104-10067-10074 7 ; . sel SUBJECT ; nr? 15 SEP 1967 — MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence Garrison's Charges Against CIA C This summary lists those persons linked in published comments of Garrison or others to the New Orleans investigation who also have, have had, or have claimed Agency ties. Because Garrison has. undisclosed information and may have been inten- tionally misleading, the information in this paper should be viewed as only a partial‘indication of the case against CIA that Garrison is expected to elaborate in court. _ Clay L. Shaw Relationship to Case Indicted for conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy. Garrison has not linked Shaw to CIA in any known statement. Trialis expected to start late September or ~ early October 1967. Lawrence J. Laborde Relationship to Case His son, Michael W. Laborde, who has no CIA ties, told the FBI of the father's tie to CIA Wy ame See nal ree ane Pat oa Facts re CIA Contact of DCS office, New Orleans, 1948-1956. Source of several. DCS reports, chiefly on Latin America. Introduced the then DCCI, Gen. Charles P. Cabell, who addressed its members, on 9 May 1961, to the New Orleans! Foreign Policy Association. as Facts re CIA DD/P (JMWAVE) contact from February 1961 to April 1962. Served as officer on ship used | eb A389
14-00000 and has been extensively debriefed by Garrison's office. On ll“May 1967 Lawrence Laborde telephoned the DCS office, New Orleans, said he feared a Garrison subpoena, offered to leave the U.S., and requested instruc- _ tions. (He was told that the New Orleans office was in no position to advise him. }_ Emilio Santana Relationship to Case Cuban burglar convicted in New : Orleans in 1964, placed on for Cuban operations.- Galino Facts . re CIA (Recruited by DD/P (JIMWA (in October 1962 as guide for) probation, allowed to go to Miami, recalled to New Orleans by Garrison 12 February 1967 and subjected to five days of ques- tioning. FBI report says SANTANA -. was alleged to own a Manlicher- Carcano rifle like Oswald's and to have been in Dealy Plaza at time of assassination on orders of the alleged conspirators (Shaw, Oswald, David Ferrie, and Sergio Arcacha Smith). During June 1964 listed CIA as employer in loan application for car purchase. Victor Manuel Paneque y Batista Relationship to Case Carlos Quiroga identified Paneque to Garrison on 21 January 1967 as having been in Knew py true or othér names 8 CIA staff members and 14 other agents. Facts re CIA Arrived in U.S, September 1960 from Cuba, where he had been chiefof rural police. charge of training at a military camp located in Lacombe, Louisiana, in August 1963. The training site was on or near Lake CEnaT OEUGE I ee PRIS NE! it ire
Pontchartrain. Garrison claims that the camp was run by CIA. No available information indicating direct contact between Paneque and Garrison or staff. tobe dropped at the end ofS at month for lack of any. » ( immediate operational-use— : i CIA had no tie with any training camp on or near Lake Pontchartrain. > Alberto Federico Fernandes Hechavarria Relationship to Case On 12 July 1967 } Michael Ww. Laborde told a Cuban working. | for Garrison, "Mike" LNU, that one Alberto FERNANDEZ was ‘the head of the Cuban organization with which his father had worked. _"Mike!’ said that. Gerald Patrick iz Hemming Jr. - 7 and one Roy LNU had also told him about the activity of Lawrence Laborde and Alberto Fernandez with anti- Castro Cuban organizations. — There is no available information indicating direct contact between Fernandez and. Garrison or his staff. Fernandez lives” in Key Biscayne, | Fla. Facts re CIA contac arting ecemoper continuing at least through, nuary . ‘Carlos Jose Bringuier Relationship to Case On 6 April Bringuier told New Orleans office of DCS he had -been summoned.to Garrison's office at unstated date, polygraphed, and queried re CLA contact. Believed his denial passed muster. Also questioned by Alberto Fowler, Facts re CIA office, New Orleans. Formerly the New Orleans leader of the Student . Revolutionary Directorate (DRE), an anti-Castro organi- gation conceived, created, and funded by CIA. Contact of DCS (Further es
