Newspaper Article: a Reporter at Large

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fifié
and evtdcnre pul\li~ltt'tl hr the \\"an~,-3
Ct\tttttti\~it\t\, and he went on tn (l1j_:\\
that thew frames "rcwe.tl signs of gtrrgt
appearing s-uddcnl_\' on the ltaclt'ot' 1
me:-t sign" and to suggest that "ll'}("$c‘
signs of stress may very well have hm;
caused by the impact of at stray huilct
on the sign.“ lint frames Z08-Ill,
while missing from the \Varrcn mol-
umes, are not tttiasiug from it copy of
the tilnt that Lifr. holds, and the)"l'(~
veal no “signs of stream") '
ltt his fourth item, Garrison sn;-
poscdl_t' reveals the contents of clamififi
C.l..-\. docuntettts in the Natiorul
.-\rchi\"es. These docuntents were pm
pared for tlte \\'.-trren Cotmnissinn by
the C.l..-\. And alllttttlgll the title of
each of these report:-—-usually refer-
ring to the general topic mt which
Cotnmission l.1\\~_\-ent rt-quested that the
C.l..-\. provide information or answer
querit-s—is listed in the index of Com-
mission tloctrnu-ntg the reports them-
selves are el:t_o_t- he cited CotnmEs-
sioni Doeumettt No. 931, entitled “()5-
\;valdls' Access to lnlormation Abotit
the "ll-Z," and then olttinously suggest-
ed that 0swa_ld..w:ts involved in the
U-2 program. He amplified on this
“evitlcnce" in a speeeh he snade alter
the 'Pl1r_|-Iio_t- interview appeared, stat-
ing, “The reason you e:m't see that
{Commission De-cument No. 931] for
many years is becattse you will then
realize that Lee (lswaltl 'w:ts then
working for the United States govern-
ment, as a C.l..-\. employee, and thet-
don't want you to know that." Garri-
.\1n- used this classitied document,
which, of course, he had not seen, to
substantiate tlte charge that Oswald
acted as rt C.l..-\. agent. Yet testimony
in the \\':trren Report indicates that it
m;t_\' well contain information on what
Qswttld heard when, during his stat‘
in the Soviet Union, he dropped in
on the trial ol the U-Z pilot Francis
Cary Powt-its. In anv event, it seems
hi;hl_\' urtliltely that if the C.l..-\. were
indeed as sinister as Garrison allegeg it
would ad.-nir in a report tu the Com-
mission that Oswald was a C.l..-L
agent, especially since its reports were
to be read by lawyers vworking for
the Commi.\it's testiutotty and ct-idenn".
\\‘hen $_\'lvi.a Meagher, wlm has in-
ée\ed the !\\'c7\l_\'~$lX volumes of the
\\'.trren Contmi.\\ion testimony and ew-
iienw, and has tried earnestly to enr-
t~e\~t the tttistalzcs of the critics as well
as those of the Commission, pointed
we to Garrison that his charge was
i\xc\-ti on a l.tllae_\‘, he :tcltitowled_q-
vests exonerated Lee Oswald lrom the
-.t=etual shooting hy showing that he had
out fired a title that d.\p'.
.-\nd they do nut tell you that it was
virtually impossible int ().u\';|ld tn hare
mien his fingerprints ott the gun, hidden
the gun and gone down four flights oi
suns by the time he was seen on the
seuvod tloor.
Akwe all they do ttot tell you oi the
uernlielming e_\-etvitness testimony that
shots were coming irom behind the stone
mall on the grassy knoll. . . .
You have not been told that Lee
Ostnald was in the employ ot U.S. intel-
ligem-€‘ agencies. but this was the case.
ltiis true that the public had not
‘Men tuld any of these things, except li_\'
Garrison, but there is :t good rea-
son for that. .-\ll live of the
ihargesa.-e e or eaptirius.
Fingerprints were found on
the title "which was supposed to
h.t\'t: killed the l’r-:sident," but
ta-e prints could not N positively identi-
fied. Sebastian F. Latotta, a ttation.-tll_t'
rt-cognizetl tingeqirint expert. testified
l\::l~r~e the \\'.trren Cotntnisdon that
&-.tm~1- ol the un;\~lL=hed finish of the
title. which allowed it to ahsorh mois-
t‘.-:e. it was highly un_l?eel_\" that an iden-
tttitble fingerprint would have been left
en the wettp-\r\.' l'_‘ontr:tr_\' to the pup-
vilar impression regarding fingerprints,
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