(roa-105150095) a fe 4s a ewe i 8 May 1967 | : . . MEMORANDUM No, 2 = SUBJECT | .: GARRISON and the Kennedy Assassination REFERENCE — : CI/R&A Memorandum of 26 April 1967, _ subject as above Cae ; 1, © An effortthas becn made to identify all CIA employees in New Orleans, so that we shall have a ready checklist if District Attorney GARRISON makes statements about any of them to the press, alleuinpts to bring charges against them or-to subpocua them, or take other action disadvantapeous to CIA, This list, because of its sensitivity, is included as Enclosure 28 with only those copies of this memorandum which are. addressed to the ADDP and the Legal Counsel, , 2. The remaining enclosures to this memorandum constitute an alphabetical listing of key figures in the case to datc., One person, an Jzvestia correspondent who appears as Enclosure 4 to reference, has been dropped as peripheral, Enclosures 5, 10, 21, 23 and 24 to this memorandum are additions to the earlier list, Negative trace entries ‘("RI «no record") are repeated from reference as appropriate, Of the 26 persons and one firm listed in the current enclosures, tracing has been completed on 19, It is expected that results on the remaining 7 will be . available shortly, , , “3. Information from WH/Cuban Operations Branch, prepared in response to reference, will be available soon and will be included in the next report, The New Orleans office of the Domestic Contact Service is clipping and forwarding pertinent ilems from the local press,
The New OFle ns: States <Ttaini: of 3 Mare 1967 ¥epo. that ANDREWS. had said’ shes did not know, whether, Clay SHAY ; “Clay BERT RAND were: “the’same person. ‘ oe be “An article. in 1 the New Orleans Times. -pigayuhe of 19. aan ~ 2 “april. 1967 conee ris a $100, 000. suit brought” by Dean -Adamis | ANDREWS, - a. < Yr., against G. XRRISON,: ‘who had previously: indicted ANDREWS: for : — perjury. ‘ANDREWS claims that he has told GARRISON fphat ‘there: . & 7 was no connect! on between Clay. SHAW and Clay ‘PERT. RAND". .
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- vreference: a ae New York. radio: station WINS said that. it had dea: ; ‘sourees thal GARRISON. believes: that Presic eng Seanedy was. “assassinated by. "a group of plotte rs directed from. Gib ac" ‘WINS, reporter Doug Edclson said that. the source has access to: ‘GARRISON's “Ls files: and that, | ace ording- to “the. files, "after an aber: we CIA invasion. ‘of Guba, Castro. pat out atv -gxecition order. ont « President, ' we : . b. OA memorandum ‘of! Vv May 1967 by Nts ° “Richard. Ho “Lansdale, Associate General, ‘Counsel , Advises. ah ‘GARRISON. : ee "intends to denyand that.C1A fa thish him With the’ Phetograph of Oswald entering. ‘OF. ‘exiting. the’ Mexico City Embassy. ae c. “> James: Phelan is ‘the author ‘of the oad, ‘artic le’ in the 7 Saturday Evening Post of 6 ‘May 1967, he aded oe Plot to Kin Kennedy? ..Rush to Judgment in N in New Orleans", The following 3 Rey points chiefly concern GARRISON: (1) Phelan knew GARRISON in 1953, when he spent ten days with him, obtaining material for a laudatory picce called, "The Vice Man Cometh", —. . oo . ; (2) GARRISON ‘and Phelan met ia Las Vegas on 5 and & March 1967, and Phelan conducted ten hears of int erviews, | ‘GARRISON gave Phelan a memorandtim of az interview cone -. ; ducted. with Perry RUSSO by Andrew J, SCLANBRA,: "a 3leyear- eos : oe old assistant D.A. just a year out of Jaw sctool" who interviewed "RUSSO for three hours and took copious maxes, GARRISON also gave Phelan a transcript of what RUSSO said four Gays later, on i March 1967, while under hypnosis, The SCIAMBRA report
