Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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13-00000D. BAST, EDEN, and William W. TURNER of RAMPARTSGA Staff has provided information that during January 1967, William W. TURNER, who identified himself as a free-lancer writer, visited the offices of the Asia Foundation, requesting information for a magazine article. He stated that he had been asked by Sol Stern of New York to gather information for an article in the *New York Times*. During his visit, however, it became obvious that TURNER was primed to ask questions about the financing of the foundation, rather than its actual purpose or activities. When TURNER concluded the interview he left a calling card with the firm name "REDEX-PACIFIC". He explained he had to have new cards printed. TURNER, reportedly dismissed from the FBI in 1961, is noted to have authored an article in the November 1966 issue of *RAMPARTS Magazine* in which he describes alleged wiretapping, surreptitious entry, etc., performed by him while with the FBI. Sol Stern, whom he claimed to represent, is assistant managing editor of *RAMPARTS Magazine*.E. Role of FURR and BAST in CIA Meeting of Exile(The foregoing has attempted to detail the contact of NOVEL with FURR. FURR's connection with BAST, and a possible connection between BAST's organization and RAMPARTS. The following indicates the only CIA involvement in the chain which might be exploited in subsequent attempts to link CIA to the entry affair in question.)[^3] 7 April 1963, [Robert E. Owen] then Chief, WE/3 and Paris Station, directed a memorandum to the Chief,[^3]PAST, described as "unscrupulous and untrustworthy, is known to have attempted to contract with another private detective/for planting a remote-controlled bomb in the headquarters of the Haiti Secret Police, and has been reported to have undertaken similar extreme assignments for exile groups into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. (Based on derogatory information on file, DCS, in March 1967, decided against previously contemplated contact with BAST as a source of information on Asia.)
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WH75. in which he documented a conversation he had on 27 April 1963, with Raymond CASSAGNOL, an anti-Duvalier exile from Haiti. In the memorandum he relates that the conversation took place in the home of Richard L. BAST whom he had met through a neighbor, Lloyd FURR.The memorandum relates CASSAGNOL's background, family, political stance, etc. Reported as significant by [Owen] is a statement by BAST that the following week BAST would be sending a shipload of arms to a CASSAGNOL-affiliated group in the Dominican Republic. [Owen] noted: "Raymond CASSAGNOL gives appearance of thinking well of Richard BAST. According to CASSAGNOL, his brother, Jacques, also knows BAST and respects him. Thus EAST, in spite of certain personal shortcomings from the intelligence standpoint, does represent an established channel to at least one segment of the Haitian opposition to Duvalier. Since according to his own statement, BAST is supplying arms to CASSAGNOL's groups, further transactions of this type via BAST presumably would not be difficult to arrange." He also provided a detailed information on what he learned of BAST, noting that BAST had mentioned Dominican distrust of State and AID and the fact that "CIA double crossed them" (the Dominicans).An FBI report on BAST dated 19 June 1963 reports that [Owen], Foreign Service Reserve Officer, USDS" (his cover) had reported 16 May 1963 his attendance at dinner at BAST's home on 27 April 1963 [Owen] told of his meeting with CASSAGNOL. BAST's intention to sell arms to the Dominican Republic and Haitians also, etc. He also reports that on 7 May 1963. BAST asked him to perform some translation work. The translation, he stated, related to BAST giving a power of attorney to one Luis DURMO Martinez of the Dominican Republic to prepare documentation for legal establishment of REDEX CORPORATION, a DR branch of BAST's firm. According to [Owen] the stock was to be held by the head of the DR National Security Agency, the head of the DR secret police, and an individual well-connected with Dominican Republic police and intelligence groups. BAST is also noted to have told [Owen] of an offer BAST had made to "bug" the office of the Dominican
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Secretary of State for the Armed Forces on behalf of Juan Hooch. BAST did not indicate to [Owen] if had performed the job.(There is no record of a clearance having been issued for utilization of Richard L. BAST or REDEX.)
