Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 ee Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10172-10006 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: _105-82555-2ND NR 4661 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: LEGAT, LONDON TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE : J DATE: 08/17/1964 PAGES: 3 SUBJECTS : [Restricted] DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : — Confidential RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: = 01/25/1994 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : INCLUDES MEMO FROM LEGAT, LONDON v9.1 DocId: 32170687 Page 1
v Kennet Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hotey~ ~ DARE 21- 14-2017 .- UNITED STAGES is cov On oo nneen Ge ON ON Memorandum a “TO Director, “yBI  (100-409763)_ a 1 DATE: | 8/37/64 4 | supyecr: MARK LANE =, gon a/ FROM D+ Legat, London (100-3247) (P) Pe ae | 7 a a -Re London letter 6/30/64. | oy wry | cae O- _ 7 soot . | | \ Ja By letter dated 8/5/64 the Danish Security a ‘ cB Service (DSS) furnished information set out in enclosed. NO — = LEM, T-1 in the enclosure is the DSS. The LHMis.... S ely classified CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with: ‘the desires a re are bo 5 tad of the DSS. ; SERRATE ALL If “3 - Bureau (Ene. 5) - Liaison (Enc. 1) (sent airect) oe 1 - London _JTM: vw ~@) Been A? tach Aay OW hae a) ~~ Nor RECORDED ~ Y9Q9SEP 2- 1964" Docld: 327170687 Page 2?
’ Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC, 2107-Hote). RATE: 41-14-2017 So er oe A ae : eo Sl eo UNITES S-rATES DEPARTMENT OF WdLcE FEDERAL, BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ' CONFIDENTIAL wd Ww pea AL : | Wasuimerow 25, B.6 August 17, 1964. (tie by (565° “et lhnes— of BR ie QADR -, ~abaee ev ou 5 ‘DD Jus y 3- 3 “wee source abroad FI SAtl es hag MARK LANE entered Denmark April 9, 1964, from Rome ns Hand stayed sat ‘the. Hotel Royal in Copenhagen on April 9 to oo OMB “10, 1964, On April 16, 1964 he reentered Denmark from -_ ‘On August 5, furnished information as follows: #@ > ‘London, England, and he stayed at the Hotel Viking, ¢3t&33 Copenhagen, April 16 and 17, 1964 and at the Hotel Skovrid- ‘© G9! -erkroen on April.17 and 18, '1964.(2) | a (o> ae ‘. — ae. On April 10}, 1964 LANE delivered a lecture to the ui  'Students' Union" in Copenhagen concerning the assassination w of President Kennedy, In this regard, T-1 adWised that - penHse® p= Sa. KNOWN, Danish. Communist, JORGEN THETLGAARD JACOBSEN, a 3 ig lawyer , born n April li 33 1919, _took “the ‘initiative in forming : gz “3279 a Danish ‘committee for “the main purpose of obtaining .informa- 3 “iG tion on the continued investigations into the assassination. *1/ Cll —— Further, this committee intends to have translated and. arch "published a book which LANE is writing on LEE _ HARVEY OSWALD" s part or innocence in the murder. ) JACOBSEN and LANE pecaine acquainted somet ime ago when ..... f- attending the Congress of the’'""International Association | of Democratic Lawyers" in Budapest and they intend to con-'. - tinue the contact as MARK LANE will supply the Danish Com-.. mittee with all new material on tk 4e assassination, (S eee While in Denmark, MARK. LANE ‘was interviewed on April *~ ° 28, 1964, for eight minutes by. the, ‘Danish State Television..." Service, (e) oN oe \ in the middle of May, T-1l received information that: iA8® intended to visit Denmark again and during the. = icon of May 25, 1964, in Copenhagen he delivered a ectur: ata meeting organized by the "Lawyers' Debating Club'', The evening of May 25, 1964, in Aarhus, Denmark, LANE delivered a lecture to a * meeting organized by the “Students! Association" and the daiiy paper “Demokraten". CY Excluded say downg rye td Tassit cen is or Pe ENCLOSUES Docld: 327170687 Page 3
"Released undér the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). QATH: 41-14-2017 o, _. ... €-1 advises that these lectures were similar to his previous ones in that LANE gave an account of his inquiries, since the assassination in November and showed. -~ why in his opinion OSWALD cannot have been the assassin. ( LANE also-stated during the lectures ‘that he had visited Dallas, Texas five times; that he wasuunder sur- ‘veillance by the F.B.I. , which tapped his telephones, . and that he was happy to have the opportunity of pleading “the cause in Europe, as he had gained the impression that og. this was being reported by the Press in the United States.(Gf LANE's comprehensive material on the assassination 24 reportedly has been placed at the disposal of the Danish y "Mark Lane Committee" for the purpose of early publication.(C) \ On May 26, 1964, LANE departed Copenhagen for Sweden, \ France and England, where.he was also to deliver lectures. rq T-1 advised that 'Who, Killed Kennedy Committees". A have been established on LANE's initiative in Copenhagen, « _ .° Paris and London, all with prominent personalities as — . members, CY \ ee ~*~. According to -1, LANE returned to the United States :onsJuly 1, 1964, CC}. re ee ss ye DoclId: 327170687 Page 4