Newspaper Article: a Reporter at Large

arrest of $l\erid.tn and alci
Ricliaul '|‘o\\"nlt-\_ woo had
assisted in the |irep.tr.tti<~|t of
the slmw, clutrgittg them
with attetnpted lirihery. Spe-
- cilically, G.trrison_ alleged
that they had otleretl Perry Russo
.1 free trip to C.tlifiit"tti.\. llut if this
oticr teelinieallr eonstitutetl an act nt
hrihery, Garrison himself liatl talten
cot|sitler;thle pains In hail the trap. lle
told me himself that he had directed
Russo to speak In the reporters over
_ a ntonitoretl phone and inquire
what protection they could ntft-r
him if he were to change-his testi-
mony. The purpose was, as he put it,
“tn give t\'.ll.C. enottglt rope tn hang
itself." ln his public statement on the
_ matter, Garrison chargetl that the
l\'.li.C. program “will probably stand
for many years to come as a symbol of
the length to which some powerful nut-
side interests are willing to go in order
to interfere with state governtni:nt."
The eases ‘are still pending.
Shortly after Garrison's skirmish
with i\'.ll.C., \\'illiant Gurvich rc-
.\iglll'&l as om: nf his ittvestigiitors,
alter telling Senator Robert l". Ken-
neily that there was no lvasis in fact
and no material evitlence in Garri-
son's C:\$e,. Qur\*i€lt's pri\'.'tte—tletective
age-|lc_t' had conductetl most of thc lie-
detector testsithat Garrison had or-
jtlt-red, and at the time of his resignation
‘tirvicli had in his possession a master
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m _Iile nf the principal evidence in the case.
This defection not only made for em-
h.'ll'|'Zl?l‘lll I headlines hut II N;|\t'\l ti i the
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possibility that (iarnson s fund of c_on-
fitlctttial ittformation--or "his laelt ofl
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such a fund-——woultl he made public.
ln a statement to the press, Garrison
described Uur\'icli's resignation as "the
latest lnnve from the Eastern head-
quarters of the Estaltlislllllcttt to at-
~tempt tn discredit our investig:ttion.” lt
was all part of a coiirilinateil plot
_ against him. ln another press release,
he said, “All they are doing is 'pro\'ing
two things: first, that we were correct
when we ttncovered the im'ol\'ement
uf the Central lntelligence Agency in
the asstssin.-ttion;-second, that there is
sonietliing very wrong today with our
goveritritent in \Va_shingt<in, l).C., in-
asmuch as it is willing tn use massive
cciinotttic power tn conceal the truth
from the people." Later, in his Plat-boy
intcr\'iew, Garrison iinplietl that Gur-
viclt had been a C.l..'\. infiltrator from
the start. He also charged.Gurvich
with ‘petty 'larcen_v, claiming theifilc
that he had was worth nineteen dollars.
.-\nd, for good measure, he charged on
the .-\.B.C. “Page One" television
show that Senator Robert Kennedy
"has made a real efiort to stop the in-
vestigation." -
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.<\ftrr it had hecomc quite ele.=t"th.ii \\'.\s arrestr-l in (‘hi--_ .\ftt"r -v~r.e ini-
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- 2-oi rclut'tA:\t‘e, Ljt-\t’tt\.~r lament-ontmt of (iartisvns cast t\~t.:t
med to generate .1 spectre of eon
-t-|.1\\ (_;\I'Il\\|I tool: the l--sit--ti |-it-\;
l he _ y
_ Rio-tlcs, ot (lhio, finally .i;|'enl to ex-
trrtdzte .\\i\'el to Loiaisianz if (;.\T‘l';\l|"t3. ~_-, . .
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step avttl started creatintl l\<eutlt»_,m;<tq vmitlil complete tl‘-e papers with=a sisty
on himself. \\'l\en reporters in Tokyo ‘J-\\§_ Garrison, ho\\-ever, did not talte
\ 1‘ the steps that were necessary. .-\s the
-\.~lt\‘tl Chief lusticc liarl \ '.trrett 15_ _ .- ‘ ‘ l .
