Billie Sol Estes told IRS investigator Walt Perry in 1963 that he had given $10 million in bribes and kickbacks to Lyndon Johnson over the years

 Billie Sol Estes told IRS investigator Walt Perry in 1963 that he had given $10 million in bribes and kickbacks to Lyndon Johnson

 From Gus Russo’s book Live By the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK, p. 283]:

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           Walt Perry, an investigator for the Internal Revenue Service at the time, says that Bobby Kennedy was attempting to use Johnson’s legal problems as leverage, should Johnson not agree to leave the ticket voluntarily. Perry was brought in by Willam Webster (later to become the FBI director) to assist in the Billie Sol Estes investigation. He befriended Estes, who, in the course of things, told Perry that he had funneled $10 million in bribes to Johnson. He also related in an anecdote about Bobby Kennedy. Perry recalls, “Estes told me that in 1963, Bobby Kennedy contacted him in prison. Bobby made him an offer, saying, ‘If you testify against Johnson, you’re out [of prison].’ Billie declined the offer, saying, ‘If I testified against him, I’d be dead within twenty-four hours.’”

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          [Gus Russo, Live By the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK, p.283]

          Gus Russo footnotes on p. 561 of his book that he interviewed Walt Perry on June 6, 1992.

          $10 million in 1960 dollars would equal $100 million in 2022 dollars: http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

 In 1961 U.S. Agricultural official Henry Marshall was investigating Billie Sol Estes, which really means he was investigating Lyndon Johnson. LBJ, response, had Henry Marshall murdered on June 3, 1961.

 https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmarshallH.htm

 

J. Edgar Hoover on Henry Marshall killing: “I just can’t understand how one can fire five shots at himself.”

 Did LBJ order the killing of Henry Marshall? - JFK Assassination Debate - The Education Forum (ipbhost.com)

   J. Raymond Carroll said:

  John Simkin said:

Even J. Edgar Hoover was not impressed with this theory. He wrote on 21st May, 1962: "I just can't understand how one can fire five shots at himself."

 

John, can you please give the source for this quotation from Hoover? 

It appeared on a memo from Hoover to Tommy G. McWilliams. It was quoted on page 14 of an article entitled "The Killing of Henry Marshall" by Bill Adler that appeared in The Texas Observer (7th November, 1986).