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# CIA Rumors Grow, Spur Doubts About JFK Death

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Both men have noticed in recent months a growing web of related disclosures, events and allegations which they believe will provoke the two famous re-examination of the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone as Kennedy's assassin in Dallas.

Fried, who was a commission member, also apparent in the resurgence of interest in the circumstances of Jeremy's death, particularly when the CIA was involved.

Some time in March, the White House said, Ford wired up the precise language of the Warren Commission's findings which he has helped write. So, when he got a surprise question about the matter April 3 at his San Diego, Calif., news conference, Ford was prepared.

But "if the facts seem to justify it" Ford said, the Excise Feller Commission and the special House and Senate committees investigating CLA domestic activities investigate.

He defended the commission's "very carefully drafted statement that "we had here no evidence of a conspiracy, foreign or domestic. But he did not dismiss the possibility." So far, I have seen no evidence that would dispute the conclusions to which we came." He said.

Fristerwald, a dapper little Tennessee whose clients Save included Watergate Burglar James W. McCord Dr. and James Earl Ray said he believes something big is about to break in the Kennedy case.

"I have the same feeling I did about Watergate, the feeling the gima was up." when McCord broke his silence with a letter to U.S. District Judge John J. Sinica charging high-level political pressures to cover up the scandal.

"There's just too much evidence around that the Warren Report is not correct that the CIA and the FBI know a huge amount they didn't tell the Warren Commission." Fensterwald said.

But neither the Rockefeller Commission nor Congress seems to share his sense of urgency.

The executive director of the Rockefeller Commission, David Bellin, is a former Warren Commission counsel and staunch defender of the single-assassin argument. A spokesman said: "No evidence has been submitted to indicate any CIA involvement."

Fensterwald believes the trigger for what Popkin called the "amazingly rapid buildup" of interest in the Kennedy case — the equivalent of a McCord letter — was disclosure of CIA involvement in assassination plots against several foreign heads of state, including Cuba's Fidel Castro.

The Senate committee staff has acknowledged it will study the question, but only as a peripheral CIA issue.

Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez, D-Tex., who has called for a new inquiry, says his suspicions were aroused by Watergate revelations of CIA activities and the Bay of Pigs.

Among other recent developments:

Publication of the transcript of a previously secret Warren Commission meeting Jan. 27, 1964, obtained by freelance investigator Harold Weisberg, in which former CIA Director Allen Dulles said it probably could never be determined independently, whether Oswald was a CIA or FBI employee, which both agencies would deny.

- Two former aides of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D.N.Y., said he told them in 1957 he had helped stop a CIA plot with the Mafia to kill Castro before the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. (The Cuban exile community has long speculated that Castro sought President Kennedy's assassination in retaliation for a planned attempt on his life.)

- Publication of two previously classified CIA photographs, taken in Mexico City six weeks before the assassination, of a "mystery man" who might have been trying to impersonate Oswald, who was trying to obtain visas from the Soviet and Cuban embassies about that time. (Fensterwald said two friends in intelligence separately identified the mystery man as a "mechanic," the CIA name for a hired killer.)

- Unsuccessful but highly publicized court proceedings to obtain a new trial for Ray, whose lawyers claimed he was framed by unnamed conspirators in Martin Luther King's slaying, and to reopen the Robert Kennedy case on the ground the death bullet did not come from Sirhan B. Sirhan's gun.

- Former CIA official George O'Toole said in a new book that a "psychological stress evaluator." an improved lie detector measuring the human voice, showed Oswald was telling the truth when he told reporters on tape after the assassination that "I didn't kill anybody."

Interviewed in his modernistic office in the Third Church of Christ Scientist Building overlooking LaFayette Park, Fensterwald said that after Watergate. "People will believe anything - they're ready to believe E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis were in Drew Plaza when Kennedy was shot."

Such irresponsible claims can serve to suppress the true story, said Fensterwald, whose private committee to investigate assassinations operates out of a small office a block away as a clearinghouse for serious research.

"I don't think there was anybody out at Langley, Va., (CIA headquarters) who set up Kennedy." he said. "But like Watergate I think you've got two problems. Shooting the president is a lot more serious than breaking into Democratic headquarters, but covering up who is responsible for it is more serious."

Contrary to the Warren Report, Fensterwald says Oswald had ties with both the FBI and the CIA but raised grave U.S. doubts about his loyalty in his work with Cuba. "That's my best guess as to what was covered up," he said.

Fensterwald said the key figures will remain silent until some official body, perhaps in Congress, grants them immunity from prosecution and forces them to testify again under cath.

"Can you imagine what you could do with Marina (Oswald's Russian-born widow) in one morning if you put her under oath, and told her the first time you lie you're going to be on the first plane back to Moscow?" he asked.

Popkin, author of a book entitled "The Second Oswald," said in a telephone interview from St. Louis he suspects some of the CIA stories might have been inspired by the CIA itself, where Director William E. Colby is "cleaning house and reorganizing, and this is one way to get rid of some people."

One hypothesis, Popkin said, is that "they might need to solve the Kennedy case to get back into business." He foresees a time when the CIA "commits suicide in public, there will be confessions of wrongdoing. Congress will ban all sorts of activities, and the CIA will be reconstructed in another form."