GARRISON'S TACTICS DISCREDIT IDEA THAT HE HAS EVIDENCE

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Garrison's L dies Discredit
ea That He Has. ,7-72c110. lizze
New Orleans' loud-mouth district attor-
ney, Jim Garrison, owes it to this country
to put up or shut up on his claim that he
has "solved" the Kennedy assassination
case.
If by some off chance Garrison has
found a real conspiracy behind the late
President's murder, he has discredited his
own case almost beyond repair by his
circus-like performance.
The Kennedy case leaves room for all
sorts of fast and loose theories. Especially
after the death of Lee Harvey Oswald, it
became almost impossible to prove "what
did not happen" in connection with the
President's slaying. The Warren Commis-
sion could only examine the evidence that
Nsr..s ,vailable. And in many ways, the
commIssion did a sloppy job of that.
? But this is still no excuse for Garrison's
performance. By accident or design, he
has, as one television network charged,
played on the "nation's sorrow and
doubts" about the Kennedy case. What's
more, he has exploited passing public atti-
tudes to support sensational charges of the
most reckless sort.
Garrison jumped on the national stage
last February with an impressive perform-
ance. It was his first and last.
He "reluctantly" admitted he was in-
vestigating a conspiracy to assassinate
President Kennedy. He ? said he was sorry
the case had been prematurely publicized.
And he announced he would grant no more
press interviews.
Within two days he was dropping sen-
sational charges and giving interviews that
haven't stopped yet and haven't yet been
substantiated on any truly significant par-
ticular. He promptly labeled David William
Ferric (a New Orleans oddball the FBI had
checkcd out years before) as "one of his-
tory's most important individuals."
Then he began fingering a weird collec-
tion of New Orleans character, quarreling
with television networks and hinting of
dark deeds in high places. On May 21, the
man who wanted no more interviews ex-
plained via a New Orleans television pro-
gram that Kennedy was gunned down by
five snti.Csstro Cobans angered at Kenne-
dy's handling of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
This charge neatly implicated the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency (which was getting
a lot of adverse general criticism at the
time) since Garrison insisted the CIA knew IV
all these men, was hampering his investi-
gation and had even misled the Warren
Commission.
As summer came on, Garrison had one .
indictment. It was based on the testimony
of an individual who reportedly told a
Washington Post reporter he would point
out flaws in his own evidence for a price. .
One of Garrison's chief investigators had
quit after claiming this one indictment
(against Clay Shaw) should be dropped for
lack of evidence.
After a summer perjury trial of a New
Orleans attorney convicted of lying when
he said he couldn't identify Shaw's voice,
Garrison amplified his solution to the Ken-
nedy case in a copyrighted article in Play-
boy magazine. The killing was the work of
of a "precision guerrilla team of at least
seven men" who formerly worked for the
CIA.
By December, Garrison had another
individual to charge directly .in his con-
spiracy case?an associate of far right ra-
dio preacher Carl McIntire. But again this
charge, whatever its validity or lack of
validity, is wrapped in a cloak of sensa-
tional innuendo that now implies J. Edgar
Hoover and President Johnson are some-
how keeping the truth about the Kennedy
case from the American .people and may
even have worse things to account for.
These latest revelations came to the
American public during a press conference
at which Garrison, the man who didn't
want any publicity, was on hand to help
publicize a Ramparts magazine article on
the assassination.
At this point, his whole "investigation'
has become such a cheap; vulgar show that
the public could hardly credit, Garrison
with proving .1 genuine conspiracy if he
suddenly appeared like Moses' with evi-
dence from on high on stone tablets.
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ty BRUCE WINTERS V/
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(Moscow Bureau of The Sunl
MoscoW Nov. 21?An Ameri- an airliner in 1G56 carrying dele:.
can defector who claims he was
an agent for the Central Intelii-
1 gence Agency said today that
President Kennedy was the vic-
tim of a "wide conspiracy" in
which the CIA was involved.
In all intery iew in the Govern-
gates of an Afro-Asian confer-
ence from Peking to Bandung.
Moreover, he charged that
"the United States Information
Service in India is one of the
branches of the Central Intelli-,
:ment's evening paper, lzvestia, game Agency," and that
11John D. Smith said the new t`many" of its officials are con-
;
theory of Dr. Josiah Thompson nected with the Federal Bureau
!that three men were involved in
the assassination should be
I given close examination.
! Dr. Thompson, a 32-year-old
Phi Beta Kappa who teaches
I'
!philosophy at Haverford (Pa.)
'College, believes four shots were
fired from three guns in six sec-
1 ands in Dallas that day, and
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;rants the gunmen may still be
'at large.
Victim Of Conspiracy
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Smiths observation was part
1
,of a long interview given to STATINTL
iIzt;cstia as a three-part account
of his own alleged spying activ-
ities concluded in another Soviet
'journal, the Literary Gazette.
He said Dr. Thompson'S
theory, which casts doubt on the
guilt of Lee Harvey Oswald but
ascribes no motives to the three.
persons he believes killed Presi-.
dent Kennedy. "is worthy of the
most serious attention." . ?
! He added that "like many
lathers, I am cOnvinced that;
John Kennedy was the victim:
IDE a wide conspiracy in which'
the CIA took part." .
, Charging that American espi-;
onage "permits the filthiest and'
most criminal deeds," Smith,
I added that "with money it is!
Possible to do everything in the;
United States. Money even
killed President Kennedy." .
? One Of Every Five
Smith wrapped up his memoirs
with the indictment that one outi
Oi every five American diplo-'
mats stationed abroad is en-:
gaged in espionage activities. :
A former code clerk in the
New Delhi Embassy, Smith was' ? ?
born in Quincy, Mass. .He is
'now living in Moscow and said
I he plans to continue writing.
about the role be allegedly.
played in CIA undercover mis-
sions in India and Southeast'
Asian countries.
In today's installment, Smith:
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of Investigation as well.
Indian journalists and publish-
ers were bribed and pressured
by the CIA to publicize articles
favorable to American interests,
Smith said.
The defector said he wrote
an unsigned letter to the Indian
Government detailing CIA ac-
tivitjes. the country before
fleein;,the embassy in the late
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/Miami Prosecutor Calls
for Inquiry Into CIA
IMIAMI, Fla. (AP) ? State
!Atty. Richard E. Gerstein said
!Monday the facts developed by
New Orleans District Attorney
!Jim Garrison in investigating
,the K e n ne d y assassination
!should cause a Congressional in-
quiry of the Central Intelligence
:Agency.
Gerstein, prosecutor for Dade
County (Miami), lent the re-
sources of his staff to Garrison
in probing possible involvement
of Cuban exile elements in Mi-
ami with an assassinational con-
spiracy.
In an interview on radio sta-
tion WKAT, Gerstein said Gar-
rison asked for the help prior to
public disclosure of the investi-
gation.
"He said he had concluded the
Warren Commission report was
inaccurate, perhaps intentional-
,13'," Gerstein said. .
"I don't know if he's right or
[wrong," Gerstein said. "That
will be proven in court and it is
!premature to say.
I "But an inquiry should be
made by Congress into activities
of the CIA in connection with
the assassination," Gerstein
said. '
Gerstein said Garrison told
him before the probe was publi-
cized by New Orleans newspa-
pers that only Life Magazine:
"was privy to the facts."
Gerstein also said Garrison
:was mentioned in Louisiana as a
possible candidate for the U.S.
Senate "and from my conversa-
tions with him I know his ambi-
tions lie in that direction."
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PLAYBOY INTERVIEW:
ARRISON
a candid conversation with the embattled district attorney of new ?deans
On February 17, 1967, tile New
Orleans States-Item broke a story that
would electrify the world?and hurl
district attorney Jim Garrison into a
bitter fight for his political life. An enter-
prising reporter, checking vouchers filed
with the city by the district attorney's
office, diseovered that Garrison had spent
over $8000 investigating the assassina-
tion of President Kennedy. "Has the
district attorney discovered valuable
additional evidence," the States-I tern
asked editorially, "or is he merely saving
some interesting new information that
will gain for him exposure in a national
magazine?" Stung, Garrison counter-
attacked, confirming that an inquiry into
Kennedy's assassination was under way
and charging that the States-Item's "irre-
sponsible" revelation "has now created a
problem for us in finding witnesses and
getting cooperation from other witnesses
and in at least one case has endangered
the life of a witness."
On February 18, newsmen from all
over the world converged on New Orleans
to hear Garrison announce at a press
conference: "We have been investigat-
ing the role of the city of New Or-
leans in the assassination of President
Kennedy, and we have made some
progress-1 think substantial progress....
IVhat's more, there will be arrests." As
reporters flashed news of Garrison's
statement across the world, a 49-year-old
New Orleans pilot, David Ferrie, told
newsmen that the district attorney had
him "pegged as the getaway pilot in an
elaborate plot to kill Kennedy." Ferric, a
bizarre figure who wore a flaming-red
wig, false eyebrows and make-up to con-
ceal burns he had suffered years before,
denied any involvement in a conspiracy
to kill the President. Garrison, he said,
was out to frame him. Four days later,
Ferrie was found dead in his shabby
three-room apartment in New Orleans,
ostensibly of natural causes?though he
left behind two suicide notes.
The press had greeted Garrison's ini-
tial claims about a conspiracy with a
measure of skepticism, but Ferric's death
was front-page news around the world.
Garrison broke his self-imposed silence
.to charge that Ferrie was "a man who, in
my judgment, was one of history's most
important individuals." According to
Garrison, "Mr. Ferrie was one of those
individuals I had in mind when I said
there would be arrests shortly. We had
reached a decision to arrest him early
next week. Apparently we waited too
long." But Garrison vowed that Ferrie's
death would not halt his investigation,
and added, "My staff and I solved the
assassination weeks ago. I wouldn't say
this if we didn't have the, evidence
beyond a shadow of a doubt. We know
the key individuals, the cities involved
and how it was done."
On March I, Garrison eclipsed even the
headlines from his previous press confer-
ence by announcing the arrest of Clay
Shaw, a wealthy New Orleans business-
man and real-estate developer, on
charges of conspiring to assassinate John
F. Kennedy. One of New tleans' most
prominent citizens, Shaw wils a founder '
and director of the city's prestigious
International Trade Mart from' 1947
to 1965, wizen he retired to devote his,
time to playwriting and restoring rhis-L
tonic homes in the old French Quarier.
The day after Shaw's arrest, Garrison
declared that "Shaw was none other.
than Clay Bertrand," the shadowy
queen bee of the New Orleans homo-
sexual underworld, who, according toi,
attorney. Dean Andrews' testimony be-
fore the Warren Commission, called
him the day after the assassination and
asked him to rush to Dallas to defend
Oswald. Shaw heatedly denied his guilt:
"I never heard of any plot and I never
used any alias in my life." But New Or-
leans society, which had long counted
Shaw one of its own, was stunned.
On March 14, a panel of three judges
heard Garrison's case in a preliminary
hearing to determine if there was
enough evidence against Shaw to bring
him to trial. Perry Raymond Russo, a 25-
year-old life-insurance salesman from
Baton Rouge who had once been Ferric's
"roommate," testified that in mid-Septem-
ber of 1963, he had attended a meeting
at Fenie's apartment where Shaw, Lee
Harvey Oswald and Ferrie discussed
means of assassinating the President in a
"To read the press accounts of my investi-
gation, I'm a cross between Al Capone
and Attila the Hun?bribing, threaten-
ing innocent men. Anybody who employs
those methods should be disbarred!'
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reason: because he was working for a rec-
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JANE WILSON
The last time Jim Garrison, district attor-
ney for New Orleans, made up his mind to ?
accomplish an unpopular mission he said
The only way anyone can stop me now is to
, kill me.' On that occasion hehadmerely de-
termined to clean up New Orleans' more
spectacularly vicious night clubs and strip
' joints, and he succeeded without noticeable
support from the local judiciary, the police,
I or the press. But he is popular in the city, ?
? and he went on to be re-elected as District
I Attorney?the first man in 30 years to serve
a SpcOnd term,
New OrleanS, one' a bus for pLrt.a and
privateers operating in the Guff of Mexico,
? has a lawless history and once had an open
tradition of civic corruption. Such a tradi- ?
tion, in which local government becomes one ?
I, of the more fruitful areas for free enter-
prise, tends to die hard.
One of the first things that Garrison did
after taking office in 1962 was to have some
"- special forms printed which were to be filled
In by any member of his staff who was ap-
proached by individuals with unusual pro-
posals to make about the workings of justice.
He also had a time clock installed in his of-
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? flees. ?I did this just to make the point
. that there was going to be a change,* says
! Garrison. 'And when you can get a lawyerl?
? to punch a time card, morale has to be high.' ?
Such was Garrison's newbroom approach
- in the District Attorney's offices five years
'ago. Yet in recent months members of his '
staff have been accused of bribing and intim-
idating witnesses, and Garrison himself is
rarely to be found in his office before noon.
He cannot sleep, but sits up sometimes until
Yon into a conspiracy to murder.President
dawn pondering the details of his investiga-
Kennedy.
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. I arrived in New Orleans last April in a j!
spirit of open-minded skepticism about this I
DIEM
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RiMENS
? investigation. New York newspapers had then -
been reporting Garrison'sti f
some two months, but with deep reticence,
'and usually on a back page among the girdle
ads. By this time he had questioned a num-
ber of extremely unusual dhad I
arrested one man?Clay Shaw, a prominent '
New Orleans businessman and a former di-
rector of the city's International Trade Mart.
1 knew that Garrison had some reputation
as hardhe3ded. He had been elected M-
OW Allerney WithQUI any political hacking,
but had !limply appeared on television and
told the electorate about the lethargy and in-
competence In the District Attorney's office.
Since e bad %or e
four years as a trial lawyer, he was able to
be fairly explicit in his criticism. As Garri-
son recalls it, ? The other candidates were
scared to make the District Attorney mad
In case he was re-elected, as was the pro-
bability. They would still have had to prac-
? tice law from his office. But I never think
of consequences and as a consequence I won.*
Garrison is good-looking, and a fluent and
forthright speaker. Apparently he was an ex-
cellent television campaigner. But campaign
promises are one thing, and New Orleans
was startled to find that he intended tokeer;
his vow to dean up the city. As his chief
Investigator in this task he chose an ex-po-
?lice officer named Pershing Gervais.
This was an extremely provocative move.
In the late 1950's the police in New Orleans
were so far steeped In cynicism that pay-offs
were made casually at roll call, when a
brown envelope containing the week's bribe
,was handed out to each officer. Gervais had
testified in court about this scandal, and
later resigned from the force. He said at
the time, 'There are higher-ups (in the po-
lice) who were sucking up thousands. They
know it, and they know that I know it." Alto-
gether he knew too much. Gervais retired for
family reasons just after Garrison started
work on the conspiracy investigation last
autumn. Until June of this year Garrison's
Chief aide was one Will ,a m Gurvich, the head
of a private detective agency in New Orleans.
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a few such padlockings were necessary
landlords not wishing to lose a year's rent
suddenly became most concerned about the
? legality of activities on their premises.
? But at the height of the Bourbon Stree
? reads, the eight criminal court judges of Ne
Orleans announced that Garrison had no pow-
er to engage in such investigations and Cu
off his funds to do so. He ignored thern,
? used his own money, and at a press confer-
ence remarked that the fact that the judg
wave net iniareated in vice investigatio
? raises interesting questions .about the i
fluences of racketeers on these officials
? The judges forthwith charged him with
criminal defamation. In his capacity as Di-
trict Attorney, Garrison instantly dismissed
these charges against himself. The State
Attorney had then to be brought down from
Baton Rouge to prosecute, and after a trial
full of testimony most damaging to the jucl-
es, Garrison was nevertheless convicted.
! Eventually, after an appeal to the Suprerne
Court, this conviction was reversed on t e
grounds that a federal rule prohibits p
lie official from recovering damages for a
defamatory falsehood relating to his official
conduct unless he proves that the stateme4i?
'iv/as made with 'actual malice* or wiyi
?reckless disregard of whether it was falle
Ior not.*
I Garrison was off the hook--not because ILI
I had proved any case against the judges b:Itti,
'simply because they were prohibited fro
, suing him for damages. Asked how he wa
able to work with these judges after such
,bitter episode, Garrison replied, ? What dO
you mean? It's easy to be magnanimous
'ter you've won. The question is?how aide
!they able to get along with me? They don"
send for me now?they ask if I will se
them.' . ? - ? : ?
, Garrison's *re-election in New One
was ,not unopposed. Criminal Court jud
Malcolm O'Hara Mood against him, and
'backed three-to-one Br I
'this f
Having affronted the police, Garrison was
next to offend the sheriff and local prison
officials by exposing rackets in the collec- '
lion of ball bonds and disgraceful conditions
In the city's jails. Then he made a swoop on
Bourbon Street, the red-light district of New
Orleans. The police offered a ldnd of passive
VAVISMOIMINVI?
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BROTHER OF OSWALD
BACKS WARREN PANEL
Robert L. Oswald, the brother
of Lee Harvey Oswald, said
yesterday that he agreed with
the Warren Commission's con-
clusion, that his brother had
assassinated President Kennedy.
"; have not yet read or heard
or seen any evidence that has
shaken my conviction that Lee
and Lee alone fired the shots
that wounded Governor [John
B.] Connally [of Texas] and
killed the president," Mrs. Os-
wald wrote in an article in the
current Look magazine.
"I have seen no convincing
evidence that the commission,
the F.B.I.. the Secret Service,
the State Department, the c.r.A.
and President Lyndon 13: John-
son joined in some melo-
dramatic conspiracy to deceive
the American people."
The article is adapted from
the forthcoming book. "Lee," by
Mr. Oswald with Myrick and
Barbara Land.
Mr. Oswald said that he felt
his brother might have con-
fessed his guilt privately to him
had not death intervened.
Describing a 10-minute meet-
ing with his brother in the
Dallas jail on the day after
the assassination, Mr. Oswald
said "it seemed to me that
we were just beginning to reach
the point of talking freely and
easily to each other" when a
police guard - interrupted the
conversation.
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Columbus, Ohio (UPI)?Gor-
don Novel said today he plans to
file a libel suit against New
Orleans Dist. Atty. Jim Garri-
son and "Playboy" magazine.
Novel, who was once sought
by Garrison as a material wit-
ness in the district attorney's
investigation of an alleged plot
to assassinate President Ken-
nedy, was named in a recent
Playboy article based on an in-
terview with Garrison.
The former nightclub owner
and New Orleans native, whose
extradition Garrison had sought,
said he would file the libel suit
in federal district court in Chi-
cago Oct. 13.
Novel said the suit, for an
undisclosed sum, would name
Garrison, Playboy publisher
Hugh Heffner, and members of
Truth and Consequences, a New
Orleans group financing Garri-
son's investigations.
Tho Garrison interview in
Playboy linked Novel to the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency. Novel
said an editorial comment in
that issue accused him of com7
plicity in Kennedy's assassina-
tion.
"Heffner never backed up that
statement," Novel said. "When
he says guilty of complicity, he
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must either have some awfully
good information or else he's
pretty stupid.
"I want' to make theni prove
their story, that's all," Novel
said.
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TIMES-PICAYUNE.. NEW ORLEANS, LA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1967
alias Policemen Deeply
Involved in Plot, Says DA
JFK Murder Ordered by
Millionaires, Charge
District Attorney Jim Garri-
son said in New York Thurs-
day that "elements of the Dallas
police force were deeply in-
volved" in the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy.
The assassination, Garrison
charged, was ordered and paid
for by "a handful of oil-rich
psychotic millionaires."
- Garrison's assertions came
tduring and after a radio' inter-
view taped for a New York
J. City program to be broadcast
Tuesday.
t He said aid tutnb i Dalios
1. police involved was small and
t he refused to say how many
"Texas style" millionaires were
involved, although he identified
them all as extreme conserva-
tives.
' He also said "some members
of the ? White Russian com-
munity in Dallas" played a
part in the plot. '
FINISHED IN DALLAS
Garrison said he could reveal
the latest developments because
his investigators were finished
in Dallas and back in New Or-
leans. He would have jeop-
ardized their lives, he said, if
he had mentioned the involve-
ments' of the Dallas police
while his men were still in Dal-
las. The investigation there
ended some .10 days ago, he
said.
The DA repeated that he is
ready to bring Clay L. Shaw
to trial immediately on a charge
of conspiring in the late Presi-
dent's death.
"John F. Kennedy was as-
sassinated by armed ultra-mili-
tant para-military elements who
were patriotic in a psychotic
sense," he asserted.
He said these elements de-
cided to kill Kennedy because
they felt he was "selling out to
the Communists."
Garrison said there were
"considerably more than seven
men" involved in the gctual as-
sassination in Dallas, adding
they were radio-equipped and
took virtually no risk of being
caught. '
"The connecting link at every
level of operation from the oil
rich sponsors of the assassina-
tion down to the Dallas police
department through Jack Ruby
and? including anti,Ca4tro ad,
venturers at the operating level
were Minute Men, Nazi-orient-
ed," he claimed, adding: "It
was essentially a Nazi opera-
tion."
He also promised to reveal
during the first week of the
Shaw trial his version of what
happened in Dealey Plaza on
Nov. 22, 1963, the day of the as-
sassination.
Garrison reiterated his claim
that Lee Harvey Oswald, named
by the Warren Commission as
the lone assassin of Kennedy,
was merely implicated "to drag
a red herring in front of the
people really involved."
He said Oswald at the time
was an operator for the Central
Intelligence Agency playing his
part in the assassination think-
ing he was fulfilling another
government's assignment. He
called the CIA a "Fascist ap-
pendage to our country."
He emphasized that the assas-
sination did not involve most of
the Dallas police force or con-
servative organizations, saying
the 'few Dallas police involved
along with others happened to
be members of ultra-right wing
groups.
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(Special to the States-Item) death. psychotic sense,' Garrison
!? NEW YORK?New Orleans ' "John F.. Kennedy was as- said.
i District Attorney Jim Gard... sassinated by armed ultra-
'___He said 1,hey decided .to kill
son today charged that "ele- _ militant, para-military e
le-..?, Centraljntelligenex
GARRISON SAID Oswald
was at the time a Central In-
telligence Agency operator
playing his part in the assas-
sination thinking he was fut.!
filling another- government's'.
assignment. He called the CIA
a "Fascist appendage to our
country." , ?
Garrison was careful to ex-
plain that the assassination.
did not involve most of the
Dallas police department or
conservative organizations.
He said the few Dallas police
involved along . with others
happened to be members . of .
ultra-right wing groups.. ''. ' i
' f ments o the Dallas p
t olice. the President because they
; force were deeply involved" in felt he was "selling out, to
1 the assassination of President ' the Communists."
i
i Kennedy?which he said was: ' HE SAID THERE were
.. ,
I "considerably more than sev-
' ordered and paid for by a;
:1 \--vn men" involved in the handful of oil-rich, psychotic
i ac-
millionaires." k , tual assassination in Dallas
t Describing the number of i on Nov. 22, 1963. He said
Dallas police as a small group; , they were rediaequiPped and
t and refusing to say how many,: ' too virtually no risk of be-
"Texas style" millionaires
cing caught.
The connecting link at ev-
( were involved, Garrison, nev-i "
r ?
f ertheless, identified . them alb. ery level of operation from
ti
as extreme conservatives. 1. the oil rich sponsors of the
t He also said. "some mem-1 assassination down to the
: hers of the White Russian' i
1 Dallas police department,
'.D
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communityn Dallas played,
,i i ' down through Jack Ruby and
i a part in the plot. 'r .
; 1, including anti-Cairo adven-
turers at the operating level
i. GARRISON MADE his lat- ' were Minute Men, Nazi on-
est charges during and after i ented. ' 1
a radio interview taped today
:. "It was essentially a Nazi i
. for a New York City program ! operation!'
to be heard Tuesday evening.1 Garrison said he could now
. The district attorney reit-
reveal the latest developments
!I erated that he was ready to ,; in his controversial assassina-?
."; bring New Orleans business- ,
i' man Clay L. Shaw , , tion investigation because his
.' --- ---- ? - ? t? l'frial ' investigators were finished in:.
d
:immeiately ? on a charge of?
i? , . , Dallas and now safely in New
? 'Orleans.
HE SAID HE would have
jeopardized their lives if he
had mentioned the involve-
ment of the Dallas police '
while the investigators were
still in Dallas. He said his
Dallas investigation had end-
ed some 10 days ago and had
taken several months.
? Garrison promised to reveal
during the first week of the:
Shaw trial his version of what
happened in Dealey Plaza in'
Dallas on the day of the as-
sassination.
? He charged that Lee Harvey
' Oswald, named by the Warren .
Commission as the lone as-,
sassin of Kennedy, was mere-
ly implicated "to drag a red
herring in front of 'the peo-.
pie really involved." ,
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At first, the press treated Garrison's7,
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Richard IL Popkin
For some time the assassination of John
F. Kennedy and the reliability of the
Warren Commission Report have been
major issues of public interest, leading
to many ,calls for reinvestigation of the
case. Charges and counter-attacks have
been pouring forth in the ever-expand-
ing literature on the subject. ces went
so far as to devote four full hours to an
attempt to rehabilitate the Warren Com-
mission theory.
,
. .
? Since February most interest in the I:
case has focused on the new investiga-' ?
tion being conducted by District Attor-
ney Jim garrison of New 'Orleans. Gar- !.
rison claimed in February that "my
staff and I solved the case weeks ago.
I wouldn't say this if we didn't have'
evidence beyond the shadow of a doubt. .
We know what cities were involved, we
know how it was done, in the essential
claims with caution, reserving judg-
ment. At the preliminary hearings of
March 14-17, Shaw was indicted for con-
spiring with Fcrrie and Oswald to as-
sassinate the President. Newspapers, such
as The New York Times and the Wash-
ington Post, began expressing skeptic-
ism about the evidence. A few weeks
later, James Phelan in the Saturday
Evening Post, May 6, 1967 issue, launch-
ed an attack on the credibility of the
testimony of Perry Russo, the chief
witness at the preliminary hearings,
and strongly suggested that his tes-
timony had been induced by hypnosis.
Later, on May 15, Newsweek, which
had been scoffing since the Shaw hear-
ings, published a story by Hugh
Aynesworth charging Garrison with at-
tempted bribc:y of potential witnesses.
and claiming Garrison had no* real evi-
dence. The attacks reached a crescen-
do in June with a front-page story in
The New York Times (June 12) pur-
porting to. describe the ways in which.
! in November 1963 when he reported to
? the FBI that Oswald had been his cli-
ent; that Oswald had been accompanied
.?
on his visits to Andrews's office once by
a Mexican and on other occasions by
Latin homosexuals; and that on Novem-
ber 23, 1963 Andrews received a tele-
phone call from a man named Clay
? Bertrand who asked him to defend Os-
wald. Andrews's testimony was later
' taken by the Warren Commission, which
chose not to believe him, though he had
ample corroboration of his story. (The
significance of Andrews's story will be
discussed later on.)
? When Garrison started reinvestigating
*.! the case, he tried to get Andrews to ,
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identify the mysterious Clay Bertrand,
Oswald's patron, and to see if Bertrand ;
was Shaw. Called before the Orleans
Parish Grand Jury in March, Andrews
I claimed that he could not identify Bert-
; ?
.rand (though he told the Warren Com- '
tmission that he could and that he had
'seen the man recently). Then in June
;he testified again and this tinia told
;the jury that Bertrand was a New Or-
;leans tavernkeeper, Eugene Davis. An-
di-eves was convicted, for perjuring him-
self when he told the first Grand Jury
; different stories from what he told the ?
I Warren Commission. ?
I. Andrews tried to prevent this trial
from taking place by filing a* five-page
t motion. for "recusation" rem.svO be-
cause of prejudice) against 0:orison.
This amounted to a brief charging that
Garrison had no evidence of a conspira-
cy to kill Kennedy and that the al- ?
leged evidence had been fabricated. The ,
"only conspiracy existing," he charged, ?
"is the conspiracy planted in Perry
Russo's mind through the use of hypno-
tic suggestion." The hearing on An-
drews's motion was the first public and
aspects: we know the key individuals ? Garrison tried to entice people to give .,.;
involved, and we are in the_-process of evidence, and how he had tried to fab..
developing evidence new." ricate it; with the defection of Garri- '
.0n February 22 one of Garrison's,
serfs assistant, William Gurvich, who .
chief suspects, David W. Ferric, died, . said that there was no real evidence and ,
shortly before Garrison planned to ar- .4---- - ?------- -- -? " * *? -.1r.i
rcst him. A few days later he did ar- that Garrison was using illegal and itn-
rest a ? leading New Orleans business- moral methods; with the NBC blast i
man and socialite, Clay Shaw, 'and . 1
against Garrison, CBS'S four-hour de-'
charged him with conspiring, under the lease of the Warren Commission, and
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name of Clay or Clem Bertrand, with .1 so on. i
Ferric. Lee Harvey Oswald, and oth- ; The total impression has been that ?
crs to assassinate President Kennedy.. I. Garrison is behaving illegally and 'un-
The thesis Garrison has set forth is ethically, and that,he should be stopped.
that a group of New Orleans-based, an- As Garrison himself said in his TV re-
ti-Castroites, supported and/or encour- ply on July 15, as far as NBC and ?th-
ee aged by the CIA in tbeir anti-Castro ac- er news media are concerned the case
tivities, in the late summer or early 1 'against Clay Shaw has already been tried
fall of 1963 conspired to assassinate ... and the District Attorney has been found
John F. Kennedy. This group, accord- ; guilty. In this article I shall try to
? ing to Garrison, included Shaw, Ferrie, ij show that this judgment is quite wrong,
Oswald, Jack Ruby, and others, includ- !; and that Garrison has, .on....1...!..c.ftr_ary, .
a' case that deserves a fair hearing. It
it is ?a case, moreover, that has survived
i .? every legal attack on it so far.
, The trial of Dean Andrews for per-
jury?which ended in a conviction on
;
August 14?was the occasion for the
most recent of these attacks. This was
the first trial to result from Garrison's
investigation, and it deserves the care-
ful attention of those who assume that e, .
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was executed in Dallas on November
22, 190. At least part of their motiva-
tion, on this thesis, was their reaction
to Kennedy's decisions at the Bay of
? Pigs, and the change in US policy to-
ward Cuba following the missiles crisis
of 1962. ?
, legal airing of the charges against Gar-
rison that have been circulating in the
??\ press and ort TV for months. Andrews
, called many Witnesses, including Garri-
son, his staff, and Gurvich, a former
assistant who had turned against Garri-
' son. He claimed he would bring in an
expert from' the East Coast to prove
charges against Russo, hut the expert
never appeared. But he was able to do
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Mr James Garrison, the New Orleans District
Attorney, claims he has evidence that President Kennedy
was killed by "a precision guerilla team of at least seven
men," and that all of them had once worked for the Central
Intelligence Agency.
In an interview with Playboy
magazine, Mr Garrison said that
Lee Harvey Oswald was merely
a "patsy" in what he called a
"right-wing parliamentary con-
spiracy," and that Oswald did
not shoot anybody in Dallas that
day in November, 1963.
The controversial District At-
torney also claims that he knows
the identity of the real assassins.
Asked specifically if the people
he suspects will be arrested. Mr
Garrison said: "All I can say is
that this is an on-going case and
there will be more arrests."
In a foreword to the 12-hour
interview published this week,
the magazine said: "Mr Garrison
has not yet had a chance to
present his case ? in court or
out ? without expurgation or
editorialising. We feel he ought
to have this chance."
Mr Garrison, who has won
every legal preliminary to the
conspiracy trials he eventually
plans to effect, would not com-
ment on the pending trial of
Clay Shaw, the New Orleans
businessman he has accused of
being one of the conspirators.
Mr Garrison said the con-
spiracy began in New Orleans
where "the CIA was training a
mixed bag of Minutemen, Cuban
exiles and other anti-Castro
adventurers north of Lake Pont-
chartrain for a foray into Cuba
and an assassination attempt on
Fidel Castro."
He said that Jack Ruby, Os-
wald and a host of New Orleans
residents he already has im-
plicated in the conspiracy (many
of them now dead) were a part
of this group. When Mr
Kennedy "signed a secret agree-
ment" with Russia not to invade
Cuba, he said, the Government
"began to crack down on CIA
operations against Cuba."
Mr Garrison said these "ad-
venturers were worked up to a
fever pitch; and when the CIA
withdrew its support and they
could not fight Castro they
picked their next victim ?
John F. Kennedy."?UPI.
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' NEW YORK?Dist. Atty.
; Jim Garrison of New Orleans,
expanding on his earlier
charges that former Central
.Intelligence Agency (CIA) em-
ployes were involved in thejll-
lag
of President John F. Ken-
? ? nedy, has raised to at least
seven the number of men he
. says took a direct part in the
, assassination.
, The new estimate appears in
. an interview in the October issue
of Playboy magazine, which
: will go on sale Tuesday.
? On one earlier occasion he
said three men were involved,
end On anotho2 he had ?aid
five.
? 'PRECISION' TEAM
"The president was assassin-
ated," Garrison said in the
Playboy interview, "by a pre-
cision guerrilla team of at least
seven men, including anti-
Castro adventurers and mem-
.
