, the amount of the take and everythin
) eadadins
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Ke ¢ To aScument rentiel allegation concerni irector Belli referred
ited he Director made by -
red Cook's book "The FBI Nobody Knows." He
fof ner SA Jack Levine which were set forth in this book stating as follows:''the
déology of the man at graduation. The boys having to come to him with certai=-
colored stockings, a certain necktieynot smoking a cigarette, having to bov. when &
= they meet him. All these sort of things remind me very much of the men i. they 3
. would go into the presence of Herman. Goerring. 1 These things a thi ene.
oY sMomocracy." no
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, - Mr, Delo ch - MC.
147 else and says he is powerless 10 do’ ay to. do ing Aw os
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