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SECRET EVIDENCE ON THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
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Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP7 THE SATURDAY EVENING PO 6 April 1968 0 the unnatural quiet of the security room of he National Archives in Washington, beneath sad row of naked light bulbs, the records of t Warren Commission investigation of the mur- d of President Kennedy rest in a long double line o green metal shelves. It,,is not a pleasant sight. O c asks: Is this the end of Camelot? The thousands of pages of documents amassed b the commission are stored in gray cardboard boxes alongside the physical exhibits, including L e Harvey Oswald's 6.5-mm. Mannlicher-Car- c no rifle. The windowless security area is pro- t ted by a heavy steel door wired to an alarm s stem. The entire room is, in effect, a vault; only tree persons know how to open the black com- b nation lock on the door. Only members of the Archives staff who hav en cleared for security may enter this room. N otographs may be taken inside it. The great bulk of the documents in the room ut 80 percent, were published by the Warre mmission in 1964 or were made public later. Bu th s gregated from these, in one compartment of t curity room, are 25 boxes containing document that no one outside of the Government or e Warren Commission has read. By estimate of the National Archives, 10 feet, or approximately 25,000 pages, of Warren Com- mission files remain closed in these boxes. Many of the closed documents are classified, some bearing the red-ink stamp: TOP SECRET. Here are some sample titles of secret documents: ^ ? A report by CIA director Richard M. Helms on "Soviet Brainwashing Techniques." ^ An FBI report of an interview with Yuri No- senko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to the United States 10 weeks after the assassination of President Kennedy. ^ A CIA report on Lee Harvey Oswald's activities in Mexico, dated October 10, 1963, six weeks be- fore the assassination. ^ A memo to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover from Richard Helms, titled, "Lee Harvey Oswald's Access to Classified Information About the U-2." ^ A memo from Helms to J. Lee Rankin, general counsel of the Warren Commission, concerning "Soviet Use of Assassination and Kidnapping." Cott nnedl Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000100050048-0
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MAFIA AND CIA LINKED IN JFK MURDER
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THE NATIONAL IYAMINER Approved For Release 206/Ar'4 :1W-RDP88-01315R000 MAFIA AND CIA, LINKED IN JFK MURDER C..M-'t-?t /(s Sal$%>N4r Did the Mafia and CIA conspire in the assassination of John F. Kennedy in, 1963? And did the ill-fated president seal his own doom with a decision he had made several months before? New evidence now appears to supiaort the credibility of this astounding theory concerning-JFK's murder in Dallas. .Members of America's top-secret spy organization and known trig- germen for the Mafia were reportedly observed on the scene when the fatal shooting took place. Several CIA agents and at least one member of the Mafia were al- legedly taken Into custody shortly after the shooting ceased, but were quickly released by Dallas police. particular spot when JFK was brutally cut down. - Few experts believe that Lee Harvey Oswald could have fired all the shots which poured Into the president's open convertible. . Many are now convinced that he was simply a patsy who was set up to take- the blame for a carefully planned execution. They believe he was telling the truth .when he Insisted that he was not involved with the assassination. . . It has never been ascertained just why they happened to be at that The 'popular theory now is that Oswald himself was elimi- irlated to keep his lips seated. His killer, nightclub operator Jack Ruby, was known to have close associates among under- world figures. Witnesses claim photographs prove that former CIA agents E. Howard Hunt, convicted Watergater, and Frank Sturgis were present when JFK was slain. Also identified in a photo of those nearby the presidential motorcade was a parolee with a criminal record as long as your arm. ..4 Approved Eugene Hale Brading, with a record dating back to 1934, was allegedly an associate of James (The Weasel) Frattiano, a well- known Mafia figure linked of gangland killings, who was then of the "Smaldones Family" of Denver. In 1963, Brading was living in Los Angeles - on parole at the time. He claimed to be an oil prospector and obtained per- mission from his parole officer to visit Dalls on a business trip. He was scheduled to be in Dallas only for the day of Nov. 21, according to