. RUSSO under: hypnosis: (Ke: did, 50 three. the 168: 1. all). When: RUSSO made nowmention of a party or plyt, -PATT ER directe “d oa “BERT RAND", Or. a. plot,. EA TTER thea. ordered him to’ see: ting: Bomeboiy, - “Look at it and de scrike it. to me, RUSSO... "then told the’ story | that he. Subsequently gavesin testimony, pa itment, ws — (4) Two aayal later: Dr. Esmond ; AT ‘TER placed mo him to.sce Ma picture of FERRIF's apartii ent and there are ~ several people: in there and: there ‘is'a whiteshaired man, Tell Me. about ity RUSSO complic :d but madernd, mention of. SHAW, - wed will be Bertrand,, Ferr ie.and Oswald. and: they ar e “going. to discuss avery, important: Tatter: cand there is. . another man. ‘and, girl there and they are: talking. about. ‘assassina-\ (5) “phetan advised GARRISON of “the profound differences’ : ve . between the first SCIAMBRA report and the eventual RUSSO © ; ; testimony. GARRISON permitted Phelan to- question. SCIA MBRA. directly, in GARRISON's presence, SCIAMBRA said that-he must have forgotten to include the party and its participants, When Phelan sugcested ‘consulting his originst notes, SCIAMBRA a said that he had burned them, Phelan asked Dr, FATTER ‘ where he got the information used in questioning RUSSO under hypnosis, and FATTER said it came from GARRISON's office, . 2 e . orn nese beiewacle
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oe Tae The New OHeans: ‘Times ‘Pigayune, ‘af iy April 1967: states: that: Gordon Duane. NOVEL e Enclosure 19 of. refere nee),. thea living : . . ine ‘Columbus, hia; was th ‘subject of. ext¥adilion ‘charges signed. nr 17 April 1967 by Acting Governor C.C, Aycock, ‘The. charges: concern : ae me ‘conspitac y to burglarize. the? wiunitions bunker.at Houma, Lot uisiamay. 0 0 ne in 1961," On 18: April 1967. NOVEL: stated in-an a¥ticle copyrighted by vs “2 the Dallas. Daily News that GARR JSON is conducting his probe. to ‘further his political e: career, | "The whole. GAR RISON investigation , ; thing!is fiction," ‘NOVEL added, | "E Know the ‘full story: frony working |. “asthe pros ceutor' 's. security ‘chi¢ GARR TSON;.- howe ver, has said st that NOVEL. never worked for him, “NOVE Le adde dy oS think G: ARRI- = eo eee . “SON will, expose’ some GIA oper ¥ations in Louisiana," Co a ; : be The New Orleans Statescftem Item ef 25 April 1967 states that. -- “NOVEL "has told a number of friends™ and intimates he was.a CLA. : oper: ative and. will use. this role to buitle GARRISON's charges ...6 | if he is returned to, New Orleans: to face accusations that*he bur elarized _ ‘an oil service company's munitions bunker in nearby Terrebonne, -. Parish," Steven PLOTRIN, attorney for NOVEL, refused to confirm: ‘or deny his client's statements, Sergio ARCACHIA. Smith: ‘(see En- closure 2 of reference) is also accused’ by. GARRISON of helping te — . plan the theft of the munitions, ' The article adds, "To fricnds and associates, NOVEL has said that the munitions burglary was no burglary at all -~ but a war materials pickup made at the direction of his CIA contact," He has described the Houma bunker as a CIA ‘cache for munitions destined for use ih the April 1981 invasion at the Ray of Pigs. NOVEL has claimed that he worked for CIA in New Orleans before April 1961, "Part. ef his jeb, he contends, was to operate the Evergreen Advertising Agency as a front for CLA communications, With funds funneled to him by the CIA, NOVEL.
