THE RON PATAKY TAPES

In 2007, Sara Jordan (Heintz) wrote a major article for Midwest Today magazine called "Who Killed Dorothy Kilgallen?" Even though Sara was only 17 years old at the time, her investigative piece became the Rosetta Stone for others curious about the life and death of Kilgallen. Jordan-Heintz was the first to print the name of the man who romanced Dorothy and then became the number one unofficial suspect when she died, Ron Pataky; the first to get incriminating quotes from him; the first author to present eyewitness interviews with people close to Kilgallen who were never questioned by police but knew of her courageous investigation into the JFK assassination that put her life in danger; the first to reveal shocking evidence of foul play.

Unfortunately, Dorothy has become a cottage industry for one author who solicited Sara's help and then wrote a series of repetitious and error-plagued books on DK which stretch credulity. So Sara decided to write her own book to set the record straight. It's called The Incredible Life & Mysterious Death Of Dorothy Kilgallen and runs 420 pages in the print edition. (It's also available as an ebook and audiobook worldwide). It offers a deep dive into Kilgallen's life and death, is based on solid research and has many important revelations.

Sara has found the "smoking gun" of the case--the fact that Ron Pataky (a newspaperman who romanced Dorothy in the final 16 months of her life)--had participated in a CIA covert paramilitary operation in Guatemala launched by Allen Dulles and run by E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis. This is a MAJOR revelation (that no other author has) and is based on multiple, taped conversations between Pataky and Larry Jordan, who is also a journalist (and Sara's father).

After the Midwest Today story was published, Ron phoned the magazine office and praised Sara's article for being very professional and balanced. He appreciated the fact she gave him an opportunity to respond to allegations against him. Oddly, over the years and until his death in 2022, he continued calling and chatting with the magazine publisher, Larry Jordan about a wide range of subjects, not all of which were even relevant to Dorothy. The two men quickly developed a friendly rapport such that Pataky felt very comfortable because Jordan was a fellow journalist and not accusatory. This contrasted with others who had interviewed Ron (such as Kilgallen's first biographer, Lee Israel, whom Pataky felt was in love with Dorothy, or the lawyer-turned-author who lacks journalistic skills and was confrontational).

The unusual relationship between the man whom some suspect was involved in Dorothy's demise and the Midwest magazine publisher yielded important new insights. Jordan ran tape on these chats and as Sara was researching her new book, gleaned new insights into Pataky's background and personality.

We are now presenting a WORLD EXCLUSIVE...three tape excerpts featuring Ron Pataky, but will be adding more, so be sure to check this page again soon. And tell everybody you know who is interested in Dorothy Kilgallen!

Surprisingly, one day Ron volunteered he had gone to Guatemala on what he described as a "military" mission when he was younger. But he was never in the military. He also contradicted himself by saying it had "nothing to do with training" and moments later admitted "we were highly trained."

The CIA and director Allen Dulles staged a coup in Guatemala in 1954, in which Ron Pataky participated. So he had an established link to the CIA! Dulles and his brother, Sec. of State John Foster Dulles, were investors in the United Fruit Co. which had vast landing holdings in that country. Democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz had bought back a small fraction of that land to help his people but UFC opposed that. Dulles lied to President Eisenhower and claimed that Arbenz was a communist, and needed to be overthrown, but no proof was ever found. A violent coup was staged, of which Pataky was a part.

Sara Jordan-Heintz was able to obtain confidential copies of Ron Pataky's school records, including his time at Stanford (from which he was expelled). The New York Times subsequently revealed that the CIA had an active recruitment campaign on the Stanford campus, unbeknownst to the university. It also offered classes which included a "survey of the ways in which criminals gave drugs to the unsuspecting." (Note: Dorothy Kilgallen was thought to have died as a result of a spiked drink she may have drank while meeting with an unidentified man thought to be Pataky at the Regency Hotel in NYC after she appeared on her last "What's My Line?" TV broadcast Nov. 8, 1965. Strangely, Pataky subsequently wrote a poem called "Vodka Roulette" which described just such a poisoning. NONE of this was investigated by police at the time. Her death was said to be due to alcohol mixed with a sleeping pills but the circumstances were rulled "UNDETERMINED." As Sara Jordan-Heintz reports in her book, it was subsequently learned by testing of forensic samples several years later that had been preserved, that Dorothy had died from THREE barbiturates, including ones she did not have in her townhouse).

The Guatemala coup was especially egregious. People were being abducted on the street and placed in vans, after which some of them were mutilated and dropped from helicopters in front of stadiums full of Guatemala sports spectators. Arbenz was ousted and the country's citizens were killed in massive numbers in ensuing years. It helped destabilized Latin America

In this tape excerpt, Pataky also talks about Dorothy's writing--both good and bad--and her private relationships.

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Ron Pataky was an entertainment reporter for a Columbus, Ohio newspaper when he met Dorothy on a foreign press junket in the summer of 1964. He claimed their relationship was platonic but there is a lot of evidence to the contrary, as detailed in Sara's book.

