(404-10104-10351 The soot, sown, oO (adLassiFten ee a C1 cé_ enTiat [1 SECRET ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET ee ne : , BATE _— _. ‘-| 7468 1 March 1968 _DATE OFFICER'S | COMMENTS (Number each comment te shew from whom INITIALS SUBJECT: (Opticnaly ne, Raymond G, Rocca C/CI/R&A gnation, room number, cape TO: (Officer desi building) to whom. Draw @ fine ecross column after each comment.) Larry Houston 7D01 Larry: This is forwarded to you at Sammy Halpern's request, As we see it, Garrison has now reached the ultimate point in the logic of his public state- ments on the case since the Playboy article, It's no longer a matter of CIA having been un- witting and then covering up for agents or ex-agents. It's now a matter of the conscious plan- ning and carrying out of the assassination, This is by and large the Moscow line put out through R. Palme Dutt--a long- standing Soviet stalking horse-- in the U.K., Labour Review, January 1964, The theme was later picked up by Joachim _ Joesten and other sources. The cables are self- explanatory about the Dutchman . involved, The file entries we hold on him here just add more detail to the unsavory portrait, Se 1$. saz 610 “esere’* [] SECRET © ([] CONFIDENTIAL [[] [NIERNAL =) UNCLASSIFIED
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