child. ‘Nor did he s seem particulaily con- , “cerned about being: fired. The personnel |. "“mafidger of-the Reily Co. told the Secret hen’ . T phonograph record. “It isin the jacket. = Service that “Wthere-would be times + Oswald ¥ vould be gone and when: questioned he | a could: notfurnisha .: 40:where he had been, as (CE 1154), . Next door is the Crescent City Garage, whose. owiier, ‘Adrian T..Alba,: testified 7 2 that: Oswald Spent: hours on: ‘end. in his - ~ waiting room. buried’ in gun magazines: : " (Warren Report, ‘Vol. 10, p. 226). ‘Shortly, |: "before ‘leaving. the coffee ‘firm, Oswald| | ms mentioned. to: Alba that his: emriployment ‘application. was ‘about tobe accepted “out - there’ where. the gold ° is” —thé ||: ‘ tact Garrison. Norton was given . a lie, -~ detector test, and there were no indica: tions of deception... . : "Garrison ‘believes that Dive ; * as disseminated by. the Associated Press. - |’ - The version released by the WarrenCom- |, mission. has been edited to delete the. NASA’ Saturn: missile plant at Gentilly, 1a suburb. (Vol. 10; ‘p. 226). “On the face of i it, the idea that ¢ Oswald could get a job’ ata Space agericy- installa: | 7 ti on. requiring Security cleararice seems . preposterous: ‘He. was a_self-avowed. e a "Marxist, who had tried to renounce his | , “American: ‘citizenship in Moscow, mar-. cried the: niece of a Soviet KGB.colonel, | 2 openly engaged i in'‘Fair Play For: Cuba”! activity, ‘and attempted to join. the Com i munist:. Party, “U:S.A: But Garrison : “ points' ‘out that it is an ‘open secret that 1 the: ‘CIA! ‘uses the. NASA facility as a gover. for clandestine operations. And it "ovis his . .contention. that Oswald was a. an “wittinj ” Agent of the CIA. : “Oswald's status. “One is the | story. of ve Donald P. ‘Norton, who claims he was : -impressed: into the Agency’s service in| | a. 1957 under ‘threat of exposure asa homo- os sexual: An’ September 1962, Norton re- : lated,’ “he: was’ ‘dispatched: from Atlanta} with . $50,000 for. an. anti-| Castro. group. He had no sooner: regis- | tered in the Yamajel Hotel in Monterrey, \|' med Mexico,. ‘per. instructions, than he was: os contacted. by: one:-Harvey: Lee, a dead , ringer’ for Oswe ld. except’ that: his hair. ; seemed slightly thicker. In exchange. for i€ loney, ‘Lee gave ‘him a “briefcase : con ining’: documents _ in manila.: en- _Velopes.’ According: to plan, Norton de- = -livered. .the briefcase to an-employee of an American oil firm in Calgary, Alber: Oo “ta, who. repeated the: ‘pass. phrase, “The | , ‘Weather 3 is very warm in Tulsa:” . Norton also contends he met David Ferrie’ ‘earlier i in his CIA career. ine early ~ ..1958, he was tapped for a courier trip to Cuba and told to meet his contact at the | 7 Eastern ; Air Lines counter at the Atlanta 7 Airport. ‘The, contact | was a singular- : appearing man 1 who scalied himself Hug | Pharris or. Ferris; ‘Norton now. States {i “was: Ferrie: “Here are. your samples,!}” Ferrie ‘femarked, handing Norton “Tt” was. $150,000, which Norton’ duly: delivered toa Cuban television perform erin Havana. ‘Norton asserts he went t . Freeport, Grand Bahamas, onan Agenc} = assignment - ‘late in 1966; ‘and upon hig « return :to Miami his. contact’ instructed. that “something. was happening i in Nev : Orleans, and that I (Norton) should take . a long, quiet ‘vacation. ” . He did, and started to fret about. the \ “people who have died in recent months —like Ferrie.’ i Then he decided to con-. Naval Station in. Japan, a U- 2 facility uments; “Oswald's ac access to information ae cabout ‘theU-2” {cD 931] and: “Repro-| |-: duction: of CIA official dossier on Os- wald’ (CD 692] are still classified in: the National: Archives). ‘Curiously, the mis- || - | cast. Marine: who was constantly. i in hot +/ water hada Crypto clearance on top ofa : ; Top Secret clearance, and was given two - electronics courses. “Isn't it odd,” prods. . Garrison, “that even thoiigh he sup- ‘posedly’ defected to. the Soviet - Union: ' with Top Secret. data on our radar nets, no action was taken against him when - he came back to.the United States?” -. Equally odd is Oswald's acquisition of - : Russian language ability. Although the » Warren’ Report, spread the fiction that he was! ‘self-taught, and Oswald ‘himself. ‘falsely told 4 New Orleans acquaintance “that he had studied Russian at. Tulane: . University; the’ likelihood i is that he was’ » tutored at the CIA's Atsugi’ ‘station. - Marine: Corps. records Teflect' that‘ on. . February 25, 1959, at the conclusion of ” his Atsugi. tour of duty, he was given a. Russian’ language. proficiency test (Fol: . som ‘Exhibit No. 1, p. 7). A former: ' Marine comrade, Kerry Thornley, de- posed to Garrison that Oswald on- versed, in -Russian ‘with John Rene’ Heindel every morning at muster. Oswald's “defection” to the Soviet. Union also smacks of being CIA-initi-. ated: In‘ retrospect, the clearance of U.S. : departure and reentry formalities seems unduly expeditious. When the Marine Corps post 1 fact dowrigraded his dis- ‘charge to less than honorable, Oswald indignantly wrote Secretary of the Navy John B. Connally, “T-have and. allways "|: [sic] had ‘the full sanction. of. the.U.S. | Embassy, Moscow USSR and hence the | | US. government” (Warren Report, | 'p. 710): ‘When: an interviewer.on a New}. - Orleans radio station’ asked. him on]. - August 21, 1963, if he had had a. govern- ‘ment subsidy. during ‘his three -years in | Russia, the, normally articulate ‘Oswald.| - stammered badly:. “Well, as Ter, well, I * will answer. that question directly then as you will not ‘rest until you get your “answer er, I worked in: Russia, er, I was |: er. under the protection er; of the er, that . is to say I.was not’ under protection of : |. the American government but I was at | “all. times: er, considered ‘an American | ; citizen ; “Tr his i is the original version ‘hemming. and hawing and the apparent ‘slip-of-the tongue, “I-was tinder the pro- tection:?.:.”-[Vol. 215: -p: 639]. )° “Possibly the most cogent suggestion of | : Oswald's. mission in the Soviet Union can be found in the testimony of Dennis - H.. Ofstein, a fellow-employee at. Jag- _ Bars-Chiles-Stovall’ Co. in’ Dallas (this — " is’ the photographic/graphic arts : firm where: ‘Oswald: worked” upon. his. return: from Russia ; it ‘receives many classified” - ~ government contracts). Ofstein’s smat- - ~ tering-of Russian. evidently: set.the usu-. if ally phlegmatic ‘Oswald'to talking. “All - the time I.was.in Minsk I never saw a “vapor trail,” Ofstein quotes: him: “He | also mentioned about the disbursement. — [dispersement?] of. ilitary .units,” Of- stein continued, .‘ “saying ‘they didn’t in- termingle: their. armored ‘divisions and - infantry divisions and * various Units the : ‘way we doin the United States, and they a would have all of their ‘aircraft in one geographical location: and: their tanks i in’ - - another geographical’ location, and their , infantry i in another . _ sion; Oswald asked Ofstein to enlarge a © photograph taken in Russia which, he -explained, ‘represented “some military. . headquarters ‘and ‘that the- guards sta- tioned there were armed with weapons - and ammunition and had: ‘orders to shoot : ‘ _ any trespassers’. . _ wald’s iniordinate interest in the contrails of high ‘flying aircraft, Soviet military _ ”.”? On one occa- .”* (Vol. 10, p. 202). Os- deployment and 4: military facility in- | volving « an element of risk to photograph : RAMPARTS 49