? hers of the paramilitary right."
But he indicated there were
even more than seven men.
He said, "There were at least
four men on the grassy knoll,
at least two behind the picket
fence and two or more behind a
small stone wall to the right of
the fence . . . one man fired at
the president from each loca-
tion, while the role of his com-
panion was to snatch up the
cartridges as they were
ejected."
Garrison said that "in addi-
tion to the assassins on the
. grassy knoll, at least two other.
: men fired from behind the .
president, one from the Book
Depository building . . . and
one, in all probability from the.
Dal-Tex Building."
. Garrison rejects completely '
the Warren Commission ver-
dict that Lee Harvey Oswald
. was the Ione assassin who ?
fired from behind the President.
C?CAPEGOAT .
anrrison said that although
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Oswald was a member of the
conspiracy, he fired none of the
shots and instead was a scape-
goat to divert attention from the
other plotters.
The plotters, Garrison claims,
were men who were disturbed.
by Kennedy's peace overtures'
to Cuba and the Soviet Union.
The ex-CIA men, he said, had
been employed in an earlier at-
tempt to overthrow the Fidel
Castro regime.
The key figure in the peace
overtures, Garrison said, "was'
the late television reporter,
Lisa Howard, wi:o met secretly
with Erfic?to (C.11.) c,';1Z,7,:fa;
then a chief Castro aide, to pre-
pare peace terms between the
U.S. and Castro. Miss Howard
was arranging a conference be-
tween Bobby Kennedy and ?
Guevara when the president ?
was shot in Dallas."
PILL OVEILIDC,SE
Miss Howard died after tak-
ing an overdose of sleeping
pills on July 4, 1.1)(l5, at her
summer home in East Hamp-
ton, L.I.
Garrison is currently prepar-
ing for the trial of Clay Shaw,
a retired New Orleans business-.
man, on charges of conspiring
to murder Kennedy. -
He said he could not com-
ment "even inferentially on
anything pertaining to the evi-
dence against Mr. Shaw, since
be's facing trial in my, juris-
diction.".
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Part in Assassination
District Attorney Jim Garri-
son of New Orleans, expanding
on his earlier charges that
former employes of the Central
Intelligence Agency were in-
volved in the killing of Presi-
dent Kennedy, has raised to at
least seven the number of men
he says took a direct part in
the assassination.
The new estimate appears in
an interview in the October is-
sue of Playboy magazine, out
tomorrow.
On one earlier occasion he
said that at least three men
were involved, and on another
he said five,
"The President was assassi-
nated," Mr. Garrison said in
the 21-page magazine inter-
view, "by a precision guerrilla
team of at least seven men, in-
cluding anti-Castro adventurers
and members of the paramili-
tary right."
. ?
? Describinrs the scene in Dallas
on' Nov.. 22, 1963, Mr. Garrison
said, "There were at least four
men on the grassy knoll?at
least two behind the picket
fence and two or more behind
a small stone wall to the right
of the fence. One man fired at
the President from each loca-
tion, while the role of his com-
panion was to snatch up the
cartridges as they were eject-
ed."
He said that "in addition to
the assassins on the grassy,
knoll, at least two other, men
fired from behind the President .
?one from the Book Deposi-
tory Building and one in all
probability from the Dal-Tex
Building.' Another conspirator.
he said, distracted attention
from the snipers by screaming ;?
and simulating an epileptic fit. : ?? .
Mr. Garrison rejects the
Warren Commission verdict
that Lee Harvey Oswald was ?
the lone assassin, firing from
behind Mr. Kennedy. ? ?7 1;
Asked why no bullets were
found that might have been
fired from a point ahead of
the President, Mr. Garrison :
said other members of the con-
spiracy may have removed the
evidence.
Mr. Garrison said that Os-
wald had fired none of the
shots but had been used is a
scapegoat to divert attention
from'the other plotters. ., ?
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By DAVID BIRD
NEW YORK TIMES SERVICE
NEW YORK ? District Atty.
Jim Garrison of New Orleans,
exp."-=r--.1g on his earlier charges
that former Central Intllieencl
gcncv employes were involved
,iihe killing of President John
' F. Kennedy, has raised to at
sleast seven the number of men
he says took a direct part in
, the assassination.
The new .estimate appears in
? an intervieW in the October is--
- sue of Playboy magazine, which
- will go on sale Tuesday.
On one earlier occasion he
said three men were involved.
? and on another he had said five.
. "'The President was assassin-
ated," Garrison said' in the Play-
boy interview, "by a precision.
guerrilla team of at least seven
men, including anti-Castro ad-
venturers and members of the'
paramilitary right."
But he indicated ,there were.
even more than seven men.
He said "there were at least'
four men on the grassy knoll, at ?
least two behind the picket,
s fence and two or more behind
small stone wall to the right of
, the fence . . . One man fired at
the President from each location, ,
while the role of his companion,
; was to snatch up the cartridges c? ?
' as they were ejected."
Garrison said that "in addi-
? ? tion to the assassins on the gras-
sy knoll, at least two other men x,
I fired from behind the President,
? one from the book depository
; ? building . . . and one, in all ?
probability from the Dal-Tex.y,
Building."
? Garrison rejects completely
1, the Warren Commission verdict%
,'? that Lee Harvey Oswald was the
? lone assassin who fired from be- 1
, hind the President.
Asked. why no bullets were .1,
found that might have been fired ;
from a point ahead of the Presi- I;
dent. Garriion said other mem-
rsbe of the conspiracy may have
? .
Garrison said that while
weld Was a member of the con: ?
spiracy, he fired none of the'',
shots and instead was a scape-
goat to divert attention from the ,
other plotters. I "?.
.The 'plotters. Garrison cleinst, ?t,
were men who were distrubed by t
Kennedy's peace overtures to ,
Cuba and the Soviet Union. The
ex-C.I.A. men, he said. had been i
employed in an earliefatempt tci! '? .??
overthrow the Castro regime.
The key figure in the peace ov-; ? : , .?
ertures, Garrison said, "was the ; ? ' ,:*
late television reporter, Lisa ?
Howard, who met secretly with! ' ?
Ernesto Che Guevara then a
chief Castro aide; to prepare
peace terms between the U.S.:,
and Castro. Miss Howard was',
arranging a conference between'.
Bobby Kennedy and Guevara . ?
when the. President was shot in.,
? 7 :
. Miss Howard died after taking? ? :
an overdose of sPeeping pills on : ' ?
July 4. 1965, ether sunune home' "
iflEastHamp,LL
removed the evidence.
"In the chaos of Nov. 22, this
I. would not have been as difficult 1 ?
U it soimds." he added. , ? - ?
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New Orleans Di: Att;:ney
James Garrisca 11,) has
evidence that Prele.nt. Kenne-
dy was killed by "a precision
guerilla team of at lo.a:n seven
men," and that all of them had
once worked for the Central In-
telligence Agency.
In an interview with Playboy:
magazine, publishezi yesterday.,
? Mr. Garrison said that Lee
Harvey Oswald was merely a
"patsy" in what he calks a
"right-wing paramilitary co n-?
spiracy," and Oswald did not
shoot anybody in Dallas that
day in November, 1903.
Mr. Garrison said the conspir-
acy began in New Orleac s
where "the CIA was training a
s' mixed beg of Minutemen. Cuban
exiles and other anti-Castro ad-
i: venturers north of Lake Poach-
, **lain for a foray Into Cubs
4 and an assaasinatlen attempt on
Fidel Castro."
He said that Jack Ruby, Os
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? wed and a bon of New Orleans
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residepts he already has impli-
cated in the conspiracy (many
of them now dead) were a part
of this group. When Mr. Kenne-
dy "signed a secret agreement"
with Russia not to invade Cuba,
he said, the government 17,egan
to crack down on CIA operations
against Cuba."
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,Killed JFK
? NEW YORK, Sept. 10, (UPI):
?New Orleans District Attor-
ney James Garrison claims he:
has evidence that President
Kennedy was killed by "a pre-'
.cision guerrilla team of at:
least seven men," and that all.
of them had once worked fort
the Central Intelligence Agen-
cy:
In an interview with Play-
boy magazine, published
today, Garrison said that Lee:
Harvey Oswald was merely a ,
?"patsy" in what he calls al
"right-wing paramilitary con;
spiracy," and Oswald did not
shoot anybody in Dallas that
day in November, 1963. ?
Garrison said the conspiracy
!began in New Orleans where. y
"the CIA was training a mixed
,bag of Minutemen, Cuban ex-
iles and other anti-Castro ad-
!venturers north of Lake
iPontchartrain for a foray into.
,Cuba and an assassination at-4
!tempt on Fidel Castro."
i He said that Jack Ruby, Os-:
,wald and a host of New Or.r.,
:leans residents he already has ,
'implicated in the conspiracy
?(many of them now dead) were
:a part of this group. When
:Kennedy "signed a secret
agreement" with Russia not to.
[invade Cuba, he said, the gov-
ernment "began to crack downJ
on CIA operations against ?
:Cuba."
.' Garrison said these "adven-
turers were worked up: to a
?fever pitch; and when the CIA
vithdrew its support and they
vould not fight Castro they
picked their next victim?John
F. Kennedy."
The picture Garrison pre-
sents is that Oswald and oth-
ers made a deliberate attempt
to present chim as a "self,pro-'
claimed Marxist' so 'he could
Infiltrate Latin Alnerican
Communist organizations. '
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NEW YORK (UPI) ? New
v Orleans Dist.Atty. Jim Garrison
claims ? he has evidence that
? President Kennedy was killed by
"a precision guerrilla team of at
.: least seven men," and that all of
: them had once worked for the
Central Intelligence Agency.,
In an interview in the October
issue of Playboy Magazine,
Garrison said Lee Harvey
Oswald was merely a "patsy" in
what he calls a . "right-wing
paramilitary ? conspiracy," and
that Oswald did not shoot any-
body in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1953.
Garrison Said the conspiracy
began in New Orleans, where
gfr "the CIA was training a mixed
bag of Minutemen. Cuban exiles
and other anti-Castro adventur-
ers north of Lake Pontchartrain
for a foray into Cui)e and an
assassinaUon altempt on Fidel
C arc "
that Jack Ruby,
anc.'i a host of New
Orleans residents he already has
implicated in the conspiracy
(many of them now dead) were
a .part of this group. When
Kennedy "signed a secret
agreement" with Russia not to
invade Cuba, he said, the gov-
ernment 'began to crack down
on CIA .operations , against
Cuban' ? ?
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district attorney, and Robert B. Dallas police, most of whom are
DePugh, leader of the Minute- good Americans. nevertheless
Men organization, are now in an
Min-
eral conflict over whether the have a large percentage of Min-
nutemen had anything to do utemen on it, and the Minute-
kt
r Ruby and serviced the opera-
men of the Dallas police were
*h the assassination of Presi-
nt John F. Kennedy. very much tied in with Jack
iday, Joe Dolan, of radio lion," Garrison was quoted as
station KNEW in Oakland,1
Calif., broadcast a taped long- saying'
distance interview with Garrison Former employees of the CIAio.
in which he reportedly said that killed him, the district attorney
the Minutemen were "tremen- was quoted as saying and:
dously involved" in the assassi- "The CIA was trying to fight
nation. Cuba with"every type of Nazi,
"The Dallas police depariment Minuteman?a marriage of con-
has a large percentage of Min- vcnience?and when the pendu-
ittemen on it and were involved lum swung in our foreign policy
in it too," Garrison was quoted and the President began to mod-
as saying. "I couldn't say that crate the approach toward corn-
before." munism . . . they set the Presi=
Informed of this yesterday, dent up in kind of a classic guer-
Walter Patrick Peyson, a lieu-
rilla ambush ..
tenant to DePugh in Indepen- ."
statement ment when queried by Dallas police declined to cora-
denee, Mo., issued a she said he obtained from De- the Asso-
Pugh, who is traveling some- elated Press. Garrison was not
immediately available
wh e r e in the country?he ilable in New
wouldn't say where. Orleans to elaborate on his new
"The late President Kennedy accusation, or why he chose to
was murdered by a Communist make it through an Oakland rat.
assassin, Peyson said DePugh din atatinn..
said. "The number of Minute- '
men within the Dallas police de-
partment does not change the
fact that the Communist con-
spiracy killed the President."
Other Garrison comments re-
ported by the Oakland radio.
newsman included one that sev-.
eral organizations actually parti-
cipated in the assassination, all
of a "Nazi" persuasion.
"Now that our men are fin-
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DA Says Warren
Seeks Probe 1 Halt A statement by Chief Justice Earl Warren saying he has
faith in the assassination report to which he gave his name
is an attempt by "the establishment of the United States" to
"dynamite" the New Orleans probe into the death of Presi-
dent Kennedy, according to Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison.
Warren told reporters yes- ?
terday in Tokyo that he has
not seen a single fact, includ-
ing data compiled by Garri-
son, to contradict the Warren
Commission's report oh the
assassination of President
Kennedy.
GARRISON SAID the chief
justice's statement is the sig-
nal for a "new counter attack
to try to stop the investiga-
tion . . . The heavy artillery
whistling in from Tokyo means
that everything is in place,
all the infantry is lined up,
and the lull is over."
The district attorney con-
tends that New Orleans busi-
nessman Clay L. Shaw con-
spired with Lee Harvey Os-
wald and others to murder.
President Kennedy. The War-
ren CoMmission decided that
Oswald acted alone to kill the
president.
"They have to know that we
have found out that the con-
clusions of the Warren Com-
mission are so far from the
truth that they constitute a
gigantic fraud?quite possibly
the largest, in terms of ef-
fort and scope. and effect, ever
perpetrated on the planet,"
Garrison said in a prepared
press release.
He said the Warren Report
"created a fairy tale that con-
cealed the execution of the
president by a large number
of men for political reasons.
"It can hardly be expect-
ed," he said, "that the men
and the agencies who have
participated in fooling the citi-
zens of this country are go-
ing to sit idly by while a coun-
ty prosecutor brings out the i
, truth."
GARRISON'S statement con-
tinued:
"If our case is ?so bad, why
not let us go to trial and lose
it? Why must high govern-
ment officials and national
television networks and great
magazines work so hard to
sabotage the case before trial?
The answer is that they know
by now that we are not going
:.) lose it.
"Finding out what happened
Daley Plaza and why it
liappened was not that hard.
The hard part is keeping ele-
m._ hts of the federal govern-
::':t and great new agencies
from 12eing successful in this
s:.?,erllatic effort to prejudice
pltential jurors in the advance
of the trial.
-lt is a little disconcerting
to find the chief justice of the
United States on his hands and
knees trying to tie some sticks
of dynamite to the case. How-
ever, the chief justice is a
practical man and I expect he
knows what he is doing.
"The chief justice says he
sees no new evidence in the
case. It should be kept in i
mind that as an attorney he
knows that there .is r.o evi-
dence to see prior to trial.
Why then does he make, a
statement which has no real
meaning and which can only
reflect discredit on a case
which has yet to be .tried.
Obviously, he is performing a '
service.
"The last time he was called
into action to perform a serv-
ice was when the President of
the United States was assas-
sinated by men who had been
connected with the Ceatpal444-t
telligence Agency. This raised .soe
some practical- problems but '
they were solved smoothly. Of
course, the solution had no-
thing to do with what actual-
ly happened?but among the
practical men of the U.S. es-
tablishment that is a mere de-
tail. The name of the game
4 is not truth?it is power," the
1 statement concluded.
' Warren, in answer go a .
question during his address to
the Tokyo Foreign Correspon-
dents Club, said he has heard
. that Garrison has information
about the .assassination "but
I haven't seen any."
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THE PRESS VERSUS GARRISON
by William W Turnery'
(4C LEEHARVEY OSWALD assassinated
President Kennedy "beyond a
reasonable doubt," intoned Wal-
ter Cronkite during the four-night CBS
' special series on the Warren Report
which began on June 26. Presenting an
expertly blended mixture of gimmickry,
dubious experimentation and selectivity
of witnesses, CBS rubber-stamped the
Warren Report practically point by
point without giving its critics a chance
for specific rebuttal. Only a week before,
NBC had broadcast its own special, a
slapdash but nonetheless damaging flat-
out attack on New Orleans District At-
torney Jim Garrison and his assassina-
tion conspiracy probe. The charges and
conclusions of both programs were
widely reported in the daily press; what
Americans witnessed was a strange and
dangerous new phenomenon in which
the networks synthesized news?leaving
it to the television/radio columnists to
. pass judgment on the accuracy of their
exposition of evidence. ?
One could sense an urgency in both,
productions that betrayed any pretense
at objectivity. Why? When Mark Lane's
Rush to Judgment and Edward Jay Ep-
stein's Inquest were published last sum-
mer, casting a national pall of doubt On
the Commission's findings, there were no
signs of panic in the Establishment. It
; was only when Jim Garrison propounded
. a counter theory to the Report, pro-
duced evidence tending to support it,
and indicated that he would use the full .
, powers of his office to prosecute the con- .
' spirators that beads of sweat started
' rolling down Washington foreheads.
Six months in the making, at a cost of
a quarter million dollars, the CRS series
was obviously designed to revitalize
sagging public confidence in the Warren
Report?polls showed that a meager 35 '
per cent were true beliews. The CBS
effort was not without internal struggles.
Field Director Robert Richter, who ex-
haustively interviewed scores of critics
and proponents of the Report alike,
seemed genuinely inclined towards the
critics' point of view when he talked with
me, but he allowed that he was having
trouble convincing Leslie Midgley, the'
executive producer in New York, that
the critics sh?);;:.: :let a fair hearing. '
They didn't . '.e script was rewritten
four times, and ? hen the series finally
unfolded, it not until the end of
the third night -that the audience saw a
live critic. Thirty-minute tapes had been
filmed of Mark Lane and myself, from
which were sliced one-minute segments.
Meanwhile a ssing of handpicked wit-
nesses and "experts" were heard from,
and Cronkite donned the black cap and
pronounced Oswald guilty as charged.
Aware that the skepticism over the
Report stemmed from three major in-
consistencies?the manifestation of the
Zapruder film that the three shots (it was
assumed there were only three) had to
have been fired within 5.6 seconds, the
implausible "magic bullet" theory, and
the secrecy over the autopsy x-rays?
CBS set out to dispel all doubt.
On the Zapruder film dilemma, CBS
trumped the Warren Report by stretch-
ing the time constraint to a readily be-
lievable nine seconds. At least it thought
it did. One technique was to suggest that
Oswald may have fired the first shot at
frame 186, when the President mo-
mentarily appeared through a gap in the
tree foliage. Even the Commission had
discounted this possibility, but?CBS
discovered that the Zapruder film was
noticeably blurred at frames 190, 227
and 318. Kennedy was behind a freeway
sign at 190, but 227 and 318 are several
frames after the film shows Kennedy's
reaction to the impact of bullets. The
blurs, CBS posited, were caused by
Zapruder's reflexive "jumping" at the,
crack of the rifle. A startling discovery?
especially considering that frames 195
and 203 show equal blurring, raising the
presumption of five shots.
Determined to elongate the time ele-
ment, CBS further suggested that Zap-
ruder may have inadvertently flipped his
camera lever to its slow motion setting;
thus his footage represents a time span of
. up to nine seconds. In point of fact, the
faster-running Alm would have com-
pressed the time to no more than 5.3 and
as little as 4.3 seconds.
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the face of it, impressive. With the help
of an outside consultant, CBS laid four
blocks of gelatin separated by Masonite
.slabs end to end; the arrangement was
supposed to represent the muscle, flesh,
bone and fiber of the bodies of Kennedy
and Connally, the governor's wrist, and
finally the governor's thigh, all of which
the "magic bullet" allegedly passed
through. In slow motion, the camera fol-
lowed the path of the bullet through the ;
four blocks. In each test, the announcer
said, the test bullet lodged in the third
block, but he quickly pointed out that
with just a bit of extra energy it would
have made it through?and therefore
the single bullet theory was possible.
But CBS did not insert a "rib cage" to
synthesize the one shattered by a bullet.
Furthermore, it did not announce the
distance from which the test shots were
fired (the penetrating ability of a bullet
drops ofi sharply as the distance in-
creases); didn't let its viewers look at the
test bullet to compare it with the almost ?
pristine condition of the actual "magic
bullet" (CE 399); and neglected to dupli-
cate the eccentric path the "magic
bullet" would have had to prescribe.
As for the withheld autopsy photos
and x-rays, CBS conceded that the Com-
mission was remiss and sloppy in certain
phases of its inquiry, and elicited from
John McCloy, a Commission member,
the statement that if he had it all to do ;
over again, he would insist that the
material be subpoenaed.
The critics' contention that shots came
from the Grassy Knoll was dismissed by
CBS with what amounted to a haughty
wave of the hand; this despite the fact
that Ray Marcus, one of the more per-
sistent critics, dropped in on CBS'
Midgley when the program was in pro-
duction and showed him an enlarged
photograph of the head and shoulders of
a man against a foliage background.
"Ah," exclaimed the unsuspecting Midg-
ley, "that's a picture of the man who
shot James Meredith from ambush in
Mississippi." It wasn't; it was an en-
largement from a spectator's photograph ,
showing the Grassy Knoll at the moment
the President was shot?and the Warren
Commission had insisted no one was on
top of the Knoll. Yet on the program
Midgley gave his viewers a quick look at
the photograph?not a closeup of the
enlargement?in effect saying there was
no one there, as any fool could plainly see.
CBS's egregious _talents were also put
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zbout the New Orleans dazalls without writer Ls that we offered an ounce of heroin
touching somehow on the ease. And I'm not and three months' vacation to one?as a mat-
going to take any chances about reflecting on. ter of fact, this is part of cur incentive pro-
Mr. Shaw, or this case. We've worked too hard gram for convicts. We also have six weeks
for me to ruin it by casual comment. in the IS:themes. and we give them some
WALLA=. Four months ago you said that LSD to get there.
you had solved the assassination. At that This?this?this attitude of skepticism on
time you didn't even know Perry Russo. And the part of the press is an. netonishing thing
ye: Perry Russo. it turns out, is your mailt to me. mid a new thing th me. They have a
witness in the preliminary hearing. problem with my office. And .me of the Preh-
GAranscor. Right. loins le that we have ho political appoint-
WALLACE. Is he still your main witness? =ants. Most of our men are selected by roe-
Gaarasorr. No. ommendations of deans of law zchools. They
WALLACE. Are there others? work 9:00 to 5:00, and we have a highly
Gareasene. No. There are others, and I professional office. I think one of the best in.
would not describe Perry Russo as the main the country. So they're reduced to making
witness. But let me say this, that the major up these fictions. We have not intimidated a
part of our ease, up to that time, was el:- witness since the day I came in office.
cumstantial. Again. I don't want to touch in. WALLACE. One question is asked again and
any way on the case against the defendant, again: Why doesn't Jim Garrison give his
but we knew months before that the key information, if it is valid. information, why
people involved but there was no basis for doesn't he give it to the Federal Govern-
moving at that time. =tent? Now that everything is out in the
WALLACE. You say that Lee Harvey Oswald open the C.I.A. could hardly stand in. your
did not kill President lionnecly. Who, then, way again, could they? Why don't you take
did kill him.? this information that you have and cooper-
Gapazsoar. Well, first of all, if I knew the ate with the Federal Government?
names of the individuals behind the grassy GARRISON. Well, that would be one ap-
knoll, where we know they were, and the preach, Mike. Or I could take my files and
stone wall, I certainly would not tell you, take them up on the Mississippi River Bridge
and couldn't here. There is no question about and throw them in the river. It'd. be about
the fact they were there. There's no question the same result.
in our minds what the dominant race of WALLACE. You mean, they just don't want
these individuals was. And there's no cues- any other solution from that in the Warren
tion about the motive. In the course of 'time Report?
we will have the names of every one of them. Ganarsox. Well, isn't that kind of obvious?
The reason for Officer Tippitt's murder is Where do you think that pressure's coming
simply this: it was necessary. for them to get faora, that prevents witneseez and defendants
rid of the decoy in the case?Lee Oswald from being brought back to our state?
Lee Oswald. Now, in order to get rid of him? WALLACE. Where is that pressure coming
so that he would not later describe the peo- from?
pie involved in this, they had what I think GARR/SON. It's coming from Washington,
is a rather clever plan. It's well-known that . obviously.
police officers react violently to the murder WALLACE. For what reason?
of a police officer. All they did was arrange GARRISON. Because there are individuals in.
for an officer to be sent out to Tenth Street, Washington who do not want the truth
and when Officer Tippitt arrived there he about the Hennedy murder to come out,
was murdered, with no other reason than WALLA= Where are those individuals?
that. Now, after he was murdered, Oswald Are they in the White House? Are they in
was pointed to, sitting in the back of the the C.I.A.? Are they in. the F.B.I.? Where are
Texas Theatre where he'd been told to wait, tiler
obviously. e/ GARRISON. I think the probability is that
Now, the idea was, quite apparently, that you'll find them in. the Justice Department
Oswald would be killed in the Texas Theatre and the Central Intelligence Agency.
when he arrived, because he'd killed a, "blue- WALLACE. arou're asking a good many ques-
'coat." That's the way the officers in New tions, but you haven't got the answers to
Orleans use the phrase. "He killed a blue- those questions. You have a theory as to why
coat." But the Dallas police, at least the ar- indeed the President might have been as-
resting Dallas police, fooled them because sassinated by a group of dissidents. . . .
they had apparently, too much humanity in Ganiusorr. No. Your statement is incorrect.
them, and they did not kill him. We have more than a theory. We have 'con-
Wax.r.aca. All right, there is Lee Harvey Os- versations about the assassination of the
wald at the back of the Texas Theatre?then President of the United States, and it does
what? not include only the conversation brought
Gan:mole. Well, then notification is gotten, out at the preliminary hearing.
to the police of this suspicious man in the We have money passed, with regard to the
back of the theatre, and you know the rest, assassination of the President of the United
But the?the Dallas police, apparently, at States. We have individuals involved in the
least the arresting police officers, had more planning. And we can make the case corn-
humanity in them than the planners had in pletely.'I can't make any more comments
mind. And this is the first point at whien about the case, except to say anybody that
the plan did not work completely. So Oswald thinks it's Just a theory is going to be aw-
was not killed there. He was arrested. This fully surprised when. it comes to trial.
left a problem, because if Lee Oswald stayed WALLACE. Garrison says Clay Shaw used
alive long enough, obviously he would name the alias Clay Bertrand, or Clem Bertrand.
names and talk about this thing that he'd At Shaw's preliminary hearing Perry Russo
been drawn into. It was necessary to kill testified that Shaw used the name Clem
hira. Bertrand the night of the alleged meeting to
WALLACE. That's where Jack Ruby comes plot the assassination. It was obviously a
Into the picture, crucial point in Garrison's presentation at
Oar.exsole. That's right. It was necessary that hearing.
for one of the people involved to hill him. But a week ago NBC said it has discovered
Walla= Mr. Garrison. obviously We're that Clay Bertrand is not Clay Shaw. NBC
not going to try the case of Clay Shaw here said the man who uses that alias is a New
on television, but some people, some Jour- Orleans homosexual, whoa() real name?not
nail= and others, have charged that you disclosed in the broadcast?has been turned
have tried to bribe, to hypnotize, to drug over to the Justice Department.
witnesses in order to prove your case against Camas:tn. Garrison's problems multiplied
Sh
aw. yesterday. Ilia chief aide, William Gurvicb.,
Kennedy.
Cervieli was ilia:et:on:a bytult !teed, Niee,s
Director of WWL-TV, New Orleans, and Clad
News reporter Edward Rebel.
RACEL. Mr. Gurvich, wily did you resign
as Mr. Garrison's chief aide in this investi-
gation?
Guevrcir. I was very dissatisfied with the
way the investigation was being 0011,1tiet 0,1t
Ltd 1 i.ttw lto l'04501% for t iltren It. L
attItt doeltiett MM. If the Joh of at. Int e-Lt
gtt letr is to tinci the truth, thou I. 'Wilk. to LULU
it. I found it. And this led to my resigua-
tion.
RABEL. Well, what then is the truth?
Gunvicia. The truth, as I see it, is that
Mr. Shaw should never have been arrested.
Ranr.t. Why did you decide to see Senator
Robert Kennedy?
Guavicar. Ed, I went to Senator Kennedy
because he was a brother of the late Presi-
dent Kennedy, to tell him we could shed
no light on the death of his brother, and
not to be hoping for such. After I told him
that, he appeard to be rather disgusted to
think that someone was exploiting his broth-
er's death, and?by bringing it up, over and
over again, and doing what has been done,
in this investigation.
REED. There's been, talk of allegations, of,1
wrong-doing, of coercion, of possible bribery
on the part of investigators?of certain.
investigators for the District Attorney. To
your knowledge, are these allegations true?
Gelman. Unquestionably, things have
happened in the District Attorney's Office
that definitely warrants an Investigation by
the Parish Grand Jury, as well as the Federal
Grand Jury.
Ram Would you say these methods were
illegal? -
Gur.vxcx. I would say very illegal, and un-
ethical.
Rama Can you give us any specifics?
Guavion. I would rather save that, for
the Grand Juries, Bill, if I may.
REED. Is this on the part of just one or two
investigators, or does it involve the whole
Staff, or perhaps Mr. Garrison. . .
Guavrcn. It involves more than two people.
Rams. More than two people. Do you be-
lieve Mr. Garrison had knowledge of these
activities?
Gtnancia. Yeah?of course, he did. He or-
dered it.
Rama He ordered it?
Guraacn. Re ordered it. Yes, sir.
Raext. Why did he feel it was necessary to
order such activities?
Guevren. That I cannot explain. I am not
a psychiatrist.
REED. Mr. Garrison said the C.I.A. has at-
tempted to block his investigation . . .
GURVICH. His purpose for bringing the
C.I.A. in, Bill, is this: As he put it. they
can't afford to answer. He can say -what he
damn well pleases about that agency, and
they'll never reply.
Crioancrrx. Mr. Garrison is the only critic
who has been in. a position to act on his
beliefs. He has brought Clay Shaw before
the courts of Louisiana, and until that case
is tried we cannot, with propriety, go deep
into the details of the evidence, or reach any
final conclusions concerning the case or the
allegations concerning Clay Shaw.
Mr. Garrison's public statements, how-
ever?and there's been no shortage of
them?are fair targets. They have consist-
ently promised startling proof, but until the
trial Mr. Garrison's pnhnises remain just
that, and cannot be tested.
But the whole atmosphere of his investi-
gations, and the charges that have been
made by news organizations concerning it.
are not such as to inspire confidence. It
may be that Garrison will finally show that
there was a lunatic fringe in dark and de-
vious conspiracy. But, so far, he has shown
us nothing to link the events he alleges to
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C's? At a time when District Attorney Garrison we: confronted
with various inconsistent statements issued by his office to ex-
plain his demands for a pardon for strio-teoser
Brigette, unofficial statements emanated from that ottice T....
CT) effect that a quiet investigation was being , initiated into a
7>e matter of international importance. Attention of the news
?.. media, through, "leaks" from the D.A.'s office, was diverted
,to conjecture about the vast implications of our district
?????1 attorney's office proving a New Orleans-based conspiracc to
murder former President Kennedy. The public generally was
not informed of this, however, until a front-page story in +the
New Orleans STATES-ITEM on February 17, 1967 revealed
expenditure of public funds for that purpose.
? Immediately there descended upon New Orleans rep-
resentatives 9f the press from throughout the notion and
elsewhere In the world. Thereafter statements by Mr.
Garrison and members of his staff held the heodlines
almost continuously for several ' months. The news media
carried stories of Garrison's flat prediction that he would
prosecute and convict all key persons responsible for the death
of the former President, and disprove the investigative
findings of the FBI, the Secret Service \ and the Warren
Commission.
Attention of most of the civilized world was focused on
New Orleans, and held there, by the startling predictions
and accusations mode by our District Attorney.
On March I. 1967 Clay Shaw was arrested os one of
the alleged conspirators and subsequently held for trial by
three judges sitting as committing magistrates, and by indict-
ment of the grand jury, based upon the testimony of two
witnesses unknown to Mr. Garrison at the time of his an-
nounced solution of the Presidential assassination.
Beginning on June 8, 1967 'Our community and the
entire notion were presented with publication of charges that
District Attorney Garrison's office had been using bribery and
intimidation in efforts to secure witness testimony in support
of Mr. Garrison's claims.
NEWSWEEK Magazine, published under date of June 15,
1967, and local newspapers conveyed charges to that effect
by Alvin Beauboeuf. A countrywide telecast of the National
Broadcasting Company on June 19, 1967 projected the
allegations of various persons to the effect that the two
witnesses had committed perjury in their testimony which
resulted in the charge against Clay Shaw. Other persons on
the telecast claimed the D.A.': office had attempted to induce
them to make false statements in this case.
During a nationally televised presentation of the Colum-
bia Broadcasting System on June 27, William , Gurvich, on
aide especially selected by Mr. Garrison to assist him in the
conspiracy probe, announced that Garrison's claims were with-
out factual foundation; that Garrison had ordered his sub-
ordinates to commit such crimes as robbery, kidnapping,
aggravated assault and false imprisonment, in order to
achieve his ends. Despite widespread charges of this kind
against the district attorney's office, no official prosecutive
agency of the City or State Government undertook respon-
sibility. under the law, to aggressively investigate them.