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# OSECRET15 January 1968SUBJECT: BRADLEY, Edgar Eugene(See files BRADLEY, Leslie Norman)## ALLEGATION:Edgar Eugene BRADLEY, field representative for an Eastern radio evangelist, Dr. Carl McINTIRE, was arrested on 29-Dec-1967 on a charge by GARRISON of being a conspirator in a plot to assassinate President KENNEDY.## SOURCE:News media articles for 23, 24, 26, 28 Dec 1967 and 3 Jan 68.## CIA CONNECTION:None. Personnel records reveal there was an applicant by the same name as Subject but the file was destroyed in Dec 1966 as it was 2 yrs old. Subject's employer, Carl McINTIRE was approved for contact use in Nov 1954 but according to Contacts Office, he was never used by them as he was reported to be unreliable.## OS INDICES RESULTS:Negative on Subject.His employer, Carl McINTIRE, was approved (caution) for contact use on 22 November 1954. However, according to Domestic Contacts Office, he was not used by them as he was reported to be unreliable. His file reflects that he is an extreme Rightist. He spoke on "How Communism is Using the Churches" in Hollywood, California on 14 December 1954. On 30 April 1954 an article in the New York Herald Tribune quoted him as saying "the seriousness of Communism in the churches is far greater than we realize". TIME magazine for 16 May 1964 identified him as the founder and head of the small American Council of Christian Churches which it described as "the farthest tip" of the right wing of American Protestantism. The LUTHERAN magazine for 30 December stated that the revised Standard Version of the Bible has been a target of incessant attack by Carl McINTIRE and his "Twentieth Century Reformation Hour" broadcasts.## DETAILS:Subject is alleged that his arrest by GARRISON is a case of mistaken identity. RAMPARTS magazine for 8 January 1968 reported that it seemed possible indeed that GARRISON had him mixed up with two other men." (One is sometime lease pilot named BRADLEY who was once jailed in Cuba for anti-Castro activities. The other, an ex-con who used the alias BRADLEY and who changed to BRAUEY on a bad-check charge in Dallas on 22 November 1966.)> [Figure]> Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification
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13-00000![Signature]Washington Field Office21 February 1968MEMORANDUM FOR: HDQSSUBJECT : (Information concerning New Orleans probe--Kennedy assassination) *NOVEL, GORSON*1. Please refer to previous news items on this topic.2. Enclosed are news items of possible interest concerning recent developments.Attachments: New Orleans Topic Clippings,dated 17 February 1968.![Signature]DDS/IOS[✓] ADDS/IOSSA-DD/IOSC/IDDO/IDC/TD/GDDO/OSDC/OED/C/SADC/AAS[✓] C/SRSA&TSFILES
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# HUMAN EVENTSMarch 1968# Garrison's 'Baseless Fraud'The former chief investigator in the New Orleans assassination "plot" testified last week that District Attorney Jim Garrison's conspiracy theory is a "base less fraud."William H. Gurvich, who worked with Garrison for seven months in probing the Kennedy assassination, swore that the entire "plot" was a figment of the D.A.'s imagination. He testified in an Ohio extradition hearing in which Garrison sought the return for testimony of Gordon Novel, a former New Orleans resident. Gurvich also said that:*   Garrison once predicted the assassination probe would end with the suicide of his chief defendant, Clay Shaw, who is charged with conspiracy.*   Another defendant, Edgar Eugene Bradley, has been confused by Garrison with a second Edgar Bradley, an anti-Castro pilot. But Gurvich said investigation indicated that neither Bradley played any part in the assassination.*   Garrison once ordered Gurvich to arrest, handcuff and assault two NBC newsmen, Walter Sheridan and Richard Townley, who had expressed skepticism of the Garrison probe.![X mark at the bottom of the page]
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# Novel 'Tired Fighting,' Will Return to N.O.Gordon Novel, long-sought witness in the Kennedy assassination probe, says he will return to New Orleans.Novel, a former nightclub owner, left the city abruptly last year when District Attorney Jim Garrison sought to question him. But he said yesterday in Columbus, Ohio, he is "tired of fighting" and will appear before the grand jury here March 7 and 8.HOWEVER, Novel said he knows nothing he can tell the jury in connection with Garrison's allegation that the slaying of President John F. Kennedy was plotted in New Orleans."I think it's time to bring this to a head. I want to have a home and raise a family," Novel said at a news conference with his wife, former Playboy bunny 'Abby Mulligan.Garrison contends Novel and Kerry Thornley, the former French Quarter waiter charged yesterday with perjury, both were connected with the federal government here before the assassination. Novel, Garrison has claimed, worked for the Central Intelligence Agency.Thornley, Garrison said yesterday, was "part of the covert federal operation operating in New Orleans" in 1963, along with Lee Harvey Oswald, Thornley's one-time Marine Corps buddy.The perjury charge grew out of Thornley's statements that he never saw Oswald here during 1963.GARRISON contends that persons associated with the CIA killed the President.In an interview made public yesterday in which Garrison was questioned by a Dutch television reporter, the DA was quoted as saying "the next U.S. President who tries to put the brakes on the war machine" will also be slain.Garrison was quoted on The Netherlands Television Foundation by Willem Oltmans as saying Kennedy was killed by "elements" of the CIA and the organization then tried to cast suspicion on others,"This manner of organizing a murder is standard procedure with the CIA," Garrison was quoted as saying.GARRISON was quoted in the Dutch interview as saying that he had to speak out in Europe "because it is impossible in America."The U.S. press is controlled! to such an extent by the CIA! that we no longer can say! the truth. They throttled us,"! he was quoted in the broadcast on the program 'Panoramiek.'The television foundation! quoted Garrison as saying he assumed President Lyndon B. Johnson knew of the CIA's alleged involvement because the Warren Commission was comprised of persons Garrison sald were favorable to the CIA..
