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ACT OR PRIVACY ACT REQUESTS, LITIGATION, OR MATTERS UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OR CONGRESS.
IT MUST BE FILED IN THE FRONT OF A FOLDER TO LIST ALL DOCUMENTS IN THE FOLDER RELATED TO. A SPECIFIC REQUEST (one form
for each request), OR AS A SINGLE ATTACHMENT TO EACH INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENT. IT MUST NOT BE REMOVED FROM THE DOCUMENT OR
FOLDER UNTIL THE RECORD SERIES IS DUE FOR DESTRUCTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPROVED RECORDS CONTROL SCHEDULES AT
WHICH TIME DISPOSITION OF FLAGGED RECORDS WILL BE CHECKED WITH THE COMPONENT RECORDS MANAGEMENT OFFICER AND
OTHER AUTHORITIES AND WILL BE DEPENDENT ON THE STATUS OF EACH REQUEST.
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FORM 4016
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Gordo
Rivers (C)
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DATE
1788
DATE
RECEIVED
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IS
WARNING NOTICE
INTELLIGENCE SOURCES
OR METHODS INVOLVED
610 EDITIONS
EUSE PREVIOUS
OFFICER'S
INITIALS
M
саз
31 August 1983
COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom
to whom Draw a line across column after each comment.)
In response to the attached
Incident Report dated 29 August
1983, 1 the undersigned, on
30 August 1983, telephonically
contacted Sergeant Haas, who is
the supervisor of Detective
Arthur Trollinger in y
Fort Lauderdale's Organized Crime
Division. Several attempts to
contact Detective Trollinger on
29 and 30 August 1983 had been
unsuccessful Sergeant Haas
was advised that a Gordon Novel,
believed to be identical to the
Gordon Novel of interest to
Fort Lauderdale's Organized
Crime Division, is not now nor
has he ever been an employee
or employed in any capacity 46H
the CIA. The undersigned added
that since the late 60's
Gordon Novel has periodically
claimed employment with the CIA.
Sergeant Haas advised that
Gordon Novel is a suspect in a
bomb threat case.
No further action is contemplated
regarding this matter, and it is
recommended that this case be
closed.
Cate Riven
Cornus in deſting
дол
Case closed.
CL BY 235 967
DECL OADR.
DERIVED FROM COV 1-82
CONFIDENTIAL
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> FROM:
Headquarters Security Branch
Security Duty Office
Date of Incident
29 August 1983
1245 Hours
Time of Incident
NOVEL, Gordon W.
Name
DOB: 07 February 1938
(n)
INCIDENT REPORT \
29 August 1983
Date of Report.
1430 Hours
Time of Report
ΝΑ
NA
Grade
Office
Incident
Request for Office of Security Assistance (U)
Summary of Information:
(305) 761-2314
Received a call from Detective Arthur Trollinger, Ft. Lauderdale Organized
Crime Division, who requested Office of Security assistance in verifying the
employment of SUBJECT with the Central Intelligence Agency. Caller provided
the following information. (U)
SUBJECT, a convicted arsonist with ties to organized crime, is in the Ft.
Lauderdale area. He is claiming to be affiliated with the Agency and under this
guise has approached several companies specializing in electronic surveillance.
It is for this reason that caller wishes to verify SUBJECT's employemt. (U)
Caller provided the following description of SUBJECT:
DOB: 07 February 1938.
HEIGHT: 5'8"
WEIGHT: 177 LBS.
HAIR:
EYES:
BROWN
BLUE
Advised caller a report of his call would be made and forwarded to the ap-
propriate office for any action deemed necessary. (U)
FORM
7-82
ACTION TAKEN:
As stated. Copies forwarded to C/SSD for appropriate action. (U)
Contacted and briefed Curt Rivers, SSD, who requested a copy of this report. (C)
A check of SRD indices reflects (2) two hits in name of SUBJECT and OSDO
indices reflects (1) hit in name of SUBJECT. (U)
BHS
BHS
Reporting Officer
798
WARNING NOTICE
INTELLIGENCE SOURCES
OR METHODS INVOLVED
FUSE PREVIOUS
EDITIONS
LDA
Chief, Headquarters Security Branch
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NOVEL, Gordon
414 Baybrook Dr.
Seabrook, Texas
713-474-5108
:
Subject advised that he had an economic
formula which would solve the world dollar
dumping crisis.
IR
-
9 February 1973
13-00000
☐ UNCLASSIFIED
INTERNAL
USE LY
CONFIDENTIAL
SECRET
ROUTING AND RECORD: SHEET
SUBJECT: (Optional)
NIS Report on US Persons
EXTENSION
NO.
CEBehrens
C/PCS/LOG
2E03
DATE
1064
January 24,
1980
1
REFERENCE
number and
DATE
RECEIVED FORWARDED
Bill O'Donnell
Office of Security Liaison
GH 02
4E271
1550
ADDIPS
6/075/131
31 JAN
1980
31 JAN
1980
OFFICER'S
INITIALS
WOR
1/3180
1/31 C
17/2018 3/1
COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom
to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.)
☐ Attached is NIS report, which
I believe is the only copy sent
to this agency. This is of no
interest to the DDO but may be
of interest to someone in Security
Cas
3-5 Novell has been
of interest to SAG,
suggest the NIS mema
be forwarded to 
S16
for info
ED.
Consor with SAG
referral an
49.
WITH
CSAG for Rouded Me We ought to clarify with
Dalsm
AS NECESSI
WE
NIS THAT HE WAS NEVER
Employed with CIA
12.
15
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1/06/152
10. Kleave hobbe
FORM
3-62
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13-00000
SERVICE
WARNING
THE ATTACHED DOCUMENTATION IS THE PROPERTY OF THE:
NAVAL INVESTIGATIVE SERVICE
L.S. MAVAL T
AVAL
AND IS PART OF THE NIS INVESTIGATIVE FILES SYSTEM WHICH IS EXEMPT FROM VARIOUS PROVISIONS.
OF THE PRIVACY ACT (5 U.S.C. 552a). REQUESTS FOR ACCESS TO OR DISCLOSURE OF THE ATTACHED
DOCUMENT(S) MUST BE REFERRED TO THE DIRECTOR, NAVAL INVESTIGATIVE SERVICE. SECNAVINST
5211.5 SERIES REFERS.
DATE: 18 JAN 1980.
SERIAL:
BY HAND
FROM: Director, Naval Investigative Service
TO:
Central Intelligence Agency, Deputy Director for Operations Policy &
Coordination Staff, ATTN: Liaison Control, Room 2E0308, Washington, D.C.
SUBJ: NOVEL Gordon/Civilian
ENCL: (1)
NAVINVSERVO New Orleans NOR dtd 09 Jan 1980
1.
UNLESS NOTED BELOW, THE ATTACHED DOCUMENTATION MAY BE DISCLOSED ONLY TO
DOD PERSONNEL WHOSE OFFICIAL DUTIES REQUIRE ACCESS THERETO. IT MUST NOT BE
FILED IN PERSONNEL SERVICE RECORDS OR RETAINED IN OTHER FILES EXCEPT ON A
TEMPORARY BASIS. IT IS FURNISHED FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSE AND SUBJECT
TO THE DISPOSITION INDICATED:
XX
Final Report for any action deemed appropriate. Any prior reports not enclosed
have been previously furnished.
Pending Report for any future action deemed appropriate. Any prior reports not
enclosed have been previously furnished.
No action required. Information is of official interest.
Destroy when it has served the purpose for which provided.
Return to sender within 30 / 60 days.
Return in sealed envelope marked to be opened only by:-
Russey
D. E. USREY
BY DIRECTION
RAVAL
US
IT IS CERTIFIED THAT THE RECORD COPIES OF THE ATTACHED DOCUMENTS ARE
BEING RETAINED IN THE NAVAL INVESTIGATIVE SERVICE IN STRICT ACCORDANCE
WITH SECNAVINST 3820.2 SERIES AND DOD DIRECTIVE 5200.27 SERIES.
Bar
EOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
If Classified OPNAVINST 5510.1 Series Applies
NIS Document Cover Sheet (NIS Form 5000/7 (12-75))
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SERVICE
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FRATIONS REPORT
DATE
01-09-80
CODE
CONTROL
STATUS
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//EI-N0022/
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REQUESTER
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S/A G L DUFFY
SUPPLEMENTAL DATE
SEX
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MILITARY SERVICE NO.
BIRTH
(DATE) (GPC) (PLACE)
M
NI
TITLE
S/NOVEL, GORDON/CIVILIAN (DIR C. SENSITIVE)
DOI - 4-8 UAN, 1980
D FA
EVAL:
4-8 UAN 1980/ NEW ORLEANS, LA
F-6
SOURCE: VARIOUS
.
21. ON 4 JANUARY 1980 THE REPORTING AGENT RECEIVED A CALL (IN HIS
A BS EN CE) FROM AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS GORDON NOVEL..
HE INDICATED TO THE PERSON TAKING THE CALL THAT THE SUBJECT TO BE
DISCUSSED WAS "WASHINGTON". THE REPORTING AGENT RETURNED THE IC
ICALL
AND IN THE ENSUING CONVERSA TI ON NOVEL INDICATED THAT HE WAS IN-
VOLVED IN A "COMMERCIAL VENTURE" AND FELT THAT THE RESULTS MIGHT
BE OF INTEREST. TO CONI". HE INDICATED, IN ESSENCE, THAT HIS PRO-
UECT INVOLVED OUTFITTING A "FAS TI PATROL CRAFT" WITH VARIOUS MEANS
DF TESTING DEFENSE SYSTERS (NFI). HE INDICATED THE TAKE FROM THIS
PROJECT WOULD PROVIDE INTELLIGENCE DATA ON A VARIETY OF WORLD-WIDE
DEFENSE SYSTEMS. HE INDICA TE O THE BRITISH WERE INVOLVED IN A
IS IM IL AR PROJECT.
DURING THE CONVERSATION HE MENTIONED. ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, THAT
THE FELT ON I" WOULD BE THE AGENCY WITHIN THE NAVY TO RECEIVE HIS
I NF OR MATION. WHEN THE MISSION OF NIS WAS EXPLAINED TO HIM HE EX-
PRESS ED SURPRISE THAT ON I" NO LONGER EXISTED AND THAT NIS HAD NO
POSITIVE INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION MISSION.
"
1
3 DURING THE COURSE OF THIS CONVERSATION NOVEL FREQUENTLY REFER KEO
170 "MY COMPANY". WHEN ASKED A DIRECT. QUESTION REGARDING THE IDENTITY
OF HIS COMPANY HE SAID YOU KNOW "THE COMPANY, CIA". HE EXPRESSED
D IS PLEASURE WITH CIA AND STATED THAT SHOULD HE EVEN INVOLVE HIMSELF
IN A CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENT WITH THE NAVY HE WOULD NOT ALLOW ANY OF
H IS INFORMATION TO BE PASSED TO CIA.
# .
AT THIS POINT THE REPORTING AGENT INDICATED TO MR. NOVEL THAT
WIS WOULD HAVE NO INTEREST IN HIS PROJECT; THAT POSSIBLY SOMEONE
ELSE WITHIN THE NAVAL INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY MIGHT BE INTERESTE O
AND THAT IF THE REPORTING AGENT LEARNED OF SUCH HE WOULD RECONTACT
NOVEL .
1
5. THE PHONE NUMBER LEFT BY NOVEL WHEN HE INITIALLY CALLED SEEKING
THE PEPORTING AGENT IS 50 4-83 1–20 15. THE NOVEMBER 1979 GREATER IVEW
ORLEANS TELEPHONE DIPECTORY I NO ICATES THAT 831-2015 IS THE TELEPHONE
CLASSIFICATION
#OFFICIAL US
PAGE
N.OR 1
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
S/N 0107 LF900 1101
WARNING ATTACHMENT (/).
THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF THE NAVAL INVESTIGATIVE SERVICE
CONTENTS MAY BE DISCLOSED ONLY TO PERSONS WHOSE OFFICIAL DUTIES REQUIRE ACCESS
HERETO. CONTENTS MAY NOT BE DISCLOSED TO THE PARTY(S) CONCERNED WITHOUT SPECIFIC
AUTHORIZATION FROM THE NAVAL INVESTIGATIVE SERVICE.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE — NAVAL INVESTIGATIVE SERVICE
-
NIS STANDARD SYSTEM DOCUMENT NAVINTCOM 5000-1 (4C)-(9/69)
13-00000
"
UNC-LA
NIS RATIONS REPORT
CODE
DBHQ
DISTRIBUTION
DATE
01-09-80.
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CONTROL
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SUPPLEMENTAL DATE
SEX
SOCIAL SECURITY NO.
MILITARY SERVICE NO.
BIRTH
(DATE) (GPC) (PLACE)
NI
TITLE
S/NOVEL RO ROOM/CIVILIAN (DIR C SENSITIVE)
NUMBER FOR TOM. JEFF OR MICHAEL TEACHWORTH, 936 LAKE AVENUE.
METAIRIE, LA (A SUBURG OF NEW ORLEANS.). IT WAS DETERMINED THAT
SUBJECT OBTAINED REPORTING AGENTS NAME AND PHONE NUMBER AFTER HE
MADE AN INITIAL TELEPHONIC INQUIRY OF THE A SAC, NISRA WASHINGTON.
DURING THIS CONTACT NOVEL I NO IC AT ED HE LIVED IN NEW ORLEANS BUT
HE DID NOT REVEAL THE NATURE OF HIS INTERES T..
|
A DCII CHECK OF SUBJECT A NO OF THE VARIOUS TEACHWORTHS (CON
DUCTED WITH LIMITED IDENTIFYING DATA) WAS NEGATIVE.. A CHECK OF
THE NUISANCE FILES AT N IS HO REGARDING. NOVEL AND THE TEA CHWORTHS
WAS ALSO NEGATIVE.
1
7 ON 8 JANUARY 1980 AN ARTICLE APPEARED IN THE NEW ORLEANS TIMES-
PICAYUNE WHICH REPORTED LEGAL ACTIONS INVOLVING ONE GORDON NOVEL
WITH RESPECT TO HIS CONVICTION FOR AGGRAVATED ARSON. PRESENT LEGAL
ACTION: REPORTEDLY INVOLVES NOVEL'S APPEAL OF THE CONVICTION AS WELL
JAS HIS ATTEMPT TO GAIN PERM IS SI ON ITO LEAVE THE STATE OF LOUISIA NA
DURING THE APPEAL PROCESS. INF OR NA TI ON IN THE ARTICLE INDICATES
THAT NOVEL WAS CONVICTED IN LATE 1978 TO THREE YEARS IN PRISON AS
A RESULT OF HIS INVOLVEMENT IN A PLAN TO FIRE BOMB A NEW ORLEANS
BUILDING DURING EARLY 1976.
NO FURTHER CONTACT WITH NOVEL IS CONTEMPLATED ON THE BASIS OF
THE FOREGOING AND THIS INFORMATION IS HEPORTED MERELY TO PROVIDE
A RECORD OF HIS CONTACT WITH NISO NEW ORLEANS
•
THE PROVISIONS OF DOD DIRECTIVE 5200.27 (SECNAVINST 3820.28) APPLY
ITO THIS DOCUMENT. US N AN O OTHER DOD RECIPIENTS MAY RETAIN THIS
REPORT NOT LATER THAN 31 DEC 1980
•
CLASSIFICATION
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
PAGE
IN OR 2 LAST
KN GLO
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
S/N 0107 LF900-1101
WARNING
THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF THE NAVAL INVESTIGATIVE SERVICE
CONTENTS MAY BE DISCLOSED ONLY TO PERSONS WHOSE OFFICIAL DUTIES REQUIRE ACCESS
HERETO. CONTENTS MAY NOT BE DISCLOSED TO THE PARTY(S) CONCERNED WITHOUT SPECIFIC
AUTHORIZATION FROM THE NAVAL INVESTIGATIVE SERVICE.
GLD
SNAVAL INTELLIGENCE
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NAVAL INVESTIGATIVE SERVICE
NIS STANDARD SYSTEM DOCUMENT NAVINTCOM 5000-1 (4C).(9/69)
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13-00000
DATE
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TC
ROOM NO.
4E-27
Ops Support Branch
BUILDING
Headquarters
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ACTION
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2.4 Aug 81
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Natiful WARREN
FROM: Chief, Central Staff/DCD Priestly
ROOM NO.
913
FORM NO
1 FEB 55
241
BUILDING
Key
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13-00000
CONFIDENTIAL
14 August 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Telephone Conversation with Gordon Novel
Gordon Novel called the New Orleans office on 13 August 1981.
Ronald Farris was away on Annual Leave and had arranged to have his calls
forwarded automatically to the Houston Field Office's listed telephone
number. When the call was answered with the Houston number, Novel indi-
cated that he was calling the New Orleans office. He was told that Farris
was out of the office for a week and his calls were being relayed to
Houston. Novel asked how he would go about obtaining his personal Agency
file under the Freedom of Information Act. He was told that he should
address a letter to Freedom of Information Coordinator with his request.
He then indicated that he had done this already, and the information sent
to him was so severely edited and sanitized that it was difficult to make
sense of it. He did, however, discover that it contained information that
was erroneous and he asked how to go about refuting the misinformation
and/or correcting the file. It was suggested that he write a letter
detailing the discrepancies and request that a change be made. He did
not seem interested in doing that and promptly changed his line of
questioning. He asked how he would go about contacting the Director of
the Agency directly. He was told that he should use the local represent-
ative, Mr. Farris, to relay any information he might wish to get to the
Director. Novel indicated that he had only talked to Farris once, but
was anxious to bypass the usual channels to avoid having his information
mishandled or misconstrued. He was told that Farris was a highly qualified
representative of the Agency and the proper individual to contact regarding
information he wished to get to the Director's attention. He gave a small
sinister chuckle and replied, "We'll see about that," then hung up.
:
C
Colleen R. Webb
DCD/Houston Field Office
CC: Chief, Central Staff.
New Orleans Resident Office
CONFIDENTIAL
13-00000
UNCLASSIFIED
.TERNAL
SE ONLY
☑ COK
COL ENTIAL.
SECRET
ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
SUBJECT: (Optional)
Pending Litigation
Gordon Novel
FROM:
EXTENSION NO.
Raymond M. Reardon
Security Analysis Group
.DATE
6009
TO: (Officer designation, room number, and
building)
DATE
OFFICER'S
INITIALS
RECEIVED FORWARDED
1.
C/SAG
2.
3.
4.
5.
16.
7.
29 77 Bb
APR
77/036
4/29/
29 April 1977
COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom
to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.).
26 FEB. 1974 conectic
七
verbally to Jamison
C/ORS/PS/ 29 155 4/29 as
DD/PSI
شید
that
31 Dec 1974 was correct
1/29/11 for dat
2-3
Bruce Stole
Suggest
we
0/05
linief D
moniy meeting
at next moniy
because of the alleged
inroberent offener Bo
8.
015
C/SAG
11May 7734
9.
10.
11.
Reardon
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12.
13.
14.
15.
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UNCLASSIFIED
13-00000
CONFIDENTIAL
29 April 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Security Analysis Group.
FROM
:
Raymond M. Reardon
SUBJECT
: Pending Litigation
-
Gordon Novel
1. Gordon Novel is a somewhat notorious figure
who first came to the attention of this Agency during the
4. Garrision Investigation into the assassination of
President Kennedy. From time to time he has claimed to
be a CIA employee or to be acting on behalf of the CIA.
He has never been employed by the Agency and has had no
contacts with the Agency except for occasional visits to
Domestic Collection Division offices. He has been in
several scrapes with the law, most recently in October
1976 when he was on trial for conspiracy to firebomb
several buildings in New Orleans. Mr. Novel has now
filed a civil suit claiming alleged violations of his
rights and interference with his personal affairs. He
is not suing the Agency but he has named Mr. Howard
Osborn as a defendant. Mr. Osborn has been in touch with
the Office of General Counsel seeking representation by
the Justice Department since he feels his being named in
the suit probably resulted from his official duties with
the Agency.
2. On 27 April 1977 Mr. George Jameson of the
Office of General Counsel contacted the undersigned to
inquire whether we had a file on Novel and if the file
showed any reason why Mr. Novel should have named
Mr. Osborn as a defendant in the suit. Mr. Jameson was
given a rundown on the nature of the information in
Novel's file and was also provided with Mr. Osborn's
retirement date, 26 February 1974. Mr. Jameson mentioned
that most of the alleged activities complained about by
-31 dec 74
CONFIDENTIAL
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13-00000
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Novel occurred in 1975 and there is no apparent reason
for Novel having singled out Mr. Osborn as a defendant.
Mr. Jameson also requested traces on two individuals
who are alleged to have been involved in this matter--
Larry Plapecete and Bridget Pfiffez He was advised
the Office of Security had no record of either of
these individuals.
3. Mr. Jameson indicated that we would probably
be receiving a formal request for pertinent information
as this case develops, but he merely needed a preliminary
reading in order to determine if Mr. Osborn should be
defended by the Department of Justice in this litigation.
Aside from indexing the names of Blanscett and Pfiffer to
Novel's file, no further action is contemplated by the
undersigned.
CC: Osborn File
Bune Jul
Raymond M. Reardon
Security Analysis Group
2
CONFIDENTIAL
13-00000
SUBJECT: (Optional)
FROM:
ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
Raymond M. Reardon
Deputy Chief
Security Analysis Group
TO: (Officer designation, room number, and
building)
:
DATE
RECEIVED
FORWARDED
EXTENSION
NO.
DATE
1468
OFFICER'S
INITIALS
14 February 1980
COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom
to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.)
2/14/2/14/
1.
C/SAG
2.
C/OPS
3.
DD/PSI
14 1980
FEB
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
The attached was prepared
based on C/OPS/PSI request
that we advise NIS that
Subject has never been
employed by the CIA.
Reardon
Ray
FOR SIGNATuRet
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9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
.15.
FORM 610
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EDITIONS
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
15 FEB 1980
The Director
Naval Investigative Service
Department of the Navy
William R. Kotapish
Acting Director of Security
Gordon Novel
Reference is made to your memorandum of transmittal
dated 18 January 1980 which forwarded a Naval Investigative
Service Operations Report dated 9 January 1980. The report
dealt with a contact of your New Orleans Office with one
Gordon Novel. According to the report, during his contact
Mr. Novel indicated that he had a relationship with the
Central Intelligence Agency. This is to advise you that a
check of the appropriate records of the Central Intelligence
Agency has determined that Mr. Novel is not and has never
been an employee of this Agency.
FOR THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE:
Edwal Jones
Distribution:
Orig Addressee
1- AD/Security
1 - OS Registry
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✓
SAG
Novel File
OS/PSI/SAG/RMR: jan (14 FEB80)
for William
R. Kotapish
BICENTENNIAL
REVOLUTION
AMERICAN
S
1776-1976
13-00000
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General Counsel
MEMORANDUM FOR:
ATTENTION
FROM
:
Edwal Jones
SUBJECT
Z
Mr. John K. Greaney
Deputy Director of Security
21 OCT 1976
Personnel Security and Investigations
Gordon Dwane Novel; Lawrence B. Rohde;
Allen D. Bell, Jr.
1.
Reference is made to your 20 October 1976 priority
request (OGC 76-5787) which asks that the Office of Security
search its indices to determine if any of the above-named
individuals have ever been employed by the Agency. Reference
is further made to our telephonic response to you on 20 October
1976 confirming that none of these individuals have ever been
employed by the Agency.
2. This memorandum will serve to confirm the referenced
telephonic response. Office of Security indices contain no
record in the name of Lawrence B. Rohde, which was also searched
in the variation of Lawrence B. Rhode. The Office of Security
does maintain files on Gordon Dwane Novel and Allen D. Bell
and a brief summary of the information contained within these
files appears below:
Gorden Dwane Novel, SF#S26 115
Mr. Novel has a long history of leaving the
impression that he is either employed by or asso-
ciated with the CIA. Mr. Novel has not, however,
ever been an employee of the Agency in any capacity.
The Office of Security file on Mr. Novel was
established in 1967 by virtue of his involvement
with the Garrison investigation of the assassination
of President Kennedy. During the ensuing period
Mr. Novel has both telephoned and written to the
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Agency with various proposals, none of which have
been followed-up by the Agency. Most recently,
Mr. Novel was in contact with the Domestic Collec-
tion Division (DCD) in New Orleans, Louisiana,
in October 1975 and February 1976 to volunteer
various proposals. Mr. Novel's proposals were
rejected by DCD, and Mr. Novel was requested to
refrain from future contact with that office,
ba Allen D. Bell, Jr., SF#648 216
Nr. Bell is President of Doktor Counter-
intelligence and Security, Incorporated,
Springfield, Virginia, and has appeared widely
in the news media as a "wiretapping expert,"
most recently in connection with the Watergate:
hearings. Mr. Bell has never been employed by
the Agency. The Office of Security file on
Mr. Ball was established in 1970 based on a
request from the Technical Security Division,
Directorate of Operations (TSD) for a Contact
Security Approval. Cited approval was granted
in November 1971, although Mr. Bell's file does
not reflect the specific purpose for the request
nor if Mr. Bell was actually contacted. Mr. Bell
was also of interest to DCD in October 1973;
however, the specific purpose of this interest
is not contained within Mr. Bell's file.
3. As indicated, a review of our records failed to disclose
any indication that Mr. Novel, Mr. Rohde, or Mr. Bell have ever
been employed by the Agency in any capacity.
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Novel Admitted Bunker Theft, Rhodes Is Told
Continued from Page 1
New Orleans to Houma at
night in Lincoln automo-
bile owned and driven by
Gordog Novel, and in a panel
truck
Novel Admitted
Bunker Theft,
Rhodes Is Told
An affidavit filed with new
extradition papers sent to Co-
lumbus, Ohlo, claims that
Gordon Novel admitted his
par quranpurglary of a muni,
Hons bunker in Houma in 1961.
The new extradition papers
were sent to Ohio Gov. James
Rhodes as part of Orleans
Parish Dist. Attorney Jim
“AFTER ARRIVING at the
site of the bunker, which was
leased by Schlumberger Well
Services Corp., the defendant,
Gordon Novel, Sergio Arça
cha Smith, David W. Ferrie,
and others, unnamed, un
lawfully entered it by cutting
the lock with a pair of 'bolt
cutters which had been
brought along for the
pose
"After entry into the bunk
er (they) took various forms
of explosives and munitions:
Thereafter they returned to
the city of New Orleans wit
the stolen munitions,”
the many
.!