THE ORLEANS PARISH DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SHOULD, BE GIVEN EVERY
POSSIBLE ASSISTANCE AND INCENTIVE TO EXHAUST ALL RESPONSIBLE INVESTI-
GATIVE LEADS TO THE END OF EITHER PROVING OR DISPROVING ALLEGATIONS
THAT A CONSPIRACY TO MURDER PRESIDENT KENNEDY OCCURRED IN NEW
ORLEANS.
ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN P. F. GREMILLION HAS BOTH LEGAL AND MORAL
OBLIGATION TO INVESTIGATE THE SERIES OF ALLEGATIONS THAT THE OFFICE OF
THE ORLEANS PARISH DISTRICT ATTORNEY HAS ENGAGED IN VARIOUS CRIMINAL
' ACTS. IT IS UNTENABLE THAT THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM OF LOUISIANA
BE PRESENTED TO ITS OWN CITIZENS AND THE NATION AS ONE IN WHICH SERIOUS
CRIMES CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO A DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND BE IGNORED.
As a citizen watchdog of low enforcement and criminal
justice, the MCC believed it then hod a responsibility to
speak out. ?
The situation, as we see it, is this:
1. If District Attorney Garrison does, in fact, hove
evidence of a conspiracy, in this jurisdiction, to murder
President Kennedy, he Has the responsibility to use
every available resource, within the low, to investigate
and prosecute.
2. If such an investigation requires personnel and
finances outside the capacity of his Office, he should
call upon the Governor and the Attorney General
for assistance with manpower and money. The use of
voluntary funds for that purpose is considered , un-
desirable from the ttondpoint of both doubtful *Wily
and undependable planning.
3. Mr. Garrison has made serious charges of a
Federal conspiracy to conceal evidence and to delude
the public. Whether or not his charges are true, they
tend to destroy credibility of the various high level
officials who served on the Warren Commission; of the
CIA, upon whom we must depend for protection of
this nation against foreign subversion; and of the FBI,
the protector of our internal security. If His charges are
true, our nation is in a perilous situation. If Mr.
Garrison's charges are false, then those whom he
accused have been made less effective by undermining
their credibility, and no correction is possible other
than by disproof of Mr. Garrison's statements.
4. Mr. Garrison and his staff have now been
publicly accused by known persons of having committed
perhaps 22 or more crimes against the State of
? Louisiana. Suppression of crime requires that any
allegation of crime be promptly investigated and ap-
propriate action taken based upon evidence. In the
? case of a District Attorney so accused, the re-
sponsibility for such investigation and prosecution is
vested in the Attorney General of the State by
Article 7 of the Louisiana Constitution and Article 62
of the Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure.
5. Laws of our State were intended to establish
essential responsibility and authority to be carried
Out by persons in public offices. The MCC is not Con-
cerned with the Names of the District Attorney and
of the Attorney General. It is concerned with the
responsibilities placed in their hands for the protection,
and security of the people.
So long as the cloud of unresolved charges against.
the district attorney remains, any final action by that office
in the JFK murder conspiracy probe will be accompanied by
suspicion and doubt, which will equal, if not exceed, the
suspicions and doubts expressed concerning the , Warren
\ Commission Report.
We claim this to be a "government of laws, not of .
men". Let's prove it.
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the innocence or guilt of any delenclantin any pending prosecution.
The above statement of position was approved at regular meetings of the Executive Committee and;
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Wfound hitherto undiscovered evidence in
Mm of the murder itself, that the killer had
more time than the minimal 5.6 seconds in-
dicated In the Warren Report to get the shots
off. And we concluded that beyond reason-
able doubt, Oswald was Indeed at least one
of the killers.
But was there more than one? On Monday
night, we interviewed eyewitnesses who said
all the shots came from the School Book De-
pository. And others equally insistent that
there were shots from the grassy knoll over-
looking the motorcade itself.
We tested more exhaustively than did the
Warren Commission the extremely contro-
versial single bullet theory, found that one
bullet could, Indeed, have wounded both the
President and Governor Connally. We heard
autopsy surgeon, James Humes, break three
and a half years of silence to report that he
has re-examined the X-rays and photographs
of the President's body, and still has no
doubt that all the shots struck from behind.
We concluded that in the absence of solid
evidence that there were other assassins, and
with the indications that one killer could
account for all the shots, there was no sec-
ond gunman. But, even as the only gunman,
was Oswald, as the Warren Report suggests,
a lone madman? Or was he the trigger-man
for a conspiracy to kill the President?
On Tuesday, we considered such frequently
mentioned indications of conspiracy as the
murder of Officer J. D. Tippit, found that
he was legitimately ordered from his normal
patrol area as part of a redeployment of po-
lice forces to cope with the assassination.
Found too, that a partial description of the
assassin, broadcast on police radio, could
account for Tippit's stopping Oswald.
We found the nightclub owner, Jack Ruby,
the man who killed Oswald, was a strange,
mercurial creature given to hitting first and
asking questions afterward. And none of his
closest associates would credit Ruby with
the ability to keep a secret very long.
We presented the conspiracy theories of
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison,
theories which Garrison says he will present
in a court of law, but which today remain a
series of largely unsupported statements.
And we concluded that, for now at least, no
conspiracy theory of the assassination has
been proved.
Tonight, we turn from the assassination
to the Warren Commission itself. Having
found that the Commission's conclusions, in
the main, still stand up almost three year;
after published, we now ask our fourth anal
last fundamental question: Why doesn't
America believe the Warren Report?
Tonight, as in our preceding reports, my
colleague Dan Rather and I are going to
break this fundamental question into sub-
sidiary ckuestions. For the first part of ithe
broadcast, we will ask: Should America be-
lieve the Warren Report? We will explore
Just how well and honestly the Warren Com-
mission operated, to what extent it deserves
belief.
The second question will be: Could Amer-
ica believe the Warren Report? And we'll try
to determine whether there are elements in
the way people, and particularly Americans,
think about great events, which would pre-
vent their accepting the Warren Report,
however trustworthy it might be.
But this final broadcast will be different.
The questions we will ask tonight, we can
only ask. Tonight's answers will be not ours,
but yours.
RATHER. As we take up whether or not
America should believe the Warren Report,
we'll hear first from the man who perhaps
more than any other is responsible for the
question being asked. Mark Lane, lawyer
and former New York State Assemblyman,
was the gadfly of the Warren Commission.
He demanded the right to appear beim* it
as a defense counsel for the dead Lee Harvey
Oswald. Refused, he began his Own Inveeti?
gation of the President's death, a study that
produced first the best selling attack on the
Warren Commission, "Rush To Judgment."
and now a movie of the same name.
Mark Lane has lectured all over the world
on his own theories of the assassination,
theories which he spelled out for Bill Stout.
MARK LANE. There was one conclusion, one
basic conclusion that the Commission
reached, I think, which can be supported
by the facts, and that was the Com-
mission's conclusion that Ruby killed Os-
wald. But, of course, that took place on
television. It would have been very difficult
to deny that, But, outside of that, there's
not an important conclusion which can be
supported by the facts and?and this is the
problem.
And what the Commission was thinking
and what they were doing Is still hidden
from us, of course. The minutes of the Com-
mission meetings are locked up in the Na,
tional Archives and no one can see them.
A vast amount of the evidence, F.B.I. reports,
reports, which may be directly re-
to the information we should have,
are also locked up in the Archives. No one
can see that.
The photographs and X-rays of the Presi-
dent's body, taken at the autopsy in
Bethesda, Maryland, taken just before the
autopsy was begun, taken by Naval tech-
nicians, which in and of themselves might
resolve the whole question as to whether or
not there was a conspiracy, cannot he seen
by anyone today and, in fact, not one mem-
ber of the Warren Commission ever saw the
most important documents in the case, the
photographs and the X-rays. And not one
lawyer for the Commission ever saw?was
curious enough to examine the most im-
portant evidence.
I think the villain was the desire of gov-
ernment officials to be nice, to see to it that
nothing would upset the American people,
that the apathy which has seized us for all
of these years be permitted to remain un-
interrupted by a factual presentation of
what happened. The American people would
have been upset surely If they were told
there was a conspiracy which took the life
of your President.
CRomcrra. But Mr. Lane, who accuses the
Commission of playing fast and loose with
the evidence, does not always allow facts to
get in the way of his own theories. In "Rush
To Judgment," for example, he writes: "The
statements of eyewitnesses close to the Presi-
dent tended to confirm the likelihood that
the shot came from the right and not from
the rear." Lane then quotes Associated Press
photographer James Altgens, and another
eyewitness, Charles Brehrn, as giving testi-
mony that would support the idea of a killer
on the grassy knoll. Yet Mr. Altgens, as we
saw Monday night, is entirely certain that
all of the shots came from behind, a fact that
Mr. Lane does not mention:
As for Mr. Brehm, Eddie Barker discovered
that he holds no brief either for the grassy
knoll theory or for the use of his words by
Mark Lane.
Emir BARKER. Well now, some critics of the
Warren Report have taken your testimony,
or Interviews with you, to indicate that you
thought the shots Came from behind the
fence over there. What about that?
CHARLES Banns/. Well, as I say, it was not
a number of critics. It was one critic, Mark
Lane, who takes very great liberties with
adding to my quotation. I never said that
the?any shot came from here like I was -
quoted by Mr. Lane. Mr. Lane would like me
to have positively identified the?what I saw
fly over here?his skull?although I told him
I could not?I did not?I thought it was but
I could not. So, he has added his interpreta-
tions to what I said, and Consequently that's
Where the story comes from that?that I said
that the shots Come from up there. No shot
came from up there at any time during the
Whole Shim that afternoon.
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of Mr. Lane lifting remarks out of context
to support his theories. Perhaps the most
charitable explanation is that Mark Lane
still considers himself a defense attorney for
Lee Harvey Oswald?and a defense attorney's
primary duty is not to abstract truth, but
to his client.
There exists, however, a less partisan, and
therefore perhaps more disturbing critique
of the Warren Commission Report.
RATHER. One of the most influential at-
tacks on the work of the Commission is the
book, "Inquest," by a young scholar named
Edward J. Epstein. It began as a thesis In
political science, Mr. Epstein deciding to find
out just how the Warren Commission had
gone about solving this crime of the century.
He studied the 26 volumes of hearings,
then interviewed live of the seven Commis-
sion members, General Counsel J. Lee Rankin
and some of the Commission's top investi-
gators. And the pattern that began to emerge
disturbed him.
Ererrzuq. Well, there were three, I think,
levels of complaint. The first one was the
institutional, you might say: the general
problem that a government has when it
searches for truth. The problem of trying to
have an autonomous investigation, free from
political interference and at the same time,
it's dealing by its very nature with a poli-
tical problem.
The second level might be called the or-
ganizational level of?was the Warren Com-
mission organized in a way that prevented
it from finding facts. And here my findings
were that by using a part time staff and by
the Commission's detaching themselves from
the investigation?In other words, not ac-
tively partaking in the investigation?it
raised some problems as to whether the
Warren Commission's investigation went deep
enough, so that If there WAR evidence of a
conspiracy, they would have in fact found it.
The third .level of my criticism coverned
the evidence itself, and this concerned the
problem of when the Warren Commission was
come--confronted with a very complex preb-
lem. For ex imple, the contradiction between
the F.B.I. summary report on the autopsy
and the autopsy report they had in hand?
how they solved this problem, whether they
simply glossed over It or whether they called
witnesses and-;-and this - this, of course,
brought up the questions of?of a second
assassin.
RATHER. One of the men Mr. Epstein in-
terviewed for his "Inquest- Is Arlen Specter,
now District Attorney of Philadelphia, but
in 1964, one of the ptincipal investigators
for the Warren Commission, charged with
establishing the basic facts of the WM11E41411E1-
tion. Mr. Specter thinks the Commission did
its job well and Came up with the right
answers.
SPECTER. I would say after having prose-
cuted a great many cases that seldom would
you ever find a case which was as persuasive
that Oswald was the assassin and, in fact, the
lone assassin, and we convict people in the
criminal courts every day right here in City
Hall, Philadelphia. And the times the death
penalties are imposed or life Imprisonment?
so that?so that the case does fit together.
RATHER. In separate interviews we asked
critic Epstein and investigator Spector to dis-
cuss some of the central issues that must
determine how well or how badly the Warren
Commission did its work.
EPSTEIN. Part of the job of the Warren
Commission was restoring confidence in the
American government. And for this he had
to pick seven very respectable men, men who
would lend their name and lend probity to
the report. And so that the problem was, in
any seven men he picked of this sort, they
would have very little time for the investiga-
tion.
They would also have two purposes. One
purpose would be to end the truth, all the
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humors, to dispel conspiracy theories and ma-
terial of that sort.
Seecrite. My view le that there is absolutely
no foundation for that type of a charge.
When the President selected the Commis-
sioners, he chose men of unblemished repu-
tation and very high standing. The Chief
Justice of the Supreme Colin of the United
States would have no reason whatsoever to be
expedient or to search for political truths.
Nor would Allen W. Dulles, the former head
of the gA,414. nor would John McCloy, with
his distinguished service in government, nor
would the Congressional or Senatorial repre-
ten tatives.
Now, the same thing was true of the staff
members. When it came time to select the
individuals to serve as assistant counsel and
general counsel, men were chosen from var-
ious parts of the United States who had no
connection with government.
EPSTEIN: For example, there were rumors
concerning the rill. or various intelligence
agencies. I noticed that there were a number
of memorandums where the.?where?from
Warren to the Secretary of the Treasury, who
was in charge of the Secret Service, assuring
that their findings wouldn't Impair the effi-
ciency or the morale of the Secret Service.
And the same thing again with the F.B.I., a
question of whether there was ever any pos-
sible connection between Oswald?and by
connection I don't mean anything sinister,
I simply meant that he was furnishing in-
formation and there were some rumors to
this effect?and they, rather than fnvesti-
gating these rumors, they preferred to give
It to the F.B.I. to investigate the rumors
themselves. As J. Lee Rankin, their General
Counsel, said, they would rather that agency
clear its own skirts. Well, what this meant,
of course, is that If the F.B.I. would have
discretion if it did find a connection between
Oswald and itself, the discretion of either
reporting it or not reporting it.
Sffitcreft: In the main, the F.B.I. conducted
the basic line of investigation. But the Com-
mission used its independent judgment wher-
ever, say, the F.B.I. or the Secret Service was
Involved itself so that they would not in-
vestigate themselves on the subjects where
they were directly involved, and I think the
Commission showed Its independence in that
regard by criticizing the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and by criticizing the Secret
Service where the facts warranted such
criticism.
On every subject where the Federal Buteau
of Investigation had contact with the area
of investigation with which -I was intimately
connected, I was fully satisfied with their
thoroughness and with their competency
and with their integrity.
Cans/purr. Despite Mr. Specter's defense,
it is the opinion of CBS News that the role
of the F.B.I. as well as the Secret Serv-
ice, both in the assassination and its after-
math, has been less than glorious. And, to
some extent, the performance of these agen-
cies weakens the credibility of the Warren
Report. As to what the F.B.I. and the Secret
Service did wrong before the assassination,
we need look no further than the Report
Itself.
It notes the Secret Service agents assigned
to protect the President had been drinking
beer and liquor into the early hours of the
morning, that no search was made of build-
ings along the route, and that, quote: "The
procedures of the Secret Service, designed
to identify and protect against persons con-
sidered serious threats to the President, were
not adequate prior to the assassination,"
end of quote. That is, the Secret Service
should have known about Lee Harvey Os-
wald.
But the Report goes on to point out that
if the Secret Service did not know about
him, the F.B.I. did, and did not see in in
mention his eidirtsnes to the Secret Seri.
Ice. The ;port iasues a mildly phrased yet
devastating rebuke to the F.B.I., charging
that it took an unduly restrictive view of
Its responsibilities. Knowing what the F.B.I.
knew about Oswald, the Report says, an alert
agency should have listed him as a potential
menace to the President. Yet, niter the
assassination, the Commission itself relied
heavily on these two agencies as its investi-
gative arms.
Did their performance improve? We know
that some of the tests conducted by them for
the Warren Commission were unsatisfactory.
In the first of these broadcasts we pointed
out that to simulate Oswald's problem of
hitting a moving target from a sixty foot
high perch, the F.B.I. conducted its firing
tests on a fixed target, from a 30-foot height.
Certainly. if CBS News could duplicate the
conditions of the actual assassination for a
firing test, the feat's not beyond the capabil-
ity of the F.B.I.
RATHER. There is also the case of the fa-
mous exhibit 399, the bullet which the Com-
mission thought wounded both the President
and Governor Connally, winding up on the
Governor's Stretcher in Parkland Hospital.
Critics of the Report, you will remember, in-
sist It couldn't have hit both men, but must
have been found on the President's stretcher.
Yet, part of the now permanent confusion
surrounding the bullet and where It was
found, must be charged to the cavalier atti-
tude of agents of both the F.B.I. and the
Secret Service at Parkland Hospital.
On Monday night, hospital attendant Dar-
rell Tomlinson described how, in shoving a
stretcher into place, he dislodged a spent
rifle bullet. Mr. Tomlinson quite properly
sent at once for the hospital's chief of se-
curity, 0. P. Wright. Mr. Wright describes
What happened then:
WRIGHT. I told him to withhold and not
let anyone remove the bullet, and I would get
hold of either the Secret Service or the F.B.I.,
and turn it over to them. Thereby, it wouldn't
have come through my hands at all. I con-
tacted the F.B.I. and they said they were not
interested because it wasn't their responsibil-
ity to make investigations. So. I got a hold
of a Secret Serviceman and they didn't seem
to be interested in coming and looking at the
bullet in the position it WAS then in.
So I went back to the area where Mr. Tom-
linson was and picked up the bullet and put
it in my pocket, and I carried it some 30 or
40 minutes. And I gave It to a Secret Service-
man that was guarding the main door into
the emergency area.
BARKER. Mr. Wright, when you gave this
bullet to the Secrbt Service agent, did he
mark it in any way?
WRIGHT. No, SIT.
BARKER. What did he do with it?
WRIGHT. Put it in his lefthand coat pocket.
BARKER. Well now, did he ask your name
or who you were or any question at all about
the bullet?
WRIGHT. No, SIT.
BARKER. How did the conversation go? Do
you remember?
WRIGHT. I just told him this was a bullet
that was picked up on a stretcher that had
come off the emergency elevator that might
be involved in the moving of Governor Con-
nally. And I handed him the bullet, and he
took it and looked at it and said, "O.K.," and
put It in his pocket.
CROWK/TE. There is little to praise in such
treatment by the F.B.I. and the Secret Serv-
ice of perhaps the most important single
piece of evidence in the assassination case.
Moreover, the Warren Commission seriously
compromised Itself by allowing the Secret
Service, the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. to investi-
gate questfons involving their own actions.
RATH= The Commission had before it the
hard fact that Oewald's notebook contained
the name, phone number and license plate
number of Dallas F.B.I. agent, James Booty.
The F.B.I.'s explanation wia that Harty had
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asked Ruth Peine, with whoin Marina Os-
wald was living, to let him know where
Oswald was staying, that he jotted down his
phone number and that Marina under prior
instructions from her husband, also copied
down Hosty's license plate.
CRONKITZ: The question of a link between
the killer and the F.B.I. WAS indeed a legiti-
mate part of the investigation. The Commis-
sion's handling of that question is scarcely
justillable. What It did was to accept as con-
clusive sworn affidavits from J. Edgar Hoover,
and other F.B.I. officials, that Oswald was
never employed in any capacity by the F.B.I.
The Commission says it also checked the
F.B.I.'s own files, but mentions no other
investigation. It followed the same curious
procedure with the C.I.A., taking the word
of top C.I.A. officials that Oswald had no con-
nection with that agency either. The Com-
mission then came to the sweeping conclu-
sion that there was absolutely no type of in-
formant or undercover relationship between
an agency of the U.S. Government and Lee
Harvey Oswald at any time.
Now, elsewhere, the Warren Report argues
persuasively the difficulty of proving a nega-
tive, of proving in that case that Oswald was
not a member of a conspiracy. You will re-
member that it hedged its conclusion, saying
only that there was no evidence of a con-
spiracy.
Yet the Commission had no hesitation in
asserting another far reaching negative:
that Oswald was not Involved with any
agency of the U.S. Government ever. Os-
wald's mother, Marguerite, has always main-
tained that her son WAS a government
agent?she favors the C.I.A.?and that he
was innocent of the assassination.
BARKER. Mrs. Oswald, what eon of proof do
you have that your son was an agent of this
government?
MARGUERITE C. OSWALD. Now, proof, Ed-
die?that's a very strong question. I think
the Warren Commission members themselves
gave Marguerite Oswald the proof. They want
us to believe that Lee Harvey Oswald went
to Russia as a defector. And yet he got out of
the Marine Corps three years before his hitch
was up on a Dire Need discharge. Now, this
is documented. This is what they tell the
American people. They go into great details,
that Lee Harvey Oswald got out of the Marine
Corps three months ahead of time because
his mother had an accident?which was the
truth, and it all went through the Red Cross
legitimately.
And when he came home, he stayed with
his mother three days. We sort of know that
story. And then he left for Russia. And, so,
this is supposed to be all cut and dried. But
When you read the Warren Report, and when
you know the case--and this is my case, and
my son's?so I know it. then you see a little
part where the Warren Commission says, the
documentation says, that Lee Harvey Oswald
was given a passport by the State Department
to travel to Russia, the Dominican Republic,
Cuba, and et cetera; and at that time these
Countries were not restricted.
Now, how can Lee Harkey Oswald get out
of the Marine Corps three months ahead of
time on a Dire Need discharge, and at the
same time be issued a passport to travel?
Caonstrrs. The evidence is overwhelming
that Mrs. Oswald le wrong as to whether her
son did assassinate the President. Yet, there
remains disturbing indications that she may
not be quite so wrong about some kind of
link between Oswald and various intelligence
agencies of the United States. The question
of whether Oswald had Daly relationship with
the F.B.I. or the C.I.A. is not frivolous. The
agencies, of course, are silent.
Although the Warren Commission had full
power to conduct its own independent inves-
tigation, it permitted the F.B.I. and the C.I.A.
to investigate themselves?and so cast a
permanent ahildOor on the answers.
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IINET WEINSTEIN. I think it was on the
spur of the moment, that he really wanted
to make himself look like a big man. And
he thought that would make him. above
everybody else, that the people would come
up and thank him for it, that people would
come around and want to meet him and want
to know him, "This Is the man that shot the
man that shot the President."
RATHER. Why do you think Jack shot
Oswald?
ALICE. Oh, I think that it was mostly an
Impulsive act. And Jack also, I believe, felt
that so many people at the time were saying,
"They ought to kill him," and this and that,
that he?in my personal opinion, Jack
thought this would just bring him a?a sen-
sational amount of business, and he would
just really be a hero.
RATHER. Diana, why do you think Jack
shot Oswald?
DIANA. I think that he came down there
Just to see what was going on, and when he
saw that sneer on Oswald's face?that's all
II; would take to snap Jack, the way Oswald's
mouth was curled up, you could even see it
in the picture. I think when he saw that look
was when he decided to shoot him. Not when
he was coming down. And I think he did It
because he thought that it was a service to
his country, in his way of thinking. That warn
the way he thought.
GEORGE SENAT'OR. I don"t believe that Jack
Ruby ever took any secrets to his grave. I've
been?I've been around him too long, and
lived with him too long. And I'm cer-
tain he told the truth right up until his
death. And I'll never can be?and I'll never
be convinced otherwise. There Is nothing he
ever hid. The public knew everything he ever
said, or heard.
Cacnsitrns. Jack Ruby was convicted of the
murder of Oswald, but the conviction was
reversed by an Appeals Court which held that
an alleged confession should not have been
admitted.
Ruby died six months ago of cancer, main-
taining to the last that he was no conspira-
tea% that. he had killed Oswald out of anger
and a desire to shield Jacqueline Kennedy
Irons the ordeal of a trial at which she would
have had to appear as a witness.
Dallas police had alerted the press that Os-
wald would be moved to the County Jail
shortly after 10:00 AM on November 24th.
That departure was delayed. Yet a receipt
shows that Ruby was sending a money order
to one of his strippers from a Western lJniod
office across from the courthouse at 11:17
AM, when anyone premeditating murder in
the courthouse basement would already have
stationed himself there. In fact, it WRS prob-
ably the activity around the courthouse en-
trance which caught Jack Ruby's eye as he
left the Western Union office. Ruby *as
carrying a pistol because he was carrying
money. He was accustomed to wander in and
out of the Police Building at will.
The Oswald murder today still appears to
have been not a conspiracy, but an impulse?
meaninglesis violence born of meaningless
violence.
But the most recent, most spectacular de-
velopment in the Oswald case involves the
CIA. It involves, too, the spectacular Dis-
trict Attorney of New Orleans, a man they
call the Jolly Green Giant. It involves an
arrest, hypnotism, truth serum, bribery
charges, and, for the first time, an outline of
a conspiracy. It certainly accounts for the re-
cent national upsurge of suspicion concern-
ing the conclusions of the Warren Report.
And it raises a new question: Was the
assassination plotted in New Orleans?
Mike Wallace reports,
WALLACE. New Orleans District Attorney
Jim Garrison quietly began his own investi-
gation of the assassination last fall. In a
sense, he picked up where the Warren COm-
mission had left off. Warren investigators
questioned a number of people In New Or-
leans after the assassination, and they failed
to implicate any of them. But the more Gar-
rison went back over old ground apparently,
the more fascinated he became with the
possibility that a plot to kill President Ken-
nedy actually began in New Orleans. By
the time the story of his investigation broke
four months ago he seemed supremely confi-
dent that he could make a case, that he had
solved the assassination.
GARRISON. Because I certainly wouldn't say
with confidence that we would make arrests
and have convictions afterwards if I did not
know that we had solved the assassination of
President tEentiedy beyond any shadow of a
doubt. I can't Imagine that people would
think that?that 7 would guess and say some-
thing like that rashly. There's no question
about it. We know what cities were Involved,
we know how it was done in?in the essen-
tial respects. We know the key individuals in-
volved. And we're in the process of develop-
ing evidence now. I thought I made that
clear days ago.
WALLACE. He shocked New Orleans four
months ago by arresting the socially promi-
nent Clay Shaw, former director of the New
Orleans International Trade Mart.
Garrison's charge was that Shaw had con-
spired with two other men to plot the assas-
sination of President Kennedy. Garrison said
Shaw had known David P'errie, an eccentric
former airline pilot who was' found dead a
week before Garrison had planned to arrest
him. Incidentally, the coroner said Ferrie
died of natural causes. But Garrison called it
suicide.
He said Shaw also knew bee Harvey Oswald;
that Ferrle, Oswald, and Shaw met one night
In the summer of 1909 and plotted the Presi-
dent's death. Clay Shaw said it was all
fantastic.
SHAW. I am completely innocent of any
such charges. I have not conspired with any-
one, at any time, or any place, to murder
our late and esteemed President John F.
Kennedy, or any other individual. I have
always had only the highest and utmost
respect and admiration for Mr. Kennedy.
The charges filed, against me have no
inundation in fact or in law. I have not been
apprised of the basis of these fantastic
charges, and assume that in due course I will
be furnished with this information, and will
be afforded an opportunity to prove my
innocence.
I did not know Harvey Lee Oswald, nor
did I ever see or talk with him, or anyone
*tin knew him at any time in my life.
WALLACE. A preliminary hearing for Shaw
was held two weeks after his arrest. The
hearing was complete with a surprise
mystery witness, Perry Raymond Russo,
twenty-five-year-old insurance salesman,
and friend of the late David Ferris. Through
three days of intense cross-examination
Russo held doggedly to his story, that he
himself had been present when Shaw, Ferrie,
and Oswald plotted the Kennedy assassina-
tion. Russo admitted at the hearing that he
had been hypnotized three times by Garri-
son men.
A writer for The Saturday Evening Post
said he read transcripts of what went on at
those sessions. The writer suggested that
Russo's entire performance at the hearing
was the product of post-hypnotic suggestion.
Clay Shaw was ordered held for trial. It could
be months before the trial actually takes
place.
Meanwhile, various news organizations
have reported serious charges against Jim
Garrison and his staff, alleging bribery, in-
timidation, and efforts to plant and/or manu-
facture evidence against Shaw. Last month
Newsweek Magazine said Garrison's office had
tried to bribe Alvin Beauboeuf, the twenty-
One-year-old former friend of David Ferris.
BeaufoeUf, the magazine Said, WM offered
three thousand dollars to supply testimony
that would shore up the conspiracy charge
against Shaw.
Garrison promptly released an affidavit
Beauboeuf had signed. The affidavit said no
one working for Garrison had ever asked
Beauboeuf to tell anything but the truth.
Subsequently, New Orleans police investi-
gated the Beauboeuf charge and said Garri-
son's men had been falsely accused. But that
was just the beginning. Three more bribery
accusations have since come to light, two in-
volving Louisiana prison inmates, one involv-
ing a nightclub and Turkish Bath operator.
In each of those cases the charges that re-
wards were offered in return for allegedly
false testimony or other help that would
implicate Clay Shaw. We will hear Garrison's
comment on those charges later in the broad-
cast.
Meanwhile. Garrison has gone on to in-
clude Jack Ruby in the alleged conspiracy
Involving Shaw and Lee Harvey Oswald. Gar-
rison says Jack Ruby's unlisted telephone
number in 1963 appears in code in address
books belonging to Shaw and Oswald. He says
both books note the Dallas Post Office box
number 11906. Ruby's unlisted phone num-
ber was WHitehall-1 5601, And Garrison fur-
nished a complicated formula for converting
PO 11906 to WH-1 5601.
Louisiana Senator Russell Long, appearing
on Face the Nation a few days later, explained
how the code works.
Lona. So if you take the P and the 0, and
you use a telephone dial, P gives you seven,
0 gives you six. You add seven and six to-
gether and you get thirteen. Then you take
the 19106, and you work on a ABCDE F?
the ABCDE basis, so you put A?A falls?
comes ahead of E. Then you put D behind C.
And you reconstruct the numbers, and
that?and then you subtract thirteen hun-
dred, which you got for the P 0, and that
gives you Ruby's unlisted telephone number.
WALLACE. A Dallas businessman named
Lee Odom had that Dallas Post Office box
for a while in 1966. He said he didn't know
how the number got in Oswald's address
book, but he could explain how It got in
Shaw's. Odom said he met Shaw when he
went to New Orleans lboking for a place to
hold a bloodless bullfight
ODOM. When I got to New Orleans, and
/ got there?it was late, and so I wanted to
see what New Orleans--my first trip to New
Orleans. And I went to Pat O'Brien's, and
that's where I met Mr. Shaw. I was sitting.
drinking at the bar, and he was sitting next
to me, and I got to talking to him about
the?if he thought a bullfight might go over
good in?in New Orleans. And he said that he
thought it would, and we introduced each
other. He was in the real estate business,
and said he might be able to help me. So
the next day, why, we had lunch together,
and tried to find out about a place to have
a bullfight. Made two or three phone calls,
and?we didn't find any place. So when I got
ready to leave there, I give him my name and
my box number, which I SSW him write in
his little book. And I never heard from him
after that. But that's how the number got
in the book.
WALLACE. The number 19108 does appear
in Oswald's address book, although some say
the letters in front of it are not P 0, but
Russian letters. No one knows when Oswald
made the entry.
Garrison has expanded the scope of his
charges to include not only a Shaw-Oswald-
Ruby link, but the Una. as well. Further,
Garrison says he knows that five anti-
Castro Cuban guerrillas. not Lee Harvey Os-
wald, killed President Kennedy. Be says the
C.I.A. is concealing both the names and the
whereabouts of the Cubans.
In an interview with Bob Jones of WWL-
TV, New Orleans, he discussed proof that the
guerrillas were there at Maley Plass in Dal-
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GARRISON. We have even located photo-
graphs in which we can?we have found
the?the men behind the grassy knoll, and
the?and the stone wall, before they dropped
completely out of sight. There were five of
them. Three behind the stone wall, and two
behind the grassy knoll. And they're not
quite out of sight. And they've been lo-
cated in other photogrimhs, by process of
? bringing them out. Although they're not
distinct enough you can make tin identifi-
? cation from their faces.
WALLACE. This is one of the photographs
GarriSOn hi talking about, hown first with
an overlay. Those roughly-drawn figures at
the bottom of the page could be the men
Garria011 believes he sees through the little
holes at the top. Now we remove the overlay
to see the photograph Itself?ft hazy blowup
of an area from a larger picture. If there
are men up there behind the well, they
definitely cannot be seen with the naked
eye.
I asked Garrison if he would sort it all out,
It he could summarize his investigation, and
put it in perspective.
GARRISON. About the New Orleans part, I
don't like to sound coy, but it is impossible
to talk about the New Orleans details with-
out touching somehow on the case. And I'm
not going to take any chances about reflect-
ing on Mr. Shaw, or this case. We've worked
too hard for me to ruin it by casual comment.
