Collection of Assorted Newspaper and Magazine Clippings: Jfk Assassination, Conspiracy Theories, Etc

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The anti-Castro section takes up just five pages in the Coleman-Slawson memo. Most of the rest of what amicnts to a legal brief on the possibility of a foreign involvement in the assassination analyzes Oswald's relations with the Soviet Union.

IT CONCLUDES that although some details of Oswald's two-way defection to the Soviet Union are suspicious, the evidence supports the conclusion that the Soviets were not involved.

Oswald would not be very good agent material. Coleman and Slawson said, because His open pro- Communist sympathies would guarantee that he would be closely watched. Besides, they said, the Russians would have little motive to kill Kennedy because they were sophisticated enough to know that the replacement of Kennedy by Lyndon B. Johnson "would

not result in any significant change in American foreign policy towards the Soviet Union.

Schiweiker has said repeatedly that the weakest part of the Warren Commission's final report is its failure to prove a convincing motive for Oswald to kill the President he has said his investigation will attempt to fill that void.

Both pro-Castro and anti-Castro Cubans would seem to have a nuce.

ANTI-CASTRO Cubans were angered at Kennedy for what they considered insufficient support for the Bay of Pigs invasion. And the Coleman-Slawson memo adds another possible motive — hope to drum up support for a new invasion.

As for pro-Castro Cubans, Coleman and Slawson said, "Simple retaliation, for example, is a motive which must be thoroughly considered in dealing with Castros."

Presumably, Coleman and Slawson meant retaliation for the Bay of Pigs because the CIA did not tell the Warren Commission or its staff about what are now known to be agency-backed attempts to kill Castro. Schweiker has said the failure of the CIA to provide the commission with information about the plots to murder Castro was an important omission.

Evidence of a possible pro-Castro conspiracy seems to have been more thoroughly investigated by the Warren Commission than evidence of a possible right-wing connection.

SCHWEIKER insisted that all possible theories will be explored. But he said he was interested in a possible involvement by domestic right wing groups because he said it appears that the FBI gave such a theory short shrift.

In 1967 the Miami News carried a long account of a tape-recorded conversation

between a police informant and an organizer for the States Rights party who had predicted Kennedy's assassination.

The Miami News account did not name the party member, but Schweiker said he has proof that the man was Milteer. The conversation related in the newspaper seems to be the same one summarized in the FBI reports on Milteer.

According to the account. Milteer said Kennedy would be shot with a rifle smuggled in pieces to the top of a high building. Milteer also was quoted as predicting. "They will pick up somebody within hours afterwards . . . just to throw the public off."

Oswald was arrested shortly after the killing. He insisted he had killed no one but was being used as a "patsy." The Warren Commission discounted Oswald's contention as the usual self-serving remark of a man charged with a serious crime.

SCHWEIKER pointed another of the informant recorded comments which the senator said may be more significant than it is reported at the time.

The police informa said, "He (Kennedy) w have a thousand bod guards. Don't worry abe that."

"The more bodyguard he has, the easier it is to p him." Milteer replied.

The Warren Commission received evidence that several policemen were shown Secret Service credentials in the vicinity of the assassination scene at a time when no real Secret Servicemen were there.

Schweiker theorized that if there was a conspiracy the conspirators might have used forged Secret Service credentials. In such a situation, the more real bodyguards, the better, because the fake Secret Servicemen would be less, conspicuous.