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13-00000 : _— MEMORANDUM No. 8 SUBJECT. Garrison and the Kennedy Assassination I, SUMMARY 1. This memorandum {a lengthy because it reports on thirty persons involved in Garrison's investigation. | Eight of these have or had DBP tles. (Of these eight, three bave or had some contact with the Domestic Contact Service as well.} Eight more were DCS contacts. Fourteer had no affiliation with the Agency but claimed to have or were said by others to have had such a te series | Seven of total of thirty have not appeared previously in this series. 2. | The DDP contacts are the following: ere a pene oo a. Francisco Antenio BARTES Clarens. Guban refugee leader in New Orlsans v who haz come to Garrison's attention. ODP pilot 29 Joly 1965 to 17 Pebruary 1966. DES contact ey N98 k te prevent. —-——~ wee "£0. |, Rote 5 BAW, hb. George BROWN. Garrison is reportedly trying te : enhoe™ Fay ( implicate him in the “assassination plot’. /Has been both a eee FAIENe + DDP anda DCS contact. Details are being ascertained and will ; Lose L BAK be reported. [ cpm ele tn) “ Bn, oe ¢c. Leslie Norman BRADLEY. Garrison has charged ee an Edgar Eugene BRADLEY with boing one of the conspirators _ | _but may have confused him with Leslie Norman BRADLEY. [The \ | latter was einployed as a B co-pilot. by a ClA-controlied air line | frosn 26 May 1966 until 12 September 1967. fre bad one DCS) meeting on 26 June 1963. ao d. Alberto Fedorico FERNANDEZ Hechavarria. Identified to Garrison agg Cuban leader associated with Lawrence Joseph LABORDE. |DDP contact from December 1966 t sent. | @ pF : x ecember 196 | o present, a e. Lawrence Joseph LABORDE. Hise son has reported ‘on him and his associates to Garrison's staff. |DDP contact _f from February or March 19é1 to 26 April 19824
13-00000 {. Alfred]. MORAN. Has deen questioned by Garrison! mia stall. | DBP contact frora 2? Cecember 19625 fl ‘to present. DCS contact fram 2! December 1962 to< present. Since 19 November 1964 contacts for r the DDP> eee g- Victor Manuel PANEQUE y DATISTA. Has _ been identified to Garrison as having been in charge of a CIA training cainp in Louisiana. | ‘DDP from 13 November 1964 to 31 October 1965] Oper fey. hb. Emilio SANTANA Galindo. Was interrogated by Garrison and staff for five days in February 1967. | DDS] vA (contact fron Getober I9tZ to Octobe r 1953... _— 3. [The SCS contacts are the following: | aca ae a. Carlos Jose BRINGUIER. sahent Poe ay Léorit, 1967.) c. Gerald Patrick HEMMING Jr. Was identified to Garrison's staff ae a para-military instructor of Cubans and later visited Garrison's office. [DCS contact from October 1950 to March 1961,| ad. Jack N. ROGERS. A Baton Rouge attorney in touch with Garrison's staff. | DCS contact from September 1959 to the present a @. Clay SHAW. Arrested by Garrison on 2 charge of consolring to assagsinate President Kennedy. DCS tles from December 1945 to May 1956. .f. Cecll Maxwell SHILSTONE. Member of Truth and Consequences, Inc., which donates moncy to Garrison's office Lifelong iriend 6f two members of the DCS office fm New Orie: > but _offictal contact ended in 1956." TT i vy! hy el tae PN eta & so oP J : . b. Wiliam Wayne DALZELL. Has been questioned S py Garrison and etaff, Alleged he waz affiliated with CIA. _ DCI contacts in November 1960 and in January and February 1961.]
13-00000 . from late 1949 to the rid 1950's. about w -1ag | yay / f ont . ee an ge SCHLUMBERGER Well Surveying Corporation. Said by Garriaon and others to have been the original owner of explosives removed from a bunker at ClA‘s instigation for use at the Bay of Pigs. / Current DCS contacts with various SCHLUMBERGER offices. | | h. John Garrett UNDERHILL Jr. Dead. Ramoarts has played him up as a CIA contact who knew that the Agency w2a behind the assassins. [DGS eontact ’ a 4.j The rsons falsel claiming Agency affiliation, or hoi such claims have been made by others. are the following: t a. Valentine ASHWORTH. Interviewed by Garrison's staff. Now in jal, ASHWORTH has claimed a link with CIA and forrner assvciation with Oewald. . b. Guy BANISTER. Dead. Ramparts has alleged that ho was assoclated with CIA and with Minutemen involved in the agsasaination. . c. laurice Brooke GATLIN Sz. Dead. Ramparts has alleged tuat be was asruciated with BANISTER and CIA. ad. David W. FERRE. Dead. Garrison has charged that FERRIE was a member of the congpiracy for the assassination of President Kennedy and thet he worked for CIA. 8. Loran Eugene HALL. Subpoenaed by Garrison as a material witness. Garrison charges that he worked for CIA. {. Lawrence John HOWARD Jz. As above. g- Jules Ricco KIMBLE. Offered information to Garrison's etaff. Claimed affiliation with CIA. h. Pau LOGAN. Saidby Gordon NOVEL and _ Hacanarts to hare been a CIA advisor te the Friends of Democratic Cuba in New Orleans. No pertinent identifiable inforraation existe. fernces/ whom a