records.' He was supposed to be in Houston on Nov. 22, the day JFK was shot. Why did he stay on in Dallas? It is known he did visit the of- fices of a huge- oil company on Nov. 21. It was later admitted by Jack Ruby that he visited those offices on the same day. Did they know each other, and did they meet by a pre- arranged plan? And did they speak of the assassination which was to take place the fol- lowing day? Ruby told the Warren Com- mission that he visited the Hunt Oil Company offices on Nov. 21 to get a job for an attractive co- ed named Connie Trammel. The Commission did not connect Ruby's visit with Brad- For ReleaseiapQ5fQ1*1t1ghCIAeRER t3I had given a phony name and story when questioned by the FBI just after the shooting. This coincidence did not come to light until years later through the efforts of con- cerned private citizens, headed by Dallas pharmaceutical salesman Al Chapman. It is now learned that JFK' may have incurred the wrath of the CIA and underworld figures, because of the touchy Cuban situation at the time. The young president, al- legedly, discussed the possible assassination of Cuban Premier: Fidel Castro with a close friend, Sen. George A. Smathers of; Florida in 1961 and 1962. He ab- solutely refused to consider the suggestion, although it has'now; been learned that the CIA had ' been linked with assassination: attempts throughout the Carib- bean for years. The converstaions betweeni JFK and Smathers are allegedly contained in the oral history archives of the Kennedy library. "As I recollect," Smathers began, "he (Kennedyl was throwing out a great barrage of questions - he was certain that. it could be accomplished... "The question was whether of not it would accomplish that' which he wanted it to do whether or not the reaction throughout South America would be good or bad... And 5R0N801frl5t1O1b1$ $ican people' react, would the people be gratified?
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CIA OFFICER OUSTED OVER JFK FILES
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STAT Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/02/23: CIA-RDP91-00587R000100160006-0 Copyright o 1979 Facts on File, Inc.; Facts on File World News Digest June 22, 1979 SECTION: U.S. AFFAIRS; Other U.S. News PAGE: Pg. 466 A3 LENGTH: 289 words HEADLINE: CIA Officer Ousted Over JFK Files BODY: A Central Intelligence Agency officer who was assisting the House Assassinations Committee investigation into the 196.3 murder of President John F. Kennedy was dismissed after his fingerprints were found on sensitive material kept in a committee safe, the CIA acknowledged June 17. [See p. 166C1] CIA spokesman Herbert Hetu said the officer, Regis T. Blahut, was dismissed in the summer of 1978 after the rifled files were discovered by committee members. Hetu said the agency was satisfied that the incident was simply "a matter of curiosity" on Blahut's part. The Washington Post reported June 18 that "informed sources" said there had been an unauthorized entry into the locked safe, where the committee kept physical evidence of the assassination, including autopsy photos, X-rays, and the so-called "magic bullet" that wounded both President Kennedy and then-Texas Gov. John B. Connally. The Post article said that sources said nothing had been taken from the files. The newspaper quoted Blahut as saying there was an innocent explanation for his action. Blahut refused to give it, saying he had signed an oath of secrecy with the CIA. Sources close to the House committee's chief counsel, G. Robert Blakey, were quoted by the Post as saying that Blahut had failed three polygraph examinations. The Post quoted one source as claiming: "He (Blahut) denied he did it., and he flunked that. They also asked him whether anyone ordered him to do it. He said no one and he flunked that." Blahut insisted in his interview with the Post that he had come through the tests with his credibility unblemished. Blahut had been detailed to assist the committee with the CIA records it needed for its investigation. LEXIS? NEXIS LEXIS? NEXIS? Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/02/23: CIA-RDP91-00587R000100160006-0
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WASHINGTON CAP) THE CENTRAL INTENCE AGENCY DIRECTED ITS OFFICES AROUND THE WORLD IN 1967 TO EXPLOY PROPAGANDA ASSETS TO COUNTER DOUBTS RAISED BY CRITICS OF THE WARREN COMMISSIONS INVESTIGATION INTO THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY.
THE PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN HAS TO BE WAGED IN PART BY PASSING UNCLASSIFIED INFORMATION ABOUT THE ASSASSINATION TO CIA ASSETS WHO COULD USE THE MATERIAL IN WRITING BOOK REVIEWS AND FEATURE ARTICLES THAT WOULD ANSWER AND REFUTE THE ATTACKS OF THE CRITICS, ACCORDING TO A NEWLY RELEASED CIA DOCUMENT.