The Reily Bldg. (See map opposite) ‘ hardly Seems, the natural curiosity of a : hapless ex-Marine private. | An intriguing entry in Oswald’s ad- ; ~appearing OTHE Page On Which Te Fas : ‘notated the address and phone number |. _ of Jaggers-Chiles-Stovall (CE 18, p. 45). : Microdots are -a clandestine means of - communication developed. by German’ intelligence: during. World War. Il and : 7 still in general -use’ among: espionage : agencies. The technique i is to photograph’ ; ‘the’ document to: be transmitted and: vastly reduce the negative. to-a size that . will fit inside a period. The microdot : . can be inserted in.an innocuous letter or magazine and mailed, or left in a “dead ae drop”—a prearranged location for the deposit and pickup of ‘Messages. . Thus it may be significant that Oswald obtained library cards in Dallas and New Orleans, and usually visited the " . Photograptis by William W. Turner libraries o on n Thursday: The. possible im- plication of his visits was: not overlooked ||. .by:the FBI, which confiscated every book: ..he-ever. charged: out,' and: never-returned them. A pjece that may. fit into the puzzle . : is.the discovery by Garrison of an adult’ _ borrower's card issued: ‘by the New. Or-" leans public’. library in the name Clem Bertrand..The business address shown is . the International ‘Trade Mart [Shaw's : former place of employment], and the home address 3100. Louisiana Avenue Parkway, a wrong number, but conspic- J ‘|: uously:close to that_of David Ferrie, at | 3330 Louisiana Avenue Parkway. There |}: may bea pattern here, since Oswald sup- -| |p! posédly | carried.a ‘card issued to. Ferrie: a én arrested in ‘Dallas. Still another hint ‘of. Oswald's intelli nce status is the inventory of his prop- -ferty seized by Dallas’ police after the _ Assassination. Included is such sophisti- . |cated ‘optical equipment? as: a. Sterio -{Realist camera, a ‘Hanza cameta timer, . filters, a small German ‘camera, a. Wol- . lensak 15. power telescope, Micron 6X°| |: binoculars anda variety of. film—hardly , he usual accouterments of.a lowly ware-. ouseman (Stovall Exhibits). ~ - Upon his return ‘from: Russia, the. man yo - who subscribed to Pravda i in ‘the Marine Corps and: lectured his’ fellow Marines “on Marxist dialectics Set . about ‘insti- tutionalizing his leftist facade. He wrote ingratiating letters to the national head- quarters of the Communist Party, Fair ‘Play for Cuba Committee’ and. Socialist I pescrctiners ecm E vhavasenare’ oa é at Os pats *\in April, 1963). Garrison’ believes" ‘the: wa ‘facade was intended to: “facilitate ' his “entry: into communist countries, for’ spe- vo : middle 1950s. there i isan untraceable B pia in his: career. Then: he turns ‘up ‘asan *~ 5 Eastern: Air -Lines--pilot. Although * ‘he supposedly. obtained an instrument: fat-"" ing. at the Sunnyside, Flying School i in . :
AN ASSAS 1. The old. International Trade Mart. During the summer of 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald" stamped with the address "544 Camp St.; New Oreans, lav : 2. The building at 544 Camp Street. in 1961-63, the building was a-beehive of activity by ' anti-Castro groups, some sponsored by the CIA. A side entrance at 531 Lafayette Place was uSed by the late Guy Sanister, a private detective who employed David Ferrie. Garrison has linked Oswald to the building's.occupants. © Soe a 3. The old U.S. Courthouse across from 544 Camp Street. In.1963-the CIA had an office in . the Courthouse. . , mo Se , 7 Te 4. The William 8. Reily Co. at 640 Magazine Street, a coffee firm where Oswald was em- ployed during the gummer of 1963. a . . : . 5. The Crescent City Garage, next door to the Reilly Co. Owner Adrian Alba told the Warren Commission that Oswaid frequently visited the garage to read his gun magazines, and once mentioned that he would soon be obtaining a job.at the Space Agency facility at Gentilly, a ’ New Orleans suburb. Fr ; , vot os - . 6. The new International Trade Mart, opened in 1965. Clay Shaw, accused by Garrison as passed out ‘Fair Piay for Cuba'’ literature at its entrance. ‘Some ofthe literature was 1965. an assassination conspirator, was executive manager of the Mart until his retirement in,’ ul a - > x a [ee]