The extradition papers also declined to say what ques
included a photograph of Notions were asked or what in-
vel identified by a former formation was obtained from
girl friend, Marlene Mancy-
50.42 Oaklawn dr, Metairle,
who had dated Novel in 1961.
He is Juan M. Valdés, a self-
THE DOCUMENTS also described Latin playwright who
contain a copy of the simple figured in one of the city's more
burglary charge leveled sensational murders, A subpena
against Novel and Arcacha by was issued for him yesterday.
the sheriff of Terrebonne Valdea in the summer of
Parish. The affidavit was 1964 discovered the mutilated
signed by Capt. Bert Boyne, body of Dr. Mary Stults Sher
Meanwhile, the DA's office man, a women physician who
said a new figure in the in- occupied the same St. Charles
vestigation scheduled for ave. apartment building where
questioning today was inter the summoned witness lives.
viewed last night by a
by a 
Gar-
rison aide,
ADA's office spokesman
Garrison efforts to bring CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM
Novet back to Louislang on a
burglary conspiracy charge
Garrison wants Novel in
connection with his investiga,
tion of President Kennedy's
assassination.
G
James L Alcock, an assist-
ant district attorney, said
the affidavit:}{
** The said Gordon Navel re-
sponded to questioning by Jim
Garrison, district attorney for
the Parish of Orleans, and
William Gurvich, investigative
alde to Jim Garrison, that he
and the parties, named here.
in did in fact commit the con-
spiracy and burglary outlined
above"
In the body of the affidavit,
Alcock declared that Novel,
Sergio Arcacha Smith, David
W. Kerrie and other unnamed
persons did conspire, agree,
and combine to burglarize a
munitions bunker located in
Houma, La."
He said the conspiracy was
entered into in New Orleans
at the home of Arcacha.
1 Alcock said that the men
went to Houma on or about
Aug. 21, 1961,
The trip was made from
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HE WAS investigating smoke
coming from the Sherman
apartment when he stumbled
onto the body Dr. Sherman's
killer who has never been
found, tried to burn the body,
Garrison would not comment
on what questions, will be ask?
ed Valdes
Another Latin, 80-year-old
NP Carlos Quiroga, spent two houra
and ten minutes before the
grand jury yesterday, an d
emerged without comment,
QUIROGA, a Cuban exile,
was once a close friend and
associate of a fugitive witness
from the Garrison Inquiry,
year-old Sergio Arcocha Smith,
New Orleans States. Thes
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NEW
ORLEANS (AP) candidate for attorney general
Criminal District Court Judge in the last Minnesota election,
Edward Haggerty Jr. today is on trial in U.S. District Court
ordered the prosecution and here charged with fraud and
defense in the Clay L. Shaw's conspiracy in the collapse of
Kennedy assassination conspir- the American Allied Insurance
acy trial to refrain from pre-trial Co., of St. Paul, Minn.
publicity. He told them to quit Kroman had called a news
discussing evidence.
conference for 7 p.m. today |
The judge said at a news when he sald he would tell of
conference he would invoke the his private investigation into
canons of professional ethics "to the assassination of Kennedy.
prevent the flow of prejudicial It was not known what Kro-
pre-trial publicity" from either man intended to say. A state
Shaw's attorneys or from Dist. highway patrolman found Kro,
Atty. Jim Garrison's staff. man in his locked car at 4
He said the arraignment of a.m. 24 miles east of Bismarck.
Shaw, indicted by the grand jury Kroman was paralyzed and in-
March 17 on charges of conspir- coherent, the policeman said.
ing to assassinate President A loaded shotgun was across
John F. Kennedy, probably will the attorney's knees.
be held next week..
Kroman was taken to a Bis-
Haggerty said the same marck hospital, where a doc-
security measures in effect at tor said Kroman apparently:
Shaw's preliminary hearing had suffered an epileptic sel-
earlier this month would be used zure.
at the arraignment. Reporters
needed special credentials to
cover the hearing and cameras
were barred.
(Meanwhile, Gordon Novel
issued a telephone challenge to
Garrison today to prove by lie
detector that the probe is not a
fraud, United Press Internation-
al reported.
(Novel, who left New Orleans
shortly before the grand jury
was to subpoena him last week,
would not say where he was
calling from. Novel reportedly
took a lie detector test in Mc-
Lean, Va., over the weekend,
to back up his charges that the
investigation is a fraud.).
Haggerty has said he does not
believe the Warren Commission
report on the assassination can
be admitted as ovidence mainly
because tho commission's
witnesses could not be cross-
examined,¯
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BISMARCK, N. D. (UPI)-
David R. Kromen, an attorney
who had promised to make dis-
closures about the assassina-
tion of President John F. Ken-
nedy at a news conference to-
night, was found today partial-
ly paralyzed by an apparent |
epileptic seizure.
Kroman, 43, a onetime law-
yer for the Minnesota Insurance
Department and an unsuccess-
Cul independent Democratic
(NR.
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Garrison Seeking Two
As Arms Theft Plotters
tion.
NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) Garrison has alleged that Fer-
Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison has rie, Lee Harvey Oswald and
asked Canadian and Texas au- Clay 
L. Shaw plotted in mid-
men September 
1963 to kill President
thorities to arrest two
charged in an incident which Kennedy. Oswald and Ferrie
Garrison's office says "may or area 
dead. Shaw, 4, a retired
may not be related" to his 
New Orleans executive, has
probe of the Kennedy assassina- been indicted 
on a charge of
conspiring to kill the president.
The warrants for Novel and
Garrison telegraphed arrest
warrants yesterday to Montreal Arcacha were signed by Crimi-
nal Dist. Court Judge Thomas
for Gordon Novel and to Dallas, Brahney, who set bond at $5,000
Tex., for Sergio Arcacha Smith, for each. Novel already had a
based on charges of conspiring $50,000 bond awalting him ou
to burglarize a munitions bun- the warrant for his arrest as
A
ker in 1961.
Garrison obtained a warrant Arcacha, head of the anti-Cas-
for Novel's arrest last week as a tro Cuban
material witness in the probe of Council in New Orleans in 1961.
President John F. Kennedy's said in Dallas he does not know
assassination.
whether he will fight extradition
"
material witness,
Revolutionary
The new charge accused Nov- to New Orleans. But he added,
el and Arcacha of conspiring "It is a shame that in this coun-
with David W. Ferrie to commit try they do this to honest peo
simple burglary of a munitions ple."
dump in Houma, about 40 miles The Shaw case is scheduled.
southwest of New Orleans, (for arraignment
, Wednesday,..
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By United Press International
Gordon Novel, the "missing
witness
iness
" in New Oricans Dist.
Atty. Jim Garrison's investiga-
lion of an alleged Kennedy
assassination conspiracy.
popped up in a Washington
suburb yesterday and took a lie
detector. test on his charge that
the Garrison investigation, was a
"fraud.".
The operator of the polygraph
test, Lloyd Furr of McLean,
Va., said Novel passed" the lie
test. "He showed decep-
tions," Furr said.
"Do you honestly believe
Garrison's conspiracy prosecu-
tion is a fraud," Fui
asked Novel. "Yes,"
Novel replied.
said he
he said
Novel, a former nightclub
operator, left New Orleans
shortly before a grand jury
investigating the assassination
tried to subpoena him.
In New Orleans, Judge Mal-
thew Braniff has issued orders
for Novel to post a $50,000 bund
as a material witness or be
arrested as a fugitive.
Novel's connection with the
Garrison investigation has never
been precisely spelled out.
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NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) that "Garrison double-crossed
Dist, Atty, Jim Garrison's office me,"
today ordered the arrest of
Gordon Novel former owner of
a. French Quarter bar, as a
material witness in the investi-
gation of President John F.
Kennedy's assassination.
("What my friend Mr, Garr¡,
is conducting is not a nor
mal investigation but is a politi
cal, police state inquisitionª
United Press International
quoted Novel as saying.
(When Novel, left Columbus
this morning, he left a note
Novel, 20, was subpoenaed to behind for reporters. It said:
appear before the Orleans 
"Gentlemen, due to pressure
Parish grand jury, yesterday in from 
New Orleans I had to
connection 
with Garrison's leave. I will prove my statement
probe. He did not 
appear and in Chicago in due course;")
could not be found here.
Novel appeared before the
Novel later turned up in grand jury March 16. Earlier he
Columbus, Ohio, He left there told newsmen he thought Garri
today saying he was going to son wanted to question him
Chicago.
about activities during 1962
The arrest order for Novel which are related to Mr. Sergio
followed the grand jury's indict- Arcacha Smith."
ment yesterday of Clay L. Shaw, Arcacha, now living in Dallas,
retired business executive, on a Tex, said he never heard of
charge of willfully and unlaw- Novel. Arcacha headed an anti
fully conspiring” to murder Castro group here in 1961.
Kennedy.
In an affidavit, the district
attorney's office alleged that
Novel fled New Orleans while
1961,
Big Bond Recommended
In its affidavit, filed with
under subpoena. It said he Criminal District Court, the
severed 
his business ties and district attorney's office said
stated 
publicly that he had no Novel should be placed under
Intention of returning,
sizable bond or the grand jury
will be deprived of a most
important and material wit
ness,"
Afrald½of "Itarassment”
In Columbus, Novel said he
did not want to return to New The arrest order was signed
Orleans, without a guarantee of by Criminal Dist. Court Judge
Immunity from "harassment." Matthew S. Braniff.
He was quoted as describing the Novel owned the Jamaican
Garrison Investigation as "a Inn Bar, a lounge on North
fraud" and as saying he first Rampart Street on the fringe of
helped the district attorney but the French Quarter, He sold the
property Sunday,
in Danfills
chache und
mother
In another development today,
Criminal Dist. Court Judge
Edward A. Haggerty Jr. was
named to preside at the murder
conspiracy trial of Shaw, 54,
who will spend the Easter
weekend on the Mississippi Gulf
Coast with Garrison's approval,
Garrison has said he will
prove that the Kennedy assassi
nation resulted from a New
Orleans-based conspiracy. He
commenced his investigation
last October
Shaw, who retired in October
1965 as managing director of the
International Trade Mart here,
has been free on $10,000 bond
since his' arrest March 1. 126
As for hovels fr
Shaw was discharged from
Southern Baptist Hospital here
last night after being treated
for fatigue and an old back
injury, He entered the hospital
Saturday.
Garrison had said earlier he
would bypass the grand jury.
and file a bill of Information bo
fore bringing Shaw to trial,
Garrison already had, won
ruling from a three-judge
state court panel that sufficient
evidence was presented at A
preliminary hearing to warrant
holding Shaw for trial
Russo Appears
Shaw was charged yesterday,
in a grand jury true bill with
willfully and unlawfully con
spiring with David W. Ferrie,
Lee Harvey Oswald-and-un-
· named others to murder John
F Kennedy,"
(Shaw's attorney said last night
his client would pload pot guilty
to the indictment and would
request, a bill of particulars in
the case UPI reported, Shaw
is to be arraigned next week.)
Perry Raymond Russo, 25,
star witness for Garrison in last
week's emotional court hearing,
made a surprise appearance
before the grand jury before the
announcement of the indict,
ment,
Russo told the three-judge
court last week he heard Shaw,
Ferrie and Oswald plotting in
mid-September 1963 to kill Ken,
nedy Shaw is the only one of
the conspirators named in the
Indictment who is still living,
Ferrie, 47, was found dead in
bed here Feb, 22 Ferrin Was
under investigation at that time
by Garrison,
The Warren Commission con-
cluded that Oswald was the sole
assassin of Kennedy, in Dallas
on Nov, 22, 1963 No evidence
could be found, the commission
said, of a conspiracy but it said
that it could not categorically
establish that there was no con
spiracy
Oswald was shot in the base
ment of the Dallas police station
by Jack Ruby two days after
the assassination
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NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP)-that "Garrison, double-crossed
Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison's office me."
1
("What my friend Mr. Garri
today ordered the arrest of
Gordon Novel, former owner of mal investigation but is a politi
son is conducting is not a 
nor-
a French Quarter bar, as a cal, police state inquisition."
material witness in the investi- United Press, International
gation of President John F. quoted Novel as saying..
Kennedy's assassination.
(When Novel left Columbus
Novel, 29, was subpoenaed to behind for reporters. It said:
this morning, he left a note
Orleans "Gentlemen, due to pressure
before
the
and jury yesterday in from New Orleans I had to
connection 
with
probe. He did not appear and in Chicago in due course.")
Garrison's leave. 
I will prove my statement
could not be found here.
Novel later turned up in grand jury March 16. Earlier he
Novel appeared before the
Columbus, Ohio. He left there told newsmen he thought Garri
today saying he was going to son wanted to question him
Chicago,
The arrest order for Novel which are related to Mr. Sergio
about activities "during 1962
followed the grand jury's indict- Arcacha Smith.”
ment yesterday of Clay L. Shaw,
"
Arcacha, now living in Dallas,
retired business executive, on a Tex., said he never heard of
charge of willfully and unlaw- Novel. Arcacha headed an anti-
fully conspiring" to murder Castro group here in
Kennedy.
1961.
1961
Big Bond Recommended
In an affidavit, the district
attorney's office alleged that
Novelled New Orleans while
under subpoena. It said he Criminal District Court, the
In its affidavit, filed with
severed his business ties and district attorney's office sald
stated publicly that he had no Novel should be placed under
Intention of
Appen of returning
Afraid of "Harassment”
In Columbus, Novel said he
did not want to return to New
sizable bond or the grand jury
will be deprived of a most
ness.
Important and material wit.
Orleans, without a guarantee of by Criminal Dist. Court Judge
The arrest order was signed
immunity from "harassment." Matthew S. Braniff.
He was quoted as describing the
Garrison investigation as
Novel owned the Jamaican
fraud and as saying he first Rampart Street on the fringe of
"a Inn Bar, a lounge on North
helped the district attorney but the French Quarter. He sold the
property Sunday,
In another development today,
Criminal Dist. Court Judge
Edward, A.. Haggerty Jr. was
named to preside at the murder
conspiracy trial of Shaw, 54,
who will spend the Easter
weekend on the Mississippi Gulf
Coast with Garrison's approval.
Garrison has said he will
prove that the Kennedy assassi-
nation resulted from a New
Orleans-based conspiracy. "He
commenced his investigation
last October. , la
Shaw, who retired in October
1965 as managing director of the
International Trade Mart here,
has been freo on $10,000 bond
since his arrost March 1.
'
1 Shaw was discharged from
Southern Baptist Hospital here
last night after being treated
for fatigue and an old back
Injury. He entered the hospita!
Saturday.
.
Garrison had said earlier ho
would bypass the grand jury
and file a bill of Information bo-
fore bringing Shaw to trial,
Garrison already had won
a ruling from a three-judge
state court panel that sufficient
evidence was presented at a
preliminary hearing to warrant
golding Shaw for trial,
Russo Appears ³
Shaw was charged yesterday
in grand jury true bill with
willfully and unlawfully con-
spiring with David W. Ferrie,
Lee Harvoy Oswald and un-
named others to murder John
F. Kennedy."
(Shaw's attorney said last night
his client would plead not guilty
to the indictment and would
request a bill of particulars in
the case, UPI reported. Shaw
is to be arraigned next week.)
Perry Raymond Russo, 25,
star witness for Garrison in last
week's emotional court hearing,
made a surprise appearance
before the grand jury before the
announcement of the indict
ment,
Russo told the three-judge
court last week he heard Shaw,
Ferrie and Oswald plotting in
mid-September 1963 to kill Ken-
nedy. Shaw is the only one of
the conspirators named in the
indictment who is still living.
Ferrie, 47, was found dead in
bed here Feb. 22. Ferrie was
under investigation at that time
by Garrison.
4
The Warren Commission con
cluded that Oswald was the sole
assassin of Kennedy in Dallas
on Noy: 22, 1963. No evidence
could be found, the commission
sald, of a conspiracy but it auld
that it could not categorically
establish that there was no coñe
spiracy.
Oswald was shot in the base-
ment of the Dallas police station
by Jack Ruby two days after
the assassination,
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Security
Director of Personnal
FROM
SUBJECT
John K. Greaney
OGC 76-5787
20 October 1976
Associate General Counsel
Gordon Dwane Novel
1. Gordon Novel is scheduled for prosecution in New Orleans
on 27 October on charges stemming from = conspiracy to firebomb some
buildings on Canal Street. He was mentioned extensively in the James
Garrison investigation of the Kennnedy assassination in 1967. Subse-
quently, Novel filed suit against Garrison and later against Playboy
Magazine for an article they published which identified Novel as a CIA
employee. In 1969 the Agency submitted a certificate signed by the then
Director of Personnel, Robert S. Wattles, which certified that Gordon Novel
had never been employed by the CIA (copy attached). It may be necessary
to submit a new certificate for the upcoming trial in New Orleans. You
are requested to search your files to determine whether there is any
record of employment.
2. There are two additional defense witnesses that we would
appreciate a search as to any employment relationship:
(a) Lawrence B. Rohde
530 "N" Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C.
Employed by: Commonwealth Pug Corporation
(b) Allan D. Bell, Jr.,
President, DEKTOR C.I.S. Incorporated
5054 Blue Ridge Avenue
Annandale, Virginia
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It is my understanding that these names have all been traced as a request
from the Domestic Collection Division with negative results. However, I
would appreciate a written response to those traces by close of business
20 October so that certificates can be prepared.
3. It is possible that a witness from the Office of Personnel may be
required to appear in New Orleans as a rebuttal witness to testify that
there was no employment relationship with Gordon Dwane Novel, but this
is subject to negotiation with the prosecutor..
Enclosures
K Juoney
پیل
John K. Greaney
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INTELLIGENCE
QUMICO STARES
AMERICA
AGENCY
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
CERTIFICATE
I, Robert S. Wattles, am Director of Personnel for the
Central Intelligence Agency, and in that capacity have custody of
the personnel records of the Central Intelligence Agency. These
personnel records are maintained in the State of Virginia, I have
directed that a diligent search of the Central Intelligence Agency
personnel records be made to ascertain if Gordon Dwane Novel
has ever been employed or considered for employment by the
Central Intelligence Agency, The diligent search has been com-
pleted and indicates that Gordon Dwane Novel, at his request on
22 December 1967, was interviewed as an applicant for employment
by a member of the Office of Personnel, Central Intelligence Agency,
The search indicates also that, based on the information supplied at
such interview, the interviewer did not recommend employment and
his application for employment was not further processed by the
Central Intelligence Agency. The personnel records of the Central
Intelligence Agency contain ne record of employment of Cordon Dwane
Novel by the Central Intelligence Agency.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto sign my name this 1st.
of May, 1969.
STATE OF VIRGINIA )
) Ba.
COUNTY OF FAIRFAX)
Robert S. Wattles
Director of Personnel
Central Intelligence Agency
Subsribed and sworn to before me this 1st
My commission expires
(SEAL)
day of May, 1969.
sel M. Peterson
Notary Public
My commission expires 24 September 1969.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that Robert S. Wattles, whose certificate
is attached hereto, waa at the date thereof custodian of the
personnel records of the Central Intelligence Agency. In witness
thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the
Central Intelligence Agency to be affixed at Fairfax County, in
tha State of Virginia, this 2nd day of May, 1967.
(SEAL)
STATE OF VIRGINIA )
} 8B.
COUNTY OF FAIRFAX)
La . White
Lawrence K. White
Executive Director-Comptroller
Central Intelligence Agency
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2nd day of May, 1969.
sabel M. Peters
Notary Public
My on expires
My commission expires 24 September 1969,
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Mr. Swann: At the request of Helen, Mr. Kuhn's
office, Policy Coordination Staff, ext 1623,
I asked for a name trace and the files on the
following, and gave your name:
Mistretta, Vincent
b. 13 Jan. 1913, Brooklyn NY
FBI has a continuing investigation on Subject
who has been interviewed and advised of contacts
with CIA between 1970 and 1975. He named two
people:6 R.T. Conway] and a Dr. Jerry Berger.
They the FFBI--want to know if we have these people
or any information on this man.
SRD is sending file on Mistretta, covert subject
857074; has nothing on Dr. Jerry Berger; there are
three files which suggest the R.T. Conway]: 6 two on
6 (Robert Conways one of which is a retired file, and
one on a "Red" Conway]: 6
Do you want any or all of those?
Novel, Gordon Michael
b. 7 Feb. 1938 in San Antonio, Texas
Lives in Houston, Tex. at 414 Baywood Paced Drive.
FBI has an active investigation on the Subject
and they disseminated a memo dated May 27, 1976 on
the Subject but it may or may not have come to
Security. SRD is sending his file up.
jane macauley
Oct. 12, 1976
or divid
[Red Conway] from SRD
6 [Robinway] 278-632
6 [Robust Conway)
73-028-7014
Conway] 21987
630-067-00%
from retired
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FORM NO. 10
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FPMR (41 CFH) 101-11.6
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT:
Memorandum copy
file
Gorder
Novel
Chief, Security Research Staff, Os
DATE: 18 April 1967.
FTN
Mr. Bruce Solie
ROM
JBJECT:
EFER:
Director, Domestic Contact Service
(Services Division)
District Attorney Carrison's Investigation Into Alleged Conspiracy to
Assassinate President, Kennedy
NO-112-67
DCS Memoranda dated and 11 April 1967, Same Subject
The enclosed self-explanatory memorandum and attachment from our
New Orleans Office may be of interest.
fee may be of in
2. Copies of the enclosures and the newsclippings mentioned have also
been forwarded to Mr. Joseph Goodwin. We regret that we are unable to
furnish your Office with copies of the clippings and suggest that you co-
ordinate with Mr. Goodwin if they are of interest to you.
3. Any questions pertaining to this memorandum should be directed to
Mrs. Virginia L. Thorne, Extension 2738.
Viquia
B. FRANK YOUNG
Chief, Services Division
Enclosures: As stated above
CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM
RELEASE IN FULL 1998
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UNITED STATES GCMENT
emorandum
SECRET
NO-112-67
Director, Domestic Contact Service
DATE:
28 March 1967,
FROM
Chief, New Orleans Office
SUBJECT:
District Attorney Garrison's Investigation into Alleged Conspiracy
to Assassinate President Kennedy:
N enclose herewith a memo from Dorothy A. Brandao to me concern-
(Ag a news broadcast on Saturday, 25 March 1967, in which CIA is mentioned.
I also enclose two clippings from the New Orleans Times-Picayune, dated 26
and 27 March 1967, which refer to a lie detector test administered to one
Gordon Novel in McLean, Virginia.
the new
was out of town on Saturday, 25 March 1967, and did not hear
Broadcast referred to in Mrs. Brandao's memo.
LARay/gn.
Encl
Lloyd C. Ran
Mr. Goodwin, 3 ap:67.
LLOYD A. RAY
BOGEY 1
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Ray:
In Channel 6
6's news broadcast at 6-6:30 PM, Saturday, 25 March 1967
the local newscaster announced that NBC had located Gordon Novel and had
interviewed him in "Washington." The film then switched to a front view
of Novel seated in an armchair and showing him answering questions posed
by someone off camera. (a) The latter asked if Garrison had promised
Novel anything in exchange for his testimony. Novel said that Garrison
had asked him if he needed money and had volunteered to give him whatever
financial assistance he needed. (b) The interviewer asked what was
Gorrison's motive in prosecuting the case. Novel eventually said that it
was purely political. But before that, he said that Garrison reminded
Min of Huey L
Long and of Dr. Goebbels, from what he had read. The inter-
viewer asked this question a second time, couching it in somewhat different
terms - what did Garrison hope to accomplish, what was his motive. Novel
said that that was a matter of conjunction (conjecture), that he might
Bring in CIA
At the conclusion of the Washington interview, the film returned to
local newscaster. The latter stated that NBC had informed the NO
scation that Novel had submitted to a polygraph test in connection with
the interview and "had passed it."
The attached clippings from the 26 and 27 March issues of the Times-
Picayune do not mention the substance of the NBC interview. These articles
refer to NBC's having contacted Novel in McLean, Virginia, rather than
Washington, D.C.
26 March 1967
.D.A.B.
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CONFENTIAL
SECRET
☐ UNCLASSIFIED INTERNAL
ONLY
ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
SUBJECT: (Optional).
Gordon NOVEL
FROM:
George
N.
Swann 3
OS: SSD: OSB
4E27
TO: (Officer designation, room number, and
'building):
RECEIVED
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
FROM
SUBJECT
1 September 1976
3
[George N. Swann]
Operations Support Branch/OS
Gordon NOVEL
.SFN 526113
1. On 31 August 1976, Major Robert Foster, Defense
Intelligence Agency (telephone 11-50418), contacted
Mr. Robert Hopkins, Office of Security Liaison Officer,
seeking information concerning Subject. He explained that
the Subject, while residing in a local motel, had Verheard IN
a telephone conversation angirl. They discussed large
amounts of money with the indication it was illegally obtained.
Also, in this discussion, Subject mentioned that due to this
girl's information, he was arrested by the CIA in February 1976,
2. On 1 September 1976, Major Foster was contacted by
the undersigned and advised that the CIA had knowledge of the
Subject, but that he had never in any way been connected
with the CIA nor had we ever arrested him. Major Foster
was informed that the Subject has a long history of imper-
sonating CIA agents or abusing the CIA's name during his
activities. It was explained that based on our information,
Subject appeared to be somewhat irrational.
3. Major Foster advised that he also felt the Subject
was a "nut" and appreciated the information offered by the CIA.
Distribution:
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George N. Swann
George N. Swann
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SFN 526113
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SUBJECT: (Optional)
3
☐ CONFIL. TIAL
SECRET
ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
Gordon Novel
FROM:
George N. Swann
OS/OSB
4 E 27
TO: (Officer designation, room number, and
'building)
1.
DC/OSB
7.
10.
11.
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DATE
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
SUBJECT
REFERENCES
Chief, Operations Support Branch
Gordon Novel
#526 113
Domestic Collections Division Memoranda
dated 25 February 1976 & 1 March 1976
1.
