#ClayShaw

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Edward Wegmann New Orleans lawyer who with his brother William defended Clay Shaw against Jim Garrison, engaged Wackenhut and other firms of former federal agents, and sought guidance from the Justice Department on the CIA.
Walter Sheridan Former aide to Robert Kennedy who as an NBC reporter produced the network's 1967 attack on Jim Garrison, was charged by Garrison with bribery, and passed information from Garrison's office to the CIA's general counsel.
William Gurvich New Orleans private detective who joined Jim Garrison's Kennedy investigation in December 1966, resigned in June 1967 calling it a fraudulent, criminal act, and took two boxes of its files to Clay Shaw's lawyers.

Domestic Contact Service Overt CIA office that interviewed American businessmen, academics, and travellers for foreign intelligence from 1946, moved in 1973 into the clandestine directorate, where its contacts served to open doors for recruitment operations.
Southern Research Company Shreveport detective firm whose New Orleans office, run by a former associate of Guy Banister, investigated David Ferrie for Eastern Air Lines in 1963, and which the House assassinations committee in 1978 called the former name of Wackenhut.
Truth or Consequences (New Orleans) Private fund formed by three New Orleans businessmen in February 1967 to pay for Jim Garrison's Kennedy investigation, whose money a federal court found came in on Shaw's arrest and stopped on his acquittal.

Garrison Group Committee of six senior CIA officers that Richard Helms convened in September 1967 to manage the agency's response to Jim Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw, who had been a source of its Domestic Contact Service.