What has never made any sense is that Pataky somehow befriended many Hollywood stars and traveled extensively. Yet he worked for a relatively small paper that was owned by the Scripps-Howard chain, comprised of more than 50 newspapers. It made NO sense for him to be sent all over the country and even abroad to cover entertainment news when the Columbus paper could simply run such articles that were distributed by Scripps-Howard!

Senate investigations have established that the CIA had planted reporters with many media outlets. Even Philip Graham, the late publisher of the Washington Post, was cooperating with U.S. intelligence. So too did "Kathryn the Great," his widow Kathryn Graham. Henry Luce of Time-Life and his wife Claire Booth Luce were also CIA assets. Scores of reporters at all levels of the American. media helped the U.S. the maniulation of the public and the dissemination of false information was epidemic. In a number of cases, the CIA actually paid the salaries and expenses of reporters, and Ron Pataky is suspected of being one of them.

Larry Jordan confronted Ron about how it was he did so much travel for his newspaper and he responded by claiming it was because of his association with Scripps-Howard. BUT HIS ARTICLES SELDOM APPEARED ANYWHERE OTHER THAN IN HIS OWN NEWSPAPER. He was not routinely published nationwide!

In this audio excerpt Ron Pataky acknowledges that Dorothy went to New Orleans as part of her probe into the Kennedy assassination. It was where accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was from, and also where mobster Carlos Marcello lived.

Pataky suggested that Dorothy met with New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison. Although Garrison did not publicly begin his aggressive pursuit of suspects in the Kennedy assassination until the fall of 1966 (after Kilgallen was dead), we now know that within three days of JFK's murder, Garrison was already probing the case, including questioning people like David Ferrie, who was proven to have CIA ties. In other conversations, Pataky admitted he had personally talked with Garrison as well as Mark Lane, which is curious because Ron was an entertainment reporter.

The New York mobster (whose name Jordan couldn't recall during this conversation) was Frank Costello, who was such a good friend of Dorothy's he even gave her an expensive diamond necklace one time. He also had attended an informal gathering of the "Science Club" (that had nothing to do with science), that Dorothy held with a rotating group of friends most Mondays at P.J. Clarke's in New York.

As Sara Jordan-Heintz reveals in her book, Dorothy also went to Miami shortly before she died, and while there guested on Larry King's radio show. Thus she had traversed the Dallas-New Orleans-Miami nexus of the anti-Castro Cuban exiles covert operations. Her columns often contained revelations about Castro and what was going on in Latin America. One possiible source for Dorothy was her friend Florence Pritchett Smith (one of Jack Kennedy's lovers), who was a fellow Hearst columnist and married to former Cuban ambassador Earl Smith. Florence died coincidentally (?) the day after Dorothy's body was found. Sara probes this intriguing angle.

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Larry Jordan confided to Ron that Sara was contemplating a book on Dorothy and Pataky bragged about Dorothy's skills as an investigative journalist (nomianted for a Pulitzer). He pointed out she had obtained the Warren Commission Report prior to its public release and revealed she even sent him a copy! The FBI had sent agents to her New York townhouse to confront her about this but she rebuffed them and said she'd rather die than reveal her source. She was dead a short time later.

When Dorothy obtained an advance copy of Jack Ruby's testimony to the Warren Commission, she published it on the front pages of Hearst newspapers nationwide, along with her side-by-side analysis of the revelations. This was EXPLOSIVE and infuriated LBJ and J. Edgar Hoover. As detailed in The Incredible Life & Mysterious Death Of Dorothy Kilgallen, a few days after the assassination of President John Kennedy, she began writing columns that were nationally distributed that challenged the official version of events. One of her first was her comment that the producers of the recent movie "Seven Days In May" could be forgiven if they thought life imitated art, since their movie was about a coup that originated in Texas! This was a direct swipe at Lyndon Johnson and her suspicion that he was behind JFK's death. This was incredibly bold, as the rest of the media were parroting the official line.

Sara reviewed hundreds of Dorothy Kilgallen's columns during her career and quotes from a number of important exposes DK published that revealed important new information about the assassination.

In their converation excerpted here, Jordan mentions to Ron Pataky that Jack Ruby's defense attorney, Melvin Belli, had privattely commented upon Kilgallen's death that "they killed Dorothy and Jack [Ruby] is going to be next."

Some critics have questioned why Dorothy didn't print what Jack Ruby told her in the two exclusive interviews she got with him. The reason is, she was saving it for a book! Ron confirms that Kilgallen planned a SECOND book (and not just "Murder One.") It would deal with the cast of characters in the Kennedy assassination. Ron also confirms that he and Dorothy collaborated. So he was in a position to monitor her progress and, if he wanted, to share this with people who wanted to keep a close eye on her work.

Pataky tried to debunk the validity of Dorothy's hairdressers, Marc Sinclaire and Charles Simpson, who were first quoted in Sara's 2007 article. (Other authors have used Sara's work, mostly without attribution). These two men -- along with Dorothy's friend, CBS producer Marlin Swing (whose taped comments will be posted in the near future) -- affirmed that Dorothy and they were all being wiretapped and followed. In the final months of her life, Kilgallen was receiving death threats. Mere days before her suspicious death, she had vowed to friends that she would break the JFK case wide open.

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