in ‘clumps-—Ferrie “desperately studied | _medicine. to try to halt the process— until his body was entirely devoid of hair. One, speculation. is that he .was . moonlighting. and suffered a physiolog-_ ical-reaction to exposure to the @etreme o altitudes required for clandestine flights. guerrilla “warfare, Qne « .of his . young proteges'. -has revealed that. he trained -some! ‘of his Civil Air Patrol cadets and Cubans and formed them into five-man’ small: weapons units, this. ‘under: the auspices of. the Marine Corps and State , Department. Coupled. with’ this is the information from another former. pro- » tege. that: Ferrie’ confided the was work- ing for the CIA rescuing. Cubans out of Castro prisons,” and on one occasion _ was called to; ‘Miarni so- that the CIA could “test him to see if he was.the type . of person | who told his business to.any- a body,” Ina speech. before: the. Military _.Order of World Wars in New Orleanis.in. |. late’ 1961,. Ferrie. rejated that he had -. trained pilots in | Guatemala for the Bay ‘of Pigs, and professed bitter: disappoint- ‘ment. that they were not used. i ‘Gordon ' ‘Novel,, who. was. acquainted _ of with Shaw, was quoted by the States- _ Item as venturing that. ‘Shaw may have been asked by. the €IA to. observe the "traffic of foreign commerce through New |: “Orleans. . More persuasive | is Shaw’s _membership on the board of directors of - | a firm. called Centro Mondiale. Commer- ‘| ciale in Rome.. According to the news-. ° ‘papers Paese ‘Sera of Rome: and Le De-. voir of Montreal, among others of the | foreign press, CMC was an obscure but - well-financed: firm that was ousted from’. ‘| Ttaly by the police because it was sus- . pected of Being a CIA front. It trans- - i planted ifs operation to the more friendly climate of Johannesburg, South Africa, where it still functions: ; The ‘same’ group that.. incorporated CMC also set up a ‘firm called Permidex Corporation in . Switzerland, but that company was dissolved by the: Swiss . ; _ government ‘when it was proved to be a canduit for funds destined for the Secret ° Army Organization (OAS), a group of’ - 52 RAMPARTS | “right-wing French officers dedicated ‘to “keeping Algeria French” by force of. ‘arms. The composition .of the CMC. group with which, Shaw was associated .. is of more than cursory interest, since it includes’ a former. US. intelligence. offi- \ cer, now an executive. of the Bank. ‘of: Montreal; the publisher of the neo-Nazi: | |" National-Zeitung ‘of ‘Germany; Prince © Guitere de: ‘Spadaforo, - an Italian in- . dustrialist related by marriage to Hitler “finance minister Hijalmat' Schacht; and: hy . the lawyer tothe Italian royal family and secretary of the Italian: neo-Fascist . Party: Through his attorney, ‘Shaw has stated he joined the: CMC board of di- rectors,in 1958 at the insistence of his” _ own board: of directors. of. the Interna: tional Trade } Mart of: New. Orleans. oo N_ AuGusT 1, 1963, the front. O= page. of the States-Item carried. “af two- news stories which, “Garti-. son asserts, symbolize the. bitter-end.of the paramilitary right’s tolerance of John " F. Kennedy. “A-Treaty: Signing Set On |. Monday” was the lead to one story; dis-:. closing thatthe test ban treaty, was: : about ‘to. become . reality ‘and that a@ . NATO-Warsaw bloc nonaggression pact: was in the: wind. “Explosives Cache || Home Lent to Cuban, Says Owner's _ Wife,” announced. the lead. to another - ° story,. telling of an: FBI raid ona. military } ’ training site and: arms cache pn the north - t. |. side of Lake Pontchartrain. Agents had seized more. than:a ton of dynamite, 20 '| -100-pound bomb casings, fuses; napalm: | ingredients: ‘and other war materiel. The whipsaw ‘developments—Kenne- dy’s patent determination to, effect a rapprochement with the commynist na- - tions on the one: ‘hand, ‘his crackdown, |. . under the Neutrality’, Acton anti-Castro paramilitary groups