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[318] Final Judgment 379
"'Sworn testimony by federal agents [maintains] that Frankhauser has
carried out a series of undercover missions for the government, including
one approved by the National Security Council in the White House.
— One government source said Frankhauser had an uncanny ability to
penetrate both right- and left-wing groups, that he could still help convict
those who supplied the explosives that blew up school buses in Pontiac,
Michigan, in 1971.'
"Frankhauser eventually ran afoul of his ATF superiors by going too
far with his entrapment schemes and not clearing them with the ATF
beforehand. This brought about his eventual indictment on February 28,
1974, on charges of stealing explosives, at which time he used his
relationship with the agency as a defense. He was eventually convicted and
sentenced to a period of probation, after which the ATF had a way of
enforcing his cooperation and curbing his erratic behavior (or so it thought).
An FBI teletype dated June 17, 1974, revealed:
"'Frankhauser has proposed through his attorney that if allowed to plead
guilty and receive probation on current bombing charges he will introduce
federal agents to individuals who have approached him regarding his
activities.'
"Frankhauser's ATF 'handler,' Edward N. Slamon, had written several
internal memos describing Frankhauser as 'an excellent infiltrator and
confidential informant,' according to the Washington Star.
"Roy Frankhauser's involvement as a government undercover operative
and agent provocateur began in the 1960s and continued sporadically until
1986, when he was indicted along with Lyndon LaRouche and several other
defendants in the Boston LaRouche case involving credit card fraud and other
charges. Frankhauser, who made his first contact with the LaRouche
organization in 1975, had become their director of security! On December
10, 1987, Frankhauser was convicted of plotting to obstruct a federal
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investigation of the group."' [END OF QUOTE]
All of this intrigue is interesting, of course. The fact that Dan Burros
died under mysterious circumstances in the home of a long-time covert
operative is likewise quite interesting.
It is probably relevant to note that one JFK assassination researcher,
Peter Dale Scott, has long put forth the contention that Lee Harvey Oswald
"working for a private investigator on federal government contract, was
investigating the use of interstate mails for illegal arms sales [and has noted
that] . . . the American Nazi Party, in 1963, was being investigated by the
U.S. government . . . for its mail-order purchase of firearms." 813
That Oswald was perhaps in contact with Burros (and there have been
unsubstantiated rumors that Oswald himself may have been in the
Washington, D.C. area—specifically Arlington, Virginia where Burros and
the American Nazi Party were headquartered) and that Burros was in turn
closely associated with a BATF undercover informant adds to the relevance
of Scott's contention. However, as we noted in Chapter 15, it is more than
likely that Oswald was, in fact, under deployment—through the office of