Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of (997 (at sc 707 Hotes.” DATE: 11-14-2017 \ AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: ‘PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : . CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 DoclId: 32311931 Page 1 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10320-10248 HQ 100-409763-129 Document Information FBI LO HQ 08/31/1964 9 MARK LANE PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 09/21/1999 INDEFINITE INC LHM 34
y By, O-. "5 GOV ‘NMENT ~Wemorandum Director, FBI a DATE: - 8/31/64 cg ae: INFORMATION COhae RELN PECL Bere 1 Legit, London oc ee pitty f } MARK’ LANE ; 4 SM.- C } Bufile 100-409763. . 100-3247 Bufile 100-369096 Lonfile 100-2545 (P) | $s Te Remylet 6/30/64 under the apeve double caption, ai mylet under the MARK LANE caption dated 8/17/64. f There are enclosed the original and six copies of a . / LEM setting forth information received from British of Ze MSecurity Service, MI-5, on 8/25/64. T-1 in the enclosur iS-MI-5 and the information was classified SECRET. Also‘ each LHM is a copy of an open letter issued i SELL at the. time care formation of As it appears LANE has left England, this case is being placed in a RUC status. =5; advises that any/i | formation received concerning the "Who Kille nedy | | Committee" will be reported to this orrice. (RFU) — ” . CGA Cony oe Information in the enclosed LHM shows GARST left | aA England by air for Detroit on 6/30/64 and so-far there. is no evidence of his return. Should the Bureau be ab tto determine GARST'is still in the U.S., London would |Lappreciat ing advised. MI-5 i continuing its inqu on GARST, AV i ; ean SAE TORI oe “Of 4 L Bureawi)(Enc. 14) Mx a Liaison (Ene.2/),(sent direct) 2 - London ; fg & Chirxeky ek a ae 56 SEP 281968 7/7! gfeoy: Ke Be bt port, | Docld:327311931 Page 2?
rReleased-unier the John |. Kennedy TT: en L oO . Kennedy “Assassination Recor Gllection het oF : eer? 94 ne _(/PATE: 11-14-2017 . < Records collec LomqRet OF 1992 TEE USC 2107 Hotey. e . 8 . i VOB ew SECRET a oN - UNITE, ,STATES DEPARTMENT OF Ie WCE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATT” % WASHINGTON 25, D.C. _ August 31, 1964 iA |” ua p? “MARK LANE peat A565. IN pr T-1, a confidential source abroad, advised as follows (Ag if, on August, 25, 1964: ce m MARK LANE visited the United Kingdom between April 14, RY 4 1964, when he arrived at London Airport from Copenhagen, and April 16 when he left London Airport for Amsterdam, Holland. A secret and reliable source of T-1 reported that he had attended the Eighth Congress of the Interna- tional Association of Democratic Lawyers. (IADL) which was’ held in Budapest from March 31-to April 6, 1964. The Continental press carried a story to the effect that he explained his views on the Kennedy assassination and asked the IADL to form an international committee of noted lawyers to discover the real a(S) under which the Kennedy assassination occurred. LANE returned to England on June 9, 1964, arriving RE London. Airport from Copenhagen, .Denmark He was ac- : ANN ompanied by his: fiancee, Miss E-LISE) ABELSTEEN, a . designer, born..May-155-1941.,. Taveling on a~Danish pass- re “Shortly after his arrival he attended HEREIN LS UMCLASSLFLED EXCEPT WHERE SHOWN port No, 2301698. "— a 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 | reporters 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 Ss to say that the Committee had now been formed, without a chairman, but with GARST as secretary. They have received ; some publicity in the British press, in particular in the | j "Daily Worker" of June 12 and 30, 1964. According to LANE, \ | the objects of the Committee were to collect and disseminate ae , yt Ah § * 311 available information and evidence relating to the as- a § sassination of President Kennedy and to insure justice for , the Oswald family. T-1 has no information te show to what. ,. % extent the Committee is actively pursuing tlreése cpgects. ( 38(U) \ SECRE T50- 09763 —-] a) DoclId:32311931 Page 3
Réleased tinder the John F . o . Kennedy A 1 ian’ Records Collectian PATE: 11-14-2017 -_ y Assassination Records Collection. Act of I992-(#4—-USC 2107 : ; Hote; id ‘ a LANE was to have left -Engd nud for Florence and Rome on June 14, 1964.’ @i | ya id fanother visit to Engband petween June 21, 1964,“ Holt Hi, . rived at London Airport from Brussels, Belgiun, and June 30, tay 1964, when he left London for New York, having been recalled to appear pefore the Warren Commission investigating President Kennedy's % death, Duri his latter visit he did not come to T-l's attention. <4 / Q With regard To the "Who Killed Kennedy Committee?", the secretary, JAMES DELANEY GARST, is taking a greater interest in the Anarchist movement. He left the United Kingdom for Detroit by air on June 30, 1964, and T-1 has “ no evidence of his return as yet. He has recently been under consideration for appointment as tutor in Extra- Mural Studies at the University of Dar Tanganyika. T-1 is; unable to say whet this appointment. J -es-Salaam in her he will obtain T.-1 furnished a 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". The ; 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 associated with , organizations penetrated, and in some cases, controlled | by the Communist Party of Great Britain. { Ss \ ; - | \ y PSY ‘ Doeld: 32311931 Page 4