| { i | { | | ! | | i | | | i Sebo B-P- | .* “OC ROREEGN-DESSEM/ CONPROLLED.-DESGEM/NOZDISSEM-ABROAD/BACKGROED?, | a Se AS CENTRAL ANTE. LLIGENCE AGENCY CT AWASHINGTON, DiCy 20505 © SROMApTLLA195U MEMORANDUM FOR: The Director of Central. Intelligence SUBJECT: . - Plans of British and French Publishing Firms to. . Publish the Thomas Buchanan Articles on , Assassination of President Kennedy 1. A competent American observer learned, in Paris on*LO%April. 1964, that Secker and Warburg Ltd., in London, will publish as 4 book the Thomas Gittings Buchanan articles which have appeared in Paris in.1'Express. The publishing firm is also approaching various publishers in the United States and the firm is rushing its edition, hoping to have it on sale by 15 May 1964. - ; 2, Buchanan's thesis is that the assassination of President Kennedy was the product of a rightist plot in the United States. He alleges in his articles that the slain Dallas policeman Tippett was part of the plot against. President Kennedy... 3. A-well-informed American, who maintains excellent contacts in French publishing circles, reported that Anne Rives (in charge of foreign rights for the Rene Julliard publishing firm) stated’ that the Buchanan book would be published in France by the end of April 1964. Julliard is hoping to publish the book at the same time as Les Roses Rouges de Dallas by Nerin Gun, who is correspon-- “€ent in the United States of the Italian magazine Epoca. Nerin _ Gun claims to have been in the car following President Kennedy's car. h. Anne Rives described the book Les Roses Rouges: de Dallas as devastating and, for this reason, it could not be published in the United States. According to Rives, the British publisher for the book: will be Frederick Muller of, 110 Fieet Street, London. Rives indicated that Gun was handling all foreign publication rights to his book. . 5. According to Anne Rives, the German publisher for the Buchanan book will be Rowohlt of Hamburg. She states that two American publishers have made offers for the book: Houghton- _ Mifflin 4s said to want to buy but not publish right away as the GiOUE +  Exclicco-iZom automate ; Conngraging and ; . “__ teslassiticatitm _10- PORETGN= DISSEM/CONTROLLED-DISSEM/NO-DESSEM ABROAD /BACKGROUND 7 _USESURE a Hw 53199 DoclId:327107665 Page 6 dew ve wtedendrwle aes boa Rabe ae Lee er De
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