13-00000 ce i. Richard Case NAGELL. Claims falacly to have warned the FBI before the assassination. Claims falsely to be Agency-affiliated. Serving a ten-year term in El Paso. Mentally and emotionally unstable. . j. Donald P. NORTON. Flown to New Orleans at. Garrison’ 8 expense and cebricfed in a taped interview. — Claimed extensive Hes with CIA, Shaw, Ferrie, and Oswald. Discharged from the U.S. Alr Force for psychiatric reasons. k. Gordos Duane NOVEL. Garrison sought to extradite him from Chio as a witness. Both NOVEL and Garrizon have falsely agserted that NOVEL werked for CIA. ; 1. Lee Harvey OSWALD. Garrison alleges that he was GIA. m. Jack RUBY. As above. _ n. Edward Stewart SUGGS. Claims to de an investigator for Garrison. Claizas former CIA tlea. xt. DETAILS . fa NN pce eee ge ne Cn et 8 eg cee rence ene ee — at 1. | This me morandamn wn provides information about two typea : of persons who are presently or potentially involved in District Attorney Janes ©. Garrison's investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy and who are or were associated with CIA. Information is aleo ' included about « third category -- those who have never been agsociated (Chere but about whom a CIA tle haw been asserted, oy themselves or / others. ae rt Ear ed oe n  aarreene or —— _ ence eaten —~ as _| Group i in the frst category consists of present or former [ DDP contacts. Group 2 consists of present or former DCS contacts. Groap 3, as wae noted above, cousists cf impostors and of others who have bad no association with the Agency but who have been alleged hy — third t parties to be ClA-affillated. ee 3. [Group I {total of af a. Francisco Antonio BARTES Clarens' (201-289395). | se net 4 corey Bee ont > H t : i
a eer en te tear tn een inherent natn A A oe ee rr ee /Garrison Investigation of Kennedy Assassination: Francisco Antonio BARTES Clarens (201 ~289885), 20 November 1967. 2) Involvernent in Garrison's investigation! None knowa to date. His former position as head of the Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC) in New Orleans and hie earlier the to Lawrence LABORDE and others in respect to guerrilla training for anti-Castro Cubans has already, however, been drawn to Garrison's attention. (3) | DOP and DCS relationships: ra a)|, DDP. Although a POA fer use in JMATE was requested on 29 December 1960 and granted 30 January 1961, the request waa cancelled on 30 August 194}, and BARTES was not used duriny this interval. (Per JLAWAVE 04383, 4 December 1957.) On 27 May 1965 SOD/AB/OPS/3 requested a POA to permit tha use of BARTES ag a pilot in the Congo. The POA was granted on 20 July 1965, and an OA on 9 September 195, Teating of Subject's skill as a pilot revealed, however, that he was not qualified for the intended assignment. He wag returned tg the U.S. on il February 1966 without having been uged operationally. NO sear env eereerusauttateryerererreersereereneeererenste SES OTN (b} nes. | The first contact of DCS New Orleans with BARTES occurred on 4 May 1961. Between that date and 9 January 1967 a total of 13 meetings took place. BARTES is the source of , six DCE reports. Contact has net been terminated 2) Prior references: None. i 2) \favolvement in Garrison investigation: A. DCS Houston repsrt of 27 December 19647 states that George BROWN recaived a disturbing telepbone call on \ 22 December 1967 from Hugh AYNESWORTH of Newsweek, be “George BROWN. . whe gaid that Bill “Gervagse" (Corament: Presumably identicel with Willam H. GURVICH) had indicated that
Garrison may try to implicate BROWN in the “asgassination plot”. ‘The allegation is that in some unspecified manner Brown was involved with the CIA in ita objective of 'covering up ' the ‘conspiracy! for Preaident Johnsen. Aynesworth sald Gervage has documents, including at least one in Garrison's ows handwriting, which presamably have been extracted from Garrison's files. _ {3)) DDP relationship: The above report saye that BROWN has cooperated closely with CIA in funding operanions. Checks are under way. | ¢ Leslie Norman BRADLEY |(201-727378)| (1) Prior references: Memorandum No. 1, 26 April 1967, Enclosure 5; Memorandurn No. 2, 8 May 1967, Enclosure 4. 6 (2) Involvernent in Garrison's investigation: None known te data. During the week 21-23 December 1967 several U.S. newspapers reported that on 20 December Garrison's office had accused one Edgar Eugene BRADLEY of Nerth Hollywood, California, of conspiring to assassinate President Kennedy. On 27 December he was arraigned on a fugitive complaint aad released on his own recognizance. Extradition ia currently moot. There is no CIA record of Edgar Eugene BRADLEY. On or about 20 December 1967, however, the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times raade an inquiry of the A/DCI regarding Leslie Norman BRADLEY. The Newsweek issue of 8 January 1968 speculated that Garrison might have confused Edgar Eugene with elther of two other men, one of whom is"... & sometime New Orleans pilot named Bradley who was once jailed in Cuba for anti-Castro _ activities.” This description fits Leslie Norman BRADLEY. ee (3)| DDP and DCS relationships: ) a was met by the DCS office in Minneapolis for one and e half hours on 26 June 1963. There was no other DCS contact. t his request, Leslie Norman BRADLEY weer meee aren eee
