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Dear Mr. Tatre,

The obvious sincerity of your letter and the great tree y of concerned people • falling under the= influence of nuts (not all, 'Eno Dick Saiague, well intended) impels as much of an answer as Icao make in the time bac:re my wife calla me to lunch. If the resuoption of the Wtaergate hearings comes before I fineah, I'll lay it aside until I have a few spare minutes.

Please understand I intend neither impoliteness nor brusqueness. It is, rather, that if it had not been for all the inaenity to which I've had toaddress myself, some-times to prevent or frustrate it, I'd not be as broke and would have had the time for several more books, already researched. Personally, Sprague is a fine ggy. Nothing he presents as fact can be so accepted. "French)", for example, is an invention. There is no Frenchy. Whether he or Garrison or some other paranoid invented the name, I don't know. I have finally t'aced the sketch to its source and I have no time for telling you about it. It would moan nothing to you anyway. 41 is part of the dept. of disinformation, which can anticipate the Spragues and their misuses.

Also, please understand that the time I take for correspondence with those of decent concern is taken from work that might in its day do some good. I am without incomes deep in debt and overloaded with what should be done, I just can't &pre this time. his is also apology for the uncorrected typos.

Trapnell is a genuinely insane genius. Be has since been convicted. The Dallas papers states as fact what are really allegations that arc without support. T. was and is incurably crindnally'insane.

Hemming is an advebtar'une psycopathic liar. I know .Jnd have interviewed him. I'd like to tee the Councillor picture. They cut my subscription off without refundina.

what they owed ma. I'm suspicious. I never weent for Garrison's invention. Of the con- siderable tine I six:ni; working in L1.0., none was on

Your queZtiOns: you hav€all my available books. I feel Ozwaldwas in the TSBd doorway. Infrewuently, Sprague ears blinders. Alwaye at the wrong tine. Can't take time to exp)aiva, aVela4y may also have been there.That uas not Loveladylo shirt.

Manilla book: never hoard of it. garrison and JCS: vitt till the moon chances. will then be the ghost of both

Bulleses. Seymlur pia: ask Sprague. Thanko for your kind words. Each should do what he can. If you teach, each kid you

help grog up staiaht, thiuking independently and clearly, will be a tribute and more than. jun ifnaatioo for your time.

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