WEST VIRGINIA MAN SEEKING JFK ASSASSINATION 'TRUTH' AFTER 17 YEARS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100890004-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: May 27, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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UNITED PRESS INTEKNAIIONAL
Z7 May 1985
STAT
h'ESI VIKGINIA MAN SEEKING JFK ASSASSINATION 'TRUTH' AFTER 17 YEAR
By COLIN McNICKLE
WEST LIBERTY, W. VA.
Charles Campanizzi says his loyalty to the United States has been questioned
and the government has harassed him during his 17-year quest to unravel the
mysteries surrounding President John F. Kennedy's assassination, but the truth
will not be deterred.
Campanizzi, 47, is a professor of psychology at West Liberty State College, a
small institution in West Virginia's Northern Panhandle. His first interest in
the Kennedy murder was sparked in 1965, but only from a pyschological
standpoint. Campanizzi wanted to probe into the mind of Lee Harvey Oswald, the
president's accused killer.
''It wasn't until Jim Garrison, then the New Orleans district attorney, began
his investigation as to the possibility of a conspiracy that I began to expand
my interest in reading and research, " he said.
"It's been a rocky path in several instances, especially prior to Watergate.
To even speculate as to the possibility of a conspiracy, one could immediately
draw frowns, probably suspicion as to one's loyalty to the good of U.S.A."
Campanizzi believes Watergate forced the public to accept the ''ugly'' and
eerie side of politics and gave assassination researchers more legitimacy.
"There have been some people over the years who have cast a very cautious
eye to my research and my lectures. It smacks at the government in terms of
possible involvement,'' he said.
Campanizzi said two incidents in the late 1970s led him to believe that the
government was monitoring his research. The first involved a phone call prior to
one of Campanizzi's many public service lectures on the assassination.
''One evening at home, I received a call from a man who initially did not
identify himself. He wanted to know where I got my information on'the JFK
assassination and said he was doing an intelligence check on me.
Campanizzi said he would not name the man but believes he is a CIA
"contract man " who "Lives and works-in the Ohi- Valley to this day. He has not
had contact with trim since that time.
The second incident involved a friend's wife who overheard a telephone
conversation in which Campanizzi said agents from the CIA, FBI and West
Virginia State Police mentioned him by name and said his "efforts would have to
be neutralized.''
It wasn't long after that, that the state police did visit me and asked for
some kind of help in an investigation on another matter. I never did find out
what was going on.''
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