i | | | } | conta the Miarm{ Station from December 1940 to the present, although payment ceased on | December 1965. eo 8 we te a b) \BRADLET and two companions were arrested by Ccban G-2 on 23 May 1960 on @ charge of counterreyolutionary activity. BRADLEY collaborated with the Cuban authorities while imprisoned on thse Isle of Pines. He was repatriated, with other Americans, on 22 April 1983. . (¢)|\DDS-HB raquested a Provisional Covert Security Approval on 26 May 1966 in order to use Leslle Norman BRADLEY inside. | the continental U.S. as a co-pilot employed ty | Southern Air Transport Inc., Miami. On 31 October 1966 DDS-HB requested cancellation, and employxhent was considered terminated. It was later established, however, that Subject remained employed mill 12 September 1967, when he wae dropped for unsatisfactory performance. Further iaquiry is under way. ee ene ad. Alberto Federico FERNANDEZ Hechavarsria\(201-251353).\ (1) Prior references: Memorandum No. 5, 7 August 1967, Exuclosure 8; Memorandum No. 4, 7 September 1967, page 4. - (2) Involyement in Garrison's investigation: FERNANDEZ was identified to ona of Garrison's staff as the head of a Cuban organization which employed Lawrence Joseph LABORDE (sea below) and others. LABORDE's son Michael also said that his father worked. - for CIA. (3) (DDP relationship: FERNANDEZ haa been a a e, Lawrence Joseph LABORDE |(201 ~294688)| {1) Prior references: Memorandum No. 3, 1 June 19867, »o. 7 and Enclosure 2; Memorandum No. 4, 29 June 1967, pp. l and 3; Memorandam No. 5, 7 Augast 1967, p. &; Memorandam No. 6, 7 September 1967; pp. 4 and 5.
3) Involvement in Garrison's investigation: Ont May 1967 LABORDE telephoned the DCS office in New Orleana, said that he was an sx-CIA employee, added that ke feared Garrison would subpoena him, and reguasted assistance or advice. Michael W. LABORDE, the aon of Lawrence, has told members of Garrisoa's staff that his fathor waa associated with Alberto FERNANDEZ (see preceding sub-paragraph), with Gerald Patrick HEMMING,. and one "Roy" / perhaps Leroy COLLINS. / in training Cubans as guerrilla fighters. Michael LABORDE has also iraplicated CIA in thie training. On 27 September 1967 Lawrence J. LABORDE again called the DCS office in New Orleans. ‘In aceordance with Headquarters’ instructions he was told that there was,hothing toe discuss. . : (3) JDDP relationship: LABORDE was a DDP contact from February or March 196] to 20 April 1962. He served ag acting captain of a vessel owned by FERNANDEZ and used by the Miami Station in Cuban operations. i, Alfred J. MORAN|(291-776772)} (1) Prior references: None. Involvement in Garrison’ 8 investigation: A memorandum from DCS New Orleans, 15 November 1967, reported that Hunter C. Leake of that office and Alfred J. MORAN are very good friends, that Leake attended a party at MORAN’s home on 14 Novernber 1967, and that at that tims MORAN told Leake that he (MORAN) had been - in touch with a member of Garrison's staff, Anasistant D.A. Janes ALCOCK, who questioned MORAN about an occasion when Clem BERTRAND and MORAN were in the VIP room of Eastern Airlines at the New Orleans International Airport. MORAN told Leake that ia bis opinion Garrison has an “ironclad” case against Clay SHAW. . A DCS New Orleans report of 13 December 1967 addz that MORAN told Leake on 11 December 1967 that ALCOCK and ghother representative of Garrison's office had shown him, sermetime in 1967, what was alleged to be a photocopy of the daily log from the VIP room at ths alrpert. MORAN
recognized his own signature and that of Arthur Q. DAVIS (a prominent New Orleans architect). He said ague sald that a handwriting . “Clem BERTRAND" had been written by SHAW. 2 ie noted that the DCE BDP. A check of MORAN‘ file showed that he was cleared on 15 Decembar 1962 for uae by Miamf Station. He WA8 Bpproached on 27 December 1962 by Mra.’ Carmel T. Dollar, acting on behalf of the Station and through the good sffices . of DCS New Orleans. Agreeing to help the Station in cover matters, ha became president of MORAN “also permits use of bis own \) (Comment! Mian Station cable 0425, 2? November 1967, does not identify MORAN's own company, but DCS New Orleans hag reported that he was the first prealdent of Kalvar Corporation, which manufactures microfilm.) MORAN hag acted aS @ Spotter for the Miami Station and kas . *ecommended several other businessmen who are being used by the Station. “He has also made available several ol] compantes in win he ewns interoats fox of certain operational vy; on. He is or has been used by Headquarters for several activities dlrected by the Office of Logistics. Of Miami Station peraonnel MORAN has met Mr. Ray E. Millard and Mr, Charles C, C. Tresp (iermerly DDS/Office of Logistics) ac w Well as ra. Dollar. In addidion to ac. and the Miami Station operati He also knows that Miam! attorney Mr.[
