(04-10056-10103] La M EMOR -ANDUM cad Ce wpe "eah: i. rl a woes SUBJECT; GAR RISON and tha} Benne *, Govdon-Dwane NOV is i ee 7 7 “Gosden ‘wane NOVEL, has both claimed and denked aifilatton a “with, Cla, 4 thorough recordg check has shown no. such affillation, It - | peems plausible that the NBC is supporting. and financing NOVEL in.§ ae order to win a large audience for a later expose of GARRISON. In “ sare ae “pupport of this plan NBC or. NOVEL may haye exaggerated hia présumed. ' ¥elationship with Sergio ARCACHA Smith {who was also not CIAs =: 7 5 erpntnvwady Fests. ay. Agency affiliation and aan ale heave gta wad ae Ava wntte Be ap?  @ i= “ ayabush in Nashville,."The NBC program; howevers is reportedly seit. os ~ weeks AWBY ». And. meanwhile GARRISON ia attackd ing CLA vehemontly ,> > the "Whee of we ae ope ae ee S24 Gordon Dwane ‘NOyYEeL and hig lawyers reportedly’ have. *. claimed that he was associated with CLA, but have thon denied such an aa nasociation. ~ One lawyer later: reiterated the claim,” eee! oN Me PO Se 1 som a 2s whet ee gy Pe le ats si ae oe a - BS whe ? eater le 3 The les of the following. Agency components have een. oe oe ‘checked {or any-record ef Gordor, Dwane NOVEL, including alterna tive aa yo spellings, A}) checlsa were negative {CIA held ne infoymation about . NOYEI. before: the GARRISON probs. started, ), va ‘ ree ZA ‘CUOA, : ee: ct ’ 2 “@,| Office ef Security, Pen nae : 7 da, WH/Cuban Operations Group, oe a Tee e] Domestic Contact Seryleq., © [0 TS ‘} {,| Interagency Source Register, "| °° 7 Be Bomestig Operations, Division, a ‘ he Archives, ener oe earns
13-00000 ~ fo ‘eta? foe GY y Ay. NOVEL ‘yemains myuteriousy “Although the ¢ press hag devoted much space to-him, fow factg haya emerged, He has been deserlbed asa Z29 yeay old formoy’ owner of a bar in the French -: Bon quarter of New. Grloans and as un export in electronics, (New -- o 7 Lo or © leans States ~ Item, 25 April 1967,} rolleyealgrsay 19228 oe poe, _ 24 Aprl Peet ) terms him a formes electronics ealgaman, ya “ moe . . a ote wetests A a ae r te 2 oe le ee wee ere Merete we assim os ee wen | vot o- | Nothing has been ‘printed, about the : source Or sources “of his BOs, pnoney. since he left New Orleans for Golumbus, Ohio, in mid-Maxch : ot) 1967S Lt is known, however, that ha ig at Ubexty.on a $10,000 bond, Poet ‘The New Orleana Statea - Item said on 25 April 1967 that NOVEL ves, Poses av in a. arent fee: partment in Golumbua ang drives 4 used car with aCe : ; ° : Soe he: Washington Daily ‘Nowe 7 oF March 1967 2 Stated thats - vapatring the. weekend. of.25-26 March NOVEL wag In the Washington wa Bo oe fact sally it was McLean, ‘Virginta, a site which might haye been chosen -* Golo. | te land an aly of plausibility to his claims of working for CLA).. There % -he'was given. polyy vanh.examination hy a priycte-dotectlve: Vaedict - bleyd k URS _{Gomment::. As tho Office, of Security reported on } May” 1967, the ‘Washington, fixrm,REDEX.is operated by FURR and Richard li, BAST, ‘who t is de scribed ae! funscrupulots and” untrustworthy"; -BAST™.~ produces and sells, ‘Among other things, audio‘arid countax~audlo devices." 4 lle The fact that NOVEL was a salesman. of electronics gear suggests the «5. s otherwise unsupported hypothesis that he’ may | have hada an earHer: rela" 7 AST, oF FURR). a. 7 *e are Be pe 7-[on 29 Mareh 1967 the N New Orleang FB! offica reported: le (ite 89-89) that. NOVEL, had made a long distance call to that office: from an unknown place.” Among hia remarks was the comment that he. a Bee ” ” bad "not furnished GARRISON with any information about ‘double check! F , of Miami, which he inferred wag a fringe Cuban operation in the Miaral = ane ae ce axea but did not fuxther identify." {Gomment: - -Oper ation Double Chek - . appears on pp. 95, 76, 82, 84, 88, 89, 90, 146, and 246 of Tha Invisible: 1 Geyeenmente *Y David | Wise 2 Aad Thomae By « Roser. » Fhe Book. @: erronsoual
