On February 27, 1967, Perry Russo was injected with sodium pentothal and was then interviewed by Andrew Sciambra who was an Assistant D.A. on Garrison's staff. This session was not tape recorded and there is only a memo from Sciambra that tells us what happened.

Here is Sciambra's memo about Russo's session:

On January 29, 1971, Perry Russo visited Clay Shaw's lawyers for an interview. He discussed the session while he was injected with sodium pentothal.

For several months I have repeated a question that Paul Hoch asked of Jim Garrison:

"Among other things, I offered my $64 question about you: at the time you arrested Clay Shaw, what serious evidence did you have that he had in fact conspired with anyone to kill JFK?

The answer is in the Sciambra memo - remember, Russo's first hypnosis session came right after Shaw was arrested.

So, all Garrison had was a half-hour interview with Perry Russo, under the influence of sodium pentothal, alleging that David Ferrie said to Clay Bertrand, "We are going to kill John F. Kennedy." Not a word from Bertrand. Then Russo identified Shaw as Bertrand, and that was enough for Garrison to have Shaw arrested.

Does that sound like serious evidence to you?

Here's a letter to the editor from the Washington Post of March 27, 1967:

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Perry Russo Admits Clay Shaw had "nothing to do with anything."

A transcript of an April 1971 interview of Perry Russo by Clay Shaw's attorneys.

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Perry Russo Talks - in Baton Rouge, Part Two

James Phelan wrote a memo listing all the inconsistencies in Perry Russo's stories.

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Lt. Edward O'Donnell Testifies about Perry Russo's Lie Detector Test...

Jim Garrison had Perry Russo take a lie detector test. It did not go well.

Perry Russo's First Lie Detector Test...

When asked about Russo's lie detector test, Jim Garrison lied.