| participates in Station activities. The latest . | direct Miamé Station contact af record is dated 19 Noveraber 1964; since that date, it appears, -- | DDP interests have been brokered by DCS New — | Orleans. Miami Station records reflect that . |_ MORAN is a friend of Messra. Lawrence K. White, — _ \ Alam Warfield, and James. A. Garrison, the former | | Director of Logisties, now retired. ol _— do) \pes. MORAN was first in official contact with the DCS New Orleans office on 21 December 1962. Thers have been fifteen official contacts since then. He is not the source of any DCS reports, but he has been mentionad in one operational report fromm ths New Orleans office. As of 29 November 1967 the latest official contact kad occurred on 20 November 1987, when MORAN signed soma corsorate papers for Ace Mavine Survey Inc. g. Victor Manuel PANEQUE y BATISTA ((202-285332)) (1) Prior reference: Memorandum No. 6, 7 September 1967, pp. 5-5, (2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation: In. @ taped interview of 21 January 1967 Carlos GDIROGA told Garrieon that PANEQUE waa in charge of a CIA training camp conducted for Cubana from Miaral in Lacombe, La. in August '963. . ; . — (3) |DDP yelationship: A POA for PANEQUE's use wai granted the Miami Station on 13 November 1964. = © The Miamf request had stated that he was to be used “as an infiltree and radio operater". <A report of 16 August 1964 __ stated that he had been infiltrated into Cubs in June 1964 on bebalf of the Christian Democratic Movement. Whether he was used operationally ia not stated in PANEQUE's 201. | \ He waz terminated effective 31 Octaber 1968 for lack of an immediate operational use. h. Emilis SANTANA Galindg (291 - 335356).| (1) Prior references: Memorandum No. ra 8 May 1967, Enclosure 23; Memorandum Ne. 3, 1 June 1967, Enclosure No, l;Memorandu:n No. 4, 29 June 1967,
i pe 4. [Group HL (total of ay\ pp. 1 and 3; Memorandum No. é, 7 | September | 1967, (2) Invelvement in Garrison's investigation: SANTANA was questioned by Garrlaon and staff fram . iZ to 17 February 1967. — . GQ DDP relationship: SANTANA waa recrulted by the Miaraf Station in Octeber 1962. Alter participating in May 1943 in a single infiltration ~ exfiltration operation, he was terminated in October 1963. a. a. Carlos Jose BRINGUIER |(201-239243). (1) Pricer references: Mernorandum No. I, 26 April 1967, Enclozare No. 6; Memorandum No. 3, i Jane 1967, p. 5; Memorandum No. 4, 29 Jume 1967, po. 1 and 3. . {2} Involvement in Garrison's Investigation: BRINGUIER hae been questioned and polygraphed by Garrison. Among the questions asked of BRINGUIER while he was being polygraphed was whether he had been contacted *Y CIA. He said that he shad not. o foes relationship: DCS New Grleans interviewed BRINGUIER four times, at his request, on 1 and Z February 1967 and on Sand 6 April 1967, As of 13 October 1967 there had been no later contact. be William Wayne DALZELL. (1) Prior references: Memorandum No. 4, 20 June 1967, pp. 2, 5, and 5; Memorandum No. 6, 7 September 1967, p. 6. {2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation: . ‘Gordon NOVEL has stated that Garrison is interested in DALZELL. Ramparts of Janoary 1953, p. 53, states, tA nother i af the incorporators of the Friends of
omy, Democratic Cuba /was William Wayne Dalzell, who knew / David W./ Ferrie and / Sergio] | Arcacha { Smith? and was still another in ths [-W. Guay} Banister coterie of sleuths. To a States~ iter Feporter he admitted he wag CIA." Willlam W. Turner, the writer of the cited Ramvarts article and of other attacks by Ramparts on CIA and the FBI, stated . — thereln that he had worked closely with Garrison and ve his ataff for nine months. The San Francieco Chronicle of 27 December 1957 quoted Garrison as saying, “Every word ats Ramparts id accurately stated." ( 3)( Des relationsiip: DALZELL had three contacts with New Orleans. They occurred on . 15 November 1960,,20 January 1961, and 1 February 1961. They concerned his proposala for a Radio Free Cuba. | c. Gerald Patrick HEMMING Jr. /(201-30912 [26 | (1) Srior references; Memorandum Na. 5, 7 August 1967; Memorandum, subject: Chart of Garrison Case, 2 November 1967. . (2) | Involvement in Garrison's inveatigation: \ Michael W. LABORDE told membera of Garriscn's staff that his father Lawrence had worked for CIA with antl- Castro Cubans. He nnmed "Jerry Patrick”, who is HEMMING, and one "Roy", probably Lerey COLLINS, as associated with Lawrence LABORDE. He added that Jerry Patrick and Rey “duped Cubans cut of money" and - wore dismissed by CIA. On 8 July 1967 HEMMING and | an associate, possibly COLLINS, went to Garrison's = _ office. They said that they were working for an unidentified masezine and wanted to do a story on the Garrison investigation. HEMA&dING has been reported by the FBI and in the presse ag a soldier of fortune who has given paraemilitary training te anti-Castroe Cuban refugeer. A teletype of 8 September 1967 from the DCS office in Los Angeles states that HEMMING hed claimed that a &5 autornatic confiscated by a sheriff's office in Los Angeles” had been issued to hina by CIA.