THE DOCUMENT SAID ITS AIM HAS TO PROVIDE MATERIAL FOR COUNTERING AND DISCREDITING THE CLAINS OF THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS, SO AS TO INHIBIT THE CIRCULATION OF SUCH CLAINS IN OTHER COUNTRIES.
THE DOCUMENT WAS AMONG SOME 850 PAGES OF MATERIAL RELEASED FRIDAY BY THE CIA UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT.
THE DOCUMENTS SHOW THAT THE CIA EXAMINED COPIES OF ALMOST ALL BOOKS ABOUT THE NOVEMBER 1963 ASSASSINATION, INCLUDING ONE BY THEN-CONGRESSMAN GERALD R. FORD. A CIA OFFICER CALLED FORDS BOOK A RE-HASH OF THE OSWALD CASE AND CRITICIZED ITS LOOSE WRITING,
A FORD CHAPTER REBUTTING THE CLAIM THAT LEE HARVEY OSWALD WAS AN FBI AGENT IS JUST LOOSE ENOUGH TO PERMIT QUOTATION OUT OF CONTEXT, A MARCH 1965 MENO TO RICHARD HELNS, THEN-DEPUTY CIA DIRECTOR FOR PLANS, SAYS... THE CHAPTER, AS WRITTEN, COULD BE USED BY THE LEFTIES (MARK LANE ET AL) TO CONTINUE THE CAMPAIGN OF WHICH YOU ARE ALREADY AWARE.
FORD WAS A MEMBER OF THE WARREN COMMISSION THAT CONCLUDED THAT OSWALD WAS SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ASSASSINATION FORD QUOTED EXTENSIVELY FROM SECRET SESSIONS OF THE COMMISSION IN THIS BOOK TITLED PORTRAIT OF AN ASSASSIN.
MANY OF THE DOCUMENTS RELEASED DEAL WITH INTERNAL AGENCY ASSESSMENTS OF CHARGES RAISED BY MARK LANE IN HIS BOOK RUSH TO JUDGMENT, BY EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN IN A BOOK CALLED INOUEST AND BY FORMER NEW ORLEANS DISTRICT ATTORNEY JIN GARRISON, WHO ALLEGED HE HAD UNCOVERED A CONSPIRACY BEHIND THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION.
THE 1967 DISPATCH TO CHIEFS, CERTAIN STATIONS AND BASES SAYS THAT THE RASH OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES CRITICIZING THE WARREN COMMISSIONS FINDING IS A MATTER OF CONCERN TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING OUR ORGANIZATION.
EFFORTS TO A Por Release 2004/11/01 CIA RDP88-01350R000200410001-8 MEMBERS AND STAFF) TEND TO CAST DOUBT ON THE WHOLE LEADERSHIP OF AMERICAN SOCIETY, THE MENO SAID.
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Mr. Ramsey Clark The Attorney General
Fred M. Vinson, Jr. Assistant Attorney General
Criminal Division
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Assistant Attorney General
Internal Security Division
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
On Thursday, September 21, 1967, at 11:15 a. m., two of the attorneys representing Clay L. Shaw, who has been indicted in New Orleans, Louisiana, for conspiring to assassinate the late President Kennedy, came to the Department of Justice to confer with Mr. Nathaniel E. Kossack, First Assistant, Criminal Division, about procedural problems and their strategy in the forthcoming trial. Mr. Kossack advised them that although their requests would be received and considered, no assurances or commitments of coopera-tion could be made at this time. In the course of their conversation, the Messrs. Irvin Dymond and Edward F. Wegmann indicated that they desired assistance from the Department of Justice in several matters:
1. To ascertain whatever contact existed prior to or on the date of the assassination between the Central Intelligence Agency and the following individuals:
8. Donald P. Norton
b David L. Ferrie
c. Lee Harvey Oswald
d. Clay L. Shaw
e. Gordon Dwane Novel
1. Burton Klein
g. Irvin Dymond
h. Edward F. Wegmann
1. William J. Wegmann
7 Lee Odom Steven Plotkin
(Dymond and Wegmann stated that they might later submit the names of other individuals about whom they had similar questions.)
