13-00000 LOL, - ordinary interest to note that in April 1971 Mr. Fensterwald told Mr. Lawrence Houston, the General Counsel at that time and another repre~ sentative of the Agency “in attendance at the mecting that he knew the identity of the unidentified man in the photograph and that we will be furnished his name in due course. . , . a 4. Al) coverage by CIA of Oswald's stay in Mexico City was tech-_ nical. The Station had no live source coverage eqther unilateral or, fromsMexi¢an. Tiaisone, Subsequently, Mexican police interrogated Sylvia . DURAN, a Mexican employee of the Cuban Embassy. . Her testimony gave us full details on Oswald's trip to Mexcio City, and was made available ~~ to the Warren Commission. The lack of coverage on Oswald entering the ~ Cuban or Soviet Embassies resulted from mechanical malfunction. The Agency provided the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the field in | Mexico City and in Washington all of the information it had acquired. a — raat 4iatier ola Attachment: a/s | a a Distribution: Original ~ Addressee w/att. - DDCI.w/att. ER w/o att So OGC (Mr. Bolten) w/att. IG Subject w/att. ‘IG Chrono w/o att. © : Dos - J.L. Leader Chrono w/o att. BL emf oxnb cond oud FA onl qf ¢ t f  QIG/d.L.Leader:aal FS ae Py Oy GOAy * . 3 . Oe ne | i OP eB om om cer ee OOD PS UY samy em oD Ped © oe om
13-00000 oR ee BOF, Ste Hat Sse EP) es ° Se a) on ee ae She AS ie 's always’ possible, and ‘thera ais" ‘considerable evidence which is |. under lock and key in the Nation ‘Archives today which will wiles it * ;elassifiedantil the year 2039 ‘\is declassified by: the varigus governs)" “pment agencie »? ily the | :and th eCla. BER ie adaisiga to that, there’ “ere literally tho fnds of documents {that the CIA not pive to the War- ven Commission and did not go to the hives which have never: @ public. A number of free-| - dom oYinfonnation suits have result ed indeclassification of a part of this- xpa erial, yel we imow from the index: ley give us that they have a mass of ‘ material which has never. beer. made, } me wenger 58 vgek e? see]! e cn] “gra 2 oe 8 + x dew Me ‘and Ricks e* # ” oe e fae en ‘2 as By tummy? 2 oy “YS: infest greteen’ fie ein eg Oise as ad Taye hs at Stake: ey ot SE fe, - es seas “3 She Boh © . rag? eo ey es A oni qe: ve 7 in EK: Probe’: tee PRISTTIG BB he Baie 4 <Berierd Fensterwald dees a Weshing| tontlowyer who represented James -| . UcCord during Wotergate ond Jomes* Earl Roy, comricted of killing Dr. Mortin Luther King Jr., heods the Comuniitee to, ‘publi ; NS * | Pe ase tart Rao nyestigote Assassinetions, 0, group’ 1% “Q:,Apart from ‘ioaterial ‘thet Hebe riivate citizens thot’ hes: investiocted.. ‘Grove distasteful or hurtful to. the: the slayings ‘0f, President John F. x = \'iKennedy family,:the JFK autopsy iets: Sil iecbia ‘ photographs for. example,, is is there. other. evidence or do you feel oJ there" S other-material under lock and key! “Or ane Cominittes ta to In igate : Assassinations has long been sus-' pected by some p2ople of being somes; how connected with fhe and you, yourself being labeled possibly a CIA * egent or CIA “plant. Are you in facta CIA agentol any sort?, gay Bre ae ear tie bee fet Mates got ae , ~\Az-Well, ‘certainly from reviewing ‘the index of.the withheld material. which they have been forced te sup- ply to various district courts, you get thé impression that much yery vital Steed feces, of rca! ake. ak _ information is being withhsid? Again, ‘ Fensterwald: No, -‘’m-a full-time, -I say, ‘without: knowing ‘what that [ lawyerz Neither I’norm, partner: information is, it’s hard to say where bave.ever been ‘effiliated| with -the: CIA‘ or: worked: for. the CIA either! with ‘or without ‘pay*in- “any way;: shape’ ‘or form. I have‘no idea where’ - be rumor started:-I don’s know eny-* one:that. knows-anything “agout