eres % ti ~ : ¢3) (DCS relationship. HEMMING was in contact with the DCS office in Los Angeles between October 1969 and March 1961. Ha ia the source of 4 DCS reports on Cuba.. d. Jack N. ROGERS. “Qy Prieg reference: Memorandum No. 4 20 June 1947, pp. t and 3. . ” 4) involvement in Garrison's investigation: ROGERS has been in touch with Garrison's etafi about the assassination because of ROGERS' position as committee counsel for the Joint Legislative Committee on Un-American Activities of the State af Lovialama. He hes said that he i» confident “that Garrison can prove a clese association between Oswald and Jack Ruby and a conspiracy involving Clay Shaw." 3) [BCS relationship: ROGERS has been a source of DGS New Orleans since September 1959 and ig "the source or contact” for twelve reports from that affica. e. Clay SHAW. ; (i) Prior referencess Memorandum No. l, 26 April 1967, Enclosure 21; Memorandara No. 4, 20 June. 1967, PPe Be 4» and s, (2) involvement in Garrison's investigation: SHAW was charged by Garrison in March 1947 of conspiring to assassinate President Kennedy. His case has net yet . : come totrial. Ramparts of January 1968 links SHAW to CLA. © (3) DCS relationship: SHAW was a contact of the DCS office in New Orleans from December 1943 to May 1955. During that period/Mr. Hantex Leake contacted him officially” thirty times. These contacts produced a total of eight reports.  £. Ceeth Maxwell SHILSTONE. (1) Prier reference: Memorandum, “gubject: Chart of Garrison Case, 2 Novernber 1967, p.15.
(2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation: SHILSTONE i¢ a rember of Truth and Consequences Iac., a group of affluent New Crleans businesamen who have donated undisclosed amounta of money to Garrison's office for bis use in paying investigative costs. 3) | DCS relationship: SHILSTONE has been a lifelong friend of Measrs. Lleyd A. Ray and Hunter Leake of the DCS office in New Orleans. He is the source af two very old 00-B reporta. The official (but not the personal) relationshio ceased in March 1954. g- SCHLUMBERGER Well Surveying Cerporation. (l} Pricer references: Memorandum No. 2, 5 May 1967, Enclosure 24; Memorandum Na. 4, 29 June 1967, pp- | and 4. (2) Involvement in Garrigon's. investigation: The press has repeated statements by Gordon NOVEL Unsing this {irra to CLA. NOVEL has claimed that explosives which he and othere removed from a bunker at Houma, Louisiana, at the instigation of CIA, bore the SCHLUMBERGER stamp. . (3) |DCS relationship: Is June 1955 was a contact between Charles A. DOH, district manager of the SCHLUMBERGER oflice in New Crleans, and the New _ Orleans DCS office. Moresver, DCS has current contacts with tae main SCHLUMBERGER office in Houston and with three or four aubsidiaries elsewhere. DCS dealings with the firm have been circumspect. h. John Garrett UNDERHILL Jr. (1) Prior réference: Memorandum, subject: Ramparts: John Garrett UNDERHILL Jr., Samuel George pa { CUMMINGS, and INTERARMCGO, 19 July 1947. (2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation, — - Ramparts of June 1967 claimed that UNDERHILL, now _ dead, wae “on Intimate terme with a number of high- ranking CIA officials -- he was one of the Agency's
‘unepesple’ who perform epecial agsignments.” Ramparts of January 1968 adds, “Immediately after the the asaaasinstion, @ distraught Underhill told friends that & sermd-autonamous CIA cliques which hadbeen => profiteering in narcotics and gun-running was fraplicated ‘in the assassination.“ The close Garrison-Turner association and Garrison's vouching for the accuracy of the Ramparts account sugzgeet that Garrison may make similar aseertions when hie case cames to trial. . | (3)) DCS relationship: UNDERHILL was aa infrequent coutact of the DCS New York office [rom late 1949 to the mid-1950's. He was not employed by that office. The purpose of contact was to obtain poaltive 5. [Group DI (ictal of 147] a. Valentine ASHWORTH]{201~337655). 4 |xavolvement im Garrison's toveatigation: On 9 October 1962 ASHWORTH sent a letter from Leenville, Loulsiana, to the Cuban Armnbassador in Mexice. He alfered information about the “Cuban Raider Command” and the "People's Revolutionary Movement” | im exchange for help in defecting to Guba. He said that — CIA did not bave the same Information. Arrested on 16 May 1966 for investigation af auts theft, ASHWORTH told an[ FBI special agent that he hed participated in several raids on Cuba, that be was a pilot and an expert in explosives, and that CIA was aware of his activitier and could provide information about them. Arrested. ‘agais on 26 April 1967 for possession of a stolen automobile, ASHWORTH was sent te tha jall ia Lake Charles, Leulaiana. A fellow inmate, one Richard PHILLIPS, wrote the FBI to say that ASHWORTH claimed to have shared an apartment in Ohie with Lee Harvey Oswald, that Oswald and be belonged to a group of - Mew Orleans Cubana who killed President Kennedy and “were Supposed to Kill Castre at the sams tine”, that —e re