According to the referenced Domestic Collections
Division (DCD) memoranda, the New Orleans DCD Office had con-
sidered proposals from Subject in October 1975 and on
9 February 1976 which were rejected. During the last contact,
the DCD representative requested Subject not contact him again.
2. DCD requested Office of General Counsel (OGC) guidance.
if they should be contacted by the press concerning Subject's
arrest for conspiring to detonates incendiary devices in a down-
town New Orleans building. OGC recommended that they acknowledge
receiving a proposal from Novel which had been rejected. DCD
was also informed that Subject had never been employed by the
Agency, with the understanding that this might also be made
known to any inquiring reporters or United States Attorney.
DCD stated that they were pleased with this guidance, since
it allowed them to respond candidly to any immediate inquiries
and also serves to disassociate the Agency from the difficulties
in which Subject now finds himself. It appears that the only
action taken in this case is the OGC guidance supplied to DCD
and the only CIA interest in Subject is based on his contact
with the New Orleans DCD Office.
Distribution:
Orig - Subject File
1 - Chrono
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George
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According to DCD memo ald M
25 Feb 76 and 1 March 26 they had the
New Orleans DCD office had considered a
proposal from NOVEL in Oct 75 and 9 Fe676,
which the fo DCD representative advised NOVEL
not to contact him again.
which
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DCD requested OFC
should
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inquents
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and had rejected it DCD was also informed that Bet
NOVEL had never been employed by the Agency.
FOLD HERE TO RETURN TO SENDER
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DATE
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ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
SUBJECT: (Optional)
NOVEL, Gordon
FROM:
* DCD Security Liaison Officer
Room 806B Key Building
TO: (Officer designation, room number, and
building)
1.CD/I&C Branch, OS
2.
ATTN: Sarah K. Hall, CD/5
Room 3E36 Headquarters
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REF:
DCD/NO 42-76 and 43-76
Copies of the referenced
memoranda and attachments are
forwarded for your information.
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MR. GREEN.
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J-42-76
25 February 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT:
REF
Gordon Novel's Arrest on Bomb Conspiracy Charges/Claim of
CIA Association
(a) NO-39-76 dated 20 February 1976, Subject: Gordon Novel
(b) Houck Watts Telecon of 24 February 1976, Sama Subject
3
1. The US Attorney in New Orleans, Gerald Gallinghouse, called
the New Orleans Resident Office on 24 February 1976 to advise me that
Gordon M. D. Novel had been arrested by agents of the US Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms Bureau (ATF) for conspiring to detonate incendiary devices
in a downtown New Orleans building on Mardi Gras, 2 March 1976. Novel
had apparently described such a plot in a conversation he unwittingly
held with an undercover ATF agent.
:
2. I confirmed to Gallinghouse that I had had a number of contacts
with Novel since October 1975 concerning a proposal which Novel had offered
for CIA consideration. I told Gallinghouse that the proposal had been re-
jected by the Agency, but that I had again seen Novel on 9 February 1976
to accept additional material in support of his proposal. At that time,
I also asked Novel not to contact me again. I assured Gallinghouse that
at no time had Novel been an Agency employee, nor had he ever had any
formal relationship with the Agency. Gallinghouse thanked me for ex-
plaining the nature of our relationship with Novel, and he suggested
that he might recontact me later if necessary for more details.
3. In the referent telecon, I briefed the Deputy Chief of Operations,
Ed Watts, on the development and asked him how I should respond if Galling-
house sought access to the office file on Novel. Mr. Watts recommended that
I try to avoid giving the US Attorney direct access to the file, but that
if Gallinghouse should ask to review the file, I should refer the request
to Headquarters for resolution.
4. Mrs. Gordon Novel called shortly after my conversation with
Messrs. Callinghouse and Watts. She said that her husband had asked
her to call me to insure that federal authorities were aware that her
husband had been actively discussing a proposal for the Agency with me.
Mrs. Novel said that her husband had been denied bond, and that he hoped
his contacts with a DCD officer might somehow convince federal authorities.
that he could be safely released on bond after all. Otherwise, she said,
he might be detained through the Mardi Gras holiday as a precaution. She
assured me that Novel had made no effort to persuade the authorities that
he is a CIA officer or employee.
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25 February 1976
5. So far, there has been no publicity given to Novel's arrest
or the charges against him. We will continue to monitor the situation
for any further developments suggesting a formal relationship between
the Agency and Novel.
3
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CC: DCD, Deputy Chief of Operations (Watts)
OCD, OSG/OSB (Hale)] 3
DCD, Information Control Branch
PETER HOUCK
CONFIDENTIAL
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Chief, Domestic Collection Division
Deputy Chief of Operations (Ed Watts)
Chief, Dallas Office/
New Orleans Resident Office
Gordon Bovel
3
3.
7/1
(a) (Houck/Watts and Greaney (Houck] telecons of 1 March 1976
(b) NO-42-76 dated 25 Zebruary 1976, Same Subject
372
2731 27696
NO-43-76
1 March 1976
1. Attached are copies of two local news items concerning the
recent arrest of Cordon Novel for the illegal possession of an explo-
sive device end for conspiracy to bomb several buildings in downtown
New Orleans. In the article dated 1 March and in recent television
news coverage of the affair, Novel has been quoted as saying that he
is involved in an important US Government intelligence project and
is in frequent contact with an official of the Defense Department.
As we reported in the referent memo, Novel told the US Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms Bureau (ATP) agents who arrested him that he was working.
on a CIà project, a claim he said they could verify by calling the
New Orleans Resident Officer.
2. So far, there have been no public statements linking Novel's
recent activities to tho Agency. In the referent telecons, however, we
requested guidance in responding to any media inquiries which might
materialize. John Greaney, Office of General Counsel, recommended that
we acknowledge, if asked, that Hovel had offered the Agency a proposal
which had subsequently been rejected. Mr. Greaney also confirmed that
Novel has never been employed by the agency, a fact which we might also
make known to any inquiring reporters or to the US Attorney, if necessary,
We are pleased with this guidance, since it allows us to respond candidly
to any media inquiries, and it also serves to disassociate the Agency
from the difficulties in which Novel now finds himself.
3. We will keep you informed of any further developments in this
matter which relate to the Agency or to our contacts with Novel.
Fouck/aln
Attachment: As stated.
ce: Office of General Counsel (John Greaney)
✓ SCD/03G/OSB (Craig liale)
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Monday, March 1, 1976
The States-Item.
New Orleans
Novel claims Defense tie
Businessman Gordon Novel, ac-
cused of plotting to firebomb downtown
buildings during Carnival, claims he is
involved in an enormous project" with
a gentleman in the Defense
Department."
Asked if the enormous project” was
linked to his arrest, Novel said, "Well,
something is behind this. I think I know
what it is but I would rather not say."
Novel, identified as a financial con-
sultant with the Langford Land Co. here
whose name surfaced nine years ago in
former Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison's
Kennedy assassination probes, made his
comments during a weekend jailhouse
interview.
Novel was arrested Feb. 21 and charged
with possessing a destructive device. He
has been held without bond since then,
pending a hearing Wednesday.
Affidavits filed in federal court allege
that Novel tried to hire an undercover
federal agent to firebomb five buildings
during Mardi Gras, when large crowds
would hamper fremen. Novel called the
charge "insane"
"It's so insane that the government
he
realizes the only way that it can make a
case is to allege that I'm insane,"
said. Novel said he was willing to take a
lie detector test and to submit to ques-
tioning under truth serum.
He said he has been "deeply involved".
in "counter-intelligence" operations in
the past, but did not elaborate.
"I know enough about the intelligence
community to one day play a major po-
litical role in it," Novel said.
IN 1963, Garrison accused Novel of
conspiring with a Cuban refugee to steal
explosives from an oil company storage
site. Garrison's investigation linked Lee
Harvey Oswald, the President's accused
assassin, with a vaguely defined Cuban
liberation movement.
Novel sued Garrison for $50 million,
claiming his reputation had been dam-
aged but the suit was later dropped.
Asked the current charges bore any
relation to the assassination probe,
Novel's lawyer, Servando C. Garcia III,
said: "It's a mistake. It's not related to
anything."
We absolutely plan to plead him inno-
cent and put on a defense," Garcia said.
"The facts the U.S. Attorney has can be
explained."
Prosecutors allege that Novel tried to.
hire undercover agent W. Lloyd Grafton
to firebomb several downtown buildings
at the height of Tuesday's Mardi Gras
celebration, when fire trucks would be
hampered by crowds.
AGENTS REPORTED seizing a can of
alcohol, balloons, gunpowder, fuses and
matches from Novel's office on the 40th
floor of a downtown building, along with
diagrams of the buildings involved.
"That's absolutely untrue," Novel said
in the television interview. "They found
nothing when they searched my office."
Documents filed in federal court indi-
cated Novel, a real estate financial con-
sultant, was "having a few problems"
with some of the downtown property.
which was supposedly the intended tar-
get of the firebombing.
Garcia said he hoped to have his client
released on bond at Wednesday's hear-
ing. He said there was no reason to keep
Novel in jail indefinitely.
13-00000
Gordon Novel Seized
By ED ANDERSON
New Orleans businessman Gor-
don Novel remained in federal
custody Friday on charges of pos-
sessing "a destructive device" in
connection with an alleged plot to
firebomb and destroy in succession
"several buildings in the Central
Business District during the height
of Carnival festivities.
Documents in federal court here
reveal that Novel identified as a
financial consultant with the Lang.
ford 
Land Co. was having “a few
problems with some of the property
located within the (downtown)
project area. "
Although no formal motive for the al-
leged planned bombings was given,
sources said that Novel was trying to ob
tain the properties.
The only building cited by the court
documents as a target for the alleged at-
tacks was the Federation of Churches
Building, located at 330 St. Charles Ave.
The sources said the bombs were
never planted in the five downtown
buildings and Novela figure in ex-Or-
leans Parish Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison's
investigation into the assassination of
the late President Kennedy, - was ar-
rested 
Feb. 21.
He is now being held without bond as a
federal inmate at the New Orleans Po-
lice Department's House of Detention.
The court papers also indicate Novel
tried to hire undercover agent W. Lloyd
Grafton of the U.S. Treasury Depart-
ment's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms (ATF) as the person to carry
out the plan.
Sources said the plan was "to fire-
bomb the buildings in sequence" during..
parade times "when the fire department
equipment could not be brought into the
Central Business District..
"One
source said the plan "was to put them
(
bombs) off in sequence
one after
the other."
The dates and other locations of the
four buildings allegedly targeted for the
attacks were not given.
The documents, however, said the
buildings were located in a three-block
area of the One Shell Square Building or
Poydras Street.
Novel's request for a bond hearing
Cont. In Sec. 1, Page 14, Col. I
Orleans Times Picayune
28 February 1976
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was co
Continued from Page 1
ed Friday by U.S. Magis-
trate Ingaid O. Johannesen until 4 p.m.
next Wednesday.
The complaint against Novel claims
that when the defendant was arrested
last week, he was in possession of “an
incendiary device," consisting of a can
of alcohol, balloons, a can of black pow-
der. timed fuses and other equipment.
Also confiscated, according to sources,
were maps and diagrams of the build-
ings to be hit.
Novel was arrested after ATF agents
learned the device was not registered.
The court documents also claim that
although Novel was unaware Grafton
was an undercover federal agent, he
tried to hire Grafton for the plan at
met Novel again at his Plaza Tower of-
fice on Feb. 11 d the two "discussed
the firebombin five buildings within
the downtown area."
At that time, according to the docu-
ments, Novel allegedly showed Grafton
the equipment as well as what Novel.
supposedly described as "illegal wire-
tapping equipment.” -
At that meeting, the papers claim,
Novel allegedly agreed to give Grafton
"the contract" to destroy the five build-
ings.
That same day, the documents indi-
cate, Novel supposedly pointed out the
first building targeted for the alleged at-
tack, and later took Grafton to "the
building located between St. Charles and
Camp Street."
According to the papers, Novel al-
and a year's free rent in an apart legedly explained to Grafton "how
Reportedly, Novel and two other men
were supposed to meet with Gov. Edwin
Edwards last Saturday in Baton Rouge
to discuss the possibilities of getting a
world's fair for New Orleans.
"I had a luncheon scheduled (last)
Saturday at the mansion with some peo-
ple to talk about the exposition," the
governor said. "But the name Novel
doesn't ring a bell.
"Only one man showed up Saturday.
He said the others couldn't make it and
asked if we could re-schedule the meet-
ing. I didn't even ask why they couldn't
make it..
"
An aide to the governor said the gover-
nor's office was trying to determine if
one of the three men was Novel.
He said records of the appointment
show only the time and subject matter of
the meeting.
- The aide added that Novel may have
been one of the three, but he could not be
certain.
According to the documents, the ATF
Bureau received information "from a
confidential informant" of the alleged
plan.
"
Grafton, posing as a prospective "hit
man," made arrangements to discuss
the plans with Novel on Feb. 4.
The affidavit for a search warrant
signed by Johannesen said Grafton
I was told by Novel that Novel "had
several buildings he wanted destroyed in
the New Orleans, La. area..
The papers also show that on Feb. 6,
Grafton met Novel at Novel's home, 1718
Lakeshore Drive, where Novel allegedly
said "he had made a firebomb for an
individual to burn the first building he
wanted destroyed, but that man failed to
do the job.
The identity of that person was not re-
vealed in the documents.
Novel said he "had a few problems
with some of the property located within
the (downtown) project area and that
was where Grafton would come.
in
according to the affidavit.
The documents showed that Grafton
difficult it would be to get inside the
building."
At another meeting Feb. 13 between
the two in Novel's office, the documents
said, Novel drew a diagram of the first
targeted building which was described
as being "accross the street from One
Shell Square."
Presumably, that building was the
Greater Federation of Churches Build-
ing
.On that same date, the records allege,
Novel fold Grafton "the fire should be on
the second floor in order for the roof and.
floor to burn completely.”
It was then, according to the affidavit,
that Grafton agreed to the plan for $1,000
and the free apartment.
According to the records, Novel also
presented Grafton a notebook, contain-
ing "a plan project of approximately
three blocks near the One Shell Square
Building which was also to be part of
the alleged scheme.
After their series of meetings Novel
was arrested by the ATF agents Feb. 20.
Novel was denied bail the next day
and the government - led by Asst. U.S.
Atty. Al Winters. _ was granted a mo-
tion that Novel be examined by a psy-
chiatrist to determine his competency in
the proceedings.
Defense attorney Servando C.
"Sonny" Garcia III a law partner of
Municipal Court Judge Eddie Sapir, has
urged that bond he set for his client.
In documents filed with the court Gar-
cia called Novel "a man well respected
in the community" who is "regularly.
employed as a financial consultant,"
and a family man.
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UNCLASSIFIED
[
INTERNAL
USE ONLY
SEGRET
CCIDENTIAL
ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
SECRET
SUBJECT: (Optional)
Gordon NOVEL, aka: Gordon Novel Rose, Gordon Michael Duane Novel, Godfrey N. Rose
DCD Security Liaison Officer.
Room 806 B Key Building
ion, room-number, and
EXTENSION NO.
DATE
2738
OFFICER'S
INITIALS
RECEIVED FORWARDED
DATE
CD/I&C Branch, OS
ATTN:
Sarah K. Hall, CD
Room 3E36 Headquarters
15 August 1975
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Memorandum
SEGRET
: Chief, Domestic Collection Division
CLV-121-75
DATE:
17 July 1975
ATTN: Information Control Branch (Redman)
* FROM
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Chief, Detroit Field Office
BY
:
Robert B. Noble, Cleveland Resident Office
*SUBJECT: Correspondence of Possible Interest to Office of Security.
REF
:
Durbin/Noble Telecon, 17 July 1975
1. On 15 July 1975, an agent of the Cleveland FBI contacted the
Cleveland Resident Office concerning the attached correspondence. The
Bureau had received the letters the same day, and because there were
several references to the Agency, the agent thought that our office
should be informed. Copies of the correspondence are attached for
your information and retention.
2. The FBI agent who discussed this matter with us stated that
he had been told that the author of the four-page letter was a
"professional wiretapper", had previously been convicted to transporting
illegal wiretap equipment across state lines (into Nevada), and was
suspected of illegally obtaining and selling "classified information".
Cleveland FBI plans no action at this time other than further in-
vestigatory work on the individual.
3. The Cleveland RO plans to do absolutely nothing about this
matter other than forwarding the information to Headquarters. The
agent was informed of and agreed to this course of action, he was
thanked for his concern and the matter was dropped.
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File:
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COPIES TO:
Mr. D. R. McCurdy
District Manager-Corporate Security
Ohio Bell Telephone Company
1000 Erieview Plaza
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Mr. B. R. Campbell
District Security Manager
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
3675 T Street, Room 108
Sacramento, California 95816
Mr. J. B. Heil, Jr.
Staff Supervisor-Security
The Ches. and Pot. Telephone Company
1710 H Street N.W..
Washington, D.C. 20006
Mr. G. A. Larkin
General Security Manager
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
1010 Pine Street, Room 1030
Saint Louis, Missouri 63101
Attachment #1
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James M. Vaughan, Jr.
Security Manager
Mr. J. F. Doherty
Director-Corporate Security
American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
195 Broadway, Room 2005.
New York, New York 10007
Dear Mr. Doherty:
Southwestern Bell
P. O. Box 5521
Dallas, Texas 75222
Phone (214) 747-5311 Ext. 3354
July 9, 1975
Re:
Gordon Michael Duane Novel, aka
Gordon Novel, Gordon Novel Rose,
G. N. Rose, Godfrey N. Rose
MI
Dallas Area File:
25-169-D
Enclosed is a Xerox copy of a letter received by special
messenger on July 7, 1975, from Gordon Novel, making certain demands
on Southwestern Bell, AT&T and companies serving Columbus, Ohio, Reno,
Nevada and Washington, D. C. (See page 4, paragraph 3)
Mr. Novel's letter has been reviewed by our company Legal
Department and a decision has been made not to reply in writing.
Mr. Horak, the manager handling Novel's account, is to contact Novel
and advise him verbally that his letter has been referred to higher
management, and that copies of this letter have been forwarded to
the telephone companies serving the cities he mentioned for any
action they deem appropriate. Mr. Novel's propensity for filing
suit was one of the main considerations for choosing this course of
action.
Should any of the recipients of this letter decide to
contact or write Novel I would appreciate being notified prior to
your doing so. Our Legal Department wants to be kept abreast of any
response made to his demands as it might affect the company's course
of action.
Enclosure
JMV/va
Very truly yours,..
Original Signed By
James M. Vaughan, Jr.
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3170 Royal Lane
Dallas, Texas
July 6, 1975
Mr. James Horak, Manager
Mr. Jim Vaughn, Security Supervisor
Mr. Carleton C. Wright, Jr., Security Supervisor
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
308 South Akard Street
Room 1103
Dallas, Texas 75202
Gentlemen:
Due to the rapidly accelerating national sensitivity
of my historical personal interests, as well as the
magnitude of political, intelligence and financial involve-
ments for which I am legally responsible to my associates,
I deem it wise to contact your office for the following
reasons:
It is imperative that your files be revised in order
to coase reflecting purposeful disinformation, slanderous
irregularities and obvious inconsistencies about my activities.
This data has been maliciously accumulated by your business
and security offices during the past seven years while
illegally intruding and interfering in highly sensitive
industrial and political counterintelligence research in
which I was involved. To accomplish this, A. T. & T. has
used misrepresentation and a fraudulent legal technicality
covering "anticipated" financial loss to the phone company.
(My phone bills have always been paid promptly.)
The police tactics used by your offices--harrassment
intimidation, threats, extortionary demands have been
verified throughout Texas and in Washington, D. C. However,
the highly sensitive nature of the work in which we are
currently involved could, conceivably, pose a threat to
national security because of this invasion of privacy "where
our phone calls are concerned.
Attachment #2
PHS
Jane
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Messrs. Horak, Vaughn and Wright
July 6, 1975
Page 2
with:
associates and I are currently involved
1) The House and Senate investigations of the
federal intelligence community, i.e domestic assassina-
tions and Watergate Tape related matters;
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2) Technical and political research and communica-
tion assistance for the National Wiretap Commission
(Title-3 Oversight);
3) Communications and business matters related
to CIA, concerning recent meetings I attended in Paris,
France, with high-level Soviet Aerospace, Trade and
Communications s officials;
4) A joint research study and military weapons
marketing project for the Department of Defense;
5) A research study project for N.A.S. A. on an
extremely advanced Top Secret Space Propulsion and
Vehicular Design System;
6)
Extensive pre-production research
pro-CIA TV-film series in Hollywood;
ries in Holl
Exclusive long-term research and development,
including projected investment costs, in the Department
of Transportations $20-billion T.F.C. network plans;
8) Research and mortgage-investment development
in a $70-in11lion office and hotel complex in downtown.
New Orleans, Louisiana;
9) Personal, legal and security responsibility
for the imminent settlement of the $50-million litigation
between Mesers. Howard Hughes and Noah Dietrich;
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July 6, 1975
Page 3
10) Current interest in the acquisition of a
major D-FW region aerospace and manufacturing concern;
11) The distinct possibility that I will be
selected by the President of the United States as the
next Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The foregoing projects, and our involvement with
them, can be verified and will be verified if the
activities of which I am complaining do not cease
immediately.
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Relative to the recent meeting in my private study
at my Dallas residence, July 2, 1975, I have reviewed my
records: and do not find a willing nor direct acknowledgment
of the R. B McMasters billing responsibility, alleged by
Mr. Horak in his letter of the same date, written on plain
watermarked stationery bearing questionable signature.
That purportedly official telephone company document claims
that I owe your company $1,041.42. I deny any responsibility
for the reason that Mr. McMasters personally effected the
installation of the phone at 3055 Leahy (243-6382), in his
now-defunct Genesis Corpora-
caused approximately $20,000 to be paid to
Mr. McMasters, privately and corporately, for his unsuccess-
ful business ventures and I have no intention of assuming
responsibility for something else I do not owe in Mr.
McMasters behalf. He and the Genesis Corporation were
personally and corporately responsible for the bills for
that phone e and I am certain your records will reflect same.
name and
tion.
as officer of the r
My records reflect that hundreds of vindictive,
disparaging and slanderous long-distance telephone calls
were placed by your company's collection operators alleging
that I did owe the bill. These calls caused me and my
associates severe personal and financial damages. I deirand:
that the mistake be corrected in writing. I will furnish.
you the list of names and addresses.
BINE
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Messrs. Horak, Vaughn and Wright
July 6, 1975
Page 4
Relative to the telephone number at 3170 Royal
Lane, 214 358-2802, I acknowledge that G. N. Rose and
Gordon Novel are one and the same person. I am certain
that you have been aware of this for many months. My
family and my attorney assure me that Gordon Novel is
the legally incorrect one. Since I have lived 37 years.
as Gordon Novel, I do not wish to have it changed in court
to suit some idiosyncrasy of your legal department.
The bills for this number are current and have been
promptly paid, in cash, on time since it was installed last
year. Your inconsistent--off again, on again--policy,
and now escalating deposit demands, are probably negotiable,
but only in accordance with the following terms:
Upon instructions from my attorneys, I am formally
demanding that your office and A.T.&T. furnish written
assurance, in affidavit form, that neither your Dallas
office nor its Columbus, Ohio, Reno, Nevada, and Washing-
ton, D. C., counterparts has at any time within the past
seven years surreptitiously intercepted or monitored by
wire any aural conversation of Gordon Novel/G. N. Rose
without the authorization of a Federal, State or Judicial
Municipality Legal Court Order, in accord with the provisions
of Title-II of the Omnibus Crime Bill of 1968.
If such legal written assurance is not forthcoming
from your office within seven (7) working days, we have
instructed our Washington, D. C., attorneys to file
appropriate federal civil actions personally against some
individual security and management officials and against
Southwestern Bell and A.T.&T.
1 further request that the outgoing call service at
214 358-2802 be temporarily suspended, but that incoming
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July 6, 1975.
Page 5
calls be allowed to accumulate on the Dictaphone
Ansaphone and GTS coupling service you recently installed
and for which I was charged.
In the event you do not wish to honor your tariff
regulations and community service responsibilities,
available to other customers, you are then requested to
suspend, until further notice from either our attorneys
or from me, the paid for service and notify all callers
including A.T.&T. executives with whom I am currently
involved, that the party (1.e. Cordon Novel/G. N. Rose)
can be reached at 214 358-5353 or 522-1323. Any other
action will be answered by injunctive litigation.
These security measures are being taken at great
inconvenience to a number of people. I am certain you
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understand by now that I am very serious about the matters.
discussed in this letter.
Sincerely,
Gordon Novel Rose
Senior Associate.
NOAH DIETRICH & ASSOCIATES
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The Washington Merry-Round WE THE WASHINGTON POST
Thursday, August 15, 1974 F7
Laser to Destroy Tapes Was Eyed
By Jack Anderson.
Former presidential aide
Charles Colson once considered
fiting a high-voltage Buck Rog-
ere-style cannon at the White
Blouse to erase the taped con-
(versations of Richard Nixon.
sultant "no encouragement."
stroy huge quantities of other Watergate committee which.
Novel, however, obviously taped material and scramble all Colson surmised, would leak it.
thought he had a mandate from computer "memories" in its Then he and Novel would reveal
Colson. He journeyed to Elipath.
the tape was fraudulent and the
Paso, Tex., and spoke with Jack One part of the scheme was to hoax would tend to discredit too
Prentice, innovative research bombard the CIA-and the re-whole case against Mr. Nizon.
and design chief for Jetco, Inc. sistible jolt of magnetism might Colson said it was true he dis-
Jetco already was marketing a blot out priceless files of Rus-scussed this idea. "Wouldn't that
Such a mission impossible metal detector using."degauss-sian and Chinese agents and be a great gag!" his statement
would have wiped out the evi-ing" principles.
other espionage and security said.
dence on the White House tapes Prentice told Novel, and con- matters.