. three apots - oe _F ERRE's he Pa rn office of oes foriner eat aweit. eee “Guy BANBTEICes Enclosure bo (1. 3°6f reference). “NOVEM: ‘élaims the ‘munitions: were ‘eventua uly. ‘taken . by. bout to Cuba fox: at versionary: Bay of. Pigs operation, . GARRISON, the burglar eceirred three sponehs after. the Bay of. however, Bays ‘Pigsy: He. adds: that, he} : Well, Servic §-Co, of Hot stoi Texas. “ugehlumber ger officials say. 4 they now nothing ‘of any: CIA ‘operations: in. Conhection: with their. magazine, | where oil field. 5¢ rvice equipment and’ ce rtain. loweyield- explosives: are stored, We &. An ‘AP wire | dispatch of 26 April 1967 from New Orleans adds, ‘In Columbus, NOVEL said today. that tthe state ments that I - worked for the CIA are abs olutely Incorrect. . 6° The ‘events of 1961, ‘the Bay of Pigs invasion, are none. of f anybody’ Fe business, including Mr. GARR ISON! s," 3, RI has | no record of the’ Evergreen ‘Advertising Agency. . There is hhowecyer a record of “Evergreen Enterprise, " listed. as “cover for Py 2 g p ® illegal activitic s", The pertinent document will be. obtai ned and studied,
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"SUBJECT : ‘The SCHLUMBERGER 1 We n saresyig “Corporation | a : ‘Ve There are extensive, ‘CIA, ‘traces, on. n-this, company and_.on) various persons “connected with it). but none.of this information dig a ; pertinent to-the GARRISON investigation. co Be A. report, of 20 April. 1967, from the New Orleans: office ue “ a a ae 2 0f the EBL states. thin confidential source. who. isa representative , - eS Sof a well-known news media-said on 20. Apr il: that. ‘Gordon. NOVEL" - _— -, Uhas- -réport Hy stated: that ccwas' employ ed: by: ‘CIA arid that the’. rad - M ye ~ Houma be gary. 'wa's, not an actual burglary.” “He contended that. CIA | EE eh a! , had. an arrangements with: the SCHLUMBERGER Co. (see below) ‘to , keep. ammunition, “‘pormb casings, and other material ain the bunker, _ leased by: ‘SCHLUMBERGER. Hersaid that’ he and: Se rgio. ‘ARCACHA - a Smith: were. still ‘employed ‘by: CIA. "The source advised that accord- ~ ing to ‘drformation developed. to’ date Schlinibe rger became upset . over the Bay of Pigs invasion and wanted to-get out of their contract. with the CIA. 2 Arrangements.were made about three months after | ‘the.. einvasion. for the.. «mater ‘ial,..te be taken out by Novel and his _ group." 3.7 The Domestic Contact Servi ice (DCS) informed CLARA. on 27 ‘Apr il: 1967 that the New Orleans office of the SCHLUMBERGER Well Surveying Corporation. is a branch of the main office in Houston, Texas. The company, however, is. French- -owned, The DCS office - we, ‘in New, Orleans was in touch with Charles A. _bOoH, district manager a _ oft the New Orleans SCHLUMBERGER office, in order to interview him about a business trip to Rome in ‘June 1955. There has’ been no subse- ° quent contact. However, the. DCS has been and still is in touch with
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sone oF navied the: arrest’ ‘on 1 March’ of: Clay Le SHAW and his: “release : on bond. ‘The. article described: ‘SHAW « as’ "a decorated Artay i. : major 3 in World War Use eee " 3,0 The: ‘New Orleans! States. «Item. of. 3. March: 1967, said” . that SHAW- had. said that’ he had’ never used: the:name: Clay: , - ‘BERTRAND; ‘that- “he had never Fimet FERRIES that-he: Ahad’ never. a to conspired. to assassinate ‘the, .P¥ esident, and. that] he. had | never , known: OSWALD. ; Ld ma ! &
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