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 : v9.1 Docld:322707382 Page 1 _JEK Assassination System Date: | . Identification Form Agency Information DOJ 179-20002-10144 CLASSIFIED SUBJECT FILE 129-11, OFFICIAL MAIL SECT. 17C Document Information DOS. AMEMBASSY LONDON SECSTATE 03/16/1967 2 BRITISH GAME OF ASSASSINATION PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified Consulted Withhold 06/19/1998 BOX 56 4/22/201
; ; - SSS = “os ‘ 5 we : . : migee* / a . S: oe ee ee en an ot oo, ; [NCTMING-TELEGRAM Department of State | és ve . . Bo . oe Action . ; . to . . vue Lo a ee a : h cog | ; ca oe BLE | ESR ° - VZCZCLDNI96 | 424 8 | to RR RO eaeg ASBT MAR 6 PM 3430 Ifo = ss DE RUDTCR 7486C 8751958 TOTMAR 160 PM 343. : oe ZNY CCCCC | rn can R 161834Z MAR 67 EMT FM AMEMBASSY LONDON : OBS TO SECSTATE WASHDC i sc _- STATE GRNC , a ; ; wou » BT, re 7 ee 7 ib’ .  g )N FID ENT I AL LONDON 7486 | P JOINT EMBASSY/USIS MESSAGE WSEA ' I NSC te SUBSIDIARY OF PUBLISHING HOUSE OF JONATHAN CAPE HAS PUBLISHED ee AND IS DISTRIBUTING LATEST IN SERIES OF HOME AMUSEMENT KITS KNOWN AS "JACKDAWS,” THESE ARE ESSENTIALLY.COLLECTIONS OF ~< MATERIALS PERMITTING USERS TO RECONSTRUCT THE EVENT INVOLVED. LATEST JACKDAW IS ENTITLED "THE ASSASINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY" - AND CONTAINS AMONG OTHER MATERIAL CARDBOARD MODEL OF DEALEY mY PLAZA, PHOTOGRAPHS OF ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT'S BLOOD-STAINED | < CLOTHING, PHOTOSTAT OF AUTOPSY DESCRIPTIVE. SHEET, WARREN | | - COMMISSION EXHIBIT NUMBER 385 SHOWING MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION — | ' t. i 4 iy u i i i # t f 4 Eg OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S NECK WOUNDS, FULL=-SIZED PICTURE OF OSWALD’ S MURDER RIFLE AND FULL. PAGE ADVERTISEMENT .FROM . . ; "AMERICAN RIFLEMAN” FROM WHICH HE ORDERED WEAPON BY MAIL, COPY. ' OF "WANTED FOR, TREASON” ATTACK .ON ‘KENNEDY CIRCULATED IN > fi DALLAS PRIOR TO ASSASSINATION. THERE ARE ALSO A NUMBER OF NARRATIVE, re PAGE 2 RUDTCR 7486C CONFIDENTIAL. : SHEETS DISCUSSING VARIOUS ASPECTS OF EVENT INCLUDING ONE CALLED "UNANSWERED QUESTIONS " THIS LATTER DRAWS ‘HEAVILY UPON MARK -LANE'S “RUSH TO JUDGEMENT.” 2 OO : ° 2, THE FOLLOWING QUOTATION IS FAIRLY TYPICAL: “PERHAPS THE MOST / FAR REACHING ASPECT OF THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION WILL BE | THAT, IT MARKED THE POINT WHERE THE WESTERN WORLD. NO LONGER t TRUSTED ITS GOVERNMENTS TO TELL THE TRUTH. ALREADY THE NUREMBERG jj TRIALS OF WORLD WAR II HAD PROCLAIMED THAT OFFICIAL ORDERS °° | COULD NO LONGER BE AN EXCUSE FOR GRAVE MORAL CONDUCT. AND - INDIVIDUALS FOUND THEY NEEDED A.CODE OF BEHAVIOR. THE — | 7 WARREN REPORT SEEMED TO SHOW THAT NO GOVERNMENT COULD BE RELIED ~ a _ UPON TO PROVIDE ONE." '° > _— Docld:32207382 Page 2°
