NEW FACET IN SLAYING OF JFK, AUSTRALIA REPORTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300040036-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: November 17, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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31 SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters)
-The New York correspondent
of the Sydney Dail yy Mirror re-
ported today that the U.S. em-
bassy in Canberra received tele-
phone calls from the U.S. about
an assassination plot before the
murder of the late President
Kennedy.
Correspondent Ray Kerrison
said details of the calls were
contained in a top secret docu-
ment in Washington.
"The existence of the file
came to light in an interview
with Mr. Jim Garrison, the
New Orleans district attorney,
who is conducting his own in-
vestigation into the assassina-
tion," Kerrison said.
A He said the document was,
one of 51 'classified by the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency (CIA)
and held in the nationatar4ao
chives. The file was labeled
"CD 971," he added.
"NO ONE outside the highest
echelons of the U.S. govern-
ment has access to the file link-
ing Canberra (the Australian
capital) with Mr. Kennedy's
assassination," Kerrison said.
He added that the title of
the file - "Telephone Calls to
the U.S. Embassy, Canberra,
Re Planned Assassination"-
and its file number were open
to the public, although the docu-
ment was not.
The Garrison investigation
"has been harshly critized in
America," Kerrison said.
"But there is no question that
this document suggesting that
he U.S. embassy in Canberra
was alerted to. a plot to assay-.
sinate the President does exist,."
it he added..
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