HW 53199 AGENCY RECORD NUMBER RECORD SERIES AGENCY FILE NUMBER ORIGINATOR FROM TO TITLE - DATE PAGES SUBJECTS DOCUMENT TYPE CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTIONS CURRENT STATUS DATE OF LAST REVIEW OPENING CRITERIA COMMENTS y @ , . A ~ * Date: 06/18/96 Page: 1 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION CIA ; 104-10010-10224 JFK 201-289248 DOCUMENT INFORMATION CIA HELMS, RICHARD, DD/P, CIA DCI . PLANS OF BRITISH AND FRENCH PUBLISHING FIRMS TO PUBLISH THE THOMAS BUCHANAN ARTICLES ON ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY. 04/20/64 10 . BUCHANAN, T. FOREIGN PRESS FRENCH PUBLISH ‘ \ BRITISH PUBLISH PUBLISHING FIRM PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT — * SECRET ; 1B RELEASED WITH DELETIONS 06725/93 OSW15:V56B 1993.06.25:16:35:53:060150: PART OF BULKY XAAZ-27162; WITH RELEASE COVER SHEET #31 Docld:327107665 Page 2.
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a 8 NO FOREIGN DISSEN/ CONTROLLED DISSEM/NO DISSEM ASROAD/BACKGROUND vet + USE ONLY. . ny, ys ae - CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ppp / AO ‘ cS _ WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 | . ro, I¢ Pa pipe L, fe |. , - | wot 20 April 1964 3 ene 7 . aa MEMORANDUM FOR: The Director of Central Intelligence , SUBJECT:  %.... _ -Plans of British and French Publishing Firms to a Publish the Thomas Buchanan Articles on | Assassination of President Kennedy . 1. A competent American observer learned, in Paris on 10 April __ 1964, that Secker and Warburg Ltd., in-London, will publish as a an book the Thomas Gittings Buchanan articles which have appeared in Paris in l'Express. The publishing firm is also approaching various . 7 publishers in the United States and the firm is rushing its edition, “1 - hoping to have it on sale by 15, May 1964. em 2. Buchanan's thesis is that the assassination of President |*.™: Kennedy was the product of a rightist plot in the United States. eR He alleges in his articles that the slain Dallas policeman Tippett <).. 5. was part of the plot against President Kennedy. ee - 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-_. dent in the United States of the Italian magazine Epoca. Nerin . a Gun claims to have been in the car following President Kennedy's car. . 4. 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 an the book will be Frederick Muller of 110 Fleet Street, London. <8: 8 + Rives indicated that Gun was handling all foreign publication Te rights to his book. 5. According to Anne Rives, the German publisher for the , we oa AL Buchanan book will be Rowohlt of Hamburg. She states that two Bo American publishers have made offers for the book: Houghton- Le, Mifflin is said to want to buy put not publish right away as the’ -.. ”. 66 Co, 7 ~~. Excluded from automat-r Te, os - ;  Gowngrading and ee, declassiflcation | NO FOREIGN prssay/comnorzE DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND a | | USE ONEY a ye aw 53199 pockd: 32107665 Page 4 7 «68 COPY | Del - P92 7
~ , ‘ S-E-U-R-E-T No FOREIGN Drssini/conTROLEED DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLY firm is now doing two "official" books on President Kennedy with United States Government backing. The other American firm, Knopf ,, wants to publish the book right away and will probably get rights through Curtis Brown of 575 Madison Avenue, New York City, the literary agency involved. — 6. The Agency is aware that Thomas Gittings Buchanan, born in” Baltimore, Maryland, 16 March 1919, was discharged as a reporter for The Washington Star in 1948, at which time he admitted he was -.:-°." a member of the Communist Party of the United Stateg.} Julliard | - published his book "Unicorn" in France in 1959 and a year later . the Sloane firm published the Buchanan book in the United States. =: 7. Concerning Nurin Gun, it has been reported that he was born. 008 in Rome on 22 February 1924 of Turkish parents. He has been a free- lance journalist since 1946 and has placed articles in American» _and-Western European publications. In 1956 he resided in Toronto, .CSDB- 3/660, 704.“ Canada and the Turkish Consulate in that city refused to grant him . & passport to return to Turkey because he was considered by them to be a Communist. — eonnans Helms Co rth a “Deputy Director for Plans 7° oles) —S=ES6=R=Bep- NO FOREIGN DISSEM/CONTROLLED DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND me USE ONLY a _Dpocid: 32107665 _Page 5
te - NO FOREIGN - DDISSEM/ CONTROLLED DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND : a '' USE ONLY . Orig.: The Director of Central Intelligence Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs The Director of Intelligence and Research, Department of State The ‘Director, Defense Intelligence Agency — oo . ot - 7 ‘The Attorney General. . The ‘Department of Justice The Director, Federal . Bureau of Investigation The Deputy. Director of Central Intelligence * °° Deputy Director for Intelligence Assistant Director for National Estimates Assistant Director 1 for Current Intelligence, — ros a - 3 - ; S=ESC=RE=T - NO FOREIGN DISSEM/CONTROLLED DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD BACKGROUND : aa . USE ONLY ; Gils 53199 Docld: 32107665 Page 6 sepemnnes - ;