AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-10264-10474 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-116395-1623 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: AG | TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: 03/13/1967 | PAGES: 23 ° | SUBJECT: CC, REQ, OPINION - DOCUMENT_TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Unclassified NEW CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: 12/29/1998 UPDATE DATE: 02/14/2001 STATUS _ Redact \ ~ RESTRICTIONS: Consultation COMMENTS: ~ INC 9 MEMO, R/S, REFERRED TO DOJ Docld: 327195981 Page 1
Refeased under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records C i Hote; . Ken sas ‘ollection Act of 1999 (44 USC 71 Anat 11-14-2017 EOE ES see re as : : . . oe : 2 bald oe OSA 141 cre tort! s% NEE : - - |: + =UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT  » M Sh “Assoc. Dir. Ext: ‘Affairs _- Fin. & Pers. ae vcs = Mr. Gallagher — “- Mr. Cooke. Mr. Mintz. Asst: ‘Dir: . - Adm. Serv. ie steven Blackhurst ‘Assis . Intelligence Coordination,.-,DOJ furni hedveteht to Bureau Supervisor, S. F “Phillip 35° £ informant or third agency information yher Six of the documents: were returned.b “Mr. Blackhurst’ on.5/14/76° with € Pa a be noted that among the, six q cuments retu san BI 1 te hea ohn Fitzgerald Kennedy; vember Central Intelligence Agency. (CIA)} cl this: document had been: previously. rece Bureau furnished this: document ‘tothe “ncn ATERIAL ‘TTACHED \pacTa:32195981 Page 2
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“Released am@er) the, fokn iD VEmmedy, Assassination Records Colleqhjion fey ek 199? ss; PeE 2IOT Hotes. DATE: 1J-14-2017 . ehomorana, 1 Oo — ve) : od. Walter Yearley DATE: June 2, 1967 | &ssistant Attorney General, Se , _., Internal Security Division ' , “> prom : Garvin L, Oliver fo. supjucr: The Garrison Investigation of the Assassination of President Kennedy -- Alleged CIA Connections with Garrison's Suspects SECRET _ ‘New Orleans District Attorney James C. Garrison has. made numerous charges that several of his suspects in his . i investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy have * had connections with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). There follows some of his specific ailegations which we have learned about either from Garrison's public statements or | from FBI seurces and the known comments of the CIA with respect thereto. l. Garrison claims that Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill President Kennedy but that the President was assassinated. by five anti-Castro Cubans who were angered over his handling of the Bay of Pigs invasion. Garrison claims that the assassins “were former CIA employees committed to an adventure in Cuba. Garrison has said that he does not believe the CIA planned the Kennedy murder, or knew of it beforehand, but that the CIA Is — 3 making every effort.to prevent nes office. from trailing or learn- { | ae cere me nnae sete ponte me ame A : -., ing. the whereabouts of the assassins as it is. concerned about ” RB /ee. Onn power” “Washington” Post B/ee OH /GT ‘Evening Star’ PAT ES whe OIA - Was quoted in ‘the newspapers “as “stating that the organization would have no comment. on sen ' Garrison's remarks. (Evening Star, 5/22/01 J JAN eet 1O7 4 2. Garrison has reportedly said that he I a5 letters . iE signed by CIA representatives or by Senator Robert .FiiKennedy eee which authorize certain Americans to work with Cubens for the. assassination of Castro. (FBI Hemo 5/17/67) | ; . ‘Lf “SECRET ot oe | | { | | Ce ; wo _ se Docld: 327195951 Page 4
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection<Act of 1993 (44 USC 2107 Hote}; - DATE: 11-14-2017 , i CTA advised the Bureau in May 1967 that such | epee letters never existed and therefore covld not | be in the possession of Garrison. (FBI Memo . o * we pee 5/17/67) | | 4 par Cas tro training camp on the shores of Lake Ponchartrain near 1. New Orleans which was operated by the CIA to train assassins wes to send to Cuba and that Oswald was\once at the camp. This camp , was reportedly run by an individual known as Richard Davis. at (FBI Memos 4/6/67, 5/15/67) Hl t To our knowledge, no information has been. } received