13-00000 and paying American flyera who participated at the.Bay of Pigs, i paymenty to thety widows. } another long distance call by NOVEL to the New Orleans office, NOVEL oo, . ’ said that Walter SHEE . eee SEE eT rey . had the numbér o the telophone at which NOVEL could ba reached. Hea 4, ... SHERIDAN waa present,” oe ton about polygraph t teste Fun, ae G ARRISON'o staff, ep ten Site ae ‘Counsel atates that.he was. given information ebout the GARRISGN. ine. we “vestigation by a Washington lawyer named Jack Miller, that Walter | , Ly rn Ra ee lawyerg have made fixes ad 8 describes Double Chek aga cover and funding me schantara for rece: rultiag The | General Counsel hag inforrned CI/EZA that in fact Doubdla, Ghalk was created after the deatha of the flyora for the sole purpose of making. B, °F Bt tavinoxandumn ‘DBB 76 400, 29 | Maxch 1967, reported paee RIDAN, who ts a Washington NBC news reporter,” also sald that when he waa given the polygraph test In Virginla, | ‘He added that he had ¢lyen SHERIDAN informa: “7 Nek oe - he rer a eo ee ba : ” - a itt f An. 8 May. 1967 ymemosandum from the Aasociats General” A a ail a akg Loa = KRIDAN waa the.source., ef Miller's information, that NBC has dona a thirty minute show on GARRISON, ‘and that it plans an hour-long show + a Whe choy ld éxpseted ta "bh axy" CAgesany Wo a wow & nen oy eth a fow weeks som now", mg chow +9 oxps ve - eect bia >! : ne “s oe oa “10. tn addition t ta hia ‘peference to Double ‘Che! k, NOVED, ‘aad ct Bur contra cictory & statements, about CIA, role. . ee ee Bot ge i ocpoee a aome ‘CIA operations” Times - Epsayene, 1? Axil : Be a think Garstooa wilt (New ‘Orleans Satan ob : “NGVEL gepoxtedly stated to a , roprasentative of a” "OE . well known news media "that he was employed by the Contral *_ .- woe. . ' Intelligence Agoncy (CIA) and that the burglary of the munitions eet wo -) bunkex at Houma, Loulelana, was not an actuel burglary," He 200027 oo contended that CIA had made arrangements with the SCHLUMBERGER - Well Drilling Corporation’ to keen- ammunition, bomb. casings, 7 male land other material in that-bunker, Hq "indicated that he (NOVEL) : “and [Sergia/ Arcacha Smith are atlll employed by the CLAM SO ' NOVEL and othera took bomb casings and othary itema from fhe . i+” ‘bunker about three months aftuir the Bay of Pigs, (Source: FBR 0 - memorandum, New Orleans cifice, 20 April 1967.) » (Comments aan oo _ . Careful ghecking hag shown thet t CLA did pot haya & contract with Ee’ ° i _ & . ra . fot a . Ist va eS vey : " bead a 7 3 cote 7 oir are cs 2. . es 188 gee. , Fae t, . ‘. a an copa at . t 7 i . me - |] t Ss weet ’ ’ . Te 9 Ln URE ANO RONDE FURY ONY RMN Gy ot Onn ony 8# 0 eR cap Gee me A =D EE, romana ae ay steve ge epee sec
13-00000 :.. Teg a i ee eee Ca ee m8 SCHLUMBERGER, as NOVEL has alleged, and did not have -> a any munitiong or similar materials stored with  SCHLUMB GRGER oe |} or at the Houma Alp Base. to .