“employed by the F.B.I. at $200 per month from September of 1962 up to the time of the assassination,”[56] as stated by the commission’s general counsel J. Lee Rankin, at their closed-door meeting on January 27, 1964. The transcript of this remarkable session was classified “top secret” for a decade until researcher Harold Weisberg gained access to it through a legal battle and published all of it as his Whitewash IV in 1974. The purpose of the Warren Commissioners’ entire January 27 meeting was to deal with the disturbing information Rankin had received from Texas attorney general Waggoner
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