| | | was honorably discharged on 18 March 1953, reenlisted | absence and failure’to obey lawful orders. 8 May 1967, Enclosure 3. "Oswald was a patsey (sic) and didn't fire a shof; that "Kennedy's assins (sic) were, as was Oswald, trained by the CIA", etc. On 13 October 1967 a deputy sheriff advised the FBI that an unidentified assistant district attorney os Garrison's staff had come to Lake — Gharles one month earlier and had interviewed ASHWORTH for an hour. According to PHILLIPS, Garrison's representatives have queationed ASHWORTH about four times and have asked him if he was a member of CIA. The U.S. Marine Corps advised on 3 January 1968 that ASHWORTH enlisted on 24 December 1952, the next day, and then scrved until 3 December 1954, when given a bad conduct discharge following a general court-martial at which he was found quilty of unlawful. (3) CIA relationship: None. — b. W. Guy BANISTER (1) Prior references: Memorandum No. 1, 28 April 1967, Enclosure 3; Memorandum No. 2, « . (2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation: Ramparts of January 1968, p. 47, statea that a former Minuteman named Jerry Milton BROOKS had said that BANISTER was the “head of the Ani-Cammunism League. of the Caribbean." Ramparts asserts that this “league" wae “assertedly an intermediary between the CIA and — Caribbean insurgency movementa. ™ (3) CIA relationship: ‘None. According to our records, Maurice Brooks GATLIN Sr. (see below) was legal counsel not, us Ramparta says, to the “Antl- Communism League of the Caribbean” but to the "Antl- Comrnuniem Coramittee of the Americas". | FBI reporting clearly indicates that GATLIN was the sole member of “this national group. An FBI report of 14 February 1961 - quoted BANISTER as saying that he had never been an officer or member of the “group”, GATLIN's claima to the contrary notwithstanding |
te Maurice Brooks GATLIN Sr. [feor~ssas a an “a) Prior references: Nene. , 42) Lavolvement in Garrison's investigation: Ramparts of January 1963 quotes one Jerry billton BROOKS (see preceding sub-paragrapt:) as claiming to have been a "gort of protege of GATLIN. BROOKS» elaimed that about 1942 GATLIN, "in a self-Impertant manner”, remarked that he had $166,000 of CIA money earmarked for a French right-wing clique that wae going to attempt te assassinate General De Gaulle. GATLIN died in Panama, in 1964, at the age af sixty-one. FRI reports on him cite saurces who k as saying that he waa insane and should have been committed. He duped Eduardo A. Morales, Consul General of the Dominican Republic in New Orleans, out of relatively large sums in the late 1950's. Morales acems to have considered him an agunt representing the interests of Trujillo, although GATLIN was not so reyistered with the Department of Justice. GATLIN used the allases Edward FAIRCHILD, James COCHRANE, Robert WATSON, and Gharles EVERETT. A typical episode occurred in November-December 1957, whon GATLIN went to Eugene, . Gregon, because he had a theory that Jescs De Galindes , {commonly belleved to hava been kidnapped in New York by Trujillo henchmen) wae biding out among Basque shecp-herders there. On 2 December 1957 GATLLIN . presented bimeelf to an FBI special agent in Eugene and sald that “df he was found dead ia Fugeno it wae marder, not guicide”. ——~_{3} ‘CIA relationshig: None. JAn OO report of 10 December 1953 states that on 13 October 1953 GATLIN ealled on aa OO office, said that riots were acheduled to occur in Guatemala, and added that he thought some CIA representatives there might be in danger. “He suggested _ that he be furnished the names of agents whe were posing BS membore of the Cominunist organizetion se that he ~ could prevent their being assagsinaled in error.” He also suggested that CIA give him $75, 060 to fund the apsaesination of 15 top Coniaunist leaders in Latin Amorica.
a. David W. FERRIE. (i) Prior references: Mernorandam Ne. 5, 7 August 1967, p. 3; Memorandum No. 7, 13 September 1967, p. 2. (Z) Yavolvement in Garrison's investigation: Ramparts of January 1968, pp. 50 and 52, suramarizes and amplifies Garrison's earller charges that FERRIE. was employed by CIA In anti-Castro activity. Ramparts cites an unidentified source as claiming that FERRIE had confided that he “was working fer the CIA reaculng Cubans out of Castro prisons". i (3) CLA velationship: None. . e. Loran for Law ce) Eugens HALL/(201-258411). { ence) Eug 5 Ki ) | _ (1) Prioz references: Memorandum No. Ss 7 August 1967, Enclosures 13, 14, and 23. (2) Involvement in Garrison's iavestigation: Press and radic accouta of 29 December 1967 through i January 1968 stated that Garrison, on 39 December 1967, subpoenaed three nren as material witeesses. They are Thomas Edward BECKHAM of Omaha, Nebraska; Loran EKugens HALL of Kernville, California; and Lawrence John HOWARD Jr. of Los Angeles. The subpoenas alleged that HALL and HOWARD checked into the Dallas Y.M.C.A. in October 1963 and remained in Dallas until the assaseination . HALL is said te have brenght a weapon to Dallas. The subpoenas further alleged that HALL and HOWARD were associated in Dallas with Jack Ruby and with others, including Oswald, believed to havea been involved in the nasaasination. The Garrison charges added that in New Orleans NALL and HOWARD were associated with FERRIE and that in Florida they had taken part in ClA«sponsored guerrilla training for raida on Cuda. HALL denied aver meeting
