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Originator: FBI
Document date: 08/31/1964
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

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MARK

GARST, JAMES

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Commission No. 1487

SECRET

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Please Refer s0

File No.

5-25-89

Class

1565 502/ AHR

Declassie

OADR

MARK LANE

JAMES DELANEY GARST

AGREED 9803 RDD/ASK

WASHINGTON 25, D.C.

August 31, 1964

ALL IUFORMATIOR CONTA

RESIM IN UNCIASSIFIED

EXOSPY WHERE SHOWN

OTHERWISE

323-93 on August 25, 1964: (U)

T-1, a confidential source abroad, advised as follows

JFIC.

SPECIAl

MARK LANE visited the United Kingdom between April 14,

1964, when he arrived at London Airport from Copenhagen,

and April 16 when he left London Airport fOr Amsterdan,

Holland.

A secret and reliable source of I-l reported

that he had attended the Eighth Congress of the Interna-

tional Association o1 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 IDL to form an international committee of noted lawyers

to discover the real circumstances under which the Kennedy .

assassination

occurred.S

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.

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 oi the committee were to collect and disseminate

all available information and evidence relating to the as-

sassination of President Kennedy and to insure justice for

the Oswald Lamily.

I-1 has no information to show to what

extent the Connittee is actively pursuing these objects.S

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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 tù I-l's

attention.

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, 1961, and I-l 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-es-Salaam in

Tanganyika.

I-I is unable to say whether he will obtain

this appointment. (5)

I-I 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-l pointed out that none of the members of

the Committee were considered to be Communists, although

we pointed

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.

Enclosure

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