Baker's Bombshell-Bobby
1
which led to Mr. Nixon's resig-firmed to us, that he bad built a In his report to Colson, Novel Baker, the former Senate aide
nation. Colson, however, con- prototype cannon and could (said hiding in the heavy woods who went to prison in a cele-
tends he never seriously pon-construct an operational one for near the CIA, or "degaussing" brated scandal of the early
(dered putting the scheme into $25,000 to $30,000. Prentice be-(the tapes from the tank-van 1980s, has completed more than
action.
lieved that because the tapes while they were in transport, of-half of a book that will embar
Despite this denial, Colson belonged to the President, there fered a better chance of success frass some present senators.
ima meet twice with an Ïñūns-jwould be no crime in crasing the nationlly hambarding Now & essful breiness-
trial research consultant, Gor-them if Colson, acuing for the CIA of the Wine Housman, Baker insists he's writ
ben Nevel, and discussed tue President, okayed it.
from a plane.
ing a cruel book about these
possivunty of using an experi The Jetco specialist drew up a But as Novel recalls it, he and who condemned him. Indeed,
mental "degaussing cannon" to simple plan for the "degaussing) Coison mutually decided not to the book will contain many
fire a gigantic magnetic pulse at cannon," using capacitors, a pursue the plan because of its warm anecdotes about promi-
the White House tape storage switch, a parabolic reflector danger to national security neut political figures,
room. A rough design of the ray and a special heat resistent coil. tapes and computers near the
gun, named after a magnetic The electronic artillery piece target tapes.
measurement, was even drawn could be housed in a van, or Colson scoffs at the idea that
mounted in a light plano or heli- the magnetic beam ever came
"Novel talked about driving copter.
that close to development. “I
by the White House and de- On March 21, Novel wrote Col-flaughed at it," he said. "It was a
magnetizing all the tapes," Colson that he would "forward by little bit of comic relief." But
son told us from prison through hand courier the known facts on Mr. Nixon sight have had fears
friends. "It was something that the El Paso erasure matter," the Coison would be a sucker for
he said would fire three code name for the "degausser." just such farout ideas. In the
blocks"
Shortly thereafter, the indus-transcripts, Nixon said Colson
Novel, who is also an electron-trial consultant Gere to Wash-"loves the action Colson
Baker also will point out that
ics expert, told us he was visit-lington again and hiked to one would do anything."
Sen. Carl Curtis (R-Neh.), who
ing Colson in March on an unre- of this area's best known cleFootnote: Colson and Novel saw no great wrong in President
latea legal matter when the talk tropics men, Allan Bell, presi-jalso discussed a caper to patch Nixon's conduct, lashed out
turned to the tapes.
dent of Deltor Counterintelli- R. Haldeman's voice onto a against the Democrats involved
Colson, he said, told him tapesence and Security. Bell rewave along with an actor who in the comparatively small-po-
at the White House and the CIA poid water on the mission. calf would imitate President Nixon (tatoes Baker case.
"could cause the Presiden it "iffy" and "impre" and make false confessions. The The former Senate boy wan-
jup.
But the book will charge that
Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.),
now the Senate's "Mr. Clea3."
twisted arms for political funds
when he was the Republican
Senate campaign chairman.
Baker will chide the present.
apostle of political reform, Gen
Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) for voting
consistently against reform in
times past.
"Novel mentioned its best Bell, the fake tane would be sont with a der bepes to publish his boai-
"gassing cannon" and fel-bizarre device would obliterate phoay autbouticating vote from ter the din of Watergate eier
son streed in to look in/o it.ja few layers of tape, ioavien the lan allogerly disgruntled Saret
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Colon Leals he gave the convest intach. At worst, it would dejto the Beamte
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"The NBC broadcast of June 19, 1967" put on by Walter Sheridan "will probably stand for
years as a symbol of the lengths to which some powerful outside interests will go in order
to interfere with state government."
Walter Sheridan has recently been hired by the
Democratic National Committed to head their investi-
gation of the Watergate bugging caper. In view of
the importance of this assignment, it would seem
worthwhile to examine Mr. Sheridan's performance in
pact investigations.
"Getting" Hoffa, and False Testimony
_ Walter Sheridan first came into national promi-
mence in 1961 when he spearheaded Robert Kennedy's'
drive against Jimmy Hoffa, during Robert's tenure
as Attorney General. Sheridan pursued a relentless,
no mercy shown, course of action to "get Hoffa", and
get him he did. In the course of this crusade, some
rather dubious techniques were used; which later
The Watergate Incident
On June 17 at 2:30 a.m., five men were
arrested in the offices of the Democratic
National Committee in the Watergate Hotel,
Washington, D.C. They had broken into the
office, and were found with electronic sur-
veillance devices, cameras for photographing
documents, etc: they were wearing surgical
rubber gloves. They were arrested by police.
These five men were James W. McCord, Jr.,
Bernard L. Barker, Frank Sturgis, Eugenio R.
Martinez, and Virgilio R. Gonzales.
Their connections reach to the Republican
Party, the Committee to Re-Elect the Presi-
dent, Président Richard M. Nixon, the Central
Intelligence Agency, and other persons and
organizations.
Beginning in August 1972, "Computers and
Automation" has been publishing articles on
theatergate Incident and its ramifications.
because of the threat that this incident rep-
resents to democracy in the United States,
and the importance of seeking the truth about
it and pinning down the responsibility for it.
came back to haunt Mr. Sheridan. The prime example
was the "uncovering" of a key witness against loffa,
one Grady Partin of New Orleans and Baton Rouge,
Louisiana. Partin was some years later accused by
✓ a grand jury of giving false testimony against
Hoffa.
"Getting" Garrison
Mr. Sheridan's most notable performance came in.
1967 and '68 when he was an executive producer for
NBC-TV news. Sheridan produced a one-hour NBC spe-
cial on Jim Garrison's investigation of the assassi™-
nation of President Kennedy and the trial of Clay.
Shaw for conspiracy to murder the President. The
program, broadcast on June 19, 1967, was a highly
biased, provably dishonest, personally vindictive,
attack on Garrison defending Shaw. The Shaw trial™
did not take place until February, 1969, a year and
a half later.
Arrest by Garrison and Indictment by Grand Jury
Walter Sheridan was arrested by Garrison on
∙July 7, 1967, following the NBC Special, and in-
dicted by a grand jury on two counts. The first
was attempted bribery and intimidation of a witness.
Rick Townley of station NDSU the NBC affiliate in
New Orleans, was arrested and indicted with Sheridan
on the same charges. The federal government, es-
pecially the Justice Department, made sure that Gar-
rison was never able to bring Sheridan and Townley.
to trial. The indictments are still open.
If the Sheridan trial ever does take place, the
conviction should not be too difficult. Here are
the facts, as reported by both New Orleans newspa-
pers, the Times Picayune and the States Item, in
1967 and summarized in "The Kennedy Conspiracy" by.
Paris Flammonde, Meredith Press, 1969.
Sheridan and Townley, having been assigned by
NBC to cover the Garrison-Shaw case, became person-
ally and directly involved. The indictments for
bribery, suppressing and altering evidence, and in-
terfering with the trial, did not begin to tell the
.entire story. NBC top management, Frank McGee, the
narrator of the special, and others at NBC, fully
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backed up Sheridan, until e of the lies, bribes
and fakes in the program were revealed.
Apology by NBC for Lies Told by Two "Witnesses"
Frank McGee later had to apologize on NBC for
Mies told by two of Sheridan's "witnesses" on the
special. Sheridan and Townley paid them to give
statements against Garrison. The FCC ruled that
NBC had to give Garrison equal time after Garrison
made an appeal, because the special had not been a
news program, but an NBC-Sheridan vendetta against.
Garrison NBC did give Garrison 30 minutes (the
special was one hour) to respond at a later date in
1967.
To illustrate Sheridan's and NBC's techniques in
the case, at one point the President of NBC helped
in the bribery efforts by calling Mr. Gherlock, head¨
of Equitable Life Insurance Co. in New York. Gher-
lock was asked for assurance that Perry Russo, who
worked for Equitable in Louisiana, would cooperate
with NBC on the Garrison special. Russo was the
key witness in the Shaw trial whom Sheridan and..
Townley tried to bribe.
To remind the reader about the Shaw trial, Jim
Garrison opened an investigation into the assassina-
tion of President Kennedy in late 1966. Senator
Long of Louisiana had convinced Garrison that a
econspiracy had existed. Lee Harvey Oswald's ac-
Stivities in New Orleans prior to the assassination,
#along with the strange actions of David Ferrie, on
the day of the assassination, attracted Garrison's
attention. He had not made his investigation public,
but a curious newspaper reporter named Rosemary
James broke the story after a few months of effort.
Clay Shaw's other identity, Clay Bertrand, had al-
ready been uncovered by Garrison, and his involve-
ment in the planning for the assassination had al-
ready been suspected by early 1967.
Party in David Ferrie's Apartment.
Perry Russo attended a party in David Ferrie's.
apartment where Clay Bertrand, Ferrie, someone re-
sembling Lee Harvey Oswald and others had discussed
the possibility of assassinating President Kennedy.
He became the key witness when Garrison arrested
Shaw on March 1, 1967, and a grand jury indicted
Shaw on March 22 following two hearings on March 14
and March 17 by a three judge panel and a four judge
`panel, recommending that Shaw be held for trial.
Effort to Have Russo Change His Testimony
Sheridan and Townley both made up their minds.
along with most of the news media and the Justice
Department, that Garrison had to be stopped at all.
costs. They decided to really go to work on Perry
Russo, since his testimony was all important.
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Townley tried to get Russo to change his testi-
mony at the Shaw trial to make it seem that Garrison
had hypnotized him and had then asked him leading.
questions to get Russo to testify against Shaw.
Townley and Sheridan went to Russo's house, his of-
fice, and met him at other places. They badgered
him and attempted to bribe him. They pressured and
threatened him. They used every trick in the book
to try to get him to change his testimony.
They threatened him with being discredited, made
to seem insane, and perhaps fired from his job. They
offered him a chance to work closely, for high re-
wards, with NBC in Sheridan's all-out effort to get
Garrison. Sheridan told Russo, "We're going to de-
stroy Gar
on and his case along with him." Townley
told Russo: that he could get Shaw's lawyer, Dymond,
to go easy on him at the trial, if he would alter
his testimony. lie told Russo that his employer had
promised NBC that no retaliation would be taken
against Russo if he cooperated with NBC. However,
he might be fired if he didn't cooperate."
Sheridan told Russo that NBC could set him up in
California where Russo always wanted to live, if he
helped bust up the Garrison probe. Sheridan said
NBC would pay his expenses to California and to live
there, would protect his job, would get Russo a
lawyer, and would guarantee that Garrison would
never extradite him back to Louisiana.
Gordon Novel, Worker for the CIA
Another important witness in the Shaw trial was
Gordon Novel, a bugging and electronics expert who
worked for the CIA. Garrison tried to subpoena him,
but he left New Orleans and fled to Ohio. Garrison
was never able to extradite Novel from Ohio to Loui-
siana in spite of Novel's public statements that he
knew who had killed David Ferrie. (Ferrie died mys-
teriously shortly after Garrison's probe became pub-
lic knowledge.)
Walter Sheridan told Perry Russo that NBC had :
helped Novel escape Garrison's clutches by flying
Thim out of Louisiana to McLean, Virginia (home of
the CIA). NBC paid for a lie detector test to be
administered to Novel in McLean.. The test was sup-
posed to prove that Novel was telling the truth when
he said he knew nothing about the Kennedy case.
Sheridan told Russo that NBC would do the same thing
for him that they had done for Novel, namely, make
sure that Novel would never be extradited to Louisi-
ana to testify. Since Novel never was extradited
and since Governor Rhodes of Ohio blocked his extra-
dition making Governor McKeithen of Louisiana ex-
tremely angry, it would seem that Sheridan was right!
NBC did possess a lot of clout.
Sheridan and Townley also went to work on Gordon
Novel's former wife. Marlene Mancuso. She was
another important Shaw trial witness, because of her]
knowledge about Novel's CIA activities and a bur-
glary of a munitions dump in Houma, Louisiana.
Townley called her and tried to convince her to
grant a taped interview for use on the NBC show..
He said Garrison was going to be destroyed and that
she should cooperate with NBC.
The NBC Special on June 19, 1967
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The NBC-Walter Sheridan special on June 19,
1967, titled "The JFK Conspiracy The Case of Jim
| Garrison", was packed with Sheridanese. Here are
the principal examples:
.1. A lawyer named Dean Andrews in New Orleans had
played a key role in the Shaw trial because Clay
Bertrand had telephoned him in a hospital shortly
after the assassination and asked him to represent
Lee Harvey Oswald. Andrews told so many different.
stories about Clay Bertrand that the truth was dif-
ficult to determine.
Frank McGee asked Andrews on the program about
Clay Bertrand and whether he was Clay Shaw. Andrews
said Bertrand was actually Eugene C. Davis, a bar
owner in New Orleans. Sheridan's coup quickly blew
up in his face when Davis denied the whole thing.
When the trial finally took place, Shaw was pegged
as Bertrand by a woman who saw him sign his name as
Clay Bertrand.
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Bundy Lying
Sheridan's second attempt was to attack the credi-
Sbility of Vernon Bundy, a witness for the prosecution
Acho had seen Oswald and Shaw together on the New Or-
leans lakefront (Lake Pontchartrain). Sheridan
cooked up two "witnesses" against Bandy.
NBC pre-
sented John "the Baptist" Cancler, a burglar and
Miguel Torres, also a burglar, who had been ac-
quainted with Bundy.
Sheridan paid Cancler and Torres to make state-
sments on the program. Cancler said that Bundy had
indicated to him that his story regarding Oswald
and Shaw was not true. Torres asserted that Bundy's
testimony was "an out-front lie". Cancler said he
had been approached by members of Garrison's staff
to "plant" something in Shaw's house. Torres claimed
that he had been asked (by Garrison) to testify that
Shaw had made homosexual advances toward him and
also that Shaw was Bertrand.
Frank McGee reported that NBC had discovered
Bundy was lying during his polygraph test and Gar-
rison knew it but let him testify anyway.
Cancler Sentenced to 18 Years
☐ Following the TV show, Cancler was called before
the Orleans Parish grand jury and asked to repeat
his accusations under oath. Cancler took the fifth
amendment, refusing to reiterate his TV charges. The
jury foreman immediately took Cancler before a judge
and asked him to repeat. Cancler again took the
fifth and was found guilty of contempt of court and
fined $500 or one year. Apparently Sheridan had
paid him a lot more than $500. Two weeks later
Cancler was handed a third convinction and sentenced
to eighteen years as a multiple offender.
Miguel Torres was also brought before a grand
jury and took the fifth when he was asked, "Were
the statements you made on national television on
ABC in June 1967, concerning the district attorney.
true?"
James Alcock, Garrison's assistant district at-
torney who handled the Shaw trial, said to the judge,
"Torres and Cancler just tell the television and
Walter Sheridan about it. When they have an oppor-
tunity to do something they take the fifth amendment.'
Sheridan Could Not Get Russo to "Cooperate"
3. Sheridan himself appeared on screen to discuss
Perry Russo. He could never get Russo to change.
his mind and cooperate, so Sheridan interpreted for
the audience what Russo had told him. He stated
that Russo told him that his testimony against Shaw
may be a combination of truth, fantasy and lies.
Andrew Sciambra, Garrison's assistant district
attorney who interviewed Russo, delivered a memo to
Garrison, detailing Walter Sheridan's efforts to
bribe and threaten Russo. The statements made by
Russo to Sciambra were very incriminating about
Sheridan. The net result of all Sheridan's efforts
were that Russo stuck to his story at the trial.
Fred Leemans, "Witness"
4. Sheridan's last "witness" on the show was Fred
Leemans, another bar owner (Sheridan seemed to
specialize in bar owners) and former Turkish bath
operator. Leemans said that his original statements
given to Garrison about Clay Shaw were not true and
that his psyche began to trouble him. The morality
of his action's megan to weigh upon his mind. Perhaps
a little of Sheridan's green stuff weighed even more
heavily. At any rate he recanted his claim that Clay
Shaw had come to the Turkish bath, that he (Leemans)
had associated the name Bertrand with Shaw, and that
on occasion he had been accompanied by a young
slightly-bearded man whom he called "Lee". Leemans
said on TV that Garrison had offered him $2500 for
his testimony.
The New York Times telephoned Leemans following.
his appearance for an interview. He refused to
speak about his NBC bit, conceding that he had ar-
ranged to give the Associated Press the exclusive.
story. He said. "After all, I have to get something
out of all of this.' On hearing this line, one of
Garrison's staff smiled and said, "Ah, now that's
the Fred Leemans we all recognize.w
Bribing and Attempting to Bribe Witnesses'
In addition to bribing and attempting to bribe
witnesses, Sheridan also had meetings with one of
Garrison's part-time investigators, William Gur-
vich. Garrison found out about the meetings and
did not give Gurvich all of the information he
wanted.
Jim Garrison said about Sheridan and the NBC
broadcast, "Aside from the fact that it insulted
the intelligence of every American, it was a very
clear attempt to prejudice in advance possible
jurors in the case. This program will probably
stand for years as a symbol of the lengths to
which some powerful outside interests will go in
order to interfere with state government.'
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competence in handling information using computers
and other means, but also a broad responsibility,
in a professional and engineering sense. for:
The reliability and social significance
of pertinent input data;
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significance of the data he uses, and the safety
and efficiency of the bridge he builds, for human
beings to risk their lives on.
Accordingly. Computers and Automation publishes
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but productive of thought and an improved and
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NOVEL, Gordon
NOVEL, Gordon
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NUTINI, Hugo
NUTINI, Hugo Gina
aka Hugo Nutini-Paredes
490072
Chile
1930
MUSSINI, Hugo:
No relation- Tass-5/27/67 NOVEL worked for CIA in
ship to CIA
1961, per NOVEL's attorney.
No clearance; Rude Pravo.
.00/C interest 8/29/65
1966
FBIS Moscow
North American spy of
Chilean origin.
US spy in Chile, acting as
scientist.
NUTTER, G. Warren Dr. NUTTER, Gilbert Warren 49372 Topeka,
(o&c)
Kansas;
3/10/23
Staff empl.
1951-1952;
Consultant
1952-1953
ODELL, Bruce.
ODELL, Bruce Taylor 89084
Boston,
Mass.
10/30/28
Staff empl.
broadcast,
9/23/65
Abilene, Texas
Formerly Division Chief
Reporter-News for CIA
3/28/65
FBIS, Cairo
broadcast
8/20/68 re
AMIN trial
CIA agent in Cairo, arrested
by Egyptians.
Comment: In the absence of positive identifying information, the above individual should, in most cases, only be
considered as a probable identification with the Subject of interest.
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SUBJECT: NOVEL, Gordon
(See also FURR, Lloyd B.)
(See also ARCACHA-SMITH, Sergio)
ALLEGATION:
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.
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Subject's file contains newspaper clippings dating from March
1967 when GARRISON charged him with conspiracy in connection with
a burglary of a munitions 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.
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Hoke 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 amest 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.
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DATE 24 April 1960.
TIME
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Myb, Betty Adams.
NAME
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GRADE Noncance
OFFICE NA
879-8510
INCIDENT Request for Information TIME 2010 PLACE way, Ohto
Re Gordon Novel
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION:
1. Mrs. Añena called the Agency to request employment verification of
one Gordon Novel. Questioned as to her reason for the request, Mrs.
Adams replied that Novel is a friend of her son, Frank Adams, Jr., age
27 and that she is looking out for her son. If Novel does in fact work
for this Agency dhe intends to her investigation of him, but if
he does not she will make every effort to end the friendship.
2.
A cursory check of available records showed no 1listing for Novel
and Mrs. Adems was actrises accordingly. She then provided, at some
length, a review of her efforts to check on Novel, including contact
In her investigation she has been told
with the 27 and Chio police and to stay way from him."
to have nothing to do with
She has
also learned that he was in some way connected with the "Gerrison and
semedy trial through Mr. Jerry Winer, an attorney in the trial. From
Novel's wife, Mrs. Adams was informed that Novel works for the CIA.
Hence, her call to Washington tonight.
3. Mrs. Adams was again informed that Mr. Gordon Novel is not an
employee of the Central Intelligence Agency. The call was then termin-
ated.
ACTION TAKEN:
Later checks of SPD records show that a file on Gordon Novel is
maintained on a permanent basis by SRS.
MICHAEL A. BELT
REPORTING OFFICER.
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SUBJECT: Gordon Novel
#526113
20 May 1969
1. On 20 May 1969, the Director of Security advised that
he had received a call from Mr. Bienvenu, Director of Security,
National Security Agency, regarding a possible impersonation.
by Subject. According to Mr. Bienvenu, an ex-Federal Bureau of
Investigation agent, Mr. Russel 1% Aufrance, 3256 South Union
Avenue, Alliance, Ohio, 44601, had called Mr. Mathison and
advised that a contact of his had stated that Subject had shown a
CIA credential and indicated that he was employed by the Agency.
Mr. Aufrance advised he called the National Security Agency to
bring this matter to the attention of the highest security officials
in Washington and that if anyone wished to contact him they should
call him before 5:00 p.m., this date.
2. After reviewing Subject's file and confirming that Mr.
Aufrance was an ex-Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, I briefed
the Director of Security who requested that I call Mr. Aufrance and
advise him that we were knowledgeable of Subject and that on other
occasions he had inferred he was employed by CIA. In addition, that
we intended to turn this information over to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation for investigation since the FBI had jurisdiction on such
impersonation cases.
3. I later briefed Mr. Fred J. Cassidy, FBI/Liaison, who
suggested that I advise Mr. Aufrance to report the information to
local FBI agents. In Mr. Cassidy's presence, I called Mr. Aufrance
who repeated what he had told Mr. Mathison. He also stated that
Subject's wife is now separated from him and is suing him for divorce
in Columbus, Ohio. She has stated that Subject is armed, carries a
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tear gas weapon and some kind of a .22 caliber pistol, concealed as a
fountain pen. She stated that Subject is leaving Columbus for Reno,
Nevada, where he intends to open a gambling establishment. In further
discussion with Mr. Aufrance, he indicated his source was a friend of
Subject's wife and from other statements he made, it is believed that his
source is Thomas F. Hughes, Jr., who was interviewed by the Chicago
Field Office on 18 April 1969.
4. After further discussion with Mr. Aufrance during which he
indicated he was leaving for a fishing trip in Canada and would not
return until Sunday, 25 May 1969, it was agreed that he would contact
the local Federal Bureau of Investigation and brief them regarding
Subject and that I would, meanwhile, alert FBI Headquarters/Washington,
which could follow-up with the local office.
5. I then provided Mr. Cassidy with all pertinent information
regarding Mr. Aufrance's telephone call and all information on Subject.
Mr. Cassidy will keep us advised.
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AUFRANCE, Russell L.
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INCIDENT REPORT
FROM:
Mrs. Betty Adams
8800 Fim
NAME Galaway Ohio
879-8510
INCIDENT Request for Information
Re Gordon Novel
BUILDING SECURITY BRANCH
DATE 29 April 1969
TIME
2010 hours
GRADE NonAgency
OFFICE NA
TIME
2010 hours PLACE Galaway, Ohio
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION:
1. Mrs. Adams called the Agency to request employment verification of
one Gordon Novel. Questioned as to her reason for the request, Mrs.
Adams replied that Novel is a friend of her son, Frank Adams, Jr. age
27 and that she is looking out for her son. If Novel does in fact work
for this Agency she intends to drop her investigation of him, but if
he does not she will make every effort to end the friendship.
he does not she will make effort to end the friendshi
2. A cursory check of available records showed no listing for Novel
and Mrs. Adams was advised accordingly. She then provided, at some
length, a review
with the FBI a efforts to check on Novel, including contact
police. In her investigation she has been told
to have nothing to do with Novel and to stay away from him. She has
also learned that he was in some way connected with the "Garrison and
Kennedy trial" through Mr. Jerry Winer an attorney in the trial. From
Novel's wife, Mrs. Adams was informed that Novel works for the CIA.
Hence, her call to Washington tonight.
3.
Mrs. Adams was again informed that Mr. Gordon Novel is not an
employee of the Central Intelligence Agency. The c
call was then termin-
ated.
ACTION TAKEN:
4.
Later checks of SR&CD records show that a file on Gordon Novel is
maintained on a permanent basis by SRS. The file number is 332-959.
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MEMORANDUM FOR; Headquarters
SUBJECT;
NOVEL
Gordon
Chicago Field Office
18 April 1969
(Impersonation of Agency Officer)
There is no case number. The case was generated.
by events that took place in the Chicago, Illinois area,
No special requirement was levied by Headquarters; however
it was coordinated with Headquarters.
2% At approximately 4:15 p.m. 18 March 1969, Mr.
Sam SIMPSON, Chief, Domestic Contacts Service (DCS) Field
Office in Chicago, Illinois, contacted the Chicago Field
Office and advised that Mr. Robert FAY, Special Agent with
the Chicago FBI Office, had called the DCS Office with
reference to some person by the name of "Mr. ROSE" (phonetic)
who purportedly represented himself as a CIA representative
in some telephonic conte with the office of Mr. Tom
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HUGHES, President of M. Hughes Oil & Coal Company, in
Chicago. The "Mr. ROSE" reportedly told Mr. HUGHES office
that he was
with the CIA and that it was urgent that Mr.
HUGHES come tonight to Room 551 Ambassador East Hotel,
Chicago, on an important matter. (Subsequently, Mr. HUGHES
was identified as Mr. Thomas F HUGHES, Jr., born 1926 in
Chicago; Owner and President of the above family firm; former
Owner of the Playboy Club in New Orleans, Louisiana).
Agent FAY was contacted by the Chicago Field Office and
he advised that nothing of value had been obtained by "Mr.
ROSE", therefore, the FBI had no grounds for an impersonation
case and could not officially enter the case. Agent FAY
HUGHES to refuse the
said that he had instructed Ambassador East Hotel, and
invitation to go to Room 551,
that if "Mr. ROSE" called again, that Mr. HUGHES should
contact Agent FAY. Agent FAY further advised the Chicago
Field Office that he had verified through the front desk
at the Ambassador East Hotel that a "Mr. ROSE" was a registered
guest for Room 551 and that he was from the "St. Louis
suburban area".
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3. At 2:00 p.m. the next day (19 March 1969), with
the prior approval by and coordination with Headquarters
(Mr.