13-00000 era Oswald, Ruby, Ferris, “or anyone elae involved in the assassination or anyones ever mentioned by Garrison or anybody else”. 3) C ationship: None. {HALL served in the U.S. Army, 1947-1952, West Germany, and was given an honorable discharge for medical reasons According to his fataer, he has suffered a mental breakdown and is still subject to severe depression. He has been arrested several times. He claims to be @ soldisr of fortune who.once served Castro's cause, but some who know him think that he ie lying. i. Lawrence John HOWARD Jr. & (1) Prior references: None. (2} Involvement in Garrison's investigation: See preceding sub-paragraph. According to the Houston Chronicle of 31 December 1967 the subpoena allegea that HOWARD was engaged in ClA-sponsored guarrilla training in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. Ramparts of January 1968 repeats the old story that Mrs. Sylvia ODIO was visited in Dallas in late September 1963 by three male strangers: Leopolds, Angelo, and “Leon Oswaid".. Ramparts adda that "juat before the Warren Report went to press, the FBI located three men possibly identical with iirs. Odlo's provocative visitora."' They were HALL, | HOWARD, and one Willlam SEYMCUR, who had an alibi. Ramvarte alleges that HALL first admitted but later denied that the three had called on Mrs. ODIO. HOWARD denied it. Q CIA relationshipt None. g. Jules Ricco KIMBLE, {l) Prior reference: Mernorandum No. 6, 7 September 1967, p. 3. ' (2) Involvement in Garrison's investi gation: - Ramparts of January 1968 states that KIMBLE approached members of Garrison's staff and sald that on the day
13-00000 cee ear Reema cel ae eerie sane ee ee RE et ae ew NE EN ER +n en a a een after David FERRIE died, he drove a top Ku Klux Klan official, Jack HELM, to FERRIE's apartment. “HELM came out with a satchel crammed with papers, which he placed in a bank safe deposit box.” KIMBLE claimed that in 1962 he New to Montreal with FERRIE on Minutemen businese.. “Shortly afterward, he phoned bis wife from Atlanta, saying be bad met a CLA contact. ‘They'll never get me back to New Orleans, the vowed." He was arrested, howaver, in Tampa, where Gerrison's men questioned him. He “aaid that he had once worked special assignments for the ‘CIA, and in verification named his Agency contacts and the box mamber at the Lafayette Street station they assigned him. He averred he had recontacted the CLA after Walter Sheridan had ’ counseled him to say nothing to the DA and go to Canada." As FBI report of 12 January 1956 stated that men in the ffice of the sherlf{f of Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, had said that KIMBLE is a pathological liar who has had frequent problems with the police and who ia prone to vialence. Deputy Sheriff Charles KIMBLE, half brother of Jules, advised that kis brother had made certain false statements to draw attention to himself, in the hope of getting owt of jall. oe (3) CIA relationship: None. lon 4 August 1967 KIMBLE telephone ew Orleang to gay that Garriso was trylng to connect hira with CIA, although he did not know why, and that Garrison had accused him of taldng era from Serrie's apartroent. : kh. Fau LOGAN. (lt) Prior references: None. (2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation: Ramparts of January 1968, p. 53, says, "The Friends of Democratic Cuba waa founded January 9, 1941... 2 e | ‘Government advisors to the Friends, says an informant . whe was closely involved with the group, were a CIA man : named Logan and the FBI's Regis Kennedy .'. . . ” ‘ Gn 10 May 1967 the New Crieans office of the FBI, reporting |
information obtained from Gordon Duane NOVEL, quoted him ae saying that Willlam Waynes DALZELL (see above) bad been in touch with Kennedy and with CIA employes fnu LOGAN. NOVEL attributed this | ! | . . | (3) CIA relationship: None. The DCS New | Orleans office reported on 20 June 1967 that there has | me never bees a LOGAN in the office and that the records do not reflect dealings with anyone of that name. Headquarters traces have not revealed a LOGAN in | New Orleans. | | | i. Richard Case NAGELL|{201-746537).| (i) Prior veferences: None. (2) Involvement in Garrison's inveatiyation: Ramparts of January 1963 stated that NAGELL "wag a highly decorated tnfantry captain in the Korean war who, he claims, subsequently becams a CIA agent... . he had sent a registered letter te J. Edgar Hoover warning him of the impounding assassination, which he says was then scheduled for the latter part of Sentember. . . and the letter had gone unanswered.” According to Ramnarts, NAGELL claimed that two groups called “Bravo Club" and "Delta Club" joined forces to kill President Kennedy. “Meanwhile CLA got wind of the plans and sent several agents into the field te ascertain whether they were ‘for real’. NAGELL says that he was one of the agents dispatched. . . Nagell says that he was instructed to ‘arrow’ the patsy, — that is kill him, after the agsuassination.” {3) CIA relationshis: None. NAGELL was one of six crew members in a B-25 which crashed at full power on 23 Noveraber 1954 near Friendship Airport. He waa_ the sole survivor. The plane was not found fer 11 1/2 hours. He was unconacious and had suffered severe head ' injeries. Gn 16 November 1902 NAGELL wrote the FBI- in New York to say that he wanted to expose the Department _ Of Alcobollc Beverage Control of California. On 15 Dacember 1962 he advised the FBI in Jacksonvills,