on the other—trig- ey gered 4 rage against. the President that |} ould find vent in his assassination. The true nature of the group raided atl |. Lake Pontchartrain: was not’ evident from the story. The FBI: announced no . arrests, and the: wife ‘of: the ' property’. |. owner, Mrs. William J: -McLaney, gave ‘out the: cover. story. that the premises had “41,” been loaned to a. newly-arrived. ‘Cuban * ‘named Jose Juarez. asa favor to ‘friends in Cuba. (McLaney had. been well- ' : known asa gambler, associated. with: ‘the: os Tropicana Hotel i in Havana before being : ousted by Castroi in 1960. ): ’ According to information leaked ta. Garrison by¢ another government agency, nois’ machine shop, was ‘arrested: ‘again: in: 1964 when Treasury: investigators, ‘huge quantity of ile, autoinatic poe The. others arrested ¥ were. American ‘ad- | | “tis: was given money by an _. clique at the Liberty Mall: ' City: to subsidize the: sniper -Slaying of. Senator J. William: Fulbright of Arkan- Q sas. The plan called for Morris to escape . in a. Plane flown by: a ‘Texas t ‘Minutemen. decided to ambust “outside of. “Dallas,” plan: fell ‘through. “Howeve s '. Warren Report. might’ phrase. ‘it, “guch schemes. establish the: propensity « “to. ii” on the-part of the radical ‘right: “Minutemen” has become’an. alimost - genéric term for the paramilitary, right. a. far : from’ ‘homogenous in ment,
: “race e hatred and. anti-Semitism, others by). _‘ perfervid anti-communism, ‘still others| - bya personal interest in overthrowing . "Castro and regaining property or sine- ~cures in ‘the Cuban bureaucracy. There “is ‘considerable. cross-pollination, espe- .. cially in the South: A ‘graphic example _;.can be. -found:.in- “rural St:. Bernard ° “Parish, near New Orleais: A state police undercover. investigator: relates. that in- side:a ‘farmhouse which serves dS. a. Ku. ‘Klux Klan regional headquarters ‘are. ‘Nazi emblems . anda shrine to Horst "Wessel, and in back, behind.a copse of _ trees, a rifle range and large. cache of "guns, belonging to. Minutemen. ’ There i is intense factionalism inside the paramilitary right; and i ‘in recent years a. . , power struggle for hegemony: over the - movement raged between DePugh of the Minutemen and the late George Lincoln ” Rockwell of. the Amefican: Nazis."In a -. récent ‘public statement DePugh com- _Mented. that “fascism is the number one ‘danger i in‘ this‘country- today,” and that-- eal he “fascists”. are-using anti-communism - mokescreen to. cover their ownrush - fi power. I had: occasion: ‘to talk to | rs DePugh, and suggested. to him that the guerrilla: team - that bushwhacked the "President included. Minutemen who had drifted : into the Nazi. orbit. “Tm inclined J. ~t‘agree,” he said. Ce, ~ “One of the most inexplicable e entries i j ° Oswald’ 3” address book | is “Nat. Dan’ Burros, Lincoln Rockwell, Arlin 5 tons, Virginia” (CE 18, _p. 55). ‘Oth r i nt: Directorate in New Orleans and : etired General Edwin, Walker of Dalla: att xin ‘Cuban Exiles i in Marine a but ° he suspected Oswald was: a plant. “ bine: MAKING OF A patsy] oN JANUARY 20, 1961, TWO MEN ‘approached Oscar W. Deslatte, Sw: assistant manager of the Bolton Ford, Truck Center in New Orleans, and. identified themselves as members of the | eS SERRE sr Ee RSE Ate a their cause, they: wanted to purchase ten “trucks at cost. Deslatte filled out’a bid f. form, recording their names as Joseph © : ‘Moore and Oswald. The young man call- ing himself Oswald said that if the trucks -were purchased he would be the one to pay for them. This i is the gist of an inci- “dent recorded by: the: ‘FBI immediately after the assassination and dug out of the obscurity of the: Archives by Garri- son researcher Tom Bethell (CD 1542). ‘Garrison has located the: former Bol- ton: Ford manager who was present at. the time, Fred A. Sewell. He recalled that. the younger ‘ “skinny” man gave the