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claimed Ruby supplied arms for Castro through Prio, that he had seen Ruby
around a private airport, and had known Ruby to run guns by boat. There are
others who confirm that Ruby was in the gunrunning business in Florida
during the late 1950's. One was Eladio del Valle, a former Cuban
congressman and a good friend of Mario Kohly . . .” 471
The aforementioned Kohly was one of the primary leaders of the Cuban
exiles who turned against Castro after the Cuban dictator turned the tables
on his previous allies in the Lansky Crime Syndicate which helped bring
Castro to power (as we documented in Chapter 7). Kohly himself
subsequently turned to Meyer Lansky for support and offered to return his
casino rights if he, Kohly, were able to assume power in Cuba after Castro
was removed. 472 Thus it was that Jack Ruby was an important errand boy
in the strange pro- and anti-Castro dealings of both the CIA and the Meyer
Lansky Organized Crime Syndicate. Nonetheless, there is clearly more to
the story of Jack Ruby that needs to be explored.
RUBY, OSWALD AND THE CIA
The late John Henshaw, a crack investigative reporter operating out of
Washington, D.C., did some of his own digging into Ruby's background.
Henshaw, who worked as an investigator for syndicated columnist Drew
Pearson (about whom we shall see more in Chapter 17) uncovered a link
between Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald, tying them together with the CIA.
According to Henshaw, Dallas police officials were actually in the process
of investigating Ruby and Oswald in the assassination attempt on retired
General Edwin Walker several months before the JFK murder.
A bullet was fired through Walker's window, although the general, a
dedicated anti-communist and Castro critic, was unharmed. However, there is
some debate among assassination researchers as to what role Oswald did
play—if any—in the shooting at the Walker residence. This is yet another
of the many unanswered questions surrounding the JFK mystery.
At any rate, according to Henshaw's account, a secret police
investigation of the shooting linked Oswald and Ruby to the incident. Then,
according to Henshaw, a high-ranking FBI official was asked by a top
official in the Justice Department to intervene and stop the impending arrest
of the two Dallas operatives. Henshaw said that it was the CIA itself that
had asked the FBI to intervene. According to Henshaw, the CIA was using
Ruby to recruit Dallas men into the anti-Castro movement. However, the
FBI official refused to intervene, saying it would be obstructing justice.
The FBI official did say, though, that he would make the request only if
he were formally directed to do so in a written communication signed by the
Justice Department official. Shortly thereafter, according to Henshaw's
account, the FBI official then received a signed directive. He contacted Dallas
police and urged them not to arrest Oswald and Ruby.
But the Dallas police also wanted an official signed communication.
Thereupon the Justice Department sent the communication to Dallas Police
Chief Curry asking that Oswald and Ruby be left strictly alone. Justice