my. histerp that has ever.made Such an: accusation.. On the converst-side;* going back to the-early"60s when I. worked for. the Sen2teas 1-for=: one OF their-commitiees;-1 did ans investigation. on the: CIA ‘and ‘singe: theal have represemed 2 murmber-or clients in cases against tha CLA to the: extent that if there’s any evidence at all, sit all poiats i in the oth other direction. vie sperms a ir “ad: ae 25: die, or" eke 4: 6: Ys i it possible that the CIA‘or the: FBI has evidence Jocked away some where, uizt could shed new light on the investigations into the JFK : assas- sinatior or perhaps ‘Martin Luther Rice's, assassination? 33 a? ose * vast og te 12 ATs a o % ‘9 “Can you hazard a guess as to what they might have? . a , ° “heh? fe WEE GE SOR LS : "it's going to point. 3 so zs so far as the CIA is concerned a large’) ‘part of-the withheld testimony in- wolvesia trip Lee Harvey Oswald ‘made- to Mexico just. in umediately | »pridr to,the assassination. No one im the public knows what this. trip was ‘all about. But we do know that the |- _ CIA has been particularly sensitive with respect to that. We do know that there were CIA cameras taking pic- tures of people going in and out of the ‘Cuban and Soviet embassies 2nd. they ‘took a number of pictures of a. man "they. labeled Lee Harvey Oswald. .:From looking at him, he is obviously not Lee Harvey Oswald, but the CLA "will not identify him. we whe of pw te ate a ve ee Fann tate olen els i 2 QO: 'Weuld if not better serve the American public to just simply re| Jease this inforrmation and get to the: . bottom of the matter once, and for3 .. all? - A es rh ie sf owe aS wt a a ». aS sgt od ‘ So mY tarkeaneet ° ciao 9 . that. could: shed significant light on|- ; . ~ At it’s apogee a a question of Ter OAS No: I can’t. I'can only tell you’ ee wae, faae * "A: The’Committee to Investizate aSsinations has urged through the. years that all of the information wit) o " Kespect to ‘the John Kennedy assassi-« |" - mation be made public. The official + solution: is that Lee Harvey Oswald was & Jone nut killer end that there { . Y. | ( | , as “were no other people involved and. - there were no Internationa) ramifica- . tions,, And therefore, taking fhat story as gospel makes it difficult for a lawyer to-see -why they shoold } cover anything. However; there is ’ this intense desire on the part of gov-, “ernment to keep it secret, and I think: in-apny lawsuit where you hzve this sort of mania for locking the evi- dence up you create the suspicion that there's more there. And I don't _ think anybody at this time ‘outside the government knows whet happened to John-Kennedy, I think the congres- sional committees 2. time will find we fe Seas a? ooh ve bet e. wee ‘on eo, opening his grave. L know the subject is frequently talked about in terms - similar to that. J think that the integ- |- rity of 6ur whole political process is probably, at-stake because whether ‘ the Warren Commission was right or _ wrong, k think that the Ainerican peo- ple — and the polls bear tis out — have a preat doubt as to whether Os- wald.was vas properly 3 investigated. . They have‘a doubt 2s to whether Os- wald was a Jone nut IdJler. And val) their doubts can.be satisfied, X think | i the integrity’of the system ‘and the credibility of the goverment is very “Fauch weakened OTe coe ow eS d wmpemw's @Q: Why has-it waken 43 years for ‘Congress to become offi icially Involy- edjnthis? a Peon) axe oe . a ore 3h; # So SHEARS . va At Well, i's: -a number of reasons. One, I think the membership of the Warren Cormmissiog itself contained so many outstanding people that it is} difficult to believe that for whatever ‘reason they would not’seriously try to i “give the public a full answer. ‘Therc’s “@ preat reluctance to disbelieve peo- | ple like Justice Warren and Sen. Rus- sell, Secondly, I think until Water- 2 | gate people tended fo disbelieve that their government could be involved in anything of this nature. But even | more recently the revelations, the ac- | * counts of the CLA to kill Fidel Castro om have een rid of the fast reluctance + there is... eas =; 3 *, 08 oa.ce ofl: : a = QrIsit conceivable that the War ren Commission — in the interests of ae UR OP es oy a2 mod F. 9 Oe Feo * Sarg Sie “Sekt aed Seer V Ee Semel aomameabre .
