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DELCCE HOAX MEMORANDUM No. 9 SUBJECT: Garvison and the Kennedy Assangination i. SUMMARY This memorandum provides information about twenty persons whe have net been Listed previcusly in this series, who are involved in the Garrigen case, and who have or have claimed te have « connection with the Central Intelligence Agency. One, Willlam Clarens WOOD, ie a former staff employee. i. PERSONNEL i. Thomas Edward BECKHAM (aka Mark EVANS) : aged BILCHHAM 30 December 1967 a neha, Mebraska, judge ordered him to return to —— Louisiana 39 January $63. BECKHAM says he helped Sergio ARCAGHA Soith raiee funds for Guban revolutionary forces in Mew Orleans in 1962. BEGKHAM is an entertainer-evangeliet whe wees the stage name of Mark EVANS. b. On 3 January 1968 BECKHAM allegedly teld David LEWIS of New Orleang that he, BECKHAM, and a Jim LNU “from Ornaha" are agents of the CLA. ec. RID hae no record of BECKHAM. 2. Melvin BELLA a. BELLI wae a defense attorney ior Jack RUBY.  b. Jim GARRISON was a weekend guest of BELLI when GARRISON visited San Francisco in October 1967. SER A I Exe! Fut rot avtemati uy ov bases ing and ssitinaisa eae RAS RPE
14-00000 SECRET. ¢. BELLI was reportedly involved in licit drug traff_le with Morris ELOWITZ in 1958 ELOWITZ wae a suspected contact of Lucky LUCIANO. 3. Donald Dean BOHNING (201-813769) - a. BOHNING is the Latts American Editor of the Miami Herald. He was granted a PCGA on 21 August 1967 and a CSA on 14 November 1967. He is AMCARBON-3. b. BOHNING reverted he was contacted an 28 March 1968 by a Winston SMITH whe claimed te be investigating Rolande MASFERRER. for Jim GARRISON. 4. Colonel L. Rebert CASTORR a. Col. CASTORR allegedly met with Jack RUBY, Robert PERRIN, aud others in Dallas in 1942 to plan a Cuban sxauggling eperation. CASTORR te also allegedly an associate of General Edwin A. WALKER. Joachim JOESTEN end others have broadly hinted that CASTORR is associated with CIA. &. There is no record of agency association with CASTGRE. An PBI repert of 13 March 1968 reported that  EASTORE bad lunch with Viktor Ivanovich MIRGNOY (261: -731048),, Ee a BGS officer at the Seviet Embagey in Wachington. a. As President of the New Orleans Trade Center, COBB was, according to Plot or Pelitics, the “boas” of Clay EHAW. b. COBB wae granted a CEC on 3 October 1953 for use en a private attorneys’ panel far the OGG. COBB wae granted a PSA on 19 June 1967 to permit contact and assesement in comnection with hie use on a cleared attorneys’ panel ior the OGC. 6. Michael Charlies CONLEY a. Michael Charles CONLEY is an agparent US Government source of Robert Kenneth BROWN. b. A Dr. Michael C. CONLEY applied for Agency employment in 1964. Identity with a, above, has not been established, | SEGHET
14-00000 ceecee aera d ZY -. SEORET 7. Allen W. DULLES a. GARRISON subgeosnacd Mr. DULLES on 16 February 1968 as a material witness. b. Gn 7 March 1968 Judge Matthew BRANIYP issued a second eubpoena for Mr. DULLES. c. On 22 May 1968 GARRISON's office accused the Justice Department of refusing to cooperate in the subpoensing ef Mr. DULLES ae a witaeee. 8. Wieslaw GORNICKE (261-198323) a. GORNIGKI is a Polieh journalist who was the author ef a long article on the GARRISON investigation in "Polityka” Mo. 1 (866), Year KH Wareaw, 6 January 1968. b. GORNMICKI was the subject of an unsuccessful recruitment atterapt in 1965 while he wae a correspondent at 9. Marshall Wilson HOUTS (201-333160) ° 9. BOUTS, a former FBI agent, is the author of an =< article in Medical Economies <4 March 1968 which criticized the autopsy of President Kennedy. b. HOUTS served with OSS in Burma daring World War H and was invalved in the misapprepristion of gove rament property. HOUTS waeucceasiully applied for Agency employment fm 1952. i@. Guy Perenc JOHNSON (201-207873) a. JOHNSON wae aa carly defenge counsel for Clay SHAW. b. A POA wae requested 14 May 1954 for JOHNZON 24 te be used on Guarn a6 a contract agent for OGKODIAK (raining The request fer the POA wag later cancelled. hl. William R. KLEIN a. According to Plet or Politics KLEIN was an
incorporater of Friends ef Democratic Cuba, along with Guy BANISTER, Willian DALZELL, and Grady C. DURHAM. KLEIN denied contact with DURHAM, BANISTER, and Friends ef Demecratic Cuba. He admitted association with DALZELL te set up the Pree Volee of Latin America. KELIN scemea to be a personal friend of Jim GARRISON. b. KLEIN applied for agency employment in 1965 but accepted a job with the US Navy General Counsel's Office. ig Rebert Rvensen LEE a. LEE was an Agaiatant District Atterney fer Jim GARRISON from 1 January 1967 to 1 January 1968. b. WEE applied for agency employment on 5 January 1948. 13. WilHam Richard MARTIN (261-263516) a. MARTIN was an Assistant District Atterncy for Jim GARRIGON until December 1967. ZY b. MARTIN wae(a DCS contact and source in 1964 and 1968 when ho was Director of International Relations and World » Teade of international Houses in New Orleans. 14. Relman MORIN (201.~1069129) a. MORIN te the author of Aseagsination, a pro-Warren Commiseion book. b&b. MORIN provided information to O85 on his internment in Indo China during the early part of Werld War H. e. MORIN wae considered for the job of President of the Committee ® Free Agia ia 1951 and the job of President of (3 TPILLAR (asta Foundation) in 1953. iS. Dr. Alten OCHSNER (261 -834497) a. An FBI confidential informant reported on 24 April 1968 that Jini GARRISON believes Dr. CCHSNER was a principal isvolved in the conspiracy to assassinate President Reanedy. SEGRET ae cr.
