MORE LIGHT ON THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600150041-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: October 26, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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I H the publication of the War-
'Wren Commission's report on the
assassination of President Kennedy
the official investigation was termi-
nated and the case pronounced closed.
Yet the circumstances of the crime
continue' to agitate the minds ? of
many Americans. The report has not
satisfied American and world opin-
ion. A Washington Post poll this
month revealed that three out of
five distrust the Commission's find-
ings. Book after book has been ap-
pearing in the United States and in
other countries casting grave doubt
on them, demonstrating them to be
biased and, unsound. Their authors
seek, as It were, to continue the In-
vestigation.
In recent months Harold Weisberg
in "Whitewash" and Edward Jay
Epstein in "Inquest," to name only
two, have virtually disproved the
official theory that Oswald was the
assassin. Now a second book on the
subject by the American publicist
Joachim Joesten, "The Truth About
the Kennedy Assassination," has,
come out in Switzerland. His first,
"Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy," ap-
peared in New York in 1964 (see
New Times, No. 38, 1964). After it.
publication the clouds gathered so
thick over Joesten that he thought
it the better part of discretion to re-
move to Switzerland. But even there
he was under the watchful eye of
those who want to keep the facts
about the Kennedy assassination
secret. This. summer Joesten was
suddenly arrested in Zurich and put
In a mental hospital. He got himself
out of it with difficulty. He later
declared at a press conference that-'
the Swiss authorities' had acted on
the insistence of the American so-
CPYR '
JOACHIM JOESTEN, Dio
Wahrheit fiber den Iiennedy-
Mord. Wic and warum der
Warren-Report liigt, Schweizer..
Verlagshaus AG, Zurich, 1966.
cret service and that his materials
and notes on the assassination had
been stolen from him..
Joesten gave his new book the
subtitle "How and Why the Warren
Report Lies." He shows this on the
basis of his close and painstaking
study of the 26 bulky tomes of the
report and its appended documents,
only in rare instances drawing on
tention from the essential Issue. But
It is not these chapters that are of
real Interest. The Important thing'.'
is the conclusion the author draws.
Official propaganda painted Oswald
as a man who, carried away by -'
Marxism, decided to settle in the .
Soviet Union and then became disil-
lusioned. Joesten shows that in real-
ity., Oswald was a secret agent of
evidence other than that contained the U.S. intelligence 6ervice. Since
in it. he?was soon seen through in the So-
viet Union and could not carry out
?. President Kennedy was killed by, his assignment, the American author-
Lee 1-Iarvey . Oswald acting alone' sties hastened to return him to the
and on his own Initiative-that is United States. The CIA made one
the official theory upheld by the '-more attempt to utilize him, this
Commission.. Though Joesten does time for subversive activity against
not name the real killers, he im- revolutionary Cuba. It was for that
plants in the reader's mind grave Oswald travelled to Mexico where,
doubts of the validity of this conclu- he vainly sought to obtain a Cuban
sion. Many things point to the exist- -visa. Failing of this, he returned to
once of a secret plot and carefully the United States and found himself .
prepared plan to assassinate the In the position of a discredited agent.
President. Chief Justice Earl Warren
on one occasion told newsmen that This, writes Joesten, was just at
for security reasons some of the the time when Dallas ultra-Rightist
facts about President Kennedy's as- elements were plotting an attempt
sassination might not be made pub- on President Kennedy's life. For
lie for 75 years. Joesten chose the them Oswald was a find: his ques-
statement as the epigraph of his tionab]e past offered the opportunity,
new book.
Much of the author's attention is
centred on Lee Harvey Oswald who
.was promptly declared the assassin
and who was himself killed at a
police station by Jack Ruby two
days later. He follows Oswald's
movements closely, giving the de-
tails of his trip to the Soviet Union,
his marriage in Minsk, the circum-
stances of the Oswald family's re-,.
turn to the United States, and then
going onto the anti-Soviet fabrica.~
tions cited in"-the Warren Report,
patently meant to deflect public at.
in their opinion, to make a lone-
demented-killer solution credible to
the public.
Riddles of the Warren Report
In some measure this was realized
when the crime was committed, but
as' time passed It became harder to
maintain the offered version. This
Is in ? effect borne out by the Report
itself. It contains no facts proving
Oswald's' guilt, gives no explana.
tion of his possible motives. The '?
theory that he sought the tame of a
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