Tim
HARRINGTON) Mr, Thomas F. HUGHES, Jr., previously
mentioned, was interviewed under Agency cover at the Sage's
East Restaurant, 181 East Lake Shore Drive, Chicago,
place of interview was designated by Mr. HUGHES,
East is an expensive and popular eating establishment on
Chicago's Gold Coast, a neighborhood of fashionable hotels,
apartment houses, shops, entertainment establishments, etc
Sage's
Mr HUGHES demeanor around Sage's East indicated
a great deal of familiarity with the premises and personnel.
Obviously, he is a regular patron with special privileges,
For instance, without permission, he walked into a closed-
off section of the restaurant
interview.
waiter to bring two cups of
coffee.
..
He then beckoned ad selected a table for the
5. Assistant Special Agent in Charge James E. MACKEY,
Jr. conducted the interview with Mr. HUGHES.
.
6. Mr HUGHES is about 43 years of age and about 5'8"
in height, 155/160 pounds, dark blond (or even light brown)
hair, which he wears short and combed straight down. He is
neat and trim, walks with confidence and agility, and appears
conscious of his appearance. He was dressed in a powder blue
suit, white turtle neck shirt and dark loafers. He moved.
around and talked with a smooth, confident, self-assured
manner Based upon his physical appearance, dress, speech
and personality, he could be described as a "swinger"
"jet setter" , "party guy", etc. His conversation touched
stylish and action-oriented restaurants, night clubs,
places of entertainment, Playboy Clubs, etc.
cooperative and volunteered to assist in any manner.
Operative and volunteered to assist in
:
He was very
7. Mr. HUGHES said that he is President and Owner of the
M.F, Hughes Oil and Coal Company, 3134 East 90th Street,
Chicago, a business that dates back to his grandfather. Но
said that he took the business over several years ago, upon
the death of his father, and built it into a successful,
profitable operation. Most of his time is spent on outside
sales work. He spends very little time in the office. He has
a telephone in his auto and prefers to have his office screen
the telephone calls before giving them to him to answer. The
day-to-day internal operation of business is handled by his
office staff. He believes he contributes more to his business
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by working on the outside,
In addition to his coal company, Mr. HUGIES stated
he has various other business interests in Chicago, Florida
and other parts of the United States. He is a partner in a
real estate venture in the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida area,
Mr, HUGHES claims a part-ownership of the Maryland Hotel in
Chicago,
Mr HUGHES said that he is a personal friend of Mr.
Hugh HEFNER founder and operator of the Playboy Club chain.
Mr. HUGHES said that for a few years in the early 1960's,
he was the owner of the Playboy Club in New Orleans, Louisiana,
He founded the New Orleans Playboy Club and later, disposed
of it because it was unprofitable.
10. Mr. HUGHES said he b has been estranged from his wife
for several years. She has refused to give him a divorce.
The wife lives in Chicago with the children of the marriage
Mr.
HUGHES said he has an apartment in the Carriage House,
Chicago.
and
11. Mr. HUGHES further said that he is "not perfect"
op It is no secret that he has been involved with a lot
women over a period of years. Mr. HUGHES indicated that
women seem to be attracted to him. He admitted being a
"soft touch" for people in need.
en for people in need.
12. Mr HUGHES claimed contacts with a number of
important people in politics, entertainment, business,
sports and society. He said he is a personal friend of
entertainer Frank SINATRA. Mr HUGHES claimed that
people are always calling on him for political and business
favors. These people think he can get things done
13.
Mr. HUGHES said that between 3:00 p.m. and 6:15
p.m. on 18 March 1969, his office received telephone calls
(four) from a "Mr. ROSE" on a "Mr. BARRON" calling for
"Mr. ROSE", requesting that he come to Room 551, Ambassador
East Hotel, for some urgent matter. On two of the calls, the
caller identified himself as a CIA Representative, The above
calls were taken by either his secretary (Marilyn) or his
office manager (Mr. WARD).
14.
Mr. HUGHES the &
After the last call, Mr. HUGHES said he tried to
call Agent FAY at the FBI,
but he was gone for the day.
called Room 551, above hotel, and asked
"Mr. ROSE" what the matter was all about? What was so
urgent? Was he with the Central Intelligence Agency?
Was he with the United States Government? Mr. HUGHES said
"Mr. ROSE" avoided the point blank question of whether he
was with the Central Intelligence Agency, "Mr. ROSE"
parried the direct question with the remark, "I said CIA".
Mr. HUGHES further related that "Mr. ROSE" wasn't going to admit
he was representing the Central Intelligence Agency. Then
Mr HUGHES told "Mr. ROSE" that the whole matter was so
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suspicious that he has turned it over to the FBI. The conversa-
tion was then concluded.
tion was then concluded.
a
15. Shortly thereafter, according to Mr. HUGHES (also
confirmed by Mr. FAY), a person who identified himself as
Gordon NEVILLE NEVEL OR NOVEL called the FBI Office and said
he registered in Room 551 at the Ambassador East and
hath chorego no matter involving James GARRISON
or some
cro rega que explanation.
at he
a
legal action against Playboy Magazine for defamation of character
Agent FAY was recontacted by
the above telephone call, but he was unable to
add to, or clarify the details of the call. Agent FAY said
he prepared a brief memorandum on the case and closed it
Propod brief memorandum on the case an
one
16. Mr. HUGHES said he has suspected all along that
the telephone calls were either made by, or instigated by
Gordon NEVIL, NEVILLE or NOVEL (HUGHES professed only
phonetic spelling; however, Headquarters, after an indices
check, later said. that it was probably Gordon NOVEL, who
had previously owned a bar in New Orleans and who had
previously claimed an affiliation with the Agency)
Jusly claimed an affiliation with the Age
17. Mr. HUGHES said that he has a little background on
Gordon NOVEL and it may have a bearing on the recent events
Mr HUGHES said that about three years ago, he met one Abbey
MULLIGAND a native of Tennessee, who was then working as a
bunny in the Playboy Club in Chicago. Abbey has also worked
at Playboy Clubs in New Orleans, Cincinnati, London and other
places. A few y
years ago, Abbey married NOVEL, whom she met
have
in New Orleans. Since that time, Abbey and NOVEL
made their home in the Columbus, Ohio area. They have had
a lot of fights and arguments and have been separated on
several occasions, Abbey has filed for a divorce. Presently,
Abbey is living in Columbus with her parents, the John
MULLIGANS.
18. Mr HUGHES further related that NOVEL lives by his
wits and is not to be trusted; that NOVEL engages in "private
eye" work of questionable practices; that he (NOVEL) reportedly
taps telephones, "bugs" rooms and takes photographs, all of
which are in connection with questionable activities; and that
NOVEL, in the past, according to Abbey, has claimed working
for the Agency.
19.
Mr. HUGHES further related that he has no romantic
interests, such as marriage, with Abbey and looks upon her
as a good friend. Last summer, Mr. HUGHES arranged for
Abbey to spend a few weeks in the Ft. Lauderdale area. Mr
HUGHES was there also. Mr. HUGHES said that he made elaborate
precautions to make sure that Abbey couldn't be traced.
directly from Columbus to Florida. He had Abboy fly to
Chicago and then catch another plane to Florida. Somehow,
M1, HUGHES further related, NOVEL found out about their trip
to Florida, according to Abbey.
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20. In conclusion, Mr. HUGHES said that NOVEL is a
very, very shady character who is not to be trusted.
Mr.
HUGHES has never met NOVEL. Based upon what he knows about
NOVEL, he believes NOVEL would engage in extortion, bribery,
blackmail, etc.
21.
Attached herewith is Exhibit 1, a Xerox Copy of
the registration of one Charles BROZ, party of two, in Room
551, Ambassador East Hotel, Chicago, from 15 to 18 March
1969, BROZ was registered from Apartment C, 10069 Puttington,
Affton, Missouri. (Note: There is a phonetic similarity
between "ROSE" and "BROZ")
LOSE" and "BROZ
22 The files of the Credit Bureau of St. Louis, also
serving Affton, Missouri reflected the following information
in the name of one Charles BROZ no middle name listed, whose
spouse was indicated as Beverly. He was first placed on
record in June 1956, with information updated to January 1968,
had a total of five accounts in the interim period, high credit
of $3,208, all rated as satisfactory.
of 33, 208, all rated as
"
23. In January 1968, BROZ was owner of the Sportsway
Barber Shop, 1809 Pestolozzi Street, and his wife, a
Registered Nurse, was employed at Bethesda Hospital. The
additional other addresses were on record: January 1966
1218 Iron Street; 17 October 1962, 705 Brevits Street;
June 1961, 3848-B Illinois Street; and December 1960,
3912 Illinois. No additional pertinent information was on
file
24. The records of the St. Louis Metropolitan
Police Department revealed one Charles R. BROZ 4177
Itäska Street, age 35, listed as a Superintendent, was
arrested for speeding on 15 December 1943 and fined $5.00
plus costs; he was previously detained for speeding 19
January 1941, and fined $7.00 and costs on 28 January 1941.
No other information was a matter of record.
25% The filos of the St. Louis County Police Depart-
ment and the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office, both
covering Affton, Missouri,⠀ were searched and reflected no
information in the name of Charles R. BROZ.
26. the name
26.
The files of the Missouri State Auto Registration
Office, State Headquarters, Jefferson City, Missouri,
were searched by Clarence RIPPETO, Assistant Supervisor, and
reflected no registration information in the name of Charles
R. BROZ for the year 1969. Index book records indicated that
one Charles R. BROZ, 1218 Iron Street, St. Louis, Missouri,
purchased a 1966 Mercury on 31 January 1966 and for the years
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1967 and
AG 1283.
1968, was registered with Missouri auto license
No other information was on file.
A other information was on file.
27, Captain Robert E. WESSEL, Chief, Intelligence
Division, St. Louis County Police Department, obtained the
following information from a reliable confidential informant,
employed by the County Division of the Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company: Charles R. BROZ, residing at 10069 Puttington
Drive, Apartment C, Affton (Lakeshire) Street, St. Louis County,
Missouri, 63123, has unlisted telephone number 638-1149. His
business connection is that of a partner with one Ray CAMPBELL
in the Arco Auto Electric Service, 1811 Pestolozzi Street,
St. Louis, Missouri, with telephone PR 1-8811. No additional
information was filed.
28. Records of the Dun and Bradstreet Office in Chicago
contained a file on the M. F. Hughes Oil and Coal Company,
above shown address in Chicago, Illinois. Thomas F. HUGHES,
Jr. is listed as President, The firm has 100 employees,
a net worth of $914,000, annual sales of $3,000,000 and was
founded by the family in 1900. Thomas F. HUGHES, Jr. is also
listed as the President of Heidco Coal Company, Inc. Dun &
Bradstreet records also show that in 1961, he was President
of Playboy Club of New Orleans.
29 The criminal records of the Chicago Police Department
were checked in the name of Thomas F. HUGHES and there was
no record.
30. A reliable, confidential source, who is personally
acquainted with Thomas F. HUGHES, Jr. furnished the following
observations on HUGHES; That HUGHES was born and reared in
the South Shore area of Chicago; that HUGHES inherited the
family business, Hughes Oil and Coal, and has built it into
a successful business; that HUGHES seems to have an income
sufficient to maintain a 30 foot boat, patronize the smart
and oxpensive restaurants and night clubs, live in an
expensive apartment and dress in a s stylish fashion; and
that HUGHES has a reputation for "liking the ladies" and
is a steady patron of the Playboy Club and other night
spots. 12 HUGHES is regarded as a "man about town" who enter-
tains frequently around the night club circuit. His tastes
are expensive. The confidential source further related
that HUGHES may have some effeminate mannerisms, but nothing
derogatory was known in that regard. The confidential source
further related that he has always wondered about the source
of HUGHES money.
HUGHES has various business investments,
including some apartment buildings and an interest in the
Maryland Hotel. The source pointed out that the Maryland
Hotel has always been identified as having ownership in the
Chicago syndicate. The source speculated that HUGHES may be
a front man or have some support from the Syndicate; however
he (confidential source) has never known HUGHES to be involved
in any Syndicate operations or activities.
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31. The Chicago Flold Office did not attempt to further
develop the various leads in Chicago, Columbus, New Orleans,
etc. in accordance with Headquarters instructions.
32.
The Chicago Field Office is considering the case
closed and RUC
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ROOM NUMBER
ROOM RATE
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MR CHARLES BROZ
APT C
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551
ROOM NUMBER
ROOM RATE
777
WEST
MR CHARLES BROZ
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27 February 1969
NEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT:
Contacts with Representatives of Public Media
Listed below is a summary of contacts with representatives
of public media reported by Agency personnel for 26 February 1969,
Media Representative
Remarks
Jess Cook
TIME magazine
Agency Contact
Mr. Goodwin
Mr. Cook was briefed
Vietnam by George Carver
Mr. Goodwin
Gordon Novel
Columbus, Ohio
Kenneth Gilmore
READER'S DIGEST.
Peter Grose
Mr. Novel asked if he could
have an affidavit stating
that he had never been
employed by CIA. Mr. Goodwin
said he would contact our
legal people and ask that
someone phone Mr. Novel.
Mr. Novelvo
Mr. Goodwin Mr. Gilmore said that Dave
Mr. Goodwin
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Phillips had mentioned the
possibility of a rundown on
the Cuban episode (Cubans
who escaped through Quanta-
namo). Their man, Bill
Shulz, has returned after
talking to several people
and he would like to talk
to Dave. Mr. Goodwin said.
he would be in touch.
Mr. Grose asked the chances
for a Cairo and general Arab
world background briefing
for Raymond Anderson who has
been in Moscow and who will
leave for Cairo in a week or
two. Mr. Anderson will be in
Washington tomorrow afternoon.
and Friday. Mr. Goodwin con-
firmed a briefing for 28 Feb,
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SUBJECT.
CLASSIFICATION
SECRET
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
DATE
13 November 1968
FILE NUMBER
526 113
NOVEL, Gordon
According to FBI liaison check through Mr. Cregar, 11/13/68,
Gordon Duane NOVEL (fugitive witness in Garrison's probe of the
assassination of President Kennedy) was born 2/7/38, New Orleans,
Louisiana.
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FORM
Appraisal Section
7-62 1954
CLASSIFICATION
SIGNATURE
Maxine Casebolt
GROUP 1
EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC
DOWNGRADING AND
DECLASSIFICATION
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SUBJECT: MAY, Hoke Sed th
SECRET
15 August 1968
Subject was granted a Covert Security Approval on 22 April 1958 for
unwitting use with Project FJUNDULGE. Bubject was not directly employed
by FJINDULGE but was to be used in connection with his position with
private firm which handled work for the Project. At the time of the
clearance Subject was employed by Tobias and Company, a public relatims
firm in Charleston, South Carolina.
A newspaper clipping from the New Orleans STATES ITEM for 26 May 1967
reported how a letter written by fugitive witness Cortion NOVEL (GARRISON
investigation into the assassinatie of former President KNEDY came
into the hands of Hoke MAY, STATES-ITEM reporter. Cow of is clipping
is attached.
Subject was born 11 April 1930 in De Kalb County, Georgia.
attended the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, September-December
1947 and again from March-June 1968 but withdrew because of poor scholarship
He was employed as an office boy in the news department of the NEW YORK TIMES
in New York City from October 1948 to March 1949. Other employments are as
follows SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS, Savannah, Georgia from March 1949 to Januar
NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE, Atlanta, Georgia, August 1950 to October
ſarietta, Georgia (as publicist), October
1952 Subject was politics
1950
1951;
1951 to Apr
manager
from Georgia.
Aircraft Corp
1952. From
Barter JOHE
om March 1952 to
mecessful campaign for U. S. Congr
cember 1953 Subject van employed by
the ANDERSON INDEPENDENT, Anderson, South Carolina; December 1953 to
December 1957, THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, Charlotte, North Carolina. He wan
"Big Story Award" while
Subject is the grandson former Georgia governor and U. §. Senator,
Hoke MAY
GROUP 1
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FRIDAY
OLLOWS DEVIOUS PATH
Letter by Novel
Adds to Mystery
A letter written by "fugitive witness“ Gordon 'Novel added
a new, cloak-mil-dagger twist today to the Kennedy assassina.
Hon probo,
Attorney Steven Plotkin said Novel actually wrote the
coinmmicaljon. Further, he told his client war working for
the Central Intelligence Agen-
There in 1961.
Tut Novel called the letter
a trapsel for Dist. Atty."
Jin Garrison who is a
tempting to bring Novel back
to New Orleans for question-
Ing.
WHATEVER THE authen-
ficity of the document, the
circumstances of its discovery
read like a chapter in who
:done-it.
The letter camo into the
hands of States-Item reporter
Toke
This is how It
happen
Who lettor turned up when
two girls wert doing their
spring, houseclenning. It wan
well hidden in the fugitivo wit
ness French Quarter opart
ment:
80-WELL JUDDEN, in fact,
that a team of Federal Bu
reau of Investigation: Agents
and officers from Garrison's
Investigative" squad inicaed it
when they scorched the
rooms after Novel left town.
in March
The girl, who rented the
"Novel impartiment, after his do-
pailure, found it during w
thorough hatinecleaning and
refurballing nedsion.
..One of Hiem turned it over
to her boyfriend. Ho, in
turn, showed At to his profes-
or a New Orleans univers
sily
The professor is a friend of
Alay's.
7
THE LETTER was' ad-
dreased to a Mr. Weiss, and
probably was written in lata
January or early, Kebruary of
this year, judging by the
elino usijuença; It dougybag.
When copy was fent 15
him Plotkin reviewed its
entents, spoke to his client
and told the States-Item Nov-
el had drafted the letter:
He said, "Everything in the
letter as far as Novel is con-
cerned is actually the truth."
The contents of the missive
are compounded of cryptic
references, code names and
a plea for Weiss to gel Novel
“out of this mess" by an un-
specified date in March of
1067
THE LETTER appears to
be a draft which later might
bo recopiod or typed. There
is no indication It was ever
miled, however, and Plotkin
aid he does not know wheth
er the draft was sent ("to the
addressee."
7. Presumably, Weiss is con-
nected with the CIA:
Novel departed New Or
leans about mid-March after
receiving a subpena to testi-
fyin Garrison's. Kennedy
death plot investigation.
went to McLean, Va., the
headquarters of the CIA.
He
HE WAS MET thoroby n
former official of the Justice
Department who now, works.
for one of the radio-television
☐ networks
The 29-year-old former bar
owner took a lie detector test
at McLean and ducked under
cover for another few days,
a time when he was reported
to be in Montreal.
AN INDEPENDENT hand.
writing expert says the letter
is in Novel's handwriting.
The expert, Gilbert, Fortier of
New Orleans, compared the
penciled letter with other
samples of Novel's writing
and printing.
i
"It is my conclusion that
the same person who wrote:
the handwriting specimens.
also wrote the draft to Mr.
Weiss," Fortier asserted..
He said he checked espe
clally for the possibility the
letter might be a forgery but
concluded it was not prob,i
able,
+
"It was written too caidly
and too freely to have been
forged," Fortier sald.
THE LETTER to Weiss be-
gins:
"This letter is to inform
you that District (Attorney)
Jim Garrison has subpenaed
myself and an associate to
་
of Miami a CIA front
Logmkaken which recibulled
Mors and other Qubaj person
el for the Bay of Plgic In
youlon in 1901).
"WE HAVE NO current com
Mac wailable to inform, of
This situation, the teller com
tinues. So took the lib-
erty of writing you direct and
apprising you of current sit
tition expecting you to
forward this rough appro
priate channel
Que connection and activ-
ity of Hiut, period" involved
Individualy presently
about to be Indicted a cop
apirators in Mr. Gael's
investigation
"We have temporarily i
avoided ong subpena not fo
reveal Double-Chek activities
or associate them with this
mess. We want out of this
thing before Thursday 3/ 757.
Our attorneys have been told.
to expect another subpena to
appear and testify on this
matter. The Fifth Amendment
and/or immunity (and) legal
tactics will not suffice,"
“MR. GARRISON in pos-
portion
Bastionations
of Thin
award of "Double Chak'a”-in-
volvement to Bils matter butli
has strong stelom, I have
been questioned extensively.
_ by local FEI recently as 10)
whether or not I was involved.
with Double Chok's parent
holding corporation during the
time. My reply on five queries
was negative.
:
Bureau unaware of Double-
Chek association in this mat-
are in possession of completon
sealed files containing all in
formation concerning muttore
testify before his Grand Juryter. Our attorneys and others
on matters which may be
classified TOP SECRET. Ac
tons of individuals connected
with DOUBLE-CHICK COTT
PORATION Mam tiral
puarter of 1901)
☐ (The authoritativo book,
"The Invisible Government,"
Identified Double-Chck Corp.
Ilis next appearance was caus
at Gahanna, Ohio, a Colum-
bus suburb where he was ar-
rested April 1 on a warrant
from Garrison who charged
hiin with conspiracy to: bur
glariza numitions durpent
Houma in 1991.24 225
States-tem
2c. lua
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"In event of our andden des
parture, either accidental or
euthurwlso, they are instructed
to simultaneoualy frenu
same for pubile Scruting in
different areas.
counter
"APPROPRIATE
action relative to Garrison's
inquisition concerning us may
best be handled through mili-
tary channels vis (a) yis
.D.I.A. man. Garrison is
presently colon in Louisiana
Army National Guard and has
ready reservo status, Con-
tách miny be had through our
'alionys of record. "Plotkin,
Alvinez, Saple."
Plotin confirmed that ho
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Security Research Staff/os
SUBJECT:
GUGAS, Chris #0&C 39094
(GARRISON Investigation)
The attached summary on Subject was prepared for CI/R&A per their
request of 28 June 1968. Because of its contents, it may be of interest
to the D/OS. These undesirables all seem to make each other's scquaintance
in some way or other.
Attachment as stated
Sarah K. Hall
SRS/08
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GRUP 1
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downgrading and
declassification
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SUBJECT: GUGAS, Chris
14 August 1968
Subject is identified as a California investigator who administered
polygraph test to Edgar Eugene BRADLEY who has been charged with conspiracy.
by GARRISON.
Ɛubject was born 12 August 1921 at Omaha, Nebraska. He is a former
Agency employee who EOD in October 1949 as a GS-9 Intelligence Officer.
Subject resigned his staff status in February 1951 and became a staff
agent with Project ENDOMORPH] in Turkey from March 1951 until July 1952.
(His wife Anne Claudia GUGAS nee SETARO was granted a covert security clearance
in February 1952 for use in a clerical capacity in the Middle East.)
In his assignment with Project ENDOMORPH in Turkey, Subject was a
source of constant embarrassment in his contacts with Turkish (police] 8
officials. He was boastful, indiscreet, lacking in sound judgment, knew
little or nothing in the fields in which he was self-professedly an expert
and was guilty of security breaches in failing to maintain his cover.
In one incident he made recommendations of police reorganizations to be
8
made by province governors in Turkey; whereas, in Turkey, the Police
Department is a national organization and not subject to the dictates of
the province governors. This caused much ill will and friction with the
Turkish police.
Subject professed to be an expert in his knowledge of the polygraph
machine and claimed he had two years' experience with the Los Angeles :
Police Department prior to his employment with the Agency. However, it
was developed that instead of this claimed experience, he had actually
spent one or two weeks in a detective school connected with the Los Angeles
Police Department where he received below average grades.
by
In October 1952 he approached an Agency employee regarding a new
technical equipment and this conversation led to the disclosure
ct that he was employed by the Agency in a covert capacity; that
he was teaching lie detection techniques to foreign police departments
without being authorized or competent to do so. Subject was briefed in
December 1952 with stress placed on the importance of living up to his
security responsibilities and exercising utmost precaution in protecting
the covert interests of the Agency.
In spite of the strong warnings given him in this interview, Subject
again became involved in an incident of official embarrassment to the Agency.
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In March 1953 he misrepresented himself as a polygraph operator with the
"State Department Secret Police". This misrepresentation was made at a
time when the Department of State was not authorized to have a polygraph
machine and Congressional legislation was pending at the time regarding
such authorization. As a result of this misrepresentation, Subject was
afforded another security interview in March 1953. He explained that
his cover company sold equipment to foreign countries through the Mutual
Aid Program and supplied consultant services to the State Department but
Subject denied that he ever represented himself as a State Department
polygraph operator. After the security interview Subject was also assessed
by an Agency psychologist (March 1953) and was found to be egotistical,
emotionally unstable, possessed of a need to build himself up in the
eyes of others and gave either exaggerated or completely erroneous
information as to his past positions. His intelligence quotient was found
to be comparatively low in relation to those of other Agency employees.
In April 1953 termination of his employment was recommended.
Subject rosigned 29 April 1953 "to accept a position in California.
Washington climate is not agreeable to his family.
"
In April 1964 Mr. J. Kirk BAREFOOT, Director of Security, McKesson
and Robbins, Skokie, Illinois, informed the Agency he had been a witness
to unauthorized disclosures of classified information made by a group in
a cocktail lounge in Omaha, Nebraska. The individual making the disclosures
1 about ENDOMORPH activities abroad under Agency sponsorship was identified
as Leonard HARRELSON. Subject, who was then Director of Public Safety
for the City of Omaha, Nebraska, was one of the group and it was believed
that he was responsible for supplying the classified information to HARRELSON
about /ENDOMORPH activities.
Leonard HARRELSON is a private investigator specializing in hypnotism |
and the use of the polygraph machine. In 1964 he was employed by the Keeler
Polygraph Company in Chicago, Illinois. In 1954 HARRELSON was in partnership
with Lloyd B. FURR in a private detective agency known as the American
Bureau of Investigation, Tower Building, Washington, D. C. Lloyd B. FURR
is the polygraph operator who gave a lie detector test to Gordon NOVEL,
hostile witness subpoenaed by GARRISON. The test received newspaper publicity.
as being given at "McLean, Va." in March 1967. (Summary on FURR attached).
HARRELSON 18 believed to be a person of poor morals. He was given
a medical discharge from the Army as a psychoneurotic in 1949 and had been
court-martialed twice for impersonating non-commissioned officers of a
rank higher than he possessed. In his business partnership with FURR,
HARRELSON Would misrepresent himself as being with the FBI by covering the
word "American" when presenting his credentials and just showing "Bureau
of Investigation".
Incidentally, the informant, J. Kirk BAREFOOT mentioned above, was
disapproved for Agency employment in 1951 because of falsification of his PHS,
and questionable maturity, judgment, discretion and honesty.