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2. To learn whether Federal Bureau of Investigation "rap sheets" would be available on named individuals,
3. To learn whether Perry Raymond Russo had ever been interrogated by the Fedoral Bureau of Investigation.
4. To learn whether Clay L. Shaw had been investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the course of the inquiry into the death of President Kennedy.
5. To learn whether Clay L. Shaw had been investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation since March 1, 1967, regarding the strength and merit of District Attorney Garrison's charges against him. More specifically, to learn whether an FBI agent visited and interviewed Mra. Artrel Kirk Trelford, of Houston, Texas, concerning her social contacta with Shaw subsequent to her purchase of his property at 525 Dusphine Street, New Orleans.
6. To determine the whereabouts of Lee Odom, who vanished with the $3,000 proceeds from a bullfight he had promoted for the July 4, 1967, Cptimists Club of Irving, Texas. Odom's last known address was P. O. Box 174, Irving. And to learn if the FBI had investigated Odom after Garrison announced that he had found in Shaw's personal notebook the same number as he claimed could be decoded from a number in Oswald's notebook. Shaw has claimed that the number in his notebook is that of a post office box used by Odom for a business ho previously operated.
7. To determine the whereabouts of Jack L.. Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald during the period September 1 September 5, 1963. More
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2. To learn whether Federal Bureau of Investigation "rap sheets" would be available on named individuals.
3. To learn whether Perry Raymond Russo had ever been interrogated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
4. To learn whether Clay L. Shaw had been investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the course of the inquiry into the death of President Kennedy.
5. To learn whether Clay L. Shaw had been investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation since March 1, 1967, regarding the strength and merit of District Attorney Garrison's charges against him. More specifically, to learn whether an FBI agent visited and interviewed Mrs. Artrel Kirk Trelford, of Houston, Texas, concerning her social contacts with Shaw subsequent to her purchase of his property at 525 Duaphine Street, New Orleans.
6. To determine the whereabouts of Lee Odom, who vanished with the $3,000 proceeds from a bullfight he had promoted for the July 4, 1967, Cptimists Club of Irving, Texas. Odom's last known address was P. O. Box 174, Irving. And to learn if the FBI had investigated Odom after Garrison announced that he had found in Shaw's personal notebook the same number as he claimed could be decoded from a number in Oswald's notebook. Shaw has claimed that the number in his notebook is that of a post office box used by Odom for a business he previously operated.
7. To determine the whereabouts of Jack L.. Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald during the period September 1 September 5, 1963. More specifically, to determine whether either of them could have been in the Capitol House Hotel in Baton Rouge during that period,
8. To determine the financial situation of Lee Harvey Oswald during the month of Septomber, 1963: 1.c., when and where he cashed his regular unemployment checks.
9. To determine the whereabouts of George Senator, who was Jack Ruby's roommate in November, 1963.
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10. To ascertain the FBI's willingness to conduct an investigation of Perry Raymond Russo for its psychological effect alone--i.e., to "shake up" Russo so that he would repudiate his allegedly perjurious testimony given at the preliminary examination March 14-17, 1967.
Mr. Kossack made direct answers to only two of these requests: he stated that the "rap sheets" referred to in paragraph 2 are covered by a statutory restriction, and may be distributed only to persons associated with law enforcement agencies; and he advised that Russo would be interrogated (paragraph 9) only in connection with an investigation of a violation of Federal law within the FBI's investigative jurisdiction.
Messrs. Dymond and Wegmann specualted that they might file a complaint with United States Attorney Louis LaCour stating that Shaw's civil rights have been violated through a conspiracy by Garrison, Dr. Esmond Fatter and Perry Raymond Russo, to present false testimony at Shaw's preliminary examination, and through such a complaint draw the FBI Into the matter and prompt an interrogation of Russo. Mr. Kossack referred them to Mr. John Door, Assistant Attorney General, or Mr. Robert Owen, First Assistant, Civil Rights Division, for further comment on the federal civil rights statutes.
After speculating that they might sock a change of venue to another Louisiana parish, and commenting on the alleged chronic Intoxication of Judge Haggerty and the apparent liaison between Judge O'Hara and the Teamsters, the two attorneys left a 12:15 p. m.