SECRET b. Dr. OCHSNER ia Director of the Ocbener Foundation, head of the Ochener CHnic, and President of the Information Council of America. He is a world-famous surgeon. c. Dr. OCHSNER was of contact interest in October 1947 and Novernber 1946. He has been a cleared source since 13 May 1955. The last official contact with Dr. OCHSNER personally occurved oa 38 January 1962 aed with the Ochaner Clinic on & November 1963. 16. Robert PERRIN a. Rebert PERRIN allegedly met with Jack RUBY, Gal. L. Rabert CASTORR, and others in Dallas in 1962 to plan a Cuban emuggling operation. PERRIN has been accused of being a CIA gun-runner in Spain and in Cubs. b. A Lt. (jg) Rebert Polloch PERRIN fled a personal histery statement with OS6 in January 1944. There te no iudication he ever served with OSS or was later connected with the Agency. 17. Benjamin SONNENBERG ‘a. Mark LANE said on the ecknewledgement sage of cans Rush To Judgament: “Iam deeply indebted to Benjamin SGNNENBERG, Jz. whose numerous and invaluable suggestions have found their way inte this valume." b. Benjarnin SOMNENBSERG was granted a CEA on 29 June 1959 for use under Project QRENGHANT. The CSA was revaiidated for coatinued use on 26 July 1965. c. An April 1959 Dean and Bradatreet report listed SONNENBERG ag a director of the publishing firm ef Heary Halt and Company, Inc., 333 Madigon Ave., New York Gity. Rush To Tudgerment wae published »y Holt, Rinchart and Wlison inc., 363 Madieon Ave., ostensibly the game company. da. An October 1954 FBE report said that in 1938 Alfred K. STERN carmarked $3000 in a bank account to guarantee a bank loan raade to SONNENBERG.
14-00000 - SECRET used the term “junior” and it ig not known yet if he has a een of that name. 6. Mr. and Mre. Edgar Bloom STERN (He is 201~178541) a. Jack ROGERS, the committee counsel for the joint legislative Committee on Un-American Activities for the State of Levisiana, reported te the DCS on 1 June 1967, that GARRISON had been receiving contributions and monetary suppert from Mre. Edgar B. STERN. e. There is ne indication that SONNENBERG ever | b. Adve. Edgar B. STERN is the former Edith ROSENWALD and the former sister-in-law of Alfred K. STERN. e. Clay SHAW attended a party givea by “an old friend", Edith STERN, apparently in October 1967. d. Edgar 8. STERN was granted a covert clearance im January 1953 for use ag a donor in Project(LACQIN. This clearance was cancelled in Septeraber 1956. 42 e. Philip Maurice STERN, son of the above mentioned “= gougde, waa granted « Matsen clearance in March 1961 when he... was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affaire. - Philip STERN was aleo named as ene of a “board of advisors" to Hubert HUMPHREY in 196). 19, Monree SULLIVAN a. SULLIVAN claimed to be with Clay SHAW in Saa Franciece all day 22 November 1963. b. SULLIVAN was granted a CSA on 10 December 1942 to permit utilisation under Project QRENCHANT. |_ 26. William Clarens WOOD (201-834272) a. A Bill WOOD, welng the narce BELL BOXLEY, is investigating CEA and ite operations for Jim GARRISON. b. Bil WOOD is believed to be identical with William Clarens WOOD, a former etaf{f employee of this Agency. SENET
“py c. Wiliam Clerens WOOD, born 17 August 1920, was approved fer O88 duty in December 1944, but wae not utilized. Qn 13 December 1950 WOOD was granted a CSC for utilization ae © Staff Agent with Project(TPFOCUS. He suffered - a nervous breakdown in March 1952 "He was assigned to OTR 28 an inctructer (GS-11) in May 1952. He resigned 27 January 1933, after hie resignation had been requested, because of alecholisam. While under the influence of sodium pentothol during a medical operation in July 1953 WOOD made statements showing extreme antagenis:: toward the Agency. The FBI reported ta April 1957 that WOOD had affered assistance to the Nationaliat Chinese Intelligence Service. DCS requested clearance te use OOD tn February 1967 but dropped the request alter the FBI reported that ke wae drinking heavily again. .
' é oe oe - Stone Originated by:CI/REAJ WKeslerjdm 5 June 1968 Distribution: Grig « BCI « DDP « Executive -Gormptrolier « A/DCI ~ Office of Security - Etrector, Domestic Contact Gervice - WH/Cuba - G/Cl, DG/c3 - R&A chrono + Garrisen file