Early for Mardi Gras, isn't it?
''Paris Match,'' the largest magazine in France.
Moscow ''Literaturnaya Gazeta.''
Victoria Taylor...
...''Private Eye.''
You know who shot the President? Mr. Garrison is too busy--.
They're putting the heat on David Ferrie. lf we wait, he won't hold off.
He keeps changing his story. We can't call him to a Grand Jury.
He'll keep deteriorating. We'll get more out of him when he cracks.
lf he freezes up, we'll lose our best shot.
He can't go down further. We must protect him full time.
l know what you're going through with Ferrie.
We'll talk tomorrow. l have to catch a plane to Washington.
Lead says he's closely connected to these events...
...but he won't come here.
l'm onto Ferrie's Cuban paymaster, Eladio del Valle.
l need more men. l got to get him in.
l can't pull the teams watching Ferrie. l promised him!
This is our case!
l got something to show you.
l think you'll find it interesting.
This was found in your office.
The conference room is bugged, maybe the phones. We have to debug the place.
Bugging the DA's office. This is outrageous!
Believe what you want, but we must be more careful.
All these new volunteers!
You handle it, okay? l don't have time for this nonsense.
Well, we obviously got the bastards worried now.
l'm coming to Washington!
Dave Ferrie's dead.
Found his body at the apartment two hours ago.
What's it look like?
l don't see any violence. Heart attack, maybe an aneurysm. Natural causes.
This is addressed to no one and no signature.
''To leave this life is for me a sweet prospect.
l find nothing in it that is desirable...
...and, on the other hand, everything that is loathsome.''
lt goes on and on.
''Daily we are propagandized more and more by the rising crime wave.''
Seems pretty flowery for Dave Ferrie.
Proloid.
l took it once for a low thyroid condition.
lt raises the metabolism.
Ferrie strike you as the kind of person with a low metabolism?
Hardly, l'd say the opposite. Maybe hypertension.
Ferrie was the only one to express any kind of remorse about the whole thing.
l think it got him killed.
More bad news from Miami.
Ferrie's friend, Eladio del Valle, was found...
...hacked to death with a machete today.
He was tortured, shot point-blank in the heart, his skull split open with an ax.
Ain't that the devil's piss!
Found another note. Same thing. No name. No signature.
''When you receive this, l will be quite dead, so no answer is possible.
-l offered you love; l got kicked.'' -Must've pressed to come up with that.
What if a man with hypertension were to take an entire bottle of Proloid?
He'd die quickly. A heart storm or a ruptured blood vessel in the brain.
Can you ascertain if there's Proloid in his system?
Not with a routine autopsy.
But there may be a high level of iodine in the spinal fluid.
But it's difficult to know. What's your thinking?
lt doesn't make sense. Would a man afraid of dying...
...kill himself in a way that leaves no trace?
And leave two unsigned suicide notes?
lf it's a suicide, l've seen weirder.
The fact is, he's gone. And so is our case.
Unless we go for Shaw now.
With whose testimony? O'Keefe, a male prostitute?
Jack Martin, a drunk? Vernon Bundy, a dope fiend?
Shaw's got respect. Newspaper editors, American Bar Association.
-l agree. We don't have the goods. -We wait, Shaw will get whacked!
How many corpses do you need to figure out what's going on?
Watch your mouth! Ferrie did this himself.
Where're you going?
l don't know.
l just don't know.
Frank, you're wasting your time here.
Big Jim gave strict orders. No FBl.
lt's you l want.
Boss'd fry me in hog fat if l talk to you.
Boss got a problem. Real serious.
We know what's going on.
Guess you do.
You got nothing. l'm a friend. You're riding on the Titanic.
Time to jump off before you too get destroyed.
Enough!
We're talking about your career. You're young.
You're on the Castro thing.
-No, l'm not. -You are.
We know Oswald didn't pull that trigger. Castro did.
lf it comes out, it's war.
Millions of people will die. That's more important than Jim Garrison.
Look at me when l talk to you! You're too selfish!
Shut up!
lf you got a brain in your thick skull, listen to me. Listen real hard.
Get in the car.
Garrison?
Glad you came.
Sorry about the precautions.
l just hope it was worth my while, Mr...?
l could give you a false name, but l won't. Call me ''X''.
l've already been warned by the Agency, so if this is another threat--.
l'm not with the Agency, Mr. Garrison.
lf you've come this far, what l have to say interests you.
l won't name names or tell you who l represent.
Except to say you're close.
Closer than you think.
Everything l'll say is classified top secret.
l was a soldier, Mr. Garrison. Two wars.
A secret Pentagon guy, supplying the hardware.
Planes, bullets, rifles...
...for what we call Black Operations.
Black Ops. Assassinations. Coups d'état...
...rigging elections, propaganda, psych warfare.
ln World War ll, l was in Rumania, Greece, Yugoslavia.
l helped evacuate part of Nazi intelligence at the end of the war.
And we used those guys against the Communists.
ln ltaly, '48, we stole the elections.
France '49, we broke the strikes.
Overthrew Quirino in the Philippines. Arbenz in Guatemala.
Mossadegh in lran. Vietnam in '%4.
lndonesia, '%8. Tibet, '%9.
Got the Dalai Lama out. We were good.
Very good.
Then we got into the Cuban thing.
Set up an invasion to take place in October, '62.
Khrushchev sent missiles to resist. Kennedy didn't invade.
We just had our dicks in the wind.
A lot of pissed-off people, Mr. Garrison.
Understand?
l'll come to that later.
So, 1963...
l spent much of September of '63...
...working on the Kennedy plan to get all U.S. personnel...
...out of Vietnam by the end of 196%.
One of the strongest plans issued by the Kennedy White House...
...National Security memo 263...
...ordered home the first 1,000 troops.