EX-CIA AGENT ADMITS HE USED JFK 'RUMORS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100610022-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2011
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: February 2, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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2 February 1985
Ex-CIA agent -,Admits he use
JFK `rumors'
By STEPHEN K. DOIG
Herald Staff Writer
Author and ex-CIA employee
Victor Marchetti admitted Friday
that key rparts of his 1978 article
linking E. Howard Hunt with a
conspirac g, to kill John F. Kennedy
were ba! ised almost solely on
Washington rumors Marchetti said
he heard from a Penthouse maga-
zine columnist.
The columnist, Bill Corson, later
denied in a sworn deposition even
talking about the rumors with
Marchetti, author of The CIA and
the Cult of Intelligence.
"I had no corroboration of
Corson's story .. " Marchetti
testified, but added that he knew
two other reporters who were
checking into the same story.
Marchetti didn't say whether
those reporters printed the story.
Hunt is in the middle of a libel
suit against the ultra-conservative
Liberty Lobby, publisher of The
Spotlight tabloid that printed Mar-
chetti's article.
In an story headlined "CIA to
Nail Hunt For Kennedy Killing,"
Marchetti wrote that a House
investigations committee had re-
ceived a 1966 internal CIA memo
discussing Hunt's supposed pres-
ence in Dallas.
The committee later reported
that no such memo had been
received, and dismissed theories of
Hunt's involvement in a Kennedy
plot.
Hunt, who was never called by
Marchetti for comment before the-
article ran, has denied being in
Dallas then and has produced
witnesses who say he was in
Washington that day.
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