WALLACE. FO111 months ago you said that
you had solved the aseassination. At that
time you didn't even know Perry Russo.
And yet Perry Russo, it turns out. is your
main witness in the preliminary hearing.
GARRISON. Right.
WALLACE. Is he etill your main witness?
GARRISON. No.
WALLACE. Are there others?
GARRISON. No. There are others, and I would
not describe Perry Russo as the main wit-
. nose. But let me say this, that the major
part of our case, up to that time, was cir-
cumstantial. Again. I don't want to touch
in any way on the case against the de-
fendant, but we knew months before that
the key people involved but there was no
basis for moving at that time.
WALLACE. You say that Lee Harvey Oswald
did not kill President Kennedy. Who, then,
did kill him?
GARRISON. Well, first of all, if I knew the
names of the individuals behind the grassy
knoll, where we know they were and the
stone wall, I certainly would not tell you, and
couldn't here. There is no question about
the fact they were there. There's no question
In our minds what the dominant race of
these Individuals was. And there's no ques-
tion about the motive. In the course of time
We will have the names of every one of them.
The reason for Officer Tippit's murder IS
GARRISON. Well, then notification is gotten assassination of the President of the United
to the police of this suspicious man in the States. We have individuals involved in the
back of the theatre, and you know the rest. planning. And we can make the case corn-
But the?the Dallas police, apparently, at pletely. I can't make any more comments
least the arresting police officers, had more about the caae, except to say anybody that
humanity in them than the planners had in thinks it's just a theory is going to be aw-
mind. And this is the first point at which the fully surprised when it comes to trial.
plan did not work completely. So Oswald was WALLACE:. Garrison soya Clay Shaw used the
not killed there. "He was arrested. This left alias Clay Bertrand, or Clem Bertrand. At
a problem, because if Lee Oswald stayed alive Shaw's preliminary hearing Perry Russo
long enough, obviously he would name names testified that Shaw used the name Clem
and talk about this thing that he'd been Bertrand the night of the alleged meeting to
drawn into. It was necessary to kill him. plot the assassination. It was obviously a
WALLACE. That's where Jack Ruby comes crucial point in Garrison's presentation at
Into the picture. that hearing.
GARRISON. That's right. It was necessary But a week ego NBC sMd it has discovered
for one of the people involved to kill him. that Clay Bertrand is not Clay Shaw. NBC
WALLACE. Mr. Garrison, obviously we're not said the man who uses that alias is a New
going to try the case of Clay Shaw here on Orleans homosexual, whose real name?not
television, but some people, some journalists
and others, have charged that you have tried
to bribe, to hypnotize, to drug witnesses in
order to prove your case against Shaw.
Gsnatsom. That's right. I understand that
the latest-latest news by a New York Times
writer is that we offered an ounce of heroin
and three months' vacation to one?as a
matter of fact, this is part of our incen-
tive program for convicts. We also have six
weeks in the Bahamas, and we give them
some L813 to get there.
This?this?this attitude of skepticism on
the part of the press is ,an astonishing thing
to me, and a new thing to me. They have a
problem with my office. And one of the prob-
lems is that we have no political appoint-
ments. Most of our men are selected by
recommendations of deans of law schools.
They work 9:00 to 5:00, and we have a
highly professional office. I think one of the
best in the country. So they're reduced to
making up these fictions. We have not in-
timidated a witness since the day I came
in office.
WALLACE. One question is asked again and
again: Why doesn't Jim Garrison give his
Information, if it is valid information, why
doesn't he give It to the Federal Govern-
ment? Now that everything is out in the
open the C.I.A. could hardly stand in your
way again, could they? Why don't you take
this information that you have and cooperate
with the Federal Government?
disclosed in the broadcast?has been turned
over to the Jiistice Department.
CRON-errs. Garrison's problems multiplied
yesterday. His chief aide, William Ourvich,
who conferred recently with Senator Robert
Kennedy, abruptly resigned.
Gurvich was questioned by Bill Reed, News
Director of WWL-TV, New Orleans, and CBS
News reporter Edward Rebel.
}ZABEL. Mr. Gnrvich, why did you resign as
Mr. Garrison's chief aide in this investiga-
tion?
Gnavrcx. I was very dissatisfied with the
way the investigation was being conducted,
and I saw no reason for the investigation?
and decided that if the job of rtn itvestigator
is to find the truth, then I was to find it. I
found it. And this led to my resignation.
}LABEL. Well, what then is the truth?
Onavircn. The truth, as I see it, is that Mr.
Shaw should never have been arrested.
RADEL. Why did you decide to see Senator
Robert Kennedy? -
Gonvxcm. Ed, I went to Senator Kennedy
because he was a brother of the late President
Kennedy, to tell him we could shed no light
on the death of his brother, and not to be
hoping for such. After I told him that, he ap-
peared to be rather disgusted to think that
someone was exploiting his brother's death,
and?by bringing it up, over and over again,
and doing what has been done in this investi-
gation.
REED. There's been talk of allegations, of
GARRISON. Well, that would be one ap- wrong-doing, of coercion, of possible bribery
proach, Mike. Or I could take my files and on the part of investigators?of certain in-
take them up on the Mississippi River Bridge vestigators for the District Attorney. To your
and throw them in the river. It'd be about knowledge, are these allegations true?
the same result. GURVICII. Unquestionably, things have hap-
WALLACE. You mean, they just don't want pened in the District Attorney's Office that
any other solution from that in the War- definitely warrants an investigation by the
ren Report? Parish Grand Jury, as well as the Federal
GARRISON. Well, isn't that kind of obvious? Grand Jury.
Where do you think that pressure's eoming REED. Would you say these methods were
from that prevents witnesses and defend- illegal?
ants from being brought back to our state? GURVICII. I would say very illegal, and un-
simply this: it was necessary for them to WALLACE. Where ie that pressure coming ethical.
get rid of the decoy in the case?Lee Oswald from? REED. Can you give us any specifics?
. . . Lee Oswald. Now, in order to get -rid of Osaaisow. It's coming from Washington, Gl7RVICH. I would rather save that for the
him?so that he would not later describe the obviously. Grand Juries, Bill, if I may.
people involved in this, they had what I think Wsmscr. Por what reason? REED. Is this one the part of just one or
is a rather clever plan. It's well-known that GARRISON. Because there are individuals in two investigators, or does it involve the whole
police officers react violently to the murder Washington who do not want the truth about staff, or perhaps Mr. Garrison . . .
of a police officer. All they did was arrange the Kennedy murder M come out. Guavicx. It involves more than two people.
for an officer to be sent out to Tenth Street, WALLACE. Where are those individuals? Are Rem. More than two people. Do you be-
and when Officer Tipplt arrived there he W ELS they in the White House? Are they in the lieve Mr. Garrison had knowledge of these
murdered, with no other reason than that. C.I.A.? Are they in the F.B.I.? Where are activities?
Now, after he was murdered, Oswald WaS GURVICH. Yeah?of course, he did. He or-
pointed to, sitting in the back Of the Tell% GARRISON. I think the probability is that dered it.
Theatre where he'd been told to wait, ob- you'll find them in the Justice Department REED. He ordered it.
viously. and the Central Intelligence Agency. Gunvicit. He ordered it. Yes, sir.
Now, the idea was, quite apparently, that WALLACE. You're asking a-good many ques- RAVEL. Whdid he feel It was necessary to
Oswald would be killed in the Texas Theatre tions, but you haven't got the answers to order such acYtivities?
when he arrived, because he'd killed a "blue- those questions. You have a theory as to
Gnevxce. That I cannot explain. I am not
coat." That's the way the officers in New why indeed the President might have been
Orleans use the phrase. "He killed a blue- assassinated by a group of dissidents. . . . a psychiatrist.
coat." But the Dallas police, at least the ar- Cissansosr. No. Your statement is incorrect. REED. Mr. Garrison said the C.I.A. has at-
resting Dallas police, fooled them because We have more than a theory. We have con- tempted to block his investigation
they had, apparently, too much humanity in versations about the assassination of the Orravicsi. I318 purpose for bringing the
them, and they did not kill him. President of the United States, and it does C.I.A. in, Bill. is this: As he put it, they can't
WALLACT. All right, there is Lee Harvey not include only the conversation brought afford to a.nswer. Be can say what he damn
Oswald at the back of the Tema Theatre-- out at the prellininmy _hearing. well pleases about that agency, and they'll
then wbatt W. have money mimed, with regard to the never reply.
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CRONKTTE. Mr. Garrison is the only critie
who has been in a position to act on his
beliefs. He has brought Clay Shaw before the
courts of Louisiana, and until that case Is
tried we cannot, with propriety. go deep into
the details of the evidence, or reach any final
conclusions concerning the case or the al-
legations concerning Clay Shaw.
Mr. Garrison's public statements, however
?and there's been no shortage of them?are
fair targets. They have consistently promised
startling proof, but until the trial Mr. Gar-
rison's promises remain just that, and can-
not be tested.
But the whole atmosphere of his investiga-
tions, and the charges that have been made
by news organizations concerning it, are not
such as to inspire confidence. It may be that
Garrison will finally show that there was a
lunatic fringe in dark and devious con-
spiracy. But, so far, he has shown us noth-
ing to link the events he alleges to have
taken place In New Orleans. and the events
we know to have taken place in Dallas.
Those events, events surrounding the as-
sassination itself, we have now examined to
the best of our ability. On Sunday night we
considered whether Lee Harvey Oswald had
shot the President. We concluded that he
had. Last night we asked if there was more
than one assassin. We concluded there was
not, and that Oswald was a sole assassin.
Tonight we've asked if there was a con-
spiracy involving perhaps Officer Tippit, Jack
Ruby. or others. The answer here cannot be
as firm as our other answers, partly because
of the difficulty, cited in the Warren Re-
port, of proving something did not happen.
But parity, too, because there remains a
question as to just what Jim Garrison will
produce in that New Orleans courtroom.
But on the basis of the evidence now in
hand at least, we still can find no convinc-
ing indication of such a conspiracy. If we put
those three conclusions together, they seem
to CBS News to tell just one story?Lee
Harvey Oswald, alone, and for reasons all his
own, shot and killed President Kennedy. It
is too much to expect that the critics of the
Warren Report will be satisfied with the
conclusion CBS News has reached, any more
than they were satisfied with the. conclu-
sions the Commission reached.
Mark Lane. for example, the most vocal of
all the critics, has a theory of his own.
Btu. Smarr. If you would give us, briefly,
Mr. Lane. your version of what happened
there that day.
LANE. Well, I think?if I can use this model,
I think the evidence indicates?of course, the
car came down Main, up here, and down to
Elm Street, and was approximately here when
the first shot waa fired. The first shot struck
the President in the back of the right
shoulder; according to the F.B.I. report, and
Indicates therefore that it came from some
place in the rear?which includes the possi-
bility of it coming from the Book Depository
Building.
The second bullet struck the President in
the throat from the front, came from behind
this wooden fence, high up on a grassy knoll.
Two more bullets were fired. One struck the
Elm?the Main Street curb, and caused some
concrete, or lead, to scatter up and strike a
spectator named James Tague In the face.
Another bullet, fired from the rear, struck
Governor Connally In the back. As the lim-
ousine moved up to approximately this point,
another bullet was fixed from the right front,
struck the President in the head, drove him?
his body, to the left and to the rear, and
drove a portion of his skull backward, to the
left and to the rear. Five bullets, tired from
at least two different directions, the result
of a conspiracy.
CRONKITR. An even more elaborate account
Is given by William Turner, a former F.B.I.
agent, who has become a warm supporter of
District Attorney ORITUPOIL
'roam Now, what happened there was
that the Kennedy motorcade coming down
there, the Kennedy limousine?there were
shOta from the rear, from either the Dana*
School Book Depository Building, or the Dell
Mart, or the courthouse; and there were shots
from the grassy knoll. This is triangulation.
There is no escape from it, if it's properly
executed.
I think that the massive head wound,
where the President's head was literally
blown apart, came from a quartering angle
on the grassy knoll. The bullet WW1 a low
velocity dum-dum mercury fulminate hollow-
nose, which were outlawed by The Hague
Convention, but which are used by para-
military groups. And that the whole reaction
is very consistent to this kind of weapon.
That he was struck, and his head?doesn't
go directly back this way, but it goes back
and over this way, which would be consistent
with the shot from that direction, and New-
ton's Law of Motion.
Now, I feel also that the escape was very
simple. Number one, using a revolver or a
pistol, the shells do not eject, they don't even
have to bother to pick up their discharged
shells. Number two, they can slip?put the
gun under their coat, and when everybody
comes surging up there they can just say,
"He went that-a-way." Very simple. In fact,
It's so simple that it probably happened that
way.
Caosucrrz. In the light of what we have
exposed over the past three evenings, it's
difficult to take such versions seriously. But
unquestionably there are those who will do
so, and it is their privilege.
Our own task is not yet over. We must
still ask whether the Warren Commission
did all that was asked of it, whether other
arms of the government acted as they should
have acted, whether another commission
might cast new light upon the asaassination.
We must ask also whether there are funda-
mental and profound human reasons for the
aura of disbelief that surrounds the War-
ren Report. We will deal with all those mat-
ters tomorrow night, in the last portion of
this inquiry.
But this is a natural moment to pause,
and to sum up what we think we have
learned.
Dan, you were in Dealey Plaza on the day
of the assassination. You've been back there
several times since, when we did the first
Warren Report, and now in recent days to
prepare this report. You've been up in that
window. We've looked out that window with
you. But, subjectively, what is the Oswald-
eye view of the assassination site?
RATHER. It was RH easy shot. A much
easier shot than even it looks In our pictures.
The range was such, the angle was such,
that it did not take an expert shot, one man,
to do what the Warren Commission says was
done from there.
Crtomars. Eddie, as News Director of our
esteemed affiliate, KRLD-TV in Dallas, you've
been right in the vortex of this thing since
the moment of the assassination. What
about the people of Dallas themselves? Do
they agree with the Warren Commission Re-
port?
BARKER. Walter, I think that on a cross-
section basis, the percentage that had some
doubt about It would be about what it would
be across the country. Certainly there are
people who have some doubts about it. But
most of the doubters. I think, are those who
come to Dallas, and who come into our
newsroom, as a matter of fact. They bring
a lot of questions. But so far none of them
have brought eny answers.
Ottoman. That's the problem we all have,
Isn't it? And let me ask eacilsof you in turn
this question: Are you contented with the
basic finding of the Warren Commission?
RATHER. I'M contented with the basio
finding of the Warren Commission, that the
evidence is overwhelming that Oswald fired
at the President, and that Oswald -probably
killed President Kennedy alone. I am not
content with the findings on Oswald's pos-
sible connections with government agencies,
particularly with the C.I.A. Fm not totally
convinced that at some earlier time, un-
connected with the assassination, that Os-
wald may have had more connections than
we've been told about, or that have been
shown. I'm not totally convinced about the
single bullet theory. But I don't think it's
absolutely necessary to the final conclusion
of the Warren Commission Report. I would
have liked more questioning, a more thor-
ough going into Marina Oswald's back-
ground. But as to the basic conclusion, I
agree.
CRONKTTE. Eddie?
BARKER. I agree with It, Walter. It's too
bad, of course, that Oswald didn't have his
day in court. But I felt the night of Novem-
ber 22nd that he was the one who had shot
the President, and nothing has come to light
since then to change my opinion a bit.
Caosrxrrs. It is difficult to be totally con-
tent. Yet experience teaches all of us that
any complex human event that is examined
scrupulously and in detail will reveal im-
probabilities, inconsistencies, awkward gaps
in our knoWledge. Only in fiction do we find
all the looee ends neatly tied. That Is one
of the ways we identify something as fiction.
Real life is not all that tidy. In 1943 Lieu-
tenant John Kennedy came under enemy
fire behind Japanese lines in the Pacific. His
vr boat was destroyed. His back, already
weak, was re-injured. Yet he swam three
miles, towing a wounded shipmate, found
shelter on an island, escaped Japanese
search, encountered natives who carried mes-
sages back to American forces, crossed un-
detected through enemy waters as enemy
planes hovered overhead, and survived to
become President.
The account of his survival is full of im-
probabilities, coincidences, unknowns. So is
the account of his death. So would be the
account of your life, or mine, or the life of
arty one of us.
Concerning the events of November 22nd,
1963, in Dealey Plaza, the report of the War-
ren Commission is probably as close as we
can ever come now to the truth. And yet if
the Warren Commission had acted otherwise
three years ago, if other government agen-
cies had clone differently then, would we
today be even closer to the truth?
Tomorrow we will consider not the EU3SR8-
stnation, but the work of the Commission
that was appointed to study it. For the first
time a member of that Commission, John J.
McCloy, will publicly discuss its work and
its findings. Members of the Commission
staff, and one of the Conunission's most
persuasive critics, Edward J. Epstein, will be
heard. And we will aak, although we may not
be able to answer, two last questions:
Should America believe the Warren
Report?
Could America believe the Warren Report?
This is Walter Cronkite, with Dan Rather
and Eddie Barker,
Goodnight.
ANNOUNCER. This has been the third of a
series, CBS News Inquiry: "The Warren Re-
port." The fourth part will appear tomorrow
night at this same time.
NO INSURANCE, NO BUSINESS
Mr. SMATHERS. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent to have printed in
the body of the RECORD an article en-
titled "No Insurance, No Business," by
Eliot Janeway, and published in the
Washington Evening Star of August 7.
Mr. Janeway is an excellent economist.
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August 81 1967
Supreme
Appeal
Suprenie Court Is a review of
Court Rejects Tbe high court gives Judge ?
? conternpt convicUon.
,Bagert aod the office until Sept.
Newsman
'TWO SUSPENAED
1 to file their papers.
? O,i heridan's attorneys
Sheridan Must Testify' that the subpena is a harass-,
n mept against him. .
N.O. Probe Novel thwarted ell atteMpti lo
extradite him trona Ohio o twe
The fouirlana Supitme Court dunes Of theft, oft of con'
ruled Monday that television sPiraeY to commit Call)* bur'
newsman Walter Sherklan must IllarY? tied one of being a nia-
testify before the Orleans Par- teriai "dine".
Ish Grand Jury. ermcr'avEl*
Sheridan, with Me National lbe text of his letter tot-
Broadcasting Co., Ls accused Ww5:
by District Attorney Jim Gar. "Now that your requested
soon a attempting to bribe b(41aa 4 180?000 11'"'e been r't.
Perry Raymond Russo, an Im-
portant witness ? Garrison's
Kennedy assassination probe.
Another witness the district
gio Arcadia Smith, Dean An. In another development an at-
drews, Layton Marten's, Welter toniey for Dean A. ,Andrews
Sheridan. Rkbard Townley, Jr. obtained subpenaes tor two
NBC, the F.B. ,I. the CIA., ormort defense witnesses for
myself, with the sole provision Andrrw3_.' perjury trial, ache?
that in the interest of your oft- duled to begin Wednesday in the
en stated desire for uriperjured court of Judge Frank J. Shea.
'legal scientific objective truth, Attorney Sam Monk Zelden
and justice.' I be administered obtained stibpenses for David
by your Dr. Etunond Fadderl. Chandler, 724 Gov. Nicholls,
(SIC) (with prior clinical bole- a reporter for Life Magazine,
tion and medical supervision) and Sam De Pino, a reporter
the tame truth serum and-or for WVIIE-TV.
i hypnosis glven by your o(11c1 The district ittorney's office
was blocked In an attempt to
have former Warren ? Commis.
sin Attorney Wesley J. Leibeler
returned to New Orleans for the
Attorney's orrice Is Interested mantes pertinent or Impertio. ?graph, I give answer to y trial.our
in reastianing.. Gordoo Novels ent to your office and your cur. !self on any and all questions Brattleboro. Vt.. dented a re-
A district eourt judge at
has offered to go veluntarill rent inveatkation into your at. while under oath hi the --girel.-,quest to have Leibeicr returned
!Klima IN Grand JurY'Proi4ded, *ged johnt. Keepedy ence of your Grand Jury. nd
he first bo questioned under..thi nation minim, and its ,rt that thy*e testa and their re-4 had pereonal business eon?
a? for the trial after heibeler said
Irkfluance of "truth. .tterurnaL" ilited rala? ' "I ti be made Part of the ern' Meting with the trial datex
hypnosis. It alla tataved maul peoposet maelelote- cal recorci.
day Leibeler declined to cane to
LETTER SENT ly in view of your past act100 "Mr. Garrison , It la my smost New Orleans voiunterily.
' and the past 'actions of your earnest desk,* to at.
duced by lee' to recognizance Ito Mr. Perry Raymond Russ
and in the 'sincere interest of sand that while under the influ
Justkt,! hereby make you my Ience of those objective, scie
final offer to testify before your 'title veracity controls .aix
New Oriewis Grind Jury on all I while .on. your office's poly
separe this
siana in ter
Novel made the oiler to rto' Grand Jury and the number. matter of a conspira=iyas-Ike was Suggested
turn to Loui a let to nature,
and strange back- sassioato John F. x IA ? ?
Garrleon. Novel wu reported grounds. +sod ...diameter of 'Abe the United States ot America all Targe-t? Russ('
tb be agreeable last week to' witnesses for the prosecution in Into either, fact or fraud. fie_ BATON ROUGE, I.1 . to
testifying before the Jury pro- the cues of the Slate of.Loto ,uen and fabricating,. . A key witness in the Ne;..
-'vided that b n nil $ on , thrioiji ',Jana V. bean Andreas:. tn. oAa I intend to take a pea- leans presidential p I o t probe
charges against him be re- quire, and Clay L. Shaw. Rieb?
A__ ed long vacation, you have 72 said Monday former President
ard Townley, Walter Sherloaa? hours to swept or reject this Dwight Eisenhower and former
myself, et el.
final offer to testify a your Mexican President Adolph? Li,-
?All J do DO legally or ather`!'most Important matecial wit- pez Mateo: were also suezr-ted
what ever bays la return to;ness.' Picea notify your answer as possible death targets by
by wire to any of the attor- one of the alleged ronspitatnrs.
'neys shown below . . .?
duced.
Criminal Disttkt Court sitidgo
Bernard, J. Bogert reduced the
bonds AM specified that Novel
he released on his own recog., Louistaneloo ee year ineptness
nuance, but Novel had not 'Pin not sanding APT legal 9r
peered in the offke of the clerk factual 'aursobtion papers to
? of court to sign the bonds by ohto for Toy jennt In the a).
'Monday. ? lotted legal thne cd three
Sheridan appealed to t ati numbs *mu art jure you
'slate's ? highest enurt July 27
after 'uk.? the eivorttolity to
a tower court failed "' "
to
block hie Grand Jury subpena. vhuliestuyourQlt aDd your 01-
Russo's testhrony Ins ques- flee el my to date substantiated
Honed .by Sheridan on an hour' thereof freed. mageinne prop television
long NBC p gr program in wheel
2irn-AellinaArrov?,which?RWal:. ond walkout** of Pub' Sheridan appeared.
highlY cr?? Itic Ace. I hereby submit MY On the NBC program, Cancler
ve.st lgation
PLEADS, T NriOCENT One and only simple .term for said that representatives of
sheridon hr. pleaded Inno. your white 'consideration; Gamson Urged him to break
rent nf the alkged attempted "To wit: into the home of aay L. Shaw
and plant evident*.
? RETURNS ORDERED
The Supreme Court Monday
acted on amsther -phase of the
Garrison investlitetion when it
ordered Judge Bagert end Ger-
i-Wm to file returns to 'a petition
of John Caackee a convicted
burglar who .was also on the
bribery and la free on 0,000
bond.
The Supreme Court stated
Monday:
"The appliadinn is denied.
The showhig made is not suf..
isetent to warrant the exercise'
at our supervIsory Jurisdiction
at this time."
"I, Gcsrdoa Novel do hereby
offer to voluntarily return to
Louisiana to voluntarily testify
before your New Orleans Grand
Jury .on any, TieStiOn relative
to year epi or verbal charges
against Lee Harvey Oswald,
Clay Shaw, David Ferre, Ser-
Sher le accused of conspiring
to auseisinals. President John
F. Kennedy.
Conder later refused to
enswer questions by the Grand
Jury here and was held In con-
tempt by'Judge Bagert.
1111 petition now before the
' Perry Raymond fliis!.n, stir
witness in Dist. Alt) Jim Gar.
rison's probe of President John
F. Kepnedy's assassination, sald
the late David W. Ferri(' aug-
seated Eleentenver and topes
Mateo tor assassination.
"You never knew when he
was Iddidng and whets he was
serious." Rum* said of Ferrie._
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Rosso spoke at s daton Rouge
civic club. .
Ferric, a forme airlines pi-
lot, was found dead in his New
Orleans apartment .soon after
the Garrison probe became pub
tic.
Russo said Ferrie w a s the
leading conspirator "with the
possible exception of one of his
friends who claimed to be a
CIA agent." Russo d I d not
'Identify this man.
Russo also said he did not be-
lieve Ferns died a natural
death. He suggested r errie
could have caused his own
death by failing to take medi-
cine to counteract high blood
pressure.
He said Ferric also claimed
to know of a chemical which
would cause blood to clot and
which could not be traced dur-
ing an autopsy.
"He told me about this once,"
Russo said. "He said he knew a
[way to commit the perfect mur-
? der."
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Charges; May May Bring Suit
Warns Garrison to Stop
Fooling with Him
Thrice-indicted attorney Dean
A. Andrews Jr said Wednesday
night if District Attorney Jim
Garrison "messes with me one
more time, I'm going to charge
him with malfeasance in office
1?and prove it."
Andrews, former Jefferson
Parish assistant DA indicted for
perjury by the Orleans Parish
Grand Jury concerning what he
called the "Jolly Green Giant's"
presidential assassination probe,
said he is tired of being Garri-
son's "whipping boy."
The colorful, corpulent An-
drews said he is also weary of
receiving "bills of information
to keep my mouth shut" and
"if I get to trial, he (Garrison)
can pack up his bag and get
out of town."
RECEIVED CALL
Indicted in connection with
testimony he gave to the War-
ren Commission about a tele-
phone call he received from a
Clem Bertrand shortly after the
death in Dallas of President
John F. Kennedy, Andrews said
the nature of the phone call
rules out the possibility that
Clay L. Shaw was the caller.
! He said Shaw, accused by
1Garrison and indicted b ythe
Grand Jury for an alleged con-
Ispiracy to murder Kennedy, was
Ion the West Coast and the man
calling as Bertrand was phon-
ing locally?not long-distance.
Andrews said that various so-
called secret Central Intelli-
gence Agency and Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation documents
in Washington could readily be
viewed in presence of a judge
under court order, but Garrison
has not made an effort to see
them, preferring only to "yipe
on" and discredit the CIA and
FBI. v
Mr
The;rNilleatrUltESF said
?
that three figures often mention-
ed by Garrison as wanted for
questioning in the alleged JFK-
dee th plot could easily be
brought to New Orleans under
the "interstate compact" b u t
the DA has regularly failed to
provide the proper papers.
Those extradited would have
to be returned to their home
states without prosecution after
questioning, according to An-
drews.
Addressing a meeting of the
Young Men's Business Club of
Jefferson at the Holloway House,
Andrews waxed eloquent at
times in Ms familiar "hip" or
"cat" talk, relating the history
of his involvement in the Ken-
nedy-death investigation from
the time he was 'hit in the head
with a nickel"? got the local
call from Bertrand.
He told the Warren Commis-
sion, which said Lee Harvey Os-
wald was the lone presidential
assassin, that Bertrand asked
him to defend Oswald after
Kennedy's death.
Of Garrison, Andrews said:
"You don't know how power-
ul a district attorney is," said
he former assistant DA, who
claimed that any assistant dis-
trict attorney can so slant in-
formation in presentation to a
grand jury so as to influence an
indictment one way or the other
nine times out of 10.
Andrews said a recent con-
stitutional amendment on the
Code of Criminal Procedure, in
effect since Jan. 1, has resulted
n the loss of over 90 pr cent
of a person's basic rights as
related to grand jury indict-
ments.
"Everybody who opposed him
s hauled before the Grand
Jury," said AIis, "or else
they leave the r 'but those
cooperatb
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Views of Readers
an populace of South Vietnam
is a vital key to the successful
achievement of our objectives in
Vietnam. . . .
P. J. BOOGAERTS,
Lt. Colonel USMCR
Commanding.
CIA Should Know
New Orleans.
Editor, The Times-Picayune:
? In the July 2 issue it was
stated that Tom Bethell stated
that from a check into the Na-
tional ?Archives in Washington,
from a list of hidden informa-
tion, it appeared that the CIA
knew "a great deal about Lee
Harvey Oswald before the as-
sassination." The implication
Mr. Bethell makes is that the
CIA should not have had any
information about Lee Harvey
Oswald.
Lee Harvey Oswald was a
known Communist; was ex-
posed as a Communist by the
Information Council of the
Americas here in New Orleans
about three months before the
assassination; and the CIA,
which is the intelligence arm of
our government, would certainly
be derelict if they did not have
information on known Commu-
nists.
It is regrettable that there is
an increasing movement to try
to discredit the CIA and the
FBI. This is exactly what the
Communists would like to see
done. It is unfortunate that New
Orleans is a party to the act.
It is about time that red-
blooded Americans speak up in
defense of this great nation of
ours and not be intimidated by
those who seek to undermine
our government.
ALTON OCHSNER,
President, Information Council ,
of the Americas.
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From the moment that New Orleans
District Attorney Jim Garrison dealt
himself into the Kennedy assassination
controversy last fall, he has forced up
the ante with one bizarre theory after
another. First he announced a plot in-
volving New Orleans Businessman Clay
Shaw, ex-Airline Pilot David Ferrie and
Lee Harvey Oswald, eventually linking
them with Jack Ruby. Later he charged
that a murder team of anti-Castro Cu-
bans had planned the killing, using Os-
wald as a decoy. Next Big Jim claimed
/that the CIA and FBI were aware of these
plots and were covering up. So, too, he
said, were powerful interests in the East-
ern Establishment and the Federal Gov-
ernment, which had banded together to
discredit his investigation.
Last week, tired of the front-page cha-
rade of increasingly implausible accusa-
tions, Garrison's unofficial chief investi-
gator, Private Detective William H.
Gurvich, 42, quit, charging that his long-
time friend "has no case against Clay
Shaw?there is no case."
"My complaint," said Gurvich, "is the
way people have been treated. No hu-
man being should be ruined and dis-
graced because of another man's irra-
tional theories."
Garrison, claiming that Gurvich had
been only a "chauffeur and part-time
' photographer," called his former aide
before the grand jury that had indicted
Shaw. After twelve hours of hearings
featuring Gurvich and two members of
New Orleans' Metropolitan Crime Com-
mission, it decided that Garrison still
had a case. Gurvich threatened to ask
a federal grand jury to investigate.
It seemed curious that Bill Gurvich,
who had eagerly made the announce-
ment of Shaw's arrest last March and
led the pursuit of other suspects ever
since, should have waited so long to re-
cant. "For months and months I was
in this thing," he explained, "and all
the time Jim was saying that we were
just about to round the corner. Seeing
how things were going, my conscience
began tearing me apart."
Then, too, everyone?except Jim
Garrison?could see the case closing in
on the 6-ft. 6-in, district attorney. The
press and TV continued to dismantle
his imagined maze of Machiavellianism:
secret codes that supposedly led to
Ruby's telephone number, the elusive
and probably fictional "Clay Bertrand,"
the Cuban intrigue. In New Orleans,
where the ambitious D.A. is widely
feared and conspiratorial theories are
as highly relished as crayfish bisque, the
Crime Commission demanded a sweep-
ing state inquiry into Garrison's office.
Through it all, Big Jim wavered not a
whit. More arrests, he hinted, can come
before October, when Clay Shaw is ex-
pected to go on trial for conspiring to
murder President Kennedy. A key de-
fense witness at that trial is sure to be
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--"" Mr. Garrison' And The LIZ
New Orleans District Attorney Jim
Garrison, whose investigation into the as-
sassination of President Kennedy has pro-
duced tales that make other conspiracy
theories seem like Sunday school stories, has
done it again. I
Lee Harvey Oswald didn't shoot the
President, he said, and the Central Intel-
ligence knows who did; iririol?Prra
?
because it regards President Kennedy as "a
casualty of the Cold War," killed by Cubans
angered over the Bay of Pigs episode.
Nor does Mr. Garrison stop there.
, Charging that the CIA is trying to block his
investigation he said the "totalitarian"
agency "has infinitely more power than the
Gestapo and the NKVD of Russia combined."
So how, come Mr. Garrison is Still around?
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CIA Hiding 51 ?OCUMErniT,
11/5?M1 to Probe-- A Ai
r CD 1287-:-'Re. Oswald and
' affidavit concerning cropped ?
picture. (S)
CD 698?Reports of travel
and activities of Oswald and ;
Marina.
CD 631-11c. CIA dissemina-.1:
tion of inforination on Oswald.
