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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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gation. Two specialists in pltutugraphie
interpretation, R.1)'mnntl Marcus and
Richard Sprague, scanned liltns of
the .1ss:t.\sitt.\tinn'to detect previous-'
ly neglected pieces that might lit
into what Garrimn calls his “jigsaw
puzzle." Three trmthle-_'IIS(‘Il§(‘,
thus hoping to he hired as smneune
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represent a _serinus thre.1t tn tl|e_s.'mit_\'
of the investigation. One of them has
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eraeltpot directions, such as the ‘Storm
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identified onlv as prnjeczins of enn-
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whotn Gurkim identified 1:. PA'a_|-[ray
as the seventh memher ht’ the 2.\\2ssin.1-
lion team turned out, much Ea the Dis-
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