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wlygraphed by Lloyd FURR on Carrison's Charges.
one NOVEL, already a fugitive witness in the
Carrison inquiry, is reported in the Washington press of 27
es having been polygraphed the previous day on the
case under investigation by Garrison. According to the press
reports, HOVEL submitted to a polygraph exainination
conductell at McLean, Virginia by Lloyd FURR. In statements
to the pream, FRR indicated there was no indication of
deception to NOVEL'a charges that Garrison's came in a
Trand
Lloyd.
BR's Kelationship to Richard L. BAST and REDEX.
Lloyd PR former District of Columbia policeman and now
a private detective, is a self-proclaimed polygraph "expert"
and squad device specialist. He has received publicity in the
past for planting sound devices for the late Fulton Lewis, Jr.
in the ft. Mary's County vice case in 1953 and in 1958 when he
afacovgred listening devices being used against Bernard Goldfine.
In 1964. Information was received that a Washington, D. G.
HU/PLX, operated by FURR and Richard L. BAST. Was
attempting to sell electronic equipment to Communist China via
an agent in dong Kong. (TSD had unclassified contact with
€ /RR in 1962 to soc equipment offered for sale by FURR.)
Richard,
BAST and REDEX.
Kicaar.. BAST, a Washington, D. C. private detective, gained
noteriéty in 1965 by turning up a missing witness, previously
uniocated by the Department of Justice, in connection with tho
Lobby Baker case, He is known to operate at leant four
enterprises; (1) CAPITAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, a
private detective agency; 2) REDEX VIETNAM, INC., a firin
which insports à variety of commodities ranging from liquor to
automobiles into South Vietnam, including, of late, U.S.-recruited
go-wirls for a Saigon nightclub he is planning; 3) REDEX
CORI a firm, which selle almost anything to anybody abroad,
Sather 1 ☐ South Vietnani; and 4). CONSOLIDATED ARMAMENTS,
rie which sells small arms to foreign governments and
private sudividuals abroad. BAST also produces and distributen
Judio and counteraudio devices in the U. E an!
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NAST, described as "unscrupulous and untrust
in known to have attempted to contract with another
private tective/for planting a remote-controlled bomb in the
headpheters of the Haiti Secret Police, and has been reported.
to have undertaken similar extreme assignments for exila
groups (cota, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. (Based on
deropatury information on file, DCS, in March 1967, decided
against previously contemplated contact with BAST as a
source of Information on Asta.)
BAST, AEDEN, and William W. TURNER of RAMPARTS
With W TURNER."
da Stark han provided information that during January 1967,
who identified himself as a free-lante
writer, visited the offices of the Asia Foundation, requesting
Anformation for a magazine article. lle stated that he had
Teen asked by Col Stern of New York to gather information for
an article in the New York Times. During his visit, however,
it came 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 explainedho had to have new cards printed. TURNER,
reportedly Momissed from the FBI in 1961, is noted to havi
as article in the November 1966 tasue of HAMPARTS
which he describos alleged wiretapping, sur.
itions entry, etc., performed by him while with the FBI.
So who he claimed to represent, is assistant
waing editor of RAMPARTS Magazine,
tur of
Role of FÜRR and BAST in CIA Meeting of Exile.
(The doregoing has attempted to detail the contact of NOVEL
with BR6. FURR's connection with BAST, and a possible
collodion between BAST'a organization and RAMPARTS.
The following indicates the only CIA involvement in the chain
sight be exploited in subsequent attempts to link CLA
the fair in question.)
to the
3
rit-1963, Robert E. Owen] then Chief, WE/3 and
tation, directed a memorandum to the Chief,
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W176 in which he documented a conversation he had on
27 April 1962, with Raymond CASSAGNOL, “an ar
anti-Duvalier:
leopaiti. In the memorandum he relates that the
conversation took place in the home of Richard L. BAST
et through a neighbor, Lloyd FURR.
Ben find you through a net
ย
lorandum relates CASSAGNOL's background, family
political stance, etc. Reported as significant by wea]is a 3
staleinent by BAST that the following week BAST would be
sensing a shipload of arms to a CASSAGNOL-affiliated group
in the Dominican Republic.3 Owen noted: "Raymond
CADANOL given appearance of thinking well of Richard
51. According to CASSAGNOL, his brother, Jacques,
also know BAST and respects him. Thus BAST. In spite of
cortain personal shortcomings from the intelligence standpoint,
doen eepresent an established channel to at least one segment
of the Paltian opposition to Duvaller. Since according to his
Own state out, BAST is supplying arms to CASSAGNOL'a
groups, further transactions of this type via BAST presumably
would not be difficult to arrange. He also provided a detailed
foformation on what he learned of RAST, noting that DAST had
Descloned Dominican distrust of State and AID and the fact that
Ola doble crossed them" (the Dominicans).
"
3
An FBI report on BAST dated 19 June 1963 reports that (won)
Torin Service Reserve Officer, USDS" (his cover) had.
reburigu, 16 May 1963 his attendance at dinner at BAST'a home
on 27 April 1963.3 Ewen told of his meeting with CASSAGNOL,
BAST's intention to sell arms to the Dominican Republic and
odles, etc. (o also reports that on 7 May 1960. EAST
Naked to perform sore translation work. The translation,
The stato, related to MAST giving a power of attorney to one
Luis
O Martinor of the Dominican Republic to prepare
tion for legal establishment of REDEX CORPORATION,
4 DI; branch of BAST's firm. According to Owen, 3
The stock was to be held by the head of the on National
Secuzing Agency, the head of the DR secret police, and an
indivual well connected with Dominican Republic police and
40
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intelligence groupe. BAST is also noted to have told Owen)] 3
bf an offer HAST had made to "bug" the office of the Dominican
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State for the Armed Forces on belialf of Juan
Hooch ASI did not indicate to Ⓒwen] If had performed
the job.
(There
3萬
no record of a clearance having been issued for
utilisation of Richard L. BAST or REDEX. )
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ODECRET
15 January 1968
DLTY. Magar Eligene
(ee cleo PADLEY, Leslie forman)
ILEGATION:
Agrigene BRADLEY, field
representative for an Eastern.
radio evangalla
me arrested on
Carl MCINTIRE,
a 1967 on a
Sharge by GASTON of being a
conspirator in a plot to essassinate
President KENNEDY.
SOURCE:
News media articles or
24, 26, 25 Dec 1967
and an 62.
CIA CONNECTION:
None. Personnel records
reveal there was an applicant
by the same name as subest but
the file was destroyed in Dac
1966 as it was a yra is. Subject's
employer, Carl MeinTIRE was approved
for contect use in Nov 1954 but
according to Contacts Office,
never used by them as he was re
ported to be unreliable.
OS INDICE
Negativ
is eripl
Ject.
Carl McINTIRE, was approved (caution) for contact use
on 22 November 14. However, according to Domestic Contacts Ortice, ha
was not used them as he was reported to be unreliable. His ile reflecte
that he is an Rightist. He spoke on "How Commmion is Uning the
Churches" in H
On 30 April 1954
en articlewood, California on 14 December 1954.
he New York Herald Tribune quoted him as saying "the seriousnene
of Communiam in the churchesis for greater than we realize" TIME magazine
for 16 May 194 identified him as the founder and head of the unnll American
Council of Chien Churches which it described as "the farthest tip" of
the right
American Protestantism. The LUTHERAN magazine for
-30 Decemb¨¨
27 stated that the Hevised Standard Version of
has beente of inceusent attack by Carl McINTIRE and
Century Reformtion Houp" broadcasts.
Bible
"Twentieth
DETAILS
Subjekt zs alleged that his arrest by GARRISON is a case of mistaken
NUM PALIEK mégazine for 8 January 1963 reported that it seemed
used but GISON had him mixed up with two other men. (One
identity.
possible
1
anti-dostro petivities.
who chanced
e pilot named BRADLEY who was once Jelled in Cuba for
The other, an ex-cou who used the alla BRADLEY and
cuted on a bad-check charge in Dallas on 2 venter
CHCUP 1
Excluded from: automatic
downgrading and
Declassics.
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HDQS
SUBJECT
:
High
2/26
Mrs Hall
Washington Field Office
21 February 1968.
(Information concerning New Orleans probe--
Kennedy assassination)
NOVEL,
GORDON
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.
Cabe
OHN D. NOBLE, Jr.
Special Agent in Charge
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HUMAN EVENTS.
March 1968
Garrison's 'Deseless 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 assassina-
tion, swore that the entire "plot" was a figment of
the D.A.'s imagination. He testified in an Ohio'
extradiction 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.
1
• Another defendant, Edgar Eugene Bradley, has
been confused by Garrison with second" Edgar
Bradley, an anti-Castro pilot. But Gurvich said in
vestigation indicated that neither Bradley played any
part in the assassination,
• Garrison once ordered Gurvich to arrest, hand-
cuff and assault two NBC newsmen, Walter Sheridan
and Richard Townley, who had expressed skepticism
of the Garrison probe.
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NEW ORLEANS, LA..
STATES-ITEN
FEB 22 1968
E-137,843
Novel 'Tired
Fighting,' Will
Return to N.O.
Gordon Novel, long-sought
Avitness in the Kennedy assas
sination probe, says he will re-
turn to New Orleans...
Novel, a former nightclub
owner, left the city abruptly:
last year when District Attor-
ney Jim Garrison sought to
question him. But he said yes-
terday in Columbus, Ohio, he
is "tired of fighting" and will
appear before the grand jury
here March 7 and 8.
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 tele
vision reporter, the DA was
quoted as saying "the next U.S.
President who tries to put the
brakes on the war machine".
HOWEVER, Novel said
knows nothing he can tell the
jury in connection with Garri-will also be slain.
son's allegation that the slay-
ing of President John F. Ken-
nedy was otted in New Or-
leans.
"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 confer-
ence 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 fed-
eral government here before the
assassination. Novel, Garrison
has claimed, worked for the
Central Intelligence Agency.
Thornley, Garrison said yes-
terday, 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 dur-
ing 1963.
Garrison was quoted on The
Netherlands Television Founda-
tion by Willem Oltmans as say
ing Kennedy was killed by "ele.
ments" of the CIA and the
organization then tried to casti
suspicion on others,
"This manner of organizing
a murder is standard proce
dure 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
Johnson knew of the CIA's al-
assumed President Lyndon B.
leged involvement because the
Warren Commission was com-
prised of persons Garrison saldį
were favorable to the CIA...
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allow me to testify to his fraud ing to obstruct justice in
and his involvement on one, or
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on his truth serum or on his
hypnosis before his grand jury.
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Louisiana he may find me far CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGR
more cooperative, and I don't
mean a duel with words.".
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in Louisiana on matters which
may have occurred before
their entrance into the state
to comply with the subpena
order
Dulles now lives in New York
and Novel has been residing in
Columbus, Ohio, since fleeing
nts Louisiana last year,
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that he was an associate of
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It further says that Novel
that has associated with Edgar
was Eugene Bradley of North Hol-
while lywood, Californiay the second
living man, along with re-
He tired New Orleans business-
son as be man Clay L Shaw, to be
alleged conspira-charged by Garrison with
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In his statement to The Times-
"Gordon Novel, by his own
Picayune, Novel outlined his po- public admissions, sold his busi-
sition on Garrison's latest move
The text?
Nov
ness and left the city to
avoid not only the aforede-
scribed subpena (of March 17,
mary
Orleans was,
1967) but also a new subpena
electronic in-r
which he knew had been issued
but not served, continued the
manufac
request.
a night
merely a
City of New
the
the
Subsequent to the issuance
of the warrant (for his arrest
as a material witness), Gordon
Novel disguised himself in the
clothing of a member of a par-
ticular religious
order and by
stealth and furtiveness returne
to the state of Louisiana and
his auotmobile.
ersonal stereo a removed his
monaural tape library is exten-
pay for
losses'
year
as a figure in
for both Dulles
Issued through
Crimmal District
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office claimed
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substantial re-
Lee 
Harvey Oswald
and
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NEW ORLEANS STATES-ITEM
New Orleans, La.
16 February 1968
326113
Dulles Called in Probe
The district attorney's office today issued a grand jury
subpena for Allen M. Dulles former director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, to appear before the jury March 7
and 8 in connection with the probe of the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy.
"A new subpena also was issued today for Gordon Novel,
former New Orleans nightclub owner. Previous efforts to
get Novel back to New Orleans to testify have been un-
successful.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY JIM GARRISON said his office
"has succeeded in identifying the assassination of President.
Kennedy as an operation conducted by elements of the
CIA," and said both Dulles and Novel were needed to
testify about CIA activities.
Both subpenas were issued through Criminal District
Judge Matthew S. Braniff.
The request for the Dulles subpena alleges that Dulles
was CIA director until Sept. 27, 1961, and as such "would
have pertinent knowledge as to substantial reports that
Lee Harvey Oswald was an agent and-or an employe of
the CIA."
THE DOCUMENT SAID POSSIBLE information relative
CIA knowledge or contact with Oswald (named by the
Warren Commission as the sole slayer of the President) was
suppressed in certain commission documents.
It charges that while Dulles headed the CIA, the organ-
ization negotiated with a New Orleans firm for the purchase
of trucks and vehicles to use in the CIA-sponsored Bay of
Pigs invasion of Cuba and used the name of Lee Harvey
Oswald, who was at that time in Russia.
THE SUBPENA REQUEST QUOTED a copyrighted story
in the States-Item April 25, 1967, as making public Novel's
claim to have been employed by the CIA during Dulles'
tenure as chief. "Gordon Novel fled the state to avoid
testifying and sought to enlist the aid of the CIA in pre-
venting his return," the document said.
The request said "David W. Ferrie, who has been named
in an indictment as a conspirator to the murder of John F.
Kennedy, was an employe of the CIA at a time when Allen
Dulles was the head of the CIA. Among other things, he was
a flying instructor in Guatemala prior to the abortive Bay
of Pigs invasion.'
Dulles was never called be-
fore the Warren Commission,-
the document said.
The document said it was is-
sued for the purpose of being.
presented to a judge in New
York, "where said Allen W.
Dulles now is, upon proceed-
ings to compel said Allen W.
Dulles to attend and testi-
fy.
"
Both the Dulles and Novel
subpena requests contain pro-
visions granting the men im-
munity from arrest and
process service, while in Lou-
isiana on matters which arose
prior to their entrance into
the state to answer the sub-
penas.
IN THE PAST, Garrison has
refused to grant Novel such
immunity. Novel has said he
would be willing to return if
it were granted.
The Novel subpena request.
says Novel now lives in Co-
lumbus, Ohio.
It alleges that Novel "by
his own admission in public
statements is affiliated with
the CIA."
_ It further alleges that Novel
"has been established to be
a frequent visitor of and as-
sociate of attorney Dean A:
Andrews who has been con-
victed of perjury in connec-
tion with his testimony rela-..
tive to the conspiracy to mur-
der John F. Kennedy."
ALSO, IT says he was an
associate of Ferrie in connec-
tion with CIA activities.
"Information has been giv-
en to the DA's office which
located Novel at No Name
Key in Florida where a num-
ber of CIA employes were
training for an invasion of
Cuba," the request said.
It also says Novel has been
identified by a witness as a
frequent visitor of Edgar Eu
gene Bradley in North Holly-
Wood, Cafft. Bradley has been
charged in Orleans Parish as
a conspirator in the Kennedy
slaying.
Novel, the request says, has
been identified by various wit-
nesses as having been in vari-
ous places in Dallas in 1963
which are under investigation
by the DA's office.
"Gordon Novel has informa-
tion on gun-running activities.
involving Clay L. Shaw who
has been indicted by the Or-
leans Parish Grand Jury as
a conspirator to the murder
of John F. Kennedy, and Jack
Ruby, whom it is commonly.
accepted is the slayer of Lec
Harvey Oswald," the docu-
ment says.
IT SAYS Steven Plotkin,
Novel's attorney, when-press-
ed for information relativ to
the gun-running activities as-
serted the attorney-client priv-.
ilege and named Gordon
Novel as the client involved.
The document requests that
Novel be taken into imme-
diate custody and delivered to.
an officer of the state of Loui-
siana to assure his attend-
ance.
It says Novel was sub-
penaed to appear before the
grand jury March 17, 1967,
and adds:
"Gordon Novel, by his own.
public admissions, sold his
business on the weekend and
left the city to avoid not only:
the aforedescribed subpena
but also a new subpena which
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he knew had a issued but
not served."
It says Novel was charged
as a material witness and a
warrant issued for his arrest,
and goes on:
““SUBSEQUENT to the is-
suance of the warrant, Gordon.
Novel disguised himself in the
clothing of a member of a
particular religious order and
by stealth and furtiveness re-
turned to the state of Loui-
siana and removed his auto-
mobile.
"Subsequent to his having
fled Louisiana, Gordon Novel
traveled in secret to various
places in the U.S. in the com-
pany of a member of a na-
tional news medium who aid-
ed and abetted Novel in his
flight. Further, Novel has
sought the aid of govern-
mental agencies, particularly
the CIA, to prevent his return
6 FEB 1968
to New Orleans."
Garrison, in a statement ac-
said. Dulles was head of the
companying 
the subpenas,
niques were developed.
CIA 
when its present tech-
"These techniques, although
it is not generally known, have.
included the covert: penetra-
tion of much of the fabric of
schools, organizations of
American life 
including
many types, news agencies
and even churches," Garrison
said.
The DA said witnesses fa-
miliar with the CIA's opera-
tions in a "geographical cor-
Texas and Louisiana, east-
ridor" from 
California through
ward 
to Florida are particu-
larly important because "this
office has succeeded in iden-
tifying the assassination of
President Kennedy as an op-
eration conducted by ele-
ments of the CIA."
HE SAID virtually every
|_ key witness, defendant and
potential defendant in the case
has turned out to be original-
ly from that "geographic
strip."
Garrison said the Warren
Commission was formed to
"conceal the involvement of
the CIA in the assassination.".
The commission members, he
said, "appear to have par-
ticipated in this tableau on
the ground that ‘national se-
curity' would be jeopardized
if the truth were known by
the people of this country."
Other evidence which pos-
sibly would have led to dis-
covery of CIA involvement,
'Garrison said "was simply
destroyed outright or never
reported-such as the finding
of bullets in Dealey Plaza.
immediately after the assas-
sination.".
SOME CIA employes, he
I said, were "accidentally" ar-
rested at the scene and later
released "without undue at-
·tention.".
He said his office
has now identified the CIA
employes involved and “is en-
gaged in constructing cases
against them.
He concluded:
"This office intends to dem-
onstrate
that the CIA
made a mistake in using Or-
leans Parish as a staging
area for the assassination and
I that the federal government
has made an equally bad mis-
take in attempting to conceal
this fact and in attempting
to obstruct justice in Orleans
Parish."
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SUBJECT: NOVEL, Gordon
(Bee also FURR, Lloyd B.)
8 February 1968
(See also ARCACHA-SMITH, Sergio)
ALLEGATION:
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 ARCHICHA SMITH, NOVEL
claimed this was a CIA
operation but later hia
ttorney denied the st
SOURCE!
Numerous news items,
latest atá in October 1967.
08 INDICES RESULTS)
CIA CONNECTION:
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None
Subject's Elle contains
1967 when GARRISON charged him
clippings dating from Narch
conspiracy in connection with
a burglary of a monitions bunken 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 prostimity 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.
GROUP
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degrading and
daslezsification
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Hoke MAY was granted a Covert Security Approval in April 1958
for unwitting use by Project FINDULGE. 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 widown of American flyers who participated in the Bay of Pigs.
No connection with NOVEL, could be established. NOVEL knew Sergio
ARCACHA-ENITH 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 Louisians 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, Louisians
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.
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Novel Says Munitions Theft
et Up' by Agency-
Set
Evidence Links
CA to DA Probe
Times
Daily boys.
1997, by The New Orleans States-Item, The
blishing Corp. and The Dayton (Ohio)
the long tentacles of the Central Intel-
Agry reach deep into Dist. Atty. Jim
Harrison's Kennedy death plot investigation?
There is mounting evidence they do, and at-
least one Garrison probe figure intends
stoan
use 
CIA
connections as part of his defense.
!
Still others linked to the Garrison investiga-
tion have boon named as acting for the super
secronage organization as informers, as
CONAN 
HALL Munitions carriers.
EVEN DE: INVESTIGATION'S PIVOTAL
54-yr old Clay L. Shaw, has had CIA con-
mens aturated to i. Shaw, charged with com-
city 
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 (Chic Daily News.
elnice expert, has told a number of friends
and mates he was a CIA operative and will use
sole 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
said.
"I will neither confirm nor deny them," Plotkin.
He was arrested April 1 in suburban Gahanna,
Novel is free in Columbus on $10,000 bond.
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 Ar-
Sacha 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 days
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tory's most important men."
"one of his
The charges against Novel and Arcacha are
spinoffs from Garrison's main investigation. The
prosecutor has called Novel "a very important wit-
ness" and has filed a material witness warrant
against hims
Novej, ho has to be one of history's most
loquacious Mitives, has carried on a running long-
distance 
fou with the man who wants him to do
his talking before a grand jury. He repeatedly has
called 
Garrison's investigation a "fraud” and a
“
fiction."
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
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POLYGRAPH OPERATORS AND TO
ads and associates, Novel has said the munitions
burglary was no burglary at all - but a war. ma-
es pickup made at the direction of his CIA
contact.
dy, 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 lined story carried by The Dayton Daily
More.” 
Deyatically, he said, "I think Garrison will expose
are 
operations in Louisiana." He did not elaborate.
His oft-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 waiting for the intelligence service at
New Orleans. 
Part of his job, he contends, was to operate
the 
Evergreen Advertising Agency as a front for CIA com-
munications.
With funds funneled in 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 to 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
I 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-
gedly acting for the CIA. He identifies them as Ferrie,
Arcacha, several Cubans, and another figure in the case.
: They loaded the buses of ordnance on trucks, he con-
thues, and returned New Orleans where the explosives
We dropped
Ferrie's home, Novel's office
office of a stormy former FBI agent and
New Orleans police official, Guy Banister, who died of a
the summer of 1964.
Hallding and
APR 25 1967
three pots
-
FAC
U kouster S
man whose word is considereda
reliable, told a reporter .ew Orleans he saw 50 to 100
boxes of 
munitions in Batister's Lafayette. st. office early
in 1961.
Banister was a private detective then, operating a com-
pany 
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.
L Cuban sources in New Orleans say the cadre of Cubans
trained by the CIA on the city's West Bank in 1961 was
I sent to Varacoa to make a diversionary assault. The at-
and took the group prisoner.
tack did not come off because Castro militia was waiting.
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.
1. Schlumberger officials say they know nothing of any
CIA operations in connection with their magazine, where
oil field service equipment and certain low yield explosivės
stored.
are
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 Houma bunker. He said
it is "material evidence" in his case.
the
PLOTKIN SAYS HE MADE A TRIP to Houma to get
tanate of his client's alleged offense and could not ob-
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-
Ipany 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.
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APR 25 1967
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--Weiner
The 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 copyright-
ed 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 Arcacha Smith declined comment on
Novel's quoted account of the mysterious munitions in-
cident 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.
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MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT, GARRISON and the Kennedy Assassination;
Gordon Dwane NOVEL
31 MAY 1967
Summary of contents
Gordon Dwane NOVEL has both claimed and denied affiliation
with CIA. A thorough records check has shown no such affiliation, It
seems plausible that the NBC is supporting and financing NOVEL in
order to win a large audience for a later expose of GARRISON. In
support of this plan NBC or NOVEL may have exaggerated his presumed
relationship with Sergio ARCACHA Smith (who was also not CLA-
employed) into an Agency affiliation and may have staged a dramatic
ambush in Nashville. The NBC program, however, is reportedly still
weeks away, and meanwhile GARRISON la attacking CIA vehemently.
Jeanwhile GARRISON in attacking
2. Gordon Dwane NOVEL and hle lawyers reportedly have
claimed that he was associated with CIA, but have then denied such an
association. One lawyer later reiterated the claim,
३. The files of the following Agency components have been
checked for any record of Gordon Dwane NOVEL, including alternative
spellings. All checks were negative (CIA held no information about
NOVEL before the GARRISON probe started,)
RID.
CI/OA.
Office of Security,
WH/Cuban Operations Group
Domestic Contact Service.
Interagency Source Register,
g. Domestic Operations Division,
Archives
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NOVEL remains mysterious, Although the prese has
devoted much space to him, few facts have emerged, He has been
described as a 29
year old former owner of a bar in the French
quarter of New Orleans and as an expert in electronics, (New.
Orleane States - Item, 25 April 1967.) An FBI report (DDB-79248,
27 April
et electronics salesman,
1967) ferme him a former 
electronice salesr
Nothing has s been printed about the source or sources of his
money since he left New Orleans for Columbus, Ohio, in mid-March
1967. It is known, however, that he is at liberty on a $10,000 bond,
The New Orleans States. - Item said on 25 April 1967 that NOVEL lives
in a rentefrao a partment in Columbus and drives a used car with
dealer's tage,
The Washington Daily News of 27 March 1967 stated that
during the weekend of 25-26 March NOVEL was in the Washington area
(actually it was McLean, Virginia, a site which might have been chosen
to land an air of plausibility to his claims of working for CIA). There
he was given a polygraph examination by a private detective named
Lloyd FURR, (Comment: As the Office of Security reported on 1 May
1967, the Washington firm REDEX is operated by FURR and Richard L.
BAST
who is described as "unscrupulous and untrustworthy". BAST
produces and sells, among other things, audio and counter-audio devices.
The fact that NOVEL was a salesman of electronics gear suggests the
otherwise unsupported hypothesis that he may have had an earlier rela
tionship with REDEX, BAST, or FURR
7. On 29 March
Orch 1967 the New Orleans FBI
FBI 
office reported
(file 89-69) that NOVEL had made a long distance call to
to 
that office
from an unknown place. Among his remarks was the comment that be
had not furnished GARRISON with
with any information about 'double check'
of Miami, which he inferred was a fringe Cuban operation in the Miami
area but did not further identify. (Comment: Operation Double Chek
appears on pp. 95, 76, 82, 84, 88, 89, 90, 146, and 246 of The Invisible
Government, by David Wise and Thomas B, Ross, The book erroneously
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describes Double Chek as a cover and funding mechanism for recruiting
and paying
General Can flyers who participated at the Bay of Pigs, The
has informed CI/R&A that in fact Double Chek was
created after the deaths of the flyers for the sole purpose of making
payments to their widows.)
