AGENCY RECORD NUMBER RECORDS SERIES JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION wc 179-40003-10276 08: NUMBERED COMMISSION DOCUMENTS AGENCY FILE NUMBER ORIGINATOR FROM TO TITLE DATE PAGES SUBJECTS LANE, MARK DOCUMENT TYPE CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTIONS CURRENT STATUS DATE OF LAST REVIEW OPENING CRITERIA COMMENTS DOCUMENT INFORMATION FBI 08/17/64 2 PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT U REFERRED P / / P. 1-2; 3 COPIES; BOX FO02 Date:08/12/93 Page:1 HW 50529 DBocld: 3227106271 Page 1
oe : CONFIDENTIAL — Commission No. 7 uf. 57 | UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT “OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer to WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535. .; | Whe, pe iL. Getto ita ht Wii le Yop. - 7 August 17, 1964 z . 93. iis ea) Y Bes 7s by 7903 128 Ce) dome oe Os — jassif a OADR GAC Mopuuah twoooion information as follows: ne On August 5, 1964, T-1 up source abroad, Dt&Aau sbP/ RHE ; MARK LANE entered Denmark April 9, 1964, from Rome : “2-6 Gna stayed at the Hotel Royal in Copenhagen’ on April 9 and - 10, 1964. On April 16, 1964, he re-entered Denmark from London, England, and he stayed at the Hotel Viking, Copenhagen, April 16 and 17, 1964, and at the Hotel Skovriderkroen on April 17. and 18, 1964, C) On April 10, 1964, LANE delivered a lecture to the Students’ Union in Copenhagen concerning the assassination of President Kennedy, In this regard, T-1 advised that a known | Danish communist, JORGEN THEILGAARD JACOBSEN, a lawyer, born | April 11, 1919, took the initiative in forming a Danish committee for the main purpose of obtaining information on the continued investigations into the assassination, Further, this committee - .. ° intends to have translated and published a book which LANE is _- writing on LEE HARVEY OSWALD's part or innocence in the murder, C) JACOBSEN and LANE became acquainted sometime ago when. attending the Congress of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers in Budapest and they intend to continue the contact, as MARK LANE will supply Danish Committee with all new material on the assassination. (@ , While in Denmark, MARK LANE was interviewed on April 28, “1964, for eight minutes by the Danish State Television Service, Cd) In the middle of May, T-1 received information that © MARK LANE intended to visit Denmark again and during the after- noon of May 25, 1964, in Copenhagen he delivered a lecture at a meeting organized by the Lawyers’ Debating Club. On the | evening of May 25, 1964, in Aarhus, Denmark, LANE delivered a lecture to a meeting organized by the Students' Association and the daily paper "Demokraten," ¢) . aL (FORMATION CONTAEBER - , a - ARNE | S USCLASSIFIER . CONFIDENTIAL .- EXDERT WHERE SHOWN ~ Gnoyp I OTHERWISE - Excluded rom automatic downgrad and 7 declassificktion. — HW 50529 Docld:32210821 Page 2.02 3) 8 a
T-1 advised that these lectures were similar to his previous ones in that LANE gave an account of his oy inquiries since the assassination in November and showed ae why in his opinion OSWALD could not have been the assassin, (C) LANE also stated during the lectures that he had visited Dallas, Texas, five times; that he was under sur- veillance by the FBI, which tapped his telephones, and that . -he was happy to have the opportunity of pleading the cause - in Europe as he had gained the impression that this was aa a being reported by the press in the United ee . ee _LANE's comprehensive material on the ass ssination, — reportedly has been placed at the disposal of the Danish ST Mark Lane Committee for the purpose of early publication. /(¢ / Co On May 26, 1964, LANE departed Copenhagen for Sweden, ; France and England, where he was also to deliver lectures, z oon T-1 advised that Who Killed Kennedy Committees have been established on LANE‘s initiative in Copenhagen, Paris and London, all with prominent personalities as , members. C): et : . a cording to T-1, LANE returned to the United States -on July 1, 1964. /, a oe Cal Pen eka HW 50529 DocId:32210821 Page 3_ Ce