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JFK Assassination System

• Identification Form

Date:

4/22/201

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER:

DOJ

179-20002-10144

RECORD SERIES: CLASSIFIED SUBJECT FILE 129-11, OFFICIAL MAIL SECT. 17C

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: DOS

FROM: AMEMBASSY LONDON

TO : SECSTATE

TITLE:

DATE :

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

03/16/1967

3

DOCUMENT TYPE :

CLASSIFICATION:

RESTRICTIONS :

CURRENT STATUS :

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

OPENING CRITERIA :

COMMENTS :

BRITISH GAME OF ASSASSINATION

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

Consulted

Withhold

06/19/1998

BOX 56

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CUNFIDENTIAL LONDON 1486

JOINT EMBASSY/USIS MESSAGE

1. SUBSIDIARY OF PUBLISKING HOUSE OF JONATHAN CAPE HAS PUBLISHED

AND IS DISTRIBUTING LATEST IN SERIES OF HOME AMUSEMENT KITS

KNOWN AS "JACKDAWS,

THESE ARE ESSENTIALLY. COLLECTIONS OF

MATERIALS PERMITTING USERS TO RECONSTRUCT THE EVENT INVOLVED.

LATEST JACKDAW IS ENTITLED "THE ASSASINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY"

AND CONTAINS AMONG OTHER MATERIAL CARDBOARD MODEL OF DEALEY

PLAZA, PHOTOGRAPHS OF ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT'S BLOOD-STAINED

CLOTHING, PHOTOSTAT OF AUTOPSY DESCRIPTIVE SHEET, WARREN

COMMISSION EXHIBIT NUMBER 385 SHOWING MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION

OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S NECK WOUNDS,

FULL-SIZED PICTURE OF

OSWALD'S MURDER RIFLE AND FULL. PAGE ADVERTISEMENT FROM

"AMERICAN RIFLEMAN" FROM WHICH HE ORDERED WEAPON BY MAIL, COPY

OF "WANTED FOR TREASON"

ATTACK ON KENNEDY CIRCULATED IN

DALLAS PRIOR TO ASSASSINATION THERE ARE ALSO A NUMBER OF NARRATIVE

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SHEETS DISCUSSING VARIOUS ASPECTS OF EVENT INCLUDING ONE CALLED

"UNANSWERED QUESTIONS " THIS LATTER DRAWS HEAVILY UPON MARK

LANE'S "RUSH TO JUDGEMENT."

2. THE FOLLOWING QUOTATION IS FAIRLY TYPICAL: "PERHAPS THE MOST

FAR REACHING ASPECT OF THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION WILL BE

THAT. IT MARKED THE POINT WHERE THE WESTERN WORLD. NO LONGER

TRUSTED ITS GOVERNMENTS TO TELL THE TRUTH. ALREADY THE NUREMBERG

TRIALS OF WORLD WAR II HAD PROCLAIMED THAT OFFICIAL ORDERS

COULD NO LONGER BE AN EXCUSE FOR GRAVE MORAL CONDUCT. AND

INDIVIDUALS FOUND THEY NEEDED A CODE OF BEHAVIOR. THE

WARREN REPORT SEEMED TO SHOW THAT NO GOVERNMENT COULD BE RELIED

UPON TO PROVIDE ONE."

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CONF IDENTIAL

-2 - LONDON 7486. MARCH 16, 1967

HE WHOLE OF THE KIT IS ENCLOSED IN A FOLDER CARRYING THE

US PRESIDENTIAL SEAL

• -1/2 INCHES IN DIAMETER.

