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

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Newentleigh, the main rake of town. Robert Kennedy's under conti- nent the continuing rumor that the CIA con- tinued with the American Mafia to assasin- gate Cubis premier, Fidel Castro. It is an unsettling development, sho- king to the American people, doubly shocking to those in foreign countries who still have to deal with an American government which may use assassination as a political tool. But as Tom Wicker pointed out in the New York Times: "The mentality that can order or condone murder for political pur-poses abroad need not be greatly warped to order or condone murder for political purposes at home, particularly when the instrument to carry it out is ready at hand."

The doubts about the assassination of President Kennedy become part of an atmosphere that nurtures the dreams of dramatists. In The Last Man at Arlington, a best-selling novel by Joseph DiMona, the CIA plots President Kennedy's murder. In The Tears of Autumn, novelist Charles McCarty spins another theory: The Diem family planned President Kennedy's death in retaliation for the American assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem.

A very bad movie. Executive Action attempts in documentary fashion to reveal how the real assassins killed President Kennedy; thousands clock to see it. In a better movie. The Parallax View. Warren Besty plays a reporter who uncovers the plot by a major U.S. corporation to kill U.S. leaders. At the movie's end, the plotters kill him, too. The doubts and the drama poison America with fear and a feeling of frustrated helplessness.

Confronted by this, many Warren Commission members defend their work like so many Pontius Pilates: Quod scripti, scripti, what I have written, I have written. Commissioner John J. McCloy, now a New York lawyer, says, "I never saw a case more completely proven." Staff lawyer Leon D. Hubert J. now professor of law at Tulane University, says, "We tried, man, we tried. Each of us said, 'If I can break this thing wide open, I'm made.' But none of us found it was anybody but Oswald." Staff lawyer Wesley J. Liebeler, director of policy planning for the Federal Trade Commission, says, "There's no question in my mind that the conclusions of the Warren Commis-

the convention of John and Kate Kennedy, Martin Luther King and the attempted assassination of George W. Bush. A week later, a courtroom scene appeared at a town meeting on New York's Upper East Side and endorsed the Gonzalez resolution. The representatives were: Bella Abzug, Herman Haddo, Mario Diagei, Elizabeth Holtzman, Edward Koch and Benjamin Rosenthal. Another Manhattan congressman, Charles Rangel, added his endorsement a few days later.

It seems clear now that the FBI and other agencies including the CIA and the Secret Service were playing games with the Warren Commission. The agencies were behaving as if they had something to hide. Just what they were hiding is open to official inquiry.

The time is right. Congress-whether through the new committee proposed by Representative Gonzalez or through the Church committee in the Senate must investigate the JFK assassination.

## II. THE RECENTLY DISCOVERED TRANSCRIPT OF AN EXECUTIVE SESSION

Some Warren Commission critics believe they were hiding Lee Harvey Oswald's intelligence connections. As we have learned in the past few months, after then attorney general Saxbe's revelations about the FBI's Cointelpro and CIA director Colby's report to President Ford on the CIA, both agencies were embarked in the early Sixties on a massive domestic spy effort. It was a big, expensive program that added to the size and power of the FBI and CIA empires.

The transcript of the commission's executive session of January 27th, 1964, demonstrates the commission's concern about this possibility—a possibility pointed out to the commission by some of the top law enforcement officials in Texas. These officials had

The last thing the FBI or the CIA needed was public exposure of (and a public reaction against) their programs by having a Lee Harvey Oswald tied to them. Whatever Oswald's real role was, no one in the U.S. government engaged in spy-counterspy games wanted to assume any responsibility for him.

The commissioners of KENT AUCTION IN LAST, they asked the Texas clerk to fly to Washington immediately, for a secretary with them On Friday, January 28th, Warren and Kansom met with five of the top lawyers in Texas: Waggoner Care, attorney general; Robert Storey, dean curator of the Law school at Southern Methodist University; Dallas DA Henry Wade; Dallas assistant DA Bill Alexander and Leon Jaworski, special counsel for the Texas Court of Inquiry (whose projected investigation was preempted by the work of the Warren Commission).

On the commission's next working day, Monday, January 27th, all of the commission members except Representative Gerald Ford showed up for an executive session. Soon after the meeting began, Rankin showed where he stood: "We do have a dirty rumor that is very bad for the commission, very damaging to the agencies that are involved in it and it must be wiped out insofar as it is possible to do so by this commission." The possibility that it might be true doesn't occur to Rankin. Or, if it does, then the whole question is one that is beyond him. Rankin simply wants to get an official dental from the I-BI.

Warren wants to go to the sources of the story "to see if there is any substance to the claim."

Senator Richard Russell agrees with Warren. "If you went down there in the first instance to the FBI and got a statement and when you start pursuing it you would look like you are impeaching." ("lapeaching" here means "attacking the credibility of" the FBI.)

"This is my point," says Warren. "Exactly," says Representative Hale Hoggs.

Senator Russell says, "The best way to handle it would be to try to exhaust it at the other end before you go to the FBI."

Allen Dulles says the FBI has already issued a categorical denial of the Oswald-agent story in the New York Times. (It is interesting that Dulles, a former CIA director, is so ready to consider the question closed.)

But John McCloy doesn't give the FII's categorical denial much weight and Senator Russell points out that the

commission may be dealing with spooks, a notoriously lying breed. Says Russell: "If Oswald never had ass

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