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# The Times-PicanServing America's International Gateway Since 1837(AR) National News andInd AP WIRE PHOTONEW ORLEANS SATURDAY, MORNING, FEBRUARY 17,1968# PARTLand warmer, colde showers, variables becoming norther the Weather Bure red Saturday, 52-56 42- low, 40 Wea Page 8Second-Class Postage Paida# Y TANKS SE CON THIL![photo of Allen Dulles]ALLEN DULLESFormer CIA chief subpenaed.# COVERT PENETRATIONIn calling for Dilles, appear lever com- ance, Garrison said that the for deany burglaries and am mer official was CIA director most certainly not a material when the organization's present withess except to Mr. Garri- methods of operation were de son's attempts to fraudulently-veloped, and that those tech Hands maliciouslymvolve myself, niques have included the Hwho was his former personal vert penetration of much oft Chief of security in this alleged fabric of American life inclu Investigation of th rol the alleged con, ing schools, organizations spiracy to aller sassinate many typest news agencies and Number Three I have never even churches:stated to anyone thats T to anyone that ever cording to Garrison, was formed consciously worked at any to conceal the involvement of for browith the C the CIAom the assassination Number Four-In reference and commission member to his new, subpena, I, personal- pear to have participat in this y haven't read it so I will just tableau on the ground that hist have to see it before deciding tional security would be jeopar whether to play my game or dized if the truth were know by the people of this country Number Five - Perhaps if The DA additionally charged President Johnson and the CIA that the commission purposely pay my extensive personal fi- destroyed or never reported oth Hancial losses for defending the er important evidence, such as Warren Report this past year bullets found in Dealey Plaza and guarantee the probable just after the shooting of Keh needed bond requirements for nedy on Nov. 22-1963-perjury, which is the charge. I "This office intends to demon believe Mr Garrison is immune strate, Garrison said in conclu from granting immunity on, I sion, on sion, that the CIA made almis may return to testify to Mr. take in using Orleans Parish as Garrison about his fraud and in- a staging area for the assassi volvement in the death of David nation and that the federal gov Ferrie ernment has made an equallI don't believe Mr. Garrison bad mistake in attempting will take a lie detector test or conceal this fact and in attem allow me to testify to his fraud ing to obstruct justice in and his involvement on one, or Jeans Parish on his truth serum, or on his hypnosis before his grand jury. Perhaps if he invites me to a duel in some place other than Louisiana he may find me far more cooperative, and I don't mean a duel with words."The subpenas for both NovelCIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRRELEASE IN FULL 1998
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# 13-00000he knew had a issued but to New Orleans."not served."It says Novel was charged Garrison, in a statement ac- accompanying the subpenas,as a material witness and a said Dulles was head of thewarrant issued for his arrest, CIA when its present tech-and goes on: niques were developed."These techniques, although"SUBSEQUENT to the is it is not generally known, havesuance of the warrant, Gordon included the covert penetra-Novel disguised himself in the tion of much of the fabric ofclothing of a member of a American life includingparticular religious order and schools, organizations ofby stealth and furtiveness re- many types, news agenciesturned to the state of Loui- and even churches," Garrisonsiana and removed his auto- said.mobile. The DA said witnesses fa-miliar with the CIA's opera-"Subsequent to his having tions in a "geographical cor-fled Louisiana, Gordon Novel ridor" from California throughtraveled in secret to various Texas and Louisiana, east-places in the U.S. in the com- ward to Florida are particu-pany of a member of a na- larly important because "thistional news medium who aid- office has succeeded in iden-!ed and abetted. Novel in his tifying the assassination offlight. Further, Novel has President Kennedy as an op-sought the aid of govern- eration conducted by ele-mental agencies, particularly