CD 708?Reply to questions !,
posed by State Department. ]
CD 1012?George and Jeanne'
? DeMohrenschildt. (S)
?
cD 1222 ? Statements of .1
By ROSS YOCKEY iv-:
is some degree of secrecy to ' . George DeMohrenscbildt re..)
today that the Central Intelligence Agency- has concealed a even the unlabeled ones, since CD 943?Allegations of Pfc. 1. 'll the documents '? assassination. (S)
A si,ccial investigator for Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison charge a e c ,
, i.
least 51 official documents vital to an investigation of Presil i they all remain unavailable ' Eugene Dinkin re. assassina- 1
, dent John F. Kennedy's assassination. .;1 to the public. tion plot. (S)
..,. i
Tom Bethel], assigned by Garrison to research the Nation ' HERE IS BETHEL'S LIST. CD 971?Telephone calls to
i al Archives in Washington, -doeUriietits?WhOSi -titles-indi-
3 of the titles of 29 classified U.S. embassy, Canberra (Aus- I.
;? D. C., told the States-Item
:
, n ve i
cated that the CIA had ex- 1
I commission documents from tralia), re. planned assassina-
that from the list of concealed ti nformation on Oswald :
the CIA, all of which he ' tion. (S) I
feels may have some bear- , CD 1089?Letter re. assassi-
ing on Garrison's investiga- nation sent to Costa Rican
=
information it is apparent that before the assassination, that t
+
1
the CIA knew "a great deal" 1Oswald may have had access embassy. (S)
about Lee Harvey Oswald be- il.o secret U-2 aircraft files, tion (Each is preceded by its .: commission document num- CD 1041 ? A Negations re-
fore the assassination. :ilhat the CIA knew more about ber.): garding Intelligence Training
The Warren Commission l'Jack Ruby (the man who shot ,
CD 931?Oswald's access to School in Minsk (USSR). (S)
concluded that Oswald acted 'Oswald) than it revealed pub- ,
' information about the U-2. Some of the persons and in-
licly, and that the CIA failed . cidents referred to in the
alone in killing the president,
but Garrison contends that
, there was a conspiracy,
hatched in New Orleans, of
which Oswald was a part.
"THERE ARE 1,555 Com-
mission Documents listed in
Dthe archives," Bethell said.
,`Of these, only about 1,200
are unclassified and avail-
able to the public."
Bethell is a London school-
teacher who came to New Or-
leans earlier this year to
study the city's traditional
1\jazz. Hc became intrigued
with Gi. rrison's investigation,
said Bethell, and asked the
district attorney if he could copies of a telegraphic mes-,?rwald.
assist in the probe. 'sage, dated Oct. 10, 1963, from ', CD 1216?Memo from Helms
i;1
Garrison signed him on and the Central Intelligence Agen- (CIA Director Richard Helms)
.
sent him to the archives. c'Y, which contained informa-* entitled "Lee Harvey Os-
,tion pertaining to his current wald." (5)
Bethell returned last week ,, activities "
after spending more than a ' . ' . . CD 1273?Memo from Helms
Said Bethell in his report:
to turn over some information
? CD 1054 ? Information on documents' titles are familiar
-to the Warren Commission.
Jack Ruby and associates. (S) I to students of the 26-volume
In support of his allegation
CD 674?Information given :t Warren Report, but some are)
that the CIA knew about Os-
wald prior to the assassina- to the Secret Service but not i entirely new.
yet to the Warren Commis-" It is not known, for in?
-
tion, which occurred in Dal- A
las on Nov. 22, 1963, Bethell sion. (S) stance, what access Oswald ;
' CD 871?Photos of Oswald may have had to the secret I
cited a paragraph from one
?
of the unclassified files. in Russia. (S) U-2 files, which involved the I
?CD 321?Chronology of Os- controversial spy planes that t
AMONG THE AVAILABLE maid in USSR. (S)
,.., . flew over Russia in the late I,
.,
-documents, he said, there-ap- - - CD 680?Appendix to CD days of the Eisenhower ad-
pears a notarized statement 321. (S) ministration. ,
by State Department officer _, ,.. CD 691?Appendix A to CD . There has been speculation, ?',
_ .
? however, t h a t electronics
James D. Crowley, which . 321.
, CD 818?Revisions of CD work for the project may ,
says: ,
"The first time I rement-031- (S) have been done at Atsugi Air ,.
:ber learning of OswalcVs ex-,, 10,1,.,CD 692?Reproduction of Force Base in Japan where'
, istence was when I received official CIA dossier on Os- Oswald served as a Marine
,
before his defection to Russia.4'
month in the nation's capital
and compiled his notes. To-
day he showed one of his
"THE CONTENTS OF THIS
memoranda to the States- .message apparently, did not
Item. Ireach the Warren Commis-
sion because there are no
IN THE MEMORANDUM, commission documents origi-.
Bethel lists 29 commission 'nating. from the CIA dated
documents which he selected prior to the assassination, SO
as being of special interest we cannot request this infor-':
to Garrison. He said he chose mation by document number, '
them from a total list of 51 but it would interesting to
classified files on the asses- know what the CIA knew
sination. - - ? 'about Oswald six weeks be-
fore the assassination."
Bethell said that some of
the classified documents are
labeled "5" for "Secret" and
.1S" for "Top Secret," but
the does not know what the
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0 of these, Bethell said, were
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RUBY, WHO DIED OF can,
cer early this year, was.
cleared by the Warren Com-
mission of any CIA or for.
re apparent inconsistencies eign government connections.
in information provided by In his, investigation, however,
CIA. (S) Garrison theorizes Ruby may
;1 CD 935?Role of Cuban In-i have had both, and, in fact,
telligence Service in process-J, he has charged Ruby, .was a!
ing visa.application. (TS) partner in the alleged con-'
CD 1551?Conversations be spiracy.
'veen Cuban president and Oswald's Mexico City trip.
liMbassador. (TS) the summer before the as-
'i
CD 347?Activity of Oswald sassination has been labeled:
In Mexico City. (S) by Garrison as ha vin g,
CD 384?Activity of Oswald played a key role in the al-
In City. .
leged plot. The CIA has nev-
? CD 528?Re. allegations Os- er admitted interviewing Os-
'wald interviewed by CIA in wald there.
? Mexico City. ' Silvia Duran is a Mexican
CD 426 ? Interrogation of woman who worked in the Cu-
Silvia Duran in Mexico City.
" CD 726?Actions of Duran ban Embassy in Mexico City.
She was the first one to whom
'after first interrogation. (S)
CD ir interro- Oswald spoke on his visit to
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As with Job, ar:lictions have
descended on District Attor.
nay Jim Garrison from every
side. Several men have report-
ed that his staff offered to
make it we:th their while if
they testified to confirm
Garrison's contention that
President Kennedy was killed
as a result of a New Orleans
conspiracy.
Serious doubts have been
cast on the two witnesses
whose testiraony led to the
indictment of Clay Shaw. An
NBC program, narrated by
Frank McGee, has made a
withering case against Garri-
son and his methods. When
Bill Gurvich, a private detec-
tive who was Garrison's chief
assistant, told Senator Robert
Kennedy that Garrison had no
case, Garrison promptly fired
him.
One of Garrison's difficulties
is that by now the trail of
Kennedy's assassination is
terribly cold. Of the four chief
figures in the conspiracy, as
he reconstructs it, three are
dead?Lee Oswald, Jack Ruby
and Dave Ferric. When Garri-
son started, Ruby and Ferrie
were. still alive.
Ruby died in his hospital
cell, all but mad, still ciatying ?
that his killing of Oswald had
been part of any conspiracy.
Irerrie died soon after the
news of the Garrison investi-
gation broke; by ? his own
4and, says Garrison, to avoid
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having to confess; of natural
causes, says the New Orleans.
coroner, although he agrees
Ferrie left a suicide note
behind.
This leaves Shaw as Garri-
son's only major target still
alive. But Garrison's efforts to
. prove that Clay Shaw and
"Clay Bertrand" are the same
man will depend on being able
to break down Dean Andrews
Jr. (who first introduced
"Clay Bertrand" as .a shad-.
owy figure into the New
Orleans story) and overcome
his current refusal to talk.
He will also have to over-
come the doubts that have
developed about the two men
whose testimony was meant to
link Shaw with the conspiracy.
The was Vernon Bundy, drug
addict and former convict,
who swore he saw Shaw hand
Oswald a roll of money on the
lake front. (Two other con-
victs now . assert that Bundy
manufactured the scene, one
of them quoting him as saying
he did it "because this is the
only way I can get cut loose.")
The decisive witness against
Shaw in the pre-trial hearing
was Perry Russo, who testi-
fied (after a sodium pentothol ?
session) that he had sat in on
a key meeting with Fame,
Shaw and Oswald at Ferrie's
apartment When Ferris
mapped out the theory and
.strategy of 'killing. Kennedy..
'Men Garrison is attacked for
using sodium pentothol on
Russo, his answer is that it
was not used to put words into
his head by posthypnotic
suggestion, but as an "objec-
tifying" device, to lean over
backward and make sure that
the state's own witness was
telling the truth.
There are several possible
ways of trying to explain
Garrison and his present
activities. One is the publicity-
hound theory, which I don't
happen to go along with.
What's the use of getting all
this publicity if so much of it
is bad and if the methods may
backfire and blow Garrison to
kingdom come?
A second theory is that
Garrison has been dwelling on
the "conspiracy" so long and
intensively that he has become
neurotic and compulsive about
it and is determined to make
it come out with all the ragged
ends tied together, even if he
has to use some pretty rough
tactics to do it.
This second is my Own view
.
at the moment, reached partly
from the long conversation
with Garrison. which I de-
scribed in an earlier column,
partly from the dramatic anti-
Garrison charges since that
time. This theory doesn't
exclude the possibility ' that
there is some valid core to the
New Orleans ;tory, even if a
small one.
A third theory. compatible
. with the second, is that Garri-
son does have some sort of a
case, but that by its. very .
nature the cards are stacked,
against him and he will flavor
be able to prove it. The fact is
that Garrison is not ? just ?
building a case against a man.
He is trying to solve an almost
insoluble historical puzzle. ?
that of the assassination. - ?
Hundreds of people have
tried to solve that puzzle by
the conspiracy route, and a
score havewritten books
about it. Garrison is the only
one who has had a district
attorney's office and staff to
help him. But the trail is cold,
and the major figures: are
dead, and the small fry (like
Dean Andrews) are uncooper-
ative, and the power of the
Establishment (including 'the
CIA) makes the whole thing a
formidable obstacle race.
That, at any rate, is 'very
much how Garrison sees it in
his more objective moments.
My own view is that a
district attorney, who has to
use due process of law and the
adversary proceeding, :can't
possibly ? solve an historical
puzzle like this one. If ? he
persists, he has to violate -due
process, outrage the public
mind and ultimately expose i
himself to the suspicion of I
being delusional and paranoid. /
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they'll come running. The image is important, and that's why I think
? we'll need someone in the editorial chair who is known to the labour
movement for his humane approach and progressive stand on the
major issues. But Robert Pitmans don't grow on trees.
R6y.
.Dear Roy,
? I can see you have the right ideas. How about a name for the
'paper. I rather fancy the Sunday Harold.
Harold.
Dear Harold,
It doesn't strike on my box, but I don't really care if you call it
the Sunday Marxist, as long as it makes money.
Roy.
?Dear Roy,
Let's meet soon and get down to details. Oh, and there's a chap
from the CIA who'd like to chip in with a few ideas.
Harold.
'LABOUR MONTHLY' ON THE C.I.A. AND
? KENNEDY'S MURDER
Nearly four years after the murder of President Kennedy, public charges of
CIA responsibility have at last become current, as in the allegations of the
District Attorney of New Orleans claiming to have evidence of a conspiracy
by 'CIA former agents'. It may be worth noting that in the editorial Notes
written within a fortnight of the murder, before any of the further detailed
evidence subsequently unearthed by the skilled labours of Mark Lane and other
researchers had come to light, Labour Monthly was possibly the first journal in
Britain or the United States to present a case on the basis of the then available
evidence pointing to the CI A. fhe essential charges (omitting the detailed
argumentation and evidence ite, ) in the issue of January 1964 ran:
A CIA JOB?
The facts of the Dallas murder may become later more fully known. Or,
as is more likely, they may remain forever buried. . . . The old legal maxim
in a case of murder, cui bono??for whose benefit ??still has its value for
sniffing out the guilty party. It is natural therefore that most commentators
have surmised a coup of the Ultra-Right or racialists of Dallas. . . ? But
on the face of it this highly organised coup (even to the provision of a 'fall
guy' Van der Lubbe and rapid killing of the fall guy while manacled in
custody, as soon as there appeared 'a danger of his talking), with the manifest
complicity necessary of a very wide range of authorities, bears all the hallmarks
of a CIA job.. . . Of course it will all be cleared up now by the Presidential
Commission of Enquiry. Or perhaps not. For on the Presidential Commission
Enquiry sits appropriately enough our old friend Allen Dulles, former Director
of the Central Intelligence Agency. (Labour Monthly, January 1964)
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CBS Cautious in, Its WALLACE ASKED why Garrison didn't give his informa-
tion, if he had any, to the federal government. Garrison
said that would be like throwing it into the Mississippi river.
He charged it was "pressure from Washington" that prevents
witnesses he needs to build his case from being returned to
Louisiana. Why is there such pressure? Wallace asked.
"Because there are individuals in Washington who do not
want the truth about the Kennedy murder to come out."
' Garrison replied.
"Where are those individuals?" demanded Wallace. "In
, the White House? In the Cat.Are they in the FBI? Where
are they?"
"I think the probability is you would find them in the
justice- department and the Central Intelligence agency,"
replied Garrison.
In his turn, Gurvich charged that things have happened
in the aistriet attorney's office which warrant investigations
y a grand jury. He said the things were both unethical and
illegal.
"Was Garrison aware of there" asked CBS,
"Absolutely, he ordered them," said Gurvich.
"Tonight, we've asked if there was a "Why?" CBS asked.
conspiracy," said Walter Cronkite in I "I don't know why," snapped Gurvich.
summing up the third segment of the Ichiatrist.,,
CBS program. "The answer here cannot ,
James Garrison be as firm as our other answers [that
Oswald was the one and only rifleman],
partly because of the difficulty cited in the Warren report of
proving something did not happen, but partly too because pe ceremonies attendant to the elevation of Archbishop John
there remains a question as to just what Jim Garrison will Cody to cardinal. Jim Conway of channel '7's Morning Show,
produce in a New Orleans courtroom." in Rome for the purpose, will narrate the program, which
? ? ? :WBKB-TV officials said marks the first time a Chicago station
;.has used a communications satellite to beam a program to
ARLIER, Cronkite asserted: "It may be that Garrison Chicagoans.
rj may finally show that there was a lunatic fringe in dark
Highlights of the telecasts, titled "Prince of the Church."
and devious conspiracy, but? so far he has shown us nothing to will be shown from 6 to 6:30 p. in. today and the hon r-
link the events he alleges have occurred in New Orleans, and
long program will be repeated Starting at midnight. The three
the events which we know to have taken place in Dallas."
broadcasts are being sponsored by Polk Brothers without corn-
These statements by the network's anchor man came ; mercial interruptions.
after Garrison showed up badly in an interview on the pro- Chicago's three other regular TV stations also will have
gram with reporter Mike Wallace. There also was an inter- specials on the new cardinal. Channel 2 will air a 30-minute
view with William Gurvich, former chief investigator for program starting at 10:45 p. in. tointerow channel 9 will present
Garrison, who told on the air why he had resigned from that a half-hour show Sunday at 8:30 p. in., and channel 5 has
post Monday?he said it was because he "saw no reason for
scheduled a 30-minute special for 10:30 p in. Sunday.
the investigation," and added, that clay Shaw "should never - _ _ _ ?
have been arrested."
, Garrison's answers to Wallace's questions were as rambling
as most statements the prosecutor has given reporters since
he stepped into the limelight with his allegations of a plot to kill
Kennedy and his charges against Shaw, the NOW Orleans
.business man.
Oswald Assessment
BY CLAY GOWRAN
[Reprinted from yesterday's late edition)
BS-TV said Tuesday night, in the third part of its four-night
telecast on the Warren report, it could find no real
evi-
dence of any conspiracy in the assassination of President
Kennedy, and had concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald com-
mitted the murder "alone and for reasons all his own."
But in siding with the Warren com-
mission's judgment that Oswald was a

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(States-Ile:1i Bureau) -
BATON ROUGE?The
Louisiana House today
rejected an effort e ap-
propriate $50,000 Dist.
Atty. jini Garrin to
help defray the cost of
his investigation into the
assassir.ation of Presi-
dent Kennedy.
The attem,it was made by
Rep. Risley Triche of Assump-
_
ting Garrison ave the?mon-7, HAVE NO USE for Mr. ton of Orleans, a floor lead-
ey. Since the group was in Jim Garrison, but that's not er for Mayor Victor Schiro,
committee, there was no rec- the reason for my objection." took the microphone to de-
, Then he related the plight dare that Garrison had not
ord vote taken.
HOWEVER, ON THE basis
of green lights, it was obvious
that the Orleans delegation
was split over the amend-
ment.
Triche brought up his.
amendment when the section
of the general appropriations
bill covering a $681,100 appro-
priation for district attorneys
, of state finances.
, When Triche took the floor,
I
, he told the House that the in-
vestigation into the murder
and the alleged conspiracy to
murder President Kennedy
was a problem of public in- , nothing from Mr. Garrison.
terest. 1 I would like to think that if
"The investigation of a ' our district attorney wants
crime in New Orleans and the . this, he would have made it
state of Louisiana is a pub- known to us.
tion Parish during debate over , in the state, including SO4,000 lie responsibility," the former "Is there any way you can
for the Orleans district attor- floor leader for ex-Gov. Jim- indicate to us why we are
the general appropriations
tion. mie Davis said. _ not carrying the ball, we find .
bill. ney, came up for considera- "It is the responsibility of this a little embarrassing,"
Triche said that he was tion. this Legislature to finance the LeBreton said. .
asking for the funds follow- It drew immediate opposi- investigation and prosecution Triche replied that he
ing discussions with interme- tion from an administration of crime as an integral part would be glad to wait action
diaries of Garrison. He told floor leader, Rep. Robert of the administration of jus- on the amendment while Le-
the House that the $50,000 fig- Munson, Rapides, who was tice in Louisiana." Breten contacted Garrison,
ure was the suin. discussed. handling the bill for Gov. HE SAID THIS is of local, but the liouse voted anyway.
Triche, w ho apparently -John McKeithen. state, national and interna- Rep. Cleve Marcel of Terre-
caught the New Orleans ' Munson declared that he tional imortance. "I think it bonne Parish elicited from
House delegation unaware, was opposed to the grounds transcends the boundaries of Triche that the latter had
said he primarily was con- that the current budget only Louisiana:, been in contact with inter-
denied about the use of pri- forecasts a surplus of $57,000 Triche declared, I am par, mediaries of Garrison.
, vate funds to finance a crim- in the general fund and the ticu.larly alarmed, and thete ' "IHAVE NOT talked per-
t inal investigation by the dis- amendment would leave only are a great many citizens sonally with Garrison," Triche
trict attorney's office. $7,000?a figure he considered share my view, about the fact said. "He has not requested
?
much too close, that the Orleans Parish dis-
this. I have not discussed this
REP. SALVADOR Anzelmo REP. FORD STINSON of trict attorney has had to ac- with Garrison. I have dis-
said that app:apriation of $50,- Bossier, recalling the fight cept private contributions to cussed this with intermedi-
000 to the ;.,istrict attorney Garrison once had with the finance the investigation of ? aries, who say he does need '
for the inves:. ,.ation would not Legislature, asked Triche: this murder. 1 the funds. I have discussed it
eliminate il, private fund "Isn't that the same fellow "It must be financed by I with people who have dis- ,
source. -I. that says the Legislature is a public funds. Otherwise, gen- cussed it with Mr. Garrison."
Garrison ?s-a... peen receiving bunch of crooks? Will he use - Triche drew support from
aid from a ,:oup of wealthy-so it to investigate Kennedy or .
private citizens to whom he Is?"
; turned in a move to avoid Triche responded, "I want
! having to account for expen- ': to ask you not to engage in
ditures of public money short- !personalities over this very
' ly after his investigation was ;serious matter. It foretells
disclosed by the States-Item. dangers of impartial adminis-
.
, The . House, sitting as a ; tration of justice. ?1 ally involved on one side or
0 committee of the whole in ;ii Munson said, "robject .:0 ,
debating the appropriations the amendment primarily lily
? not?it matters that the dis-
trict attorney has had to ac-
cept. private contributions to
consulted any of the Orleans
members.
"This finds us' from New
Orleans a little surprised,"
LeBreton said. "We knew
nothing about this. We heard
tlemen, we cannot insure the
impartial adMinistration of Rep. Joel Chaisson of St.
justice. It matters not, gen- Charles Parish.
tlemen, whether the district ? -
attorney has a lease or not, ,
it matters notl if he ever
gets a conviction, it matters
not if you become emotion-
'bill voted 66 to 31 against let- one reason: It is, .the same
,
? s man who called you and me
a bunch of crooks. I have a
REP. EDWARD F. LeBre- t
mind like an elephant myself.
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"I certainly believe this to
be a request for a worthwhile
project," Chaisson said. "I
can remember when we were
accused by Garrison and I
was one who wanted to bring
him down here the next day.
We couldn't find enough with
guts to bring him down.
"He has made some grave
accusations against the CIA,"
Chaisson continued. "PrrIITC
funds should finance the in-
vestigation. We haven't heard
anything from the CIA. We '
should expect to hear some-
thing from the CIA."
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NEW ORLEANS:
? Sleight of Hand
From the start, Jim Garrison's assassi-
nation investigation had the look of a re-
markable improvisation, a helter-skelter
house of canards teetering and tottering
on the verge of collapse (NEwswEEK,
May 15). But last week, just as his "plot"
story seemed about to fall of its own im-
probable weight, the New Orleans dis-
trict attorney propped it up with char-
acteristically flamboyant sleight of hand.
Garrison extended' his "investigation" to
the FBI and the CIA, charging the:111r
with deliberately out evidence
about the murder of President Kennedy.
First the D.A. summoned FBI agent
Regis Kennedy for a grand jury appear-
ance, ostensibly to tell of the post-assassi-
nation investigation he conducted in
New Orleans in 1963. Later Garrison ob-
tained a subpoena ordering CIA director
noose ?
?
Associated Press
Beaubouef: His story stood
Richard Helms to produce a photo es-
tablishing?according to Garrison?that
Lee Harvey Oswald was working for the
CIA a few days before the assassination.
Jim Garrison's new moves produced
the intended result?publicity?and noth-
ing else. Predictably, FBI man Kennedy
refused to testify on Washington's orders
under a -Supreme Court-validated de-
partmental rule prohibiting grand jury
appearances by agents. And there was
no sign that the CIA intended suddenly
to come up with any photograph tailored
to Garrison's needs. Sniffed Garrison: the
Federal agencies were, in effect, "taking
the Fifth Amendment."
Truth Money: Last week Garrison al-
so released a document tacitly confirm-
ing that one of his investigators had of-
fered money and employment to Alvin
Beaubouef to get him to provide testi-
mony confirming Garrison's assassination
conspiracy theory. The document was an
affidavit in which Beaubouef denied that
the offer was intended to bribe him to
lie. Garrison said the investigator had of-
fered money to Beaubouef only to in-
duce him to "tell the truth." Later, how-
ever, Beaubouef's lawyer announced his
client "confirms in all details" last week's
NEWSWEEK report that the offer of mon-
ey had been "a bribery attempt."
Neither this nor the unwillingness of
the FBI and CIA to be drawn into Jim
Garrison's charade appeared to dismay
the district attorney, however. "This isn't
going to stop our investigation," he said.
"There's no way in the world they can
stop it. All they can do is slow it down."
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Killed Kennedy,
LSays Garrison
NEW ORLEANS, La. (UPI).
?District Attorney Jim Gar-
rison said that President Ken-
nedy was assassinated by five ,
anti-Castro Cubans angered
over Kennedy's handling of (
the 13:: of Pigs invasion.
Garrison said in an interview
last night that Lee Harvey Os-
wald did not shoot Kennedy and
"did not even touch a gun on
1 that day."
Garrison said his office had
found out how the assassination
occurred, but declared the de-
tails were being withheld from
his office by the Central Intelli-
gence Agency..
HE SAID t e CIA was more
powerful than e estapo in F
Nazi Germany.
Garrison said that Perry Ray-
mond Russo, his principal wit-
ness in the preliminary hearing
for Clay, L. Shaw, is not his
main witness in the investiga-
tion.
Shaw, former managing ' di-
rector of the New Orleans Trade
Mart, has been indicted for con-
spiring to kill Kennedy. He is
free on $10,000 bond, awaiting
trial.
? THE CIA had done everything
in its power to discredit him and
to halt his investigation, said
Garrison.
He said the CIA has paid law-
yers of at least two persons in-
volved in the investigation.
Garrison said the CIA could
give him the names of every,
Cuban involved in the assassina-
tion if it wanted to.
OSWALD "WAS NOT an agentl
of the CIA, but rather an em-
ploye of the CIA, as were the
anti-Castro Cubans," he added.
He said Oswald was not a
Communist. "He was an anti-
Communist," Garrison added.
Garrison said that the CIA
knew Oswald did not the kill the
President and considered Ken-
nedy a victim of the cold war.
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?lel its funds. . as no great
surprise ? ?
. esample :ha Central intelligenCe to us after we had gone in to it'important person k Sic), because
Agency is 'J.:rough devions ways t tor n-hile. The point is he not 'that's really what Ile was. One of
and' throagh intermediaries only was not a Communist, he!the most important men in
Wally paving 1a\\ era bleck ? was an anti-Communist who was ;history is an overstatement and
the -c-Orr,i)letion. of the. inv:rstiga- worlsirsg for the CIA. ?ace this .sometimes in the rush of things I
tidii--into :President Scessery's tragc,:;y occurred, the CIA's will tell members of my staff to
. cleeS).1.- What: its . doing, 'ft'z...a atti".ude seemed to have been, write out what a descriptive of
criminal act. And.if...the director s well, President Kennedy is a something is and hi this case
of the CIA and.thp top.officials. of. ' casualty of the cold war, And as they put *that and I put my name
the. CIA were_in_the jur.isdiction , to this kid, 1:i-tat's just one of to it, so I'm responsible for an
of-Louisiana I would --C.hat;ge those things. The cold war must overstatement. A very important
tlica--Withetr.-lie-sitatLp6-7-That go on. The cover must be kept. ? man would be a better way to
iciiicreT-Mr. Reims because he :71'he CIA cannot be injured and describe it.
has to know what he's doing. The as a result there's been no His role is twofold and I don't;
Central Intelligence Agency he- penetration of its secret. Its want to go into more detail
,-ran its criminal activities, in my power has just continued un- because it goes into evidence
judgment, immediately after the ?? touched, when actually its power ;that begins to tie in with the case:
i when they failed to
assass nato
n
reveal to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation in its entirety what
its i
as, a result7f. thlis-a-e.monstra-iion
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;here. In other words I feel like I.
;can talk in some generalities'
about the total picture and about
activities were n New?
It should lie cut down:aspects that do not touch -Mr.?
ssessy ,s.: the feeer.al :::',vern-
? 1T-Fria-sr"eddously and_ made' respon- .---- A '" .: ..? going,
,..,....
? I "- - CIA. We feel Orleans when Lee Oswald was Shav's c--se But Inn not '
nal in the working for it and it has
. 117151F-f-6--C-EgTeli. The CIA, as I to say any t.iing that win reliFct:
?.. !* ? - - compounded them since by es-
. ssen knov.'n to
scntially criminal activities byi, j , ,,. , .
wasn , avtaie o i be foie the ,
f 't 1 f ? liMitS me with regard to Ferrie:
or his trial, which
have learned Can this ease. II on Mr. Sn"'
time.;,--(.,r-,,,t. making every possible effort to
!CIA has infinitely .more , power .
:-''' ? v'''''''' --block e. investigation. Nov;
.?,,,s our . effort, ,' kois:c17.6.7.estapo aria_the.:Alivi) somewhat. '.3.ut Ferries role in
? ?ot ussia combined ' the summei a :,,-)3 WaS in
.. cTert11.". , . lot a ' I
- Lr.,...-.,.sf?u. ,
" - not a? case w icnhave o . _-? . , . ..
sn ,:','S:-; Lc:6
. .... . defend against, let's say against
---Q--.Did Lee Harvey- Oswald kill i
Nitermediary. Ile W., s not a CIA
connectioa with, wo... he was an
, r But ._.,_,Iv , elements that have no under-
iPresident Kennedy? liagent for e.sainnle. Ile did not
"-- - ''':;''''' it's Newsweek or WDSU or NBC. i A.._,No., Lee Harvey Oswald did ?
:carry a CIA card. lle was, if you
- "-.";? ,,., ,,'","-,:: ' standing whatsoever, Whether
, Fveerr:jetowoarkk ifhoer Cysil.S,,,,, 'did u ?Dvaovjd
c ..arger ._
..)ans, r.'?,ving a
frOm ';:-Ie -4;61 veceive a very polished lie ir
ss,sade and in Washington, which they tire
the ? practiced and adept at. f i
behind the grassy, 'moll and that concept is just about riant They would say 'we 'nave
. ss wh:eh- 2r,-2.siclent , ? ..
'?' ? stonewall' before they roppec now in the position of Humpty
' searched our files exhaust'vely
- I- ' -ush ' A d 1 ' ' I "
"'? -0.r,r..I'n----'...;.;V:dirl . 'comp.etely out 9 and we do not find that this ?an
....1.1.t ix. , - f sialit. There ? Dumpty It can never be really
s-sc...?,:.1.: ---s-ssssss-l'-'-`Tsis_i"n were?five 'of-theni.:Three behind !resurrected. One of the unfortu-,
' ..- ' ' ' - . - worked for us at nn in 1-xl
the-stone-Wall and two behind ?*nate things is that not enough of: there' 5 no sign.' 'Usually th..3
-1:1::-':-. IIII:-',i the ?
the grassy knoll. And there're the. press has done their home- ;
:means that he did. because the
.;., ous,,,..,.:.....e..,. Lent
,
- "''''''''-'-'';',-,Z to
not quite out of sight.. We then :woik, so I'm still in a position of send
first rule of the CIA is that the
L !,Y;:, s'''''s:"'!'n? . located another by process of .having to defend that against , justifies the means, which is
o!S, ?..;??i4 -= ,-11C?s: 3` ' iringina them out. Although they those who don't want to believe !--.--- - t.. - ----:-T--E- --:: ---- ---, .
one resson it should be eliminat-
',,1...ce.r., are not distinct enough you c,an, ,that ,:tbe whole truth was not ?tscr-and reorganize( ,_ esause sou
soverms.e..,, the Central "
Se ....?,.,(-7--.." -j,:e :-,-....,1.; can , make an identification from ,.:1?.. 'brought out. But he did not touch: can iforlia-ve any agency in a
..''..-c!,,...i,c- 'faces. The point is the Warren! a n democracy which really 'believes
,gua on that uDy.-
:,.0,...... ?.,-,,,eri,..., ,.:, ,,.,..,.,ie. !
Commission said nobody ne was - that the end justifies the means..
was: decoy ..a. first: Ancl-fIfFn ,Ie was a
.,; =1.-'-:c-?::dal in Lug it back ,here and they had to say. This is never the case. Ferric :
patsrancrthEn ne was ZriMr.M.
'''' ""."- which ' not enough evidence was present- Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill s'? ? Is P
"Y if 961 Th' a pears to be. as' far
'worked for the CIA in Florida in
- ---.,-'s w- are ? nobody was back there because ! es5--Artsgs-sp-s-list7s-ansystrs.
cs a snail's pace. On the ed for them to make any other as we can find, his initial
set. As a result we are
the President, who did?
--ci it icsi't that fatal a ? conclusion. Again not so much ?
ss tile centra. i A. Oh, I can say who did connection. He was making
I don't really hay to defend the inot, ,even shoot President
`?-?.ke.!-.1n9dY-Ile did.not lire a shot
organization against ! questions,
will it be successful? We have 17?m the book...depository build-
even located. . photographs in: .g here's no question about
which we have found the .nlen ;That anymore at all. One of the,
for us the bureau's part as e
tor -es because the without any-question, except, and-
Intelligence Agency..,
-.: clan-lents we have clari- , Lee: *a know the group and we know
Q. Mr. Garrison, want was .
lung -;--- ago. I don't i Some of the names of the group.
. i ? rt this I ,But we don't know which one
'"'" ' ' Harvey Oswald's: role in
- hie' can stop us. 'lacy ,
Icy us.
h:AVO. ...lid in the past
that uc Ce.-;,:n1 Intelligence
:1gc.-,cy and the -"LI are involved
hi sc.m, ,,,,?ay in all this. Can you
)111.....:.'
burcz.,.
work:.;
;Igenc:o-
iwo in:.....
