CIA AGENT LINK WITH OSWALD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600020006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 7, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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VANCOUVER, (Special)-An American who claims
he worked in Calgary for the U.S. Central. Intelligence
Agency has told a Vancouver newspaper he had dealings
with Lee Harvey Oswald in his capacity as CIA.agent.
Donald ;l;,,iton, 35, told The Sun in an interview
he encountered Oswald, Clay Shaw and David Ferrie
while he was on the payroll of the CIA, the U.S. espionage
Norton said he delivered an
ati.ache. case containing $50,000
from Clay Shaw to a man he
later identified as Lee Harvey
Oswald, the man named by the
Warren Commission as the as-
assin of President Kennedy.
He said he :Wade the delivery
to Monter?ray, Mexico.
Norton said his instructions
were to make his way from
il,ontegray to Calgary, where he
made himself known rrblicly.
He was t h e n contacted and
burned over documents he had
received from Oswald in M v -
,erray.
"My instructions were to get
established in Calgary and 4
y becoming very promi-
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playing for one of the well-
known restaurants in Calgary.
The man contacted me."
The Sun says Norton refused
to identify his Calgary contact
and referred to Min only as "a
certain well-known oil company
employee."
"Norton's activities in Cal.
?g ry, apart from his CIA deal-
lees, have b e e n largely con-
firmed by The Sun," the news-
paper said.
1'hesc activities w c r e also
confirmed by The Albertan.
A spokesman for CHC7' tclc-
vision confirmed that Norton
appeared on a late night pro-
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it was published In Vancouver
aiurd ay.
"Norton first came to see The
Sun July 8," says the news-
paper. `Since then many de-
tails of Norton's story have
been confirmed. But the ' hu-
tlrenticity of his central claims
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Sunday following official ceremor.
am during the fall of 1962.
PYRGH I A apnkcsnian for the Alberta
Piano Co. Ltd. confirmed he
was employed by the company
for about one year giving Organ
icsso)ns. tfe disappeared sud-
denly, the spokesman said.
Norton had returned to Cal-
gary this summer and b: d told
his story to. a personality as-
;".ociated with the station.
Ilow:;ver, ?thesidry had been
defy verification by noignar Special to The- Albertan The
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CPYRGHT
ter'
District Attorney Jim Garrison
of New Orleans.
David Ferrie, who died in
February this year, was a cen-
tral figure in Garrison's investi-
gation. Mr. Garrison claims the
assassination resulted from a
complex conspiracy involving
para-military g r o it p s linked
with the CIA and dissident
Cuban exiles.
Norton, a musician, is a na-
tide of Columbus, Ga. until late
last year he operated his own
record promotion a n d produc-
tion company in Albany, Ga.
He told The Sun that Ferric, a
pilot, was his contact man in
.1958 on a CIA assignment to
carry about $150,000 into IIa.
vana.
assassination when the man
-known as Lee Oswald was re-
vealed to the public, I almost
immediately recognized him as
being the same Harvey -Lee I
had met in September, 1962, in
Monterray,.to whom I delivered
the money.
"I believe this was for a rev?
olutionary-type activity against
Castro. This was a CIA assign-
ment."
"This was done July 9, the
day after lie came into The
Sun, and Garrison agreed to
send one of his top men to Van-
couver to interview Norton,"
The Sun says.
The newspaper says - Norton
was interviewed by Charles
Ward, chief deputy assistapt
district attorney July 12 and on
July 15 Norton returned to New
Orleans for further questioning,
"Officials in Garrison's office
later told. The Sun by telephone
that Norton's evidence con-
He said the' money was to be
used to support the revolution=
ary. activities of Fidel Castro.
He knew Ferric as Hugh Phar-
ris.
"This man, known to inc as
Hugh Pharris, delivered to me
the ease which contained the
'money I was to take to the CIA
contact ink Havana," Norton
said in the.interview.
. Norton said he met Shaw in
Alabama in August, 1962, be-
fore a CIA assignment to Mon-
terray.
Ile said Shaw was with a
man who gave him, an attache
case containing about $50,000 to
be delivered to a "Harvey Lee"
in. Monterrayy - in exchange for
another case containing docu.
meets:
"During the publicity of the
and gave them possible 'new
leads," The Sun says, "They
termed Norton's story 'plausi-
ble' but possibly colored.
"They did not know whether
Norton would be asked to' tes-
tify in the Shaw conspiracy
case," The Sun says.
Norton said he had worked
for the CIA intermittently since
1957.
Inc said he lost his job with
the CIA in November, 1966, as
a result of the Garrison investi-
gation. "I was told , that I
should take a long, quiet vaca'
Lion."
Norton said he spent seven
months Criss-crossing the U.S.
and Canada and finally arrived
"I came to Canada for one
reason-to see if I could find a
place to settle down and lead
just an everyday normal life
and get out of this mad race
I've been involved in," he said.
He admitted lie had been con-
victed of embezzlement in 1952
and sentenced to six months at
Columbus, Ga. He said the
C 111) a n assignment involving
Ferrie brought him about $5,-
000, the Mexico one with Os-
wald about $2,500, in addition to
a $500 monthly salary.,
The Sun says .Norton was
given a lie detector test Thurs-
day "by another Vancouver
news media negotiating for his
story."
"He was told the test was in
conclusive because of his highly
nervous condition," says The
Sun. "The media refused to
deal with him on the grounds of
the test"
Janko rig
places first
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Greenwood of Leusana, Alta.,
drove the Janko Brothers 'rig
to victory with an accumulated
time of four minutes, 26.9 sec-
onds in the four-day Red Deer
exhibition chuckwagon meet
which ended Saturday.
Bobby Cosgrave drove t 11 c
scgond and third place rigs in
the race''s. Ile piloted the Flett
Brothers wagon of `Hand Hills,
Alta., in 4:28.1 and, the Newall
Brothers rig in 4:32.4.
Janko and Flett had been tied
going into Saturday's heat.
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