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

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

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RECORD NUMBER : 179-40003-10240

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DABELSTEEN, ANNE

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DATE : 08/31/64

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SUBJECTS :

LANE, MARK

GARST, JAME

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August 31, 1964

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MARK LANE

JAMES DELANEY GARST

T-1,

confidential source abroad; advised as 101lovs

on August 25, 1964: (U)

MARK LANC visited the United Kingdom between April 14,

1964, when he arrived at London Airport fron Copenhagen,

and April 16 when he left London Airport for Amstordan,

Rolland. A secret and reliable source of I reported

that he had attended the Eighth Congross of the Interna-

tional Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) which was'.

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 circumstances under which the kennedy

assassination occurred. (S)

LANE returned to England on June 9, 1964, arriving

at London Airport from Copenhagen, Dennark.

He WaS aC

companied by his fianceo, Miss ANNE-LISE DABELSTEEN, a

Gesigner, born May 15, 1941, traveling on a Danish pass-

port No.

2301698. Shortly after his arrival be attonded

a press conference at the Airport which had been arranged

Dy 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 Cormittee had now been forned, 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 objecis of the Committee were to collect and disseminate

all available information and evidence relating to the as-

sassination of President Kennody and to insure justice for

the Oswald Lamily.

T-I has no information to show to what

extent the Committee is actively pursuing these objects.

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LANE was to have left England for Florence and

Rome on Juno 11, 1954. He paid another visit to England

between June 21, 1954, when he arrived at London Airport

from Brussels, Belgium, and June 30, 1964, when he left

London for Now York, having been recalled to appear before

the Warren Commission investigating President Kennedy's

death.

During this latter visit he did not come to a-l's

attention.

With regard to the "Who kiiled Kennedy Committoe?"

the secretary, JAMES DILANDY GARST, is taking a greater

interest in the Anarchist movement. He left the United

Kingdon 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 Univorsity of Dar-es-Salaam in

Tanganyika.

I-I is unable to say whether ho will obtaln

this appointent.

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".

other members of the committee are listed in paragraph 2

of page 6.

T-I pointed out that none of the members of

the Connittee 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.

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