. . ... - - f Orleans were not merely ,-e-
ervice I so s , I find that it ; - ... Ire- rest of them are Cubans who 'quently w.th anti Castro Cubans were training in New Orleans. ,about what the reason for, for it ?
unfair t,:, ?_:,. -Ise the bureau but exclusively with anti-Castro ; Q. David Ferric was, most . was, his trip to Houston immecli-1
this thing Is -sic; Central Intelli- Cubans. And every 01.10 e,f. them !people admit, ? an eccentric. a ;ately following the President's 1
i
no much w:tes Ste main fault; in
gence Agency ;Ind its farciar was on, the Central Intelligence ;
. , .. strange person. What was' Mr. ?
;)ower. It does not have -to Ctnninued
IA 1 O?e 0 , 1 : was standing where and we can't
. A Lee Harvey Oswald was notifind out with the CIA keeping its
an agent- of -the-Centr a "Intelli-
,, vaults locked. They.werelorreer
gdnee--Ageh-ey.--He-VaS7-alid--1 :enifs.D21...a.,112,a_CLL We man-
dan't-knoW what phrase, what :?agea to get the names of some of
- secret phrase, the secret police ? -them in a way I can't describe
--%. .. agency uses, hist he was an 'here, but we cannot find out
. cri,:c..:e die employe of the CE'Utrhr liTiollte through any government agency
.,.411.., :..ut the
,,,, geriee---Ag-eneT-Wile' where they are located now, if
pro anIT-CastrC
,. gov,:,.:nracnt '''"-S-ed.Tu 7.a-bs_Ntith Vihaht. 'they are still in America, and we
he aSitielat As a matter of,l'e'll ui .15
:have a stone wall there as far as
lilese fact, Isee-Vswald's associations. the identification of the other
,.,s w.:h C.1nban .n the summer of 1953 in New 'induals.But I can say the
? flights for them.
When '63 came and they had a
?special adventure planned in spite
of President Kennedy's order
involving Cuba, he was deeply ?
involved in it and he was
actually helping with the train-
ing. They have a problem in
'training in cases like that, they
:don't want to use members of
the United Stales Army and the
'United States forces, and in this
'case Ferrie was involved in
'servicing, in a sense. With
;regard to what happened ? in
;Dallas, well, I would rather just
!say in general terms that,
although there is no question
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in. ,.:(:,', :,c.::, the Peesident '? part of the federal governmentsamee that staititement was made"!'
wes laded. ? ;; blocking completely the inquiry-- -
;is there anything ft-tat would lead! ,
flee three people ;into, attempting to block thee:
-sou to believe that that state-,
?es, -.sate ere eetside Louisiana aint!intseiry into the death ofPresie rne.nt .',.s not true now?
L.) who twe f;:eating their return to: dent Kennedy. . ., A. No, the only thing is,7
e, ? '-' ? ?
. the setes in an:teethe'. whh sour .? Again I want to emphasize V-at - 1!'"weve" first of all is, solved;
investleetion., Go r d on Noych.i. it. is not a case of my saying new! Is a bad word. But it is!
ergio Arcadia Smith and we won't be able to find out. We lieve:Vieless true. But let mel
;sendre en?sfett meal:aloes. cetea!?have found out. how it happened:, "PO
, .,what I meant because it!
.... . . ?
:S!' l
,., yen easey taeenes those .111 ee ? There is ' Po raYsterY. It WaSTCt: was presented as a ,gloat. As I; appear that the kind of office 1
?; people :see thee- role al an ells? that complicated. The question went into the elevator, they said.' have built up would -bribe
e-ea point that you're going:getting the names, the finae "when's your next. arrest." And Ilsomebody or threaten to shoot
ome of these people a; said, "'Arrests, it may be a long' them in order to tell-a lie,
pretty despe.rate. Because any'
. .
toweed is the:. we're nay :11g. euca. ?
1 tecnesee-eee eiffLeet:,-._see. eeteme 'few details to wrap it up. And we. tu t ant to talk about
ne. ?
!them e,..ee, rehae_ea,..ereesee_ Is are being blocked corapletely by I don' w
lbeeee-e a-. eeseeele :the CIA. While we have a arrests, I first-said no comment.
teearaereessee
problern? of . cooperation with But there will be arrests. And I
se.e. eeeeemeleeset ecceeserity.
; the ea.teraetsetion at the t opmo st ?thee federal ag,encies at this :said yes, there ? will be. Then
, levee sea. eeleaeay ehreeee lee.. time, it is apparent to me that ?Iyou've solved,the case? And 1
eseeee2ee ;las ? the CIA is engineering ? this. I said we . solved the case some
C eeweich -
: great easeese ea,ceese of the eecause its future, its prestige is 'tit= ago, mainly that we under-
! billien ta cloll,ers it spenas and. at stake, and above all stood what happened and who
, its ;
r f aloa power. One of the things I'm! the principal people were and it
for 0.:'-.: reasons. Sandra
I fee. See example, who has no. sure it's worried about is . that turned out. to be confirmed
i ;
eaeresented by a very'. Congress may be etjwithout any question.
gin to 'eal: tion.
;3se-,,:te lee,?yee who is th e - curious abou there were photographs of me,
t this monstrosityea : Well, the next thing I knew,
; eilaie --- ef a aseetate Democrat. this cancer it has developed in l't
? ic reeeenel ceremittee. s this u t d b la to applys eseleeted from some other Mei-
, Gescen. Novel not only has controls which should have beerS.Ident, . with a big smile on my.
:Yesy eeecessfel lawyer in oleo; applied a long time ago. !!Iface, announcing that we IfaZ'e4don't. happen to.be a lat.
trial lawyer knows there is
nothing worse in -a major ease
than a witness who is lying.
There is nothing easier for a
defense lawyer to tear apart.'
This is a comspiracy. I think
obviously engineered by the CIA,
to derail ns and this will be ?
exposed in time, there's no
problem about that. The problem
is the conspiracy they . are.
engaged in. But again, I can.
summarize it by - saying, . of,
course, it was true. I'm not a
perfect person by any means but
bet. es has a 'lawyer down here. Q. Because of this blockingrsolved the case. Wella it wasn't What does all of theis mean
:ale. aaeacha seems to have eo, effort which you prescribe to the: ;:intended to be a gloat. ?What I to you, this lack of cooperation
'plea:nee with representation ;CIA, will this in any way hinder: Iremainin,g as ' to . the.. general and in certain instances an
eitites. He initiallY an110u:;cec: he i Pr eliminate the possibility of -jmotives and as to the key people actual hindrance, as you say in
ass:seett of the district attoeney!tin? . ? . is
; On the other hand,' I did not nation?
? t ' investigation of the assassi,
,,,.s eexeeeetee by the chief your solution of the assassina-1 involved. And this remains true.
your inves
have erivetc counsel. ? anything to eliminate it. But it; ;dream that there would be such down to is this, we have drifted
A. The summary, what it gets
;ice now he seems to' A. No, I don't' think there s; tateasanves-thcairaaasaana-issaszes
; .C?ettostaly, Alvin Beaubouef. will slow it up. If it were not 10r!7 itotal obstruction by elements of away from our constitution too
a eseciel witness by us nor every- coop'eration of-the-CentrarIntelli-j jsve could not, could not get any
regardi Ire...s.fate_is..ai.friCenven-
. e CIA,_ for . examnle,
,weo lee :taw.: been regarded as. th is , if. we..hadahati-the-Slightestt 'the federal government wherel far Th
eegercie.cl, as of great yateee gence-Ageney-fthere . would' be cooperation from : any federal lance, is many....egencies_eLethe
is represented by a nethingeeelae.e.te...investigate. In ;agency, that we have our lines fe-deFaT goveenment do. A state
. , alTie.i words the picture has; monitored constantly; Well, not liffccial ?is an iniiinVeTicence and
the state is not a sovereignty, it's
just a problem to the federal
agency concerned. Well, .this is
Wrong and this country won't
survive in the way, we've known
unless we . change it and the
change has to begin in this case
with that federal agency which
has ?concealed the. true facts of
the assassination, whose employ-
were involved in the assassi-
. :
; seeeteette anu high-priced law-
? become that clear in a sense of
-IL , ,_ ex:0es , teeese_ene . we being confirmed. It's just some
. details which we regard as very
nave e: aence in some c?-ises
the, .e,,,. lawyers are beie?,--im important details. But we're ? not
the ceetearietellipreee ;going to stop until we get them' result I think that in closing out
put right now they are in effect the case the final details of
eeee..-:::?., The money is being, ?ae,? _fere,
.dive.astl Le other peoPhs and then??;eeee..n........e......---yeasilts. . evidence that we want take us
-ceetete to tnera. 1 "They know the nerFei.i.e-ogerery, much longer, but we're not going
ae yet: have the ef:ect of theinCa".1. h-Clib.Jv-P-A---Plid--Th-L'Ilaill-e--?1 to quit, we're going to get them
aeas-triar-fr-c-an ire?grassy knoll; time is now? The Central
ejust us, any, any; ;major :witness,
constantly: . ? .
Again, we're so Used to it that
it do-sn't bother us. But as a
Ca', actually being ed to that, what tnat
th-e ifidiSeduals who pulled _the anyway. But I'd' say,
have bad no anet-Thereseavell esale And they; Agency, the Central Intelligence nation and it knows this ano
tha-aet justice here so I..woi: t be ea _
. eareala.n. with extradition in five IcTION?v that they did it netiatheyi Agency of the United States if it in t h e Central Intelligence
ver.:e. Not with a single extradi- were-fermer._-- einPalY-es----of- the: wants could in the next 60 Agency.
final anal
?CI---"IST
course, we have nothing Ne - he 3:era-training it minutes give us- the name oi In the , ii 1.
t every last Cuban involved in thisj comes clown to is whether
i and we can help them with alfederal power can be allowed to
1
description if they haveo find these. then are we no different than
: names and .in 60 minutes frOmINazi Germany or. Soviet Russia.
IInyowcltahseede. asAendwotuili.adebes hcoowMpelleatseasi! hAansd Teat t IbVerivaeatthbaetliethvaet tdhaasi
. we have been to the end for it is possible for the CIA to
sometime, but we are blocked by i:continue to obstruct with power.
this glass wall of this totalitarid? time with me. Thy
As far as I'm.concerned they are
an, powerful 'agency which is; wasting their
;worried about its power. And it'slean slow me down but there's no
lt its powl wa y in th bringing our conclusion
e world they can stop
obviously worried abou
ier, because it's desperate. :i the from
. '. When you try. to make it! to this case. e .
oe. Na one. in stye years. Ande .? --
.Now, o: Va7Or.Ion.s....in....theeetenemer.
het trouble. We haven't succeed-.194,--? .-. ? ?
in getting them down here, seesease usso told
7 And, of course, the reason is that!a strange and startling tale about
; we are committing the offense ofahe conspiracy to kill President
tryine to get back witnesses wholKennedy. Is. Perry Raymond
can help us in varying degrees, nusso your :star witness in this
? some a little and one quite a lot,jwhole investigation?
wal: regard to the question of the A. Well, the question, of
ides:at:es ? of . the men in the.course, is a little involved. But I
. aseessinatical of President Ken-Can't answer to much without at
node. and the reason we're least inferentially -reflecting on
haviee treuble is,
there are-Mr. Shaw's right's to a fair tral
peosee. in washirgnaaaavasseige and I don't want to even raise
afc---.7y-T, Jii:esfim.:111c . Central the possibility of a question of
,:7Lc2cc__A2.2:ley,._avho_cict...not having done so, but I' will say
!went. a. beeeentneut_howeePresi-that I do not regard Perry Russo
'Ceti; 'asereeleswee killed. Who does our main witness. And I'm
?-----; .. ? ?? I- to ? l? ?
not wee:. ;.e.e. neon t. . hnow.suie that, will be a definite
.disappointment to these gentle-
men from the federal govern-
eneent who are working so hard to
-try and discredit him,. because
-he simply is not our main wit-
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Yiy 22, 1967
ncss.
Q. Mr. Caerlson, on Feb. 24th ;
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AM 42 1967
'Oswald Never Touched a Gun'
Garrison Says CIA Knows"All
NEW ORLEANS May 22 0.1Pll
? Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison
claimed last night that. Presi-
dent Kennedy was not killed by
Lee Harvey Oswald but by five
anti-Castro Cubans angry over
the handling of the abortive Bay
of Pigs invasicn.
Mr. Garrison told a television
a u di en ce that Oswald never
"touched gun" on Nov. 22,
1963.
The District Attorney accused
the Central Intelligence Agency
of being aware that Oswald did
not kill Mr. Kennedy and of
trying to stop Garrison's investi-
gation of the assassination.
Mr. Garrison said the CIA ?
was more powerful than the Ge-
stapo was in Nazi Germany
The CIA could give him the
name of every Cuban involved
in the assassination in 60 min-
utes if it wanted to, Mr. Garri-
son declared. But the CIA was
not worried about Oswald, but
about its own power and possi-
bly the security of the nation,
Mr. Garrison said. He quoted
the CIA as saying, "as for the
kid (Oswald) well, that's' just
one of those things."
Mr. Garrison said the Cubans
involved were located both be-
hind the wall at Dealey Plaza
and on the grassy knoll the day
of the assassination in Dallas.
(Itek Corporation, a ? private
company, said last week it had
studied films of the assassina-
tion and determined there was
no gunman on the knoll.)
ALLEGED PERJURY
In another development in the
case, Dean A, Andrews Jr., a
former assistant district attor-
ney in neighboring Jefferson
' Parish was scheduled to go be-
fore district judge Frank Shea
today in an effort to get dis-
missed a perjury . indictment
against him issued by the Or-
leans parish grand jury.
The alleged perjury apparent-
ly arose from Mr. Andrews' re-
fusal to identify Clay L. Shaw as
Clay Bertrand, who Mr. Andress
says called him shortly after the
assassination and asked him to'
represent Oswald.
Mr. Garrison maintains Shaw
is Bertrand. Mr. Shaw, former
director of the New Orleans In-
ternational Tr a de Mart, has '
been indicted on a charge of ?
conspiring with Oswald and oth-
ers to kill Mr. Kennedy
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Garrison.Says
JFK Was Killed
By Fire Cubans
NEW ORLEANS, May 21
(UP!) - .District Attorney J'irn
Garri,inti salt/ tonight that
Presidelt Keritierly was is.
sassiirilfeirt by fivo $11111.01A1M
ClII)Are 411 Crier Km,
neciy.! boorilirN of the nay of
figs t.tx tt,lott,
Cati k011 told 1V1171,TV that
Ler ilitrvry (),\I-11t1 ,lid nOt
shoo! 1rincriy mit ",ijd not
even iroirli a 'i on lhat day."
GArvkho.i hLbffiee had
? found out ,110,k ihe aSsEts611111,.
, tion oeetorred bat' 6I al itt ad'
the details, tvtrf? tiring *Iti1..
held from his oilier by the
Central 1110114p/we Aeeti0,.
He sairi lite CIA *as More
,powernit thug tha
;Nall Greottlihk.
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Garrison Insists Oswetyd
Didn't Kill President
NEW ORLEANS (AP)?Dist.
Atty. Jim Garrison says Lee
Harvey Oswald did not kill
President John F. Kennedy and
tht the CIA knows who did.
"Purely and simply it's a case
of former employes of the CIA,
a large number of them Cubans,
having a venemous reaction
from the 1961 Bay of Pigs epi-
sode . . . certain individuals
with a fusion of interests in
regaining Cuba assassinated the
president," Garrison says.
In Washington, a spokesman
for the Central Intelligence
Agency said the organization
would have no comment on
Garrison's remarks, made last
night in a 23-minute television
interview.
Garrison said it would take
"only 60 minutes for the CIA to
give us the name of every last
Cuban involved in this and that's
how close we have been to the
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end fur some time, but we are
blccked by this glass wall of this
totalitarian, powerful agency
which is worried about its
po.ver."
He repeatedly charged the
CIA with blocking and attempt-
ing to block his investigation,
begun last fall, and "as a result
I think that in closing out the
case the final details of evidence
that we want will take us much
longer, but we're not going to
compromise. We're not going to
quit. We're going to get them
anyway."
The district attorney said he
had located photographs "in
which we have found the men
behind the grassy knoll and stone
wall before they dropped com-
pletely out of sight. Therevere
five of them not distinct-enough
you can make an identification
from the faces."
In another development
yesterday, Gordon Novel, one of
the witnesses Garrison is trying
to return to Louisiana, reported-
ly was wounded superficially by.
sniper fire at Nashville, Tenn.
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Agent Refuses To Give
Data To. Grand Jury
In New Orleans
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? Notice Of Objection Filed
_ .
' In ruling for the State, Judge
Baget said the question of privi-
lege must be determined by the
courts and not by arbitrary
decisions of executives of Fed-
eral agencies. ? Government at-
torneys filed. a notice of .objec-
tion to the ruling. -
A report ? from the Central
Intelligence Agency was turned
over to the grand jury foreman
by the judge before he ruled on.
the Kennedy subpoena. Contents'
of the report were kept con-
fidential. ?
After the grand jury ended its
New Orleans, May 17 session today, Garrison Was
;FBI agent refused to answer 'questioned about the CIA re-
...questions from a grand jury . port. He replied: "We' are going
? today, alSOut his role in the, to talk about it with the grand
. investigation of President john jury next week and I'll corn-
Kennedy's assassination. -ment about it then."
The grand jury issued a sub-
"Agent Regis Kennedy invoked
plena last week for the CIA to
executive 'privilege during the
supply a picture of Lee Harvey,
.:one hour he met with the secret
t
Oswald and another. man stand-
body, acoOrding to Jim Garri--
ing before the Cuban Embassy
spa, District Attorney.
? Jack 'Ciolino, assistant United
'States'. attorney, said agent
,nedy was ordered by Ramsey
.Clark; United States Attorney
'General; to invoke executive
71)rivilege, ' which means he
.would not answer questions.
Alvin aser, one of .Garrison's
.aides, said Agent :Kennedy then
was dismissed from the subpoe-
na.
Leaves Smiling
The Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation agent left the grand
.jury room as he entered?smil-
His appearance was ordered
during the morning when Cri-
minal District Judge Bernard
Bagert- ruled the Justice De-
partment lacks authority to
block its agents from testifying
before the grand jury.
The FBI agent, who is based
in New Orleans, had been sub-
?pcenaed last week. ,Government
attorneys had asked Judge-
Bagert to dismiss the subpoena
on grounds Clark had ordered
Kennedy not to testify.,
The Federal attorneys said a
Justice Department executive
order forbade FBI agents from
disclosing information sul:round.-.
ing pipit official work. ... , ?
in Mexico City a few days
before the President's assassin-
ation. ?
Garrison claims such a pic-
ture exists and that .it was
suppressed by the CIA when.the
Warren Commission, which
identified Oswald as the -lone
assassin, requested-it.. -
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V,13:1 Aware Odom Exists, Garrison says
Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison said today that he is well aware
cf the existence of a person by the name of Lee Odom, the
_ man whose name appeared with the address P. 0. Box 19106,
'Dallas, Tex., in Clay Shaw's address book.
Garrison said Friday that the same P. 0. number also
appeared in the notebook of accused presidential assassin -
r; Lee Harvey Oswald and that the two numbers, decoded,
were the unpublished 1963 telephone number of Jack Ruby,
the man who shot Oswald.
Odom was found in a Dallas suburb and interviewed.,
' He confirmed Clay Shaw's story that he and Odom had.
know
known_ each: other only briefly in 1966. 4
Garrison issued the following statement:
"WE ARE WELL AWARE THAT THERE is a Mr. Lee 4
Odom. As a matter of fact, he lives in Irving, Tex., just j
outside of Dallas. This is the suburb in which Ruth Paine
and Marina Oswald lived while Lee Oswald was working at ;
the book depository in Dallas. Mr. Odom's post office box
number there now is P. 0. 174.
"The fact that there is a real Lee Odom, however, is
not the point. The point is that Clay Shaw and Lee Oswald
have the same post office box number in their address
books and this is in coded form, the unpublished phone
number of Jack Ruby in 1963. The fact that someone ac-
quired the post office box when it came into existence
in late 190 does not change the 'oddity of that circumstance
0 at all.
"We are very interested in knowing who introduced.
Mr. Odom to Mr. Shaw, how many bullfights Mr. Odom has
actually produced and a few other things. We are particu-
larly interested in clarifying now why there is also coded
in Lee Oswald's address book, the local phone number of
the Central Intelligence Agency.
'We have had evidence for ? -
some time that in Dallas,
Tex., Jack Ruby was working
for the_CLLat, the same time t
,Lee Oswald was working for
yhe CIA here.
"This means that"the CIA
well, knew that these two men
knew each other. We also
I have evidence that Lee Os-
wald was not the only man ?
in Dealy Plaza who was an
employe of the CIA and now
' we have found the phone,
number of the CIA in the
front of Lee Oswald's address A
book.
"Since it is obvious that it
is no longer, possible to get'
41 the truth in any form froni ,
officials of the CA agency in ?
r Washington, no matter how:'
highly placed, we are looking -?
forward to talking to this busi-
nessman from Irving, Tex.,' ;
r aboutSO ed
m of ? these co-
idenCee
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The New Orleans investiga-
tion into the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy is
surely one of the most bizarre
exercises in American history.
It may also be among the
most irresponsible.
District Atty. Jim Garrison
has been poking around for
months among a weird collec-,
tion of queers, oddballs, no-
goodniks and publicity hounds,
trying to tie together the case
; for an assassination plot that
he claimed he had solved
months ago.
A few strange coincidences,
including the death of his "key
character," have given Garri-
son some front-page headlines.
And he has produced an
; "eyewitness" to the conspira-
-cy whose veracity is made-
'questionable by the fact that
he contradicted himself.
But Garrison has not pro-
duced one solid fact to dis-
prove the Warren Commis-
sion's conclusion that Lee Har-
vey Oswald alone murdered
President Kennedy.
The dismaying thing about
ac New Orleans spectacle is
that Garrison can roll along
for months more without
producing any facts, Millions
of people seize eagerly every .
. ugly rumor of some netarious
plot to kill Kennedy. And1:(r,
more prominent the names
linked to the alleged OA. the
' more wide-eyed and gullible
the suckers become.
. Garrison seems to have ?
become acutely aware in
recent days that his collection
of New Orleans small-ay just
wasn't adding up to the eornir
shell that he had pronused..
But the loquacious D.A. has
been reading the newspapers,.
so he knew what the public
would buy as a scapegoat.
With the run of luck the
Central Intelligence Agency
has had lately, you could
accuse the CIA of originating ?
LSD and the miniskirt, and a
lot of people would believe it.
. So how can Garrison lose'
when he charges the CIA and
, the Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation with covering up the
evidence that he needs?
He managed to take the
headlines away from Alvin 11.
Beauboeuf, who had charged
that one of Garrison's investi-
gators tried both to bribe and
blackmail him into testifying
that ha.:. had heard a New
?
Orlc2ans group conspiring to
Car,ison boasted Weeks ago
tf....tit anyone who bets against
him "win lose." It seems
pretty clear that no matter
which way his investigation
gees, the United States will
lase.
If, to this reporter's sur-4;
prise, he proves the existence '
of a plot that the FBI and CIA
tried to cover up, the damage .
to this nation is obvious. We
Would have, and deserve, the
contempt of the entire civil-
ized vm'eld.
But even if Garrison's
investigation fizzles out as just
another grandiose publicity
? gimmick by an overly ambi-
tious politician, the seeds of
doubt and suspicion will
remain firmly rooted in the
dirt-rich recesses of minds? ?
prepared always to believe the
worst.
Some Americans and mil-
lions of foreigners will go on
believing that the sinister CIA
and the ruthless old FBI
blocked Garrison from the
truth to keep him from expos-
? ing the depths of America's
decadence.
Garrison has subpoenaed
. certain FBI agents. He report-
edly has also subpoenaed CIA
,Director Richard Helms, who
is asked to produce what
Garrison claims is a photo-
graph of Oswald and a burly
' Cuban in front of the Cuban
. embassy in Mexico City in the
falI of 1953.
; Garrison presumably needs
?? the photograph (which CIA.
sources swear is nonexistent)
to prove his contention that
Oswald really was a CIA
I agent.
The likelihood is that the
; New Orleans grand jury will
never hear a word of testimo-
ny from Helms or the FBI
? agents. the justice Depart-
ment surely will hold that
' national security interests will
, not permit them to expose
themselves to quizzing before
this panel.
But one wishes, somehow,
that the CIA and FBI could
put enough cards before the
public to destroy Garrison's
prime asset?public gullibility
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Enough Rope
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison now
seems to have paid Out enough rope to hang his hare-
brained, Kennedy-assassination theory high enough
for even the most credulous to see it for what it is?
a wildly improbable effort to refute the reasoned
findings of the Warren Commission.
True, he may have rounded up a classic collection
of local weirdos?not great feat in any city. And
let them-recite some fanciful nighttime paity "plots"
allegedly involving Lee Harvey Oswald, the presi-
dential assassin the Warren Commission presents as
a kooky loner.
Now, having failed to -reconstruct any logical link
between his bizarre band of suspects and the Presi-
dent's death, Garrison is casting about wildly.
He has called in for grilling others who happened
to be named "Oswald." He is saying he thinks Oswald
really may have been a CIA agent (which CIA long
since has denied). And now he is trying to investi-
gate both the CIP. and the FBI.
For howevelong Mr. -Garrison keeps. his show
going, he will henceforth be playing to a largely
empty house. He has exhausted the patience, cre-
dulity and attention of all but the most dedicated
screwballs.
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THE JFK 'CONSPIRACY'
What lies behind New Orleans Dis-
trict Attorney Jim Garrison's increasingly
notorious investigation of a "plot" to kill
John F. Kennedy? To find out, NEws-
WEEK sent a veteran reporter, who cov-
ered the assassination and its aftertnath,
to New Orleans for five weeks. His ac-
count follows.
by Hugh Aynesworth
JOn Garrison is right. There has been a
conspiracy in New Orleans?but it is
a plot of Garrison's own making. It is a
scheme to concoct a ?fantastic "solution"
to the death of John F. Kennedy, and to
make it stick; in this cause, the district
attorney and his staff have been indirect
parties to the death of.one man and have
humiliated, harassed and financially gift-
ted several others. ?
Indeed, Garrison's tactics have been
even more questionable than hi. ease. i
have evidence that one of the strapping
D.A.'s investigators offered an iiawiUiig
"witness" $3,000 and a job with an air-
line?if only he would "fill in the facts" of
an alleged meeting to plot the death of
the President. I also know that when the
D.A.'s (dice learned that this entire brib-
ery attempt had been tapelceorded,
two of Garrison's men returned to the
"witness" and, he says, threatened him
with physical harm.
Another man who spent many hours
with District Attorney Garrison
? attempt to dissuade him from f ?
. sination-conspiracy theory has ty?
threatened?once by one of tb, i A
own "witnesses," the second tan,
? Garrison himself. Others?Cuba cN
convicts, drug addicts, hunt; );ie ' .
bums?have been hounded in more sub-
tle ways. For most of Garrison's victims
are extremely vulnerable men. Some
already paying for their vulnerabi
Chief among them is Clay L. Shaw, the
New Orleans businessman-socialite, who
conspiring now faces trial on a charge of g
to kill the President. tiar!
How did it all begin? '
Garrison first became earnestly inter-
ested in the Kennedy assassination when
he and Louisiana Sen. Russell Long rode
side by side on an airplane bound for
New York. Long said he had never ac-
tually believed the Waren commission
report, that he still had doubts. Garrison
later told me that he immediately de-
rided that .if such an important man
thought there was something odd about
the case, it was time to start digging.
Cleanup: Garrison is known in New
Orleans as a smart operator, a bit un-
orthodox, but nobody's fool. He made
his name by cleaning up his old haunt--
the French Quarter?and putting a tem-
porary halt to 11-girl practices and lewd
dancing in its gaudy strip joints. Later,
he 'amazed the whole city by accusing
eight criminal judges of taking too many
days off and of winking at Mafia activity.
But although the judges sued him for
libel, Garrison's right to criticize the in-
diciary was finally upheld by the U.S.
Supreme Court. Thus, when he first an-
nounced hi.: "conspiracy" case, most New
leanians believed that "Big Jim must
ye comething."
\\ lad Garrison had to start with was a
f lou I ally jiathetic "suspect" named Da-
, id Ferrie. A onetime airline pilot, Ferrie
hod been questioned shortly after the
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Ry MARTIN WALDRON V-
NEW ORLEANS ? One who
studies the Warren Commission re-
port runs the danger of becoming
:obsessed with trying to fill the
gaps left in the commission's in-'?
vestigation of the Kennedy assas-
sination.
'Europe as well as the 'United
States is full of people who have
become so obsessed, and they have
flooded the nation's newsstands
with hastily written books
cx-
pounding their views. The theories'
of the Pre,ident's assassination that ?
? have been expounded in print have ?
ranged from tile official version,
assassination by a Ions, deranged
gunman; tiu?ouc,rh political murder;
.to an international rOnspiracy in-
, volving Cuban refugees, homosex-
uals?and spies.
The man who has created the
? greatest stir over the theory of
1..ternalioila1 an:piracy Is Nev
Orleans District Attorney Jim
Garrison.
? This ability to manipulate'people
!?and public opinion has made Mr.? :.
Garrison, . a formidable figure in'.
' I Louisiana politics, and even those,
:public figures who may not be-,
? lieve the District Attorney's theory,
about the Kennedy a.ssassination
I
have not opposed him. Gov. John
J. McKeithen, who owes part of
ibis election to support from Mr-
! Garrison four years ago, has -said
be believes "Jim's got something."
Expanding Theory.
He is a 45-year-old hard-living
and hard-driving prosecutor who
frequently does not arise from
sleep until shortly before noon and
who does much of his thinking at
French Quarter bars. Almost
nightly his theory has grown;
much as bread dough :rises under
heat. It has expanded in all di-
rections.
Last week., Mr. Garrison was
being accused of using threats,
bribery and coercion in his inves-
tigation: He brushed ? aside these
accusations as "being unworthy of
comment."
, Last February and March, Mr.
Garrison ? who has termed the
Kennedy' assassination as resem-
bling something from Alice in
'Wonderland?said -that David W.
Ferry, a one-time airline pilot who?,
died -',on Feb. 22, and Clay
? Cenator's Friend ?
Senator Russell B. Long( the
/majority whip and probably the-
most powerful Louisiana poli-
tician, has been a close personal
...."!and political friend qf Mr. Gar-
? ?' rlson. It was Senator Long who
got him interested in investigat- ?
ing the assassination in the first
.?
.1 place, said the District Attorney.
!He Said that Senator Long had told
?? him on an airplane trip to New
! York that the Warren Commis-
' sion report seemed incomplete.
Mounting criticism from around
;.; the nation of Mr. Garrison's meth-
ods and of his unsubstantiated
? charges of, conspiracy within the
? l'F.B.I. and the C.I.A. has not ap-
peared to bother him one whit. He
/ has said he would stop giving in-
terviews to reporters for. "the aa-
sts.11, tonal press" and said that he
would ask his good friend, Senator .
. Long, to get the Senate to invcsti-
. Herblock In The We ehineten Post gate the C.I.A.
"You. say you got this from. a Mr. Jim, Garrison?" Meanwhile, he has gone mer-
She w, relired manager of the New
Orleans Trade. Mart and something
cf an international socialite, were.
the central. figures in the plot to,
assassinate Mr. Kennedy.
? Last week.. Mr. Garrison. had in-
eluded agents Of the _F.B.I., the
Secret Service and tin/C.I.A. in the
'conspiracy. He had not, as yet, ac-
cused them. "of- having advance ?
knowledge of the . assassination;
this charge he has limited, to Lee
Harvey Oswald and Mr. Ferric,
both of whom Mr. Garrison said
were C.I.A. agents. The chiefs and
the top 'supervisors of the F.B.I.,
the C.I.A. and the Secret 'Service
were. in Mr. Garrison's words, mission.
guilty of being "accessories after / ?
thr f:10 . . When Attorney 'General Ramsey
rily along, issuing a subpoena for
Ilichard ?Helms, director of the
C.I.A., to appear before the New
. Orleans grand jury next Wednes-
day and to bring the "real" photo-
graph taken of Oswald outside the
Cuban Embassy in Mexico City in
October, 1963; and not the "fa:ie
photograph" which he said the
C.I.A. had given the Warren Con-
Late one night about 10 days Clark last weelc ordered, F.B.I.
ago, Mr. Garrison, set down his agents ,not to appear before the
theories on the C.I.A. and F.E.I. grand- jury when subpoenaed by
involvement in a handwritten. I Mr. Garrison, the District Attorney
document which "fell" into the I- cited 'this' as partial proof of his
.hands of some New Orleans news- / charges of cover-up; and said that
. paper reporters. This was after the I the. Federal agencies "aro taking
District Attorney had learned that 1.tlie Fifth A.mendment.".
Newsweek magazine, after a five?
-
. j week, investigation, was about to
'accuse one of his investigators of ,
? attempting to bribe a witness to :!
?. "fill in some holes" about the as- . ?
. sa fiSi nation conspiracy.
Whether by planning or by ace
'cident, the timing of this "leak'''. ?
(.i.f the District Attorney's theory ' ?
of C.I.A. and F.B.I. ,involvement in' .?