} ooo ew aghygp Ane. ae ete vat “Phe above way. mater tals pickup! was mado by - oe vee. eee NOV EL and others "at tha direction of his CIA contact, '! oo : Part of NOVEL's Job for GIA "was to operate the £ ¢ Evergroen Pe a Advertising. Agency_as a front for CIA communications", ens NOVEL “prepared special radio commercials for uso In the United States and Canada.; to alert agents to the date of the .. s Bay of Pigs invasion," Among code words used by NOVEL. wis - - were "Star Christmag Treea" and "Holiday Trees", His —- a8 agency placed S7Z, 000 worth of radio tima in 1960. . AP, an ~ reported, thera’ ip no ‘record of the “Ryergreen. Adyertioing | ae ws Aguney". “WAE/ COG quexted a knowledgeablg atafg jomployees oo, Os “fs 3473, JZ May: 1967, ‘that NOVEL 's allegations « are not true} - rn “that he had naver heard of NOVEL, his agency, or the coda” qowerd da; and that although. "some meanligiess. eodspir ASamn o'were us sed ‘on. IMHOP & for psych reasong only", they. we snot sent out ‘over U.S, comme rcial stations, The cable added that the Cuban Free Committee did contract time for routine. - xile broadcasta ‘oh a-New Orleans | station, Rt. 19 ‘clear, hows, 7 . every thak NovEn's “gnegetions | ‘¢o- ‘nok Bongery | suche brosdedste, wx - oe ae dy + Steven PLOTKIN, “NOVEL"s lawyer in New Orleans, sald | a, oo BSS a “that lie would neither ‘confirm nor deny NOVEL's claime of 20.0 Joo | a ° CIA. employment ,* *Hia lawyer in Columbus, Joyr ‘WEINER, ey -eaid, "It's utterly yidiculous;° NOVEL ie not new and never... a “| 7 “hae been: a. Cla agents!" Ae, Orleang. States _ - Item, 2 8 ApeN Seas a 21967. om CTA PIER UR Soba ak So resi ot el. On 25 April 1967 NOVEL, } hirna alf eatd in Coluabue. aye 2 fe o a "Tha statements that I worked for the ClA are abeolutely ine one my “correct, : c r NP 25 8 ope rete .. wee om cz
‘New-Orleans. o Ha sald that in the near future GARRISON would accuse , the FBI of possessing originals of five letters; one from Clay SHAW ... ‘to David FERRITE, one from Lea Harvey OSWALD to SHAW, one from — FERRIE to Jack RUBY, one from RUBY te OSWALD, and ons from , -.. Senator and former Attorney General Robert Kennody. toFERRIE, Hs & -. > added that GARRISON hags.a typewriter which FERRIE owned in: 1964 and: Loe - -alsQuhas two’ typewriters, x porsonal and businesa, belonuing to. SHAW, a ‘He-said that GARRISON's chief Investigator, Willlam GURVICH,’ haa a: a close relative, : iving in Russia, who wag instrumental “fm designing ae NC ‘the MIG. . Hs remarked thai GARRISC? plans ts subrcers an attorney, Mae inu MARTIN, allegedly associated with CIA,’ He sald that Layton: Og] o Pysima bunker. burglary.:: {FBL memorandum DBB 80563 3, 9 May 1987. a a a. (Gorament: -Mr. ‘Arthur Dooley of CI/R&A knew a Walter , SHERIDAN Cs aa | e “who* ie Beltaved: identical with the. Walter, SHERIDAN, of thls Fe ‘keport, | oot | Kennedy when he Was ‘Attorney General. yo . one’ pt theny PLOTKIN,-of receiving CIA monsys "Wo know that . ‘Mr, Plotkin has been receiving money, if only through an intermediary, of | ~~ AL May 1967.) GARRISON later broadened this charge to includa all . (Washington Post Post, 29 May 1767. a e- f. NOVebta Naw, Orleans ‘attorney, Steve PLOTKIN, tho said ha "served as an intermediary between the CIA and .. i . anti-Castro Cubans in New Oricang and Milemi befovs the... April, 1961, Bay of Plgs invasion,. Plotkin maintained, . 0000 te - > though, that Novel had ‘littl: oy nothing to do with the Bay - . of Pigs invasion and certainly had absolutely nothing todo © ou with the assassination of President F Honnedy +" {The boon ge 'y [ole oe Washington Fost’ 26 May 1987. _ ee nan oh a - 8 a * eo arcs ae 9 I eee ve = ew. wee ae “AL. On 7 May 1967 NOVEL again telephoned the FBI's office In’ Patrick MARTENS was the "other" marine probably involved in the eo 3 . on . a ae . lee ~ as oe 0 2 ont aan * . sce ~ tee berthed: fe Sg I 2 °. “ “a y es he, ‘On. ox: About i} May 1967 GARRISON accused two lawyers, Ae frarn the CIA," Both lawyers denled tha charge. (New Orleana, AP, dsfense attorneys. “Every lawyer involved In this case, without ex-. a Sy ception, involyed in the attempts to derall the investigation, has bsen oo «|: conngcted by us with the Contret Intelligence Agency, Garrison s said.” ‘ety rae a to 1 tee nae tte eee ne aoe Ne ne _