FBI memorandum DBB 76600, 29 March 1967, reported
another long distance call by NOVEL to the New Orleans office, NOVEL
said that Walter SHERIDAN, who is a Washington NBC news reporter, see P, 5
had the number of the telephone at which NOVEL could be reached, He
also said that when he was given the polygraph test in Virginia.
SHERIDAN was present, He added that he had given SHERIDAN informa-
tion about polygraph tests run by GARRISON's staff,
Date 
run by GARRISON'
An & May 1967 memorandum from the Associate General
states that he was given information about the ĠARRISON in-
ation by a Washington lawyer named Jack Miller, that Walter
SHERIDAN was the source of Miller's information, that NBC has done
thirty minute show on GARRISON, and that it plans an hour-long show
"for a few weeks from now", The show is expected to "bury" GARRISON,
9 show ex
10. In addition to his reference to Double Chek, NOVEL and his
lawyers have made direct but contradictory statements about CIA,
"I think Garrison will expose some CIA operationa
in New Orleans." (New Orleans Times - Picayune, 19 April
1967.)
b. NOVEL reportedly stated to a representative of a
he was employed by the Central
well known news media nd that the burglary of the munitions
Intelligence Agency (CIA)
bunker at Houma, Louisiana, was not an actual burglary." He
contended that CIA had made arrangements with the SCHLUMBERGER
Well Drilling Corporation to keep ammunition, bomb casings,
and other material in that bunker. He "indicated that he (NOVEL)
and /Sergio/ Arcacha Smith are still employed by the CLA."
NOVEL and others took bomb casings and other items from the
bunker about three months after the Bay of Pigs, (Source: FBI
memorandum, New Orleans office, 20 April 1967.) (Commenti
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SCHLUMBERGER, as NOVEL has alleged, and did not have
any munitions or similar materials stored with SCHLUMBERGER
or at the Houma Air Base.)
Houma Air Base.
words used by NOVEL
The above "war materials pickup" was made by
NOVEL and others "at the direction of his CIA contact.
Part of NOVEL's job for CIA "was to operate the Evergreen
Advertising Agency as a front
front 
for CIA communications".
NOVEL prepared special radio commercials for use in the
United States and Canada Agents to the date of the
Bay of Pigs invasion," Among
were ''Star Christmas Trees" and "Holiday Trees". His
agency placed $72,000 worth of radio time in 1960. (AP.
New Orleans, 25 April 1967.) (Comment: As was previously
reported, there is no record of the " 'Evergreen Advertising
Agency" WH/COG queried a knowledgeable staff employee,
now COS in Santo Domingo, who replied in Santo Domingo 16-10
3473, 12 May 1967, that NOVEL's allegations are not truej
that he had never heard of NOVEL, his agency, or the code
words; and that although "some meaningless code phrases
were used on JMHOPE for paych reagong only", they were
not sent out over U.§, commercial stations,
that the Cuban Free Ge
1 cable added
Committee I did contract 
time for routine
exile broadcasts on a New Orleans station. It la clear, how-
ever, that NOVEL's allegations do not concern auch broadcasts,)
that
%
de
d. Støven PLOTKIN, NOVEL's lawyer in New Orleans, said
would neither confirm nor deny NOVEL's claims of
CIA employment. His lawyer in Columbus, Jerry WEINER
said, "It's utterly ridiculous, NOVEL is not now and never
has been a CIA agent," (New Orleana States - Item, 25 April
1967.)
On 25 April 1967 NOVEL himself said in Columbus,
"The statements that I worked for the CIA are absolutely in-
correct, (AP. 25 April 1967.)
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1. NOVEL's New Orleans attorney, Steve PLOTKIN,
said he "served as an intermediary between the CIA and
anti-Castro Cubans in New
April, 1961, Bay of Plew Orleans and Miami before the
invasion, Plotkin maintained,
though, that Novel had 'little or nothing to do with the Bay
of Pigs invasion and certainly had absolutely nothing to do
with the assassination of President Kennedy, (The
Washington Post, 26 May 1967))
1. 26 May 1967)
11. On 7 May 1967 NOVEL again telephoned the FBI's office in
New Orleans. He said that in the near future GARRISON would accuse
the FBI of possessing originala of five letters; one from Clay SHAW
to David
Id 
FERRIE, one from Lee Harvey OSWALD to SHAW, one from
FERRIE to Jack RUBY, one from RUBY to OSWALD, and one from
Senator and former Attorney General Robert Kennedy to FERRIE, He
added that GARRISON has a typewriter which FERRIE owned in 1963 and
also has two typewriters, personal and business, belonging to SHAW
He said that GARRISON's chief investigator, William GURVICH, has
a close relative, living in Russia, who was instrumental in designing
the MIG. He remarked that GARRISON plans to subpoena an attorney.
fnu MARTIN, allegedly associated with CIA, He said that Layton
Patrick MARTENS was the "other" marine probably involved in the
Houma bunker burglary. (FBI memorandum DBB 80563, 9 May 1967.)
(Comment: Mr. Arthur Dooley of Cl/R&A knew a Walter SHERIDAN (See 3
who is believed identical with the Walter SHERIDAN of this report,
who was an FBI special agent, and who worked for Senator Robert
Kennedy when he was Attorney General,)
hen he was Attorney Gene
12. On or about 11 May 1967 GARRISON accused two lawyers,
one of them PLOTKIN, of receiving 8 CIA money. "We know that
Mr. Plotkin has been receiving money, if only through an intermediary,
from the Cr
CIA
," Both lawyers denied the charge. (New Orleans, AP
11 May 1967.) GARRISON later broadened this charge to include
defense attorneys. "Every lawyer involved in this case, without ex-
ception, involved in the attempts to derail the investigation, has been
connected by us with the Central Intelligence Agency, Garrison said,"
(Washington Post, 29 May 1967.)
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13. On 22 May 1967 NOVEL telephoned an unidentified person
in New Orleans and said that at 0200 hours on 21 May he and a friend of
eleven years, Gary EDWARD8, were sitting in a radio station truck in
Nashville, Tennessee, Bullets were fired at the truck. Neither man
was struck by a bullet, but both were cut by flying glass. The
Nashville police found the glass in the left door of the truck shattered
four or five indentations made by bullets on the right side of the
is paneling. They said that the first report to them was made
by Charles F. WALKER, president of radio station WKDA, who said
that NOVEL had been wounded by a sniper and that he had come to
Nashville at the request of W
of 
WKDA and had agreed to disclose informa
tion that "would blow the New Orleans investigation wide open,
Nashville police detective said five shots were fired at the truck and
that traces, apparently of blood, were found. However, Nashville
authorities noted that Mr. WALKER first telephoned them thirteen
hours after the alleged incident. By then NOVEL and EDWARDS were
allegedly in Bowling Green,
1. 
Kentucky. Efforts made in Kentucky to
verify NOVEL'a
were unsucces aim that his injuries had been treated at a hospital
WALKER said that just before the shooting NOVEL
was on the verge of returning to Columbus. He said that NOVEL and
EDWARDS left Nashville immediately after the shooting and that
EDWARDS was proceeding to Washington, EDWARDS' real name,
according to another but
but 
unidentified spokesman for the radio
lo 
station,
la Gerald MUNDY, (New Orleans States-Item, 82 May 1967,)
14. Several newspapers have carried the story that NOVEL in
quing GARRISON for $50,000,000,
15. JMWAVE was asked to show a Miami Herald photograph
NOVEL to a well placed and well informed asset, AMOT/2, without
devulging NOVEL's name or making any statement about him. JMWAVE
7427, 27 May 1967, reported that AMOT/2 did not recognize the photo
and could not identify the person whose likeness he saw, The purpose
was to test the possibility that NOVEL had been involved in CIA activi-
ties under another name,
16. It is requested that the Office of the Assistant to th
to 
the Director
advise Cl/R&& whether it has any information about Walter SHERIDAN,
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Gerald MUNDY Gary EDWARDS, and any association between
thom, as well as any information about whether Station WKDA in
Nembville is affiliated or otherwise associated with NBC »
or otherwise
17, If the surmise that NBC lệ building up NO
NOVEL as a latter
day David who is to slay the jolly green giant is correct, then a CIA
exposure of NOV&L's claims of Agency affiliation as false might be
damaging to our own interests. On the other hand, the likelihood
that an NBC unti-Garrison program is still weeke away
tation is disturbing. A recent Harria survey (Washingto
presens
Rost, 29
May 1967) show a that 66% of the persons queried d now believe that the
assassination was not the work of one man but was rather part of
broader plot or conspiracy. The Garrison probe la termed a major
contributor to
to 
the growing public doubt, GARRISON's venemous
attack on CIA during his ABC interview of 28 May 1967 was preceded
by a barrage of earlier charges and will predictably be followed by
more.
18. There may be a shadow of justification for NOVEL's claim
of association with CIA, He has asserted that he know Sergio ARCACHA P.8.
Smith and that ARCACHA was one of the participants in the pickup at
the Houma bunker. Our records show that CIA never recruited or paid
ARGACHA directly. He was, however, the delegate of the
the 
Frente
Revolucionario Democratico (FRD, or Democratic Revolutionary Front)
in New Orloans. He reported to FRD headquarters in Miami by mall.
The FRD was created with CIA resistance, guidance, and financial
support in May 1960. Ita leader was Dr. Jose MIRO Cardona. He or
his assistants may have passed funds to ARGACHA, who may have
briefed or even employed NOYEL
DCI:
19. On 28 May 1967 NOVEL, sent the following telegram to the
"Richard Helma
"Central Intelligence Agency McLean Vir
"Atth UNCLE Hdqra Good Guys Div. Regarding Garrison
conspiracy case; code reference JACKASS, Dear Richard.
Today according to the jolly green glant (Mr. Garrison) 'You
are paying my legal fees in Louisiana and Ohio.
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"Since my attorneys are crying and pressing me because
of not being paid for my various legal wrecking moves on his
jolly big fraud, I am going to instruct them to send you chaps
immediately an itemized bill, …If, and I do mean if, Garrison
la correct, I am going to instruct the same attorneys to sue
the h--- out of your bad guys in the accounting department for
welching on your debts, Instead of a no comment 8.0.P. reply,
how about a public ha-ha,
"P.S. Right now I don't think sending him to Viet Nam
good idea in view of national interest anymore. Perhaps
Rome he could reopen the case on Caesars assassination. He
belleves Brutus and Casslus were framed. Like in his words,
beyond a shadow of a doubt, absolutely, "Truly yours,
Gordon Novel.
UNGLE H---8,0,P
Ha-ha P.§,
The partial sentence reading
1,1 am going to instruct
the same attorneys to sue the heer out of your bad guys in the accounting
department for welching on your debts", quoted out of context, would
reinforce NOVEL's false claim to affiliation with CIA. It will be inter-
esting to note whether he releases this telegram to the press,
Addendum
It has been noted that NOVEL probably served as an FBI informant
for an unknown period before he left New Orleans in mid-March 1967.
FBI report DBB 73269, New Orleans office, 21 February 1967, is
ascribed to a "confidential source who in the past furnished insufficient
information to determine reliability. This source describes the group
that carried out the theft from the Houma bunker as consisting of his
own ex-wife (but not himself), his partner (unidentified), Sergio
ARCACHA Smith, David FERRIE, two ex-marines, and another man,
also unidentified. He also said that one of the e cars used for the trip to
Houma was his own 1956 Lincoln Supreme, This report contains no men-
tion of CIA, The New Orleans States - Item of 25 April 1967 quote e
NOVEL as saying that CIA ordered him to join the group, which he
Identified as consisting of ARCACHA, FERRIE, several Cubans, and
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"another figure in the case". He is piso quoted as saying that he
made the trip in his own car, a Lingpin,
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KORLEANS STATES-ITEM
4.5
Attorney Admits Novel CIA Agent
righted story April 25.
Continued from Front Page
Garrison has charged that persons con-
pected with the CIA became angry at Kẹn-
pedy and plotted his death at Dallas. He
has charged the CIA with fomenting a
#monstrous coverup" and duping thẹ War-
ren Commission, it
PLOTKIN SAID NOVEL'S CIA WORK
had "ttle or nothing to do with the Bay
When Novel left here in
mid-March, he went first to
McLean, Va., to take a lie
detector test. McLean is the
beadquarters of the CIA,
of Pigs invasion and certainly had absolute
by nothing to do with the assassination of
President Kennedy;!!
The attorney said Novel worked as what
he termed "chlef of security" for Garrison
“before “his forced departure from New Or.
Jeans,'!
But the lawyer declared his client actual.
by was serving as a double agent the em
ploy of a "national news media,"
cy, an organization estab:
lished by President Kennedy
to supervise CIA after the
disastrous 
Bay of Pigs inva,
Mat
sion.
|TION in Miami
quarter of 1961,
the Graf
The recent book, "The In-
Plotkin said Novel has
visible Government,”¨^which
tapes, photographs and other
date which will be released today, Plotkin said the "letons, identifies Double-Chek
Speaking of the letter draft carries details of CIA opera-
shortly and will prove beter was intended 
to the ad- of Miami as a CIA front,
yond any shadow of a doubl
that Mr. Garrison's investiga-
Hon is a fraud and a hoax.”
HE SAID NOVEL, has
turned the information over
to a national news medium
and that tape recordings and
other matters in Plotkin's
possession will be released in
case Novel dies.
In the bandwritten letter
draft found in a hiding place
Novel's former French
arter apartment," the fugl
dressee of th letter."
"As to the contents of the
letter or whether the better
was actually sent, I don't
know," he added.
On page 79, the book de
clares that Double-Chek was
the company through which
pilots and other persons con-
nected with anti-Castro Cuban
operations were recruited,
“NEVERTHELESS," Plot
kin admitted, "the only com,
"We have no current con-
ment is that everything in the tact available to inform of this
letter as far as Novel is consituation," the Novel letter
cerned is actually the truth" draft continues. So I took
the liberty of writing you di
rect and appraising" you of
current situation; expect.
ing you to forward. this
Plotkin said the purpose of
the letter was to inform "the
person to whom the letter
was addressed. of activi
********** 29lla “Mr. then going on ju Louisiana," through appropriate i chan
“Our “attorneys - and others
are in possession of com-
plete sealed files containing
all 
information concerning
this matter. In the event of
our sudden departure, either
accidental or otherwise, they
are instructed to simultane-
ously release same for pub
lic scrutiny in different
preas
At the same tline, the let-
ter speaks of taking "appro-
priate, counteraction relative
to Garrison's inquisition con-
cerning us
Garrison has charged that
Potkin and other lawyera
Kennedy inquiry are being
representing figures in the
paid by the CIA Plotkin has
denied 
the allegation
a handwriting expert says
THE LETTER draft, which
strange concoction of clipped
was written by Novel, is a
phrases, cloak and dagger
terminology and velled refer
ences to "top secret" active
ties.
It begins:
"This letter is to inform you
that District (Attorney) Jim
It suggests that the bus- Garrison has subpenned my-
PESS 
of handling 
Garrison self and an associate fa testi,
may 
best be carried on fy before his Grand Jury on
"through 
military channels matters which may be class):
vis vis the 
D.J.A, man." |fied TOP SECRET, Actions of
D.I.A. 
is the abbreviation individuals connected with
for Defense Intelligence Agen- DOUBLE-CHEK CORPORA
nels."
Although the dran is un-
it relates places is writing
dated, the sequence of events |
sometime in late January of
carly 
February
It tells of "ayolding" one
that attorneys have warned
Garrison subpena but says
other subpenas are to follow.
and/or immunity (and) legal
"The Fifth Amendment
tactics will not suffice," the
letter states.
New Orleans
Stalls-Stee
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AY 25 1967
PRICE 10
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NEW
OR
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SI Uncovers Letter
IN BEMILLAN AND HOKE MAY Ędy death plot
New Orleans attorney
ent worked for the Central
here in early 1961-
ubic statement by Steven Plotkin
fallowed States Hem's discovery of a let
er which Bufkin aid was written by Novel
and apparently
to an official
CIA
At
Novel draft
y Page 1)
wner's
"Kavel tells "Mt. Weiss
to be taken out of this mess
an unspecified date In March of 1967.
Novel whom Dist. Alty, Jim Garrison
called in important witness: in his Këng
igation, disappeare
Marche
HE WAS ARRESTED APRIL 1 AT Gå-
hamma, Ohio, on warrant charging him
with pónspiracy to burglarize an oil service
bunker, at Houma
Miami
Cinvasion
boad whi
Plotkin
Novel's role.
CIA-operative
Pigs
first disclosed by the States Item in a cops
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IMMUNITY TIME TOO HORT
Novel Rejects
Labor Probe Bid
25 (States-Item Bureau).
BATON ROUGE Much sought
used to testify
sion of Inquiry investiga
Bouge area.
lestified at length yesterday before the East Baton
Parish Grand Jury in
ction with its probe of to question Hovel at the re
crime
quest'of Edward Partn Bát
rds; East. „Batonon Rouge Teamster leader,
who has igured "in's the
board's investigation.
District Attor
Pitcher said the
sed Novel and he
leave the state
known whether he
ediately, but when
probers aske
Saltorneys told
sought
frest
DA Jim Garri
his probe of the assas
of President John F
ody was granted the 48-
mmunity: as his condi
return for telling what
new about organized
for Novel and
commission
mmission investiga-
Interview Novel
yes the state.
grace period was
some time today. If
SU in the state
be liable to arrest
Parish charges of
In
e-hour sess
fore the jury yesterday, No-
vel had time to tell
about crime cor
flon Garrison and anything
else he deemed pertinent
However, at a lengthy press
ference afterwards
kill Présider
medy
Not
retired
ssman
THE. JURY dienis
after listening to
and off from 103.
7:30 pm yester
scheduled to resume
today
Novel
State from Columbus,
here he took refuge
to commit burHe was brought in, by-
being a fugitive 
Baton Rouge sheriff depart
and 
a Terrebonne
charge of mple burment plane.
fleeing the grasp of Garrison,
Pitcher said
to comme
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the jury might take on
el's testimony.
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THE BATON Rouge
has been studying “organis
calme, the Hoffa affair
imişolved bombings.
Novel was flanked by
aftorneys during the
nference. The five, includ
ing Step Plotkin of New
Jarry Weiner
frestuntly out-
jury room with Nove
bumbus,
*
year-old former New
ounge owner would
for. while, leave the
grand jury room for a brief
period, and tell his attorneys
what had transpired, and then
return to the room.
He left the grand jury
bellding for about 20 min
during the day to bring
material from his room at
a motel, near
state capi-
| deceased pilot Garrison şaye
was a key part of the assas
sination plot.
Novel said that
Garrison proposed
part plan to get Ferrie
fession."
MUCH OF
on crime
said, was turned
Magasine
jury testimony
Most of
several tapes,
Garrison probe
made availabl
er time,"
Novel sald be
testify at the cons
of Shaw, now scheduled
February,
This is the
century," be
the probe, be
Z It is a
Burbank Orders
brought State Vice Cleanup
Jury room for lunch
when
NOVEL declared
for specific information
and corruption that
had been made by
ator in New Or
him to
yit saying Walter
used-bugging
against Hoffa, –
nha former Jus
partment investigator
me an investigative
for the National
sting Co. and helped
luce a program critical
Garrison
State Polle
Superinten
Col. Thomas 4.
e has notified
sheriff to
illegal gambling
However, Buf
newsmen yesterda
not seein be
the
anyway.
gambling
ng Louisiana
state police
bank
His comment
fore he went before the
leans Parish Grand Jury to
port on recent state police in-
vestigations of alleged org
Novel sald both money and
withdrawal of charges in New
against him in Newed crime,
Oricans were offered.
NOVE
Garrison'
Investigation is
fraud, Novel said he had once
discussed with the DA the
means of Whisining
2
Earlier the jury beard
Atty: William Cahn
sau County, New York
Cahn said he came here b
testify in detail about à multi-
million-dollar layoff betting
syndicate which included
New Orleans center,
Acting Dist. Atty. Charles
Ray Ward said the syndicate's
center used to be In New Or-
leans, but moved to an adjoin-
Ing
se of pressure
office
there is no evi-
Setting is part of
any Cosa Nostra: network.
☑Because there is no evidence
that key bookie operations now
Orleans Parish --
do notamme
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PUSH CRIME PROBE
Ch
Give Testimony
grand juries of Orleans
Baton Rouge Parishes
their twin probes of
Crime Louisiana
by calling a 'string pl
personalities to testi
York)
Novel
ha huddl
gambling
GRAND JURIES PUSH PROBI
bribe
former
McKelfi
Young was mentioned
A ser (articles la Life
which asserted; that
zed crime was rampant
articles trig
grand jury investiga-
New
subpensed
letermine
Information
gathered concerning. New Or
In the state police investi
ation into organized crime.
He said the state, police
en «‹conducting an “ext
Investigation, in the city dual
past 10 days.
the governor
having been
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that whe
to determine
eithen's phones had
New Orleans
rted gambling
Labor Management Board o
Inquiries came into the picture
to question Novel at the sugges
tion of Baton Rouge Teamsters
boss Edward G. Partin. The
board is investigating labor
racketeering in the area.
The board's chief counsel,
Camile Gravel, and its chief
Investigator, A Harry Rob
erts, – talked with Pitcher to
see if an agreement could be
worked out
meeting with
kle operations
cify in the United
everal In Canada
there is any betting on prož
college sports, he added
HANDBOOK BETTING
Asked if handbook betting
could be termed as
Crime Ward replied:
not one bit of evidence
part
indi
Fallur
ard to Inter
Partin, would
ntinuing proof that the
deavor has been..to
me and Local scape
said he was uncertain
ether he could subpena Novel
of the immunity grant-
him
There was an Indication that
Novel may also testify before
the grand jury on Friday. Ac
cording to Pitcher, Novel would
remain under the immunity as
Jobg as he is in Louisiana for
grand jury appearances.
LONG STATEMENT
Novel, presently under in-
dictment by the Orleans Parish
Grand Jury for conspiracy to
commit burglary, once issued
a lengthy statement saying that
he knew of criminal Influence
and activity in Louisiana.
In his desire to have Novel
returned to the state to testify,
McKelthen gavë Plicher $3,500
from hii law enforcement
fund to finance Novel's re
The only indictment handed
down so far by the grand jury
Ir Baton Rouge has been against
Sndith. The Indictment charged
that Smith committed public
bribery by offering Young $25,
000 to set up a meeting between
himself and Partin, whose testi-
mony was valuable in sending!
Teamsters head James R. Hoffa
to prison
Cosa!
tter
dences Indicatei
the typical
operation,
ever
operator
Ward, who
attorney
pon's absence, said
though no large-scale gam
operations are now operan
New Orleans, this?
mean that you
on an athletic event
Parish and that thi
will not be called to
of act
can us
cify In the
cluding New Orleans
books themselves
ating in Orleans
Because there is no
that key bookie operato
exist in Orleans Paris
concluded, "I do hote
immediate Indictments to
sued by the grand jury

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Continued from Page,
Garrison'
brought evi-
dence with him concerning a
sports betting syndicate touch-
ing New Orleans, Miami, Nas
County and other cities.
the syndicate does
$100 million a year
jurisdiction
most of his
obtained by
be called
ctive way
information
that
mbling
o take
IN BATON ROUGE, Novel
four hours last;
ith, East Baton: ouge
shie
last month afte
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aying that crime and
on were flourishing
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REFUSAL ALLEGED
building.
McKeithen has reclaimed
colonel's commission from Jo
LIFE' REPORTER
torney Jim Garrison and his It charged Garrison wants to served as the governor's office
staff, to compel Garrison and get Chandler in front of the
GRANTED STAY
the grand jury foreman to state grand jury to entrap him and
in open court the crime under then prosecute him for perjury. phone calls between Marcello
at the time of the alleged tele
12 1967 Chandler's grand jury subpena, pursuing a scheme to prevent fice complex has since been
investigation and to quash It also alleged that Garrison is and Young. The governor's of
Court Holds Up Grand and a motion asking for 
a copy Chandler "from pursuing his moved higher in the Capitol
Jury Appearance of questions and answers elicited privilege under the First Amend-
Triscaying by Assistant District Attor- a news reporter.
from 
Chandler during question- ment to investigate crime" as
An order saying appearance ney Charles Ward Jan. 26.
of David L. Chandler, a Life
Life Magazine claims that
Magazine writer. before the Or- Ward
The third motion said Chand-there may have been up to 60
leans Paris Grand Jury was is- Chandler's attempt to avoid a to arrest Chandler and prosecute involved, but Young has testi-
sued about 1:20 pm Wednes grand jury appearance, 
saying him criminally.
reacted 
sharply to trict attorney said he is going and Marcello on the telephone
ler was informed that the dis conversations between Young"
day, 10 minutes before his that in effect 
Chandler has re-
scheduled appearance.
The Louisiana Supreme truth claiming that the truth Chandler's right to remain
fused to testify and tell the
. It said the subpena violates
fied that only two such calls,
Court issued the stay order would tend to incriminate him. silent and not give evidence
took place.
- further order of the
court and gave Chandler five man who is directly responsible The Supreme Court, after seph Marcello, Carlos' brother
"It is unbelievable that a against 
himself..
days to fie necessary docu- for charging that organized 
granting the stay order and five which he said was issued
ments in support of his appli- crime is flourishing in New Or-days for Chandler to answer,
Also, self-admitted former Amendment just as a common days after that to file a return Rouge Parish District Attorney
leans should claim the 5th gave the district attorney three In a related issue, East Baton
Ku 
Kux Klan leader Jules Kime.
ble stiffed before the East
criminal would."
Baton Rouge Paris Grand Jury Chandler told The Times Rouge probes Wednesday in-torney for Gordon Novel in Co-
The twin Orleans-East Baton he was not able to reach an at-
Sargent Pitcher said Wednesday
which is investigating both the Picayune late Wednesday after- cluded questioning by investi- lumbus, Ohio, to make final
AFL-10 president Victor Bus cordia Parish subpena was
May bombing of the home of 100n that, although the Con- gators of C. H. Downs, aide to plans for Novel's return here.to
sie and allegations that organ
Gov. John J. McKelthen, about testify before the grand jury in
ized crime is being conducted served on him, he "talked it legedly was used for conversa-Jerry Weiner, Novel's attor-
Sja Capitol telephone which al-Baton Rouge.
over" with the Concordia dis-tions between rackets figure ney, told Pitcher that he would
Kimle has said he can name strict attorney and was actually Carlos Marcello and former Mccall him at 9:30 a. m. Wednes
three persons who plotted to going to appear voluntarily.
bomb Busssies Baton Rouge
Keithen aide Aubrey Young.
