ON THE WARREN COMMISSION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200760015-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: September 1, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Provocative Book
11 The Warren Commission'
?N A secluded ;arse in Western
Maryland, a former Govern-
a provocative book on the Kenne-
dy assassination.
The book, "Whitewash-tue Re-
port on th Warren Report,"
sharply attacks the conclusions of
the Warren commission. Harold
Weisberg, the author, says in the
book that the commission "had
more than evidence of a conspira-
In In 208 pages, he documents his
case that Lee Harvey Oswald
"could not have done what he was
(charged with" and was only a
"pigeon." ? . .
Mr. Weisberg's book is on the
!Warren commission and only See-
ondarily on tic assassination it -
(self, and all of his evidence comes
from the conimission's'records.
, He -never interviewed anyone.
+He never went to Dallas.
His research has thrust him
from - seclusion into the public
eye. Ile has been on television in
New York city and has appeared
on many radio programs. His
book, released only a few,months
ago, has sods 8,000 copies so far.
Yet Mr. Weisberg, a soft-spo-
ken, serious man, still' spends
most of his time on his 14-acre
farm in Hyattstown, near Freder-
lick. Ile lives on the farm with his
wife and numerous domestic ani-
mals..
Former Newspaper' Man
Ile moved there after' World
War 11. "I was," he says. "one of
the few soldiers who wanted to
return to peaceful farms?who ac-
tually did." -
Mr. Weisberg is a former news-
paper man from Delaware. in the
late 1930's he worked as an inves-
tigator for a Senate committee
and later wrote a series of maga-
zine articles on Nazi cartels in
America.
When he first bought his farm,
he decided to raise chickens. But
neither he nor his wife. Lillian,
knew? anything ,..about_ soultry.
Orrd~ a secluded farm in Western Maryland Mr. Harold Weisberg has written a book,
"Whitewa3h-the Report on the Warren. Report," in which' he sharply attacks the con- '
wclusioni of. the Warren commission, His evidence comes from the commission's records. a
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Gradually they learned, however,
winning awards from breeding to
barbecuing. .
"I had to develop new tech.
niques, because I had' 4 small
operation," Mr. Weisberg Says. "I
II will do in my lifetime," andl
then refused to publish it.
Because the book was so can-,
troversial, Mr. Weisberg was fin:t
ally forced to publish it himself.
"
I am not attacking the estab-!
`alwa tried new things. For in-
I
always lishment," said the 53-year-old au-'j
stance, I was the first breeder to,thor. "I am not looking for heroes+
give tranquilizers to chickens." or goats in the book. And I am
Poultry Ruined not out to' get commission.mem.
fry after Army helicopters began. Had ToBe Done'
!flying training missions over his "I believe that writing this book
farm. The chickens, which are ex-'was o believe
g that had to be
tremely tempermental. were ad.
Mr. Weisber (mall ableicatzen. Everything in the book is
g was y ,carefully documented. This is not
to prevent the planes' from f ing'
over his farm, but his peultr/wasj
ruined. So he decided to return to
his first vocation -- writing. He
was working on a book when:
President Kennedy was assassin.
ated.
He then decided to write on the
assassination; Whitewash was
born after the Warren report ap-
the sort of thing that )ends itself
to private James Bondery. it is
the assassination of a President
of the United States."
Mr. Weisberg believes that
many persons originally accepted
the Warren report because,
"people like things answered andl
tied up in nice, neat packages."
But since'his book has been pub-
lished, he has received favorable
thought', was stiange."Il was o
Ivious from the very beginning," f
,he says, "that the police were
doing everything not to bring Os-I
wald to trial. They made too ii
..., isination he said:
consiacring the book, told .. him: ?""' A uvn ~ u"nx anytning,.
should be secret about an asses;
t. This 4 the. most importantt.thing ?
,
IItouch his book. One n?hHsher! classified records opened for re.
When Mr. Weisberg. tried to held on the assassination. He also
find a publisher
? no one would' wants to see many of the -still
? erg opes that a con;
rworn out. ; gressional investigation will be
Mn, Weisberg,
,was finished but a typewriter was Mr Weisb T,
After poring over the report, hel assassination. The descrip?1
tion' of a "false Oswald" is men
;began writing. In 28 days he' tioned in the report itself, says
wrote 110 000 words The book'
Asserting that the commission
is wrong in its conclusion, Mr.
Weisberg hints at another answer
-a "false Oswald."
Congressional Investigation
Both "Whitewash" and other
recent books on the Warren com-
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