13-00000 --. Nashville, Tennessee, Bullets wore fired at the truck, Neither man - was struck by a bullet, but both wera cut by flying glass. Tha... .! | Nashville police found the glass in the left door of the truck shattered truck's paneling. | ‘They said that the flret report to them was mada - .. by Charles ©. WALKER, presidsn t of radio station WKDA, who sald ° -. that NOV EL had been, wounded by a sniper, and that he had come to oa Nashville atthe -xyequeat of WERDA and had agreed ta disclose informa+ oo . | thon, that "would blow tha Now. Orleans Anyeatigation, wida open." A. Pos "Nashville police, detective: said five shota wera fired at the truck and «” os: that.traces, ‘appa rently of blood, ware found, Howayer, Nashville. - authorities noted that Mr. WALKER fixat telephoned them thirteen 5.” ."" “hour after the Alleged incident, By then NOVEL and EDWARDS. were - . Fe “allegedly in Bowling Green,” ‘Kentucky, -Efforts made in entucky fo + Pa verity NCVEL's claim that hia Injuries had been treated at a hospital = ae ’were ‘unsuccessful. ou WALKER said that Juat before the shooting’ NOVEL : - . was Om. the: Verge rd retusuing wee ted Shem bie cw det hones wy . EDWARDS was, proceeding to: Washington, EDWARDS! real name, j Becording t to ‘another but Unidentified spokesman fox the, radio station,” ne “sad GARRISON for $50,000,000, ae NOVEL | to a well placed and wall Informed aaset, t, AMOT/2,,. without - ns dévulging NOVEEL's name or making any statement about him.) J MWAY: & 3, On 22 May 1967 NOVEL telephoned an unidentified pezeon! {in New Grleans and aald that at 0200 hours on 21 May he and B, friend of eleven years, Gary ED\ WARDS, were sitting Ina radio station truck in» and four or five indentations made by bullets on the right side of the ~ gts Columbes. Ho sald thee NOVEL, and EDWARDS left. Nashville immediately after the shooting and that’ — ay - Several 1 newspapera nave esi the “ptozy th that NOVEL | fe 7427.27 May.1967, reported that AMOT/2 did not recognize the photo |: and could not identify the person whose Hkeneas he saw, The purposs ~ ' was te test the possibility that Novel had been inyolved in Cia  activiq a: an ties under another pamey . a ee Mat ep te 16. tei is 3 requested that ‘the Offices of the Avalstant t to y the Director cal advise CHREN iN whether if P haa haa? information about Walter SHE SRIDAN .: os -
contributar. tu:the growing:public doubt; GARRISON's venemous ~ . ~~ a : by | a barrage of  sarilor charges ¢ and will i predictably b ba followed nel Gerald MUNDY @ Gary EDWARDS, and any association between =" them, as well'as any information about whether Station WKDA tn” Neshyitle: ip affiliated or otharwisa aagon tated with NDC wee Cha le ade ie cae wae ar ae wee a ; 17. Lf the barmisa that NBG lp buttdtng up ft NOVEL ¢ aR a latter’ day Duvid who is to slay the jolly green giant is corract, then a Cra ~ exposure of NOVé@L's claims of Agency affiliation as false might be damaging to vur own interests, On the other hand, the likelihood that an NBC anti-Garrison program is still weeks away from prasens - tation is dlsturbing,..A recent Harrla- survey (Waahington Post Post, 29 7 May 1967) shows. that. 66% of the personas queried now belisye ft that the zesadsaination was.not the:-work of one man but was rather part of a Cos broader plot:or conapiracy. -fhe Garrison proba fa termed a major a oe attack on CLA! during his ABG interview of 28 May 1967 was preceded, mex ee a " - 18. ‘There may y be a. ‘shadow of Justification