(404-10132-10832 tp ot Background Use “Ginly A. NOVEL Is Polygraphed by Lloyd FURR on Garrison's Charges. Gordon Dwane NOVEL, already a fugitive witness in the Garrison inquiry, is reported in the Washington press of 27 March 1967 as having been polygraphed the previous day on the case under investigation by Garrison, According to the press reports, NOVEL submitted to a polygraph examination | conducted at McLean, Virginia by Lloyd FURR. In statements to the press, FURR indicated there was no indication of deception to NOVEL's charges that Garrison's case is a “fratd't, ~. Lloyd FURR, a former District of Columbia policeman and now a private detective, is a self-proclaimed polygraph “expert” — and sound device specialist. We has received publicity in the past for planting sound devices for the late Fulton Lewis, Jr. | in the St. Mary's County vice case in 1953 and in 1958 when he discovered listening devices being used against Bernard Goldfine. In 1964, information was received that a Washington, D. C. firm, REDEX, operated by FURR and Richard L. BAST, was attempting to aell electronic equipment to Communist China via am agent in Hong Kong. (TSD had unclassified contact with FURR in 1962 to see equipment offered for sale by FURR. ) C. Richard L. BAST and REDEX. Richard L. BAST, a Washington, D.C. private detective, gained neteriety in 1965 by turning up a missing witness, previously unlocated by the Department of Justice, in connection with the Bobby Baker case. He is known to operate at least four i enterprises: |) CAPITAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, a private detective agency; 2) REDEX VIE [TNAM, INC., a firm which imports a variety of comiiddities ranging from liquor to automobiles into South Vietnam, including, of late, U.S. -recruited "go-go" girls for a Saigon nightclub he {s‘planniag; 3) REDEX \) CORP., a firm which sells almost anything t body abroad, other than South Vietnam; and 4) CONSCLIDATED ARMAMENTS, INC,, 2 firm which sells small arme to foreign governments and private individuals abroad, BAST also produces and distributes both positive 2udio and counteraudio devices in the U.S. and Zi)
ee cee ene ee ee een nL ee ee en ws et ee A RR rr term temmetmrs mt neice a pi D. overseas. BAST, described as “unscrupulous and untrust- worthy", is known to have attempted to contract with ancther private detective for planting a remote-controlled bomb in the headquarters of the Haiti Secret Police, and has been reported te have undertaken similar extreme essignments for exile groups from Haiti and the Dominican Republic. (Based on derogatory information on file, DCS, in March 1967, decided against previously contemplated with BAST as a source of information on A.slaty ) a TURNER of RAMPARTS: Hai daring January 1967, William W. TURNER, whe i writer, visited the offices of the Asia Feandation, requesting information for a magazine article, He stated that be had been asked by Sol Stern of New York to gather information for an article in the New York Times. During his visit, hewever, it became obvious that TURNER was primed to ask questions BAST, REDEX, and William Ww CA Steff has provided he left a calling card with the firm name “REDEX-PACIFIC". He explained he had te have new cards : _eportedly dismissed from the FBI in 1961, is notaifd tave—~ authored an article in the November 1966 issué of F Magasinein which he describes alleged wiretappin: Role of FURR and BAST in CIA Meeting of Exile (The foregoing has atternpted to detail the contact of NOVEL with FURR, FURR's connection with EAST, and a possible connection between BAST's organisation and RAMPARTS. The following indicates the only CIA tevelvement in the chain which might be exploited in-subseqsent attempts te link CIA to the entire affair in ~~ tee, na “. \ On 29 April 1963, Robert E>Owen, then Chief, WE/3 and ( // "ERE
vat “27 April 1963, with Raym WH/6 in which he decumented e exile from Haiti. Inthe. conversation took place in the whom Owen had met threugh a neighbor, Lioyd FURR. The memorandum relates CASSAGNOL's background, family, political stance, etc. Reported as significant by Owen ie a statement by BAST that the following week BAST would be sending a shipload of arms te a CASSAGNOL-affillated greup im the Deminican Republic. Owen noted: “Ra CASSAGNOL gives appearance of thinking well of Richard BAST. According to CASSAGNOL, his brother, J. B, also knows BAST and respects him, Thus BAST, ta spite of certain personal shertcomings from the intelligence standpoint, dees represent an established channel to at least ene segment of the Haitian opposition to Devaller. Since according to his own steternent, BAST is supplying arms te CASSAGNOL's groups, further transactions ef this type via BAST presumably would net be difficult te arrange." He also provided @ detailed information on what he learned of BAST, noting that BAST had mentioned Dominican distrust of State amd AED and the fact that “CIA double-crossed them" (the Dominicans). Aun FBI report on BAST dated 19 June 1963 rts that Owen, "Fereign Service Reserve Officer, USDS" veported 16 May 1963 his attendance at dinner at BAST's home on 27 April 1963. Owen told of his meeting with CASSAGNOL, BAST's istention to sell arms to the Derinican Republic and Haitian exiles, otc, He also reports that an 7 May 1963, BAST asked him te perform some translation work. The tranalation, he stated, related to BAST giving a power of attorney ta one Lais MORENO Martine: of the Dominican Republic te prepare documentation for legal establishment of REDEX CORPORATION, C POR A, a DE branch of BAST‘s firm, According to Owen, 40% of the stock was to be held by the head of the DR National Security Agency, the head of the DR secret police, and an individual well-connected with Dominican Repablic police and intelligence groups. BAST is also noted to have teld Owen of an offer BAST had made to “bug" the office of the Dominican f Ml CGRET
cope fl Secretary of State for the Armed Forces on behalf of Juan Bosch, BAST did not indicate to Owen if had performed the job. (There is no record of a clearance having been issued for utilization of Richard L. BAST or REDEX, } 4 SECRET a