14-00000 ‘12 July 1963. a Cuban who is a Garrison investigator. . According to a statement to the FBI by . Carlos Quiroga,. Fowler has. - claimed that Garrison will prove that Bringuier was aware of Oswald's affiliation with CIA. According to. the Warren Commission. report (Vol. X, pp. 32-50) there was-an altercation and fight between Oswald and Bringuier on 9 August 1963 and a radio debate on 21 August 1963, when Oswald identified himself asa | Marxist. details re contact have again been requested of DCS.) Bringuier was investigated by the FBlI'on behalf of the Warren Commission. He has had no contact with the DD/P, and there is no DD/P file on him. mt Gerald Patrick Hemming Jr. Relationship. to Case Michael Ww. Laborde furnished Facts re CIA ‘Hemming has denied sponsorship information to the FBl and Garrison's by any U.S. Government agency. office about Hemming and other ex- marines and soldiers of fortune allegedly involved in anti-Castro — activities. On.8 July 1967 Hemming and Roy LNU (possibly Collins, an associate of Hemming) went to Garrison's office. Hemming is currently living in Baton Rouge. On 28 February 1963 said that his group planned to send a white feather to President Kennedy. Had meeting with General Edwin A. Walker on Has made derogatory remarks about CIA. However, recent information from DCS indicates that he was in touch with their Los Angeles office. (Further details are being sought.) A WH memoran- dum of February 1965 states that the DD/P has never had any operational relationship with Hemming. A cable from a WH Division covert operations office in New Orleans, BARR 1682 of 18 June 1964, reported that . ' Hemming's group had threatened to create a scene to embarrass CIA. SENET
14-00000 © Agency ties. Donald P. Norton _ » Relationship to Case In a Vancouver Sun interview printed 8 August t 1967 Norton claimed that he started working for CIA in mid- 1957, that the. ‘association ended i in November . 1966, and that: in 1958 he delivered $150, 000 in CIA funds to David Ferrie for transfer _ to Cuba, and that in 1962 Clay Shaw passed.him $50,000 to be couriered to'Monterrey, Mexico, where-Norton gave this sum to Oswald, ' On 15 July 1967 a representative of Garrison's office flew with Norton to New Orleans, where his story was taped. Garrison — has said that he plans to use Norton as a ‘witness during Shaw! 5 trial. ne wer _ Gordon D. Relationship to Case Novel has claimed CIA affiliation, implied Agency ties, and denied Garrison has stated that Novel was.a CIA agent and that one of his lawyers, Stephen _Plotkin, is paid by CIA. Novel was polygraphed by a private de- tective in McLean, Va., so that the newspapers linked him to CIA. He has alleged that he and Facts re CIA Norton! s story is a lie. He has had no link with CIA. FBI reporting shows that Donald Philetus Norton, undoubtedly the same person, was discharged from the U.S. Army (according to his mother) "with a nervous. condition"; he has a record of nine arrests, between 1949 and 1958 alone, for embezzlement, forgery, bad checks, etc. . Novel Facts re CIA All of Novel's claims about association with CIA are lies. (The Agency has also had no tie to Stephen Plotkin.) His motives remain obscure. One “ ' possibility is that he is in collusion with Garrison. ~ ee ee re er eee ee er
14-00000 others robbed the Schlumberger bunker in Houma, La., at CIA's instigation and that he ran the Evergreen Advertising Agency in New Orleans as_a CIA front. He left ina New Orleans apartment — a letter, subsequently handed to Garrison, implying a tie between Novel and CIA: operation Double - Chek. On 28 May 1967 Novel sent to the DCl a telegram about the Garrison investigation. On 22 August 1967 he telephoned the DCS office in ‘New Orleans and said that he would try. to keep CIA from becoming involved in Garrison's | investigation. - In a Chicago TV - interview of 15 May 1967 Novel said that he met Garrison in 1966 and later. worked for him as a counter - audio. expert. He left New Orleans. for Columbus, ‘Ohio, ' shortly after the Garrison inves- tigation started. Garrison's ‘subsequent. efforts to secure his extradition were not successful. Pye? oxi enpney Oouiih