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# 13+00000wiieans DA Said Ferrie: "one of his- tory's most important men."The charges against Novel and Arcacha are spinoffs from Garrison's main investigation. The prosecutor has called Novel "a very important witness" and has filed a material witness warrant against hirmNovel, ho has to be one of history's most loquaciousitives, has carried on a running long- distance food with the man who wants him to do his talking before a grand jury. He repeatedly has eslied. Garrison's investigation a "fraud" and a "riction."He has held a number of press conferences and subinitted himself to a series of lie detector, truth serum and psychological tests to prove he is telling the truth A psychologist at Columbus says mental testa indicate he isTO POLYGRAPH OPERATORS AND TO nds and associates, Novel has said the munitions burglary was no burglary at all but a war. ma- lemals pickup made at the direction of his CIA contact.Novel called the munitions incident most patriotic burglary in history" during a recent news interview. He immediately was shushed by his Columbus lawyer, Jerry Weiner.Even more recently, Novel restated his charges against Garrison in a vlined story carried by The Dayton Daily More Dryptically, he said, "I think Garrison will expose Me A operations in Louisiana." He did not elaborate.His off-repeated but unpublished account of how the evalcaves disappeared describes the bunker he says he helped empty as a CIA staging point for munitions destined to be used as part of the abortive Bay of Pigs attack on Castro's Cuba in April, 1961.PRIOR TO THAT DISASTROUS CIA-staged operation, Novel says, he was wetting for the intelligence service at New Orleans.art of job, he contends, was to operate the Evergreen Advertising Agency as a front-for-CIA com- munications.With funds funneledini by the CIA, Novel says he prepared special radio commercials used on 300 stations in the U.S. and Canada. Their cryptographic messages, he claims, were alert agents to the invasion date. The com- mercials advertised aluminum Christmas trees, he says, and the key alert code names were "Star Christmas Trees" and "Holiday Trees." In late 1960, $72,000 worth of radio time was placed by the agency..On the day the munitions were picked up, he says, he was called by his CIA contact and told to join a group which was ordered to transport munitions from the bunker to New Orleans. The key to the bunker, he says, was provided.HE SAYS HE MADE THE TRIP in his own automobile, Lincoln, and met several people there - all of them al- iegedly acting for the CIA. He identifies them as Ferrie, Arcacha, several Cubans, and another figure in the case. They loaded the bases of ordnance on trucks, he con- Unues, and rerned to New Orleans where the explosives e dropped three pots - Ferrie's home, Novel's office kilding and the office of a stormy former FBI agent and New Orleans police official, Guy Banister, who died of a the summer of 1964.APR 25 1967A AACHAU UL NOUNSEL S' man whose wora is considerea reliable, told a reporter .ew Orleans he saw 50 to 100 boxes of munitions in Baluster's Lafayette st. office early in 1961.Banister was a private detective then, operating a company called Guy Banister Associates. His friend said he saw the munitions in a storeroom-office, in boxes marked with the name "Schlumberger."HE SAYS FIVE OR SIX OF THE BOXES were open. Inside, he says, were rifle grenades, land mines and some "little missiles" of a kind he had never seen before. The friend said he remonstrated with Banister because "fooling with this kind of stuff could get you in trouble." He added:"Banister said no, it was all right, that he had approval from somebody He said the stuff would just be there over- night, that somebody was supposed to pick it up. He said a bunch of fellows connected with the Cuban deal asked to leave it there overnight."Banister's friend said this happened well before the April Bay of Pigs invasion.The munitions, Novel says, were picked up and con- solidated soon after the New Orleans drops. He says they eventually were taken by boat to Cuba for use in a diver- sionary operation staged in conjunction with the Bay of Pigs attack.Cuban sources in New Orleans say the cadre of Cubans trained by the CIA on the city's West Bank in 1961 was sent to Varacoa to make a diversionary assault. The at- tack did not come off because. Castro militia was waiting and took the group prisoner.NOVEL'S ACCOUNT OF THE explosives caper sharply: conflicts with Garrison's charges against Arcacha and Novel. The DA's accusation says the burglary took place after Aug. 1, 1961-three months after the Cuban disaster.The DA accuses the two men of conspiring to burglarize a bunker at an abandoned military base at Houma. Gar- rison's bill of information says the bunker was leased by. the Schlumberger Well Services Co. of Houston.Schlumberger officials say they know nothing of any CIA operations in connection with their magazine, where oil field service equipment and certain low yield explosives are stored.As to the date the Houma burglary happened, no one seems to know or will say exactly when it took place. Schlumberger says it has no records. The Houma police say their records are missing, and the Terrebonne Parish DA, Wilmore Broussard, will not reveal the date he charges Arcacha and Novel burglarized the Houmą bunker. He said it is "material evidence" in his case.PLOTKIN SAYS HE MADE A TRIP to Houma to get the date of his client's alleged offense and could not ob- tain it.Shaw, a tall white-haired retired New Orleans business- man, who stoutly denies participating in a plot to kill Kennedy, was managing director of the International Trade Mart. He was with the organization for 19 years and in a favorable position to observe the movements of international commerce through America's second-ranking seaport.On March 4, Paese Sera, an afternoon newspaper in Rome, carried a story which said Shaw is a director of a firm known as World Trade Center Corp. The newspaper, which is leftist in its political leanings, claimed the com- pany was a CIA front operation.It said the company moved its operations from Switzer- land to Rome and has since transferred its offices to Johan- nesburg, South Africa, where it is still in existence.1/27/68Continued