4. THE FOLLOWING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IS INCLUDED IN THE CONTENTS

SECTION OF THE KITA "THE AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS WISH TO THANK

THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS WHICH HAVE ASSISTED

IN THE COMPILATION OF THIS JACKDAW. UNLESS OTHERWISE CREDITED,

ALL EXHIBITS AND PHOTOGRAPHS HAVE BEEN REPRODUCED FROM MATERIAL

SUPPLIED BY UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. "

5. THIS IMPLIED ENDORSEMENT IF PARTICULARLY OBJECTIONABLE SINCE

THE WHOLE EFFECT OF THE KIT IS TO SUPPLY EXHIBITS, PICTURES

AND TEXT TENDING TO DISCREDIT THE WARREN COMMISSION REPORT

AND GIVE GREATER CURRENCY TO PUBLISHED ATTACKS ON THE REPORT.

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o THE ONLY MATERIAL FURNISHED BY USIS LONDON WAS ONE FORMAL

PHOTOGRAPH OF THE WARREN COMMISSION WHICH WAS REQUESTED BY

-LETTER WHICH DID. NOT CONTAIN AN EXPLANATION OF THE CONTEXT

WHICH IT WOULD BE USED THE PHOTOGRAPH IS USED IN THE KIT

WITH A USIS CREDIT LINE. A USIS OFFICER WAS ASKED BY TELEPHONE

IF PERMISSION COULD BE GIVEN FOR USE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL SEAL.

ANSWER WAS "NO" BUT THE SEAL WAS USED NEVERTHELESS.

TO THE KIT WAS COMPILED AND DESIGNED BY MICHAEL RAND, HOWARD

LOXTON AND LEN DEIGHTON, THE LATTER, OF COURSE, IS THE WRITER OF

SPY-THRILLERS• LOXTON IS LISTED AS A DIRECTOR OF JACKDAW

PUBLICATIONS, LIMITED.

8. JACKDAWS ARE AN ESTABLISHED PUBLISHING FEATURE BY THE COMPANY

WHICH DESIGNATES ITSELF AS "FOUNDED AND DISTRIBUTED BY JONATHAN

CAPE LIMITED." APPROXIMATELY 50 HAVE APPEARED OR ARE IN

PREPARATION, SUBJECTS HAVE RANGED FROM "THE PLAGUE AND FIRE

OF LONDON" TO "SPANISH INQUISITION." "THE ASSASSINATION OF

PRESIDENT KENNEDY" IS ON A MUCH MORE CURRENT THEME THAN ANY

WHICH HAVE GONE BEFORE.

9. THE EMBASSY IS CONCERNED NOT ONLY AT THE BAD TASTE OF THIS

PUBLICATION BUT ALSO AT THE DAMAGE IT DOES TO THE AMERICAN

IMAGE IN BRITAINS THE EMBASSY IS ON AN INFORMAL BASIS EXPLORING

WITH THE FOREIGN OFFICE STEPS WHICH MIGHT BE TAKEN TO LIMIT

OR HALT DISTRIBUTION EMBASSY HAS BEEN TOLD ON. INFORMAL BASIS,

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'CONF IDENT IAL-

-3- LONDON 7486 MARCH 16, 1967

HOWEVER, THE PRELIMINARY VIEW OF FONOFF LEGAL OFFICE IS THAT

PUBLICATION DOES NOT CONTRAVENE BRITISH LAW. NO FORMAL PUBLIC

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PROTEST IE CONTEMPLATED AT THIS TIME FOR FEAR THAT IT WOULD

PROVIDE PUBLICITY FOR THIS DISTASTEFUL PUBLISHING VENTURE.

1D. THE DEPARTMENT IS REQUESTED TO PROVIDE ANY GUIDANCE WHICH.

MAY BE USEFUL. PERMISSION IS ALSO REQUESTED TO OBTAIN LEGAL

COUNSEL ON THE QUESTION OF WHETHER THERE IS ANY CONTRAVENTION

OF BRITISH LAW INVOLVED IN THE PUBLICATION.

1. BRITISH REPORT 500 COPIES OF KIT KELD UP BY US CUSTOMS. COPY

ENROUTE TO WELD OF USIA AND OTHER COPIES CAN BE OBTAINED IF

NEEDED BY DEPARTMENT. GP-4. KAISER

BT:

CONFIDENTIAL

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