,a "cover-up" was effective. Any
impact that the Newsweek story_ ? ?
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ATTORNEYS DENY CHARGE
?robe Figures' Lawyers
Paid by CIA, a
.; BOTH ARCACHA and Novel :
-I are wanted by Garrison as key .
1 witnesses in the DA's N Ken- !
1
.1 nedy death plot investigation.
The DA's office has accused I
;!1 Areacha and Novel of con- ?I
.? f!spiring with another principal I
Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison chargedetoday the United States ',v." John.Cohnilly.
,
Central Intelligence Agency is paying lawyers who represent Author Ray Marcus of Lo
? key figures in his Kennedy death plot investigation.: -:?:*. :? e
, ' ,i;jAngeles stepped behind th
Answering reporters' questions outside the Orleans ,Paris111';: closed doors of the jury room,
? Grand Jury room early this afternoon, Garrison deelyed:'; ':!;!,i at .q a. m., carrying a pack
"Naturally, they are paying-C-
I. Garrison referraTO"!!XatfdEti' age which appeared to con
lawyers involved. There's no. Moffett McMaines, .'another, tE:in photographic enlarge
question about that." i witness he wants for testi...! ments.
I mony in the case, and said:
REFERRING TO New Or. l: "We know' that Sandra Mof- HE WAS JOINED later by
'V leans attorney Burton Klein i ? . Asst. DA Alvin Oser. who
..1 figure in the inquiry, the late
? David W Ferri-
to steal
MU.' 4
mtions from the oil well serv-
I ice company's bunker in Ter-
s rebonne Parish.
Arcacha is free on '$1,500
I bond at Dallas, and Novel is
- awaiting an extradition hear-,
- ing at Columbus under $10,000
' bail. Both men are fighting
attempts to return them here
for questioning before the Or-
leans Parish Grand Jury.
. ? fett, up in Iowa, who has no
. who represents a one-time
roommate of key assassination, ,money, is represented by the o
' probe figure David W. Ferrie,' ichairman of a 13-state region-
, i
Garrison asserted: ' al Democratic organization."
f
-We have reason to believel , Mrs. McMaines is the girl
tnat Mr. Klein has recently ,, who star Garrison witness
'aeer, to Washington D C." '?
ein said in response to Hu Perry Russo of Baton Rouge', Bullet," contends that a pro- 1
DA's statement: has said he took to a%partY jectile found on the floor of
.,
"I emphatically deny till at Ferrie's house the' night he ; Dallas' Parkland Ho s p1 tal
., statement made by Mr. Garri? overheard Kennedy's ,assas-',!1 could not have struck either
!son that I contacted the CIA ot ' sination planned. ' ' f the late President or the Tex-
_ _ t
brought jurors a blownup
ture of Dealey Plaza, the
scene of the Kennedy shooting
at Dallas. Both remained
closeted with the jury early
, this afternoon.
Marcus' book, "The Bastard
r-
. .:! as chief executive.
!
spoke to anyone acting for that i ? SHE HAS DENIED being :i Asked by a States-Item re-
organization. ' ;there. - i porter if he would talk to the
, "There is no basis in fact for ' ."T.here's no. question in our jury about the assassination
; the statement. I am disappoint-i minds what's happening," ; bullet, Marcus replied:
I' ed arc amazed that Mr. Garri- , Garrison told newsmen. "This
t "I have a number of other
f son would have uttered such an i is because we're making .
1 things to discuss."
1 irresponsible remark. -- i progress. If we weren't ; Marcus was one of two
I you'd hear ? nothing but si- 1 controversial authors w h ,o
,
"I AM ANSWERING the I lence." I have been questioned laY
statement because I have no
I Mrs. McMaines is repre-!! grand jurors this week. Both. ,
intention of permitting Mr. Gar;_i sented at Des Moines,' where Marcus 'aid Mark Lane,
rison to cloud the fact that I
she recently moved from writer of the best-selling book,
member of his staff attempted)
Omaha, Neb., by Lex Hawk- I
I "Rush to Judgment," were in '
' to bribe Mr. (Alvin) Beauboeuf..., ins, a former chairman of the I the
The evidence is irrefutable. jury room yesterday after-
Iowa Democratic ? Executive ! noon.
' "I am equally amazed that he and currently leader of the i
has not contacted me so that: Midwest Democratic Chair- , AS THE JURY met, re-
I may give him the opportunitA. man's Association. I worked extradition papers
Tex-
'of reviewing the evidence." I were on their way to the Tex-
V Concerning Steven Plotkin;:l
. who represents fugitive witness i i GARRISON HAS CHARGED son's
sattorney general as Gard-,r41
that Mrs. McMaines moved,
office renewed its at-,,,,
;Gordon Novel, now fighting ex- .1
! from Nebraska to Iowa, a I tempts to return Sergio Ar: i
tradition at Columbus, Ohio, ' state which does not honor icnac.h.a.Smith here for question-
the DA said: !!
t
' 'the interstate material g
\ wit- . , !
"We know that Mr. Plotkin ness compact, for the pur-
, Meanwhile, Asst. DA James 1
has been receiving money, i if ,i1 pose of eluding her return for I imminent
said similar action was i.
:only through an intermediary.f, testimony here, i to return another '
.from the CIA."
con- i ?
1 witness ? Gordon Novel, from 1
Garrison delivered his corn- ,
, REACHED BY A reporter, ! Ohio.
ments as the grand jury ,
Plotkin replied: "I have nev- tinued to question the author i Arcacha is charged ' with ;
. er received anymoney from of a book which attacks the conspiracy to burglarize an ex-
: the CIA or from any known .1 credibility of the Warred Corn- plosives dump at Houma in 1
age.nt of the CIA."yA..- en e y an exas
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EXTRADITION 'P APERS
were sent to the governors
of Texas and Ohio in both
cases. In each case, the ex-
tradition requests were re-
turned to correct what au- r
thorities described as techni-
cal imperfections.
Presumably, Garrison wants,
to question both men about
their association with Ferric
and their activities on behalf'
Of 'militant anti-Castro organ-'
izations in New Orleans.
Arcacha, was leader of the
Cuban Denikratic Revolution-
ir;,--Irront in New Orleans,
and Novel has .described him-
self to friends and associates
as an operative of the U. S.',
Central' Intelligence Agency.
'He has denied the ,role pub-
' licly. ,
Feirie is one of three ' men
Garrison has accused of plot-
ting the late President's mur-
der. The others are Lee Har-
vey Oswald?the man the
Warren Commission named as
Kennedy's lone assassin?and
54-year-old Clay L. Shaw' of
New Orleans,
SHAW HAS BEEN indicted'.
in the alleged presidential as-
sassination conspiracy and is
free on $10,000 bond awaiting
trial. He has staunchly denied
complicity in the presidential
slaying and pleaded innocent .
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This :.k'ould be on Nov. 23!ficial duties because of his of-
1963, well before the commis-ficial status . . .
ision could have retjuested thel ORDER CITED
"
.alleged photo of Oswald and his:, 3. "Special agent Kennedy
? supposed companion. ?Agen thas been instructed by the At-
? Odum said he instead showedtorney General pursuant to Or-
.the photo to Mrs. Margueriteder 324-64 that he is not to
oes on Desptte Setback'Oswald, Oswald's mother, whenl'testify with respect to informa-
assassin's wife was too ex-'him in the performance of his,
tograph of an unideitified
man" was reproduced twice ,hausted to be interviewed, official duties ...
and is partially explained it HAD NEVER SEEN HIM 4. "Customarily, when local
Mrs. Oswald, Odum said.authorities seek information
three signed affidavits.
stated that she had never seen ,from a federal investigation
FBI Agent Ordered Not
f, to Give Testimony
I Distr:c-. Attorney Jim Garri-
s.-.).-. .,my brushed off the
tba., 7ederal 'Bureau of
on agent was ordered
by Attoi- :?y General Ramsey
no? testify before the
Or.ieans Grand Jury and
s6id wuld flat stop, his as-
sassy probe.
Attorney Louis C. La-
, cour, in moving to quash ir
subpoena for FBI agent Regis
Kennedy, revealed that Ken-
nedy was ordered net to tes:
tify. .
7,.arrison said the develop-
rnait will only slow down his !
I. she told him that the accusedttion and material acquired by
a court order to direct a sub-1
Garrison Wednesday obtained
the individual in the picture.
agency, ?they inaiire of tht
pena to the Central Intelligence Odum noted that he h a_ proper federal officials. No in-
Agency,trimmed the background of the
demanding what Gar
rison calls the real picture. picture, in view of the source, quiry has been made here.
,./ One of the affiants is Rich- to avoid possibly disclosing the i Therefore, it is requested that
ward Helms. Cg dtrector, who location where the picture was, the subpena be quashed."
Garrison has511enged to taken.
i Cuban sources here said
,
produce a photograph al- The copy of the photo O. dam'. they remembered both Ken- 1
legedly ,taken of Oswald and presented to the commission nedy and DeBrueys attend- 1
a Latin companion as they with his affidavit on July.10,t ing meetings of anti-Castro 1,
emerged from the Cuban Em- 1964, appears as Odum ExhibiD
1 groups
bassy in Mexico City. No. 1 in Hearings Volume XX. organized to fight the,
island
I 's Communist regime in
The subpena asks 'Helms tril Helms' affidavit, sworn to , 1961.
produce a "true photograph', on Aug. 7, 1964, and which ap- Kennedy questioned the late
of the accused presidential as- pears on pages 469 and 470
sassin and a burly Cl...1.4211 which of Volume XI, reveals that
Garrison says was taken by "the original photograph was
CIA agents in front of the Cu- taken outside of the continen-
ban Embassy in Mexico City tal United States sometimes
in November, 1963. during the period July 1, 1963 Garrison charges Ferrie was
The photograph, Garrison. to November 23, 1963." a pivotal figure in what he says
said, was suppressed when The other copy of' the same was a plot to kill Kennedy. He
the Warren Commission re-. photo was submitted by FBI contends Ferrie conspired with
in-
-quested a picture of Oswald spector James R. Malley on Oswald and Clay L. Shaw, 54-
Cb aion ear-old retired businessman.
' and his Cuban companion. , Feb. 11, 1964, according to his y
Shaw was indicted in the con-
The district attorney said the "affidavit, on pages 468 and 40?
. spiracy March 22 and is free
picture was taken with a eon- of Volume Xl.
cealed camera as the two on $10,000 bond. . ----
This copy is reproduced as
men emerged from the Cuban
David W. Ferrie when he was
arrested by Garrison's office
three days after the assassina-
tion.
?Photo by The Times-Picayune.
REGIS KENNEDY
'Ordered not to testify.
-..rivestig,aton into the death of,
Presider., John F. Kennedy, mot.
, 'stop it. ?
The dis,:ict attorney sought-
! testimony irom Kennedy, whose.
name appears frequently on,
FBI reports made during the
Warren Commission's investi-
)gation. Ziarrison also subpoena:k
eed former FBI man Warren De-
Braeys.
PARTIALLY EXPLAINED !
In connection with another
development, a check by The
Times-Picayune revealed that
Ln alleged "fake" photograph, 'and to determine if he was an in the files of the Department
Hea :rasiPa'
_
assassination. i
.'t which some news stories Hearings Exhibit 237, the exhib- In recent days Garrison de-
embassy a few days before dared that Oswald was not a
the
He aid the CIA ProduC
I.have suggested was the only
sed,"
"fake photograph" because
reference to the unidentified in-
"one or both of those men was l'AvA"uat?
employed by an agency of the , On the motion to quash the
federal government." i subpoena of Kennedy, Assistant
However, a check of the corn-
U.S. Attorneys John C. Ciolino
mission hearings reveals that:.and F rederick W. Veters
a
none of the affidavits refers to launched a four-point ttack on
the supposedly substituted photo' it
as purporting to be that of 0s4 Their motion before Criminal
wald as Garrison had chargediDistrict Court Judge Bernard
' On page 468 of hearings. J. Bagert asked for a quash
volume. XI Federal Bureau of .because:
Investigation agent Bardwell 1. "Traditionally, FBI agents
D. Odum swore in an affi- do not testify before state grand
davit that he received the pie- juries with respect to informa-
tare from the CIA the day lion or material gained by them
after the assassination and in the performance of their of
attempted to show it to Ma- 'ficial duties or by reason o
srina Oswald at a Dallas mo- their official status. Two other witnesses called by
tel the afternoon of the same 2. "Department of Justice Or- the Grand jury are 30-year-old
day.
er 324-64 (which has the fore-, Carlos Quiroga of New Orleans,
"I desired to show this photo-- f law) prohibits any officer, a once active anti-Castro lead-
graph to Marina Oswald in an
r employe of the department er, and a New Orleans truck
attempt to identify the individ- rom producing.or disclosing in
f
ual portrayed in the photograph (=nation or material contained salesman Oscar Deslatte.
Communist, as the Warren
Commission said, but was "con-
trolled" by federal undercover
agents.
He charged that the CIA and
the FBI engaged in a massive
coverup to dupe the Warren
Commission and mask the as-
sociation of CIA-employed per-
sons with Oswald.
?
'before the Grand Jury Author Mark Lane testified
Wed-
nesday and upon emerging
from the jury room identified
the CIA as the "powerful
domestic force" which he said
last month "participated in
the original plan which, in
fact, culminated in the death"
of the president.
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1 Deslatte said he was
ap-
proached in 1961?before thei,
Bay of Pigs invasion?by twol:
men who wanted to purchase'',
trucks. He said one of themu
used the name Oswald and a?
purchase offer was made in
that name.
District attorney's of flee;
sources said Lee Harvey Os-
wald was still in Russia at the
time and did not return to New
Orleans until early 1963.
A bid sheet from Deslatte's
firm with Oswald's name on it
was taken as evidence by the '
FBI Nov. 25, 1963, three days '
tyafter the assassingi_ooaL*4.
not introduced as evidence boil
ifore the Warren Commission.
Quiroga is a former close as-
sociate of Sergio Arcacha
4Smith, 44, former leader of the
!Cuban Democratic Revolution-
iry and a fugitive from
arrison's inquiry..
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:0 .. ' ' , - . ? ? J
ation on material contained in ? Investi4ationi
'fly MARTIN WALDRON V the files of the Department of ,.. ?... .. . .
' special to The New York Ttmes Justice or acquired by him in --i? ....
!
'NEW ORLEANS, May 10 ? i.of Oswald'
the performance of his official .
duties or because of his pffieial
District Attorney Jim Garri-
. status. that they have investigated b
Ion today subpoenaed Richard
"Special Agent Kennedy has fore state grand juries, unles.
s: Helms, head of the Intelligence
been instructed by the Attorney the Attorney General gives his
;.: Agency, to answer questions
1: before a New Orleans grand '; General, pursuant to order 324-- consent.
64, that he is not to testify; Veteran officials of the Jus-
. 1.' .jury next wee.1( about 'a C.I.A. with respect to information and tice Department and the F.B.I
O .
1; investigation of a assassina- material acquired by him in said today that they could not,
?,1 tion of President he
the performance of his official remember an instance in whicht
duties or because of his offi- the Attorney General had riven . STAT I NTL
The subpoena signed by State 1
% .
District Judge Bernard ,J. I Bag-
cial st. . ' ert, ordered Mr. Helms to ap- atus ! his consent for an agent to
1.,
1, .pear next Wednesday. It also "Customarily, when local au- testify.
directed him to produce a photo- thorities seek information from The reason for this policy is
graph taken by C.I.A. agentsa Federal investigation agency i
said to be that once an agent
? in front of the Cuban Embassy they inquire of the proper Fed-
. l in Mexico City in October, 1963, eral officials. No inquiry has is sworn in before the grand
I. about seven weeks before the been made here. Therefore, it jury, he could be required to
President was shot. is requested that the subpoena disclose Federal secrets. .
; V Mr. Garrison, who has said be quashed." The Supreme Court has up-
he has evidence that Lee Harvey 1 A former F.B.I. agent, Warren held the authority of Federal
? _Oswald was an undercover DeBrueys, was also subpoenaed department heads to exercisa
agent of the C.I.A., declared it last week. He did not appear to this power in a series of casea
that a photograph alleged to
. .
testify. The District Attorney's running back to 1900. The late.'nhow Oswald ia front of the Associated Press Wirephoto office said that the subpeona had decision, in 1950, involved an a
Cuban Embassy Was a "fake" Alvin Beauboeuf not been served, tempt by Roger Touhy. the Chia
produced by the C.I.A. to avoid .
At al news conference this cago gangster, to prove in hal )
having to identify one of its
?
afternoon
agents, who was with Oswald court today, Louis C. Lacour, , meanwhile, the attor- beas corpus proceedings tha
ney for Alvin Beauboeuf, a one- the F.B.I. had used fraud t
in Mexido ? City and who ?ap- the United States attorney in time business partner of the late send him to the penitentiary.
pcared in the true photograph. New Orleans, said that Attor- David W. Ferric, whom Mr. Gar- An F.B.I. agent refused tdi
On Monday, Mr. Garrison said ney General Ramsey Clark rison has called the "central fig- produce subpoenaed records ill!
? - ?
' that he had begun an investi- had directed Mr. Kennedy not ure" in a plot to kill President Federal district court and thel
1 gation of ..:-.- activities of the to answer the subpoena.
.? C.I.A. ana of the Federal Bu- Kennedy, said that a lie detec- trial judge put him in jail. The
Mr., Lacour asked Judge Bag- tor test showed that Mr. Beau- Supreme Court ruled that the
; reau of Investigation. He ac- ert to dismiss the subpoena and boeuf was telling the truth When agent had the right to refuse,
., cused bet agencies of with- a hearing on the motion was he reported he had been unless the Attorney General!
holding , - -vider..:,-; .concern- set for next Tuesd
? ing the ..,a.tion of Presi- ay. "threatened" by members of the gave his permission. . .
dent Ker.,:,-.cay In support of the motion, Mr, District Attorney's staff. ' When the Justice Depirtment.
Lacour filed a statement saying:More Threats Charged refused today to let Mr. Ken-
,
Ref 111,05, to Testify "Traditionally, F.B.I. agents nedy testify, it cited the current
i
n Newsweek this
This morning, an F.B.I. agent, do not testify before state grand An articleversion of the regulation that
. Regis Kenneuy, refused to ap- Juries with respect to informa. week said that an investigator the Supreme court upheld in the
.
pear before the grand jury in tion or material gained .by for Garrison had offered Mr. Touhy case.
answer to a subpoena issued them in the performance of Beauboeuf a3,000 to testify that. . The regulation, which was Is-1
last week.. Mr. Kennedy was their official duties or by reason he had overheard discussion of sued by acting Attorney Gen-
one of the F.B.I. agents who of their official status, an assassination plot. .
eral Nicholas deB. Katzenbach,
, helped to investigate the New "Department of Justice order Mr. Beaubocuf later signed an in 1964, states that if the state
Orleans scene after the Presi- 324-64 prohibits any officer . or affidavit saying that the investi court persists in calling upon
fient's death in Dallas.. . employe of the department from gator had at no time asked him the agent to testify, he must
: ?? In pleadings filed in state producing *or disclosing inform, to tell anything but the truth. 1 "respectfully decline to produce
But today his attorney, Bur-. '
ton G. Klein, said that Mr. Beau- or disclose the material or infor-
boeuf had signed the affadavit mation demanded."
"because of threats and coer- ? Legal observers here. said to-
cion."
Mr. l3eauboeuf, a slender man. day that if Louisiana officials
of 21 who was dressed in a imprison Mr. Kennedy for re-
brown and a blue tie, sat be-' fusing to testify, a Federal
side his attorney during the judge would probably order his
news conference but did noti immediate release, under the au-
take part in it. . thority of the Touhy case.
Mr. Klein would not say who A spokesman for the Central
had administered the poly- Intelligence Agency said today.
graph test. However, Mr. Beau- that any subpoenas served on,
boeuf said on Monday that he C.I.A. officials in connection,
was going to take a lie detector with the Garrison investigation
test yesterday in Washington. ; "will be accepted." t
The spokesman would not ,
. A Long-Standing Policy . elaborate. However, Federal oft
Special to The NOW York Timesieta's outside the Justice De-
WASHINGTON, May. 10_ p artment normally turn Mei
The Department of Justice fol.,' subpoena papers over to the de-
lowed a long-standing Federal aliment, which then provides
policy today when it refused to instructions on what course the
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0 FBI Agent Is Taking the Fifth'
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1. New Orleans, La.?The Jus-
tice Department Wednesday
asked Criminal District Court
Judge Ben Bagert to dismiss
a subpoena directing FBI
agent Regis Kennedy to tes-
tify before the Orleans Parish
grand jury in connection with
District Attorney Jim Gar-
rison's pr ob e of President
Kennedy's assassination.
r Agent Kennedy was one of
four subpoenaed to testify
Wednesday.
' Mr. Garrison promptly
branded the motion an at-
tempt by Federal agents to
; "take the Fifth Amendment."
r "This isn't going to stop
our investigation," Mr. Garri-
son said. "There's no way in
the world they can stop it. All
' they can do is slow it down,"
, Judge Bagert scheduled a
hearing May 16 on the mo-
tion, which was filed by
United States Attorney Louis
C. Lacour.
Mr. Lacour's motion stated
that Mr. Kennedy was ordered
by Attorney General Ramsey
Clark not to testify.
' "Traditionally FBI agents
do not testify before s t at e
grand juries with respect to
Information or material gained
by their performance of their
official duties or by reason of
their official status," the mo-
tion said. "This rule was
based upon the sound policy
that the integrity and effec-
tiveness of the FBI is pro-,
; tected by restricting such in
formation and material to
Federal law enforcement."
In another development, i
Mr. Garrison's office obtained '
a subpoena which will be;
directed to the head of thel
1/Central Intelligence Agency, ;
demoting iffiarlYlfrGarrison ;
'contends is a suppressed!
:. photograph of Lee Harvey,
Oswald, taken by CIA agents'
in front of the Cuban Em-
bassy in Mexico City in No-1
; vember 1963.
Beauboeuf. "Newsweek
story true."
Debruey s also was sub-
poeneed Wednesday.
Cuban sources in New Or-
leans said they remembered
Mr. Kennedy and Mr. De-
brueys attending meetings of
anti-Castro groups ogranized
to fight the island'S Com-
munist regime in 1961.
Alvin R. Beauboeuf, mean-
while, "confirmed in all de-
tails" a Newsweek magazine
account that he was offered
n ey and threatened by
members of Mr. Garrison's
staff.
Attorney 'Burton G. Klein,
?AP Wirephotos.
Kennedy ... Not testifying.
appearing at a news confer-
ence with his client, Mr. 13eau-
boeu f, said Mr. Beauboeuf
also was told he would be shot
if he made trouble.
He said an affidavit by Mr.
Beauboeuf April 12, denying
any bribe attempt, was signed
under further "threats and
coercion."
Mr. Garrison had released
the affidavit Tuesday, appar-
ently to refute an article in
Newsweek magazine describ-
ing the alleged b rib e s and
threats.
Mr. Kennedy and former t
FBI Agent Warren Debrueys
Investigated New Orleans as-;
, pects of the assassination of 1,
President Kennedy in Dallas I
on November' 22?-1963. Mr..
. ,
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Fr4 1.1
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Li
en by CIA agents in front of ' quiring into circumstances of
: the Cuban Embassy? at Mex-
ico City in November, 1963. ,Kennedy" and asked Judge
Kennedy is one of two men1 Bagert to quash. agent's sub-
whom Garrison called for 1 pena because:
.testimony concerning their i! 1. "Traditionally, FBI agents
investigation of New Orleans / do . not testify before state
aspects of the presidential I grand juries with respect to
i nomination in 1963. .; information or material gained
by them in the performance
THE OTHER IS A former, of their official duties or by
agent, Warren DeBrueys. The: reason of their official status.
. 1 names of both men appear 4?4? 2. "Department of Justice
rv,?, ,.., U.S..l. Z./ attorney revealed today that Federal ) frequently on FBI reports1 Order 324-64 (which has .the
31.:reau of Investigation Agent Regis Kennedy has 1 .made during the . Warren.I force of law) prohibits any of-
beea c-...dered by Attorney General Ramsey Clark not Commission investigation . o ficer or employe of the De-
!, th lat P 'd t JohnF
the assassination of John
to testify before the Orleans Parish Grand Jury. Kennedy's slaying.
The disclosure came
this morning as U.S.
Atty. Louis C. Lacour
moved to quash a sub-
pena for Kennedy's tes-
?
in Criminal District Court ? A Carricon s i
i James Alcock, told Judge!
This isn'tgoing . to stop our Bernaid J Bagert the state
investigation. There's no way will oppose . the qaash mo
-
in the world they can stop it. tion. A hearing was set for
All they can do is slow it . Tuesday.
down."
Acting for LaCour, Asst. U.S.
timony in Dist. Atty. Jim In still another development,I ' Attys. John C. Ciolino and Garrison's presidential mur- the DA obtained a court order Frederick W. Veters launched.
der plot investigation. . ? to direct a subpena to thei
A a four-point, attack on the
Garrison reacted quickly. U.S. Intelligence Agency, de-4 agent's subpena.
i .
"OBVIOUSLY WHAT IS hap- 1 nianding what Garrison con-
Their motion noted that the
pening is that the federal ! tends is a Suppressed photot
agents involved are taking the i graph of Lee Harvey Oswald. 4
Fifth Amendment," he told t
reporters in his odice lobby, i THE SUBPENA asks CIA ;
adding: Director Richard Helms to 1
...__ ....._ .....
partment from producing or
disclosing information or ma-
terial contained in the files of
the Department of Justic or
acquired by him in the per-:
formance of his official duties
or because of his official stat-
us . . .
3. "Special Agent Kennedy
has been instructed by the
Attorney General pursuant to
Order 324-64 that he is not to
? testify with? respect to infor-
mation and material acquired
by him in the performance of
his official duties or because
of his official status..
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MAY IO 1961
NOVEL WILL BE
RETRIED-OHIO
Nif Restrictions Wanted,
Says McElroy
The Ohio governor's office
gave assurances Tuesday that
assassination investigation wit-
ness Gordon Novel will be re-
turned as soon as proper extra-
dition papers are received from
Louisiana.
John McElroy, assistant to
Gov. James A. Rhodes, said
his office is not attempting to Technical deficiencies were
keep Novel from testifying in I sighted by each state as rea-
District Attorney Jim Gard-
son's investigation into the
sassination of President John
F. Kennedy.
The assurance was made in
spite of a recent letter from
McElroy requesting that a writ-
ten statement disclaiming. that
Novel was sought for invettiga-
tion testimony accompany his that Oswald was a Communist,
extradition papers. and added that he has "proofs"
"If your governor will get the to this effect.
papers in order, Gov. Rhodes
will return him," McElroy de-
'dared Tuesday, adding, "Why
don't we get this show on the
-oad and quit talking about it?"
SURPRISE VOICED
STATI NTL
McElroy denied that his office
had been pressured into slowing
I or halting Novel's extradition
! when asked of the possibility.
"That's a ridiculous question,"
he said.
"Perhaps you should read the
letter," McElroy told a report-
er. Informed that a reporter,
had read it, McElroy asserted:
"He'd better read it again. H
misinterpreted it."
BOTH OUT ON BOND
Both sought men are free on
the burglary conspiracy charge,
Novel on 'a $10,000 bond in Co.
lumbus, Ohio, and Arcacha
!Smith on a $1,500 bond in Dal-
las, Tex.
sons for returning extradition
papers previously sent
Meanwhile, one of Arcacha
Smith's former close associates
is scheduled to appear before
the grand jury Wednesday.
The subpenaed man, Carlos
Quiroga, 30, 3134 Derby p1., said
Tuesday that he is "convinced
His subpena was served
Monday, the day after Garri-
son charged the CentraLIntel-.
1' etitusthgency and the Fed-
eral Bureau. of Investigation
with collaborating in conceal-
Assistant district - attorneyi
James L. Alcock expressed sur-
prise at the latest McElroy
statement and pointed to the
previous disclaimer request.
Alcock said papers for No-
vel and former New Orleans
anti-Castro leader Sergio
Arcacha Smith were being
perfected, and that he hoped ments in New Orleans.
to mail them to Gov. McKeith-
en Tuesday. '
Alcock said the Novel extradi-
tion papers will be "legally
proper within the framework of
jag the facts of the assassina- ?,
tion from the Warren Commis- '
Sion.
Left out of the material pre-
sented to the commission, Gar-
rison said, was significant evi-
dence of Lee Harvey Oswald's
associations with anti-Castro ele-
Souces in New Orleans said
Monday that, Quiroga was in
volved with an anti-Castro or-
ganization which Arcacha Smith
headed. .
extradition proceedings," and
will not bear the requested dis-
claimer.
Arcacha Smith and Novel ex-
tradition proceedings spring
from charges of conspiracy to
commit simple burglary of a
munitions bunker near ,Houma:
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MY 10 1967
) Garrison Charges C.I.A. and F.B.I. Conceal EvidencasTAT NTL
By MARTIN WALDRON*/
Spectral to The New York Times
. NNW ORLEANS. May 9 ?
District Alton:icy Jim Garrison
, has begun an investigation of
the Federal Bureau of Investl-
, gation and the Central Intelli-
gence Agency, charging that
' both agencies are trying to
i- withhold evidence about the
t assassination of President Ben-
i nedy.
I. Apparently Unruffled by an
' . accusation by Newsweek mag-
? azine that the only "plot" in
'..Ithe asassination was one Mr.'
Garrison had created in his own '
mind, the tall, flamboyant dis-
'# trict attorney subpoenaed two
;; Federal agents to appear before
' a New Orleans grand jury to-
-morrow.
Mr. Garrison refused to corn-
1" ?tient directly on the Newsweek
K assertion that one of his inves-
I' tigators had offered money to
? ,. a friend of David W. Ferrier
?a former airline pilot, to testify
, that he had overheard the for-
mation of a plot to kill Presi-
dent Kennedy.
The district attorney set a.
.. regular meeting of the ' New
Orleans grand jury to hear. c
Regis Kennedy, an F.B.I. agent, .kn
and Warren DeBrueya, a "Gov- ; s
ernment agent," to appear for
. questioning.
'in
Questioned Ferri?
? During the Warren Commis-
sion's investigation of the as-1K
sassination, Regis Kennedy que !T1
tioned the late Mr. Ferric, who, _
? Mr. Garrison had described as t
"the central figure" in a con-
spiracy to murder the President. c
? In a not-for-attribution inter ?
view with two reporters of The s
New Orleans States-Item last ac
, Thursday, the district attorney n
. said that he had information
; indicating that Oswald was an
' agent of the C.I.A., engaged in
;.' a secret operation with anti-
_ Castro Cubans, and that the
.F.B.L knew it. Yesterday, Mr.
? Visit to Beaubouef
The article said that last
March, in an attempt to "shore
up" a conspiracy charge against
Clay L. Shaw, New Orleans
' businessman, two investigators
from Mr. Garrisdn's office went
to visit Alvin Beaubouef, a Mr. Beaubouef would not Co.21-year-old service statlon-oper- ment on the Newsweek report.
ator who was once' in business He once ran a service station
with Mr. Ferrie. with Mr. Ferric and was re-
Mr. Shaw has been indicted-, and
by agents of the F.B.I.
cLeo and the Secret Service to have
by a New Orleans grand jury gone to Texas with Mr. Ferric
and charged with being a co- on the night that Presiden
conspirator in a plot to murder Kennedy was shot.
President Kennedy.
Newsweek said that ?
got in the way he would be
SOUL. Then they hauled honr
._ - . . .
orz I?/ VV
down to the courthouse and we feel that Alvin Beauboucf -,....;
made him sign a statement thatiknows some missing links that
said, in effect, that he didn't;will.help us get all of the men
consider the offer of $3,000 and tavolvcd in the assassination."
, .
a job as a bribe."
Affidavit Released
Beaubouef had refused to make. Mr. Loisel could not be
any commitment to Mr. Gana; reached for comment. Mr. Gar-
son's investigators without rison said: "This is not my
talking to his lawyer. The next Probleni. It's Newsweek's.
day, Lynn Loisel, one of the They're the ones who will have
investigators came to the law- to climb back off the limb."
yer's office. However, Mr. Garrison mad
"What had Loisel told Beau- available to the press a cop
bouef the night before, the at- of an affidavit signed by M
torney asked?" Newsweek said. Beauboucf before a notary pub
" 'I told him we had liberal ex- 'lie and dated April 12, 1967
pense money,' Loisel replied., Mr. Beaubouef said in the af
'And I said the boss is in a pa- fielavit, made' almost a moot
sition to put him in a job, also: 'after the visit from Mr. Loisel
that he would make a hero out that "no representative of th
of him, instead of a villain, you: Orheans Parish district attor
understand I mean WO cnn'
After the investigator had
left the lawyer's office, the
lawyer said "that he thought
that he would sell this tape'
and make some money," the af-
fidavit said. "I did not want'
to go along with th is at first
but then I decided to because;
I needed some money to get on.
I my feet.
