HW 50529 AGENCY RECORD NUMBER RECORDS SERIES JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION WC 179-40004-10112 10: RUSSELL, BERTRAND ORIGINATOR FROM TO TITLE DATE PAGES SUBJECTS LANE, MARK GARST, JAMES DOCUMENT TYPE CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTIONS CURRENT STATUS DATE OF LAST REVIEW OPENING CRITERIA COMMENTS COVER MEMORANDUM ; P. DOCUMENT INFORMATION FBI 08/31/64 2 PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT U REFERRED P / / 1-2; BOX FO7 Date:08/12/93 Page:1 DoclId: 322711108 Page 1
Veins cic EEE haat! me Bee . Commission No. YG j os a wees ce oR er | (Other, Individuals’ am Organizations | | “UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OP YES PGR Ms eres FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION | WASHINGTON 25; D.C. > August 31,1964 ©... i : . rh Reply, Please Refer to , ' File No ~> at ‘. vas : 7 ee . ° wo . MARK LANE . . : a . yo 7 ea ” : Sng JAMES DELANEY GARST- fe a T-1, a confidential source abroad, advised as. follows ok - on August 25, 1964; (a). Be ae a te MARK .LANE visited the United Kingdom between April 14, _— va / gion. ©. 1964, when he:arrived at London Airport from=Copenhagen, =.) 3 yt. Perso <r and April 16 ‘when he left London Airport: for Amsterdam, mo Se '.» Holland, A secret and reliable source of T-1 reported + 5 that he had attended the Eighth Congress ofthe Interna- ©... | zy tional Association of Democratic Lawyers’ (IADL) which was'.° | ~ -/ ° held in Budapest from March. 31. to April 6, /1964. The oye ot -.. Continental press carried a story to the effect that he re explained his views on the Kennedy assassination and asked ~*~ _ the IADL to form an international committee of noted lawyers 09 2° “to discover the real circumstances under which the Kennedy “=, assassination .occurred., : a . .. . LANE returned to England on June 9, 1964, arriving - at London Airport from Copenhagen, Denmark, He was ace 9 Bs . companied by his fiancee, Miss ANNE-LISS DABELSTEEN, a ren -@esigner, born May 15, 1941, traveling on a Danish pass- rn ae port No, 2301698. Shortly after his arrival ke attended... * = “. @ press. conference at the Airport which had been arranged .. by JAMES DELANEY GARST and at which LANE again expressed - his views on the Kennedy assassination. He also told the | veporters that BERTRAND RUSSELL had written to him to say that he wished to form an organization in England to be ~ called the "Who Killed Kennedy Committee?". .He went on to say that the Committee had now been formed, without a ~ chairman, but with GARST as secretary. They have received...  gome publicity in the British press, in particular in the a "Daily Worker" of June 12 and 30,,1964. According ‘to LANE, © it the objects of the Committee were to collect and disseminate. “ 1° all available information and evidence relating to the as=) | -gassination of President Kennedy and to insure justice for"... | the. Oswald family. T-1 has no information to show to what Ss extent the Committee is actively pursuing these objects aK): ' Ln Bette eee Tear ans Sn we * ALL TMFORMATION cONTRR@R. cco foment, ERE 1 USTLASSIFIEQ = = | HINGER? WHERE SHOWM So a aan sy UTHERWISE foeovygmatic. Pee oe jim CLASSIFIED BY SUE LOMB eocomtsti=sDECLASSIEY-ON: 26K IG2 ooo (50529 Docld:32211108. Page 200 0 er
M) With this appointment. T~1 furnished + Enclosure... HW 50529 ‘DocTd:32211108 | Page 3. PD De ee rt SECRET. Rome on June 14, 1964,. ‘death. During this 1 | i: ; t j i i interest in the Anarchist. movement. fe ’ Kingdom for Detroit by air on June 30, 1964, and T-1 hago. 8 no evidence of his return as yet. - “under consideration for appointment as tutor in Extra- 9 ¢92.°-. - Wural Studies at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in - Tanganyika, T-1 is unable to say whether he wil copy, Which is attached, of an open letter issued by Lord BERTRAND RUSSELL at the time of the . formation of the "Who Killed Kennedy Committee". other members of the committee are listed in paragraph 2 of page 6. T-1 pointed out that none.of the members of - the Committee were considered to be Communists, although - they cover a large spectrum of left-wing opinions and - have in varying degrees been publicly as ’ LANE was to have left England for Florence and oo 7 He paid another visit to England |: -.. between June 21, 1954, when he arrived at London Airport ‘from Brussels, Belgium, and June 30, 1964,;; when he left London for New York, having been recalled to appear before the Warren Commission investigating President Kennedy's atter visit he did not come tu T-l's gard to the "Who Killed Kennedy Committee?", the secretary, JAMES DELANEY GARST, is taking’a greater °" : He left the United organizations penetrated, and in some ca “by the Communist Party of Great Britain. Ss). He has recently been 1 obtain ones The. - sociated with ses, controlled *— 0 I TTS I RE PLE TREE ET BERETS SBR { LR. ;