full. a Cuban name on the bid form. What is. puzzling about the incident :is that Lee’ |. Harvey: Oswald was in Minsk, Russia . in: 1961, thus raising the question. of who was impersonating him and why. - Aily answer must necessarily: be con- jecture, but it may be significant-to recall that Lee Harvey-Oswald. spent-four days in New-Ofleans-in- September 1959-be- |] ° fore departing on the first leg of his jour- ~ ney to the Soviet Union aboard the. SS Marion Lykes (CE 1963). Garrison has ‘ Bicked up indications that Oswald’s de- cision to embark via .ship from New Orleans was dictated by intelligence con- siderations. Iti is not ‘beyorfd the realm of possibility that - -during the four-day . period in the city he was inducted into a. CIA group, an anti-Castro member of which would later use Oswald’s name, | * The genesis of the Friends of Demo- } " cratic Cuba is not inconsistent with this . theory: One of the incorporators of. the ; organization . ‘was Guy Banister, the Minutemen/CIA type. Another’ was William. Wayne Daizell who knew Ferrie and Arcacha, and was still another i in the Banister. coterie ‘of sleuths. To a States- |: ‘Item reporter he admitted he ‘was CIA. The Friends of Democratic Cuba-was © fouinded January 9, 1961, less than two weeks before the Bolton Ford incident. - It was intended as a kind of American. auxiliary to Arcacha’s all-Cuban Revo- lutionary Front, and Arcacha was instru- mental .in its creation. 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had, said Deputy Buddy | Walthers, “a lot of these.little leaflets in it, ‘Freedom for Cuba’ ” (Vol. 7, p. 548). And at his ‘the assassination, DA Henry Wade let “mediately “corrected” by Jack Ruby he isa member ofthe Fair Play for Cuba Committee.” au “Supplementary Investigative Report” ddted November 23, 1963, he stated:that he had advised’. Dallas Secret Service Chief Forrest. Sorrels that “for the past few months at a. house. at. 3128 Harlen- dale ‘some Cubans . had been having meetings .on the: week ° “ends ‘and were possably. [sic]: connected with the’ ‘Free- dom For Cuba Party’ of which Oswald Was a member.’” Three: days. later, when the Secret Service had evinced no inter- est, he wrote a wistful addendum: “T learned today that: “sometime between seven days before the President. was shot and the day aftér he was shot these Cu- '_, bans moved from. this house. My’ in- |. formant stated that subject Oswald had _ Today in Mississippi a black boycott is documented on film. In a ‘population of still only two trained cameramen. In. 1968 Southern Media Inc will train three more and put film equipment in their hands. With your help, three films will be ¢ made by Td: 32245514 longings it in ‘the garage was a 5 barrel t that _celebrated press conference the night of . _ it slip that “Oswald is a member of the / ‘Free’ Cuba Committee: 2 ‘He was im-" who -had mingled: with the press: “No; Deputy Walthers added a final link. In . |. an.OQswald double .in Dallas. who- prob--; ably..was instrumental in “setting *him | Today in Mississippi: . black people for the black community. The almost one million black: People, there are .- . leadership. Our needs: $18,000. Southern Media Inc -- #5 Carmet Street { San Francisco, California hibit No: 5323). “Why Oswald’s anti-Castro comrad decided to make him the patsy i is open t " conjecture. Perhaps he balked at going through with the assassination. Perhaps they did. Not trust him and suspected he _was an infiltrator. The most likely ex- planation: is a ‘pragmatic one: they didate. ‘To make the assassination look _ like.the work of an avowed Marxist and’ Castro: sympathizer would have been a propaganda’: tour de force. “Even so,” backers of the plot were a little disap- pointed. Oswald | was supposed to be killed trying to escape, and if those.Cu- ban and Soviet visas he-applied for but didn’t get could have been found.on his : body, public