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# Anti-Castro Cabons Link to Assassination?

# Schweiker, Hart Ask jFK Probe Review

By Norman Kempster

No safe investigators in the examination can prove that antiterrorists or domestic the wengers may have saved a role in the assassination of President John F. comedy

The Warren Commission

Sen. Richard S. Schweiker R.Pa. said the commission seems to have given less credence than now seems warranted to the possibility that there may

CIA investigation of the killing

considered possible consacras from both the left and right but determined that Lee Harvey Oswald was the long assasin

SCHWFIKER AND Sen. Gary Hatt D.Co are serving as a subcommittee of the Senate Intelligence Committee to probe the adequacy of the FBI and

have been some right wing link to the crime despite Oswald's often-stated Communist sympathies.

Schweiker said in a recent interview that he is interested in evidence that J. A. Milteer, an official of the militant right wing, National States Rights party, told an FBI infecter two weeks before the assas-

sensation that Kennedy would be killed with a high powered rifle from the upper floors of a tall building.

An FIL report says the same source met Miltier following the assassination and asked if he was guessing. The report quotes Miltier, "I don't do any guessing."

The FBI reports were given to the Warren Commission, but apparently the panel assigned little significance to them.

The commission's appendix includes a report by the Secret Service of the investigation of an apparently related incident. The report indicates the Secret Service interviewed a member of the Ku Klux Klan who said less than two weeks before the assassination that "his sources have told him that a militant group of the National States Rights party plans to assassinate the President and other high-level officials."

THE KLANSMAN, who was not named in the report, was in jail at the time awaiting trial on a charge of auto theft. The Secret Service said the FBI believed the Klansman was just trying to strike a deal that would reduce the criminal charges he was facing. No action was taken and the Klansman was still in jail when Kennedy was killed Nov. 22, 1963.

The report of the Secret Service interview is included the commission appendix along with 35 other reports of threats against the president or vice president.

Roy Frankhouser, an acknowledged informant for the Treasury Department's Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division, was a national organizer for the States Rights party in the 1960s. He said in a telephone interview last week that plots to kill Kennedy were being hatched at a rate of "three or four a week" within the party.

The party frequently used extremely violent language in its newspaper, the Thunderbolt. There is some evidence that party members may have been involved in some anti-civil rights bombings in the South during the 1960s.

FRANKHOUSER, who said he was subpoenaed to testify before the Wargen Commission but did not appear because the subpoena was canceled. said he had no first-hand knowledge of Milteer's threat.

But he noted that Oswald's notebook contained the name and telephone number of another anti-Semitic militant. Daniel

Barrows, Barrows committed suicide in Eriehouse's house in Reading Pa in 1915 after the New York Times reported he was half Jewish Frankhouser deceived to tell about any possible link between Oswald and Barrows

An FBI report compiled two weeks after the assassination quotes Robert K. Brown, then an Army Reserve captain in training at Fort Benning, Ga., as saying that in the spring of 1963 Dr. Stanley L. Drennan, a North Hollywood, Calif. man active in the National States Rights party, spoke of a plan to "get rid of" Kennedy and a number of others. Brown said he dismissed the remark as a "crackpot" comment.

Brown told the FRI that after the assassination he reassessed the conversation and concluded that Drennan may have been trying to recruit him as a possible assassin. If so, Drennan may have been attracted by Brown's anti-Castro sentiments.

The Warren Commission's own staff suggested prior to publication of this final report that speculation about a possible plot by Cuban emigrees opposed to Premier Fidel Castro "warrants additional investigation."

A 111-PAGE memo to the commission drafted by staff members William T. Coleman Jr. — now secretary of transportation — and W. David Slawson outlined a possible scenerio of an anti-Castro connection.

The memo was stamped "Top Secret" by the commission. Most of it was declassified earlier this year, although the version that was made public has been censored.

"The evidence here could lead to an anti-Castro Cuban involvement in the assassination on some sort of basis as this: Oswald could have become known to the Cubans as being strongly pro-Castro. He made no secret of his sympathies, and so the anti-Castro Cubans must have realized that the law enforcement authorities were also aware of Oswald's feelings and that therefore, if he got into trouble, the public would also learn of them. . . the memo said.

"Second, someone in the anti-Castro organization might have been keen enough to sense that Oswald had a penchant for violence that might easily be aroused. . .

"ON THESE facts, it is possible that some sort of deception was used to encourage Oswald to kill the

See JFK, A-29