13-00000° ; ._ .! Commission. Thera are certain peo- ‘| ple who can link Oswald and Ruby, ne i a ssp | their staff members, people. who an A at tho tee "a " . {| will wake a number of months longer . | threatening note to an FBI agent > 4 _ {to the commission. So I think it's a ': [reach the proper conclusion. 1 gators and start with a clean mind € . of aes 2 NT ——— ee eee ec “did occur, is really a matter of nae Jong jump from that possibility to the tional concern and transcends th-"* possiblity that we had anything.ta da _own very understandable interest with killing. It seems to me that these st. X think that the investigation cer- are questions that gave the congres- tainly into President Kennedy's °- sional commmittee the powers thal : death can be done in such a way as to «they have. I don’t really know that - cause minimum grief te the family. speculatiog getsanywhere.| =" | "And I think there’s a very good’... 0 1.7 © % "eae, .” chance that this will happen because. °~ Q: Your Coramittee to Investigate LY think the members of the House of , Assassinations, what do you think it _} Representatives and the members of Aas been able to accomplislit Why -? the Church committee in the Senate. - wasitformed? x 2-F p07 D8 ‘are very well aware of.tke problem, .°."_ ov) ove =" 7 OD ET «and Lean’t see any reason why it< ~ Az It was formed for two basic rea« i Cannot be done without terribly dic- "; sons. One was to get the critics of the . tasteful evidence being trotted outin “ Warren Commission to coordinate "t public. I just doa’t think that’s neces-, tbeir efforts. fhe basic aims of the SQV. ergs we tie eae t, , GROUP Were io gather information to : Pe Pe oe ee a ~ “AZ a lawyer I tend ro believe ney nade Sie best conclusion ‘ey could from the evidence athar. iVe know of so much key evidence that was either withheld or destroyed that you get 2 general feeling that they had only a relatively small part of the really important material.-For example, Lee Harvey Oswald wrote a shortly before the assassination, Ina matter of an hour or two- before Jack Ruby shot Oswald, the FBI agent fiushed it down the toilet. Now this; _was never reported to the Warren and this material was never passed ; : Doses TRS ear te eel + cae Keep the subject of John Kennedy's ot Me gtege te veo’ ” SES fs seeagsination alive until we cou «." Q:.You were the attorney for. . : i" eh nt ;, James Earl Ray. Do you-feel that’. CORVIRCE the Congress to reopen they ‘ there is evidence that could clearhim .°7~ investigation. Fortunately, 7. : or alternatively to prove that-he was think we've been very successtul. t the] y Bagh ep eo the subject, has .becn kept alive. As i:motihelone assassins “.".. --' 7-372" the climate inthe country changed, ed 2? 2 8 *, area ad te al . - rar ree Pe 4 : *. Q: Row Jong will tt take the House, obs ore, ea CRS sp” *. .T'to9 @ elimate in Congress changed, we ‘to investigate this affair and came to i | As Itismy own personal belief that * | some sort of a conclusion.- Vill it be very harsh judgment to say that this very distinguisned bunch of Ameri- * Gang — including the chief justice of the Unized States — purposely did not. ° =. oe 8 ey cee eh ” were ablé,.with, the help of a Jot af . there was a comer td be r fhink that .