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Newspaper Article: a Reporter at Large

Central Intelligence Agency · 1968-07-13 · 19 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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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.