opinion against Russia and Cuba would have been’ incited to a dangerous Pitch.” tion, theré are a number of instances oO up.” Gunsmith Dial D. Ryder told the Commission that ‘in ‘early November, + someone giving the name Oswald | purpose: to overcome isolation and provide a communications tool for black movement Page 54. _ needed a patsy and he was.the ideal can-| - offers Garrison, “I think the big money || ‘In the weeks preceding the assassina- j)]. A FRIEND WITH WEED IS A “THE GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA JOHNSON’S MOUTH— THE NOBODY FOR PRESIDENT . WARNING: YOUR LOCAL POLICE WHERE IS LEE HARVEY OSWALD WOULD YOU REALLY FEEL MORE SECURE WITH ME IN UNIFORM? : with. drawing) LXIX Box 3365 Midway, Washington 98031 . been to this house before” (Decker Ex. pane —a pamphlet discussing: @ the limitations of socialism, liberalism, ‘pacifism Ba definition of loyalty to the rece, the world, and the future @ the farce called the “United Nations” @ implications of the U.S. attack on Vietnam technoshock and techno- ws s what is to be done... ' by Charles Hook, foremost young spokesmon for the new internationalism, and. previously national chairman of the Student Peace Union: RO, Box 639 Free with each order of * Building World “Pedce” a short Swiftian satire entitled “Prospectus of the War Corporation” presents pe rhaps the only rational argument for war in general.and the wor on Vietnam in particular, - BUTTONS! FRIEND INDEED ban the bomb symbol CURE VIRGINITY - DOWN WITH PANTS. Is A MOTHER: - CREDIBILITY GAP’ MAKE LOVE—NOT WAR marijuana leaf . MY BUTTON LOVES YOUR BUTTON SEXUAL FREEDOM LEAGUE: “LOVE THY NEIGHBOR” ARE ARMED AND DANGEROUS *. “NOW THAT WE REALLY NEED HIM? . ‘PEACE ENJOY ! STONED UNBUTTON 25¢ each; 5/$1; 12/$2; 50/$5; 125/$10 Any combination FREE LIST! SUB- BN»>r-o RAMPARTS 55 iy i 4 ’ ,
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He retreated to-his native - ‘Louisiana, ‘where on St. Valen- tine’s Day: 1966, he was found. dead < 0 exhaust fumes in his. auitomobile. . _ The. main ingredients of the Patsy = theory are wrapped up ina story that has. ° gradually filtered out of ‘Leavenworth “Penitentiary. ‘The: story is that:of.inm: Richard Case Nagell, and paradoxically the most cogent confirmation for it is the manner. in which he wound up sentenced - to ten years in federal custody. - _ Nagell was'a highly decorated infantry ‘captain - in the Korean War who, he. claims, . subsequently became .a Cl: a . agent. It is a matter of record: that, in 1957 he.was seriously injured i ina plarie crash in Cambodia, which tends to sup-. port his contention, since: ‘Cambodia wils - not exactly a. tourist playground. On September 20, 1963, Nagell walked into’ a bank in:El Paso, Texas, fired agun into” the ceiling, and then sat outside waiting to: be arrested. ‘He says he staged: the * affair. because he wanted to be in:custody., as‘an alibi when the ‘assassination: took place. It was a ‘desperate measure, he ad- mits. But he had sent.a registered detier to J. ‘Edgar Hoover warning him. of the impending assassination, which he Says” _ was then scheduled for-the latter part of . September (probably. the 26th in Wash- ington,. D.C), and the letter: had gone” nanswered. There i is.an incredibly brief. FBI inter: view report stating, in part, that-on Des cember 19, 1963;,. Nagell advised; “For : -the record he would like to say that his association: with: OSWALD (meaning, LEE. HARVEY OSWALD) was purely - social and that he had met him in Mexico City and in Texas” (cp 197). Another