from CIA concerning the alleged Hi training camp or Richard Davis. An FBI a memorandum of March 3,: /1967, reported that | at the Bureau files contain no information indi- cating that Oswald had any connection with i Davis. Davis has been described as a pro- me zi moter and a hustler, who will do anything for asi money, and is often carried away with his own | j | | { i | i q i | A. i : att [wo — 3 Garrison reportedly believes that there was an anti- Q i | 4 { ] thinking. (149 - 4801) p 4 “h, Garrison claims that Oswald was probably a CIA agent who worked undercover with anti-Castro Cubans with the knowledge F en of Federal agents. Garrison claims that Oswald was recruited i} by CIA for an operation, approved by President Kennedy, the pur- pose of which was to assassinate Fidel Castro, and when Cswald ‘assassinated. President Kenriedy it became necessary to show him as a Communist in order to conceal the original plan. (UPI . 6/8,9/67, New York Times 5/10/67) Whe Directors .of the CIA and FBL. testified. — — “ “péefore’ the Vebren ‘Comission: that” Cswald pT ee ete MOB. never | in the employ. of, their agency | in i any’ capacity. * 5. Garrison has charged that the CIA gave the Warren Commission a fake photograph instead of providing a picture of 4 Lee Harvey Oswald and a Cuban companion leaving the Cuban Embassey | din Mexico City in 1963, because Oswald and/or his Cuban companion it were CIA agents. \ MN Docld: 327195981 Page 5
"Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collettion-act of 1992 (47 WSC FIOT Hofer. DATE: 11-14-2017 - é < : f ° . . ¢ . . CIA has furnished the Criminal Division of i the Department with an affidavit that they t do not have, and have never had, a photograph f of Oswald in Mexico City. — , 6. Garrison has charged Gordon Novel and Sergio Arcacha Smith with the burglary of the Schunbereer Well: Service Company's munitions bunker in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, in 1961, Garrison evidently believes that some of the individuals in- volved in this robbery. (Novel, David Ferrie, Smith, and several Cubans) were also involved in the assassination and thet a panel truck used in the robbery was-used in the assassination. Gordon Novel reportedly contends that he was employed by CIA, was act- h ing for CIA, and that the burglery of the munitions bunker was i not; an actual burglary. Novel reportedly contends that CIA had an arrangement. with Schumberger to keep ammunition, bomb casings, and other material in the ammunition bunker; that Schumberger became upset over the Bay of Pigs invasion and wanted. to get out of their contract with CIA; and that arrangements were then mede for the bomb casings and other materials~stored in the bunker to be taken out by Novel end his Sroup. Novel has indicated that he and Sergio Arcecha Smith are Still employed by CIA. Novel has stated that in the event he is returned to New Orleans to face charges of burglary, this will be his defense. (FBI Memo 4/24/67) Novel also claims that he once operated the Evergreen ‘Advertising Agency as a front for CIA communications and thet funds were channelled to him by CIA. (PBI Memo 4/27/67) Gordon Novel's attorney also Stated on May 25, 1067, that Novel worked ~for the CIA in early 1961, serving as an intermediary between the CIA and anti-Castro Cubans in New Orleans and Miami before the April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. The attorney, Steve Plotkins, maintained, though, that Novel had "little or nothing to do with the Bay.of Pigs invasion ond certeinly.had-absolutelynothitig toi“ do with the: assassination of President-.Kenmedy: (Washington Post: aa  BLROLET i et el wo Bes , | CIA has advised the Bureau that Novel's claims io are completely false and that Novei has never . . been of operational interest. CIA also advised that the Agency has. never utilized bunkers be- longing to the Schumberger Well Service Company for storage of munitions and that the Evergreen Advertising Agency has had no connection whatso- ever with CIA operations. (FBI Memo 4/27/67) re Sen emma etite a heat penne: st Mee Seaeamaepenbe i enema naming Cnet tae sear» ‘ i aS ebINe Sonate een RR EERE RARE gf Aetan & eienate Y 7] Docld: 3271959581 Page 6