for NOvEL's claim’ in New Orleans . a Gabi . oe Pare “adnte res ee | pots URichard Holme 2 SRE TE RE "Central Intelligence Agency Me Lean Vir | a, - "Attn UNCLE Hdgrsa Good Guya Diy, ‘Regarding Ga rrigon _ wo _ consplracy case; code refarence JACKASS, - Dear R ichard., Towiy according ‘to the Jolly zxeen giant (Mr. Garrison) as ou _ R¥e - Paylans my hegal foes hy Louleluna and Ohio, a we % iy 8 aay oe te . Of ‘association with CIA “= Henan asserted tnat he knew Secuio ARGACHA ” ie - - Smith and that ARCACHA was ons of the participants inthe pickups at. : the Houma bunker, Our; records show that CIA never recruited or paid, _ —#RGACHA: directly, -.He.’ WEG s however >. the delagate of the. Frente: oa Revoluciona ri: a Demoacratico (F RD, (OF ‘Dermocratic Reyolutionary. Er ont} . “He reported to FRD headquartere in Miarnl- ‘by. mall. i ~. “The FRY was created with CIA agsistance, guidance, and fimanctal 2° ane support in May 1960... ‘Jta leader was Dr, Jose MIRO Cardone, | He or oe his assistants may have paased funds to ARCA CHA y who 9 may have pen : : briefed. < or evan nemployes moje . € .- 3s St eS sae eS 2 be rc)
13-00000 pom | "Since my attorneys are crying and pressing me because of not being paid fox my various legal wrecking movea on his | jolly big fraud, lam going to Instruct them to send you chaps fiamediately an itemizod bill, 24, and I do meun ii, Garrison is correct, lam golng to Instruct the same attorneys to sue . the h-~~ out of your bad guys fn the accounting department for wolching on your debts, Instead of a no comment 5.0. Pe reply. pew abaut § a Public pacha, - f os Ws : rn as a , soe DP .S. Right now Y don't thinks sending him to Viet Nara Boe, laa “good idea in view of national interest anymore. Porhapa” _” Rome he could reopen the case on Caevars assassination, He. a ‘\. bellaves Brutus and Cassius wore framed, . Like In his worday : Lee ote we _bayond a shadow of ES + outs Sbeolutelys an welt yourse ae ag Re Goxdop Novels. . . a wy eb gs Dee CUNGLE HS, .O; P "Ha: ha, Py 18) | . 2% Wh tardy, a _ “The parttal’s pentence veading ” es a? am going to instruct SS eto _-. the same atiorneys to auc ths h-~+- out of your had guys in the. Accounting 2 - _departinent for weiching on your debts", quoted out of context, would 2! -yeinforce NUVEL's falae claim to affillatlon with CIA,. It wilh be inter = nt esting to" note whether he reloases thi a telegram to the press. i ony aaa . Dee id has ‘bean noted that NOVEL probably served asian § BL tfoumenne oy - che) fox an ‘unknown period before he left New Orleans In mid-March 1967... oo oT BE report DBB 73269, New. Orleana office, 21 February 1967, ig 00) |. ascribed to # "confidential source who in the past furnished insufficient - "| information to determine. reliabllity." This source describes the group. = °. > that carried out ‘the theft from the Houma bunker as consisting of his.’ >. own ex-wife (but not himself); his partner {unidentified}, Sergio: | oo ARGACHA Smith, Dayid FERRI, two ex-marines, ‘and another man, - o also unidentified. He also said that one of the cara used for the tri ip to” Houma wes his own 1956 Lincoln Suprema. This report contains no men= tion of CIA. The New Orleans States - Item of 25 April 19467 quotes > | NOVEL as saying thet CIA ordered him to join the group, which he: Za . identified au consisting of ARC! SACHA, FERRIC 8: several Gubans, And > os | om . a ats Tre a. — Tae tts
13-00000 satan Gomi omen ncneneeo tet 21 wins ae ~ - 0 Y 6 i eee cer uae encase ve GB NOME anesthe =e Pe “a saying that hs Raymond G, Ro ed as t iso quo | 2 Lincoln, a Is a own car ph his. i Nanothur figure In the cise mada the trip a steams ves . one