CABLE:BBC-ONE BROADCAST FIFTY-MINUTE PROGRAM ON KENNEDY
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 03/07/1978
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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TO: DIRECTOR.

WNINTEL MHSPLASH CKELEG SGCHART RTWINNER

BBC-ONE BROADCAST FIFTY-MINUTE PROGRAM ON KENNEDY

ASSASSINATION AT 2010 ON 6 MARCH. "THE GUARDIAN" FOR 6 MARCH

DESCRIBED PROGRAM AS FOLLOWS:

"THE KENNEDY COVER-UP: A REPORT ON SENSATIONAL NEW

EVIDENCE OF HIS DEATH, MICHAEL COCKERELL'S REPORT CLAIMS TA

COLLATE FOR THE FIRST TIME ALL THE NEW EVIDENCE THAT HAS EMERGED

OF LATE, MUCH OF IT IN THE WAKE OF WATERGATE, AND WHICH HAS

GIVEN NEW WEIGHT TO THE CONSPIRACY THEORY REJECTED BY THE.

WARREN COMMISSION. EIGHTY PER CENT OF AMERICANS, APPARENTLY

DO NOT ACCEPT THE COMMISSION'S FINDINGS; THE CHAIRMAN OF THE

COMMITTEE SET UP AFTER WATERGATE TO INVESTIGATE THE CIA AND

FBI'S WORK AT THE TIME OF THE ASSASSINATION RECKONS:

THE BIGGEST COVER-UPS IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY HAS OCCURRED. '

WAS THE KILLING OF THE PRESIDENT A SPIN-OFF FROM A CIA/MAFIA PLOT

TO MURDER CASTRO, ASKS THE FILM, PRODUCING EVIDENCE

OF A LINK

BETWEEN LEE MARVEY OSWALD, THE CIA, AND THE KGB."

PROGRAM INCLUDED INTERVIEWS WITH JAMES E, MASTY,

IDENTIFIED AS FBI AGENT DALLAS; WILLIAM GAUDET, DESCRIBED

FMRMER CIA OPERATIVEI AND ANTONIO VECIANA, CHARACTERIZED AS A

CUBAN CIA OPERATIVE.

3.

ALTHOUGH PRESENTATION SOMEWHAT DISJOINTED, GENERAL

THEME IS THAT AGENCY DEEPLY INVOLVED IN ASSASSINATION AND COVER-

UP.

PROGRAM PRESENTED IN PRESTIGIOUS "PANORAMA" SLOT WHICH•

MAS WIDE AND LARGE AUDIENCE. WILL HAVE CONSIDERABLE IMPACT ON

VIEWERS.

4.

FBIS CABLING TRANSCRIPT.

WILL ADVISE FILING NUMBER.

FBIS ALSO POUCHING VIDEO TAPE OF

PROGRAM ADDRESSED TO EUR/BC.

S. FILE: 200-120-150. EZ IMPDET.

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