"De anew nnntensmsleeti tn kta gue vopcediel ene raion eran ne ot t arecntnesestce oe cemetnteenetnnanld Hae re de og - Fn Fee ett eee ete ate na eens eHN NAAR t Ht creatine ee en Risto ELE Vie woes Lt CONFIDENTIAL ie -2- LONDON 7486. MARCH 16, 1967 3. SHE WHOLE-OF THE KIT IS ENCLOSED IN A FOLDER. CARRYING THE US “PRESIDENTIAL. ‘SEAL 1/2 INCHES IN DIAMETER. By | 4, THE. FOLLOWING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IS INCLUDED IN THE CONTENTS | - SECTION OF THE KIT4 "THE AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS WISH TO THANK i , THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS WHICH HAVE. ASSISTED ot : IN THE COMPILATION OF THIS JACKDAW. UNLESS OTHERWISE CREDITED, - | ALL EXHIBITS AND PHOTOGRAPHS HAVE BEEN REPRODUCED FROM MATERIAL SUPPLIED BY UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AGENCIES." 5. THIS IMPLIED: ENDORSEMENT IF PARTICULARLY OBJECT [ONABLE SINCE 4 THE WHOLE EFFECT OF THE: KIT IS TO SUPPLY EXHIBITS, PICTURES 4 AND TEXT TENDING TO DISCREDIT.THE WARREN COMMISSION REPORT : AND GIVE GREATER CURRENCY TO PUBLISHED . ATTACKS ‘ON THE REPORT. PAGE 3 RUDTCR - 486C C ON F IDENTIAL | ; 6» THE ONLY MATERIAL FURNISHED BY USIS LONDON WAS ONE FORMAL | PHOTOGRAPH OF THE WARREN COMMISSION: WHICH WAS REQUESTED BY | _ » “LETTER WHICH DID-NOT CONTAIN AN EXPLANATION OF THE CONTEXT IN WHICH IT WOULD BE USEDS ‘THE PHOTOGRAPH. IS USED IN THE KIT WITH A USIS CREDIT LINE. A USIS OFFICER WAS ASKED BY TELEPHONE .- IF PERMISSION COULD BE GIVEN FOR USE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL. SEAL. . THE ANSWER WAS” "NO" BUT » THE SEAL WAS. USED | NEVERTHELESS. oS | | | . | 7. THE KIT WAS COMPILED AND DESIGNED aY MICHAEL RAND; HOvARD | LOXTON AND LEN DEIGHTONe THE LATTER, OF COURSE, IS THE WRITER OF SPY~THRILLERSe LOXTON IS LISTED AS A DIRECTOR OF JACKDAW oS | PUBLICATIONS, LIMITED. | | yO 8. JACKDAWS ARE AN ESTABLISHED PUBLISHING FEATURE BY THE COMPANY oN WHICH DESIGNATES ITSELF AS "FOUNDED AND DISTRIBUTED BY JONATHAN | : CAPE LIMITED.” APPROXIMATELY 50 HAVE APPEARED OR ARE IN | oo. PREPARATION® SUBJECTS HAVE RANGED FROM “THE PLAGUE AND FIRE -\ > OF LONDON” TO “SPANISH INQUISITION." "THE ASSASSINATION OF \ PRESIDENT KENNEDY" IS ON A MUCH MORE CURRENT THEME THAN ANY =) \ ° WHICH HAVE GONE: BEF ORE. wing 9. THE EMBASSY IS CONCERNED NOT. ONLY: aT THE BAD. TASTE OF THIS J PUBLICATION BUT ALSO AT. THE DAMAGE IT DOES TO THE AMERICAN IMAGE IN BRITAINs THE EMBASSY IS ON-AN INFORMAL BASIS EXPLORING WITH THE FOREIGN OFFICE STEPS WHICH. MIGHT BE TAKEN TO LIMIT OR’ HALT DISTRIBUTION. EMBASSY HAS. ‘BEEN TOLD ON. INFORMAL BASIS, conempenan <2 Docld: 32207362 Page 3°
(CONF IDENT IAL u - " 23= LONDON 7486 MARCH 16, 1967 c . . “e a ~ ~ ; CAD. Poy OL MAY BE USEFULe bo is COUNSEL ON THE oe Sts QUEST I oe OF BRITISH LAW PAGE. 4 RUDTCR 7486C.C 0 N FID “\ PROTEST. IS CONTEMPLATED AT THIS “PROVIDE, PUBLICITY FoR THIS DISTA 0 INVOLVED IN TH NEEDED BY DEPARTMENT.: "CONFIDENT GP+4e”: - . Docld: 32207382 Page 4° KAISER [ ee NOVEVER, THE PRELIMINARY VIEW OF FONOFF LEGAL 7°). PUBLICATION DOES NOT CONTRAVENE BRITISH LAWs ENTIAL TIME FOR STEFUL P ‘THE DEPARTMENT IS REQUESTED TO PRO PERMISSION IS ALSO R N- OF WHETHER “1, BRITISH REPORT 500 COPIES OF KIT HELD U ENROUTE TO WELD. OF -USIA AND OTHER TAL 8 fe EQUE HER THERE IS E PUBLICATION. oS a ee x OFFICE IS THAT NO FORMAL, PUBLIC - FEAR THAT IT WOULD JBLISHING VENTURE. VIDE ANY GUIDANCE WHICH: STED TO OBTAIN LEGAL. | “ANY CONTRAVENTION: | P BY US CUSTOMS. COPY | COPIES CAN BE OBTAINED IF: SG ESET RTT sor —_ Tok hte Bh En pee Na ig ob ease Page cretiene thegeaeee Steed” Ya eee oe oh eter Spi fean horn ge onan ae