“other people, ‘tn persuade them go in ree es, #4 -{James Earl Ray were given atria “7icteu3 to guro-bver al of our. invest As No. Idort think if will be that | ;:think most of us in the United States,=" pation to thern- and to give any other far away. ‘The House of Revpresenta-, ‘Vynost of the public certainly, and al-.. assistance... “Fiel? cacete oh? : tives had rwo basic roads they could} .: most all of Washington that Ekn0w oe tae ata Ea at cs eae have follpwed. They could have taken- . “were Si ae trom him ey "2 Qe There's b becn an eternal fascina- were thoroughly famiiliar with the went off to serve a 99-year term with-. ‘Bo you think hen or if oa subject but equally. opinionated, or| ‘outa trial: It came as a great shock “investigation reaches its conclusiax: | they could start with people who| ;to most people and I think most peo’. shar will Jay to rest finally the specu- were gocd lawyers and good investi-| -/ ple were rather disappointed in a - 2 poping? vo4 “+ ot, sete gle Al | grime of this magnitude a man would 70307 uth F3 we ARS eh ES A -inot in fact stay for a jury trial. T+. 4; F believe that if this House-com- that others have been going down for | - ; spent six years trying to achieve this... : witree continues to get the suppmt in 12 years. They chosé the latter. That | -.:1 must confess.I was unsuccessful, she next Gongress that they have in will take somewhat.more time, but} * but it is very possible that this inves-_!. +6 fast months of this Congress, that with the caliber of people that have} |; tigation of the House of Representa- ™.: they will investigate this killing thor- been chosen I can’t see that it’s going |- - tives ‘would achieve in Ff lot shorter + oughty.-I think they will cull ovt the ‘to take a matter of years..I think it} :; period than six years W at we Were teads, I think they will look at all the will mum ger | :: unable todo in the courts. ©...> 43.4" = evidence, and if after that Jength o! en it wou d going the other way.’ consis G | Spa EB is now known to have --time and that length of investigating. 'Q: Eunice Shriver, who of course | °:hounded Martin Luther King an : Oe oes. coect Loertainly thin lost two brothers fo assassins, has | ii there bas been specalation that the. “+, .1 99. 9-percent of the people will be seid that she would prefer the whole }FBImay have some way been involu-:- <otiched. Lmust say that in all hones thing bz dropped, that the investiga~| -;-ed in bis death.’ Do you subscrile (0's:ty, Liknow of a few people who arz you respond when a family member. vist “A: Lhave seen no evidence to that “se se t they each howe opmtede: expresses this kied of a sentiment? \J otfect and on © Seen heal . ‘ in ~sBREONY. And these theories are inter- | As Well, I think all of us feel"a'| + Luther King case that One has to be". Pangak that asa practical rmatcevtha _basic sympathy, not only for Mrs. | ->¢ar eful to. distingwist ett the --if a congressional commumittee, andi }erimeand the investigation. I think ° nor this one, maybe the Senat< Shriver but also for- Mrs. ‘Rose | :';¢ : a : ‘Kennedy and for the remaining }. “in the Martin Luther. King case that "- .mmittee or maybe both of ther brother, Sen. Kennedy. But it's my.| | «the FBI because of its animosity for.. 4,1) attack the job they are suppose: own feeling that the question of what| « Dr. King may not have made what .. +9 do, Y-think that most of the doubts happened to the Kennedy brothers, if |: “we would consider their best effort to. if not all of them, will be laid to rest. something more than meets the eye But we have made a gerd Ee > * investigate-it. Meo Mg ep * me's om gl wpm we als wo eaeemnp Fiiel Faake 6 Mime ee A * Rete whe Wee S ewe e es e . . os att, he cet oR ging ge. out, ° ° ao 7 2 -¢ * e oh Bet = Sater 0 te 8s teh Selo OL and simply go down the same road ere oT rd 2 “ge % , ‘ y °. @ te eT Pe oe. @ mee ° . . eo sof . , te : a. ., . oe ry . . . + , ae @ sf ex * .° fee . .