ments of the.. CIA."the CIA, to prevent his returnHE SAID virtually everykey witness, defendant andpotential defendant in the casehas turned out to be original-ly from that "geographicstrip."Garrison said the WarrenCommission was formed to"conceal the involvement ofthe CIA in the assassination.".The commission members, hesaid, "appear to have par-ticipated in this tableau onthe ground that 'national se-curity' would be jeopardizedif the truth were known bythe people of this country."Other evidence which pos-sibly would have led to dis-covery of CIA involvement,Garrison said "was simplydestroyed outright or neverreported-such as the findingof bullets in Dealey Plaza.immediately after the assas-sination."SOME CIA employes, hesaid, were "accidentally" ar-rested at the scene and laterreleased "without undue at-tention." He said his officehas now identified the CIAemployes involved and "is en-gaged in constructing casesagainst them."He concluded:"This office intends to dem-onstrate . . . that the CIAmade a mistake in using Or-leans Parish as a stagingarea for the assassination andthat the federal governmenthas made an equally bad mis-take in attempting to concealthis fact and in attemptingto obstruct justice in Orleans1. Parish."![photo of Allen Dulles]ALLEN DULLES![photo of Gordon Novel]GORDON NOVEL![photo of 26 FEB 1968]26 FEB 1968
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# CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAMRELEASE IN FULL 1998SUBJECT: NOVEL, Gordon(See also FURR, Lloyd B.)(See also ARCACHA-SMITH, Sergio)8 February 1968ALLEGATION:Gordon NOVEL, former owner of a French Quarter Bar in New Orleans, was subpoenaed by GARRISON as a material witness in March 1967 but NOVEL moved to Columbus, Ohio and has avoided extradition. GARRISON charged NOVEL with burglary of the Houma Munitions Bunker in 1961 together with David FERRIE and ARCACHA-SMITH. NOVEL claimed this was a CIA operation but later his attorney denied the story.SOURCE:Numerous news items, the latest dtd in October 1967.OS INDICES RESULTS:Subject's file contains newspaper clippings dating from March 1967 when GARRISON charged him with conspiracy in connection with a burglary of a monitions bunker at Houma, Louisiana in 1961, together with David FERRIE and ARCACHA-SMITH. To avoid arrest, NOVEL left New Orleans, first going to McLean, Virginia where he was given a lie detector test by Lloyd B. FURR, a private detective. (See summary on FURR). This incident tended to give credence to NOVEL's initial claim that he was working for CIA because of the Agency's proximity to McLean, Va.After NOVEL vacated his New Orleans apartment in March 1967 a letter written by him was found under the linoleum on a sink drainboard by the new tenant, a girl who turned it over to her boy friend, who gave it to a professor at a New Orleans university who in turn gave it to a reporter on the New Orleans STATES-ITEM, Hoke MAY.CIA CONNECTION:None
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# SECRETHoke MAY was granted a Covert Security Approval in April 1958 for unwitting use by Project FJINDULGE. MAY was not to be directly employed by FJINDULGE but was to be used in connection with his position with a private firm which handled work for the Project. The letter was presumably written to a "Mr. WEISS" in CIA and referred to classified DOUBLE-CHEK activities in 1961 in which NOVEL claimed he was involved. This matter was reviewed by CI/R&A at the time the matter received publicity and it was determined that DOUBLE-CHEK was created by the Agency for the sole purpose of making payments to the widows of American flyers who participated in the Bay of Pigs. No connection with NOVEL could be established. NOVEL knew Sergio ARCACHA-SMITH who was New Orleans head of the Frente Revolucionario Democratico, an Agency created and supported anti-Castro organization. Although ARCACHA-SMITH had no Agency clearance, NOVEL could have gained an impression from him that he was employed by CIA.In October 1967 NOVEL was granted immunity from arest by GARRISON on the Houma Bunker burglary charge and returned to Louisiana to testify before the East Baton Rouge Parish Grand Jury in their probe on crime and labor troubles in the State of Louisiana.## DETAILS:The Agency had no connection with the Houma Munitions Bunker. However, an Agency training site was located at Belle Chasse, Louisiana and Colonel Thomas BURBANK, State of Louisiana Police Superintendent, was one of the Louisiana officials witting of Agency affiliation with Belle Chasse. It is noted from news items concerning NOVEL's testimony before the Louisiana Labor probers in October 1967, that Colonel BURBANK was also a witness at the same time, although, there is no mention that BURBANK and NOVEL knew each other. BURBANK testified that every Louisiana sheriff was notified to "clean up" gambling and other vice in Louisiana.# SECRET
