14-00000 ‘uneoag slo’ whe perteria suectal aselin nents, Ranoarte’ of January sYod adds, “E-isedlately alter | the s2cassination, @ distrauy't Underhill tuld friends ‘that a goud-autono neue CLA clique which nad been ve. abtee ring in narcotics and guaerunning wae ivclicated ja tee ‘Aeba6 dination. Tie close € Gartigoa-Turner |” aésocdatiin and Garrison's vouching ior the: accuracy of the Ka..vartes account sugyest tiat Garrison hay maka al. dist assertions when ibs case co neb te trial. (3) BCS relatichaent>: “UNDERHILL was an. ; . infreuent ‘contact at the bes New York office from . tate 1949-to the 3 Ad-195c's. He wag note: ‘aployed by that office. Tie purpose of contact wae te ovtain’ positive foreign intelligence. 4 Group Wl {total of 14) a. Valentine ASHWORTH (20: ~337659), 4!) Prior ralaevscea: Nowa. 42) Invotvement in Garrison's taveotipation: a> Cetober 13L2 ASHWORTH sent a letter fron Leeeville, Louisiana, to the Cuban Accbaesador ja Mexiea. He offered information avout tha ‘Cuban Raider Gaonunasd” and the ‘People's Revulutionary Alove nent” im exctauge for helo in deiecting to Cuba. Ne sald that CLA did nut Gave the eaine information.. Arrostud oa ko May 190. ior Investication af aute theft, ASHWORTH teld an SDL pcectal agent Vial he bad particivated In several raids on Cuba, that he was a cllot and an expert im eu plosivea, and that GLA was aware ol Lie activities and could aroide tniermaiieg aveul the:., Arreated again va Ze Avril (9o7 for vosecsaion of a stolen antomoulla, ASHWORTH was sent to tha jail in Lake Charles, Louisiana, A fellow in nate, one Richard PMILLIOS, wrote tha SBE te gay that ASHWORTH clatnued to have shared an anvarg eat in Colo with Lee liarcey Cewald, that iswald and he belonged to a greus of New Ocleana Cuvane who aliled President Neunedy and “were gu; vsed to ki) Cantry at the ease dine", that Le) een en re tte
14-00000 “eC, -awald- was rn yelsey (sic) and cid '¢ lire a Bhat, that ' ‘Kennedy’ @ aspeins (sic) ware. as was Cewald,- trained by te CIA", éte. Onil$ Cctover 1967 a deputy’  eheriff wdvised the: PDE that-an unideutified aselotant.: \-dbetréct ‘attorney on ‘Garriéon’ @ stall had cusie to Lake Giiarles, ene eath earlier and had iuter slewed ASH WORTH for an hour. Accordiny to. PHILLEPS, ‘Garrison's répracentatives have cuestionsd. ASHWORTH: abeat. four ti:nes and have aehad hin U he was & member of CIA. * The: ‘U.S. Marine Corps advieed on 3 ‘January 3964 that ASHWORTH enlldted on 24 Decasiizer 1982, was honoraly Glocharged-on 33 March 1993, soonlisted the sextiday, aad then served unull 3 Dece:nber 1954, ‘wher given « tad condact discharye followlag a general courtemartial at which he wae (ound quilty of unlawful absence and failure tu. obey lawfal orders. : (3) CIA relationship: None. b. W. Guy BANIBTER a) rior relerénces: Me:norandnns No, 1, 26 A.riY 1947, Enclosure 3; Me.orandus No. 2, & May (767, Enclosure 3. (2) Invelvenent in Garrison's investigation: Hacscarte of January i968, uo, <7, states that a former Ainutes.an naned Jerry Milton BROCKS had said that BANISTER was the “head of tre Anth-Comciuinion League oi the Caribvean.” Racoarts asserte that thia “league” was ‘aésertedly an interinedlary between the CIA and Caribbean insurgency -nevernents. * (3) CIA relationsaln: None. According to our records, Manarice Broo.g GATLIN Sr. (vee beluw) waa legal counsel not, as Rav wrts ays, to tha “Anti« Conmunmisin League of the Caribbean” vet tothe “Antl- Curnnianie:n Cannittee of the A:nerlieas". FBI resorting clearly indicates that GATLIN was the sule member of tate national group. An FBI repurt al id Feuruary 1961 av.ted BANISTE as saying that se had never been an olficer or member of the "group, GATLIN's clabwoa to the comtrary notwithstanding. vee eaten et ce ne mre a Oe