GARRISON ABANDONS THE HYPNOTIZING OF WITNESSES

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• Publication Date: May 29, 1967
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WASH POST 29 May 67
Garrison Abandons the Hypnotizing of Witnesses
By George Lardner Jr.
Washington Post staff writer
New Orleans District At-
torney Jim Garrison said yes-
terday he no longer relies on
hypnosis in questioning wit-
nesses in his controversial in-
vestigation of President Ken-
nedy's assassination.
Interviewed on ABC-TV's
"Issues and Answers," Gar-
rison said he was amazed at
suggestions that his office
might have used hypnosis and
sodium pentothal (so-called
truth serum) "to plant ideas"
in the minds of witnesses. But
he indicated he has abandoned
both devices in light of the
criticisms.
"We no longer bother to
objectify (testimony) in the
way we started doing," Gar-
rison said.
The pipe-smoking prosecutor
again assailed the Central In-
telligence Agency, accusing it
?this time of hiring lawyers "to
try and stop" his investigation,
"Every lawyer involved in
this case, without exception,
involved in the attempts to de-
rail the investigation, has been
connected by us with the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency," Gar-
rison said.
Garrison also repeated his
charges that former CIA em-
ployes were involved in the
assassination and that they
were closely associated with
Lee Harvey Oswald.
The District Attorney as-
serted that Oswald, found by
the Warren Commission to
have been the President's' lone
assassin, was "obviously an in-
telligence :employe of the
United States Government," al-
though "not a CIA agent."
Garrison said he has had to
"defer any further arrests" in
the case, but said more prob-
ably would be made before the
trial of New Orleans business.
man Clay L. Shaw. Garrison I tained that "solid evidence" I Garrison "irresponsible" and
has accused Shaw of, conspir-'
acy in the assassination.
The District Attorney also
ridiculed the thought that the
offer of money and a job by
one of his investigators to an-
other witness in the case,
Alvin R. l3eaubouef, represent-
ed a bribe attempt, as reported
by Newsweek Magazine.
Garrison charged that News-
week "never bothered to find
out the truth from us," and
noted that the magazine Is
owned by The Washington
Post, which Garrison labeled
"a mouthpiece of the Admin-
istration."
The prosecutor also main-
purportedly linking Jack Ruby I said he had requested the
to the alleged assassination I prosecutor's disbarment "to
conspiracy was behind a call put an end to any further ex-
ploitation" of the assassina-
for his disbarment by Sol tion.
Dann, one of the late Ruby's
lawyers.
On Friday, Dann labeled
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