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This CIA-held copy of a 13 July 1968 magazine article, "A Reporter at Large," was written by the author of the book "Inquest." It examines New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's investigation into the Kennedy assassination and his arrest of Clay Shaw. The author concludes that Garrison mishandled evidence and decoded address book numbers without sound basis. It also says the only evidence the author saw connecting Shaw to the assassination was fraudulent. Flying saucers come up only in passing.
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measure et he\\-ihlerntt'rtt'when,
on March l, l°(~ T. thrr heard the news
that jam Uarrxwt, the lhttriet At-
torney of ()rle.\:~.Waltl hail been mixutetl not long
before the 1.&$1$5tn.|t.\.\n tuth two un
identified Cuban uiles, ha Supcfmf
GAR rtisow
emtly ti-hl him, “.-\t this wage, we arc
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int; them." lt' later lurnetl nut that
mine iii the tlimra leit ajar but un-
¢.|-"rtl It-tl In asmeiates ul (lm-ahl's in
New Orleans, so it s_et"ttit"tl entirely
t'm|(riv;thle tn me that Garrimn jmt
might have .\tu|nhletl uputl Sflttltt valu-
ahlc infurinatimi that the C|ImI1ti\=i'Ifl
hail, for one reason or atntithcr, side-
ttepped. _ j '_ -
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the rout of G:trrisnn's int-estigatinn,
which inw-lvetl a ntet-ting utnnnt: Os-
waltl and three nten—l).tvitl \V|lli.1m
Ferric, Carlin Qttirnga, aml \V. UH)’
'lhni\tcr—_-all nl whc-in the \\':trrcn
Ci-rnmi»-tiun hatl hatl rcusnti to be in-
teretted in. Ferric, who, aecurtling tn
the tcstiinnny of rme Cminniesinn wit-
ncu, emntnanrletl a unit "l the Ci‘-'il
Air l’.'ttml in which Uswahl may have
hcrn :1 member hrielly, llitll lveen ar-
restcil in New ()rlt'.1n.\t _ci:ttcrl
with anti-Ca\trn .1cti\‘im in New Or-
leans, hail an ullicc in a huihling whmc
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Castrn literature that ().»wahl ncc:is.1ssin;ttit»|\ plot" .-md arrested V
Shaw.
Vlilt since he was first clcetril l)is- '
E trict :\tti-rriey, in l96l, lim Gar.
riSnt\—ltc lt-_|;.1lly changed his given
name tn Jim from lfarling C.1rnthers-—--
hafi been :t rlhntrnversial figure in .\'cw .
()rlv:.-ins. llc h.1u.' the financin" Aof lm 1nt| vote t1m|mgn, Cmrrmin
charged th-it their attmns raised in
r < to bout rzcketeer Interestmb que t ns a '7fluences »\ cnurt subsequently con Ovictcd Garrison of criminally hbellm i Not linked to a story yet.
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 19 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.