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# Novel Says Munitions Theft 'Set Up' by Agency-# Evidence Links CIA to DA Probe(Copyri, by the New Orleans States-Item, The Times-ay Publishing Corp. and The Dayton (Ohio) Daily Days.)Do the long tentacles of the Central Intel- rence Agency reach deep into Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison's Kennedy death plot investigation?There is mounting evidence they do, and at least one Garrison probe figure intends to use CIA connections as part of his defense.Still others linked to the Garrison investiga- tion have been named as acting for the super secretpionage organization — as informers, as communitions carriers.EVEN INVESTIGATION'S PIVOTAL 54-yor old Clay L. Shaw, has had CIA con- tons attrated to him. Shaw, charged with com- icity in Kenedy's death, was linked with the CIA by an influential Italian newspaper.The strongest CIA ties lead to Gordon Novel, a 29-year-old fugitive witness who is fighting extra- dition at Columbus, Ohio.Novel, a one-time New Orleans bar owner and This story is the joint effort of Hoke May, David Snyder, Ross Yockey, and Rosemary James of the States-item and R. T. Endicoty of the Day- ton (sic, Daily News.elder.bics expert, has told a number of friends and intimates he was a CIA operative and will use this role to battle Garrison's charges.The defense will be laid down, Novel says, if he is returned to New Orleans to face accusations that he burglarized an oil service company's muni- tions bunker in nearby Terrebonne Parish.NOVEL'S ATTORNEY AT NEW ORLEANS, Steven Plotkin, would not deny his client's reported statements."I will neither confirm nor deny them," Plotkin said.Novel is free in Columbus on $10,000 bond. He was arrested April 1 in suburban Gahanna, Ohio, on Garrison's warrant charging he helped plan the muni- tions burglary in 1961.He is accused both of conspiracy and burglary along with 44-year-old Sergio Arsacha Smith of Dallas, once the leader of a militant anti-Castro or- ganization in New Or- leans. Garrison charg- es they conspired with another key JFK probe figure, David W Ferrie, to stage the munitions theft.Ferrie was a strange, hairless for- mer airline pilot who died of what the Orleans Parish coroner called "natural causes" five daysCIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAMRELEASE IN FULL 1998ContinuedNOVEL, GORDON
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THE SAME STORY, MINUS THE CIA allegation, was published in Rome's conservative newspaper *De la Sera*, on March 5.Incidental to his own story, Novel tells intimates the CIA may have asked Shaw to observe the traffic of foreign commerce through New Orleans.In Ohio, Novel continues to live his free, loquacious life while waiting for the uncertain extradition machinery to grind away between governors' offices at Baton Rouge and Columbus.He lives in a rent free apartment, drives a used car with dealer's tags and continues to promise he will send "Garrison down the drain" when what he says is the full truth is revealed.## Novel Not CIA Agent--WeinerThe Columbus, Ohio, attorney for Kennedy death plot investigation figure Gordon Novel said today that his client was never an agent for the CIA.Attorney Jerry Weiner was commenting on a copyrighted story in the *States Item* and the *Dayton (Ohio) Daily News* which reported evidence of links between Novel and the CIA."It's utterly ridiculous," he said. "Novel is not now and never has been a CIA agent."At Dallas, Sergio Argacha Smith declined comment on Novel's quoted account of the mysterious munitions incident at Houma in 1961. He told a reporter he would not have "anything to say about anything."At Washington, meanwhile, the CIA was mum on the story.