Before Kimble's testimony he
was tranpsorted to Baton Rouge
carian.
in Louisiana
home and time Port Allen bome
afa Negro scimol teacher ac-
ive in civil rights work.
RUDGE RESTIFIES
In New Orleans, Municipal
Court Judge Andrew G. Bucaro
was locked in with me grand
jury here for about an hour.
The jury adjuned for the day
shortly after 41m but did not
report ma jindg
、
Cicero C. Sessions, Chandler's
Lawyer, appealed to the Su-
preme Court after Criminal Dis
Erict Court Judge Manew S.
Ecaniff averruled a nation to
Crash Chandle sufpena.
Judge Bram gave Chand-
's amurneys until II a.m.
Monday to file an appeal, but
with the court. ·
¡error.
torney) don't mind testifying from New Orleans where he night club, operator, agreed to
"We (Chandler and his at-
but the call never came.
day to discuss Novel's return,
before grand juries in cases
Novel, former New Orleans
☐ 
was under $5,000 bond in Par-
made," said Chandler. He
where threats have not been ish Prison on charges of imreturn to Louisiana to give testi-
claimed that threats were personating a state police troop-given immunity from arrest in
mony in Baton Rouge if he is
made against him by Garrison er
.
as a result of references. to Young, until recently an in-
organized crime in New Or- imate 
of Southeast Louisiana
leans made in the Life arti- Hospital in Mandeville
, has
turned 
state's evidence in the
East Baton Rouge Parish Grand
Jury investigation.
cles.
'staff.
INDICTMENT MADE-
The motion to recuse said Life
stories on organized crime and
other stories concerning Garri The jury returned an indict-
sassination of President Kenne- leans contractor D'Alton Smith
son's investigation 
of the 
as-ment against former New Or
dy have been publicly denied by 
for public bribery in an al
Garrison or members 
of his leged offer of $25,000 to Young
ty on Garrison's part, it said, convicted Teamster head James
5 This showed personal animosi
which is inconsistent 
with the R. Hoffa.
to arrange a meeting in an ef
fort to purchase freedom for
impartial administration of jus- In the questioning of Downs;
Ee originally set a deadline It charged the district attor-fice was in the section that
of 
1 am Friday, but changed,
✓ it was pointed out that his of
the dare when he learned 
ney had his office illegally mis-
use 
the grand jury's subpena
¡pera to appear in Vidaa at 9. power by having Chandler
Fray baire e Con subpened to appear 
before the
coria Parish Grand Jury.
jury Jan. 26 when he was not
Chandler's attey also filed actually wanted by the jury.
1 in the meantime reised to
say the matter.
Chandler is under another sub-
tice."
OATH ALLEGED
The motion said Chandler was
ja motion hat Chandler be al
lowed to have his lawyer pres
in the grand jury session required to make a sworn state-
Other motions for Chand him for his investigation and
ment to Ward, "who castigated
ler were a recus 
District At threatened him with criminal
[prosecution."
HOPEL, GORDON
probe. He is also wanted by
connection with Garrison's
Garrison for questioning in the
Kennedy murder. Immunity has
been granted.
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Resumed
By 2 Juries
Two grand
one here,
Baton Rouge
secret ssion
their probe into accusa
tions of organized
In Louisiana.
Scheduled to appear before
the Orleans Parish Grand
July was David Chandler, the
area 
representative of Life
magazine, which launched the
probe with several articles
alleging that organized
crime's 
influence reached into
high governmental offices.
I. Baton Rouge the jury.
goes 
into 
session prepared to
hear this 
week from the man
who 
claims he holds the key
to 
sensational disclosures con
cerning organized crime in
Louisiana
.
EAST BATON Rouge Parish
Dist Atty Sargent Pitcher
said that 
Gordon Novel
former New Orleans (lounge
operator, 
has agreed to return
from 
his sonctuary in Colum
See JURY:
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Jury states-10,
Continued from Pag
bus, Ohio. Novel fled the state.
last March. Just ahead of a
subpena from Dist. Atty. Jum
Garrison, who wants to ques
tión: hím in connection with
lbg Investigation into thé as
Matsination of President Ken-
ald Novel's Ohio
daccepted a new
documents assurnig
Novel of Immunity from ar-
rest, while back in the state.
Novel demanded and was
given signed affidavits from
Gov. John J McKelthen and
various district attorneys say
ing he would not be arrested
while here, Pitcher said.
Meanwhile in Jefferson Par-
ish, Dist Atty. Frank Lang-
tidge has announced that he
will open an investigation into
charges of organized crime;
using Investigators on his of
Bice staff.
Landridge said he may call
the grand jury into the in-
vestigation, depending on evi-
dence developed by his in-
vestigators. Several weeks ago
Langridge said he was going
before the jury with the Life,
magazine charges. However, j
she later said he would wait
until he learned what evidence
was developed by Gov. Mc
Keithen
"I'm sure there's - not” or-
ganized crime in theparish
but I'm going ahead with the
investigation anyway," he said
ALTHOUGH he said he has
not been apprised of the gov-
ernor's evidence, Langridge.
said he is willing to cooperate
with the governor and to as-
sist state police in their in-
vestigation.
In another matter the Or
leans grand jury will hear
charges against. Richard
Brown, 21, Negro, 318 S Dor-
genols, and Henry Johnson,
19, Negra, 2507 Beelmont, both
of the murder of Po
Sgt Lloyd Verrett
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Extradition Moves, Are Made
Baton Rouge DA Seeking indicument for public bribery.
Smith No
JACK OWENS
BATON ROUGE
The district attorney
made first formal
toward extradition
Smith from Denton,
he surrendered on
Dist Atty. Sargent Pitcher
circulated a document in
lended to give Gordon Novel ad-
ditional assurance that he will
arrested in the New Or Pit
Pans Kennedy assassination more
probe if he comes here to give back
what he calls sensational testi-a trip
about racketeering
ssary, I will give him eral tim
escort" Pitcher said
former New Orleans bar-
has found refuge in Co
Ohio Dist. Auy. Jim
rason of New Orleans has
without success to ques
him in his Kennedy assas
probe
Pitcher advised the district
attorney at Denton that be ex-
pected extradition request pa-
pers for. Smith to be signed lat
this week by Gov John Mc
Kelthenaus
SMITH INDICTED
was indicted by the
Rouge Parish Grand
probe into published
hat racketeers exercise
mence over stale govern
"round
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either
was: accused of offering|
oung, former aide to
,000 to influence signature
post, an offer which
rities said was part of an
uy freedom for for
to
the week
Pitcher
Teamster Union. President to Novel the
mes Hoffa. The former Team-
was imprisoned for East
tampering
back
man who said he was Smith
ed himself in to authorities
at Denton, and was released on
$1,500 fugitive bond. His attór-
neya have offered to
him whenever a court hearing
is set on his extradition.
Smith is the only person so
far indicted by the grand jury,
which is recessed its probe
until Wednesday.
Young has said, he received
telephone calls from Carlos Mar
cello New Orleans area rack
Jeta figure in McKelthen's off
He has said he arranged for
hà meeting with Edward
adPartin, local
clath
millon
to install elec
ebugging equipment
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FUNDS PLEDGED
with his statements concerning
the John F. Kennedy assassina-
thun probe of Garrison, told
Pacher he would come back to
Louisiana from Columbus, Ohio,
If granted immunity from ar-
IN CRIME PROBE
PROBE 
rest regarding the JFK murder
Elusive Novel W Be.
Granted Immunity
7acth
Gov. Juhn J. McKeither's best
pranged investigation inte ér-
ganized crime in L
headed for a weekend inflated
Friday with these develpments:
_ East Baton Rouge District
Athurney Sargent Pilcher said
that McKeither has agreed to
grant him state funds for the
East Baton Rouge Parish Grand
Jury probe into crime.
Pitcher said at either
put up $1,500 from his special
haw enforcement fund to help
ever probe expenses,
¡investigation.
Pitcher said Novel will have
hasmunity, from arrest while
Leubriana and freedom to
return to Columbus, or wher-
ever he wants to go. He sald
Immunity is limited to ar-
rest en any other charges and
doesnt extend to anything
Exyolving his appearance.
Only one person has been in-
dicted as result of the crime
probes in New Orleans and
Baton Rouge: That was D'Alton
Smith, a former New Orleans
electrical contractor who is ac-
cssed of public bribery in of
fiering $25,000. to Young to ar
range a meeting.
-Elzsive Gerdon Novel, who Smith posted a $1,500 fugi-
contends he knows It about the band. In Denton, Tex., and
organized crime and criminals still at large. A bond of
In the state, will be granted 5,000 has been set for him in
mmunity by McKellen and Baton Rouge on the bribery
Orleans P DA Jim Gar- charge.
rison for a visit ta
Rouge sext week
said
-Lifle Magazine reparter De-
vid L. Chandler has been issued
a subpens to appear before the
Orleans Parish Grand Jury at
Mamm. Wednesday.
The Orleans Parish Grand
Jury, which opened a probe into
Life Magazine's charges of or-
gnized crime in New Orleans,
as not returned an indictment.
McKEITHEN SPEAKS
In his talk Friday before the
ALEC, McKeithen stated: "I
Gov. McKethen and one of would never betray the confl
his angements in the casing dence the people have placed
uberisatorial race, US Rep. in me. If your faith in me has
Cahn/Barick, both addressed been shaken at all, I want you
tre Association of Louisiana know you are looking at a
Eleginic Cooperatives in Ban man who has never had any.
Rouge, commenting on the thing to do with them (rack-)
probe of alleged gamedeteers), and I will never have
crime.
anything to do with them."
YOUNG RELEASED
:
He said there is no doubl
-Pitcher said that immer Mo that calls came from Carlos
Keithen aid, Aubrey Young & Marcello, "if not to the gover-
key figure in his probe, hasi mor's office, to the office next
been released from custody of
door."
the Southeast Louisiana State
Mental Hospital at Mandierile
The East Baton Rouge grand
jury met most of the day Fri-
day st returned no indictments
when it adjourned about 4:35
p.m. until 9:30 am. Wednes-
day.
•
Young has claimed he re-
ceived two such telephone
calls, but Life says as many
as 60 may have been placed
on a particular telephone. The
House speaker's office was
next door to the governor's of
fice at the time of the alleged
..
Pitcher went to Chicago and calls.
said he found out moury vaina- Addressing the group before)
ble things from the visit en McKeithen, Rarick charged that
cerning organized crime. He the public is being hoodwinked.
said he was going intel the "We must think and act for
grand jury Friday, aut grand ourselves," he added. N
jury sessions are secret so thei
Pitcher information was
available to the press
Nowel, wanted by Garrison,
and McKeiben ha connection
HOVEL; GORLAN
1
TS PROBE
If the federal government is
actually interested in combat-
ting crime, the congressmant
continued, federal grand juries
should be probing crime condi
tions in Louisiana. He said illicit
narcotics traffic, gambling and
some interstate prostitution all
come under the federal govern-
ment's jurisdiction.
"The federal government
handcuffs our police officers,
then accuses us of being the
home base of the Costa Nos-
tra," Rarick concluded.
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FUNDS PLEDGED
IN CRIME PROBE
Ela Novel Will Be
mith, former New
electrical com
ctor who
cused of public bribery
fering $25,000 to Young
range a meeting. *****
Smith posted a $1,500 fugi
tive bond in Denton,
still at large
been set
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Served Directing
Mars
from Lou
the fist of
appear: Before
Grand Jury
anized crime
Issued
Attorney
YOUNG
ACCOMPANIES
Pitch
said details will
the
McKe
dnesday,..
assistant Barney Kil.
ryed a subpena direct
Goy John J. McKeithen
Thursd
istrict Attorney Jim Garri
son Tuesday first had vited
the governor to appear in New]
Heans then subpensed him."
Garrison, when asked why he
subpens, said, "Orig-
ollowing protocal
Carlos
brothers, San
also sub
Fednes
District
they
UNIT TO PR
this
Wedne
State: Police announce
the identity of a person
*made a telephone call
ing; McKeithen's life is
Col. Thomas* Burbank: de-
scribed the man as
case and sai
New Orleans
under
bank sald
Col Burb
mental
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GOVERNOR
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+coule
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Parish DA
to Chicag
Hordon & Nove
drthe
Rouge
is also
who ca
ensat
against Gar
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*to*call a girl by
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Scapegoat in Probe
Speake of Action
ton Rouge Paris
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TO OHIO
Columbus
ovel about his
Ing Information He
kon
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COORD
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Cak
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reply
"complete
and ac
Rouge jury
Wednesday, was ex
cess until Pitcher
probably Thursday or
Telephone company of
expected to take
in connection with les
by Young to the jury.
INVOLVES MANY
siz and
All I have to say is that the
trip to Chicago has been
marked with tremendous suc-
accomplishments,?
Pitcher sald T The detalls and
significance of our findings will
revealed later, when the
time appropriate.
He flatly stated, "when it
out, I will be real good."
Chicago nation
volves maný most people
the inventiignalés, but ko
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minor point of possible interest
to Mr M. Stevens in re novel/may,
we had that draft
Suck
etal, is infe
letter was found (allegedly) under
fiece of linobemur covering
drain board rather than a rug.
Also still question of who may
have written draft etter and,
of course, and most importantly,
why novel may be trying to
lick Guinself to CIA is obscure.
to
Say
The
least.
of
gur
70 July 67
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SECRET
OSWALD Case
MAY, Hoke Smith, # 167314
5 July 1967
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1. Note in the attached New Orleans States-Item articles that it
reportedly was to Hoke MAY, a reporter of that newspaper, that sa im
criminating letter which Gordon NOVEL, allegedly wrote to a Mr. WEISS,
who was "presumably connected with CIA," was delivered.
dinoard
2. According to the States-Item articles of 26 May 1967, the letter, Linoleum
which appeared to be a draft, had been found under a rug in an apartment
occupied by NOVEL prior to his departure from New Orleans in about
mid-March 1957, and had been turned over to the boyfriend of one of two
girls who found it while cleaning the apartment. The boyfriend had turned
it over to his professor at a New Orleans university who is a friend of
Reporter Hoke MAY, and he delivered it to MAY. (NOVEL's attorney has
stated that NOVEL worked for CIA in New Orleans in 1961).
3. Hoke MAY, without question, is Subject who in April 1958 was
granted a Covert Security Approval for unwitting use by Project FJINDULGE.
MAY was not to be directly employed by FJINDULGE bat was to be used in
connection with his position with a private firm which handled work for the
Project.
4. Investigation of Subject by this Agency in February/March 1958
reflected nothing of a derogatory nature. It id indicate, however, that he
has in the past had an interest in politics and in 1952 was employed as
political campaign manager in the unsuccessful race of a candidate for Congress
from Georgia. Subject's grandfather was a Governor of Georgia and later a
Senator from that State. Subject has been employed by various newspapers,
including the New York Times (October 1948-March 1949). There is no in-
formation in Subject's file subsequent to his Covert Security Approval dated
April 1958.
MDS:apk
M. D. Stevens
SECRET
then I
Excludes THER
dengeting and
Classification
classi
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FASEINERUULL
FOLLOWS DEVIOUS PAT
Letter by Novel
Adds to Mystery
letter written by Yu
loak and dagger twist
be
Attorney Steven Plotkin sald
communication. Furth
the Central Intelligence Ag
here in 1961
But Novel called the letter
a trap se for Dist:
Jim Garrison, who
tempting to bring Novel back
Orleans for
WHATEVER THE authen
Hicity of the document, the
circumstances of its discovery
read like a chapter
done-it
The letter ca
hands of State
Hoke May This
happe
letter turned
spring housecleaning.
well hidden in the fugitiv
French
ment
WELL HIDDEN,
leam of Federal Bu-
Investigation Agents
cers from Garrison
ative squad missed
they searched
oms after Novel left town
girls, who rented
Novel apartment after his
found it during
horough housecleaning and
refurbishing session.
One of them turned it over
to her boyfriend Hen
turn showed it to his profes
sor at a New Orleans univa
sity.
The professor is a friend of
THE LETTER was
to a MrWeiss
probably was written
January or early Februarycob
this year, judging by
me sequence it describes
Gordon Novel added
actually
was working
When a copy was
himPlotkin reviewe
cntents, spoke to his
and told the States-Item No
el bad drafted the letter
He said Everything in the
letter as far as Novel is con
cerned is actually the truth.43
The contents of the missive
are compounded of cryptic
rences, code names and
plea for Weiss to get Novel
date in March
LETTER
draft which later might
recopied or typed,
no indication it wa
mailed, however and Plotkin
said he does not know wheth
er the draft was sent to
addressee.
Presumably Weiss
nected with the
Novel departe
cleans, about mid-March
receiving a subpena
Garrison's Kenn
death plot investigation,
ent to McLean Va
headquarters of th
con
HE WAS MET there
former official of the Justice
Department who now
for one of the radio-television
nefworks
The 28-year-old former bar
owner took a lie detector lest
at McLean and ducked under
cover for another few days,
a time when he was reported
to be in Montreal.
His next appearance was
at Gahanna, Ohio, a Colum
bus suburb where he was ar
rested April on a warrant
from Garrison who charged
him with conspiracy to bur
glarize imunitions dumpy
Houma in 1961
AN INDEPENDENT
writing expert says the
sin Novel's handwriting
The expert, Gilbert Forfler of
New Orleans, compared the
penciled letter with other
samples of Novel's writing
and printing
It Is my conclusi
the same person wh
The handwriting
also wrote the draft
Weiss, Fortier asserted
that
He sald he checked
cially for the possibili the
letter might be a forgery but
concluded it was not prob
written easily
freely to have been
HE LETTER to Weiss
that District Atto
Garrison has
vasion in 19613
WE HAVE NO
ailable
tuation
riting
con
you of turn
Late channels:
connection
that perfod involved
dividuals presently
Mr Garrison
Indicted
yestigation
ave temporarily
reve
one subpena not
ple-Chek
this
this
or associate them
mess. We want out
thing before Thursday 3/167
attorneys have been told
expect another subpena
pear and testify on!?
The Fifth Amendmen
Ammunity (and) legal
Lactics will not
MR GAR
session
This testimony
aware of Double
volvement in this matter
has strong suspicions ha
been questioned
by local FBI ared
whether or hot
letter is onformatime. My reply
tensive
with Doubl
holding
was negative
Bureau unaware of Doublera
In this
myself and an associate to Chek assoc
testify before his Grand Juryter Q attorneys and
matters which may
classified TOP SECRETAG
tions of individuals connected
with DOUBLE-CHEK COR
PORATION Mamian rak
quarter of 1961
The authoritative
The Invisible Government,
identified Doub
Orleans
States.
Corp
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Novel Admitted Bunker Theft, Rhodes Is Told
“Continued from Page 1
New Orleans to Houma at
night in a Lincoln automo-
bile owned and driven by
Gordon Novel and in a panel
bruch
Novel Admitted
Bunker Theft,
Rhodes Is Told
An affidavit filed with new
radition papers sent to Co-
¡lumbus, Ohio, claims that
Gordon Novel admitted his
part burglary of a munį-
tions bunker in Houma in 1961.
The new extradition papers
were sent to Ohio Gov. James
Rhodes as part of Orleans
Parish Dist. Attorney Jim
Garrison' efforts bring
Novel back to Louisiana on a
burglary conspiracy charge,
Garrison wants Novel
connection with his Investiga-
tion of President Kennedy's
assassinations
James Alcock an assist.
and district, allorner, said in
the affidavit
་
The said Gordon Navel re-
ponded to questioning by Jim
Garrison, district attorney for
the 
Parish of Orleans, and
Kollam/Gurvich investigative
alde to Garrison, that he
and the parties named here,
in did in fact commit the con
spiracy and burglary outlined
@bove. ?
In the body of the affidavit,
Alcock declared that Novel,
Sergio Arcacha Smith, David
Perle and other tinnamed
persons did conspire, agren,
and combine to burglarize a
munitions bunker located in
Houma, La."
He said the conspiracy was
entered into in New Orleans
At the home of Arcacha.
Alcock said that the men
went to Houma on or about
Aug. 21, 1961
The trip was made from
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VEL GORDON
declined to say, what ques
tions were asked or what in-
formation was obtained from
the man.
"AFTER ARRIVING at the The extradition papers also
site of the bunker, which was included a photograph of No-
leased by Schlumberger Well vel identified by a former
Services Core the 
defendant, girl friend, Marlene Mancu
Gordon Nov 
Sergio Arca-42 Oaklawn dr., Metairie,
cha Smith, David W. 
Ferrie, who had dated Novel in 1961.
He is Quan M. Valdes) a self-
and others, unnamed, un, THE DOCUMENTS also described Latin playwright who
lawfully entered it by cutting contain a copy of the simple figured to one of the city's more
the lock with a pair of boll burglary charge leveled sensational murders. A mibpena
cutters which had been against Novel and Arcacha by was used for him yesterday.
brought along for the PHParish, The affidavit was 1664 discovered the mutilated
the sheriff of Terrebonne Valdes in the summer of
"After entry into the bunk- signed by Capt. Bert Boyne. body of 
Dr. Mary Stults Sher-
er (they) took various forms Meanwhile, the DA's offlee man, a women physician who
of explosives and munitions, sald a new figure in the in- occupied the same St. Charles
Thereafter they returned to vestigation scheduled for ave. apartment building where
the city of New Orleans with questioning today was inter- the summoned witness yes.
the stolen munitions,"
viewed last night by a Gár.
rison aide,
pose.
ADA's office spokesman
i
HE WAS investigating smoke
coming from the Sherman
apartment when he stumbled
onta the body, Dr, Sherman's
killer, who has never been.
found, tried to burn the body,
Garrison would pot comment
on what questions will be aske
ed Valdes...
Another Latin, 30-year-old
AR Carlos Quiroga, spent two hours
ang ten minutes before tha
grand juryyesterday - and
emerged without comment
QUIROGA
Puban exile,
was once a close friend and
associate of a fugitive witness
from the Garrison inquiry, 44-
year-old Sergiy Arcacha Smith,
new orleans
Orleans 
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Lane Stalks
Out of Parley
With Novel
COLUMBUS Ohio (AP)-
Amor Mark Lane and Gordon
Now, figures in controversies |
Surunding the death of Presi-
dent John F. Kennedy, had
hars words for each other after
Lane stalked out of a meeting he
had sought to discuss the New
Oceans assassination probe.
1 me, author of "Rush to
Jurigment," first book challeng-
ling the validity of the Warren
¡Commission report, yesterday
met privately with Novel,
wasted in New Orleans as a
material witness in. Dist. Atty.
Jim Garrison's Investigation.
Novel's Columbus attorney,
Jeny Weiner, said the meeting,:
aranged at Lane's request,
ivated mostly questioning
his sent by the author. When
Now started to question Lane,
Weiner said, the author refused.
to answer.
Bath men talked freely with
reporters afterward.
Navel, a former New Orleans
mig chab operator, branded
Lave a "publicity man for Jim
Gason" and asserted he is
ning propaganda work for the
district attorney."
Lane charged that a sodium
anyal (truth serum) test given
Noval in Columbus a few weeks
age was "rigged." Lane said:
Nova hedged on questions" he
answered during the test and
that he wasn't telling very,
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Lane and Novel Confrontation
Produces Heat, but Little Light
- By Abe Zaidan
The encounter in Weiner's ing interest in it. But he said
Special to The Washington Post law offices this morning he was leaving with reason to:
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 14 started when Lare asked to believe that Novel is not "at:
- Clearly, the spirit was not talk with Novel before drivi
left in a huff.
in keeping with that warm, ing on to Denison University all being-frank.".
deep-down-inside feeling of at Granville, Ohio, for an He charged that an earlier:
Mother's Day
afternoon lecture.
lie detector test which pur-
Mark Lane, the author, lec-
What got Lane really ported to clear Novel of in-
turer and critic of the Warren worked up was a 17-point volvement in the assassination
Commission Report, hissed
questionnaire that Weiner's
that he had been libeled, and private investigator, Sta segments of the media." This;
conspiracy was "rigged by
Greenbaum distributed to the he said, plainly meant the Na-
Gordon Novel, whom New handful of newsmen while tional Broadcasting Co. and
Orleans District Attorney Jim Weiner, Lane and Novel Hearst Headline Service, who
Garrison has described as a talked things over behind paid for the test.
key witness 
in the Kennedy closed doors.
"If Novel has nothing to
assassination probe, fumed The questionnaire, which hide, he ought to appear be
that Lane was nothing more Novel wanted Lane to an-fore the grand jury in New
than a "propagandist" for Gar-swer while strapped to a lie Orleans," Lane contended.
detector, was a masterpiece "If I went there." Novel
Serry Weiner, Novel's Co. of Red-baiting.
responded indignantly, "I'd
lumbus attorney, glumly al- His loyalty challenged, be incarcerated for life."
lowed as how he might have Lane put newsmer or notice | Novel is facing extradition
spent the morning on the golf that the 
statement was libel- on charges that he burglarized
course if Lane hadn't insisted ous. He accused Weiner of a munitions dump in Houma,
on the rendezvous with his cli- "unethical" conduct.
La. He has maintained that
rison anyway.
ent. But then he went into. Weiner, who revealed equal Garrison's whole case has :
detail about Novel's pending surprise at Novel's assault, been a fraud. Lane has been
libel suit against Garrison and apologized. But Lane assured saying that Garrison has the
his circle of financial backers everyone that he would never case wrapped up.
in New 
Orleans.
come back. By this time,) And Greenbaum plaintively
The only show of cordiality Weiner was saying he wouldn't remarked to everyone
came when an office secre- invite Lane back anyway. morning that "it's nice to
tary asked for Lane's auto-
Lane said he came to dis- know we're on the right side. .
graph. He responded graci-cuss the case with Novel be- We're the ones who are de
ously.
cause of the author's continu- fending our Government.".
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