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o union of the Garnson tYl\‘\"_<2i<'_\li\\t\, his-lsvliine .tppr-uchrd. .-\s.s~.<tant Dstrietl .-
he replied, "l want to sltirt (hrs ten’ l.'\tt\-rney .-\le-\"X asked if he should re-
lti rtt the [Wis tn Ohio ,1;-|.,| (];"iq,"carefully, hec.-tuse the case could some-,
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d_it' come ht-fore the Sopiettte Court. Mil hlln I1"! to hither. .-\nd ret in the
Pressed as to \\'hi:ther Garrison pos- r".-‘at-5n_\~ interview Garrison irtisted,
sessed any evidence that rniglit contra-
diet the findings of the Comntissitin he
had headed. the Chief Justice an-
sweretl, "l't"c heard that he claims to
have such information, hut l haven t
"The reason we were unable to nhuin
.\'o\‘el's extmdition from Ohio . . . is
that there are powerful fr rces in
\\'ashington who find it imperative tn
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conceal from the .-\me|ic.tn public the
seen any." Gartisott innneeliatel_r eh~\r- l truth about the ;t§1\<in.'\Kit\fl.“ He went
acterized this “new emntteratt.tclt" as; on to iittlieate that Novel w.ts_now .1
"he.t\"\' artillery whistling in from ntatcrial witness in his ease and, ac-
‘ “ eorilingi to attorneys for Novel, implied
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'l'ok)"o," and said in a press rtlease, lt
is a little disconcerting to find the Chief
justice of the United States on his
hands and knees trying to tie some
sticks of dynamite to the ease. How-
ever, the Chief justice is a practical
min at-id l expect he knows wlut he is
that his former "investigator was
sunehnw connected with the eon-
’.s;~ir;tc_\‘. (t\'o\-el is suing Garrison and
P.'.:_rfto_t' for ten million dollars in
punitive and compensatory tlatnages)
.-\nd in a speech to the Radio and
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. 'l‘llC_vl;l5( lilltk‘ lit W;l_$ CI\llk‘\l_ 1-(‘lC\'i§l(\fl ,\'g\\'-5 ,-\_\s<v(i_\tinn of
into action to perform -1 $<‘r\‘h‘v \\'-\$ Southern California, in Los .-\ng\-les,
when the llresident of the United
hcett connected with thi. Ltntral ln
Garrison cited hrs failure to 0l\t.un
lSt.1tt‘$ was assassinated hy men who had ,\'t\\'t-I've t-_et;_1tliti.\n as evidence that'
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tiestdent Johnson was putting pres-
'lelligence' .*\gr"ttc_\'.”'(.i:trrison predicted sure on local otlicials to secrete wit-
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a new hrtiatlsitlc from-the federal au
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thonties: “_ludgtng from the careful
nes\es from l\l|I\_ Hi went on to at
etise President lohnson of preventingi l
“the people in this country from seeing
co?-rtlittzitton which the hstahtislttttettt
ease, it is safe zo expect that other ele-
ments of the federal government and
~T_;i,..wt~.| in its last ofll-nsit-e against the the evidence," and asserted, with the
logie of mi I~onn. “. . . the fact that he
has profited from the ass\s<in:tt~Zoq
ttalinnill nress will now follow up Will‘; most, more than any other man, makest
a new effort tn tliscredit the case and
l the prosecution."
i Another example of Garrison's ti:ch- that he is not involved . . ."
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nique involvetl Gordon t\'nvel, the
electronics expert, who had told him
ahout l-'errie's participation in a "pick
advising Garrison on anti-ea\'e$drop-
ping techniques, the business that had
first hruttgltt him tit Garri-
son's attention, to become a
witness against l"errie and. at
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least in (_varnson's mind, an
"investigator." Then, ac-
cording tonne account, Gar- _
f'i$<tn was told that his inves-
tigator had been furnishing
information to t\'.B.C. re-
porters, and Novel was Suh-
poettacd to appear l\_t.-fore a .
granel jury. lnstead of ap-
pearing. Novel left the state
and went to Ohio. Garrison filed hur-
glary charges against i\'ovel, alleging
that he had participated in the conspir-
acy to steal arms from the $Chlumt\'r-
ger _\\’ell company in-Houma, and he
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it imperative that he sec that the evi-
dence is released. so that we can know
t-\nitt$0N's technique in espounding
the so-talletl second conspiracy is
nip" of munitions from the Schlflllv typical of what Richard l*lofst:\-.lter has
herger \\'i.-ll company, in Houma. Li“!-E classified as “the paranoid style in
Lsiana. t\'ttvel rapidly -‘atlvanced irom_ ,-\m¢riq_m pofltiee-" to which "the (K1-
ing of persecution is centr::l."
and which is “systematized in
gramliose theories of conspir-
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ac_\'." $till, the fact that Gar-
rison expresses his id-ras in .1
paranoid st_\"le does not oi it-
self rtile ou: the possihilit_\'
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that there is substance to he
claims ls the C_l..-\.. for <.\_
ample, really concealing some
in\'ol\-ement of its :t;ents in
the asmssination, as Garrison
has claimed? ln .\la\. Wan’,
Garrison declared on the .-\.B.C. “ls-
sues and .-\nswet‘s“ television program,
“Oi course the Central lno:iligen\\'
Agency had no role in the planning or
-intending the assasination_ of President
Kennedy. I think that would be at
ridiculous position for anyone tn take.”
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