Date:08/12/93 Page:1 . JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : WC RECORD NUMBER : 179-40002-10447 RECORDS SERIES : 08: NUMBERED COMMISSION DOCUMENTS AGENCY FILE NUMBER DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : FBI FROM : TO TITLE DATE :. 08/31/64 . PAGES: :°-2 SUBJECTS LANE, MARK GARST, JAMES DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : U RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : P DATE OF LAST REVIEW : / / OPENING CRITERIA COMMENTS : P. 1-2; 3 COPIES; BOX FO02 HW 50529 DBocld:322710541 Page 1
“OLASSITITD BY SU , DECLASSIrY Crk: 2K t HW 50529 Docld:32210541 Page 2 File No. + ee creene . . : . \ ~ ; 4 Commission Noe — Ge SECRET #- TT. los UNITED STATES. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE” So - FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON 25, D.C. : 5:38 84 | oe . SBEIAW week ane and April 16 ‘when he left London Airport for Amsterdam, Holland, A secret and reliable source of T=] 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 wiews on the Kennedy assassination and asked acy ; . GTMBRWISE a Ops 3 ““‘T1, a@ confidential source abroad, advised as follows © yn on August 25, 1964: (1) a . It, : , Jeeiel - MARK LANE visited the United Kingdom between April 14, | , ff _ 1964, when he, arrived at London Airport from Copenhagen, , the IADL to form an international committee of noted lawyers— to discover the real circumstances under which the Kennedy assassinatio peceurred. (6) oo : - | . LANE returned to England on June 9, 1964, arriving at London Airport from Copenhagen, Denmark. He was ac- companied by his fiancee, Miss ANNE-LISE DABELSTEEN, a designer, born May 15, 1941, traveling on a Danish pass- port No. 2301698. Shortly after his arrival he attended 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 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 "Daily Worker" of June 12 and 30, 1964. According to LANE, the objects of the Committee were to collect and disseminate all available information and evidence relating to the as- ‘gagssination of President Kennedy and to insure justice for the Oswald family. T-1 has no information to show to what ' extent. the Committee is actively pursuing these objects.(s) SECRET. renee) cybomavic | . ; "August 31, 1964 - THOR CORTAAHER. JAMES DELANEY GARST © | {XCEF? WHERE SHOWN
ee ek te ce en > - . ' NW 50529 DocId:32210541 Page 3 SECRET... _ LANE was to have left England for Florence and Rome on. June 14, 1964, He paid another visit to England ' between June 21, 1964, 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 : death. During this latter visit he did not come to T-1's oo attention. | 5) oo mo With regard to the "Who Killed Kennedy Committee?", ’ the secretary, JANES 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 —~ * “wnhder consideration for appointment as tutor in Extra- '. Mural Studies at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in  Panganyika. T-1 is unable to say whether he will obtain ce! this appointment. S) ae T-1 varmtansdhs 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 6G. 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 Groat Bratadne (So sn ye ‘ x Enclosure —_ aed | 3 \ ace nora rer sciat EE  s we SECRET.