. Mr. Beauboucf said in the.
affidavit that he "later learned",
that the lawyer had "called at:
least one magazine nd offered,
to sell this tpc for a sum of
money." He said that as of that
date?April 12?he ,had not re-
ceived any money, if the lawyer
had succeeded in selling the
Y
tape.
r.
?
?
C'
I . nay s office has ever asked me
hange the story around, You; to do anything but to tell the
now, to positively beyond a f truth."
hadow of a doubt . . . youl He said that Mr. Loisel men-,
now, eliminate him, ycitt know.1 1.ioncti money after "I told him
to any kind of a conspfraay Oita I could not afford to con.,
"The attorney wanted
now more about the offer
: to! :the district attorney's officer
? 'avha. I knew about the case
on., . !until I found a job and solved
oney," Newsweek went
Loisel answered: 'I would von- my financial problems." ,
.'
r what have you.'" tinue to Lake the time to tel
1:
ure to say . . . well, I'm, You: ' ? Mr. Loisel replied that if Mr.
:now . . . fairly certain, c 1Beaubouef-'s evidence led to the.
ould put $3,000 on hint.' " W : capture of the men who killed
Newsweek said that Mr. Lot- :President Kennedy he felt "I,
el then "laid out the 'conspir- ;would not have to Worry about'
y plot' to which Beaubouef either a job or money. He said,.
resumably would testify."
however, that it had to be the
.;
truth because the district attor-
'Discussed Escape Mute'
? ney's office would .require me
"He discussed 'crossfire" and ; to take a lie detector test and
escape routes," the magazipc :ether tests because they were
said. "As Loisel. 'recalled' it not interested in building th
erne and Shaw had betas kt.r- ; case on any statements about
ing in the apartment .ot. :which there was any question."
aybe it had been Oswald and ? Mr. Bea,ubotteE said he met
t; Garrison said that The States- gu
Item article was "essentially in
Sh
. correct.
? According to The States-item,
Mr. Garrison said that in the
I summer of 196:'. Lee Harvey Os
aw?the investigator couldn't :with Mr. Loisel the next day
quite recall for sure. ?Lotia!) .in the office of his lawyer, and
added: 'Clay Shaw wanted some- 'that the lawyer taped the con-
of his methods used, or his versation.
oughts, you know, used. But: Asks About Job Offer
ywaY, that's what we have . 1
mind-a-along that line. ,1 The lawyer asked Mr. Loisel,
"Was Al at the Meeting?' ;1'Is it true that you offered my
attorney asked. Loiselsaid: 1 client a job or some money to
i, Al wasn't at the meeting.'
:tell you the truth about the
t Loisel suggested that Dave, ;assassination?" the affidavit
rrie hadr told Beaubouef an: said.
out- it." ? , ' "Mr. Loisel replied that this
To explain why he had not was correct but that his office
me forward previously, the: 'was interested only in getting
estigator suggested that Mr.: the truth. and tha anything
th
wald, the man accused by the an
Warren Commission of being in
the sole assassin, was "shep-: ;
herded everywhere he went in, tho
New Orleans by an individual. qv
known to have been in the em-: Bc
'ploy of the Central Intelligence, pc
Agency."
That C.I.A. man, a source: ab
close to. Mr. Garrison said, isr co
snow dead. ifw
The ' Newsweek accusation
lappears in the current issue in
ian 'article, by, Hugh Aynesarorth,
a
' former ?Dallas newspaper
ireporter who joined the maga-
tine ''staff, .'about four months
Appro
Be
aufoucf say that he had beenl less than the truth would be use-
"scared," Newsweek said. . less," the affidavit said.
The magazine said that when! Mr. Bcaubouef quoted the in-
vestigator as saying: "We want
Mr. Garrison's "men" learned; ?
that the meeting in the at..: I to know what part Dave Ferrie
torney's office had been re-i 'played in the assassination of
CO ,the President. We know a lot
corded on tape, "Loisel and at
inikinitergAgth2r 4/15C3t-tv:?M1111513rtrOitti
. d
c
. ... .
Hears Recording.
Mr. Beaubouef said that some
days later he and his lawyer.
went to the district attorney
Of Jefferson Parish, the county
next to Orleans Parish, and
played t he tape recording for
Frank Langridge, the district
attorney there.
"After listening to the tape,
Mr. Langridge indicated that
he could ri ot file a ny charges
against anyone based on that
conversation," the affidavit
said.
Since the tape recording was
made, Mr. Beaubouef has re-
tained a different lawyer.
Mr. Langridge said in a tele-
phone interview that he had
listened to a tape recording
brought to him about three
weeks ago by Mr. Beaubouef's
first attorney. However, Mr.
Langridge would not comment
on the contents of the record-
ing.
?
? Reaction of C.I.A.
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, May 9 ? A
spokesman for the Central In-
telligence Agency said today
that any subpoena would be
:referred to the Justice Depart-
ment. The Justice Department
refused to comment.
The C.I.A. spokesman said
that in the Warren report John
A. McCone, then C.I.A. direc-
tor, stated that the a gency had
never been associated directly
or indirectly with Oswald.
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Attorzey jira Garrisonf 1 into the assassiztation, ? said
? rs:cns to seek 'a fr.'Il :::.:4% . c:7.17C.C.7. CO .11rova that Kenn-
? i',..mato . inquiry into the I ,:edy tssed at a result of a plot
C..---.1:::.1. Znzelli?-,ence? Agency's . ..katchca . here; The ? War:P..:.
.......-..)? role in :he ' \M.:iv:: . Commission mid i.t found ? no
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\-.7azzen ?Con:mission's report.
was completely untrue" in ;v.:.
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? shot b7 Lee
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Garrison'S late:: statement
...corroborated.. ,a ? copyrighted .
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?
?
7riclay? t4at ? Lis investigation.
? had turned. up 'Mounting ..:?
.cvidence of CIA. luvoIvcracar ..
1? .ia 'Kennedy's . death..
^
.. ...'?-2e asserted that .the Intellit.s .
.. gesso; Agency e.c.: the Cont.,
mission by Bonding itimemo!, ? .
. ?.?
ke:s with irrelevant . informa,'....
don in.:.lorclec to obscure
.. truth. .? ..-
1'..7GAr:ison said Oswald was ..'.
? " .
?
no: a Communist. as -he wai..-
. depicted by the Warren Com.'.
mission; but ? actually was an:
' uncle:cove: :Lan working do,
se:1y with antiTCastio-organi-:?.'
sations: in Now Orleans. and ....,
1111r.s. using his Communist- :
.back,nound as o cover; for his. ...
.;eai activities. ... ? . ? .
? . Garrison. .did. not Say how.
he expected. to Convince the
:Senate that an ? investigation
.. was necessary.? but the States-
item said it was thought that.
?be may seek, the aid of Sena-
toe Russel .pr.??? ton. Democrat,
.,Louisiana..Garrison and
:- QM . neisonal .- and. - .political. ?
?..frienas. .? -.? . ? --
, ? Thi Distriet? Attorney told',
.:, the. 174evrpaper that .the Fede- ?:;
.-a,?ag:mti.wh.o. coacc41c4 vital ?
?l,:laos-vicclzo regarding ?resident':
,..:Xcnnedy's assassination, and....
''. their ? superiors who'.arc now.;,.......
.. engaged in a dcclicated ed-ort....:? .
to discredit ? and ? obstruct the ?':
,. iaclacriog of evidencein the
?-case, _are. - g_uilcy . or being
? 'accessories ....... the' loot 'to".?
one_of the ?=selis: inn:de:it- ?
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:New Orleans, ibis- . asSociation:.1
..with anti-Castro . Cubans and:...,
.'sho role of the ? (Inked ;tater: .. .
' .1ratellipece Agisidos.in-New;::,
!Orleans in. i963..lori essential:-,..i.
? .1y ,cocr.crzetartion?said.."..:..1 , ..
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NEW ORLEANS AP -The New Orleans States-Item reported
today Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison plans to seek a full-scale Senate
inquiry into the&antral Intelligence Agency's role in the Warren
Commission s investigation of the Kennedy assassination.
T:he flew Orleans district attorney claims the CIA and the Federal
ITrz-eau of Investigation 000perated in concealing facts behind the
aJoascination of 2resident John P. Kennedy from both the Warren
Commission and the American public.
Garrison said he will take steps later this week to convince the
Senate of the need for a full-scale investigation.
Garrison, who launched his own probe last October into the
assassination, has said. he expects to probe that Kennedy died as
a result of a plot hatched here. The Warren Commission said it
found no evidence of a conspiracy.
In an exclusive interview with Garrison, the States-Item quoted
him as saying that the CIA knew all along that the Warren
Commission s report was completely untrue in its conclusion that
Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone.
Garrison s latest statement corroborated a copyrighted story in
the States-Item Friday that his investigation had turned up mounting
evidence of CIA involvement in Kennedy's death.
:le asserted that the intelligence agency duped the commission
by flooding its members, with a gush of irrelevant information in
order to obscure the truth.
Garrison said Oswald was not a communist, as he was depicted
by the Warren COmmission, but actually was an undercover man
working closely with anti-Castro organizations in New Orleans and
Dallas using his cormunist background as a cover for his real
activities.
Garrison did not say how he expected to convince the Senate that
an investigation was necessary out the States-Item said it was
thought that he may seek the aid of Sen. Russell B. Long, Dia.
Garrison and Long are personal and political friends.
The district attorney told the newspaper that "The federal agents'
who concealed vital knowledge regarding President Kennedy's
assassination, and their superiors who are now engaged in a
dodicated effort to discredit and obstruct the gathering of evidence
the case, are guilty of being accessorites after the fact to one
of the cruelest murders in our history.
?The recent States-Item article concerning Lee Oswald in New
Orleanst_ his association with anti-Castro Cubans and the role of the
United States intelligence agencies in New Orleans in 1963 is
essentially correcto, Garrison said.
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7.:e New Orleans States-Item the Senate of the need for a full-. conspiracy- '
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tr.day Dist. Atty. Jim
;-,:ans to seek a full-
: Seie inquiry into the
;;;teliigence Agency's
t.-.e Warren Commission's
of the 'Kennedy
scale investigation. ; The States-Item quoted him as
Garrison, who last October saying the CIA knew all along
launched his own probe into the that the Warren Commission's
assassination, 'has said he !report was completely untrue in
expects to prove -Kennedy died its conclusion that Kennedy was
as a result of a plot hatched shot by Lee Harvey. Oswald
here. acting alone. ? . ? .
The Viarreja .Commissioni . ? :
?
? New Orleans district ?
!ailoracy claims the CIA and the
:Federal Bureau of Investigation'.
1 cdopc:rated in concealing facts.
I *whina the assassination of
:Presidor,t Johr. F. Kennedy from.
;.he Warren Commission
. and the AmeriCan public. 1'
G'r.rrison said he will take ?
? I
?
Garrison's latest statement'
supported a copyright story in
the States-Item Friday that his.
investigation had turned up
mounting evidence of CIA :
involvement In Kennedy's death.
He asserted that the intelli-
gence agency duped the com-
tmission by flooding its members
with a gush of irrelevant infer-.
AAUP to obscure the truth. ?
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Bid to prove
Oswald was
CIA ()lucrative
14.
New York, May 8 (PTI)?A New
Orleans paper has suggested that
District Attorney Jim Garrison
was currently trying to prove Lee
Harry Oswald, alleged Kennedy
assassin, according to the Warren
Commission, was a Central Intelli-
gence Agency operative.
In a copyrighted story, "The
New Orleans State's item" said Mr
Garrison was trying to prove that
Oswald was a CIA operative, who
aided anti-Castro Cubans.
The newspaper, quoting "inform-
ed sources,' said additional evid-
ence being gathered pointed in-
creasingly towards a deep involve-
ment of CIA activities among cer-
tain members in the district attor-
ney's inquiry.
The Central Intelligence Agency
refused to comment last night on
the New Orleans (Louisiana)
Press report that Oswald was one
of their agents. 1
American Secret Service quar-
ters contented themselves with
quoting the testimony the head of
the CIA, Mr John McCone, gave to
the Warren Commission. It said:
"The agency never contacted him,
interviewed him, talked with him,
or received or sollicited any re-
ports or. information from him or
commun i him in any
r."
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By CIA, Garrgpii Says
NEW ORLEANS (UPI)?Dist.
Atty. Jim Carrison yesterday
challenged the Central Intelli-
gence Agency to produce a
picture of Lee Harvey Oswald
which he said the CIA sup-
pressed from the Warren Com-
mission.
Garrison, who is conducting
his own investigation of the 1963
assassination of .President John
F. Kennedy, said the CIA gave
the Warren Commission a "fake
photograph."
The New Orleans States-Item
reported Friday that Garrison
was trying to show Oswald had
definite connections with the
CIA' while he was in New Or-
leans in. 1963 AM that Oswald
may have been thtrying on anti-
Communist CIA work while he
was ' outwardly demonstrating
7 for the 'Fair Play, for Cuba
Committee: "?
Garrison said the CIA was
requested to give the commis-
sion a picture it took of Oswald
and a Cuban companion leaving
the Cuban Embassy at Mexico
City in 1963. Instead, (he CIA
prioduced a picture of a balding,
inhiiile-aged man "who obvious-
$y was neithar Lee Harvey ,
Oswald nor his companion,
Garrison said.
"It is perfectly obvious that
the reason the 'true picture of
Oswald and his companion *as
withheld and a fake picture was
substituted wat because one or
both of these meh were working
for agencies of the United States
government herbin the summer
of 1963," Gbrriontaid.
The picture Garrison referred
to is Exhibit 237 in Volume XVI '!
of the Warren Report and is *.
identified only as "an unidenti-
fied thiSti,"
Thetilit, asked to comment on.?
the ?Mites-Item story Friday,
referibil the newspaper to ?
Warren Commission testimony- r
in which the agency denied any j
connection with Oswald.
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New Orleans, May 5 1A?The
New Orleans.5`Intei-Item said in
a ? copyrighted story today that
VJim Garrison, district attorney,
will seek to show that Lee Har-.
vey Oswald was an undercover
agent who aided the cause of
, anti-Castro Cubans here.
"Garrison's investigation is
said to have taken a. definite
' trend toward what are believed;
to be indications that persons
employed by the CIA were re-. of
sponsible for Kennedy's death,".
the newspaper said.
The Warren Commission,
named by President Johnson to
Investigate the assassination of
President Kennedy in Dallas
November 22, 1963, reached the
conclusion that Lee Harvey Os-s
? wald was the sole assassin.' ?
-.Not A Communist
: Garrison's Kennedy assassina-4
'tion investigation, the States-1
Item said, "will show that . .
Oswald was not a-Communist."'
? The Warren Commission del
cided that Oswald was a con-
fused, Communist-oriented
; young man who was driven to
kill Kennedy by a deep need
for public recognition. .
; The New Orleans gun-toting
. district attorney, often flam-
boyant and unorthodox, has
been conducting his own inves-
tigation into the Kennedy slay-
ing since last fall. He has ob-
. tamed a grand jury indictment
of Clay L. Shaw, a wealthy re-,
tired business man, on a charge
of conspiring to murder the
President.
The States-Item said,its latest
information came from in-
formed sources "as 'additional
evidence pointed increasingly
toward a deep involvement of
United States Central
? gence Agency activitiel 'among
certain principals in tir district
? attorney's continuing. inquiry."
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FBI Agent in
Kennedy Probe:
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NEW ORLEANS (AP)?Arc
FBI agent who investigated New;
Orleans angles of the assassina-
tion of President John F. Kenne-
dy in November 1963 has been '
,subpoenaed to appear before
the Orleans Parish grand jury
next week. .
Agent Regis Kennedy declined
to comment when asked if he
would honor the subpoena. '
The grand jury is hearing
witnesses presented by Dist.
Atty. Jim Garrison, who last fail
began his own investigation of
:the assassination at Dallas, Tex.
!
Also subpoenaed yesterday
;was Warren Debrueys, who was
Ian FBI agent in 1963. Debrueys
land Regis Kennedy have thei
tames on numerous FBI repor
among the exhibits in the
volume Warren Commission
report.
? ' Goal Reported
? Earlier . yesterday the New
Orleans States-Item said that
Garrison "will seek to show"
that Lee Harvey Oswald was an
undercover agent who aided the.
cause of anti-Castro Cubans
here.
The . Warren Commission
' which conchicied Oswald acted
.' alone in the assassination, de-
. picted him as a confused?
? i Communist-oriented young man
?. who was driven to kill President
Kennedy by a deep need for'
public recognition. .
.. 'Garrison's investigation is
said to have taken a definite
trend toward what are believed,
to be indications that persons
employed by the CIA were re-
sponsible for Kennedy's death,"
the newspaper said. '
CIA Cites Testimony
In Washington, the CIA had
no direct comment on the re-
port. CIA spokesmen, however,
cited testimony in which the
Intelligence agency told the
Warren Commission it had no
connection with Oswald. .
The States-Item said Garri-
son's office believes that Os-
wald's ' New? Orleans activities
In 1963 in behalf of the pro-
Castro Fair Play for Cuba Com-
mittea "were no more than a;
cover for his real job. as an,
operative who worked closelyi
with ? militant anti7cummunist,
.? Cuban groups." .1 !
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A New York author, whose
two books severely criticize
the Warren Commission Re-
port on President John F.
Kennedy's death, testified be-
fore the Orleans Parish Grand
Jury for almost three hours
; today and emerged to de-
clare:
"Dist. Atty. Garrison's in-
vestigation is going to cul-
t initiate in a congressional in-
vestigation."
? /Writer Harold Weisberg en-
tered the jury room at 10
a. m. with DA Jim Garrison
and- Asst. DAs Richard Burns,
Alvin Oser, James Alcock and
Andrew Sciambra.
He departed with Garrison
shortly before 1 p. m., handed
copies of his two books,
"Whitewash," and "White-
wash II" to States-Item re-
Sciambra, who Phelan said
did not mention star witness
.1 Perry Russo's later conspir-
acy disclosures in a report on ,
his first interview with the
I Baton Rouge salesman, called '
Phelan's article "incomplete
F and distorted."
1.4...v.krAl
Defense attorneys for 54-
year-old Clay L. Shaw, the
only man charged with corn-
plicity in Kennedy's murder,
have asked Criminal District
; Court to sulipena Phelan for
1 testimony.
They termed the writer's
testimony "essential to the
defense."
RUSSO TESTIFIED at a
preliminary hearing for Shaw .
that he overheard the retired i
! New Orleans businessman
' conspire with the late David
W. Ferrie and Lee Harvey,
Oswald to kill the president. ,
Ferrie, a former airline pi- .?
lot, died of what the coroner
I called' natural causes five
days after Garrison's investi-
__stot photo. cation became public. Oswald
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porter Ross Yockey and . HAROLD WEIegBERG i was name ren
;I charged: ,, Commission as the lone'assas-
. , . 1 WHILE THERE WAS no !i; sin .of Kennedy at Dallas in
.,
"Right now the federal gov- I immediate indication of what_. 1963.
. ernment is trying every pos- was discussed in the secret" ..,
'i sible way to prevent Garri- jury session, sources in the ,
$
- '
sons investigation."
i ? i DA's office said i[zight.. ctn.. :.'
. But he said heexpects. j tet itIbbn possible 'optrations ., ?
"4 ,f I tile :' I Central ' Intelligence
neyv and thorough investiga- ydgericy i here. .1 -i '? 1
Lion by Congress which will :: Published reports this week 4-
be entirely open to the pub- n the States-Item said theret
,
is mounting evidence of ai
.4 CIA link . to the inquiry 'hy'S
1 WESIBERG CHARGED the 3 Garrison into what he charges .'
i Warren Commissio , whi,c4,,i! Alwas a plot to kill Kennedy.
cock ana a member of
.STATINTL
?
blamed Kennedy's murder on the jury left the secret ses-
.' a lone assassin, Lee Harvey sion hurriedly at 11:20 a. m.4
! Oswald, had failed in its mis- !I Both returned within 20 'min- ?
' sion of fact gathering. Utes. ?
"The last thing I want is a ' Sciambra came through the
reopening of the Warren Com-- jury room door at 11:30 a. m. ,
' mission or anything like it," He would not comment on
he added. ? ; the possibility of further ac-
t Weisberg described his first h tion by the jury today.
, book as a blow against the
Warren report and the sec- ; JAMES PHELAN of the
ond a criticism of what heI Saturday Evening Post pub-
termed "CIA, secret service lished a stay critical of Gar- '
and FBItWerups." 'rison and his investigation '
, this i
_ _week and drew: mmeni
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NEW YORK--There is increas-
ing evidence at high. evel 1 that
the Central Intelligence Agency
is no more dedicated to the de-
struction of Communism than was
Attorney General Robert Kenne-
dy and his two successors.
No doubt some of the m i nor
messengers and agents of the CIA
think of themrelves as "foes of
comenenIsin" but the real decis-
ions at the top level are made by
the sama international families
which for years have financed
, this thin, called "communism."
Does the CIA murder the ene-
mies of the b.g families? Writers
. like Georee Schuyler say that
CIA Wiled Madam Nliu's hus-
band. A Cuban is being held at
Creedmere State Hospital for the
Insane in New York--A Cuban
who claims that the CIA a sOs-
sinated avowed "anti-comnsu-
- aefael Trujillo, pre m e rt.
Of Dominican Republic, arid*
N7o1::,e-a Diem, premier of South
Victreen. The Cuban, Pascual
? Congora, also claims that the
CIA had pin aued to kill Fidel
Castro.
(There were rumors at the time
of John Kennedy's assassination
that Castro was scheduled for rub-
out by De Cll.. in orcler to 'mean
a p:.-T.,er moss acceptable to
Mceeo\e. The Councilor could
find no basis for such reports at
the uree: because Castro appeared
f- order; from Her-
bert Leeman, the New Yorker
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who also helped finance Moscow.)
CIA money is being used to
crush Southern whites. The in-
famous Southern Regional Coun-
cil allegedly received $60,000
of stolen taxpayers' money in
1963. The pay-off was chan-
neled through the so-called New
World Foundation.
The Aaron E. Norman Fund was
used to transmit $6,000 or CIA
money to the Southern Regional
Council in 1962 and the Norman
Fund also paid $2,000 that year
to a race-mix outfit which calls
itself the Georgia Council on Hit-
man Relations. The Norm an
Fund also pays good tax-free
dollars to such revolutionary an-
ti-white groups as CORE, the
Lawyers' Defense Committee and
the League for Industrial Demo-
cracy.
The National Student Associa-
tion, which offered its own form
of Socialism as a substitute for
the "Soviet" (New York) brand,
received CIA funds at the same
time it was engaged in anti-
South civil rights agitation.
Two Southerners .are in a poei-
Um to check into the race-mix
and assassination activities of the
Central Intelligence Agency.
They are Senator Dick Russell of
G eorgia, whose once sterling rep-
utation in the Deep South has -
been somewhat muddied by his
part in the Warren Committee
whitewash, and Rep. Mendel
Rivers of South Carolina. Riven
is still considered a champion by
Southern patriots.
Both Russell and Rivers are on
the CIA watchdog committee.
The Councilor does not seek to
reflect on the integrity of either
man, except to point out Rus-
sell's failures on the Warren
Commission. It is possible that
Nicholas Kattenbac.h and the Leh-
man gang are doing things that
Russell and Riven don't know
about.
itSSOS aOROF
The Councilor staff has been ,
working for six weeks on a spec-
ial 48-page report on the asses- .
ination of John F. Kennedy.
Nearing completion, new ma-
terial is added orrupdated each
day. Most...Af 66. facto to be
revealed have never been printed
before--or have beenerinted for
limited audiences and withheld
from national distribution.
The report will provide much
information about the Central
Intelligence Agency and such
leftists in the Agency who hold
policy-making jobs such as Nich-
olas Kattenbach.(Many CIA agents
are loyal Americans and. have no
idea where their orders are com-
ing from.)
The report will provide many
clues which almost spell out the
name of the New York leftist who
apparently ordered the death of
W. Kennedy. The man in ques-
tion was a major backer of Cas-
tro and helped funnel U.S.tax
funds to the Soviet Union and
other Red governments which had
to have subsidieo in order to
survive.
(If you are skeptical about
such an explanation, you will
not be after seeing the Report.)
The Councilor was the first
,American newspaper to state that
; the plot to kill' Kennedy was
based in New Orleans, not Dallas
as others claimed. We told'our
readers about Ferris in our is-
sue of March 15, 1964-'---Only 16
weeks after the assaaeination:
' Thousands .pf .advance orders
at $2 each hOe been received.
. Orders will be filled on basis
earliest pestmark, with mail-
ing to begin?ta soon as printed.
(Persons who wish to, order a
copy should send $2 to the Coun-
cilor, 1827 Texas Ave.',' Shreve-
port, La., and requestAeundilor
'Assassination Renort.)
The Councilor
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WASHINGTON ? The Sen-
ate Ethics Committee, in its
probe into the tangled finances
of Sen. Tom Dodd, D-Conn.,
shouldn't stop with ? the cam-
paign contributions he stuffed
into his own pocket.
Even more important is the
story of how Dodd has used
his Senate influence to make a
fast buck. We have already
cited examples of how. he'
intervened with the govern-
ment to seek favors for people
:who slipped him cash, fur-
?:nished him with automobiles
and flew him around in
:private planes. .
? The key to his private deals
.1s gray, grizzled ? Ed Sullivan,
a senate employe who seems to
'be in charge of the ? senator's
fund raising,. both personal
- and political. Sullivan sends
the senator cryptic reports, when you are around, we will
scrawled in a shaky hand on get. together, and Jack prom- '
lined yellow paper. ises he will come up with..
Scarcely a month after Dodd.
something? .
had taken the oath as senator, - I am sure, Tont, this is the',
right move. Your Washington
he reco.ived hs first proposi..* ?
Income must be added to, and ,
tions from Sul; wan. ? . you must agree on a plan that
"Fr.i.nk? is i:,terested in an
ot:siness loan)," will do this.
Sullivan's letters indicate
wrote 611van on Feb. 4, 1959' ; that his chief Senate duty was
"He has not applied and ? hustling money for Dodd. For ,
intended to talk with us before. this he was paid a full-time
making a move. He plans to salary by the taxpayers.
- give me a preview of the
situation Monday, Feb. 9. Castro Counterplot
According to the papers, you The publicity over New
will be here Feb. O. Maybe on Orleans District Attorney Jim !
the plane you could think thii Garrison's investigation of a
over: 'Kennedy assassination plot"
"1. Fee for procurement' 'has focused attention in Wash-S;
work. ? ington on a reported CIA plan
.
? in .1963 to assassinate Cuba's ?
? ? "2. Getting a share of stock,
Fidel Castro, which, according .
plus an arrangement that to some sources, may have
would bring a steady income. '? resulted in a counterplot by ? .
This is a good business and a . Castro to assassinate Presi-,
lot can be done for him. He dent Kennedy. -
knows the business, appreci-
ates the value of spending
has told us that Lee Harvey
money in the right places and
has never had enough capital Oswald, named as the Keune-
dy assassin, trained with Cas-
to handle his growth.
-tro revolutionaries in Minsk
"These, of course,. are my d during his Soviet stay.' This
ideas. I will only' try to information, which Long
promote them after you tell swore is reliable, was never
. me to.... revealed by the Warren Com- I
"Harold wanted help in mission.
getting a name scotch. They' . Our sources agree that a
also are looking for a ware-. plot against Castro definitely
...house in Hartford. They have was taken up inside the CIA at
no attorney in this area. On the time Sen. Robert Kennedy,
this * deal, I have these "D.-N.Y., was riding herd .on
. thoughts:' the agency ' for his brother.
?
'? Money Can' Be Made! . The report is that Castro got
"Help get a scotch. Take a wind of the plot and threat-
fee or become their local ened to find someone to
.attorney (not you I know) on a 'assassinate President Kenne-
.: retainer basis. Or rent them a dy.
. warehouse. Or. take a share of ? Shortly after the tragedy,
? the operation in this branch the FBI sumitted a memo to
with a steady income.. ? President Johnson reporting
that Cuban leaders? had want-
"Again these are my ideas.
? I hope you can. agree and let ed to kill Kennedy. The
me know when you are in. ,information was not sufficient-
. ?
Money can and will be made." lY specific, however; to be
accepted as certain:. '
In another letter, dated,1-
March 14, 1960, Sullivan.wrote
, about another opportunity for
the senator: "This morning I
spent an hour with Jack. We
had a real good talk. I know
there is nothing Jack wouldn't
. do for you, and also I know
? that he can steer things your
way that would easily solve all,
your problems, ? ?
' "I am to see ? him again
%Thursday. We agreed ? that,
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*- WASHINGTON ? President
!Johnson is sitting on a
:political H-bomb an uncon-
:firmed report that Sen. Robert
!Kennedy, D-N.Y., may have
:approved an assassination plot
:.which then possibly backfired
. against his late brother.
: Top officials, queried by this
,column, agreed that a plot in
assassinate Cuban dictator
,Fidel Castro was considered
At the highest levels of the
Central Intelligence Agency at
the time Bobby was riding
:herd on the agency. The
officials disagreed, however,
over whether the plan was
approved and implemented.
One version claims that
underworld figures actually.
were recruited to carry out ?
. the plot. Another rumor has it.
that three hired assassins
were caught in Havana where .1
? a lone survivor is still
. supposed to be languishing in
prison. These stories have
been investigated and dis-
counted by the F3I.
Yet ? the rumor persists,
v.-:tispered by people in ? a
:.-mt,ition to know, that Castro
did become aware of an
Ainerican piot upon his life
z:Id decided to retaliate
:?.;.;:iiast President Kennedy.
This report may have start-. r
cc', New Orleans's, flamboyant .
Attorney Jim Garri-
sot: or. his 'investigation of the ,
Kennecy assassination, but
insiders believe he.is following
the Wrort:; trails.
. Tit :s ra itch can be verified::
1. s.dent Kennedy was so .
disillusi . with the CIA
? after 3ay of Pigs fiasco .
that he swore to friends 'he
would like "to splinter the CIA
in a thousand pieces and
scatter it to the winds." He
ordered a thorough investiga-
tion by a group headed by
Gen. Mi".7(1761. Taylor. rio? the
PresidenOs watchdog was
his: brothe: 13o'oby, who ended
up calling the shots .at the
CIA.
2. During this period, the
CIA .hatched a plot to knock
off Castro. It would have been
impossible for this? to reach
the high levels it did, say
insiders, without being taken
up with the younger Kennedy.
? Indeed, one source insists that
Bobby, eager to avenge the
Bay of Pigs fiasco, played a
key role in the planning.
Whether the assassination plot
was over actually put into
effect is disputed.
Castro Reacts
3. Some insiders are con-
vinced Castro learned enough
at least to believe the CIA was
, seeking to kill him. With
characteristic fury, he is
? reported to have cooked up a
counterplot against President
Kennedy.
4. Shortly after Kennedy
, was gunned down, the FBI
handed President Johnson a
memo reporting that Cuban
leaders had hoped for Kenne-
dy's death. The President
showed it to Kennedy's top
aide, Ted Sorensen, who
thought the details were so
ambiguous that he called the
memo "meaningless."
5. It is also known, of
course, .that Lee Oswald, the
assassin, was active in the
pro-Castro movement and
traveled to Mexico seeking a
Cuban visa a few weeks
before the dreadful day in
Dallas.
Some sources consider Rob-
ert Kennedy's behavior after
the assassination to be signifi-
cant. He seemed to be
tormented, they say, by more
than the natural grief over the
murder of his brother.
Author William Manchester,
who got his information chief-
ly from Kennedy-controlled
sources, portrays Bobby as a
character of granite during
those tragic days. But others
had a different impression.
McGeorge Bundy, then a.
top White House aide, told a
colleague that he was "wor-
ried about Bobby," that "Bob-,
?by was reluctant to face the
, new reality." ? that he had
"virtually to drag Bobby" into
President Johnson's first Cabi-
, ,rt meeting.
Di/ Drew Pearson
For weeks after the tragedy,
this column was told, Bobby
was morose and refused to see
people. Could he have been
plagued by the terrible
thought that he had helped put
into motion forces that indi-
rectly may have brought
about his brother's martyr-
dom? Some insiders think so.
Blow for Blow
Note: Those who may be
shocked that the CIA would
consider stooping to a pOlitical
assassination should be re-
minded of the ugly nature of
what Secretary of State Dean
Rusk has called "the back-
alley struggle."
He has described it as "a
tough struggle going on in the ,
back alleys all over the
world ...a never-ending ,
war. ... no quarter asked and_:, ?
none given ... It's unpleasant,
and no one likes it, but that is
not a field which can be left
entirely to the other side." ? .
The blunt truth is that the
subterranean world, of espio-
nage is harsh almost beyond
belief. There have been times
that the CIA has been forced
to resort to the most extreme
measures to protect the na-
tional security. ?
Some of the CIA's best
operatives also have suddenly
and mysteriously disappeared.
No word will be heard of them
for months, then a few grim
details will leak out.
"We .will learn that 'these
people have been subjected to
the most skillful, most fiendish,
tortures that man can possibly
. devise and that ? they have
been reduced to animals or
vegetables," Clark Clifford,
head of the President's For-
eign Intelligence Committee
told. this Column.-
C.OUtinued
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