From: bhart@cyberramp.net (Michael Parks)
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First Reports, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12/18/76

All emphasis is my own....Michael Parks

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The Dorothy Kilgallen Case
By Liz Smith

   Now that weâre going to ante up $13 million tax paid dollars for Congress to reinvestigate 
the deaths of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, it bears thinking on that our own CIA and 
FBI were neither up to nor trustworthy enough, to do the job for us as they should have.  This 
brings to mind the strange case of Dorothy Kilgallen.
   Kilgallenâs biographer, Lee Israel, and the son of the columnist, Kerry Kollmar, have spent 
almost a year trying to wrest from these two government agencies the pertinent papers concerning 
Kilgallenâs involvement with the assassination of JFK.  They embarked on their efforts 
separately - Lee, because she is writing Dorothyâs life story; Kerry because he is fighting mad, 
livid with frustration and wants to find out what his famous mother knew and how she really 
died.
   Kerry wants the material he is entitled to under the Freedom of Information Act.  Proud of 
what he has learned of his mother, he wants the story of her prescience and courage in the 
matter of JFKâs death made public.  He wants it in Lee Israelâs book for the records.
   Yet even the intervention of Bella Abzug before she became a lame duck, led nowhere.  The FBI 
has voluminous Kilgallen material.  In 1964, several weeks before the Warren Commission Report 
was released, Dorothy published prematurely Jack Rubyâs testimony to the Commission.  The FBI 
then began investigating the columnist.  She refused to reveal sources and advised the FBI to 
stop wasting time on her and ãgo after the facts.ä  The FBI still tapped Kilgallenâs phones and 
placed her under surveillance.  The columnist began making calls from booths using code names.  
(She always called herself ãParkerä when talking to investigator Mark Lane, and called him 
ãRobinson.ä)
   So much for the FBI and its MICKEY MOUSE behavior.  But what about the CIA?  The CIA, for 
instance, has 20 odd pages on Dorothy Kilgallen in its files.  It contacted 51 CIA offices in 
her ãcaseä!  Yet requests to both the FBI and CIA by Kerry Kollmar continue to run up against a 
bureaucratic jargon and delay that resemble ãstonewalling.ä
   WITH BOTH THE FBI AND CIA UNDER SHADOWS OF SUSPICION AND CLOUDS OF DISGRACE, ONE WOULD THINK 
IT WOULD BEHOOVE THEM TO ACT QUICKLY AND OPENLY TO MAKE THE KILGALLEN DOSSIERS AVAILABLE TO HER 
OUTRAGED SON AND HER INTREPID, STUBBORN BIOGRAPHER.  BUT THE COVER-UP GONE ON!

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