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While the government has suggested i in court that -his. airplane crash . mentally affected ‘given intelligence training after the crash. What Nagell alleges is damning not only to the FBI, but to the CIA. In brief, he'says that the motive: for the assassinia- |. tion was Kennedy’: s move inthe direction: of a rapprochement with Castro, which was a rank betrayal in the: eyes of : Mexico City,. code ‘name Bravo Club, decided“to give Kennedy a: “Christmas required. Two “members. of. Bravo Club approached Oswald while he was. work- ing at the Reily colfee firm’ in New Or- leans in ‘the summer of 1963, and ap- - patsy. When the “delivery” site was Club. . Meanwhile the CIA got wind of the plans and. sent several agents into’ the field.to ascertain whether they were “for ‘sum of the plot y was right-wing i in nature. “arrow” the patsy, that is kill him, after - the assassination. At this. point, he con- tends, he got cold feet and bailed out. “T would rather be arrested than: commit murder-and treason,” he declared ina self-prepared petition for- habeas corpus. In the petition, Nagell asserts that he who says he expected to be charged only - with discharging a firearm on govern- f ment-protected property. Since his sen- Nagell, the fact remains that: he was anti-Castro elements. As he puts it, an _ anti-Castto_group: in. New Orleans and . " present” to be delivered September 26,4 - date that was. -postponed. A party. was . ’ pealed to his ego in setting. him up asthe - shifted to Dallas, Bravo. Club enlisted . the aid of a: ‘Dallas “subsidiary,” Delta real.” Nagell says he was one of the agents dispatched. Within a’ ‘shoft time, . | he claims, he was pulled i in. It had-been | verified. that the plans were authentic, ‘ that: ““gusanos | {anti-Castroites] were making, the watch tick, ” and: that the Nagell says that. he: was instructed. to. used the pseudonyms Robert Nolan and | Joseph Kramer in the US. and three foreign countries under the authorization of. the Defense Intelligence ‘Agency. He" states that the files.of the FBI and the 1A contain information that Oswald as using the aliases’ Albert Hidel and \leksei Hidel. He charges that the FBI legally seized from him evidence crucial o his defense, such as notebooks con-. taining the names of certain CIA em. © ployees, photographs, two. Mexican tourist cards (one in the name Joseph ‘Kramer, the other in the name ‘Albert Hidel), and receipts. for registered mail, iricluding. the one for the letter sént: ”: Hoover. warning of the assassination... ' When Nagell complains he has been ' “salted . away” becduse of what | he knows, he just might be ‘making the 1 n- “-derstatement of ‘the year. ime ELIMINATION OF A s PaTSY] DIDN T KILL, ANYBODY Oswald: to news: men while in police custody: ~ marked patsy,’ contends Garrison—one _-who was not supposed to have lived long enough to utter his cry of inniocerice. But “something had. riisfired, and Oswald fell’. not into the hands of his: would-be € --eutioners; but into the comparative safety of the Dallasjail. The denouement: presented a crisis that the conspiratois could. solve only by pressing police buff... Jack Ruby into service. : - Although’. the’. Warren Cominission: concluded: that Oswald ducked. into ‘his Oak Cuff rooming ‘house to pick up the . 38 revolver, later confiscated from him in the Texas Theater, it did not explain’ why,. if he had § gone to work at the School _ Book ‘Depository ‘that morning. intend- ‘ ing.-to kill. the ‘President | ‘and éscape, , he did ‘not take the revolver with-him: . - | That he. made a beeline to his rooming " frouse for the sole purpose of getting, the revolver. spéaks. of a man who: desper- ately wanted. to protect: -himself. from reacherous. comrades rather than from re police: Notwithstanding the mild res istance he put up in his refuge in the 5 Texas Theater, Oswald’s demeanor in , would resolve’ the great riddle—given, the time. Oswald’ does not appear to be the onl A double-cross victira of that. bloody after- noon: the evidence ‘is persuasive. that . someone. other than the accused:assassin killed Officer J. D. Tippit, a friend of Jack Ruby, ‘whose. patrol area included the Harlandalé Street section headquar-