13-00000 _ psychiatric reasons. Rican ‘nye { ( prerey| Florida, that he had been recruited by the Soviets in Washington, D. G., and had contacted CIA in Virginia on Soviet orders. In January 1963 he was diagnosed at the VA hospital in Bay Pines, Florida, as having | “chronic brain syndrome associated with brain trauma with behavioral reaction characterlzed by passive, aggressive, and paranoid features." On 29 September 1963 he was arrested for firing two rounds into the ceiling of a bank In El Paso, Texas... He then attempted suicide. Ga 16 April 1964 NAGELL sant to the FBl a letter in which he falsely claimed that he had sent them an earHer letter, dated September 1963 and signed “Jack Kramer", to warn them about the assassination. i j. Donald P. NORTON, (2) Prior references: Mamorandam No. 6, 7 Septeraber 1967, pp. 1 and 2; Memorandum No. 7, 13 September 1967, p. 3; Memorandum, subject: Donald P. (or T.) NORTON, 14 August 1947. (2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation: In Vancouver, Canada, tn an interview piblished on 8 August 1967, NORTON claimed to be an ex-CIA employee who delivered $150,090 to FERRIE for transfer to Cuda and who pleked up from SHAW $50,000 to be delivered to ; Oswald in Monterrey, Mexico. On 15 July 1967 Charles - WARD of Garrison's staff accompanied NORTON to Wow Orleans for a tapedinterview. Ramparts of January 1968 claimed that NORTON was impressed into CIA's service in 1957 under threat of exposure as a homosexual, According _ to this article, NORTON was told by CIA to take a long; quiet vacation because of something that was happening in New Orleans. (3) CIA relationship: None. NORTON served as > at -@ private and PFC in the U.S. Aly Force from 1] October 1943 to 24 January 1951, when he was discharged for k. Gordon Duane NOVEL, (21) Prior references: Memorandum Ne. 1, 26 April 1967, Enclosure 19; Memorandum No, 2,
13-00000 8 May 1967, Enclosure 20; Memeorandum Noe. 4,. 20 June 1967, pp. “6-10; Memorandum No. 6,. 7 September 1967, pp. 2-3) Memorandum No. 7, 13 September 1957, p. 3. Also mamorandum, subject: Gordon Duane Novel, 31 May 1967. (2) Involvement in Garrison’ 8 investigation: Soth NOVEL and one of his lawyers have claimed that he worked for CIA. Garrisog has sought, until fairly recently, to extradite NOVEL fram Columbus, Ohle, bet without success. Garrison has claimed, and NOVEL has agreed, that NOVEL, at the instigation of CIA, took part with others in stealing explosives from a bunxer in Houma, Louisiana. NOVEL bas written 2 letter which implies that he waa involved in CIA's | operation Double-Chek. Ramoarte of January 1963 repeats the principal lies about NOVEL's CIA ties. (3) CIA relationship: Nona. I. Lee Harvey GSWALD. (1) Prior references; Meomorandan: No. 3, i June 1967, p. 1; Memorandum No. 7, 13 September (2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation: Garrison has repeatedly charged that OSWALD was a “oatey" who did not kill anyone and that OSWALD worked for CIA. Ramparts of January 1963 says that CIA trained OSWALD at the Ataugi Naval Station in Japan, whers he was taught covert overations and Russian, it also alleges that CIA arranged OSWALD's defection te the Sovist Union. (3) CIA relationship: None. m. Jack RUBY. (1) Pricer references: Memorandum No. 3, - 1 Jone 1967, p. 3; Memorandum No. 7, 13 September
ee nett te tern erent eto an {Z) Involvement in Garrison's investigation: Garrison has repeatedly stated that RUBY, like OSWALD, was employed by CIA. He claims that CIA used RUBY as a “bag man to scouggle arms for Cuban exile groups. 43) CIA relationship: Nona. he Edward Stewart SUGGS, & Jack S. MARTIN “Qry Priar references: Memorandarn No. 4,. 20. June 1967, pp. Z, 10, and 11. (2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation: MARTIN, forme rly employed by Guy Banister, now terms himself an ivivestigater for Garrison. [A DCS New Orleans report of 28 September 1957 stated that MARTIN telephoned a friend of Mr. Lieyd Bay at 0200 hours, on or shortly before that dats, said that he was. one of Garrison's investigators, and tried to pump the friend about Mr. Ray. (Other reports have stated that MARTIN tends to rnake such calls in the small hours when drunk. } [According to Ramparts, of January 1948, MARTIN alleges that Ferrie once commanded a Civil Air Patrol squadron of which Cswald was a mernber. Further, Ferrie allegedly taught Cswald to shoot a rifle with a telescopic sight. Zerrie became involved with Oswald in the assaasination plot. . . (3) CIA relationship: None. MARTIN, however, has claimed that ba worked for CIA. [An FBI report stated that Edward Stewart SUGGS "was fingerprinted In 1942 fn Houston, Texas. He was wanted at that time on a charge ef murder... . The Identification Division records do not show the disposition of the charge." On 23 December i956 he was admitted to the psychiatric ward, Charit Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana, as a mental patient. [.
rrr ern A ee Pare ny, apne etn en ee ee Originatadby:DC/CI/RGA:D,E. PRATTidm/ 31 Janvary 1967 AY Distribution: ecutive Comptroller General Counsel |